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fishception
Feb 20, 2011

~carrier has arrived~
Oven Wrangler

Sarcastr0 posted:

What do you look for to check if a kid's adrenal glands are ripe?

head shape

its always head shape

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Digamma-F-Wau
Mar 22, 2016

It is curious and wants to accept all kinds of challenges
"White children produce the most potent adrenochrome"

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://mobile.twitter.com/willsommer/status/1075847978689159168

They're eatin babies down to the Tim Hortons

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017




I feel bad our terminal illness here in the states is apparently contagious

Barudak
May 7, 2007

TulliusCicero posted:

I feel bad our terminal illness here in the states is apparently contagious

If you speak english on the internet you eventually get America's brainworms

Alien Arcana
Feb 14, 2012

You're related to soup, Admiral.

Barudak posted:

If you speak english on the internet you eventually get America's brainworms

See also: Brexit

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Quebec stands for Q in the NATO phonetic alphabet 🤔

Sucrose
Dec 9, 2009

ashpanash posted:

I'm totally guessing but I can't imagine that there are many non-religious Qs left. At this point I think it's tied in with apocalyptic christianity almost completely.

Probably a similar story with flat earth and biblical literalists.

Oh, I tend to think that Qanon is almost entirely rooted in the extreme ends of Evangelical Christianity. Someone upthread made an excellent summary of how these people’s minds work, in that to them all “bad/deviant” things are just different manifestations of the same Evil (which is usually Satan).

It’s why in these conspiracy theories it’s never just a ring of pedophiles operating out of a pizza parlor, no, it’s a ring of elite, Satanist, cannibalistic pedophiles who wear children’s faces as masks operating out of a pizza parlor. Because if this imaginary group of evil people is doing one evil thing, they’re probably doing even more unimaginably evil things as well. Because in the minds of this brand of conspiracy theorist, ultimately, “Satan” has to be the driving force behind all of the evil cabal’s actions, not run-of-the-mill perversion or greed. In the minds of these people, the acceptance of homosexuality, the increasing secularization of society, various real crimes and actual pedophile rings, and the supposed existence and power of a cannibalistic pedophiliac elite cabal, etc, can all be boiled down to simply “The increasing influence of Satan.” It’s a conspiracy absolutely rooted in Evangelicalism, especially extreme Evangelicalism with an end-of-days bent.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Barudak posted:

If you speak english on the internet you eventually get America's brainworms

We're gonna need those parasites from the last Metal Gear...

Sucrose
Dec 9, 2009
Catching up with the thread:

AKA Pseudonym posted:

Where did this tunnel stuff even come from? The tunnel maintenance bit makes me think they're reading something about the DC metro and getting confused about public transportation.

Secret tunnels that kidnapped kids are whisked away through is lifted straight from the ‘80s Satanic Panic.

Local Weather posted:

Excellent read, thanks for linking this.

So much of what's happening now reminds me of the Satanic Panic except it seems a lot worse, like the true believers aren't just going to boycott Ozzy concerts or listen to Led Zeppelin records backwards, they're going to end up shooting some people or blowing them up and feel good about the whole thing.

Nah. You’ve got to remember that entire police forces in small towns bought into the Satanic Panic. Animal shelters run by otherwise sane people stopped adopting out black cats around Halloween out of fear that Satanic cults existed and liked to conduct animal sacrifices around that time of year. People were put on trial and some actually convicted in criminal cases that were based around Satanic Panic theories.

We’re not even close to that level of badness yet, it just seems worse because the existance of the internet means that we can see all this lunacy firsthand.

zoux posted:

Make 👏 Hillary 👏 the Bartender 👏 of 👏 Ten Forward

https://twitter.com/uwebollocks/status/1072589157011283971?s=12

:discourse:

Another Qultist one-upped this one by claiming that not only was Chester Bennington’s father actually John Podesta, John Podesta’s father was actually Josef Mengele. Wish I could find the tweet.

DarklyDreaming posted:

Just yesterday I saw a #QANON poster accusing the CEO of Panera bread of sacrificing children to Satan glued to a junction box in Los Angeles. Looks like they're getting bolder as they lose relevance

Oh god, I think I know where this comes from. I posted about it in another thread, but a bunch of Pizzagaters apparently believe that Rainn Wilson from The Office is some kind of Hollywood pedo-satanist leader, and they flipped out when Panera Bread used him as a spokesman in an advertising campaign a few months ago. I’m completely loving serious.

Naturally, he’s also linked to Hillary Clinton’s child-smuggling operations in Haiti.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

What are beets in Podesta code?

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

What are beets in Podesta code?

Beating off.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to
Not really related to anything but this is my favorite thing ever produced from the 80s Satanic Panic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnjdq32u-MU
The guy who looks like he assumes wide stances in public washrooms really is obsessed with levitation. Though I find it funny they complete miss how 80s cartoons always had stupid messages that were all really just "be a good person" which is what Christians should be doing at their most basic, but nope, as the Church Lady says. SATAN!

Here's some new grade A crazy


LIke what the hell is it about Trump that the :tinfoil: crowd finds to attractive? It is because he's incredibly stupid, shooting his mouth off constantly and never makign any sense, and they identify with that? Is it because the poo poo that comes out of his mouth is so cryptic that they cans ee patterns in it and they love that kind of poo poo.

The ironic thing about this is that Trump is probably at the center of a real conspiracy that actually has far reaching and scary implications, but they'd rather talk about Direct Energy Weapons and cutting kids faces off.

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

Wait are they saying Trump burned down a bunch of houses with his uncle’s death ray?

pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!
Sounds reasonable, actually.

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.
If Satanic Panic videos are your thing, you really owe it to yourself to check out Occult Demon Cassette on YouTube.

joylessdivision
Jun 15, 2013



Pope Guilty posted:

If Satanic Panic videos are your thing, you really owe it to yourself to check out Occult Demon Cassette on YouTube.

This. I found that channel while I was doing some Satanic Panic digging one day. There's some amazing stuff on there.

Dr. Arbitrary
Mar 15, 2006

Bleak Gremlin
The thing I like is that they think it's impossible that super powerful and influential people eat pizza.

At least with the Democratic side, politics runs on pizza.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Sucrose posted:

Animal shelters run by otherwise sane people stopped adopting out black cats around Halloween out of fear that Satanic cults existed and liked to conduct animal sacrifices around that time of year.

That is policy at many shelters to this day.

Crunch Buttsteak
Feb 26, 2007

You think reality is a circle of salt around my brain keeping witches out?

twistedmentat posted:

LIke what the hell is it about Trump that the :tinfoil: crowd finds to attractive? It is because he's incredibly stupid, shooting his mouth off constantly and never makign any sense, and they identify with that? Is it because the poo poo that comes out of his mouth is so cryptic that they cans ee patterns in it and they love that kind of poo poo.

The ironic thing about this is that Trump is probably at the center of a real conspiracy that actually has far reaching and scary implications, but they'd rather talk about Direct Energy Weapons and cutting kids faces off.

I think a lot of them bought the "Trump is actually a complete outsider, he's not a politician, he's just a regular person like you and me if you think about it" propaganda pretty early on. Conspiracy fiction is full of characters like this, who, because they are outsiders, are able to cut through the politics and bureaucracy, and expose the snake politicians for who they really are. They really want to be the hard-working Joe Everyman who stands up to the evil government conspiracy and comes out on top, so they desperately cling onto a fictional version of Trump that resembles this archetype, who's working really hard behind the scenes, and is going to tear this whole thing down! Any day now! When, in reality, he's just a bumbling corrupt idiot who is perfectly willing to go along with whatever evil bullshit is brought before him, as long as he personally benefits from it.

Neo_Crimson
Aug 15, 2011

"Is that your final dandy?"

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

The thing I like is that they think it's impossible that super powerful and influential people eat pizza.

At least with the Democratic side, politics runs on pizza.

Better/worse is that 4channers thought Democrat staffers talking about cheese pizza was code for child porn, because 4channers use cheese pizza as a code for child porn.

Gen. Ripper
Jan 12, 2013


twistedmentat posted:

LIke what the hell is it about Trump that the :tinfoil: crowd finds to attractive? It is because he's incredibly stupid, shooting his mouth off constantly and never makign any sense, and they identify with that? Is it because the poo poo that comes out of his mouth is so cryptic that they cans ee patterns in it and they love that kind of poo poo.

The ironic thing about this is that Trump is probably at the center of a real conspiracy that actually has far reaching and scary implications, but they'd rather talk about Direct Energy Weapons and cutting kids faces off.

There was this absolutely insane 4chan post from around the election which theorized that John Trump (Donald's uncle) had discovered Tesla's plans to build a time machine and passed the knowledge onto his nephew, meaning Trump was a time traveler come to stop Hillary from winning the election and destroying the universe or something. It included gems like a totally logical explanation for Trump's weird thing with Ivanka (she was born to a different father and he dated her in a previous timeline, but now he's her father in this one!), Pence being a SUPER time-traveler, Tim Kaine being gay and his wife being a Pence clone (don't ask). Looking back on it now it's pretty obvious to spot the seeds of Q thought where Trump is not merely a great political leader, but an extraordinary man selected by almost-divine providence to do battle with the forces of ultimate evil.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Crunch Buttsteak posted:

I think a lot of them bought the "Trump is actually a complete outsider, he's not a politician, he's just a regular person like you and me if you think about it" propaganda pretty early on. Conspiracy fiction is full of characters like this, who, because they are outsiders, are able to cut through the politics and bureaucracy, and expose the snake politicians for who they really are. They really want to be the hard-working Joe Everyman who stands up to the evil government conspiracy and comes out on top, so they desperately cling onto a fictional version of Trump that resembles this archetype, who's working really hard behind the scenes, and is going to tear this whole thing down! Any day now! When, in reality, he's just a bumbling corrupt idiot who is perfectly willing to go along with whatever evil bullshit is brought before him, as long as he personally benefits from it.

That makes sense. Early on it really was a lot of "he's a straight shooter" "he's a regular joe to worked his way to being rich!" and so on. Ignoring he's literally doing interviews sitting inside a golden penthouse on a golden throne.


Gen. Ripper posted:

There was this absolutely insane 4chan post from around the election which theorized that John Trump (Donald's uncle) had discovered Tesla's plans to build a time machine and passed the knowledge onto his nephew, meaning Trump was a time traveler come to stop Hillary from winning the election and destroying the universe or something. It included gems like a totally logical explanation for Trump's weird thing with Ivanka (she was born to a different father and he dated her in a previous timeline, but now he's her father in this one!), Pence being a SUPER time-traveler, Tim Kaine being gay and his wife being a Pence clone (don't ask). Looking back on it now it's pretty obvious to spot the seeds of Q thought where Trump is not merely a great political leader, but an extraordinary man selected by almost-divine providence to do battle with the forces of ultimate evil.



That is literally some of the craziest poo poo I've ever seen. Evangelicals really convinced themselves Trump was anointed by God to destroy the gay and the brown and the ladies with their purple hair, and Q is heavily Evangelical outside of the nazi 4chan chuds. When you say "but Trump is literally every sin made flesh" they find some bible passage that totally explains why, because why not, the bible says a bunch of poo poo, and then it says a bunch of poo poo that contradicts the other poo poo, because apparently God is as good at writing as your average fanfic writer.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Well, keep in mind that there is a natural contrarianism to conspiracy theorists. If seemingly everyone in the media and political establishment is telling you "Trump Bad", that can't simply be because he's actually bad, but because he's a true threat to the elite. It helped that he's willing to use their terminology ("globalism"), appear on their media (Infowars) and promised to lock up the Clintons.

Pretty much every conspiracy/narrativist community practices a form of gnosticism.

Owlofcreamcheese
May 22, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
Buglord

Sucrose posted:

. Animal shelters run by otherwise sane people stopped adopting out black cats around Halloween out of fear that Satanic cults existed and liked to conduct animal sacrifices around that time of year.

This is a policy still most places, I don't think it's supposed to have a supernatural element. Lots of places have the same rule for like, bunnies and easter. It's the idea that a large amount of animals get adopted as holiday props and then at the end of the night they get brought back/released into the woods to die/ get tortured by teens that are frustrated it's acting like a scared animal and not a good holiday prop/etc

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

Gen. Ripper posted:

There was this absolutely insane 4chan post from around the election which theorized that John Trump (Donald's uncle) had discovered Tesla's plans to build a time machine and passed the knowledge onto his nephew, meaning Trump was a time traveler come to stop Hillary from winning the election and destroying the universe or something. It included gems like a totally logical explanation for Trump's weird thing with Ivanka (she was born to a different father and he dated her in a previous timeline, but now he's her father in this one!), Pence being a SUPER time-traveler, Tim Kaine being gay and his wife being a Pence clone (don't ask). Looking back on it now it's pretty obvious to spot the seeds of Q thought where Trump is not merely a great political leader, but an extraordinary man selected by almost-divine providence to do battle with the forces of ultimate evil.



This whole thing is bizzare but somehow calling Nelson Mandela and Mohammad Ali trivial figures stood out the most.

Ambitious Spider
Feb 13, 2012



Lipstick Apathy

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

This is a policy still most places, I don't think it's supposed to have a supernatural element. Lots of places have the same rule for like, bunnies and easter. It's the idea that a large amount of animals get adopted as holiday props and then at the end of the night they get brought back/released into the woods to die/ get tortured by teens that are frustrated it's acting like a scared animal and not a good holiday prop/etc

Yea. One of the bunny rescue/adoption places the vet hospital I worked at worked with has a full on don'tget a bunny campaign around easter that clogs my social media, and they go on the local news and are all like don't get your stupid kid a bunny.

Bunnies are a lot of work. They're messy and gross, and while I liked working with them because they can be super sweet, I do not have the patience or work ethic to keep one as a pet.

Dr. Arbitrary
Mar 15, 2006

Bleak Gremlin
Related:

Last Of 2008 Christmas Puppies Euthanized, Marking Start Of Spring

Owlofcreamcheese
May 22, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
Buglord

Ambitious Spider posted:

Yea. One of the bunny rescue/adoption places the vet hospital I worked at worked with has a full on don'tget a bunny campaign around easter that clogs my social media, and they go on the local news and are all like don't get your stupid kid a bunny.

Bunnies are a lot of work. They're messy and gross, and while I liked working with them because they can be super sweet, I do not have the patience or work ethic to keep one as a pet.

Yeah, like, I'm sure someone somewhere has worried that satanists will eat their black cats or whatever, but some normal old animal shelter saying "wait till after halloween" to get a black cat is almost certainly way more worried you are just buying a costume prop than worrying satan will spread across the land.

(is there a name for reverse moral panic? where people interpret normal events as a sign of a great conspiracy of conspiracy theories?)

Vahakyla
May 3, 2013

Ambitious Spider posted:



Bunnies are a lot of work. They're messy and gross, and while I liked working with them because they can be super sweet, I do not have the patience or work ethic to keep one as a pet.


...what? My dogs, cats, ferrets, and my son, destroy more and create all individually more work and or damage than my bunnies combined. They are easy to litter train, and if you don’t leave wiring open, don’t really gently caress with anything. Maybe institutionalized bunnies don’t appear as the finest, but as pets they are pretty simple pets.

I change the hay in their safe space box, but they don’t really hang out there, they just sleep on the couch.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/1076181984978685952?s=12

StandardVC10
Feb 6, 2007

This avatar now 50% more dark mode compliant
RIP America, lost to the Deep State conspiracy for want of a big-rear end ladder.

Neo_Crimson
Aug 15, 2011

"Is that your final dandy?"

Gen. Ripper posted:

There was this absolutely insane 4chan post from around the election which theorized that John Trump (Donald's uncle) had discovered Tesla's plans to build a time machine and passed the knowledge onto his nephew, meaning Trump was a time traveler come to stop Hillary from winning the election and destroying the universe or something. It included gems like a totally logical explanation for Trump's weird thing with Ivanka (she was born to a different father and he dated her in a previous timeline, but now he's her father in this one!), Pence being a SUPER time-traveler, Tim Kaine being gay and his wife being a Pence clone (don't ask). Looking back on it now it's pretty obvious to spot the seeds of Q thought where Trump is not merely a great political leader, but an extraordinary man selected by almost-divine providence to do battle with the forces of ultimate evil.



I love that even in the chuds' wildest fever dreams we're still inevitably headed towards a post-racial society.

Owlofcreamcheese
May 22, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
Buglord

Vahakyla posted:

...what? My dogs, cats, ferrets, and my son, destroy more and create all individually more work and or damage than my bunnies combined. They are easy to litter train, and if you don’t leave wiring open, don’t really gently caress with anything. Maybe institutionalized bunnies don’t appear as the finest, but as pets they are pretty simple pets.

Like, they are living beings, and a lot of people that buy easter bunnies aren't even up to that. They wanna buy a baby bunny and feed it a carrot.

Dr. VooDoo
May 4, 2006


Vahakyla posted:

...what? My dogs, cats, ferrets, and my son, destroy more and create all individually more work and or damage than my bunnies combined. They are easy to litter train, and if you don’t leave wiring open, don’t really gently caress with anything. Maybe institutionalized bunnies don’t appear as the finest, but as pets they are pretty simple pets.

I change the hay in their safe space box, but they don’t really hang out there, they just sleep on the couch.

Wait rabbits just are chill to roam houses and jump up on furniture?

Cool Dad
Jun 15, 2007

It is always Friday night, motherfuckers

I haven't owned a rabbit since I was a kid, but like most other pets they're chill and cool if you socialize them and take care of them and breed them responsibly. A rabbit that learned early that humans are warm soft things that provide food and petting is a much different animal than one that was born in a hutch with 20 other rabbits and knows humans only as "those loud predators that keep loving with me."

Vahakyla
May 3, 2013

Dr. VooDoo posted:

Wait rabbits just are chill to roam houses and jump up on furniture?

Yeah. They’ll chill on a couch, or sleep on our bed, or play with cats. I’d post picsBackyard access too, but daily checks for escape holes. They are basically house cats. Ours don’t get locked up in their box unless we have AC repairmen or something.

Vahakyla fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Dec 21, 2018

Ambitious Spider
Feb 13, 2012



Lipstick Apathy

Vahakyla posted:

...what? My dogs, cats, ferrets, and my son, destroy more and create all individually more work and or damage than my bunnies combined. They are easy to litter train, and if you don’t leave wiring open, don’t really gently caress with anything. Maybe institutionalized bunnies don’t appear as the finest, but as pets they are pretty simple pets.

I change the hay in their safe space box, but they don’t really hang out there, they just sleep on the couch.

I guess to be fair I tended to work with sick bunnies, who sometimes couldn't make it to the litterbox (or I guess were freaked out by being in the hospital). Either way I still stand by the fact that they can be super gross, even if well behaved, and hay will find itself everywhere no matter how many times you clean the bunny ward.

vez veces
Dec 15, 2006

The engineer blew the whistle,
and the fireman rung the bell.
The Trump master conspiracy is just loving.. Trump is John Titor. Lol. What the gently caress is the Egyptian meme god stuff?

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zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Have you guys read the Illuminatus Trilogy? It's kind of a satirical look at all of this, it was written in the late 60's so it's got all that weird left-over beat boomer sensibilties, but it's really funny too.

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