Sacks 'n' Stuff Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 I’m having a hard time reconciling how there are people who are stupid enough to gobble up every obvious lie that Trump farts out of his mouth but stop short of believing this Q crap. I mean, if you’re one rung away from the pinnacle of stupidity, why stop? As Woody would say, “reach for the sky”. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMP Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 18 hours ago, Zguy28 said: If you want to know how President Trump's mind works, seriously read this. Most people react to him exactly as he wants. Just look at the quantity of content on here about him. https://www.businessinsider.com/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-explains-trumps-persuasion-style-2017-10 rest at link The border with Mexico is more secure now than any time in US history. We have more people and more equipment on the border now then ever. If we are going to talk about border security, we have to have a measure of what it means to be secure. If one person comes over the Mexican border illegally, is it not "secure"? Is the illegal Mexican more of an issue than the person that flies and has a legal visa or something, but stays after they should have gone back? Estimates have ~50% of the people here illegally coming in on planes, not over the Mexican border. The other point here, is the human brain is an odd device. If somebody lies, correcting the lie with the negative just re-enforces the initial statement. If I say the sky is red and in correcting me, you say the sky is not red, you are actually re-enforcing the sky is red in other people's minds. Trump isn't stupid. He knows how to manipulate people to get what he wants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zguy28 Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 3 minutes ago, PeterMP said: The border with Mexico is more secure now than any time in US history. We have more people and more equipment on the border now then ever. If we are going to talk about border security, we have to have a measure of what it means to be secure. If one person comes over the Mexican border illegally, is it not "secure"? Is the illegal Mexican more of an issue than the person that flies and has a legal visa or something, but stays after they should have gone back? Estimates have ~50% of the people here illegally coming in on planes, not over the Mexican border. That may be, I personally don't know and don't have reason to doubt you. But I am somebody who does not have the moral flexibility like Trump or many of his supporters. Quote The other point here, is the human brain is an odd device. If somebody lies, correcting the lie with the negative just re-enforces the initial statement. If I say the sky is red and in correcting me, you say the sky is not red, you are actually re-enforcing the sky is red in other people's minds. Trump isn't stupid. He knows how to manipulate people to get what he wants. Exactly. Except he takes it beyond negative fact correction and employs the argument from emotion to the nth degree. He may be dumb on policy, but he knows people and how to manipulate them, and he's proud of it. Overwhelmingly, most of his opponents spend almost all their energy correcting his statements with a negative, instead of working to further their own cause. Playing his game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 https://www.vox.com/2018/8/8/17657800/qanon-reddit-conspiracy-data We analyzed every QAnon post on Reddit. Here’s who QAnon supporters actually are. Long. Here is one interesting bit: Quote But let’s take a step back: Who or what is Q? Q is the mysterious persona who set this conspiracy theory in motion — someone who claims to have “Q-level” security clearance, which is how he can drop all these hints about the “true nature” of what’s happening in Washington. (Most commenters used the pronoun “he,” so we’re using that here.) It’s tempting to speculate on who Q actually is. Many think there’s no one Q and it’s instead a group of people. Others think it’s John F. Kennedy Jr. A BuzzFeed report argues that it’s actually leftist trolls. But it could also be just a teenage dungeon master who thinks this is his magnum opus. No one really knows (though my bet is that it’s someone who’s not all that interesting). This community, however, has turned an internet conspiracy theory into a live-action role-playing game. They are the main characters — except they don’t think it’s a game; they believe this conspiracy is real. So, idiot narcissists. Hmmm, where have I heard that before? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 On 8/8/2018 at 9:56 AM, PleaseBlitz said: So, idiot narcissists. Hmmm, where have I heard that before? At this point I can say with a high degree of certainty that these are just re-branded Ron Paul asswipes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 (edited) I'm starting to think this QAnon thing isn't real. Or is it? Edited August 21, 2018 by Cooked Crack 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 29 minutes ago, FanboyOf91 said: 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbo Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 every time i see the thread title i'm momentarily struck with a realization that i really am not a decent person i am a child of darkness i'm going to name this mountain bike i took from a skinhead "stormbringer" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearrock Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 14 minutes ago, Jumbo said: every time i see the thread title i'm momentarily struck with a realization that i really am not a decent person i am a child of darkness i'm going to name this mountain bike i took from a skinhead "stormbringer" Now, you're finally worthy of a statue *bow* 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogofWar1 Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 2 hours ago, Cooked Crack said: 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PiLfan Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 The QAnon story of Donald Trump secretly fighting a global pedophilia ring is obviously a hoax. The story of Abe Lincoln secretly fighting a confederate army of vampires, on the other hand, is totally true (and ****ing awesome). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbo Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 **** that idiot that asswipe has lowered every bar there is to lower nice work, meat sacks 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llevron Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 This is fun! We will never get ride of these ****ers lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 My husband watches Lionel on RT. Wouldn't believe that was him in the picture till I blew it up to billboard size. Doesn't believe the Q stuff... Somebody please pm me with the evidence so I can shut him up, thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbo Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 36 minutes ago, skinsmarydu said: My husband watches Lionel on RT. Wouldn't believe that was him in the picture till I blew it up to billboard size. Doesn't believe the Q stuff... Somebody please pm me with the evidence so I can shut him up, thanks in advance. i just mailed him a horse's head (no animals were hurt in the making of this post) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 37 minutes ago, skinsmarydu said: My husband watches Lionel on RT. Wouldn't believe that was him in the picture till I blew it up to billboard size. Doesn't believe the Q stuff... Somebody please pm me with the evidence so I can shut him up, thanks in advance. He doesn't believe that's the QAnon guy in the picture? Also, still nuts that the President is meeting with a guy who is pushing a conspiracy that Dems are running a pedophilia cult Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 That Jim Jeffries clip is hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 I can't get him off that channel. He's addicted to it like I am to ES. The difference is ES has yet to make me a paranoid genius idiot. Never seen anything like it. (And I've known true schizophrenia.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbo Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 we may have to start a generic "conspiracy theories" thread since along with racism and rejection of truth/facts they've become signature features of today's gop. this post could have gone in the alex jones thread as tangential, too anyway---keep your eyes on "big league politics"---some site run by ex-britebart reporter, and where the pizzagate strategy is still in full swing by the fever swamps of the right wing (iow, a large majority of all conservatives). they are attacking various liberal-owned small businesses across the nation, esp. if gay-owned, and accusing them of child sex rings and satanism on various media platforms. cruz, scalise, and nunes have all used these guys for fund-raising. when just this last week they were individually confronted bya reporter on this stuff, they acted ignorant or rejected the reporting as inaccurate, but when readouts of proud admission of such were shown, cruz and scalise's offices later released statements that they would no longer use them for fund raising (as if they didn't know lmao). but not nunes. he's still good with the deal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 On 8/27/2018 at 11:12 AM, Jumbo said: we may have to start a generic "conspiracy theories" thread since along with racism and rejection of truth/facts they've become signature features of today's gop. this post could have gone in the alex jones thread as tangential, too American conservatism, 1992-present. Ok ok.. that was unfair. 1994-present. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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