if so a) nicely done but b) why is it only this obviously ridiculous now?
― Left, Friday, 29 January 2021 02:39 (three years ago) link
Lol at MTG’s “But what do I know? I just like to read a lot.”
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 29 January 2021 02:50 (three years ago) link
I'm not a 'gater I just read a lot
― if Spaghetti-Os had whammy bars (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 January 2021 03:19 (three years ago) link
is chait fucking serious comparing aoc to that q anon psycho?
― treeship., Friday, 29 January 2021 03:25 (three years ago) link
oh he knows exactly what he doin
― if Spaghetti-Os had whammy bars (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 January 2021 03:39 (three years ago) link
and it's not good
He’s mocking the Axios piece for doing that.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 January 2021 03:42 (three years ago) link
it would be less confusing if he hadn't been doing that kind of thing unironically for years
― Left, Friday, 29 January 2021 05:04 (three years ago) link
How can anyone just now be discovering how bonkers MTG is, I feel like the fundamental fact of her nuts-ness has been her calling card from day one. Pretty much the only reason I know her is as the Q candidate.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 29 January 2021 05:57 (three years ago) link
"fuck yeah jonathan chait" is one of the most horrible phrases ever typed into this website
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Friday, 29 January 2021 06:00 (three years ago) link
According to CNN, Greene “liked a comment that said ‘a bullet to the head would be quicker’ to remove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In other posts, Greene liked comments about executing FBI agents who
trying to win over left twitter I see
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Friday, 29 January 2021 06:02 (three years ago) link
I’m from Marjorie Taylor Greene’s District and I would like to say something pic.twitter.com/ktnVp9vexg— Corey “The Buttercream Dream” Forrester (@CoreyRForrester) January 29, 2021
― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 30 January 2021 02:47 (three years ago) link
^ that was fine
― Compromise isn't a principle, it's a method (Aimless), Saturday, 30 January 2021 03:41 (three years ago) link
No matter how justifiably pissed he is, I don't really want him screaming at me
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Saturday, 30 January 2021 03:52 (three years ago) link
he was screaming at his neighbors. we're just a couple of gawkers.
― Compromise isn't a principle, it's a method (Aimless), Saturday, 30 January 2021 05:22 (three years ago) link
I think he said he wasn’t really talking to you.xp
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Saturday, 30 January 2021 05:22 (three years ago) link
He's great.
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Saturday, 30 January 2021 08:02 (three years ago) link
Anyway.
This video has been shared a lot but it needs to be noted she is being interviewed by Katie Hopkins, a notorious bigot and hatemonger who is loved by white supremacists. Trump praised and supported both women many times. This is the Republican Party. This is it. https://t.co/2YoyHGCjFX— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) January 30, 2021
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Saturday, 30 January 2021 08:03 (three years ago) link
Ps. This is Q.His name is Jim Watkins. He and his son Ron, run the Q account. Ron outed his dad as the one behind the posts. Fuckin Losers. pic.twitter.com/m72ru2yAfN— Hal Sparks (@HalSparks) January 31, 2021
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 31 January 2021 23:39 (three years ago) link
https://www.insider.com/who-is-q-why-people-think-jim-watkins-qanon-8chan-2020-10
Are we sure that's not GG Allin's brother Merle?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 31 January 2021 23:47 (three years ago) link
Jim Watkins looks like he was created by John Kennedy Toole. Looks exactly like the one image I can remember seeing of the character though maybe a little slimmer.
Do Q fans recognise that the story has been outed as a fiction or see that as a troll. Or further revelation they need to interpret into their epistemology while waiting for further orders. Like the Doublethink of both believing and disbelieving t that was talked about heavily at the start of the incumbency.
― Stevolende, Monday, 1 February 2021 07:49 (three years ago) link
The question I have is how did he learn all those secrets about the deep state and the satanic pedophile cabals? This story isn't over!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 February 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link
Probably anyone on this thread has already heard it, but the Reply All on the Watkins and their involvement in all of this is pretty fascinating.
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/llhe5nm
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 1 February 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
Watkinses, I guess is the proper plural there.
Am I alone in being disappointed when I have to listen to a podcast/watch a vlog to find out about a thing and I cant read about it.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 1 February 2021 22:36 (three years ago) link
No, I'm exactly the same and I've probably missed out on some quality audio/video material as a result.
― pomenitul, Monday, 1 February 2021 22:37 (three years ago) link
it would be good if the q identity could be authoritatively established and put to rest so i look forward to some kind of big expose. (written, of course, i'm not about to start listening to podcasts). i know that it won't change the mind of every supporter, but still.
― treeship., Monday, 1 February 2021 22:51 (three years ago) link
seems very likely that this jim watkins was a big part of it, maybe the main guy.
the one thing about this i just can't get over is how dumb the people are who believed in this. like, it's one thing to think that the state protects sex offenders. (they do!) but to think that TRUMP is the one who will blow the lid off it... and that the way it will happen is this dramatic, eschatological unveiling.... and that YOU, reader, have an important role to play, searching for patterns on google image search or whatever... it's just bizarre.
it's like learning hundreds of thousands of adults believe in santa claus, and that believe santa claus wants them to kill the speaker of the house.
― treeship., Monday, 1 February 2021 22:54 (three years ago) link
Am I alone in being disappointed when I have to listen to a podcast/watch a vlog to find out about a thing and I cant read about it.― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, February 1, 2021 2:36 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, February 1, 2021 2:36 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago)
pretty sure gimlet does transcriptions of all their audio-based content, let me check though...
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 1 February 2021 23:05 (three years ago) link
lol, didn't take long! just scroll down and expand by clicking the "Read More" link
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 1 February 2021 23:06 (three years ago) link
afaict that link goes straight to the transcript.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 February 2021 23:07 (three years ago) link
lol xpost
Treesh you cannot be in here shocked and sad that people are either or both of naturally or consciously thick af
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Monday, 1 February 2021 23:10 (three years ago) link
Half the world are dumber than a person of average ~intelligence*~
* yes but still
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Monday, 1 February 2021 23:11 (three years ago) link
aiui, half the world are dumber than a person of median ~intelligence*~
― Compromise isn't a principle, it's a method (Aimless), Monday, 1 February 2021 23:16 (three years ago) link
no need to thank me. it's just part of the service.
― Compromise isn't a principle, it's a method (Aimless), Monday, 1 February 2021 23:17 (three years ago) link
Well somebody of above median intelligence just knocked his poem out of the running for my vote
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Monday, 1 February 2021 23:26 (three years ago) link
i can't help it, deems. when i read about q anon, and the credulousness of the q-bees, i find myself astonished.
― treeship., Monday, 1 February 2021 23:30 (three years ago) link
i agree with the poster upthread that there is probably some kind of doublethink/cognitive dissonance involved in this. it is an easter-bunny level belief.
― treeship., Monday, 1 February 2021 23:32 (three years ago) link
Have you read this piece treesh?
https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analysis-of-qanon-580972548be5
― pomenitul, Monday, 1 February 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link
In statistics, mean, median, and mode are all known as measures of central tendency, and in colloquial usage any of these might be called an average value.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 1 February 2021 23:37 (three years ago) link
xps I'll just pick up a sympathy vote somewhere and it'll all cancel out.
― Compromise isn't a principle, it's a method (Aimless), Monday, 1 February 2021 23:37 (three years ago) link
i have. that article does a good job showing why it is engrossing to people as an experience. but this, i would think, would make the story Q is telling feel even more manufactured, more like a fantasy
― treeship., Monday, 1 February 2021 23:37 (three years ago) link
xp
The original statement is a paraphrase of an old George Carlin joke: "You know how dumb the average person is? Well, half of them are even dumber than that!"
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 1 February 2021 23:41 (three years ago) link
Thanks re transcript lol I didnt even think to look.
As to Waktins/8kin being Q, I thought that was basically common knowledge all along? I'd always assumed most sensible ppl knew 8chan made Q up as a joke. I neverunderstood why it got taken seriously when this had such clearly finable back-roots.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 1 February 2021 23:47 (three years ago) link
So many Q's and not enough A's.
― Compromise isn't a principle, it's a method (Aimless), Monday, 1 February 2021 23:48 (three years ago) link
DALE BERAN: Even today, I could put in, um, Q@Matlock. And then if I wanted to put a post on 4chan, it would appear exactly under Q’s old tripcode, which I did, to test it while I was writing the article. [laughs]PJ: Whoa, so you’ve also posted as Q?DALE: Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I mean, who hasn’t, really, at this point? [laughs]PJ: I mean I haven’t. What did you say?DALE: I don’t like looking at 4chan, ‘cause it’s full of gross stuff, so I, uh – there’s /pol/, which is the- the fascist board, and then there’s /po/, the paper, craft, and origami board. Uh, I went to /po/, um, and someone posted a nice piece of origami, and I posted as Q. I said, “Looks good.” [laughs]
PJ: Whoa, so you’ve also posted as Q?
DALE: Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I mean, who hasn’t, really, at this point? [laughs]
PJ: I mean I haven’t. What did you say?
DALE: I don’t like looking at 4chan, ‘cause it’s full of gross stuff, so I, uh – there’s /pol/, which is the- the fascist board, and then there’s /po/, the paper, craft, and origami board. Uh, I went to /po/, um, and someone posted a nice piece of origami, and I posted as Q. I said, “Looks good.” [laughs]
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 1 February 2021 23:55 (three years ago) link