A group of protesters just went by my building. Maybe 15-20 people led in chants by someone with a megaphone. I couldn't make out much of what they were saying, but I thought I heard "keep your hands off our children". So I checked Twitter, and yeah looks like Qanon is starting to hit the streets.
Edited to add: Hmm... or anti-maskers or "save the post office". No solid data yet.
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They just came back by and this time I clearly heard them yelling "Our kids are not for sale" and they had a "Stop Child Trafficking" banner out front. One woman had a poster that could have been an "O" but was probably a "Q".
My neighbor came out on his balcony and chuckled "It never stops does it?" because the last time we met on the balcony was during a BLM protest. I said, "this one's about Qanon" and he said "say what now?" and I said, "Qanon. A conspiracy theory about child sex trafficking" and he said "oh, ok". He did not seem to care about the children at all.
I also now know that crowds of ~50 look like 15-20 from my vantage point.
A week or two ago, one of my qanon addled family members was talking to another qanon-curious family member about impending Trump Anti-Child satanic* trafficking rallies that we’re going to rock sex trafficking.
They were just waiting for Trumps landmark Anti-childtrafficking to go into effect.
I googled the date and didn’t see anything big planned, but I would guess you caught sight of their big BLM rivaling protest.
My first evil step mother totally tore up a DANGEROUS AND EVIL Dungeons and Dragons book I borrowed from a friend. She paid for it, literally, as a not-pology to the owner though.
So there were a bunch of Qanon protests yesterday. On the plus side, they mostly looked pretty small.
On the minus side, I searched Google News, and a whole bunch of little local media outlets posted stories about them as though they were legitimate anti-trafficking protests.
AND a lot of those had pictures and video of protestors' signs that included hashtags like adrenochrome and saveourchildren so people could look them up online.
AND AND searching on those hashtags often returns some very disturbing pictures, including crime scene and morgue photos of children who died violently. Some are very, very graphic, so seriously, don't look them up. I came across one picture that I got bombed with on the internet back in the 90s, and I couldn't close my eyes without seeing it for a solid two weeks. (It was an animal attack, and I guess I acclimated in those two weeks, because it doesn't bother me as much now.)
Hey, so this podcast, from the NYT, is so far a lot better than the one I recommended previously. The more I listened to those last guys, the more the hosts got on my nerves. Still good information, but there were too many annoying side jokes and stuff.
I'm pretty sure this one is white guys, too, but I recommend it for those who are listening to white guys right now.
(Huh. Didn't realize I was listening to it as an Australian, but whatever. It works for me.)
I am not unaware that I'm all into it too, but I have always been into that sort of thing. Like urban legends and mass hysterias and moral panics and cults and things like that. My favorite book (series) when I was a kid was probably Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. I remember my parents trying to take it away from me because I was boring and/or worrying them with stories about mass panics and stuff.
And there is a massive convergence into one great omnibus of delusions happening in real time right now centering around a straight up fascist president and powered in large part by the degradation of journalism, and low barrier internet culture.
They've got the Satanic Panic, mole people, chemtrails, sovereign citizens, multiple flavors of doomsday prophesies, blood libel, harmonic convergence style hippy shit, Kennedy conspiracies, Illuminati, clones, occult racism and antisemitism, everything. It's like those multi-superhero movies the children enjoy, except it's really happening right now, sucking in all kinds of people who used to pass as normal, and it's weaponizing them.
What kind of fool would I be not to watch it play out as it's happening, before I know how it ends?
It's like those multi-superhero movies the children enjoy, except it's really happening right now, sucking in all kinds of people who used to pass as normal, and it's weaponizing them.
As usual, he accused his opponents of something he himself did. It is always, always, ALWAYS projection with these motherfuckers. You could probably build a passable Republican by training an AI to follow the following rules:
IGMFY (I Got Mine; Fuck You).
Cleek's Law (Today's 'conservatism' is the opposite of what liberals want today, updated daily).
It's Always Projection.
The Object of Power Is Power.
I think it would probably fool other Republicans, but it might not pass a Turing test, because I don't think the Republicans would pass a Turing test either. (Or a Voight-Kampff test. There are eight letters that appear in both "Replicant" and "Republican". Coincidence? It is irresponsible not to speculate.)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I saw a tweet where someone described that when they find out someone they know personally supports Trump, they lose all respect for them instantly. I liked it and retweeted it, but stopped short of sharing it on Instagram.
I'm hoping a lot of the people who say they think it's mostly true just have some general idea that it's about elite pedophile rings, and don't know how crazy it goes.
Also, the media keeps playing into it, with all the bad reporting on Trump signing FOSTA and that other trafficking thing he re-upped. Plus those horrible "sex trafficking ring busted" headlines they stick onto press releases that cops are now putting out when they clear their missing kid backlogs. And gormless local media reporting on those protests, quoting fake statistics, and then not fact checking them, or even asking basic questions like, "OK, so what are your specific demands? What exactly are you protesting and why now?" and stuff like that. Some even seem actively complicit, like there was a local protest some outlet covered where they were veeeerrrry careful to only show the front of a couple of really generic signs and those were pictured more than once. The rest were only pictured from the back, so you couldn't see what they said, but I'm guessing they had Qs and related hashtags and pictures of pizza or something.
Beware Sinclair broadcasting and what they push as local news. Several of the Hoover Institute covid denying pieces were pushed by local news affiliates. I would go with reverse Hanlon's and assume malevolence towards reality.
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