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21st January 2022, 09:47 PM | #361 |
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This link feels like it might be of some relevance, incidentally.
We Found the One Group of Americans Who Are Most Likely to Spread Fake News One subset of conservatives expressed the greatest tendency to promote false news stories. Here’s what it means for the fight against misinformation.
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22nd January 2022, 06:21 AM | #362 |
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Innocent mistake, or being witty (well played) ?
They reference plane crash victim JFK Junior. And he'd be... checks teh giggler... almost a year older than I, 61. Christ... I flew bitty planes, I can edit magazine text... If my pops had been POTUS... could I have killed myself in my plane too? |
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22nd January 2022, 06:28 AM | #363 |
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22nd January 2022, 06:36 AM | #364 |
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Good question.
I don't think the LCCs are as numerous as many here feel... they're just loud as ****. But the LC itself makes me think of trolls, plentiful in the fringes of both ends of the political spectrum. But the desire for chaos feels more the domain of the hard right/alt right and conservative libertarians. IMO. |
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22nd January 2022, 06:37 AM | #365 |
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22nd January 2022, 06:42 AM | #366 |
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22nd January 2022, 07:09 AM | #367 |
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Counterbalance in the little town of Ridgeview, Ohio. Two people permanently enslaved by the tyranny of fear and superstitution, facing the future with a kind of helpless dread. Two others facing the future with confidence - having escaped one of the darker places of the Twilight Zone. |
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22nd January 2022, 08:14 AM | #368 |
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Yup. My impression is that they expect him to appear looking as he was in 1963, but figuring out what loons really believe is never an easy task.
Let me see if I can keep it straight. I think I got this from reddit, but it is nonsense to me, so I don't care. The aim is to place JFK Jr. in the Whitehouse. To prep for that it is critical to put Trump in the Whitehouse to prepare the ground as it were. Trump will then usher in JFK Jr. to the presidency, which will then be endorsed by JFK Sr. returning from the dead, causing everyone to simply accept it. No election required. As you can imagine, there are quite a few variations on this theme among the Qnuts. Schisms, if you will. Ask yourself this. Is it not interesting that Bubba has abandoned this thread once it became clear the nuttery the Qnuts were carrying on with could no longer be viably defended in any way? (not that it ever could) |
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22nd January 2022, 08:29 AM | #369 |
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Counterbalance in the little town of Ridgeview, Ohio. Two people permanently enslaved by the tyranny of fear and superstitution, facing the future with a kind of helpless dread. Two others facing the future with confidence - having escaped one of the darker places of the Twilight Zone. |
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22nd January 2022, 09:00 AM | #370 |
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22nd January 2022, 09:17 AM | #371 |
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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22nd January 2022, 10:15 AM | #372 |
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22nd January 2022, 10:18 AM | #373 |
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23rd January 2022, 12:55 AM | #374 |
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Oh I'm sure sooner or later we'll hear that it was all foolery designed to throw people off, or something. Everything's a joke unless it isn't, and then is a joke again if it doesn't work.
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23rd January 2022, 01:20 AM | #375 |
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To revisit this for a moment, there's also a question of how effective the LCCs are when it comes to sowing chaos and disinformation. Not sharing fake news online is not the same as not being affected by it. If a notable chunk of said HCCs have their decision-making affected by the fake news, that's a serious problem, even if they aren't amplifying the fake news online.
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26th January 2022, 05:22 PM | #376 |
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I thought that these guys went home a while ago, but apparently not.
After 3 months, Qanon followers are still waiting for JFK and JFK Jr to resurrect at Dealey Plaza in Dallas. Here they're playing a Michael Jackson song because they think Michael Jackson is still alive and secretly part of Trump's team behind JFK's resurrection. (reddit.com) This is some next level cult nuttery. |
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26th January 2022, 10:19 PM | #377 |
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27th January 2022, 04:41 AM | #378 |
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Most people put a puzzle together by establishing the outside frame pieces and working your way in, piece by piece, until the image is complete. I have to wonder how these nitwits decide what constitutes a new piece that they need to find a way to jam into their unframed and ever expanding puzzle of Quazy. |
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27th January 2022, 12:25 PM | #379 |
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This is what kills me...
JFK was the opposite of everything Trump is, both as a human being, and a President. The only thing they share was a tendency to cheat on their wives. How anyone at any level of sanity can think JFK and or his son would back Trump is nauseatingly stupid. |
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27th January 2022, 12:51 PM | #380 |
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27th January 2022, 03:00 PM | #381 |
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27th January 2022, 03:26 PM | #382 |
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28th January 2022, 10:52 AM | #383 |
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1st February 2022, 04:20 AM | #384 |
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1st February 2022, 11:06 AM | #385 |
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1st February 2022, 12:20 PM | #386 |
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1st February 2022, 12:52 PM | #387 |
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1st February 2022, 01:00 PM | #388 |
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They are all dangerous. It stopped being funny when that fool stormed that pizza parlor to free the children in the non-existent basement.
This past Saturday night the late-night Woo talk show had guest who worked for a well-funded public relations firm that was committed to spreading disinformation about the Podesta emails, or as he called it, the TRUTH about the Podesta emails. Retired General Flynn is also running a PR firm to spread his version of the truth. We laugh at the kooks who end up in Dealey Plaza in Dallas when we really need to keep an eye on the money behind these crazy theories. A lot of those kooks are armed. |
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1st February 2022, 03:44 PM | #390 |
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Oh, the ones in Dallas are waiting for the JFK stuff to happen.
I'm just saying, it's a small minority of Q's that are that disconnected with reality. Most of the rest, while still believing (or professing to believe) some level of the nonsense or another, retain enough of a connection to reality to make them dangerous - and not just in a "grab a gun and shoot the imaginary satanists" way, but also in a "there's two of them serving in Congress right now" way. |
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12th February 2022, 01:55 PM | #391 |
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Another Q murder. This time the Q echo chamber has reinforced to a person who on the surface might seem to be a dangerously paranoid schizophrenic, that his delusions are grounded in reality, leading him to kill his wife for being a secret CIA-employed child-kidnapper.
Or maybe he wasn't schizophrenic at all; maybe he was just a credulous person who might have never gone further than believing that UFOs are aliens until he was sucked in by QAnon and was drawn into an increasingly violent induced fascist delusion. |
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14th February 2022, 06:58 PM | #393 |
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Stupid ******* Q-nuts play Comet Ping-Pong at National Butterfly Center.
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22nd February 2022, 04:01 PM | #394 |
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Geez, I almost missed noticing this most important day when all the Q comes true...
Is there a Q habbening 2/22/22 or is this just evangelical rambling? (reddit.com) |
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24th February 2022, 12:40 AM | #395 |
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Dude, JFK would be over 100 years old by now. What's he gonna do, crap his Depends and stink us all into submission?
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24th February 2022, 12:16 PM | #396 |
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Just an example of idiotic QAnon fantasies as Russia invades Ukraine.
QAnon Followers Celebrate Putin's 'Purge' of Ukraine (newsweek.com)
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24th February 2022, 12:38 PM | #397 |
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It’s hard to imagine a group that waves the American flag and the Christian cross more, while urinating on what they stand for, than the QAnon bunch.
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24th February 2022, 12:38 PM | #398 |
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24th February 2022, 12:41 PM | #399 |
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Counterbalance in the little town of Ridgeview, Ohio. Two people permanently enslaved by the tyranny of fear and superstitution, facing the future with a kind of helpless dread. Two others facing the future with confidence - having escaped one of the darker places of the Twilight Zone. |
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