Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Josquius]

Qanon is coming back in fashion then?
Wasn't that specifically manufactured about Clinton? Fingers crossed it helps distract the idiots from making up new nonsense about biden.

[Valmy]

Yeah, that's enough for another week or two.

I wonder how long it will be before right wing nuts are just boycotting everybody. "Walmart just said Joe Biden ain't so bad!"

The sex trafficking thing just shows how out of touch I am with what goes on in their bubble. I have no clue why sex trafficking is a big deal right now, at least why it is a bigger deal than normal.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Qanon is coming back in fashion then?
Wasn't that specifically manufactured about Clinton? Fingers crossed it helps distract the idiots from making up new nonsense about biden.

There are even multiple GOP Congressional candidates who believe in QAnon stuff, including some who are guaranteed to be elected!

[grumbler]

Qanon is coming back in fashion then?
Wasn't that specifically manufactured about Clinton? Fingers crossed it helps distract the idiots from making up new nonsense about biden.

The "Q" thing didn't get started until 2017, and hasn't slowed since.  It's closely related to the "deep state" conspiracy theory, which (in the US) also surfaced in 2017.  The deep state conspiracy theory is explicitly endorsed by the Trump administration.

Qanon didn't start the whole Pizzagate thing, but has maintained that the child sex-trafficking conspiracy is real.

[Razgovory]

Qanon is coming back in fashion then?
Wasn't that specifically manufactured about Clinton? Fingers crossed it helps distract the idiots from making up new nonsense about biden.

It hasn't gone away.  You're thinking of "Pizzagate".  Same song, different cover.

Frankly, it's fucking scary.  It's no longer exclusive to the US.  Two Qanon fucks went after Trudeu, and it's making inroads in Europe.  I read an article last week about Qanon groups in Finland.  There are some real parallels to the blood libel and that lie killed a whole bunch of people.

[Syt]

There's also German Qanon nutters, including a singer/celebrity who in recent years became weirder and weirder, starting with nationalist nonsense, via Reichsbürger beliefs (the current Germany is not a real country but a company created by the Allies and the German Reich never ceased to exist) to believing the elites of the world harvest adrenochrome from tortured children's blood in underground labs to stay young.

[Valmy]

The fact they are not staying young, and continuing to get old, doesn't poke any holes in this theory?

[Syt]

The fact they are not staying young, and continuing to get old, doesn't poke any holes in this theory?

Or enhance their lifespan (the Queen being a prime example)? I forget. Apologies if I'm not up to date on my crazy conspiracy theories.

USA Today has a bit of a TL;DR:

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/22/what-is-qanon-conspiracy-theory/5486724002/

[Duque de Bragança]

The month of the explosions ... all coincidental of course

More apophenia, I'm sure all of you needed it!

Leffe, Belgium is safe. 

PS : this seems like an "improved" version of a meme debunked partially by USA Today
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/06/fact-check-meme-showing-6-global-blasts-day-not-entirely-true/3307611001/

[Syt]

Came across this one in the wild. Base sentiment is reasonable, but the solution seems a bit off. Because I doubt ex-politicians, connected to the Washington scene, would have trouble finding work in corporations as lobbyists, or as a "thank you" after providing tax breaks, friendly legislation etc.

[Tamas]

Yeah I don't like the whole bitter "cut their salary" cries. As if that's how they make their money in the first place. If anything, increase their salary and scrutiny into their spending so there's an incentive not to sell their influence for pennies.

[Razgovory]

There's also German Qanon nutters, including a singer/celebrity who in recent years became weirder and weirder, starting with nationalist nonsense, via Reichsbürger beliefs (the current Germany is not a real country but a company created by the Allies and the German Reich never ceased to exist) to believing the elites of the world harvest adrenochrome from tortured children's blood in underground labs to stay young.

I never heard of the Reichburger thing, I suppose that's just in Germany.  It sounds like it has the same thrust as American Sovereign citizen movements.  The adrenochrome thing I've heard off and it really resembles the old blood libel.

[Duque de Bragança]

The fact they are not staying young, and continuing to get old, doesn't poke any holes in this theory?

Maybe not so easily enough obtained young blood, as in this 1973 movie, Traitement de choc:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070827

[Valmy]

Came across this one in the wild. Base sentiment is reasonable, but the solution seems a bit off. Because I doubt ex-politicians, connected to the Washington scene, would have trouble finding work in corporations as lobbyists, or as a "thank you" after providing tax breaks, friendly legislation etc.

If anything that plan would make them more corrupt, not less. I am fir term limits but 2 years/terms is a terrible idea. 12 years should be it.

[DGuller]

I think term limits are a band-aid solution that can be worse than the disease.  I for one don't see a problem with having career politicians.  Politics is a profession, and competence in that profession matters.  Should we have term limits for doctors or lawyers?

If you're concerned about power that concentrates increasingly with tenure, then you have other structural problems.  You're better off solving those problems rather than limiting the competency of the people within that system.