• MerrySkeptic@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    A narcissistic collective intent on shit-stirring for lulz, immune to logic or any sense of morality? Suddenly Star Trek TNG makes a lot more sense

  • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
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    5 months ago

    Although the conspiracy movement emerged out of fringe imageboards in 2017,

    4chan, /pol/ if I recall

    It’s an interesting story for sure, just have to wince when articles like this treat some sites like it’s a big secret place. I’d guess that in some part it’s so you don’t get those people that go to check the source and get sucked into it.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    Marjorie Taylor Greene’s entire career trajectory from being an ostracized QAnon congresswoman to cementing a position as one of the most prominent right-wing politicians in the country is itself a demonstration of the mainline GOP coming to terms with the conspiracy.

    Because facts don’t matter. And why is that? Clearly facts matter when the rubber meets the road. Why is branded insanity running free in the world?

    Maybe we should ask corporate news. But I doubt that would be much help.

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    5 months ago

    There was guy down the street from me that had a Q sticker on his car. I came so close to ordering the letters ueer and putting them under it, but he moved away. He wouldn’t have noticed for awhile, and I know it really would have pissed him off. Ah well.

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    5 months ago

    “Became everything” is giving it way more credit for the shit stain on history that it is.

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    5 months ago

    You know by comparing Q to a everything bagel is a mockery of the whole thing. Everything bagel does not have everything.