and even if they believe their "soul force" is enough to counter whatever they think is going on, and that "power of prayer" mindset deters them from action, it is still not ideal to have a large group of people praying for the execution of their political enemies.
― boz conspiracy by toby hus (voodoo chili), Thursday, 21 January 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link
Soul force vs Space Force
― nashwan, Thursday, 21 January 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link
There is literally no end to this shit pic.twitter.com/vDLqbJOcOy— c a i t l i n (@hello__caitlin) January 21, 2021
She looks unnervingly like a woman I worked with who asked me if cavemen are real after seeing a Geico commercial.
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
some people might be hanging on but i think these people are currently scattered and 'reeling.' they'll regroup soon enough as another fringey movement, but their moment has passed for now. away to the dustbin!
― treeship., Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
Like is there really still that much lead paint within reach of America's children?
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
Vaguely tempted to start a 'What if Trump had been reelected?' counterfactual thread, partly because I wonder how far these people would have taken their little 'game'.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
somebody really needs to sit these people down and introduce them to fan fiction
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
The best fanfic doesn't know it's fanfic, and they know this to be true without knowing it.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
xpost I've been saying variations of this for years. It's like they've somehow had zero previous exposure to benign outlets for their wilder imaginings or baser impulses. Go DM a D&D campaign or shred on some CoD, for chrissakes, and stop dragging literally everyone in the world into your waking fever dream.
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
Does she use her lashes to catch krill
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:30 (three years ago) link
i kind of enjoy watching stupid people tell me the details of what they've found in the corners of their mind labyrinths as long as they keep it to two minutes or less
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
Not necessary, it's right there in the water
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:20 (three years ago) link
Fox News is worse than lead, imho
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:21 (three years ago) link
I heard some talk of this on a podcast and those chan missives sounded like nothing so much as clues on 3-2-1. So yeah, Q is the reanimated corpse of Ted Rogers and you've won "Dusty" Biden?
― fist of micro bunter (Noel Emits), Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:28 (three years ago) link
I just watched the Leap Day William episode of 30 Rock, there's a train of thought Tracy does in response to a 'clue' re the soup kitchen he's standing next to, that's exactly this.Tracy: "Remember where I came from." But we all came from the sea! Sea, like the letter 'C' which is part of the alphabet. Alphabet soup. Soup kitchen. Kitchen--Man: --No, no, don't keep going!Tracy: The Kitchen Debate with Richard Nixon. Richard M. Nixon. The M Train. Soul train. Chicken soup for the soul. Chicken soup. Soup kitchen.
― kinder, Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:55 (three years ago) link
I, for one, blame Lacan.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:56 (three years ago) link
I'm loving all these stories about tearful, crestfallen Qberts, but it begs the question: did they really believe this was going to happen? That Democrats and Tom Hanks would be executed for pedophilia at Guantanamo Bay? Or was this all some kind of elaborate role playing game?
I mean, I guess some of them must have believed it, but the majority? It's fucking crazy talk.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 21 January 2021 22:02 (three years ago) link
Its like sports fandom, you do get het up in the moment
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 January 2021 22:04 (three years ago) link
How many self-described religious folks believe in God/gods? etc.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 January 2021 22:05 (three years ago) link
Haha i totally get the Ted Rogers thing.
― piscesx, Thursday, 21 January 2021 22:06 (three years ago) link
yes many people believed it and many still do. i saw some meme account on IG post some meme making fun of Q believers because of Biden's inauguration and there were multiple comments in the vain of "trust the plan", "this is going to look stupid in a couple of weeks", clicking through to the user's accounts showed that they were mainly in earnest
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 21 January 2021 22:08 (three years ago) link
and they were all young people
NYT: Biden’s 17 Executive Orders and Other Directives in Detail
:O
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Thursday, 21 January 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
I mean:
https://www.reddit.com/r/InsaneParler/comments/l1iufi/insane_parler_qanon_lunatic_crying_and_begging/
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 January 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
It is to laugh
This is playing out over and over again on the QAnon/pro-Trump internet. Whenever someone suggests taking real action, like voting, organizing, forming a new political party, running for office, etc. the response is always the same: Elections are rigged, so it won't matter. pic.twitter.com/TjFtgS0H4f— Molly Hensley-Clancy (@mollyhc) January 21, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 January 2021 22:15 (three years ago) link
in the sense that elections are generally rigged to prevent lunatics from getting elected to pursue batshit conspiracy theories, yes. these people should be satisfied with the number of nuts they get through as it is.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 January 2021 22:18 (three years ago) link
Belief isn't an all or nothing thing. I think part of the QAnon phenomenon is that believers mostly began by allowing themselves to believe in the possibility that the Q mythology was based in truth. They just gave it a chance. The rest of the work was done by crowd psychology and the seductive nature of the Q mythos, which offered them simple enemies with purely evil motives who would be summarily dealt with by simple retributive justice in the end.
The fact that none of this was detectable in visible reality was easily explained by the super-secret nature of the evil conspiracy and the righteous counter-conspiracy. Q was the prophet who gave them tiny glimpses into the complex machinations of both sides and this solidified its 'reality'. As soon as you believed in Q's reality, you got sucked into the vortex.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Thursday, 21 January 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link
I’m okay if they are too demoralized to do anything, including random violence.
― Boring United Methodist Church (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 21 January 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link
For most of them the excitement was in waiting for it all to go down, like kids waiting for Christmas to come. There will be a few who wanted the public executions of their named and known 'enemies' (e.g. Democrats in Congress and state governments) so all-consumingly that when they realize nobody's going to do it for them, they'll start seeking another way for it to happen.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:06 (three years ago) link
I look forward to the phrase "...before turning the gun on himself" making a comeback.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:16 (three years ago) link
In the world of domestic violence it never went away.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:30 (three years ago) link
Cant not read in movie trailer voice, sorry
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Friday, 22 January 2021 00:39 (three years ago) link
I know not everyone has patience for Brad Troemel, as he certainly grates on me at times, but I think this is actually really helpful and interesting in understanding how Qanon groups used memes to really spread the conspiracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG8wCRmdVmQ
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Friday, 22 January 2021 00:48 (three years ago) link
*a sudden deep bass BOOM! of a giant bass drum with the echo canyon reverb setting*
― Karl Malone, Friday, 22 January 2021 02:23 (three years ago) link
oh really
Lawyer for 'QAnon Shaman' says he feels 'duped' by Trump after not getting a pardon https://t.co/P1eccPXeRk— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 22, 2021
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 22 January 2021 12:30 (three years ago) link
It's all about the choads he didn't pardon, u see
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 January 2021 12:43 (three years ago) link
Trump is ultimately responsible for the storming. I’m happy that the people who were there are being appropriately charged, but the person I want to see held to account most of all is Trump.
― treeship., Friday, 22 January 2021 13:11 (three years ago) link
Well the funny thing is, per that lawyer, is that they’re clearly thinking of ways that could go. Civil suits, perhaps?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 January 2021 13:36 (three years ago) link
reading that quote he 100% sounds like he's preparing a civil suit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 January 2021 14:14 (three years ago) link
wait you mean like all the QAnon folk civilly suing Trump himself?
cos that would be all kinds of hilarious
― if Spaghetti-Os had whammy bars (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 January 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
that's what I took away from it, they were misled by his lies then he told them to walk to the capitol
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 January 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link
next to of course rotting in jail, nothing else would bring me more joy than him having to appear in civil court for lawsuit after lawsuit for years and years and basically being ass out
― if Spaghetti-Os had whammy bars (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 January 2021 15:51 (three years ago) link
or should I say more ass out than he already is
― if Spaghetti-Os had whammy bars (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 January 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
Meantime, speaking of court, this thread details an attempt to talk about all the fraud and horribleness that everyone who is not Trump allegedly did to keep Trump from winning. It is of course garbage. But you might want to read a stretch of it based around this tweet where the people filing suit try to invoke Tolkien. It doesn't go very well.
And this is an epic footnote. First of all, they forgot to include a proper citation and pincite. Second, no, really, what the bloody hell are you people SMOKING? pic.twitter.com/qHPOxDuajF— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) January 22, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 January 2021 16:29 (three years ago) link
i just read it. they provide no evidence that the biden presidency or the 117th are "illegitimate," they just repeatedly claim it.
― treeship., Friday, 22 January 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link
Well, they're illegitimate because Democrats were allowed to vote. I mean, do they really have to spell it out for you?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 22 January 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
in a court filing they're supposed to. these aren't koans.
― treeship., Friday, 22 January 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link
your honor, i would like to submit the text of one J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion as exhibit B
― Karl Malone, Friday, 22 January 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
if i may be granted liberty to summarize the story of this wonderful tale, it all began with music, with the Ainur, the angels, willing the very fabric of the universe into order,
― Karl Malone, Friday, 22 January 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
Affirmed.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 January 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link