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aristarchus [soylentnews.org] writes:

The Fourth Installment [salon.com] of ROBERT GUFFEY [salon.com]'s series on QAnon [salon.com] is out at Salon [salon.com]. What new madness, you ask? Guffey has been concentrating on the historical precedents for a conspiracy Presidency, so maybe not new at all.

In the previous three installments of this series, I chronicled the attempts made by an old friend to convince me of an outlandish conspiracy theory being promoted by the group of rabid online Trump supporters known as "QAnon." According to my friend, initiates of the Illuminati had teamed up with subterranean demons to torture, rape and eat kidnapped children in underground military bases ruled by the mortal enemies of Donald Trump. He insisted that when Trump is re-elected in November we can all look forward to the abolition of the income tax, the development of "free energy" for all and the public unveiling of thousands of grateful kidnapped children rescued by Trump's private army of "white hats" from cages squirreled away in these Satanist-controlled underground dungeons.

One of the pieces of so-called "evidence" provided by my friend was a YouTube documentary called "Out of Shadows," which took the internet by storm in April. Perhaps the most impactful propaganda film of the past few years, "Out of Shadows" is a thinly-disguised QAnon recruitment video that mixes small slices of truth with a whole lot of lies to confuse the viewer into believing various bizarre theories promoted by QAnon. In this next installment, we continue our analysis of "Out of Shadows" and take a deep dive into the embryonic or chrysalis form of QAnon known as Pizzagate.

But we already knew all that, right? Yes, Pizzagate.

If I were a devout Luddite, I would use the following passage from the New York Times interview with Welch in a nationwide pamphleteering campaign to discourage people from ever having internet service installed in their house:

After recently having internet service installed at his house, [Welch] was "really able to look into [Pizzagate]." He said that substantial evidence from a combination of sources had left him with the "impression something nefarious was happening." He said one article on the subject led to another and then another. He said he did not like the term fake news, believing it was meant to diminish stories outside the mainstream media, which he does not completely trust. He also said he was not political. While once a registered Republican, he did not vote for Donald J. Trump. He also did not vote for Mrs. Clinton. But he is praying that Mr. Trump takes the country in the "right direction."

Actual quote from the man who shot up Comet PingPong Pizzeria.
And there are more examples, of the deleterious effects of conspiracy theories on line. You see, it is all a secret code word thing.

Obviously, any word could be used as a code word for something else. Maybe every time I use the word "conspiracy" in this article, I'm actually signaling to my cultist friends to meet me at McDonald's to lick the skin of an ancient psychedelic toad named Tsathoggua. I believe it. Do you believe it? If not, why not? Are you a sheeple? What do you believe is true? What do you believe is false? And why do you believe what you believe?

Robert is starting his own cult, I believe, but he actually does get around to discussing Kanye, and Marina.

Rather than connect the author of "Lucifer Son of the Morning" to Luciferianism, "Out of Shadows" tries to convince us instead that renowned performance artist Marina Abramović is a high priestess of the Church of Satan. As evidence, the filmmakers point toward Abramović's 1987 work "Spirit Cooking," which began as a portfolio of eight etchings illustrating 25 letterpress prints of what the artist refers to as "aphrodisiac recipes." This portfolio is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, proof positive that demonic forces are at work.

Enough crazy for one day, I BELIEVE! [- did you SEE that! Aristarchus is using a code word, which according to McGuffin, means "Hey, let's off a hooker tonight." Not true!]

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