CORRECTION: The thread below, on "Tripcodes: What are they?", is not accurate & should not repeat not be relied upon: it conflates tripcodes with user ids.
This is an EXTREMELY embarrassing error, an absolute howler in fact, and there's no excuse for it.
A pretty good clue was that the field we described as the "tripcode" has "ID" *right in front of it*.
Please don't rely on or reproduce that thread. We're leaving it up because owning up to and correcting your mistakes is *always* better than hiding them.
While we're ridin' the full-disclosure train: we're using "we" in our main posts, but there is of course only one person writing the threads (for now).
The "we" is partly a private joke, partly an official voice, and entirely fictitious. :D
(If we ever /did/ bring a collaborator on board and give them the keys, we would of course disclose that as well.)
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There’s a story on NBC News you should ABSOLUTELY read if you have 5 minutes.
I’ll link it at the end.
A Texas cop who’s part of the far right (tried to start his own Oathkeepers chapter, even!) spent 2 years trying to land felony pornography charges on school librarians. 🧵
What he told people in /public/ — including his bosses, it seems — was: gosh, I’m just a devoted civil servant. If community members make a complaint, it’s my DUTY to investigate.
But actually he went to meetings held by anti-“porn” crusaders and told *them* to make a complaint.
One of those women, by the way, is now on the school board.
What did he object to? Basically, a bunch of YA books — books for teenagers that dared to have sex in them! Teens famously never think about sex! — and *a book by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison.*
TIL the guy who coined the phrase “go woke, go broke” wrote a whole entire book with the premise:
wouldn’t it be cool if Waffen-SS veterans were rejuvenated and placed in charge of the effort to stop soft, effete modern-day Germany from being overrun by aliens???
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“Origins,” you say, “perhaps that is a grossly unfair summary.”
OK, well, I fucking read that shit when it came out. I was a nerdy young conservative in 2005 and had *absolutely* been reading the entire series to that point.
It’s a 100% fair summary.
“Origins,” you say, “how do we know you really read— wait why are you drawing in a really deep breath?”
THE ALIENS ARE CALLED THE POSLEEN AND THEY EAT OTHER SENTIENT BEINGS, WHICH THEY CALL “THRESH” WHICH IS A PRETTY GREAT WORD IN THAT CONTEXT TBH, REALLY ROLLS OFF THE TONGUE
READ THIS BECAUSE: I *guarantee* you’re going to find at LEAST one thing that sticks in your mind for life. There are hardly any other books I’d say that of.
SUBJECT: the last months of the Third Reich.
FAIR WARNING: this book features a *lot* of people trapped in awful situations waiting for terrible fates to befall them. Also, the stuff that will stick with you isn’t necessarily fun or uplifting.
For instance, there’s a passage about how civilians perceived concentration camp inmates when they saw the death marches.
One of them writes in her journal something to the effect of: what terrible crimes they must have committed, to be treated like this.
“Think mirror” is a QAnon slogan often used in baking — that is, the search for hidden meaning in an image or text.
Ariel didn’t use the slogan in this post, but here he makes a direct & simple use of the *core concept* to suggest that the X app is somehow linked to Freemasonry:
There /are/ less direct, less simple uses of “think mirror” — lots of them.
It’s a key part of how the “Q Clock” works, for instance (image credit: Travis View, AFAIK).
It can also be used to explain away problems that arise when one of the movement’s heroes says or does something that /completely contradicts/ core QAnon beliefs.
No problem! That was a performance for the normies.