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Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

It's Snowden :tinfoil:

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Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

5 by 5 lol he's just been rewatching Buffy.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

Dr. VooDoo posted:

Since one of the corner stones of the Q bullshit is “Muller is secretly working for Trump” I wanna see how Muller raiding Trump’s attorney is going to be spun :allears:

Hmm.. let me think

It'll be "gibberish gibberish gibberish"

"OMG SEE THIS CO-INCIDENCE" that isn't a coincidence at all it's just three or four random things put next to each other in photoshop.

And then:

"OMG he's right I totally see it!"
"This proves everything"
"Wake up sheeple"

etc etc

These people are utter loving morons.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

Disagree. there's nothing special about it, this is idiots all the way down.

Unless you meant that meaning of the word special. In whichcase I completely agree.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

I hope john Oliver gets around to doing a segment on all this poo poo. It's ripe for comedy.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Surely St. John Oliver will save us just like how he defeated Trump single-handedly by calling him Drumpf.

Well obviously. I just want another avenue through which to laugh at these idiots.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

Regarde Aduck posted:

Never forget these people are broken and have no empathy. They spread disinformation like a compulsion. Even to each other.

I dunno man, I think at some point you guys are going to have to expand upon that whole "yelling fire in a crowded theatre" aspect of your 1a to include a whole lot of other definitions, and start visibly enforcing it, else this stuff stands a good chance of getting so widespread and ingrained it might actually be able to tear society down.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

I know but it's difficult to see how the current state of affairs can continue (and get worse, as it is likely to do) without something big breaking permanently. People with platforms being able to say any lie without any consequence has led to all this. It seems like there's no solution.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

Coolness Averted posted:

what kind of a monster would pretend the piss tape isn't real?

The monster on the piss tape.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

Zanzibar Ham posted:

I guess. Steam sales haven't been that exciting in the last couple of years, but sometimes you find a few nicely discounted gems.

e: oh wait, the sale's on the 21st. nah, 11th just gonna be another monday

Why put a sale on just before the end of the month, when a lot of people get paid at the end of the month?

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006


This is too funny

quote:

Try it! Today I went to McMurty Ice Rink (PUBLIC property in Bakersfield CALIFORNIA (the state of TREASON) and spoke with LOTS of average AMERICAN families about Q drops. Many were willing to hear me out and I think I got a lot of people worried today, most people stopped what they were doing and got in their cars and WENT TO INVESTIGATE themselves! I think I made some serious progress today before I was ILLEGALLY removed from the property by the commie gestapo that is the Bakersfield Police Dept!

"I started talking to people, they all got in their cars and drove away from me, and then the police came and carted me off! Success!"

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

McGlockenshire posted:

This was found on /r/greatawakening by TMoR. It's really, really nuts. It did not originally have paragraphs. You're welcome.

"They control all the corporations, all the media companies, all the governments, all the flow of information, if you don't believe me just Google it you'll see!"

How do you not see the glaring contradiction? HOW?!?

(I know the answer, just... my god)

Edit: I'd like to get this person alone in a room. I'd put a pen and paper in front of him (is is a "him" isn't it. Yeah it is) and tell him he's not leaving until the sentence: "They're over there, standing next to their car" has been written correctly seven hundred times.

Cactus fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Jun 14, 2018

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

GreyjoyBastard posted:

incarcerating people for the rest of their lives is generally considered a pretty serious punishment

Theirs no punishment too harsh for this...

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

I say to people that lean towards thinking like this that yes, there are real conspiracies! There absolutely are. But those are really boring, they're always about money.. like the Panama files, it's all poo poo like tax evasion and stuff like that. People just want the world to be more convoluted and interesting than it really is.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

Moose-Alini posted:

A little light reading about how everyone is divorcing their family and social circle. To save America!

https://www.reddit.com/r/greatawakening/comments/98qp0p/when_this_is_all_done_can_we_get_a_class_action/

Thread is gold.

quote:

Help, my children have called me a whaKJOB, all because of the JewYorkTimes articles about q. I am SO upset that they just don't LISTEN when I truthbomb them with actual YouTube Proof that Wapo, JYT, and the worst of all the traitors at WallStreetJournal.
Suing is not good enough , since people are staring at me in the grocery store when I wear q gear, like my favorite q tshirts. I tore up a whole stack of newspapers at the store the other day, and when security came, I TruthBombed the f*ck out of them as they escorted me to the store office for interrogation.
Wil I sue? You're drat right! I am suing my kids, too, for believing all the UnTruth about q followers. They are OUT of the will , I tell you, and have NO right to my RV or DVD collection (Their former inheritance).
We must fight back against TV as well. Even FOX has turned against POTUS, with their lying sinister stories.
Where are the real patriots? I think Lindsey Grahm might be the key.

I don't even care if it isn't real. The fact that it's highly possible that it is is cracking me up all the same.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

They seem to have all migrated to YouTube. I've watched a lot of Fermi Paradox videos because that subject fascinates me (check out Iassc Arthur's channel it's pretty great) and my suggested videos are consequently filled with ufo conspiracy bullshit. There's tonnes of it out there still.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

I hate that all that poo poo gets given equal credibility by Youtube's algorithm to genuine scientific enquiry as to whether we are alone in the universe. How am I to purge the crap from my queue without dismissing the valid stuff that is based on actual science?

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

They've basically been finally put in their place. For as long as free speech and the freedom to voice any ideas you like exists, you're always going to get these kooks with these rubbish ideas and conspiracy theories, but they should only ever be allowed to exist on the fringes of what the majority of people consider to be the public arena. The internet has been struggling with the fact that it has become the public arena in the last few decades, and these people have been taking advantage of the internet's reluctance to admit it's mainstream-ness.

They have been relegated to the status of digital street-corner end-of-the-world preacher, which is where they always belonged, and frankly, it's taken too loving long. Good riddance.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

Once, just once, I'd like to see an example of someone experiencing cognitive dissonance and reacting to and dealing with it in a reasonable mature way.

It's undoubtedly confirmation bias because all I read are these types of threads, but it just seems like everyone just goes crazy from it. No wonder it's been so effectively weaponised by bad-faith actors.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

Lol this sounds like a world of Warcraft thread.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

They should be relishing the thought of that happening?

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

I love how they fluctuate their use of the phrase "the people" to both mean themselves or everybody that isn't them depending on which part of the narrative they're using, seemingly completely unaware of the self-contradiction that doing so highlights.

Which is it, Qanon? Are you society, or are you its fringe outsiders? Can't have it both ways.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

Holding two or more mutually exclusive positions is base requirement for being a Conservative, let alone being a radical conspiracy theorist.

Yeah I should've just posted that ever-shifting rhetoric emote.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

So that's how it ends. Huh.

Dissipates like a wet fart.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

InsertPotPun posted:

I'm guessing most don't really, but they'd never pass up an opportunity to be the victim or add to their "evidence" pile.

Doesn't matter. They act like they're falling for it, and those actions go out into the world and are subsequently responded to. Whether they are true believers or whether they know full well it's a troll makes no difference when the response is the same either way.

And then we start schadenfreud-ing about how enraged the right are over this or that tweet when really, we know they mostly aren't, they know they aren't, we both know that each other knows... but as long as we're all pretending the rage is there, then it might as well be.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

Ziv Zulander posted:

As for cutting off the faces and using them as masks? No clue

Silence of the Lambs? Hostel 3? There are probably other examples. It'll be something like that someone watched and just decided to incorporate it.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

Mozi posted:

'OK, so what I'll have you try next is to press and hold the 'Sodomy' button on your PC for three seconds...'

Will this make my monitor turn on like my reflection keeps telling me to do?

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

DoombatINC posted:

My favorite examples of that are always when the Big Bad is some sort of rich guy or politician and their private security team gets slaughtered by the protagonist. Like, those dudes aren't even spies or hitmen or ninjas, they're just guys with cheap suits and one bedroom condos and W-2s. They have boring day jobs where they stand on some dude's lawn with a shotgun for eight hours - sometimes they chat a little with the other guards, but otherwise it's just staring at the same hedges day in and day out.

Then a steroid enthusiast slips behind you and cracks your neck like a twist off beer cap - just another in the trail of dead leading into the compound. The actually monstrous human, though? The one that's been dumping toxic waste in the children's park or selling nukes to terrorists or whatever? Put your hands up bucco, because here in America there are laws and you will face justice.

Arrow season 1 had a lot of this.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

Fulchrum posted:

Did he? I thought he just killed everyone back then, henchmen or executive, and some of them were just lucky enough to somehow survive.

Well, every season I saw was like that but in season 1 I remember noticing he spent a lot of time agonising over whether he should kill or not when it came to the confrontation with a leader, but he shot through the guards without a second thought.

Its been a few years since I watched arrow though maybe I'm wrong? I just remember having the thought at the time and this discussion reminded me specifically of that.

Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

If I were rich beyond words, I still wouldn't gently caress kids. What is wrong with people?

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Cactus
Jun 24, 2006

No it's "they're so evil we have to win at all costs. (if we don't win, the entire battle between good and evil will be lost for eternity) So therefore if some people on our side have to do unspeakable things to beat the baddies (the dems), then that's really unfortunate but it's a necessary evil and we should pray for their salvation."

If they do those things, though, that's obviously because they are evil and that's exactly why we have to fight them so dirty.

Cactus fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Sep 29, 2019

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