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Fulchrum posted:It really is. People who believe Hillary is satan are side by side with 9/11 truthers, holocaust deniers, Roswell kooks, flat earthers and every other fuckwit. Long as you hate anyone darker than you, it all fits. It's like they played Deus Ex and didn't realize it was fiction.
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business hammocks posted:I recently got a copy of William Cooper’s Behold a Pale Horse and yikes, conspiracy theory people have always been extremely bigoted. It has the full text of the protocols of the elders of zion right in the middle with nothing changed or added. But yeah. He couldn't really be bothered to do that himself.
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 12:54 |
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Fulchrum posted:It really is. People who believe Hillary is satan are side by side with 9/11 truthers, holocaust deniers, Roswell kooks, flat earthers and every other fuckwit. Long as you hate anyone darker than you, it all fits. Pretty much every conspiracy is that way though. People aren't just like totally normal people that think totally normal things then also just happen to think the earth is flat but otherwise are right on everything else. It's not some unique property of Q that people that think it think other dumb things.
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 14:48 |
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Pretty much every conspiracy is that way though. People aren't just like totally normal people that think totally normal things then also just happen to think the earth is flat but otherwise are right on everything else. It's not some unique property of Q that people that think it think other dumb things. Yup, this is Crank Magnetism. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crank_magnetism
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 14:53 |
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jojoinnit posted:So nobody was arrested yesterday and nobody cares? Or are they telling themselves it all happened in secret? quote:FISA brings down the house, not 911 The second coming is still loading, basically. Note that this is just some reddit rando. lol at this reply: quote:You are exactly right, but I do understand where they are coming from. I was not one of the people that were disappointed with the lack of booms yesterday, but when Q says things like "a week to remember" with a picture titled 'FISA20', that leads you to believe that something will happen within a week, especially with all the other drops about FISA declas the same day/ week. The Q team really led us on.
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 15:01 |
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selec posted:Yup, this is Crank Magnetism. Yeah, it's weird to think of "they seem to just have every sort of nutter!" as being something unique to Q. Like the mandela effect is a conspiracy theory about words being spelled wrong pointing to universe hopping and one of the top posts right now is about 1920s ghosts and spirt writing https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/9f1wz7/channeled_spirit_dr_peebles_discusses_the_mandela/
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 15:02 |
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Conspiracy theorists have always been irredeemable trash people, the problem is decades of a deteriorating education system and political polarization combined with modern mass media technologies has allowed conspiracy theorists to make up an increasing percentage of the population, to the point they now represent a legitimate voting block. They always screamed at the sheeple to WAKE UP, and unfortunately we're beginning to see what happens when that occurs.
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 15:13 |
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Q was smart. The first seeds he planted were "trust the plan" so now, anytime one of the Qultists starts to think, they default back "trust the plan". It's such basic psychological cult manipulation.
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 15:22 |
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Kerning Chameleon posted:Conspiracy theorists have always been irredeemable trash people, the problem is decades of a deteriorating education system and political polarization combined with modern mass media technologies has allowed conspiracy theorists to make up an increasing percentage of the population, to the point they now represent a legitimate voting block. I don't think it's particularly shocking people want something to believe in. The world is a pretty hosed place, I mean climate change is going to lead to unbelievable catastrophes, and people are fed these ideas about what their lives will be like then they don't pan out. Religion used to fill that void supposedly, but I think for many people it no longer does so they are looking for something else.
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 15:29 |
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business hammocks posted:I recently got a copy of William Cooper’s Behold a Pale Horse and yikes, conspiracy theory people have always been extremely bigoted. It has the full text of the protocols of the elders of zion right in the middle with nothing changed or added. Well Bill Cooper also says many times that he believes the Jews are specifically an innocent people who are framed throughout history by texts such as the Protocols because that's how the secret conspiracy powers deflect blame from themselves. He believed that the Protocols describe the reality of how the Illuminati-Alien-Whatevers control the world, and that they revealed this through a text edited to blame the Jews. In reality, well yeah the Jews frequently do get blamed by people in power for their own mistakes as those powers deport them and steal all their money. So it's something of an odd case of not doing conspiracy-fake thinking for once whenever he circles back to attributing false claims against the Jews to be part of long standing scapegoating of the Jews. And that Bill Cooper, a guy who was so deep in believing conspiracies that he got himself into a shootout with the cops at his house and died of it, is still one of the few conspiracy personalities to bother to speak the truth about how Jews get scapegoated unjustly, well it's a pretty sad commentary on the whole community.
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 15:40 |
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So is Hurricane Florence part of the Deep State agenda as well somehow? Do they have a Weather Control machine? Also lol at the "Trust the plan" dopes everytime nothing loving happens. Maybe nothing ever happens because it is all bullshit?
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 15:51 |
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TulliusCicero posted:Also lol at the "Trust the plan" dopes everytime nothing loving happens. Maybe nothing ever happens because it is all bullshit? No, that's just a result of the N-dimensional chess great leader is playing in his secret battles with the deep state. Various things must happen before the truth can be revealed. If things should be revealed but aren't then more things must be going on behind the scenes putting off the reveal. I mean people followed leaders who proclaimed the end of the world and when it didn't happen and they said oh wait we did the math wrong it'll end even later they kept following them...
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 16:00 |
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Kerning Chameleon posted:Conspiracy theorists have always been irredeemable trash people, the problem is decades of a deteriorating education system and political polarization combined with modern mass media technologies has allowed conspiracy theorists to make up an increasing percentage of the population, to the point they now represent a legitimate voting block. Is there any evidence they are increasing? Olde timey people used to think all sorts of dumb crap. You used to be able to think dumb crap and have it be reasonably mainstream. Like a random guy could walk into town in 1900 and claim something absurd was a cure all and it'd get huge traction, even if the doctors of the day said "no it's not" (and even the 'legitimate' doctors of the day were pretty fishy)
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 16:02 |
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Wasn't Bush-era Alex Jones, outwardly at least, sympathetic to muslims? I'm not too familiar with conspiracies, so I guess that was an outlier.
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 16:08 |
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Is there any evidence they are increasing? Olde timey people used to think all sorts of dumb crap. You used to be able to think dumb crap and have it be reasonably mainstream. Like a random guy could walk into town in 1900 and claim something absurd was a cure all and it'd get huge traction, even if the doctors of the day said "no it's not" (and even the 'legitimate' doctors of the day were pretty fishy) Evidence? Yes, the president of America is a conspiracy theorist who was elected by that same group. The GOP has been eroding public education for decades because, as dear retard himself says, "I love the poorly educated".
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 16:09 |
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What we got ain't nothing new. Around the 13th Century the Pyrenees region of France got together and decided that a group of people known as "Cagots" were basically the devil incarnate, filthy, plotting, disease-carrying, a threat to Christendom etc. Naturally, the Cagots were pretty much the same as anyone else with a few distinct mannerisms, such that the upper class and clergy couldn't really tell them apart from the "good" peasants, but that didn't stop them from being randomly lynched or forced to use special church doors and holy water fonts to separate them from everyone else. Hell of it is, there aren't that many records of the Cagots APART from "these people are being targeted and we don't know why" among officials in Paris or the Church. The Pope himself even issued a Bull saying, "These people are Christians, knock it off" and it didn't stick. The most popular legend holds that Cagots descended from some fallen guild of carpenters that somehow earned the ire of their neighbors and it all morphed from there. Eventually they tried to solve the problem by blending in, adopting new names with the help of sympathetic officials, but even that led to medieval 4-Channers going into conspiracy mode. The Independent actually ran a profile of one of the last publicly Cagot people still kicking around. Seems like a nice lady, apart from being the last heir of a nefarious network of evil carpenters. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-last-untouchable-in-europe-878705.html
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pop fly to McGillicutty posted:Evidence? Yes, the president of America is a conspiracy theorist who was elected by that same group. Is that new? Seriously, this stuff didn't just appear last year or something. There is plenty of presidents that would have told you all about their opinion on the freemasons or catholics or jews or something (opinion: not good), or pushed kook racial science beyond the point it was KNOWN as kook science. And plenty have done all sorts of alternative medicine and astrology and psychic nonsense.
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 16:32 |
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oh drat, some lady on my neighborhood yahoo groups was blasting out unsolicited emails to the neighborhood with QAnon youtube links so I told her it was a conspiracy theory and to knock it off she was not pleased quote:
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 16:37 |
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TulliusCicero posted:So is Hurricane Florence part of the Deep State agenda as well somehow? Do they have a Weather Control machine? There's always HAARP as the old standby weather control conspiracy, but I haven't seen it in Q stuff yet.
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 16:42 |
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Is there any evidence they are increasing? Olde timey people used to think all sorts of dumb crap. You used to be able to think dumb crap and have it be reasonably mainstream. Like a random guy could walk into town in 1900 and claim something absurd was a cure all and it'd get huge traction, even if the doctors of the day said "no it's not" (and even the 'legitimate' doctors of the day were pretty fishy) Most Americans believe equally stupid crap now, like they aren't related to any other form of life on the planet because a magic man made their male ancestor out of dirt and their female one out of that guy's bones five thousand years ago (just a week after he made the earth and solar system itself), and this same magical sculptor is going to take them personally to a big house in the sky filled with the latest GE appliances and also horribly torture everyone they don't like forever and ever, just wait and believe. And even more people believed stuff like that in the past.
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TulliusCicero posted:So is Hurricane Florence part of the Deep State agenda as well somehow? Do they have a Weather Control machine? Hurricane = Herman Cain; Florence = Crone Elf = Jeff Sessions! Cain and Sessions are working together against the deep state! Cat 5 = Cat5 = Cats, which premiered on Broadway in NEW YORK very close to TRUMP! The "satellite images" (evil hell paintings from Their Rituals) they've been showing look like a giant eye over the Atlantic -- European Illuminati??? Also I've been smelling burnt toast more and more the past few days, which surely means the deep state is TOAST!!
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TulliusCicero posted:So is Hurricane Florence part of the Deep State agenda as well somehow? Do they have a Weather Control machine?
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VitalSigns posted:Most Americans believe equally stupid crap now, like they aren't related to any other form of life on the planet because a magic man made their male ancestor out of dirt and their female one out of that guy's bones five thousand years ago (just a week after he made the earth and solar system itself), and this same magical sculptor is going to take them personally to a big house in the sky filled with the latest GE appliances and also horribly torture everyone they don't like forever and ever, just wait and believe. And even more people believed stuff like that in the past. Okay, keep us updated edgy 2003 teen atheist.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Okay, keep us updated edgy 2003 teen atheist. You can't just throw away how American Christianity is built to promote this thinking.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Okay, keep us updated edgy 2003 teen atheist. To head off an atheism debate I'm just going to say that believing in an ineffable higher power for existential comfort or whatever is not remotely the same as believing that all of geology, biology, and anthropology are lies and that I personally know the mind of a superior being and he's especially keen on torturing everyone I don't like for jacking it or disagreeing with me on the superior being's favorite/least favorite foods. And it's not exactly a coincidence that all these QAnon conspiracy theories involve spiritual battles between people who look like white suburbanites and everyone else and a worldwide scientific conspiracy against the truth that only they know.
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 18:14 |
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Bip Roberts posted:You can't just throw away how American Christianity is built to promote this thinking. I mean, we had presidents that coated their own head in vaseline to try and trap health in. We don't really need to step in "jesus is the real conspiracy theory" stuff to find out that presidents in the past thought absurd stuff and kook ideas were common.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I mean, we had presidents that coated their own head in vaseline to try and trap health in. We don't really need to step in "jesus is the real conspiracy theory" stuff to find out that presidents in the past thought absurd stuff and kook ideas were common. Except that politicized Christianity in America isn't just a matter of millions of people holding weird beliefs; those people with weird beliefs have been transformed into an easily mobilized bloc of voters and consumers who then act as a massive political constituency for all kinds of insane things from Fox News and Alex Jones to Trump and supply side tax cuts. Nothing comparable existed in the past. Absurd ideas come and go, they aren't necessarily that dangerous when they're just freely floating ideas drifting through public consciousness. The danger is the vast organizational networks spread throughout the country which constantly produce, spread and reinforce a specific set of the same bad ideas again and again and again.
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 18:40 |
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Wolfechu posted:Wait, what did Python do about Nazis and the Occult? Sorry, I'm dyslexic and sometimes the words in my head turn into totally different words when I type. In this case you can substitute "Wolfenstein" for "Monty Python". No idea how my subconscious switched those up.
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 18:41 |
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i suspect they won't take this well https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1039953351461486593
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evilweasel posted:i suspect they won't take this well 1. Fantastic 2. Where are we gonna get our entertainment from now?
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evilweasel posted:i suspect they won't take this well They're banned a bunch of other related subreddits as well it seems. Luckily you can still find and laugh at them on twitter. https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=greatawakening%20banned&src=typd
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 20:20 |
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Looks like someone just hit The Great Snoozebar.
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 20:21 |
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Helsing posted:Sorry, I'm dyslexic and sometimes the words in my head turn into totally different words when I type. In this case you can substitute "Wolfenstein" for "Monty Python". No idea how my subconscious switched those up. Well now I'm loving pissed I won't get to play the game I just imagined.
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 20:23 |
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Riding that compaction cycle right into the garbage truck.
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evilweasel posted:i suspect they won't take this well I await the impending Right Wing freak out on the edge of my seat. Vincent Van Goatse posted:Riding that compaction cycle right into the garbage truck.
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 20:35 |
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I mean I guess we can look at the Voat QAnon board but I feel like it’s gonna have a lot less constant crazy. This is like being shooed away from watching a drunk fight by police
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 20:56 |
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Yeah, this actually sucks. /r/greatawakening was my favorite source of hell dimension chud lols. You know what ever dogshit qultist orphanages pop up to replace it will never be as good at providing those purestrain chud lols like /r/greatawakening was. Now my hope is that they splinter off into different chud factions who believe that only they have the one true word of Q and they all start internet warring with each other.
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 21:29 |
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I mean, they'll probably all just go over to the Trump subreddit?
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 21:51 |
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They banned most of the related subs as well. Right now it’s just the private https://www.reddit.com/r/The_SwampWatch and this one https://www.reddit.com/r/DrainTheSwamp as far as I can tell. And this on Voat which is crapping our already https://voat.co/v/GreatAwakening. Also talk of Discord and Telegram. Edit: now Swamp Watch and Drain the Swamp appear to be gone. Smeep fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Sep 12, 2018 |
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The Krassensteins did this https://mobile.twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1039972012159107075
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