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BigRed0427 posted:name? Yikes...thats...thats at least a 8 on the Unibomber scale. universities and....ireland? is that celtics show so bad it's giving ted new targets? e: yo i clicked through the spoiler and it was really hosed up and awful, what the gently caress humanity Rockman Reserve has a new favorite as of 00:51 on Nov 3, 2021 |
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Splicer posted:I promise you that nobody involved in the production of that is remotely Irish. Holy poo poo I just watched the trailer and it's worse than I imagined. I'm not irish, hell, I'm usually one to say that irish-american culture is a real thing that should be respected. Not that though. Oh no. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK3lEIg2ndc e: here is the director explaining his vision Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 20:54 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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Skwirl posted:Wait really? Paradol Ex posted:That's what he is. The loving rear end in a top hat is a date rapist. I don't loath this piece of poo poo because he is a center-of-right politician or because he panders or because he doesn't support my interests. Anyone with any sort of power in this worthless country would slice my throat and my interests to get ahead. They don't give a poo poo about truth or fairness or equality. So in this respect Obama is nothing special. So that's not why I loathe him. From his goldmined "greatest hits" thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3002017
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Vib Rib posted:There's literally no loving logic or even consistency applied to these conspiracies at all. That's what always gets me. They think they're orders of magnitude smarter than the general population because they have access to the secret online troves of information, just like the budding computer touchers of the 90s thought they were the elect because they had forums and could code HTML. They're only just now, at age 50+, stumbling across some "computer thing" that they think only they are smart enough to have discovered, where all the secrets are there out in the open, and victory is theirs for the taking. The Deep State is just too hidebound to ever catch on to them in obscure places like Facebook and 4chan!
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Poster is not the idiot, lawyer is the idiot. Carrying a gun: that's your god-given right as an American. Carrying a skateboard: that's clearly a deadly weapon and your intent is to maim or kill.  Cat Puke posted:Hmbol at Warren Zevon faking his death then pretending to be fake-death JFK Jr.. It's the perfect scheme! I was wondering who he reminded me of, thank you! That was driving me nuts.
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Elephant Ambush posted:This is an old meme from the now-closed Laissez Faire subforum right here on SA. I think it was a poster named paradol ex who coined it Barfsack O'Crumbo pyf wrong obama name. no racism, obvs Philippe has a new favorite as of 20:57 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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Philippe posted:Barfsack O'Crumbo obi-wan nairobi
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Philippe posted:pyf wrong obama name. no racism, obvs Love a honeypot post.
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"The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers" is still my favorite, I think it came from the Freep thread.
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KozmoNaut posted:"The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers" is still my favorite, I think it came from the Freep thread. This is my favorite too and all the best ones came from the Freep thread 
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Elephant Ambush posted:From his goldmined "greatest hits" thread it's pretty chilling how he predicted the future so exactly guy knew exactly what political misdirection was going on but i do wonder if someone that was cspam jaded and cynical all the way back then is doing ok now, i'm worried he just embraced the abyss and became an accountant or journalist Regarde Aduck has a new favorite as of 21:44 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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Elephant Ambush posted:This is an old meme from the now-closed Laissez Faire subforum right here on SA. I think it was a poster named paradol ex who coined it Yeah, I was gonna say. Also, notice how it's dated from Obama's inauguration day. It's obviously meant to be sarcastic.
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I can't believe that people on this forum have forgotten the glory of their ancestors and the great legacy to which they are the inheritors.
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Chalk up one more that couldn't make it a minute through the Celtics trailer. Goodness gracious that was like an in-universe bit from a cringe comedy.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK3lEIg2ndc He made three features about gulags?! edit: I'm googling here and notice he always calls them "Marxist USSR gulags." edit edit: yeah this dude is a turbo chud Scratch Monkey has a new favorite as of 22:17 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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Nov 2, 2021 22:13
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Skwirl posted:Everyone needs to see the trailer for this. Why is she standing in ruins?
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Skwirl posted:Everyone needs to see the trailer for this. "Belenus's" weird attempt to sound like a Mortal Kombat character at 1:08 sent me into an absolute giggle fit. Also the pauses after some of them finish their bit reminds me of like, LA Noire or something. I keep expecting "Truth, doubt, lie" to come up. The new Vinland Trail game looking real weird, glad they kept the FMV from the older games!
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Vib Rib posted:There's literally no loving logic or even consistency applied to these conspiracies at all. That's what always gets me. None of that matters. None of it. At all. Plenty of very smart people have written a lot of words intricately dissecting these kinds of people and movements. I could post that quote about how "fascists get to play with language", which I can't quite locate right now, or talk about the motivations behind joining End of Days cults. But it just doesn't matter. These people are bored, existentially bored. They're bored assholes, racists, fascists, or just really loving weird and bored. Their lives are mostly comfortable economically and socially, even with the bigotry they throw around, but they simply want the world to be more interesting than it is. The reason none of the individual parts make sense when you try to examine and connect them is because these people aren't thinking in terms of logic, they're not even thinking in terms of conspiracy, they're thinking in terms of Screen Plays. They have a plot and a narrative, and once whatever macguffin they've decided on reaches the third act they "win". That's why January 6th makes no sense as an actual "attack". Even the people who did have plans to handcuff or kidnap or kill congress people didn't have any idea of what to do once they actually reached their goal. That's because in their mind it played out like this: We storm the Capitol, we capture the bad guys, the triumphant music plays, and the credits roll telling the audience that we saved the day. Because these people have spent their entire lives watching too many movies and being told by right wing propaganda to be ready to fight and kill "the bad people" to preserve "their country". Crain has a new favorite as of 23:02 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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Crain posted:None of that matters. None of it. At all. Is this the post you were looking for? Even if it's not it's really good. OwlFancier posted:The point about conspiracy thinking is that it isn't rational, so the fact that it doesn't make rational sense is entirely irrelevant, people who believe in that stuff have a strong emotional feeling about the world and are looking for, or outright fabricating, words and thoughts and ideas that when they run them through their head, it makes them feel better and reinforces their instinctive emotional beliefs.
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Elephant Ambush posted:Is this the post you were looking for? Even if it's not it's really good. That is a good post, but not what I was referencing. It's a part of a larger work from just after WW2 specifically about how Nazi's used language as a weapon and the kicker/tag line that I always remember is "It is the Nazi/Fascist's game to play". But that line doesn't give me what I'm looking for in google.
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Jean-Paul Satre: "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past" From Anti-Semite and Jew, from 1944, written just after the liberation of Paris
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Crain posted:That is a good post, but not what I was referencing. It's a part of a larger work from just after WW2 specifically about how Nazi's used language as a weapon and the kicker/tag line that I always remember is "It is the Nazi/Fascist's game to play". But that line doesn't give me what I'm looking for in google. Was it the quote that goes something like "And thus through a continuous shifting of narratives the enemy is simultaneously something to fear and completely hopeless and defeatable"?
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Memento posted:Jean-Paul Satre: that's the one. BioEnchanted posted:Was it the quote that goes something like "And thus through a continuous shifting of narratives the enemy is simultaneously something to fear and completely hopeless and defeatable"? I think that's a different one.
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BioEnchanted posted:Was it the quote that goes something like "And thus through a continuous shifting of narratives the enemy is simultaneously something to fear and completely hopeless and defeatable"?  Nope, that's from Umberto Eco on ur-fascism. That's also a good read though.
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You're also talking about Narrativism, a thread/forums favorite. Which may or may not be homegrown
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Data Graham posted:You're also talking about Narrativism, a thread/forums favorite. Which may or may not be homegrown Yeah, I'm familiar with that and what Prester Jane posted. But I'm not referencing that, at least not as any high minded theory. I literally mean like a 12th grader's idea of a story. They're just thinking in their heads "what would look cool" as if they were imagining the Michael Bay movie that'll be made about them when they "win".
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Vib Rib posted:There's literally no loving logic or even consistency applied to these conspiracies at all. That's what always gets me. Conspiracy theories always seem to involve a tension between worldview/ideology and reality. These people don't believe they can be wrong, even when reality dictates they very clearly are. They invent or seek out an alternative reality that explains why their worldview is actually correct, and that necessarily becomes more bizarre and complex as their worldview continues to be challenged by actual reality. I've had a theory that the explosion of belief in Q and related conspiracies stems from people strongly believing Trump was the smart, competent businessman he claimed to be but the reality of his presidency was clearly nothing but buffoonish incompetence. They invested a lot in him emotionally, spiritually, psychically, whatever. It was easier for a lot of supporters to construct a vast, baroque conspiracy where Trump was actually a secret genius fighting a shadowy global cabal of demon-possessed child murderers rather than accept the reality that they were tricked by a grifter and a conman in way over his head. And then it spirals out from there due to sunk costs and the continual need to keep coming up with counter narratives to unpleasant reality. It all falls apart under any critical examination or requests for evidence and they will just shout "do your own research!" and run back to their favorite Q-pilled youtuber because none of it is ever intended to do anything other than prop up the ideology of the believer. I think maybe the most illustrative example of this kind of thinking is the Mandela Effect conspiracy theories where people will literally say that their memories and understanding of the world cannot be wrong and that reality itself is false. At least, this is the way I understand the psychology and I feel like it explains a good bit of why these ideas are becoming so prevalent. Re: the Sarte quote - I don't think that represents the mindset of most Q believers. I think they are mostly sincere and self-deluded. That quote is more appropriate to trolls like Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Nick Fuentes, and Ron Watkins. They know that what they believe in and do is reprehensible to most normal people. They don't care, so for them words and arguments are fluid and meaningless.
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