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Because it's all the fault of DA JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!!!!!1!1!!!!
It's getting insane how ubiquitous Qanon is becoming on the right. It's gotten to the point I don't think a Republican politician could speak against it even if they wanted to because of how firmly it's gripped their voting base.
It is understandable why a police union boss might believe in that because of projection. :P
Excellent article. This paragraph stood out to me.
The banality of evil and a cold, uncaring universe really throws a wrench in some people's belief system. There is no meaning to life and there is no shadowy cabal of powerful people manipulating world events. There's just chaos and evil done in broad daylight or behind pitifully obvious lives.
Well yes. Because the Q believers are convinced that there’s a bunch of baby eating monsters on the other side. Of course you’d want to do whatever is necessary to stop all the horrible things they’re doing. It’s similar to the rhetoric that led to shootings at abortion clinics, except the QAnon types also believe that Trump has this handled and things will be wrapped up any day now.
If the true believers ever lose their faith in the existence of a counter conspiracy working to save the kids and about to swoop in and deal with the perpetrators... that’ll be a problem.
It's not just gripped the voting base - It's basically become the orthodoxy of the right-wing, taken them over from the inside. The "mainstream" of American "conservatism" is just white nationalism/supremacy mixed up with Q and other conspiracy theories now. It's insane stupid fascism, and fascism was never known for its coherence, rationality, or sanity.
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The internet has made it easier to see the disgusting layers, but it's not new. The original reasons behind the moon landing theory were wrapped up in holocaust denial and white supremacy, and 9/11 was all a out Jews from the get go.
Going back farther, the Pearl Harbor theories (from false flag to intentionally allowing it to proceed) were also tightly in with Holocaust denial and the strong pro-Nazi right wing in the US.
It used to be fun to read about them, but actually digging into them has always gone dark places.
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Not everyone who believes in dumb conspiracies is a revolutionary. But at its heart the 9/11 was an inside job is not harmless and seeks to invalidate a lot of peoples suffering so the conspiracy person can feel better about the world.
I mean hell "we faked the moon landing" also kind of invalidates the deaths and hard work of a lot of people. There's a reason you bring that shit to Buzz Aldrin he punches you out.
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Yeah but I don't recall anyone walking into a pizza store and murdering people over it. Maybe it did happen and I just don't know about it, I don't really have any interest in digging into it honestly.
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There is a direct line from Truthers to birtherism to Qanon
I'm sorry, but who made this image? What part of the conspiracy includes not completing the image text?
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Kinda the same dynamic where there's a lot of "believers" but few "true" believers. These are people who regularly compare abortion to the Holocaust and yet for most their opposition amounts to "vote red". If you truly believed that abortion clinics were murdering people on a scale unmatched by the worst historical atrocities then you'd be crazy to not storm the nearest clinic with a gun. And some do just that, but only some. The rest are happy to say they believe that awful things are happening but are happy to not do anything about it. Which either means they're pantomiming belief in a horrific belief in order to get political power and feel special, or they truly believe it yet lack the will to turn their beliefs into actions. Both possibilities depress me.
* Trump appears to be incompetent and wildly ineffective
* This is all a secret plan to throw the Democrats off the scent while he secretly works to overthrow the secret global underground child rape/murder cult
* This is actually a secret plan by the Democrats to lull pro-Trump Americans into a false sense of security
* This secret plan is failing because Trump is actually so competent that he has a double-secret plan to subvert the secret plan of the Democrats
Is that right? Then why bother with the appearance of incompetence if it's not all part of the anti-'child-trafficking-conspiracy'-conspiracy?
Remember this all started because one nut job who has been routinely wrong posted some nutty shit on Reddit. There is no logic its only madness.
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Oh I never expect anything logical out of QAnon. If a QAnon thing has real english words strung together in an order that expresses a comprehensible idea, however batshit insane, I assume that's probably a high water mark for them.
But the post seemed to imply the poster was "too smart" for QAnon so had developed his own, new conspiracy theory around it, which if you're not buying into the dumpster fire salad bar that is QAnon I'd assume you'd cobble together something surface-level sensible as your alternative. But I guess that's an assumption too far.
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No way man! Because only the winners can be the ones who double cross the double crossers!
We liberals know for sure that immigrants are being abused in the border camps, but we don’t storm them, do we? Democratic solutions are better.
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It didnt really make the rounds, but someone did, and was immediately killed.
"Attack on facility built to imprison people in awful conditions is an awful event, says man in charge of making sure everybody at ICE has their stories straight about how horrible abuses never happen internally."
Obviously it's real stupid to firebomb a detention center in protest of detention centers, but holy shit, saying the attack is going to keep ICE people up at night while ICE habitually brutalizes tens of thousands of people? That's a pretty insane disconnect.
Uhh, about that.
He didn't murder anyone, but he damn well tried.
The quote structure and rhetoric sort of obscure what was meant by that.
I believe he meant that people never got violent and tried to shoot up a place prior to things like Qanon
But they just weren’t as easily linked, things like Clock/Bell Tower snipers were something of a dark humour jokes about mental illness and conspiracy theorists and then there were the more publicized incidents like the Kazinsky letter bombs / Unibomber, all of which significantly predates the internet.
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Fakedit- a supposed Popish plot. Not native American.
Yeah that's what I meant. I never heard about that happening up until recently. The few times people did commit horrible acts, they were labelled mentally ill. Like the Unibomber. Personally don't really have a problem labelling people who are deep enough into conspiracy theories as having a mental illness, since the definition includes something that is having a significant and noticable negative impact on your life.
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When we stopped lobotomizing people we also stopped doing much of anything else, too.
If you go to a Rolling Stones concert and the lights go down but you haven't heard Satisfaction...the show isn't over.
Similarly, if a Conspiracy Theory hasn't gotten to 'The Jews', you haven't heard the whole theory.
You might in some cases get the barely coded 'Globalist' or 'George Soros' wording, but pretty much one of the universal threads in at least the past 100 years of conspiracy theories is antisemitism.
Also, any racists who haven't singled out the Jews as a hated group just hasn't gotten to them yet.