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You really gotta pull the plug on this sometime

UPDATE:

Ahhhhh, smells like... Victory! Twice!

So, once again, it has come to this! Mega Metric Shit-tons of aristarchus submissions, warning of the infection of the stupidest of Americans, Trump supporters, by the Conspiracy Theory of Q, (no, not the Continuum near god of "Star Trek: The Next Generation", but the really stupid continuation of the Pizzagate conspiracy by Americans so stupid they would donate $200 American, to some shyster one-armed bandit, and his Dark Enlightenment accomplice.) Well, here is to be that last 1000 aristarchus submissions, on QAnon. Prepare to be dumbfounded.

Most recent, actually part Three of a series from Salon, which is quite good:
Making sense of QAnon: What lies behind the conspiracy theory that's eating America?"

Not just the lizard people, see part 2 for that.

Then, not really on topic, but what the heck!
Red Pill, by Hari Kunzuru: paranoia and the alt-right A novel, you know, not real? Fiction? Like white supremacy?

More. This one is good, official Republican cray-cray, that almost made it into the "convention". RNC Speaker Cancelled After Boosting QAnon Conspiracy Theory About Jewish Plot to Enslave the World. Why do they always end up going anti-dentite?

Then, there is what is happening on Fox News! Traitors!
‘It’s a hate group’: Chris Wallace sends Trump aide Mark Meadows into hysterics with QAnon question. Of course, mark Meadows is already hysterical, as have been all Trump's chief of staffs and walking sticks.

Still more: We can go back for quite a while. This: The deep, twisted roots of QAnon: From 1940s sci-fi to 19th-century anti-Masonic agitprop. Oh, it is just part two of the series on QAnon from this really good historian at Salon. Informative read.

A playbook for combating QAnon, from the NY Times, advice on strategy. Unless, of course, SN is on the other side? Which I am sure has good people on it? Or, not.

Eric Prince lies that he is an ex-SEAL. In fact, he washed out in basic. But a lot of ex-SEALs seem to have problems grasping reality. Like this: What Happens When Ex-Navy SEALS Go Full QAnon?
Trained in demolitions, and balancing a Republican ball on their nose. Dangerous.

QAnonCasualties, this one, while it links to Reddit, is sad. Mental disease takes its toll on family and friends. So sad.

And, from the Terrorist center at West Point, home of dangerously slippery ramps,
The QAnon Conspiracy Theory: A Security Threat in the Making?
Could have sworn this was a re-submit, pared down to meet the editors' standards for submissions. But we will get to the original, eventually. There are hundreds, literally.

From The Daily Beast, (hey, we gets our conspiracy theory scoops where we can, since SoylentNews is censoring them! ) we have this sub: ‘Adrenochrome,’ an Imaginary Drug Hollywood Is ‘Harvesting’ from Kids. Actually, kind of ties the conspiracy theories together, like a rug, and anything that mentions Hunter S. Thompson, . . .

But the real cray-cray is the Republican Party putting up with the craziness, and not just Don Jr and his crazy girlfriend! See this aristarchus submission, pulled from the censorship vault: Republican congressman at CNN to urge Trump to denounce QAnon after pro-conspiracy candidate wins. Really what set it all off, the Congresswoman candidate, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who won her primary. (And since has backed off a bit on the batshit crazy.) Nota Bene: cited source is Russia Times.

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Why the GOP Can’t Control QAnon: The Party Was Already Becoming a Conspiracy Cult, spoilage:

And, speaking of fairly unbalanced and crazy:
Fox News anchor endorses QAnon conspiracy theories, tries to backtrack But, wait, there's more!

Fox News' dangerous dance with QAnon, Dancing with the Loons? Or is it Sean's hair?

At Rich Wilson's podcast, "The New Normal", a cast on Fox News, and Qanon: Blame Fox News for the Rise of QAnon, without a Murdock, there is no Q. Coincidence?

Global Security takes a shot at QAnon: How the QAnon Conspiracy Theory Went Global, with emphasis on international growth. Brazil? Germany? And they are not laughing at America, anymore? Methinks this not be a good thing.

In San Diego, combined with Facebook, the movement becomes violent? Racism, QAnon and ‘cold civil war’: Inside the 20,000-strong Defend East County Facebook group. And, racist. (Helpful Hint: if you are hurt by people calling you racist, the best thing to do is stop being racist. aristarchus)

Do we need timestamps on these? We are going backwards in time, and now are circa August 16^th of the current year. And some background. What is QAnon? A not-so-brief introduction to the conspiracy theory that's eating America, part one, of three so far, of Guffey's in-depth background articles on the crazy. Nothing new under the sun! It's under the surface of the earth, with Titans and Reptilians, and Iron Sky: The Coming Race's Vril.

In my first book, "Cryptoscatology: Conspiracy Theory as Art Form," I broke conspiracy theories down into five distinct categories:

These submissions more or less started with news that Facebook was purging insanity from its pages of face. On example here: QAnon is a menace. Ignoring it isn’t an option. Evidently it is for the SN eds!!

One Republican has come around. Rep. Kinzinger: ‘It’s time’ for leaders to disavow QAnon. But, of course he would say that, he is a supressive personality. Pay no attention to the rational people!

And now for something completely different! Trump’s Ex-Wife and a Kennedy Push Wild Bill Gates Coronavirus Conspiracy Not QAnon, but you know the whole anti-vaxxer thing is a parallel development of anti-science paranoic conspiracy thinking, or non-thinking. Poor Tiffany!

Back to the subject at hand. Bizarre, yes. Crazy, maybe. But the media ignores QAnon at our peril, from downunder, by Jack the Insider. Beyond the paywall, but at least we know it's there, and involves "peril".

How QAnon Became Obsessed With ‘Adrenochrome,’ an Imaginary Drug Hollywood Is ‘Harvesting’ from Kids Now this one is heavy on the "Adrenochrome", which is a combination of adrenaline and chrome, no idea why. But it does remind me of the plot of "Jupiter Rising", with its flying wolf mercs.

From the Beeb: Facebook removes QAnon conspiracy group with 200,000 members. So, do Soylentils think that lethal weapons should be taken away from certifiably crazy persons? Can we not make the same argument for Facebook? Or the use of Quarantine in Time of Pandemics of Cray-cray?

QAnon is a wide-ranging, unfounded conspiracy theory that President Trump is having to fight against a clandestine "deep state" network of political, business, media and entertainment elites, often involving satanic plots and child trafficking.

This one, QAnon rode the pandemic to new heights — and fueled the anti-mask phenomenon, was fixed, addressing all the criticism of the editors (there was none), and resubmitted. Rejected twice, so they must really not want you to know about this!

The lashing of the backs will ensure shortly, if Biden is elected, according to this submission: Is QAnon the shape of the Republican backlash to come? about an article in the WaPo.

Oh, dear. ‘Coward’ Trump slammed for not disavowing ‘unhinged’ QAnon conspiracy: ‘This is a domestic terrorism [something]' Yes, it be true. Scared of sharks, and eagles, too.

For comparison, earlier version of the anti-masker story. How QAnon rode the pandemic to new heights — and fueled the viral anti-mask phenomenon. Yes, contains some incinderiary language. My bad.

August 13, You cannot say I did not warn you! QAnon Candidates Keep Winning Primaries. Florida, Georgia, Colorado, California, all the hotbeds of insane alleged conservatives, or at least Trump supporters, and they are winning? Are we tired of winning, yet?

Facebook Reportedly Has Over 3 Million QAnon Users,. This was among the first of the most recent. But even news of Facebook censoring QAnon is being censored on SoylentNews. Inquiring minds want to know, "why?"

Yeah, like "this" many. QAnon groups have millions of members on Facebook, documents show. American education is evidently a dismal failure.

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That is the end of the most recent spasm of the concealment of the crazy. But not all of them. For example, from May 16^th: The Prophecies of Q: American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase.

Psychotic break, that is what they call it. Or supporting Trump.

Mr. My Pillow has been on the Q action since nigh the beginning. And the whole "demon" thing. I got's daimons in my pillow! But there is the sub from April 1: MyPillow CEO retweets suggestion his company is in on QAnon, says the devil is attacking his website. I hate it when demons attack websites, because that means someone's server is not at all properly configured.

August 3, last year. The FBI Declared QAnon a Domestic Terrorism Threat — and Conspiracy Theorists Are Psyched. Enough to send some right over the edge. But this is what has been said for quite a while. These people are dangerous crazy, not just ol' man Runaway crazy!

And that seems to be about all, or at least all a quick title search brought up. Final count? 34? That's a lot of wacko conspiracy theory exposé, and an awful lot of suppression of the news by an alleged news aggregation site. Well, it is what it is, as Q, or The Orange One, recently said.

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Breaking! This news just in! Read all about it!
Freshly rejected aristarchus submissions:
The Week QAnon Became Everyone’s Problem
This one is pointing out that the QAnon has gone past the point where just talking about it actually just gives the conspiracy exposure (an argument put forward about submissions on the Alt-right here at SN), and it now large enought to be dangerous and requires discussion, and debunking.

And, some mindless speculation about doxxing Q, in mildly entertaining article at Daily Dot:
Did an IP address accidentally reveal QAnon’s identity?.

Strange, don't you think, that certain things would be on the same ISP? And that that ISP would be located in Vancouver, next to the violent Prayer Proud Boys? And that this ISP would be owned by . . . I've already said too much!!

Problem with covering conspiracy theories, it tends to rub off, and soon you find yourself rooming with JMH.

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One more. From the Beeb.

Online and in real-life demonstrations, two viral conspiracy theories are increasingly coming together.
At first glance the only thing they appear to have in common is their vast distance from reality.
        On one hand, QAnon: a convoluted conspiracy theory that contends that President Trump is waging a secret war against Satan-worshipping elite paedophiles.
        On the other, a swirling mass of pseudoscience claiming that coronavirus does not exist, or is not fatal, or any number of other baseless claims.

Original now sadly rejected, submission, How Covid-19 myths are merging with QAnon conspiracy theory available here. Eds did not even bury it in the Holding Bin of Eventual Submission Death.

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Today, they're calling in the Feds on this one: FBI gets involved as QAnon follower sends death threats to Florida parents and teachers over masks. For a secret organization, they seem to have a thing about masks. And education. And Science. The other rejected sub was about schools in Texas. No news there, really.

*** Sept 4! Dangerously close to an American Erection!

Most recent casualty of the SoylentNews editor's war on truth. I Got ‘Trained’ by a CIA Officer and QAnon Movie Star. Evidently, if you have enough money, you can be trained to be a CIA level Q-agent. Nearly as good an educational offer are Trump University, which would teach you never to trust a "University" run by a single person, or a single person, his wife, and a professional pool boy.

And now, at the end, you realize the true power of the Facebook! Banning they are the post of QAnon aficiandos, as reported in this rejected aristarchus submission: Facebook removes QAnon-supporting candidate’s 'squad' post for inciting violence. (submitted Friday September 05, @7:03PM, rejected 2020-09-05 07:03:25) No, it wasn't Runaway. But it makes you think. Sauron, and even the White Wizard nutherguy both had to power to bend weaker minds to their will. Could that be happening here?

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One more, where I edited the QAnon into OAnon, to see if there is a bot that deletes all submissions on this insidious conspiracy theory that is running through TMB's higher nervous system. Rejected. And, it was even from Faux News@! Oh, the Hugo Manatee! Biden calls OAnon movement 'mortifying’ and ‘dangerous. But then, there is the Sin of Onan, to which OAnon is close enough, and the news organization this is the sin of onan for Trump, the OANN, which is also close enough. Wankers.

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Three more, for today. First, Osama bin Laden's niece is a Trump supporter who has also backed the QAnon conspiracy theory. Have to admit, did not see that coming! But, wealthy Arabs and cray-cray go together like hashish and bonesaws.
Next: HE’S FIGHTING QANON WITH SUNLIGHT , actually an article of interest to techies, since it is about

Lyric Jain, a 24-year-old, Cambridge-educated engineer who lives in the United Kingdom. In fact, his company, Logically — a news curator that uses artificial intelligence and other methods to tackle the spread of misinformation

. Bet he never had to tackle N**k Di***rs and apk, like our TMB has had to do! Or the nefarious aristarchus submission! Of course, aristarchus submissions are the antithesis of mis-information.

Finally, Cultlike conspiracy theory QAnon takes root in Georgia; seems white, Southern, Evangelical areas are prime territory for a wacko conspiracy theory! Who knew, besides the white (not too bright, 'cause privilege), the Southern (is it the climate, or the inbreeding?), and the Evangelical (already believing in conspiracy theories. The whole "Roman" dead Jesus story is fake news!!). Oh, well. Most likely not the last.

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Definitely not the last! Part Four of the Salon investigation of QAnon is deep-sixed by SoylentNews editors as well. I wonder, which one of them is the conspiracy theorist? But, whereever they go one, they go all? Submission, in it's rejected state, can be found here: Decoding QAnon: From Pizzagate to Kanye to Marina Abramovic, this conspiracy covers everything. The part on Kanye is particularly enlightening.

Samsung Begins Mass Production of 16Gb LPDDR5 DRAM

Samsung is now manufacturing 16 Gb LPDDR5 DRAM chips, which it will use to make 16 GB packages, among others.

They were stacking 8x 12 Gb and 4x 8 Gb chips in their previous abominations. These ones are likely to be cheaper. It's also 16.3̅6̅% faster at 6,400 MT/s instead of 5,500 MT/s.

No word yet on 24 GB or 32 GB packages.

Previously: Samsung Announces Mass Production of 16 GB LPDDR5 DRAM Packages

‘Thank you everybody. (applause)
Back at home in the United States, the newspapers are saying that I came here today to speak to about 5,000 Nazis. And tomorrow they’re gonna report that, yes, I was here and spoke to maybe 3-5,000 Nazis. And I look at this crowd and I see the opposite of Nazism. I see people who love democracy, people who want open government, people who want leaders that aren’t gonna lie to them, people who want leaders who won’t make up arbitrary rules and regulations to orchestrate obedience in the population. We want health officials who don’t have financial entanglements with the pharmaceutical industry, who are working for us and not Big Pharma. We want officials who care about our children’s health and not about pharmaceutical profits or government control. I look at this crowd – I see all the flags of Europe, I see people of every color, I see people from every nation, every religion all caring about human dignity, about children’s health, about political freedom — this is the opposite of Nazism! (applause)
Governments LOVE pandemics. They love pandemics for the same reason they love war. Because it gives them the ability to impose controls on the population that the population would otherwise NEVER accept – the great institutions and mechanisms for orchestrating and imposing obedience. Now, I’ll tell you something – it’s a mystery to me that all of these big important people like Bill Gates and Tony Fauci have been planning and thinking about this pandemic for decades, planning it so that we would all be safe when the pandemic finally came. And yet, now that it’s here, they don’t seem to know what they’re talking about. They seem to be making it up as they go along. They’re inventing numbers. They cannot tell you what the Case Fatality Rate for Covid is – that’s basic. They cannot give us a PCR test that actually works. They don’t have… They have to change the definition of Covid on the death certificates constantly to make it look more and more dangerous. But one thing that they’re good at is pumping up FEAR.
75 years ago, Hermann Goering testified at the Nuremberg Trials and he was asked ‘how did you make the German people go along with all this?’ He said it’s an easy thing. It’s not anything to do with Nazism. It has to do with human nature. You can do this in a Nazi regime, you can do it in a socialist regime, you can do it in a communist regime, you can do it in a monarchy and a democracy. The only thing that a government needs to make people into slaves is fear. And if you can figure out something to make them scared, you can get them to do anything that you want.
50 years ago, my uncle John Kennedy came to this city – he came here to Berlin because Berlin was the frontline against global totalitarianism. And today again, Berlin is the frontline against global totalitarianism. My uncle came here – he proudly said to the people of Germany, Ich bin ein Berliner. And today, all those of us who are here today can proudly say once again, Ich bin ein Berliner. Because you are the frontline against totalitarianism.
I’m going to say one more thing. They haven’t done a very good job about protecting public health. But they’ve done a very good job at using the quarantine to bring 5G into all of our communities. And to begin the process of shifting us all to a digital currency, which is the beginning of slavery. Because if they control your bank account, they control your behaviour. And we all see these advertisements on television saying 5G is coming to your community. It’s gonna be a great thing for all of you, it’s gonna change your lives, it’s gonna make all of your lives so much better. And it’s very convincing I have to say because I look at those ads and I think it’s great, I can hardly wait til it gets here. And because I’m going to be able to download a video game in 6 seconds instead of 16 seconds. And is that why they’re spending 5 trillion dollars on 5G? No. The reason is, for surveillance and data-harvesting. It’s not for you and me. It’s for Bill Gates, it’s for Mark Zuckerberg and Jeffrey Bezos. And all of the other billionaires. Bill Gates says that his satellite fleet will be able to look at every square inch of the planet 24 hours a day. But that’s only the beginning. He’ll also be able to follow you on all of your smart devices, through biometric facial recognition, through your GPS. You think that Alexa is working for you? She isn’t working for you. She’s working for Bill Gates [edit: it's Bezos, not that it matters] spying on you.
And the pandemic is a crisis of convenience for the elites who are dictating these policies. It gives them the ability to obliterate the middle class, to destroy the institutions of democracy, to shift all of our wealth from all of us to a handful of billionaires to make themselves rich by impoverishing the rest of us. And the only thing between them and our children is this crowd that has come to Berlin! We’re telling them today you are not going to take away our freedom, you are not going to poison our children, we are going to demand our democracy back.
Thank you all very much for fighting!’ (applause)

source https://www.marktaliano.net/robert-f-kennedy-jr-fighting-against-global-totalitarianism-in-berlin-video-the-liberty-beacon/

EDIT: the Goering citation is famous: "Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."

interviewer: "There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."

Göring: "Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

direct report from a friend in berlin says about 2 million attendees. Let's say it's overstated by 50%. That is still a long way from 5000. Remember this next time you base your opinion off mainstream media.

in·ter·reg·num
/ˌin(t)ərˈreɡnəm/

noun
a period when normal government is suspended, especially between successive reigns or regimes.

As an economic system, capitalism (at this point) is showing an advanced decline in capacity to underwrite a stable society. What follows after such a disintegration of a system is a prolonged period of social entropy and disorder... Disintegration of society as such, a perpetual anotherhood – pregnancy without childbirth — a trajectory where current times of trouble continue indefinitely.

Whoops! Almost forgot!

Drop the theatrics. Do some meditating.

How long ago did we stop counting? Kinda like testing, if you stop, nothing happens. You can't go broke if you don't know how much money you have...

I only bring this up because people who talk about the markets right now are so full of shit, claiming to be bigger than all of Europe 'n stuff

The Nigerian Prince moved to New York

Whether police officers are granted qualified immunity—the legal doctrine that makes it considerably more difficult to sue civil servants who violate your rights—largely depends on where the offense occurred, and thus where it's litigated in court, according to a recent Reuters investigation.

But even in the courts that try to hold public servants to a higher standard, officers routinely receive qualified immunity for conduct that shocks the conscience.

Judges in the Fifth Circuit—which covers Mississippi, Texas, and Louisiana—"are more likely to prioritize police power over citizens' rights and liberties," Reuters reports. That deference to the state doesn't stop at the police. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently granted qualified immunity to a group of prison guards who forced a naked inmate, Trent Taylor, to stay in two squalid cells, one with "massive amounts of human feces" and the other with raw sewage overflowing on the floor. Though the judges on that panel acknowledged that Taylor's Eighth Amendment rights had been violated, they granted the group qualified immunity on the basis that the precise amount of time the inmate spent in those cells—six days—had not been spelled out in pre-existing case law.

Alternatively, the Ninth Circuit, which covers California, Washington state, Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Oregon, "has set a higher bar for police," granting qualified immunity in 42 percent of excessive force complaints. But even that appeals court has awarded qualified immunity in some head-scratching cases.

In 2019, for instance, the Ninth Circuit gave qualified immunity to Los Angeles police officer Michael Gutierrez who, without warning, shot a 15-year-old boy as he was preparing to make his way to school. The teen's friend was holding a plastic Airsoft gun replica. "Under the circumstances, a rational finder of fact could find that Gutierrez's use of deadly force shocked the conscience and was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment," the Ninth Circuit wrote. But that wasn't enough. "Because no analogous case existed at the time of the shooting, we hold that the district court erred in denying Gutierrez qualified immunity for this claim."

https://reason.com/2020/08/28/qualified-immunity-is-a-disgrace-no-matter-where-you-live-reuters/

How a designer used AI and Photoshop to bring ancient Roman emperors back to life

Photoreal Roman Emperor Project

Colorized statues

RNC 2020: The Republican Party now the Party of Trump

About the Right - or at least the R party - being accidentally right.

One of the traditional duties of the delegates to the quadrennial national party conventions, both Democratic and Republican, is to adopt a platform stating their policy preferences and principles.

These documents - akin to British party manifestos - are typically the subject of intense haggling and debate among the delegates, but are largely ignored by the candidates themselves, unless opponents decide to highlight a portion they think general-election voters will find extreme or unpopular.

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Instead, the delegates gathering for the limited in-person convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, passed a one-page resolution stating that they weren't going to have a new platform, but instead the party "has and will continue to enthusiastically support the president's America-first agenda".

The delegates said they made this decision because they did not want their reduced number in Charlotte making policy decisions for the entire party.

And so, the logic goes: "If there are not enough of us to take a decision for the entire party, then surely a single idiot will be better than us, so we'll support him enthusiastically".
A sincere admission of incapability.

It continues:

a June decision by the party's executive committee to adopt the 2016 platform as-is in 2020.

While that might seem a reasonable decision given the circumstances, doing so without any changes meant the document included shots meant for the then in-power Democrats, like "all international executive agreements and political arrangements entered into by the current Administration must be deemed null and void as mere expressions of the current president's preferences".

They got it right in form at least. It still means "we are supporting Trump, in spite of policies being just a matter of current president's preferences"

A 6 foot tall, 240 lb monster thug from a gang-riddled ghetto of Los Angeles hijacked the media last night, just minutes after being seen for the previous few hours brandishing a club.

This young tough expressed the nefarious goals and emotions of the Black Lives Matter movement with clarity and emotion.

Before his inflammatory remarks to the press, he took advantage of the tense situation to make sure his intentions were not misunderstood, then repeatedly brandished a club for several hours.

What's more, this ghetto rat was intimately involved in preventing others from doing their jobs today, in solidarity with others trying to take advantage of the media storm around the shooting of Jacob Blake.

What is this world coming to?