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scot47 Sep 21st 2020 4:29 am

Conspiracies
 
It saves you thinking about things if you accept these looney theories. They explain everything.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...85oIHF0AWmJBSk

verystormy Sep 21st 2020 7:06 am

Re: Conspiracies
 
Similar protests have been held all over the world, including in Australia even in Melbourne during the current lockdown. Berlin even has seen some of the largest.

durham_lad Sep 21st 2020 8:19 am

Re: Conspiracies
 
Just what we need, a revival of the nazi cult but with Trump as its leader who will save the world. The GOP is embracing those QAnon supporters who are winning GOP primaries, giving them full support, and at least one of them will win a seat in the House in November’s election.

Scary stuff.


Gregory Stanton, founding president of Genocide Watch, said: “QAnon’s conspiracy theory is copied from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the conspiracy theory promoted by Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany.

“Its potential for the promotion of genocidal hatred is a deadly historical fact. The Protocols’ theory that Jews plan to take over the world, and are well on their way to doing so, has been an ideology and motivator for pogroms since the middle ages, and under the Nazis for the Holocaust. It is a conspiracy theory that has literally cost millions of lives. QAnon has revived the Protocols, complete with the Blood Libel, that the secret cabal kidnaps children, drains their blood and cannibalises them to gain mystical power.”

scot47 Sep 21st 2020 2:07 pm

Re: Conspiracies
 
I would love to continue discussion but one of The Giant Lizards has just summoned me to an urgent errand. (See David Icke's Wikipedia pages)

Nand Sep 21st 2020 11:56 pm

Re: Conspiracies
 
People are feeling desperate from the stressfull 'second wave' of the Pandemic.

The demonstrations are more sad than potential for problem solving imo.

It will fizzle out like poured out coca cola eventually. The problem is they have too many issues all in the same pot, makes the Q less credible.

Lion in Winter Sep 26th 2020 10:50 pm

Re: Conspiracies
 
Some woman in Portsmouth walked up to my son today, entering the Asda with his face mask on, and told him he was "a pawn of the government". :blink:


With some presence of mind he told her not to vote for them again then.

durham_lad Sep 27th 2020 8:20 am

Re: Conspiracies
 

Originally Posted by Lion in Winter (Post 12914789)
Some woman in Portsmouth walked up to my son today, entering the Asda with his face mask on, and told him he was "a pawn of the government". :blink:


With some presence of mind he told her not to vote for them again then.

Great response by your son.

robin1234 Sep 27th 2020 11:57 am

Re: Conspiracies
 

Originally Posted by Lion in Winter (Post 12914789)
Some woman in Portsmouth walked up to my son today, entering the Asda with his face mask on, and told him he was "a pawn of the government". :blink:


With some presence of mind he told her not to vote for them again then.


Originally Posted by durham_lad (Post 12914877)
Great response by your son.

Or, he could have talked into his imaginary walkie-talkie, called in a black helicopter to have her arrested.

Lion in Winter Sep 27th 2020 12:42 pm

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Originally Posted by durham_lad (Post 12914877)
Great response by your son.


Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 12914928)
Or, he could have talked into his imaginary walkie-talkie, called in a black helicopter to have her arrested.

I wish he'd thought of the walkie talkie thing. What on earth is the matter with people? Why do they so easily believe these bizarre conspiracy theories over the simple facts of virus transmission?

spouse of scouse Sep 27th 2020 12:53 pm

Re: Conspiracies
 

Originally Posted by Lion in Winter (Post 12914789)
Some woman in Portsmouth walked up to my son today, entering the Asda with his face mask on, and told him he was "a pawn of the government". :blink:


With some presence of mind he told her not to vote for them again then.

Silly bitch, needs a good kick up the clacker. Comprehensively outsmarted and outclassed by Little Lion though.

robin1234 Sep 27th 2020 12:56 pm

Re: Conspiracies
 

Originally Posted by Lion in Winter (Post 12914938)
I wish he'd thought of the walkie talkie thing. What on earth is the matter with people? Why do they so easily believe these bizarre conspiracy theories over the simple facts of virus transmission?

Just saw this new article in The New Yorker, didn’t read it yet.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cu...rning-of-qanon

”The embrace of apocalyptic memes is a symptom of hyperconnected societies in distress.”

spouse of scouse Sep 27th 2020 12:59 pm

Re: Conspiracies
 

Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 12914941)
Just saw this new article in The New Yorker, didn’t read it yet.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cu...rning-of-qanon

”The embrace of apocalyptic memes is a symptom of hyperconnected societies in distress.”

...or a symptom of people who need a good kick up the clacker.

Sorry, I'm no scholar :lol:

Lion in Winter Sep 27th 2020 1:06 pm

Re: Conspiracies
 

Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 12914941)
Just saw this new article in The New Yorker, didn’t read it yet.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cu...rning-of-qanon

”The embrace of apocalyptic memes is a symptom of hyperconnected societies in distress.”

Thanks, I'll read that.


Originally Posted by spouse of scouse (Post 12914944)
...or a symptom of people who need a good kick up the clacker.

Sorry, I'm no scholar :lol:

You'd fit right in in New York City, in my experience :)

robin1234 Sep 27th 2020 1:06 pm

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Just started the article, the author invokes Norman Cohn’s Pursuit of the Millennium. Remember that book?

Lion in Winter Sep 27th 2020 1:10 pm

Re: Conspiracies
 

Originally Posted by spouse of scouse (Post 12914940)
Silly bitch, needs a good kick up the clacker. Comprehensively outsmarted and outclassed by Little Lion though.

He's a bit fed up with it though. There's too much of that sort of thing there, and it's a small town so difficult to find alternatives. He's thinking of transferring to Liverpool John Moores next year because people seem more cosmopolitan, he likes the bigger city, and, of course, girlfriend...


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