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Old 23rd November 2021, 05:37 AM   #241
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Originally Posted by Checkmite View Post
Earlier in the summer you may have heard of this lady, a QAnon influencer who declared that secret-president Trump has appointed her the literal queen of Canada, and has amassed thousands of fanatically loyal followers who are willing to harass businesses, schools, and pedestrians on the street with her "cease and desist" orders to stop obeying or COVID mandates or taking pandemic-related safety precautions or risk "execution".

In the last two days her rhetoric has shifted from sovereign-citizen-type silliness to explicit solicitation of her followers to kill health care providers.

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Old 23rd November 2021, 07:32 AM   #242
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Queen Romana Dildo. I can't unsee that now. The frogs are a nice touch.
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Old 23rd November 2021, 07:41 AM   #243
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Yeah, we've got some untreated mental illness up here too.
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Old 23rd November 2021, 07:54 AM   #244
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To be charitable, maybe the frogs are the queen's proprietary seal, like François 1er of France, "the salamander king" if memory serves.
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It makes you long for the good old days of harmless delusional self-proclaimed monarchs like Emperor Norton.
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Old 23rd November 2021, 09:22 AM   #246
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This is fun ... until one stops to consider how accurately it describes some people.

The Conspiracy Chart 2021 update (reddit.com)
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Old 23rd November 2021, 09:40 AM   #247
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That is disturbing. Also, the framing is accurate - it really is dangerous to believe in this NWO stuff, but we have people here freely admitting it like "what's the harm?"
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Old 23rd November 2021, 09:54 AM   #248
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Originally Posted by eerok View Post
This is fun ... until one stops to consider how accurately it describes some people.

The Conspiracy Chart 2021 update (reddit.com)
Scratching my head about "Iran Contra" being described as a CT. Is there some crank theory in addition to the largely undisputed facts that the Reagan admin was trying to sell guns to Iran to illegally fund the Contras death squads?

I know Reagan and other big wigs escaped all meaningful accountability thanks to some skullduggery by North, H. W. Bush, and others, but the details of the illegal conspiracy are not in doubt.
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Old 23rd November 2021, 10:17 AM   #249
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Originally Posted by SuburbanTurkey View Post
Scratching my head about "Iran Contra" being described as a CT. Is there some crank theory in addition to the largely undisputed facts that the Reagan admin was trying to sell guns to Iran to illegally fund the Contras death squads?

I know Reagan and other big wigs escaped all meaningful accountability thanks to some skullduggery by North, H. W. Bush, and others, but the details of the illegal conspiracy are not in doubt.
Here's what the author of the chart says: "I should clarify: I’m not saying Iran-Contra didn’t happen. This was meant to imply we have questions about Reagan’s involvement. That is why it’s in the “we have questions” category. Sorry, that could’ve been more clear."

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Old 23rd November 2021, 08:28 PM   #250
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Some of the QAnon sheep are trying to peel away from the flock, but not for the right reasons.

Qanon response to the latest statement by an orange Florida man. They’re almost there.. (reddit.com)

"Dooming" refers to speaking aloud the realization that the Q BS might be false. Too bad that this sentiment makes this person want to hurt people, or to see them hurt. You kind of want to root for them to wake up, but they're also deeply repulsive.
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Old 23rd November 2021, 09:52 PM   #251
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Originally Posted by eerok View Post
Some of the QAnon sheep are trying to peel away from the flock, but not for the right reasons.

Qanon response to the latest statement by an orange Florida man. They’re almost there.. (reddit.com)

"Dooming" refers to speaking aloud the realization that the Q BS might be false. Too bad that this sentiment makes this person want to hurt people, or to see them hurt. You kind of want to root for them to wake up, but they're also deeply repulsive.
Admittedly, I find it unsurprising. The right wing propaganda network has been working to both create problems and exploit them for political gain, frequently by making up brazen lies or just relying on quarter truths to redirect attention and blame away from their efforts. By creating and playing on the biases of those that pay attention to them, they've made quite a lot of money while also influencing/"benefiting" the Republican Party. Their strategies, though, have obvious and serious consequences in the long run, not least of which are radicalization and justifying atrocity. Fertile ground for BS like QAnon to take root, in short.
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Old 24th November 2021, 01:28 PM   #252
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Any bets on how long it will take the Q-Tips to "discover" that the three defendants in Georgia were jailed to silence them from telling us where Hunter Biden's laptop is and what happened to Hillary's e-mails?
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Old 24th November 2021, 04:12 PM   #253
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Originally Posted by carlitos View Post
This is so sad. I was guilty myself of laughing at the people waiting for JFK Jr. in Dallas, but the followers of this numerology guy seem genuinely lost to some extent.

Vice News - QAnon Cult Tearing Families Apart



Some of them are apparently suggesting that they have to "experience physical death" to "come out on the other side" and at least one of them is heading to Waco, echoing something about the Branch Davidians...
There will be blood.
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Old 24th November 2021, 04:15 PM   #254
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Originally Posted by Checkmite View Post
Earlier in the summer you may have heard of this lady, a QAnon influencer who declared that secret-president Trump has appointed her the literal queen of Canada, and has amassed thousands of fanatically loyal followers who are willing to harass businesses, schools, and pedestrians on the street with her "cease and desist" orders to stop obeying or COVID mandates or taking pandemic-related safety precautions or risk "execution".

In the last two days her rhetoric has shifted from sovereign-citizen-type silliness to explicit solicitation of her followers to kill health care providers.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEwqlfYW...g&name=900x900
Madge might have something to say about that and she has several regiments of guards.
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Originally Posted by Armitage72 View Post
It makes you long for the good old days of harmless delusional self-proclaimed monarchs like Emperor Norton.
Or that guy in the UK who claimed he was the rightful monarch through some twist of his family tree from the 16th century.
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Old 24th November 2021, 05:07 PM   #256
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Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop View Post
Or that guy in the UK who claimed he was the rightful monarch through some twist of his family tree from the 16th century.
Just like Anastasia Romanov survived.
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Old 26th November 2021, 02:53 PM   #257
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I thought that this article on the futility of QAnon "research," as being practiced in Germany, was interesting. It sounds very much like our domestic USA-ian Q people.

Toy Rabbits, Chemtrails and German QAnon Fanatics: How Not to Conduct Open Source Investigations
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Old 28th November 2021, 02:27 AM   #258
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Originally Posted by eerok View Post
Some of the QAnon sheep are trying to peel away from the flock, but not for the right reasons.

Qanon response to the latest statement by an orange Florida man. They’re almost there.. (reddit.com)

"Dooming" refers to speaking aloud the realization that the Q BS might be false. Too bad that this sentiment makes this person want to hurt people, or to see them hurt. You kind of want to root for them to wake up, but they're also deeply repulsive.
The kinds of QAnons that you see gathering in Dallas and waiting for the second coming of JFK for instance, the "true believers", are really a small sliver of Q followers; mostly older people and folks who were always detached from reality to some degree or another long before QAnon came along.

People like this guy are the vast majority of Qnuts. Not in that they're becoming unsatisfied with it (I have no idea how many Q's are "waking up" to the grift); but they're like him in that they don't really believe the specific individual fantastic claims QAnon makes, but hopped on board and committed because the promised endgame was always the mass purgation, imprisonment, and/or murder of people they already hated - namely liberals, Jews, and homosexuals, i.e. "traitors" to the Real America.
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Originally Posted by carlitos View Post
I thought that this article on the futility of QAnon "research," as being practiced in Germany, was interesting. It sounds very much like our domestic USA-ian Q people.

Toy Rabbits, Chemtrails and German QAnon Fanatics: How Not to Conduct Open Source Investigations

"Bellingcat", better known as "Brown Noses", has no place to call themselves "Open Source Researchers", they are MI6-Puppets (and I hate them especially because they did a lot of harm to actual open-source research we did on Syria in 2012ff).

No wonder they are working together with the "Amadeu Antonio Stiftung" (which they even fail to name properly and refer to as "Antonio Amadeu Stiftung"). Which is headed by a literal STASI Agent named Anetta Kahane and employed by the German Government to decide what is and isn't "fake news" on facebook.

I'm not a fan of "QAnon" but this is a despical bunch you are here refering to.

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"I don't like them, therefore they are CIA stooges"

Argumentum ad Conspiratorum.
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Originally Posted by The Great Zaganza View Post
"I don't like them, therefore they are CIA stooges"

Argumentum ad Conspiratorum.

CIA is MI6 in your world view? Maybe, but such an argument needs a perspective way above your pay grade. You have no clue, you likely don't even know about our Syria wiki which was funded here by Caustic Logic, Petri Krohn and me (when we invited "Skeptics" to join and fact-check us but literally nobody showed up). We've had a lot of "experiences" with Brown Noses.

Argumentum ad Ignorantum.

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Ever heard of Five Eyes?
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Originally Posted by The Great Zaganza View Post
Ever heard of Five Eyes?


ooooh, I see, it's all a big conspiracy and all the same anyway. Guess you're posting in the right subforum.
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CIA is MI6 in your world view?
Not identically but it is analogous in this context; in the US "it's a CIA conspiracy!"; elsewhere in the world you can insert MI6, Mossad, etc. as appropriate.
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Not identically but it is analogous in this context; in the US "it's a CIA conspiracy!"; elsewhere in the world you can insert MI6, Mossad, etc. as appropriate.

Yeah but this is not a statement without evidence. The nonsense this organization put out about stuff like Syria and later the Skripals f.e. is not based on "open-source research". There must be an "intelligence service" behind it and given their connections it is MI6.
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Ever heard of Five Eyes?
No, but I've eaten at Five Guys.
Just get the "Little", otherwise it's too much.
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No, but I've eaten at Five Guys.
Just get the "Little", otherwise it's too much.
"Don't fall for the Five Guys" ... yeah, sadly that's a thing. They've moved on from pizzerias to burger joints.
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A message from a traitriot:

Here we go again with threats of violence (reddit.com)\

QAnon is the tragedy of this era of American history.
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Here we go again with threats of violence (reddit.com)\

QAnon is the tragedy of this era of American history.
I'm not convinced that these Q-Nut cowards that are frightened of their own shadows will muster the balls to do anything more than go off and get all shot to **** in some kind of active shooter scenario, and then be vilified as the whackjobs they are. A disorganized cluster of these nutcases would just be target practice.
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I'm not convinced that these Q-Nut cowards that are frightened of their own shadows will muster the balls to do anything more than go off and get all shot to **** in some kind of active shooter scenario, and then be vilified as the whackjobs they are. A disorganized cluster of these nutcases would just be target practice.
I think they're mostly talk. But they're nasty, anti-social. traitorous talk.
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I think they're mostly talk. But they're nasty, anti-social. traitorous talk.
That's what happens when the media they consume gulls them to believe stupid, dangerous nonsense. They are the furthest thing from good citizens.
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With Jan 6, the Q nuts saw what happens when they catch the car they were chasing - and it was both more and less than they expected.
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This is probably a joke, but that describes the essence of QAnon.

Donald Trump is George Patton reincarnated? JFC (reddit.com)

Such an idiotic cult, but that makes sense, since it worships an idiot.
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This is probably a joke, but that describes the essence of QAnon.

Donald Trump is George Patton reincarnated? JFC (reddit.com)

Such an idiotic cult, but that makes sense, since it worships an idiot.

Patton was well known for the bone spurs that kept him out of action and his heroic efforts to avoid STDs.
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Gord metaphorically taps Ron Watkins gently on the shoulder. "Um, Ron, do you think it's just possibly that you have been lied to? That someone has been making all this **** up?"

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I just heard an interview with a woman whose sister is down in Dallas. She started waiting for JFK Junior and now she has fallen in with this -48 numerology guy. Apparently there are still 100 of the true believers at the Hyatt plus more around town. After several dates have fallen through, they seem to be planning some type of big ball or dance. They are buying suits and dresses and sourcing funds online.

It was absolutely heartbreaking. Her sister and she are both nurses but apparently this woman has fallen into alt medicine, supplements, etc. The woman was drinking—yes drinking—35% hydrogen peroxide, and eating those bio pellets that purify fish tanks to prevent COVID, but got it anyway. She has abandoned her family and spent thousands of dollars on this trip and basically lost everything.

Just awful.

It’s the QAnon Anonymous podcast from today, if anyone is interested. But not a very happy listen.
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I wouldn't be surprised if these nutters decided to go Suicide by Cop, just so they will be remembered as the 2nd Waco instead of just pathetic.
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Some of the QAnon sheep are trying to peel away from the flock, but not for the right reasons.

Qanon response to the latest statement by an orange Florida man. They’re almost there.. (reddit.com)

"Dooming" refers to speaking aloud the realization that the Q BS might be false. Too bad that this sentiment makes this person want to hurt people, or to see them hurt. You kind of want to root for them to wake up, but they're also deeply repulsive.
Maybe Jack Chick was right about the kid who looses his **** and becomes homicidally psychopathic after finding out Santa Clause isn't real.
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"Queen of Canada" arrested / detailed for threats to health care workers

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Romana Didulo, a leading Canadian QAnon figure with an alleged history of encouraging her followers to shoot health-care workers, was taken into custody by the RCMP’s national security team in Victoria, B.C.


Didulo, who often refers to herself as the “Queen of Canada,” said in a YouTube video that the RCMP’s integrated national-security enforcement team (INSET) served her with a search warrant and told her she was being detained under B.C.’s mental health act.
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