This is from John Birch Society propaganda in the mid-60s, but I dare you to find any daylight between this and the way Republicans talk about, say, BLM
or critical race theory
or anything that makes them feel embarrassed and defensive about being born on third base.
The really ridiculous thing *about* that defensive reaction, BTW, is that THERE’S NOTHING TO BE DEFENSIVE ABOUT! No one chooses the circumstances of their birth.
What race you are is completely outside your control… which is *why* it shouldn’t confer advantages or disadvantages
But, in the real world that we live in today, it *does* dramatically affect the whole course of your life.
And everyone knows this is true. Clone someone 10,000x and make half the clones white, half the clones black — on avg the white clones will have better life outcomes. Why?
Well, obviously not because of different *capacities* — or different intrinsic merit they’re all copies, right? Same personality, same IQ, same everything,
BUT
the deck is stacked against the black ones — & in favor of the white ones — bc of social forces beyond their control.
Like, this isn’t fucking hard to understand! It’s not some kind of arcane secret that only an initiated few can grasp.
It is *intuitively obvious to anyone who spends 4 seconds thinking about it.*
And the injustice of the status quo is so readily apparent, and the moral force of the argument that *this is some immoral bullshit that is not to be tolerated* is so strong
that you rarely even see conservatives trying to defend the status quo as good and just anymore.
Instead they screech, “IT’S ALL COMMUNISTS! ANY CHANGE TO THE STATUS QUO IS COMMUNISM AND THAT’S EVEN WORSE THAN WHAT WE HAVE NOW!”
Critiques of the status quo on race aren’t Communism. They’re simply recognizing reality & applying *basic* morality to say: this should change.
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OK, so. I've talked a fair amount about /general/ threads on 4chan -- for instance, I'm almost certain Q was a regular reader of, and probably a poster in, /PTG/ threads (that's President Trump General).
/HTG/ ("Human Trafficking General") threads were a QAnon precursor, too.
So they're a big deal.
What I WASN'T aware of was: there's high-quality research on them already! And not only is it high-quality, but it reveals the fact that I have ONLY SCRATCHED THE SURFACE of how /general/s work.
I'm gonna talk about /why/ in a second, but I should also note that this OTHER article is a 3,000% more comprehensive data-science-y look at these threads than I ever dreamed of taking.
It earns the coveted rating of "Can't wait to re-read this."
It sure seems like anyone who publicly announces “HEY, I’MMA BREAK INTO A FEDERAL FACILITY” should at the very least be met with a sudden and intense beefing-up of security at that location, but what do I know, really?
Anyway I’m sure it’s fine, because the local sheriff — who says he’s friends with many members of this far-right group — claims he told the feds it would be FINE.
Coming into this, I expected that most followers would simply go along with Flynn’s (patently untrue) claim that he was saying there SHOULDN’T be a coup here.
Some did, but — to my surprise — almost as many did not! Details below:
First, I should note that the single most popular response was to say, “What IS a coup, really?” — that is, to argue that in fact it was the filthy libs who’d done the coup & it would be justified, and certainly NOT a coup, if the military, ahem, stepped in to make things right.
So the most popular response to Flynn’s backtracking was neither to affirm nor disagree with it, but simply to talk around it.
This is, of course, a normal human response to embarrassing incidents.
But there WERE quite a few folks who said: no, you called for it & rightly so.
Y'all, @kunstderfuge1 just found a post from the very earliest days of Q aggregators.
Aggregators are a key part of QAnon culture: they let the faithful read the drops without having to see the chan-culture sewage *surrounding* the drops.
And, it seems, they've ALWAYS lost $.
Incidentally, you may be wondering why that's not an 8kun screenshot. The answer is that it comes from a dataset we're working with, but it was exciting enough that I wanted to come here and show it to you right away.
Because they exposed the creator of the most successful aggregator (QAnon dot pub), who turned out to be a white-collar IT professional. That gentleman was , or claimed to be, losing about $2K a month on it.
That seems credible now, but also, LOOK AT THE DRAMA:
In case you wondered what kind of person would *host* the QAnon convention,
Eddie Deen, who owns the venue, is on stage right now. He is giving the world's most confusing presentation, which he claims he also gives at homeless shelters (WHY??)
Come with me on a voyage thru it.
As I type this, he has said "does that make sense?" or "does that make any sense?" 3x in the last 90 seconds.
Absolutely none of does.
"What I want you to do," he says, "is now turn around to the left. My brain is now calibrated."
He's talking to a guy who's riding a bike around the stage.
"What's happening right now, you're 5 years old again."
"We got five minutes and eight seconds," he says. Oh boy, I don't think I can transcribe -- even partially! -- for that long. I might literally die.
I've written several times about Q's first superfan, a 4chan user (who I suspect was a sockpuppet for Q) that posted 60ish times about Q on 10/29/17, Q's second-ever day of activity.
What was Q's appeal for this user -- or, alternatively, how did Q try to drum up interest?
That's right: raw fuckin' antisemitism.
Antisemitism has been a key part of QAnon culture *literally since the first moments that QAnon culture was a thing.*
So when Q people claim that Q isn't the least bit antisemitic, remember the sewer Q crawled out of.
Also, it's reasonable to ask why I think this is a likely sockpuppet.
Two reasons: first, 60 posts is a LOT of goddamn posts. 4chan anons tend to have the attention span of a HEY, LOOK AT THIS SHINY NEW THREAD.