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SalTheBard posted:Hey I'm sorry to pop in this thread, a friend of mine has suddenly and inexplicably gone down the Qanon / Pizzagate rabbit hole and is now talking to me about time travel. Is there a good resource that I can give to her and say "Hey read this." She trusts me and she's worried that she is freaking out over Bill Gates causing COVID 19. I think I can get through to her (hopefully). Just call them a loving idiot and laugh until they get the point.
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hi I'm a slider from the timeline where the Time Traveling or TT that Q is angry about is 100% about TTing in Animal Crossing.
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SalTheBard posted:Hey I'm sorry to pop in this thread, a friend of mine has suddenly and inexplicably gone down the Qanon / Pizzagate rabbit hole and is now talking to me about time travel. Is there a good resource that I can give to her and say "Hey read this." She trusts me and she's worried that she is freaking out over Bill Gates causing COVID 19. I think I can get through to her (hopefully). Are you asking for a rational, logical argument to convince someone who believes in time travel
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VitalSigns posted:Are you asking for a rational, logical argument to convince someone who believes in time travel I haven't followed the Qanon thread in a long time. Time travel is now part of the canon? Or at least necessary to explain the powers that Q or Trump have?
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jjack229 posted:I haven't followed the Qanon thread in a long time. Time travel is now part of the canon? Or at least necessary to explain the powers that Q or Trump have? q is using tesla time travel tech given to trump's grandfather to elt us know what's going on from the future. Baby Q (not to be confused with the q baby) is some youtube guy convinced in the future he will be Q. I mean this stuff moves fast, so things may have changed
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jjack229 posted:I haven't followed the Qanon thread in a long time. Time travel is now part of the canon? Or at least necessary to explain the powers that Q or Trump have? the op said his friend brought up time travel and yeah time travel is the explanation that some of the Q people believe in to explain Q's inerrant predictions, so it's not something his/her friend just invented independently
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Ambitious Spider posted:q is using tesla time travel tech given to trump's grandfather to elt us know what's going on from the future. Baby Q (not to be confused with the q baby) is some youtube guy convinced in the future he will be Q. I mean this stuff moves fast, so things may have changed Thanks. I see that conspiracy theories get as complicated as a comic book plot or a soap opera.
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SalTheBard posted:Hey I'm sorry to pop in this thread, a friend of mine has suddenly and inexplicably gone down the Qanon / Pizzagate rabbit hole and is now talking to me about time travel. Is there a good resource that I can give to her and say "Hey read this." She trusts me and she's worried that she is freaking out over Bill Gates causing COVID 19. I think I can get through to her (hopefully). How old is she? Not even joking, if someone I knew started believing in time travel poo poo, I'd seriously consider it a possible sign of schizophrenia or something similar. That tends to show up between 20 and 30 in women, at least according to the internet.
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VitalSigns posted:the op said his friend brought up time travel You'd think someone who sees future events with their own eyes could put their hints in more-precise terms than the typical Q post of "794. Believe only the second word. Coincidence?? [R]"
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AFewBricksShy posted:How old is she? She doesn't believe in the time travel part, she was just telling me that she was watching a video on youtube, was into it, then it got into time travel. I didn't know where she was going with that when I made my original post apologies.
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Ambitious Spider posted:q is using tesla time travel tech given to trump's grandfather to elt us know what's going on from the future. Baby Q (not to be confused with the q baby) is some youtube guy convinced in the future he will be Q. I mean this stuff moves fast, so things may have changed this.... this is a joke right? poes law???
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:this.... this is a joke right? poes law??? With Qanon I never know.
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# ? May 13, 2020 18:57 |
Watermelon Daiquiri posted:this.... this is a joke right? poes law??? I wish. The Q thread has more details. There’s all sorts of nonsense like mole children being rescued from tunnels and brought to the Central Park hospital, jfk jr surviving his plane crash and helping trump behind the scenes and now running for Congress. It’s like a really dumb illuminatus
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Here in the UK all we have is a bunch of TERFs insinuating Big Pharma somehow gave a time machine to the leader of a party with 12 MPs, so they could change their policy on trans rights four years in the past, all to make a negative net loss of £140,000.
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SalTheBard posted:Hey I'm sorry to pop in this thread, a friend of mine has suddenly and inexplicably gone down the Qanon / Pizzagate rabbit hole and is now talking to me about time travel. Is there a good resource that I can give to her and say "Hey read this." She trusts me and she's worried that she is freaking out over Bill Gates causing COVID 19. I think I can get through to her (hopefully). Satanic baby cannibals aren't real. They weren't real in the 1980s and they aren't real now. A lot of people wish they were, because at least then they know they're better than Satanic baby cannibals. Some people take advantage of that by selling their completely factual memoir "I Was a Satanic Baby Cannibal" for three easy payments of $29.99, including three full-color fold-out charts to collect and covet! If you want to feel better about yourself, just believing in the right things isn't going to be enough, because whatever you believe you're still actually doing the same things you did yesterday. Maybe volunteer at/donate to a local food bank, depending on your current employment/cash flow situation. Lord knows they need it. Glazius fucked around with this message at 02:04 on May 14, 2020 |
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the_steve posted:My favorite part about those STDH novella posts are how the writer is so confident that they aren't one of the people that the Wizened Old Sage is bitching about. A significant chunk of boomers like to pretend they're part of the greatest generation. I guess that's how they deal with the cognitive dissonance of being the most spoiled, entitled generation of people to ever exist while calling all millennials and younger people snowflakes.
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I don't think they believe they are part of the greatest generation, they just don't understand it. A lot of olds just think the respect is due to age. You get old, you're wise and respected and don't need to learn new things or back up any of your beliefs with fact. In fairness, I think that was pretty much how it was in the past. Whether it was your 40 year career where you were an expert on the same thing you'd been doing the same way for decades, or at home where you would get a call once a week from a youngster asking how long to boil an egg. Now by the time you retired you were useless the last 5 years because you refused to learn excel, and your grand kids can just ask siri how long to boil an egg. What else to do besides watch fox news all day?
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bobua posted:I don't think they believe they are part of the greatest generation, they just don't understand it. While a fair number of them are the way you describe here, let's be real, there is a sizable portion that honestly does think they deserve credit for storming Normandy and shooting Hitler.
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Either way they often use "The Greatest Generation" as a club when they go on about how 'soft' millennials are.
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the_steve posted:While a fair number of them are the way you describe here, let's be real, there is a sizable portion that honestly does think they deserve credit for storming Normandy and shooting Hitler.
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Guavanaut posted:Some of them even hold similar views to the person who shot Hitler.
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# ? May 15, 2020 14:36 |
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quote:Fw: Its a Bizarre World These Days
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# ? May 16, 2020 05:47 |
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Talking to my friend was enough to get her to step back from the edge. She just had a baby, and between that and quarantine she was a little stressed
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# ? May 16, 2020 05:55 |
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quote:I have never really heard any music that is sexist or racist (against women/black people, that is). If you mean sexist against men and racist against white people, then this is fairly known and has been since 1960 with the entire Marxist, anti-war rock bands and all the rest of it. A lot of music in many genres are anti-Western to the core (mostly punk rock, hard rock, and otherwise). But you can see a massive anti-Western push from the likes of Beyonce over the last few years. Of course, most music since 1960 has also been deeply anti-God, anti-capitalism, anti-Church, and anti-monotheism, to say the least. Imagine being so stupid you put your dog whistle (western) in the same paragraph as what it is a dog whistle for (white people). JFC.
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This post ended up in the wrong thread, whoops.
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# ? May 16, 2020 10:22 |
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Family member quoting from a website:quote:First, let me set the scene—very briefly, since I have already explored this territory in some detail before. The coronavirus pandemic, as an engineered irrational, hysterical response to a relatively mild flu-like virus, did not lead to economic collapse; it didn’t even trigger it. What it did is mask it. The phenomenon that caused the collapse is called Peak Oil. quote:In January of 2020, after a lag time of six months, the global economy was ready to keel over. This event would have produced devastating political consequences were it not for a serendipitous event which allowed governments all over the world to shout “Look, a squirrel!” causing everyone to say “What squirrel?” while looking around in confusion. Instead of being forced to accept responsibility for an economic collapse over which they had no control, they opted to shut down air travel, close national borders, impose shutdowns, lock-downs and curfews, and take other economically destructive measures, in effect running ahead of the steamroller of economic collapse instead of just letting it roll over them. quote:And so it may very well turn out that some of the savvier political leaders will seize this opportunity, ride the crest of popular anger once the pandemic is largely over and the economic devastation becomes plain to see, and declare the WHO, along with all those who sail in her, a terrorist organization. The WHO is a consortium of financial interests that control big pharmaceutical companies and is supported in large measure by one particularly odious oligarch—Bill Gates of Microsoft. To me, Gates is living proof that an idiot can be evil. I gotta say, I knew it would be a conspiracy of some sort but peak oil? Points for originality!
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It’s like a written Gish Gallop of bullshit and “rawr illegals”. quote:Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old enough to vote.
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ewiley posted:It’s like a written Gish Gallop of bullshit and “rawr illegals”. Eh, the age of majority should be raised to 25 so people's brain development isn't impaired by alcohol.
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That is indeed a Bizarre World that they live in. I wonder how one can visit it.
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Taerkar posted:That is indeed a Bizarre World that they live in. I wonder how one can visit it. This is my grandmother, who my wife and I live with and take care of, sending me this poo poo. When she's not forwarding this garbage from god knows where, she's on right wing facebook pages or melting her brain with fox news. She keeps telling me that she wants to leave us with a better world when she dies while at the same time angry that we're not opening up because of the China Hoax. I'm really trying to prevent her from becoming another schadenfreude story but I keep catching her leaving the house with her equally insane sister. She lives in a separate, insane, world. Just like my brainwashed QAnon mom and stepdad. It really makes me wonder how we can move forward as a society when some people are so far gone. A world which promotes equality while providing for everyone's needs would literally be hell for them.
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A bunch of goons have reported family members forced to quit Fox, talk radio and the right wing memeosphere becoming a whole lot more reasonable within months. Basically people aren’t as bad and dumb when forced to think for themselves instead of being told what to think. However there’s vast money and power to be had by maintaining these systems telling people what to think and a lot of people seem to like not having to think for themselves.
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# ? May 17, 2020 09:24 |
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That.. that doesn't even rise to the level of being wrong. it's so disconnected.
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the_steve posted:While a fair number of them are the way you describe here, let's be real, there is a sizable portion that honestly does think they deserve credit for storming Normandy and shooting Hitler. I believe Hitler was shot by a silent generation type. Specifically himself.
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Orange Devil posted:A bunch of goons have reported family members forced to quit Fox, talk radio and the right wing memeosphere becoming a whole lot more reasonable within months. Basically people aren’t as bad and dumb when forced to think for themselves instead of being told what to think. However there’s vast money and power to be had by maintaining these systems telling people what to think and a lot of people seem to like not having to think for themselves. How does one even accomplish this? Surely you'd have to get an older conservative type to convince them because they sure as hell aren't going to listen to some young liberal trying to convince them it's toxic media to consume. Like I still get hit with "what about CNN huh!!??!!" despite having told people multiple times I don't loving watch CNN.
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Grimdude posted:Like I still get hit with "what about CNN huh!!??!!" despite having told people multiple times I don't loving watch CNN. get out of my body
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# ? May 17, 2020 16:17 |
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you block cable news with the tv parental block and hope your boomer parents are tech ignorant enough to not call the cable company. also you do the same with your routers and site blocking and maybe even the phone's block stuff.
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Grimdude posted:How does one even accomplish this? Surely you'd have to get an older conservative type to convince them because they sure as hell aren't going to listen to some young liberal trying to convince them it's toxic media to consume. You sit and watch with them. And treat it like a comedy.
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"Brown people are scary gang bangers who commit lots of crimes! And they probably all have diseases. And pointing out all this somehow makes me a racist?"
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tek79 posted:"Brown people are scary gang bangers who commit lots of crimes! And they probably all have diseases. And pointing out all this somehow makes me a racist?" Every time they say something like this, make them go wash their hands. Forcibly, if needed. Studies have shown simply washing one's hands can reduce bigoted thoughts. Or else just reply something like 'mom this is why we're putting you in a home.'
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My favorite part of this is "11 year old drag queens". I guess they are talking about boys wearing dressed because they like them? Versus the "Pedophilia Variety Hour" that is beauty pageants which tend to take place in... well, you don't see them in blue states very often.
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