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RoboChrist 9000 posted:It's something I've noticed you see a lot with the internet and right wing subcultures, but basically atheists and secularists keep reinventing apocalyptic Christianity just with less overt religious elements. The Apes and QAnon are just messianic doomsday cults, just as the Singularity was before it. Apocalyptic thought is incredibly flexible. Here’s how it works: 1. poo poo is hosed. 2. hosed poo poo will end (always eventually true) It’s not right wing especially. There’s an awful lot of left wing apocalyptic thought these days. They know something is wrong in their lives. All the different specific stories, all those constructed fictions… doesn’t change that that something is wrong for them. So it doesn’t matter that each story never happens, or that the date keeps changing. They still know poo poo is hosed for them. They’re still at 1) They’ll keep going round until they decide poo poo isn’t hosed. Or they push “eventually” from a specific time and place to the end of time and also immanence. (But that’s also deciding poo poo is not hosed.)
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elon musk does a lot of harm to the world but sometimes that harm is funny, so it's impossible to tell whether he's good or bad
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Blue Moonlight posted:Well folks, somehow, its about to get even stupider: I'm not antisemitic. I went to Israel and sucked bibi's dick for a few hours. Now watch me argue with George soros's son, by propping up a right wing nutjob, then talk about how pizza gate is real. If someone links him the protocols of the elders of Zion us political discourse is going to get wild.
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Caros posted:When someone links him the protocols of the elders of Zion us political discourse is going to get wild.
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Nov 28, 2023 19:55
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I do not like how right you are.
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He's just so uniquely bad at dogwhistling, it's kind of astonishing. Like you can tell he really likes projecting the image of the Cool Mysterious Centrist who just Tells It Like It Is but then tweets "Hmm. Interesting!" over a picture of The Turner Diaries. Like he's really blowing the cryptofascist exam and will have to retake the class next semester.
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Caros posted:I do not like how right you are. Me neither  Crunch Buttsteak posted:He's just so uniquely bad at dogwhistling, it's kind of astonishing. Like you can tell he really likes projecting the image of the Cool Mysterious Centrist who just Tells It Like It Is but then tweets "Hmm. Interesting!" over a picture of The Turner Diaries. Like he's really blowing the cryptofascist exam and will have to retake the class next semester. He's desperately trying to play the "just asking questions" mask for bad-faith contrarians, not knowing/understanding that was well stale at least twenty years ago. It's like his brain is permanently locked into late 90's mode, and can't comprehend that the internet has (in places, sorta) grown and moved on.
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what the hell is he talking about I thought the proof that there wasn't a sex dungeon under that specific pizza shop was... that there isn't a sex dungeon underneath that pizza shop why do we need expert testimony
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Moreover the "expert" was one guy who wrote one part of one book about how Pizzagate was a stupid conspiracy, and the guy arrested for possession of CSAM is a different guy with the same name.
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Xand_Man posted:what the hell is he talking about Have you considered that (((they))) moved the basement in order to hide the evidence of their perfidious crimes?
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Nov 28, 2023 21:45
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Blue Moonlight posted:Well folks, somehow, its about to get even stupider: Uh shouldn't the characters be switched if we're supposed to agree with the one insisting pizza gate is real.
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Tesseraction posted:Moreover the "expert" was one guy who wrote one part of one book about how Pizzagate was a stupid conspiracy, and the guy arrested for possession of CSAM is a different guy with the same name. For real? 
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Nov 28, 2023 21:58
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meanwhile republicans are piling in to see "the sound of freedom" with the duggar clan.
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VitalSigns posted:Uh shouldn't the characters be switched if we're supposed to agree with the one insisting pizza gate is real. No that’s the scene where he’s telling her he banged her mum and she’s in denial
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Me neither What it really comes down to is a profound absence of positive feedback from anywhere else. No one thinks he's Iron Man anymore but any time he posts nazi poo poo he gets lovebombed by people just as desperate for someone famous to agree with them
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Nov 29, 2023 02:11
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Maybe we shouldn't have made fun of his cybertruck so much you guys
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:Maybe we shouldn't have made fun of his cybertruck so much you guys Both objectively and subjectively wrong in every way.
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Nov 29, 2023 02:23
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Nah we really shoulda let him kill those trapped teenagers with his submarine. That's when pop-culture really started to sour on him
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:Maybe we should have made fun of his cybertruck even more you guys
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This person they got for child porn, who I have never even heard of, wouldn't have even needed to debunk pizzagate. Pizzagate was debunked by reality. Pizzagate was absurd on its face. The restaurant didn't even have a basement. The claim's source was insane troll logic pulled from thin air.
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dom lucre, banned from Twitter for posting child pornography with his own damned water mark imposed on it, before being unbanned, personally, by elon musk, is still there. as is richard hanania, the guy followed by elon musk on twitter who argues for the morality of the rich the be able to buy children for sex, so maybe musks just mad he hasn't gotten an invite
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Xakura posted:For real? Yep, the other James Meek is a London Review of Books op-ed writer and novelist who also did a debunk of conspiracy theories https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/james-meek Notably not in jail.
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Ten dollars well spent.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Ten dollars well spent. Still better than anyone who spent any money on qanon
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Vahakyla posted:I wonder if Qanons feel stupid now. The wave’s gone and nothing happened. They've dissolved into the greater mainstream monoconspiracy.
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TremorX posted:They've dissolved into the greater mainstream monoconspiracy. aka “the Jews did it”? That seems to be the conspiracy-theory equivalent of carcinization.
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Vahakyla posted:I wonder if Qanons feel stupid now. The wave’s gone and nothing happened. Doomsday cults generally take more than one failed prophecy before most of them hit the bricks. Usually it takes several, and even then a core of hard believers often remains.
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Tesseraction posted:Moreover the "expert" was one guy who wrote one part of one book about how Pizzagate was a stupid conspiracy, and the guy arrested for possession of CSAM is a different guy with the same name. I smell another thai cave diver lawsuit. Edit - weird that the first place Elon’s mind always goes is “my enemies are paedophiles”. Oh well I’m sure it’s nothing.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Doomsday cults generally take more than one failed prophecy before most of them hit the bricks. Usually it takes several, and even then a core of hard believers often remains.
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The Lone Badger posted:aka “the Jews did it”? The general idea of Trump as a messianic figure for Republicans, combined with trans panic bullshit.
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The Artificial Kid posted:I smell another thai cave diver lawsuit. Strangely enough, searching around doesn't show anything about Mr Meek filing a lawsuit. Hope it's just in the works, or maybe Musk being a loving idiot and pointing to the wrong guy didn't drive any negative attention to the correct James Meek and so there's no need.
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FFT posted:And the remainder becomes more hardcore. Compaction cycles! Prester I barely knew 'er.
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SpeakSlow posted:Prester I barely knew 'er. A true Cassandra.
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Oldschool Conspiracy Theorists: The moon landing was faked Newschool attempted trolls: Pfft, you believe in the moon? Q: No 
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Uh, what? The picture of the aircraft that is his proof pretty clearly shows the same washed out halo effect as the real eclipse.
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