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RagnarokAngel
Oct 5, 2006

Black Magic Extraordinaire

paternity suitor posted:

I keep looking for information on this but all I ever find is what causes people to fall into conspiracy theories. I'm curious what kind of long term effects it has to believe this poo poo. The chuds I work with who are tangentially or fully into Qanon seem to have gone cognitively downhill over the last few years, and it's really accelerated in the last couple of months. Like, some of them look like they haven't slept in weeks and clearly can't keep a train of thought anymore.

I mean that's probably the case for a lot of people right now Qanon or not.

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exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

Look Closer
QAnon has become a big-tent conspiracy theory

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

RagnarokAngel posted:

I mean that's probably the case for a lot of people right now Qanon or not.
Yeah, it doesn't seem to be dissimilar to the causes/psychiatric ramifications of addition, and you could probably define Q as a harmful addiction to online bullshit.

MadJackal
Apr 30, 2004

https://twitter.com/rachelconnoll14/status/1344627651965833219?s=21

Fuuuuuck this year.

Xand_Man
Mar 2, 2004

If what you say is true
Wutang might be dangerous



Not sure what it has to do with QAnon but :same:

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

exmachina posted:

QAnon has become a big-tent conspiracy theory

It apparently has another pole now:

https://twitter.com/DonnaWR8/status/1344672280056639488

OctaMurk
Jun 21, 2013

Epstein didn't kill himself, but he is most certainly not alive

Edit:

Broke: Epstein killed himself

Woke: Epstein didnt kill himself

Bespoke: Epstein is alive

OctaMurk fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Dec 31, 2020

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Epstein is alive. He and Trump are going to take down the elite Democrat pedophiles. He and Trump and Jimmy Savile, who is also alive.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

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

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

Don’t forget the pleasure of knowing that the clones will be tortured and killed themselves, then replaced by further clones. It’s a sci-fi take on the christian idea of eternal damnation, knowing simultaneously that your enemies are dead but also having the excitement of knowing that they are suffering.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMt9E85geUI

that just makes me think of this and one of my favorite dumb arguments.



i love that this dickhead has direct ties to the president.

https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1344463669632098304

also this fun line.

Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Jan 1, 2021

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Dapper_Swindler posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMt9E85geUI

that just makes me think of this and one of my favorite dumb arguments.


This is wonderful.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

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

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

This is wonderful.

yeah. i love oneyplays even if they are dumb at times and suck at most games they play. but that weird back and forth reminds me of talks with my friends so i like it.

"id pour boiling milk on his face".

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



Dapper_Swindler posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMt9E85geUI

that just makes me think of this and one of my favorite dumb arguments.


i love that this dickhead has direct ties to the president.

https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1344463669632098304

also this fun line.

This dude is 100% loving insane, as are Flynn and Powell

Like this is way past grift

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story
The replies to that Lin Wood tweet are genuinely horrifying.

But then I listened to a guy screaming at the top of his lungs mad that people wouldn't torture a miniature Hitler in a magic floating castle and I feel better.

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

Twelve by Pies posted:

But then I listened to a guy screaming at the top of his lungs mad that people wouldn't torture a miniature Hitler in a magic floating castle and I feel better.
Wish they'd gotten into an intellectual property version of the Ship of Theseus paradox. But it's a perfect copy besides being the size of a dinghy.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

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

FFT posted:

Wish they'd gotten into an intellectual property version of the Ship of Theseus paradox. But it's a perfect copy besides being the size of a dinghy.

chris wouldnt know who Theseus was and would get caught up in screaming about that, julian already stumped him the homunculus.


TulliusCicero posted:

This dude is 100% loving insane, as are Flynn and Powell

Like this is way past grift



https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1345066815865692162
https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1345085438936150022

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



Dapper_Swindler posted:

chris wouldnt know who Theseus was and would get caught up in screaming about that, julian already stumped him the homunculus.




https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1345066815865692162
https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1345085438936150022

Having a Normal One as I turn into Trump's Joe McCarthy

When does he start publishing the lists of Secret Communist Party Members?

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

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

TulliusCicero posted:

Having a Normal One as I turn into Trump's Joe McCarthy

When does he start publishing the lists of Secret Communist Party Members?

maybe. McCarthy knew it was bullshit for the most part until he got high on his own supply/actually drunk as gently caress always and than walked into a bear trap on live tv.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svUyYzzv6VI&t=183s

woody seems like he has a few mental issues.

pschoy
Mar 2, 2009
It really is uncanny how much the Q stuff reminds me of goon rushing and 4 chan gang stalking except on a larger scale and with a national microphone.

Must goons ruin everything?

Dirt Road Junglist
Oct 8, 2010

We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are

pschoy posted:

Must goons ruin everything?

Yes, obviously

stillvisions
Oct 15, 2014

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

pschoy posted:

It really is uncanny how much the Q stuff reminds me of goon rushing and 4 chan gang stalking except on a larger scale and with a national microphone.

Must goons ruin everything?

I mean, a disturbing amount of internet culture originated from Something Awful, Portal of Evil (you can make a case for Stile Project too) and later 4chan and it has most definitely bled over into the real world in scary ways. And all the original edgelords of the world wide web are in their 40s and 50s now.

HootTheOwl
May 13, 2012

Hootin and shootin

pschoy posted:

It really is uncanny how much the Q stuff reminds me of goon rushing and 4 chan gang stalking except on a larger scale and with a national microphone.

Must goons ruin everything?

It's because it is. I am [a] Q.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Good thing capitalism doesn't have a ruling class with an enslaved working class

E-Tank
Aug 4, 2011
Honestly if someone hadn't given them some sort of excuse to hate, they'd have come up with it on their own. It's like how if anti-semites didn't have the jewish people to hate, they'd invent some other person by din of how they part their hair or some poo poo.

Forgall
Oct 16, 2012

by Azathoth
He has to answer for this and his terrible musical.

90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:
linwood boomer was the better lin wood boomer

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

Don’t forget the pleasure of knowing that the clones will be tortured and killed themselves, then replaced by further clones. It’s a sci-fi take on the christian idea of eternal damnation, knowing simultaneously that your enemies are dead but also having the excitement of knowing that they are suffering.

this clone thing reminds me of the techbro AI GOD SINGULARITY thing.

We're actually living in a matrix sim, and we have to help create an AI GOD because if we dont, the AI outside the matrix will then copy paste the people that didnt help into hell and make heaven for the people that did help make it.

why does a god AI that can matrix the whole universe perfectly care? shut up.

Helsing
Aug 23, 2003

DON'T POST IN THE ELECTION THREAD UNLESS YOU :love::love::love: JOE BIDEN

stillvisions posted:

I mean, a disturbing amount of internet culture originated from Something Awful, Portal of Evil (you can make a case for Stile Project too) and later 4chan and it has most definitely bled over into the real world in scary ways. And all the original edgelords of the world wide web are in their 40s and 50s now.

At the risk of being overly deterministic, I think that a lot of this would have happened anyway through convergent evolution. Websites like Something Awful and 4chan contributed to the evolving culture of the internet but even if those specific websites had never been created I think some other equivalents would have filled roughly the same niches and would have pioneered the same kind actions on roughly the same timeline. Besides, the parts of internet culture that most directly feed into Qanon didn't spontaneously develop out of new technology. The political economy, pop culture fixations, sexual and racial anxieties and political tensions of the late 20th and early 21st century were already generating an anti-political style of reactionary thinking that is recognizable as the precursor to Qanon. While the particular way these elements have been assembled is new and bizarre there's a lot of continuity between Qanon and older reactionary conspiracies.

The Chairman
Jun 30, 2003

But you forget, mon ami, that there is evil everywhere under the sun

Helsing posted:

At the risk of being overly deterministic, I think that a lot of this would have happened anyway through convergent evolution. Websites like Something Awful and 4chan contributed to the evolving culture of the internet but even if those specific websites had never been created I think some other equivalents would have filled roughly the same niches and would have pioneered the same kind actions on roughly the same timeline. Besides, the parts of internet culture that most directly feed into Qanon didn't spontaneously develop out of new technology. The political economy, pop culture fixations, sexual and racial anxieties and political tensions of the late 20th and early 21st century were already generating an anti-political style of reactionary thinking that is recognizable as the precursor to Qanon. While the particular way these elements have been assembled is new and bizarre there's a lot of continuity between Qanon and older reactionary conspiracies.

Conservatives and nationalists were also creating their own sites during the same era; while SA and PoE might have some things to answer for, they weren't responsible for Freep or Drudge or Instapundit or Ace of Spades HQ, all of which have left their own indelible marks on internet culture and deeply influenced their successors

The Chairman fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Jan 3, 2021

pschoy
Mar 2, 2009
Ya in an internet circles of hell analogy SA would at least be on one of the outer ones.

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1165646540020551681

Founder of 8chan gets into the message board history side of it a bit in this interview. Also talks about how hard Jim and Ron Watkins pushed the Q stuff. He says he doesn't know who Q is but ultimately all the Watkins' want is power. 8Chan runs at a loss because advertisers won't touch it. The only reason to keep it going is to accumulate power and I'm sure they believe in a megalomanic way it doesn't matter who Q is anymore as long as they meet their goals.

then in this interview, the Interviewer and Brennan make the case that the original Q might be Paul Furber who then had the 'official' Q account stolen from him by Ron Watkins.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/llhe5nm

Basically a crazy mans LARP was hijacked by Jim and Ron Watkins to serve as a tool of politcal power.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

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

pschoy posted:

Ya in an internet circles of hell analogy SA would at least be on one of the outer ones.

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1165646540020551681

Founder of 8chan gets into the message board history side of it a bit in this interview. Also talks about how hard Jim and Ron Watkins pushed the Q stuff. He says he doesn't know who Q is but ultimately all the Watkins' want is power. 8Chan runs at a loss because advertisers won't touch it. The only reason to keep it going is to accumulate power and I'm sure they believe in a megalomanic way it doesn't matter who Q is anymore as long as they meet their goals.

then in this interview, the Interviewer and Brennan make the case that the original Q might be Paul Furber who then had the 'official' Q account stolen from him by Ron Watkins.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/llhe5nm

Basically a crazy mans LARP was hijacked by Jim and Ron Watkins to serve as a tool of politcal power.

sounds about right. i always assumed it was some shithead joke or LARP that blew up and got co-opted by weird nuts.


also i am glad Fredrick Brennan saved himself, as someone who also has physical disabilities(severe but way less severe than him) and as someone who hung out with some hosed up people online, i can see why he went down that dark road

Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009
https://twitter.com/iwriteok/status/1345906524883988482?s=21

DarklyDreaming
Apr 4, 2009

Fun scary

Seriously the made up quote tied to a misspelled famous person is the easiest indicator of Too Much Facebook

If you suspect a loved one of suffering from TMF, please do your best to isolate yourself from them, most likely they are too far gone

Dang It Bhabhi!
May 27, 2004



ASK ME ABOUT
BEING
ESCULA GRIND'S
#1 SIMP

Carl Sagel is some NPR chimera person-thing.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster
A Qanon saying that "Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back" is some kind of reality warping hyper irony. Like that time they showed a Kid Rock National Guard commercial before the Watchmen movie.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Dang It Bhabhi! posted:

Carl Sagel is some NPR chimera person-thing.

A long-term program to create the perfect answering machine voice gone horribly wrong.

Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009

DarklyDreaming posted:

Seriously the made up quote tied to a misspelled famous person is the easiest indicator of Too Much Facebook

If you suspect a loved one of suffering from TMF, please do your best to isolate yourself from them, most likely they are too far gone

That’s not a made up quote :confused:

gay picnic defence
Oct 5, 2009


I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

Dang It Bhabhi! posted:

Carl Sagel is some NPR chimera person-thing.

Someone make a list of fake authorities for qanons to quote like that list of fake baseball player names.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

gay picnic defence posted:

Someone make a list of fake authorities for qanons to quote like that list of fake baseball player names.

Just reuse those names.

Vesi
Jan 12, 2005

pikachu looking at?

The Lone Badger posted:

Just reuse those names.

“Thus at the root of the mainstream media psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.”
- Dr. Pete Rose

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Luigi's Discount Porn Bin
Jul 19, 2000


Oven Wrangler
 “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.” ~ Bobson Dugnutt

"We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children" - Sleve McDichael

Luigi's Discount Porn Bin fucked around with this message at 08:20 on Jan 4, 2021

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