Q is Joe Biden, another non-US Politics thread (Q Anon, Qanon, Q_anon, Joe Biden is Q)

not so solid on the novelist/playwright analogy but that’s a good piece

I don't always like him but that's excellent imo.

osita otm

https://newrepublic.com/article/161266/qanon-classism-marjorie-taylor-greene

just spitballing but i feel like part of this phenomenon is the same logic that bonds frats and sororities together. intelligent, privileged people who coerce each other to do the stupidest shit in order to prove they're close to each other.

Q people jelly right now

JUST IN - Myanmar military says 'voter fraud' justified coup.

— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) February 8, 2021

the josh marshall piece is good, thanks karl

Q is everywhere!

Does yoga have a conspiracy theory problem?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-55957298

Definitely have heard people talking anti-vax shit in yoga classes. It was very disheartening.

At least one yoga friend of mine has taken the path from "Yoga is good for people and also banned" to "Why can't yoga get an exemption" to "If we all just practiced yoga, we wouldn't need any of this lockdown"... and stayed there. Not everything is QAnon.

Again, the Venn of white supremacy, anti-Semitism, QAnon, anti-vax stuff, and new age spiritual beliefs is a pretty big Venn.

I genuinely don't think that means what you think it means - a bigger Venn diagram would be one with minimal overlap.

And the links between the first three and between the last two are stronger than the links between each group - though there's an increased chance these days that they'll be exposed to each other and have to make a queasy peace. The group missing is anti-lockdown, which is not quite the same as anti-vax.

Again, the Venn of white supremacy, anti-Semitism, QAnon, anti-vax stuff, and new age spiritual beliefs is a pretty big Venn.

i'm guessing it looks like a fried egg within a fried egg

a fried egg Quesadilla within a fried egg Quesadilla presumably

You knew what I meant, dude.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a fried egg Quesadilla being stuffed inside a fried egg Quesadilla --forever

Not sure why, but Andrew's first response to that post got me really riled up.

If you knew what I meant, which is evident, then why be such a dick?

you say dick, I say diQ, let’s call the whole thing off

I guessed what you meant, because people nearly always only talk about Venn diagrams to say "all these things are the same thing" (and because these things are a lot closer to "completely different things" than "the same thing") - but you said literally the opposite.

The Inigo Montaya line was being a dick though, you're right - sorry about that.

Thanks, and sorry to get up in yr grill. I was just like "damn i was stoned when i posted and this guy is coming after me wth"

What happened to Marjorie? She was big news like two weeks ago, now she's been cancelled and is chopped liver.

I think the general lesson is that the 'whiter' an activity/belief is, the more redolent of insanity that activity/belief is likely to be. Like, unsurprisingly, the more stridently you attempt to partition off your perspective, the more your perspective becomes defined by whatever's inside your asshole (and people whose assholes are most like your own asshole).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ12_E5R3qc

this is how lauren boebert appears during a house hearing. this is a very sane political party. pic.twitter.com/GvobX1RYho

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 18, 2021

And they’re back... because they simply cannot and will not accept reality. Their refusal to admit this is all a hoax speaks volumes about the cult mentality of QAnon. It’s dangerous and damaging to our democracy. https://t.co/9fYbDQ7bw6

— Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) February 18, 2021

"damn i was stoned when i posted and this guy is coming after me wth"

new board description

What happened to Marjorie? She was big news like two weeks ago, now she's been cancelled and is chopped liver.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9246917/Marjorie-Taylor-Green-openly-cheated-husband-men-gym.html

I've been plugging away at Reaganland for the last while...Perlstein mentions a Q-like conspiracy having to do with the gas shortage of 1979; some people thought it was all manufactured, that there were full oil tankers parked off the coast and that Carter was plotting with Exxon and Mobil to flood the market at just right the moment.

Back in the day, if you espoused a conspiracy theory like that you'd've been written off as a crank. Today, you toss some human trafficking pixies into the narrative and you're practically mainstream.

He does mention an AP/NBC poll where 70 percent of the public believed the gas shortage in '79 was an "industry hoax." Not necessarily that they believed Carter was in league with Exxon/Mobil, but that somebody was lying. Overall, though, agreed, the wilder stuff is much more mainstream now.

The recent QAA episode on the great awakening map is a good one.

https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/episode-130-psychedelic-5d-qanon

xp that picture of lauren boebert, and everything about her, is really funny. sometimes i think the far right uses their own absurdity as a kind of shield, like they want you to underestimate them. this seems especially true of the boogaloo people.

I've been plugging away at _Reaganland_ for the last while...Perlstein mentions a Q-like conspiracy having to do with the gas shortage of 1979; some people thought it was all manufactured, that there were full oil tankers parked off the coast and that Carter was plotting with Exxon and Mobil to flood the market at just right the moment.

the boogaloo people, in adopting that moniker and wearing hawaiian shirts as their gang sign, are most certainly attempting to disguise themselves as harmless and ridiculous. it is the total opposite of the KKK approach of looking like wolves, while the boogaloo people want to look like sheep. they are both violent white supremacist scum.

trump was like that too, i think. you couldn't really mock him because he was already a clown.

boebert just reminds me of him in this sense. the bar called shooters, the little gun holster she wears around her thigh, it's just such a weird performance.

"the gun lady"

Just imagining the brainrot from listening to 130! Episodes of a podcast about Qanon dickheads.

Like, I don't need 130 episodes of anything about something I actually LIKE.

A gun-themed bar called Shooters is so clearly not a regular joe working stiff bar but a highly contrived Disney-style attraction for petit bourgeois assholes.

https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/154371638_10224997875756180_5660368630465798191_o.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=3&_nc_sid=dbeb18&_nc_ohc=FFiLApRNqskAX94-lJV&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=19969c42ba049058227016d8c7bdcb6c&oe=605FC143

Really leaning into that whole "it's just a stylistic preference" thing

Obama is nothing like Bush and I trust him to only kill the right people

i have at least two friends that do the 'here's hwy it's ok that our Democrat does this horrible thing' gymnastics, drives me nuts

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pic.twitter.com/nLEeYDyvb5

— G.W. Bush-era Leftism Bot (@DubyaEraLeft) March 1, 2021

Those are certainly letters

The schtick of that account is that it's all old images, right?

yes, that's a bush era cartoon, thought that should be obvious

Breaking on @MSNBC: The FBI and DHS have issued a joint intel bulletin warning that domestic extremists have discussed plans to "take control of the U.S. Capitol and remove democratic lawmakers on or about the 4th of March." March 4 is important to QAnon believers. @JuliaEAinsley

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 3, 2021

Give it up already. Sheesh.

I prefer the Q followers who were like "Shoot, maybe this Biden victory was part of the Plan all along?!"
The flexible ones, the taoist ones.