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pseudanonymous posted:Qanon has basically been swallowing up local crazies for a while, it's an amalgamation of a yoga crap and anti-zionist crap and new earth crap and right wing crap and antivax crap and satanic panic crap at this point. It's all over the place. As the video posted on the previous page explained, qanon has become a "big-tent" conspiracy theory, probably because there is no one big event it is centred upon, unlike JFK, moon landing etc, and the q drops are so vague you can read whatever you want. I really can't recommend that folding ideas video enough. None of the actual text of the conspiracy matters, it is all about people feeling like the world is changing or more correctly has changed and they blame those who have been speaking up about how they are hurt and disadvantaged by the status quo for being the source of their discomfort. An example of the text not mattering is adrenochrome is never mentioned in any q drop but by now becoming a core principle of qanon. Anyway another link to the video: https://youtu.be/JTfhYyTuT44
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Yeah he is or was a professional editor, so no surprises. He can throw out some lib takes sometimes but in general he's fine
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Rob Rockley posted:The “trees” you’re seeing aren’t real trees, they’re just shrubs. The real trees are the mountains and mesas you see, even though they have absolutely no resemblance to fossilized plants of any kind. You see, the biblical giants cut them all down right after the earth was made five thousand years ago. What he opened my eyes to is the fact that Q, as well as other modern conspiracies, is eschatological, that is, concerned with the end of the world. The great storm is just the second coming.
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betaraywil posted:All of human history has happened in 5,000 years, I hope that was a typo
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Nov 24, 2020 23:31
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RagnarokAngel posted:Im a Jew but I think you are underestimating how much the Covenant of God stuff has an impact on Christianity. Christianity had its start as a Jewish sect, and there were even discussions about if you had to adopt Jewish practices or even be Jewish to be a Christian (rather wisely the decision was "no" as circumcision would likely be a non starter). The big one for Christianity was Sol Invictus, the unconquered sun. Constantine's father was starting his career when the emperor Aurelian attempted to institute Sol Invictus as a state religion to the empire. Halos, worship on Sunday, the date of Christmas, all have their roots in Sol Invictus. In fact Constantine hedged his bets until the very end, inventing new symbols (the Chi Rho, the Labarum) that could be interpreted as either Christian or not, depending on your own biases.
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Twelve by Pies posted:You reminded me of when Trump met with Kim Jong Un and Hannity praised him, there was a video going around on Twitter showing Hannity a few years back saying how it would be a disaster for the president to meet with North Korea, it would be a terrible idea, how could he even think about it? I was raised Catholic, and while true, because Protestant communion is not transformed by a priest with true apostolic succession, it is just bread and wine, right? The reverse would seem worse, sullying your soul with evil papist magic.
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VitalSigns posted:"This is My body, broken for you...unless it's handed out by a fiend who believes any of the following list of heresies: Arianism, Nestorianism, Monophysitism, Donatism, Pelagianism..." I lol'd. Btw the difference between Catholic eucharist and Lutheran/Anglican communion is Catholics believe in transubstantiation and protestants believe in consubstatiation. Which is a lot more than an iota of difference! (Little theological joke there for the fans)
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Of course. The hero doesn't die in the first act.
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QAnon has become a big-tent conspiracy theory
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Well qultists should be happy, the mass arrests have started lmao
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The queen is less free than I am.
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Magic Underwear posted:The royal family is one thing but why are there still lords? They control a third of all british land and not a one did anything to deserve it. At least the queen is a figurehead and does some head of state duties. I'm pretty sure the Earl of Shrewsbury does not deserve the immense wealth his family has been given over the last 600 years. I think you have it around backwards, most peerages are not hereditary, they are bestowed upon people who then sit in the house of Lords. So they were rich first, then became Lords.
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indiscriminately posted:We don't even know the demographics of QAnon. I suspect it has (had?) a large footprint in marginalized populations, e.g. first-generation immigrants and First Nations people. I suspect it infected all age groups, not just boomers or even mostly boomers. Ditto socioeconomic strata, ditto geography. I live in New Zealand, and I will say that Q and Q-adjacent conspiracies do have a sizable base within the Maori community here. Distrust of government is huge among these communities, probably because there were efforts to destroy these communities in the name of integration until very recently. Te Reo Maori, the Maori language, nearly died out before the 90's and still may disappear in a generation. Influenza and measles basically halved the population of Maori from late 1800's to WWII. So it is not a stretch for these people to believe that "big govt" want to finish the job with vaccines and fake pandemics. A lot of people I know got drawn in during our lockdown, I think the only reason it is not more prevalent now is that our (strict) lockdown worked and US and UK provided a great negative example, thanks guys.
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letthereberock posted:One theme I’ve heard in a lot of LGBTQ people with conservative politics is some variation of “I’d rather have fewer rights and be rich than be poor with rights!” Yeah that sort of wink-nod approach works only until you are a big enough target or you piss off the wrong person and then whoopsie, sodomy charges.
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Clarste posted:I don't know why but I find it extremely funny that this person decided that they needed rabbit-hole emojis in what is otherwise a rather desperate and frustrated post. Boomers should be banned from the internet. They will never understand it.
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Fame Douglas posted:The flat earth thing was a joke that got out of hand. Of course the people that truly believe it these days are also into every other wacky conspiracy theory. Q was a joke once too
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Froghammer posted:Flat Earth is a gateway drug to Chriatian Dominionism It's this, op
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Somfin posted:The politics to map onto it is "the market is obviously loving insane and it is currently in control of everything"
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Jan 29, 2021 02:18
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But their reaction is insane. A sane market would just ride it out. But this market is so precarious that any wobble could send the whole tower down.
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Easy to work Qultists into almost any World of Darkness game
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Charles the Bald, Ethelread the Unready, and Edward Longshanks all up in heaven angrily demanding to have a word. Also Unready does not mean what you think it does here
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Captain Monkey posted:Did he really read this, or was that part of the joke? No seriously, I need to know.
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Feb 26, 2021 18:46
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Tell me there is video or audio
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Agents are GO! posted:I don't know if that's That's Catholic iconography. There is no way. It is more likely to be related to emancipation
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pop fly to McGillicutty posted:Hey look, the CIA says Q is Ron Watkins They realise that Q has not always been Watkins tho right?
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:This is a bit in the weeds, I think. To be like "in the early stages it was an amorphous trial balloon that would eventually turn into the weaponized poo poo-grift operation we all know it to be." I mean yeah, sure, but once it did coalesce it was the Watkins'. 4chan and 8chan use tripcodes to identify unique users, so by the time Q is posting as Q, we can say with confidence that either one person or a close-knit group sharing a password are authoring these posts. Watkins basically highjacked Q, either with permission of the original authors or not, when he launched 8kun after the chch murders.
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Euphoriaphone posted:There's a good Twitter account that analyzes the earliest Q drops. When Q first started posting, they didn't use a Tripcode. However, at the time 4chan's /pol/ had an ID system that's still active to this day. The ID is similar to a Tripcode, except every user is assigned one and it's persistent throughout the thread/session. Thanks for the link. I am always interested in internet anthropology, and Q will be a study for a while I think.
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If we are talking about the show only, Homelander is a casual homophobe, but if you asked him, he would deny his homophobia. Which he did, in S2, and then proceeded to out Maeve against her will.
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Argas posted:It's basically just asking if there's much difference between someone who is openly denying reality in bad faith vs someone who is openly denying reality in good faith. It's the second dose which you can feel, apparently.
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It's arguable that without the singular dislike HRC managed to cultivate amongst the majority of Americans Q would never exist. I suspect a lot of people voting for her in 2016 were holding their nose
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Mostly, it's that they aren't loving seppos. dta
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Rodding is one of the reasons I can't stand star wars. Why bother building a death Star when you can just drop ballast from orbit
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eSporks posted:Posts like this are nonsense. The reason for Q's wide ranging appeal is it's syncretism, which is only increasing as the primary text is not being added to. I have seen literal fantasy tropes being seriously discussed in th community, and referenced by others
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Big Hubris posted:Yeah, that happens Alex Jones held up a copy of Guide to the Technocracy in 2015 and said that "The elites, they love transcendence, they all want to improve the human condition. We must stop this." I don't believe you. I just refuse to believe you.
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Yes the adrenachrone factory is a level 3 node, harvesting primordial quintessence for Tass in the form of d10's
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Anarchy is 3 missed meals away
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That's funny, I just read a piece by an astronomer who was complaining that textbook depictions of the sun usually appeared yellow because the sun is a "yellow giant", but as it puts out full spectrum radiation, it is white. This is just another "Mandela effect" BS, people think their memories are infallible.
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Neo Rasa posted:
Difficult to fly to Antarctica? There are regular flights out of Christchurch, New Zealand. Less regular now than pre-pandemic, and expensive, but no harder than it is for me to fly to Alaska.
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