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Argas
Jan 13, 2008
SRW Fanatic




Twelve by Pies posted:

Oh whoops. Well then that makes the idea that China is secretly harboring soldiers in Canada for a US invasion even dumber.

That's just what they want you to think!

This is how their brains work.

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Eric Cantonese
Dec 21, 2004

You should hear my accent.

Captain Monkey posted:

Well you see, with China’s shrink ray that they use...

We've been breathing in Chinamen this whole time.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit

LanceHunter posted:

Crazy poo poo happening but remaining undetectable is a vital part of any conspiracy theory. Like, people forget, but the reason the term "black helicopters" was so associated with conspiracy theories in the 90s was because the conspiracy theorists had decided that the government/UN/whatever boogeyman had developed super-high-tech helicopters that made absolutely no noise. That way they could say that there was some secret helicopter deployment of nefarious people doing nefarious poo poo, and be able to handwave away the questions about how no one heard one of the noisiest aircraft in existence.

oh poo poo i just rememberered the central park mole children now that was a trip




man the watkins Q is boring as gently caress you need to go into the community for the real heads to come up with something, no way the watkins could could come up with something as creative as mole children or already-executed android clones or the frankfurt server farm shootout or the chinese dwarf bunker

Murgos
Oct 21, 2010
It was always the community adding the extra crazy. Original Q drops were just random words strung together and sometimes a picture or some numbers.

Meaning only ever was in the minds of the observers.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Remember when the Deep State fired SAMs at Air Force One to try and assassinate Trump, but failed due to heroic F15 pilots.

tigersklaw
May 8, 2008

Radio Prune posted:

Remember when the Deep State fired SAMs at Air Force One to try and assassinate Trump, but failed due to heroic F15 pilots.

....go on, because I definitely don’t remember that thing that absolutely happened

Time Crisis Actor
Apr 28, 2002

by Hand Knit

Radio Prune posted:

Remember when the Deep State fired SAMs at Air Force One to try and assassinate Trump, but failed due to heroic F15 pilots.

Not only that, but the deep state fired SAMs from a SUBMARINE near Whidbey Island, WA

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/whidbey-island-missile-air-force-one/

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Twelve by Pies posted:

So while the premise is dumb, there's two things going on. The first is that while the attacks are simulated, they're also backed up by the threat of "If you don't keep your word and kill the people that got hit in the virtual attack, we'll use real weapons this time."

Second is that the lesson being taught there is that the war has become so mundane that the people have essentially become desensitized to it. Which is actually a bit relevant today with things like drone strikes, where (to an extent) people are protected from the ramifications of what they're doing when they attack.

yeah it doesn't make much logical sense but it's a good high concept episode about how MAD brought an end to total war between nuclear powers but replaced it with endless mechanized button-pushing antiseptic warfare that doesn't even intrude on the lives of Americans unless it's their brother or son or someone who's killed tens of thousands of miles away, and it's even more relevant now than it was during Vietnam when it was made

Uh anyway:

so this is how they're preparing themselves for Trump leaving office: he's going undercover to fight the shadow war against the Chinese invasion that happened during his term, so we'll get regular updates like "eleventy billion Chinese soldiers dead after Trump's stealth nuke attack on their invisible floating command center over Jackson Hole Wyoming"

VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Dec 16, 2020

OctaMurk
Jun 21, 2013
Just a reminder: I post things like the following in order to mentally prepare my followers for the political pain that is about to come.

In an interview with Patrick Byrne, former CEO of Overstock.com, he admits on video to bribing Hillary Clinton $18Million on behalf of the FBI in order to entrap her under the control of Obama. He specifies that the federal agent informed him that entrapping Clinton was necessary to use her as Obama's mouth piece once Obama's second term was over. Then, once Hillary's term was over, Michelle Obama would be the next president.

Most importantly: he adds that AG Barr and John Durham know all these details

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/293156

Similar news was announced in 2019 by WaPo concerning his involvement in political espionage against Clinton and Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...dKXd7hrOJPZEwgI

I cannot highlight the importance of such information enough. These are the details that the media has sought to hide from the public for far too long. And they've been extremely successful. The days of reckoning will come soon.

stillvisions
Oct 15, 2014

I really should have come up with something better before spending five bucks on this.

Twelve by Pies posted:

Oh whoops. Well then that makes the idea that China is secretly harboring soldiers in Canada for a US invasion even dumber.

There is a whole lot of conspiracy theories targeting Trudeau now. The right wing online machine has created a loooot of conspiracy theory backstory there. They have done a really good job making the rank and file online idiots hate him with a burning passion for literally nothing. I know at least one is inventing evidence that he was kicked out of teaching for being a pedo, so they've got him written into the Q extended universe already. Go to any tweet featuring him and you'll see that poo poo in the comments.

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

TulliusCicero posted:

Well duh, clearly the Canadians helped them! :downs:

For (???)

They probably think they bore through their side of the world and ended up in Maine: who the gently caress knows

Can anyone tell me why Canada plays so heavily in this poo poo now? Is Justin Trudeau of all people a "communist"? :lol:

Folks from China looking for somewhere to hide their money have been buying up property in BC with actual briefcases of currency. Your average Qultist probably couldn't point to BC on a map but they know it's somewhere up north. I do like the detail China is landing troops from the Atlantic, it's exactly the kind of big-brained thinking Qultists love.

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story

OctaMurk posted:

I cannot highlight the importance of such information enough. These are the details that the media has sought to hide from the public for far too long. And they've been extremely successful.

They've been so successful at hiding this information that he was able to link to a media website covering this story. Hidden in plain sight.

This is like when Hannity tweeted a story from the CBS News website to complain about how CBS wasn't covering a story.

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

Martian
May 29, 2005

Grimey Drawer
Where can I sign up to become an antifa/BLM mercenary? That sounds pretty good.

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

Just head over to the Barry Soetoro Payed Protester and CrisisActor center and they will set you right up.

pseudanonymous
Aug 30, 2008

When you make the second entry and the debits and credits balance, and you blow them to hell.

Martian posted:

Where can I sign up to become an antifa/BLM mercenary? That sounds pretty good.

Simultaneously a socialist and someone who commits violence solely for money. The level of cognitive dissonance...

Though in fact, I think a lot of people on the right would really struggle to give an answer as to what a socialist is. My mom has a degree in economics (not that she's on the right) and I asked her what a socialist actually was and her answer was not correct.

I'm trying to imagine what bubba who only got through high school because of pity thinks a communist or a socialist actually are.

It was the best of signatures, it was the worst of signatures, at least now it's over.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Were there conspiracy explanations for the 19th century anarchists who actually did public acts of violence out of an understanding of propaganda of the deed?

Like "they're only throwing bombs and getting hanged for throwing bombs because the syndicalist John D. Rockefeller is paying them" type stuff.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Guavanaut posted:

Were there conspiracy explanations for the 19th century anarchists who actually did public acts of violence out of an understanding of propaganda of the deed?

Like "they're only throwing bombs and getting hanged for throwing bombs because the syndicalist John D. Rockefeller is paying them" type stuff.

“Craniotomy reveals that the elongated central ridge typical of the Slavic and Italian phenotypes predisposes persons from those regions to sexual licentiousness, manual labor, and stupendous acts of violence.”

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story
I dunno, Biden's communist takeover sounds nice, but it lacks a little something compared to Obama's communist takeover. No mandatory gay marriage? No child sacrifices to Allah? Those really helped Obama stand out when he turned the US into a communist hellhole.

LanceHunter
Nov 12, 2016

Beautiful People Club


Twelve by Pies posted:

I dunno, Biden's communist takeover sounds nice, but it lacks a little something compared to Obama's communist takeover. No mandatory gay marriage? No child sacrifices to Allah? Those really helped Obama stand out when he turned the US into a communist hellhole.

I mean, the Biden takeover will finally see the mandatory vaccinations that Obama never achieved...

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story
"You are now immune to rubella."

HappyHippo
Nov 19, 2003
Do you have an Air Miles Card?

Guavanaut posted:

Were there conspiracy explanations for the 19th century anarchists who actually did public acts of violence out of an understanding of propaganda of the deed?

Like "they're only throwing bombs and getting hanged for throwing bombs because the syndicalist John D. Rockefeller is paying them" type stuff.

Not sure about anarchists, but yeah they had a ton of conspiracy theories back then

This essay from the 60s ought to be required reading for anyone following qanon

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Twelve by Pies posted:

So while the premise is dumb, there's two things going on. The first is that while the attacks are simulated, they're also backed up by the threat of "If you don't keep your word and kill the people that got hit in the virtual attack, we'll use real weapons this time."

Second is that the lesson being taught there is that the war has become so mundane that the people have essentially become desensitized to it. Which is actually a bit relevant today with things like drone strikes, where (to an extent) people are protected from the ramifications of what they're doing when they attack.

Honestly it's a lot better than the episode where they come to a planet that just happens to have had exactly the same history as Earth had by sheer coincidence, and they have copies of the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence that they can't read until Kirk shows up.

isnt that the Yankys and the connies or whatever the pigeon language was.



thats some big brain cracking right there on so many levels. also loving BLM antifa mercs and maoist biden and how china will just invade because biden decides to just collapse the economy or some poo poo and then will genocide everyone.

InsertPotPun
Apr 16, 2018

Pissy Bitch stan
*biden pulls the big switch marked "food shipments"* "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011


Well I guess we'd better bring all troops home from all foreign countries immediately and also arrest everyone in the CIA and extraordinarily render them to Gitmo, just to be safe

VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Dec 16, 2020

nonathlon
Jul 9, 2004
And yet, somehow, now it's my fault ...

HappyHippo posted:

Not sure about anarchists, but yeah they had a ton of conspiracy theories back then

This essay from the 60s ought to be required reading for anyone following qanon

I've been thinking about that essay (and book) constantly the last few years. Weirdly prescient.

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story

InsertPotPun posted:

*biden pulls the big switch marked "food shipments"* "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"

Joe Biden shutting down the power grid, the one singular power grid that the entire continental United States and Alaska/Hawaii have.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

isnt that the Yankys and the connies or whatever the pigeon language was.

Yeah the Yangs and the Kohms (Yankees and Communists). It's an incredibly dumb episode and I think one of the novels retconned it so that some Starfleet ship dropped a bunch of Constitutions/Declarations of Independence on the planet to try and create another America, rather than "this planet's history was exactly the same as Earth's and they just happened to also create these two exact documents by sheer coincidence."

CommunityEdition
May 1, 2009

Twelve by Pies posted:

Yeah the Yangs and the Kohms (Yankees and Communists). It's an incredibly dumb episode and I think one of the novels retconned it so that some Starfleet ship dropped a bunch of Constitutions/Declarations of Independence on the planet to try and create another America, rather than "this planet's history was exactly the same as Earth's and they just happened to also create these two exact documents by sheer coincidence."

I see the Vault-Tec partnership is going well

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

The enlightened post capitalist federation: "we need to send this benighted world a document informing them that black men are three-fifths of a person"

RocknRollaAyatollah
Nov 26, 2008

Lipstick Apathy

Twelve by Pies posted:

Joe Biden shutting down the power grid, the one singular power grid that the entire continental United States and Alaska/Hawaii have.


Yeah the Yangs and the Kohms (Yankees and Communists). It's an incredibly dumb episode and I think one of the novels retconned it so that some Starfleet ship dropped a bunch of Constitutions/Declarations of Independence on the planet to try and create another America, rather than "this planet's history was exactly the same as Earth's and they just happened to also create these two exact documents by sheer coincidence."

It was an Enterprise era cargo ship and they died soon after leaving due to the virus there. I was surprised it was a more recent book too.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes


I like that at the end they seed in a "all leftists will be dead" aka THE last 10% will be the idiots reading this bullshit

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

Look Closer
Of course. The hero doesn't die in the first act.

Karma Comedian
Feb 2, 2012

LanceHunter posted:

I don't even think they're saying it's a mini nuke, just a 30,000 pound MOAB (I think the GBU-43 is the largest in our arsenal and clocks in at 21,600 pounds). But, like, getting 1/3rd the casualties of Hiroshima from a bunker buster, and that happening on US soil without major reporting, is the kind of insanity that's classic Q. (Also, they seem to be mixing up bomb weight and blast yield. Even the GBU-43 only yields 11 tons of blast.)

GBU 57A/B is a 30,000 lb bunker buster

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

exmachina posted:

Of course. The hero doesn't die in the first act.

Right. It's also hilarious that they state "all the leftists die when the communist take over" like GEE WHO COULD BE THE ONE KILLING LEFYISTS? MAYBE RIGHT WING FIFKING DESTH SQUADS

Xand_Man
Mar 2, 2004

If what you say is true
Wutang might be dangerous


American leftists are the henchmen the big bad (China) merks in the first act to establish how evil they are

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

InsertPotPun posted:

*biden pulls the big switch marked "food shipments"* "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"

If their was a "food shipments" switch Trump would have accidentally flipped it a long time ago.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Lammasu posted:

If their was a "food shipments" switch Trump would have accidentally flipped it a long time ago.

Bidens gonna turn off the red mtn dew taps and cancel all chicken nugget prediction. The apoc is here folks.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

Right. It's also hilarious that they state "all the leftists die when the communist take over" like GEE WHO COULD BE THE ONE KILLING LEFYISTS? MAYBE RIGHT WING FIFKING DESTH SQUADS

The idea is China genocides everyone so they can take the land, that's why the leftists all die immediately because they naively trust China. Like the people who went to greet the alien ships in the beginning of Independence Day and got vaporized.

Only the paranoid right wing nutjob preppers survive that first assault, along with the 4chan meme war soldiers eating chicken tendies in mom's second floor in Santa Clara of course.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

Right. It's also hilarious that they state "all the leftists die when the communist take over" like GEE WHO COULD BE THE ONE KILLING LEFYISTS? MAYBE RIGHT WING FIFKING DESTH SQUADS

There was that Soviet military report that recommended that all American communists be killed if the USSR ever invaded the US, but that the right wing should be spared because they were highly suggestible and open to authoritarian rule.

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Antifa Turkeesian posted:

There was that Soviet military report that recommended that all American communists be killed if the USSR ever invaded the US, but that the right wing should be spared because they were highly suggestible and open to authoritarian rule.

drat, source? That sounds like juicy stuff.

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