No, no! Much better to be a lawyer than a professor. As I tell my son also. They're always whining about someone who said a mean thing in a book review and they get into those cardigan sweaters and stop shaving. I just thought you must be one, because of how you'd figured all that, who else would have had the time and concentration? Well I'm sorry you're bored but I think you're fab. Can you believe my story about telling my father in law about the Salvadoran rebels? They were unmoved by my argument, yet were 'decent people?' And today, I heard Chuck Todd say, at a table with a black man sitting there, "No one has ever said Jeff Sessions lacks in-TE-grity." Same thing. Grrrr.
I love your perspective in the latter half of the article. Uncovering the motivations of those who gravitate to conspiracies really humanizes them, which I think is important for reunifying our country. United we stand, divided we fall.
That is the beauty of a CT. Any evidence for or against it is part of the CT. For is proof, against is also proof that things are being hidden.
They tend to not like peer reviewed because the peers are all in on the conspiracy. The only truth can come from someone who is independent, who is someone just like themselves in point of fact.
Until recently I used to love to pick apart CT to find the underlying logic to them as an intellectual exercise. There was almost some sort of logic to them. They didn't make any more sense, but there was a logic there.
Now they tend to be just unhinged rambling instead of just unhinged. Jones and his ilk took that away from me.
If you GIVE them the proof, they'll smile at your gullibility. Even if it's the best proof! This allows them always to know more than you know. And also proves they're idiots. I suppose also it's the cause of that fleeting controversy a few years back about 'peer reviewed articles.' They had some problem with that concept. Which is like saying, we actually despise good evidence,ok?
Mr. Genius, thank you. I agree with you tho I absolutely didn't see it. If I can tell a story quickly, I'd like to because it's been weird in my mind for years-- my arch-republican father in law-- we really liked each othe--and I'd say he was very reserved while I carried on in my heedless Democrat way-- and so was a woman friend of mine I used to walk with in the mornings, we had some things in common and didn't argue. Once I overflowed to her with a story, tho, how I'd told my father-in-law I was angry that our Revolution had been over issues like the Stamp Tax-- mostly all financial. But in El Salvador we were opposing the rights of rebels who were facing roving Death Squads in their revolution. I told her that when I'd said this, my father-in-law had countered 'But-- taxation without representation?' Admittedly the man was a CPA-- but still, Death Squads!!-- that was my point. And my arch-republican, very settled- in- her- mind friend smiled and said, 'Maybe he was teasing you.' This was preposterous to me. They didn't know each other at all. But now I've read this I see into both of their minds and I see her feeling a kinship with him and probably she also thought I was funny in my nutty enthusiasm. It's funny. And isn't it a shame that I was right? I miss him all the same. I even miss her a little bit, but true to her unimaginative kind, she broke off relations with me when I got divorced, (my actions leading to a breakdown of society). Maybe she foresaw me one day begging on the street because of this mistake. Thank you again, smart man. Are you a professor?
"No it wasnt. Pepe was chosen as a mascot becasue he was a loser, which is what 4chan and 8chan see themselves.
"
Pepe, like so many memes, was born on the “random” boards of 4chan’s /b/ (“b” for random) circa 2007, picked out of a webcomic by Matt Furie to become a macro. But why was he picked? We know now that 4chan’s actions are neither meaningless, “random”, or empty because they are labelled a “prank”.
Viewed through the lens of the people first posting him, Pepe makes nothing but sense. The original comic panels from which Pepe is excerpted feature him getting caught peeing with his pants pulled all the way down, his ass hanging out. Surprisingly, he is unashamed of this, “feels good man” he tells his roommate.
The grotesque, frowning, sleepy eyed, out of shape, swamp dweller, peeing with his pants pulled down because-it-feels-good-man frog is an ideology, one which steers into the skid of its own patheticness. Pepe symbolizes embracing your loserdom, owning it. That is to say, it is what all the millions of forum-goers of 4chan met to commune about. It is, in other words, a value system, one reveling in deplorableness and being pridefully dispossessed. It is a culture of hopelessness, of knowing “the system is rigged”. But instead of fight the response is flight, knowing you’re trapped in your circumstances is cause to celebrate. For these young men, voting Trump is not a solution, but a new spiteful prank."
No, no! Much better to be a lawyer than a professor. As I tell my son also. They're always whining about someone who said a mean thing in a book review and they get into those cardigan sweaters and stop shaving. I just thought you must be one, because of how you'd figured all that, who else would have had the time and concentration? Well I'm sorry you're bored but I think you're fab. Can you believe my story about telling my father in law about the Salvadoran rebels? They were unmoved by my argument, yet were 'decent people?' And today, I heard Chuck Todd say, at a table with a black man sitting there, "No one has ever said Jeff Sessions lacks in-TE-grity." Same thing. Grrrr.
I love your perspective in the latter half of the article. Uncovering the motivations of those who gravitate to conspiracies really humanizes them, which I think is important for reunifying our country. United we stand, divided we fall.
That is why we are known as the Nanny State.
That is the beauty of a CT. Any evidence for or against it is part of the CT. For is proof, against is also proof that things are being hidden.
They tend to not like peer reviewed because the peers are all in on the conspiracy. The only truth can come from someone who is independent, who is someone just like themselves in point of fact.
Until recently I used to love to pick apart CT to find the underlying logic to them as an intellectual exercise. There was almost some sort of logic to them. They didn't make any more sense, but there was a logic there.
Now they tend to be just unhinged rambling instead of just unhinged. Jones and his ilk took that away from me.
Yes I’ve had similar experiences for sure lol. No I’m not a professor just a bored attorney who kind of wishes he was.
If you GIVE them the proof, they'll smile at your gullibility. Even if it's the best proof! This allows them always to know more than you know. And also proves they're idiots. I suppose also it's the cause of that fleeting controversy a few years back about 'peer reviewed articles.' They had some problem with that concept. Which is like saying, we actually despise good evidence,ok?
I hadn't thought of that.
I thought it was one of those things they have in Europe that sort of looks like a toilet but isn't really a toilet .
Mr. Genius, thank you. I agree with you tho I absolutely didn't see it. If I can tell a story quickly, I'd like to because it's been weird in my mind for years-- my arch-republican father in law-- we really liked each othe--and I'd say he was very reserved while I carried on in my heedless Democrat way-- and so was a woman friend of mine I used to walk with in the mornings, we had some things in common and didn't argue. Once I overflowed to her with a story, tho, how I'd told my father-in-law I was angry that our Revolution had been over issues like the Stamp Tax-- mostly all financial. But in El Salvador we were opposing the rights of rebels who were facing roving Death Squads in their revolution. I told her that when I'd said this, my father-in-law had countered 'But-- taxation without representation?' Admittedly the man was a CPA-- but still, Death Squads!!-- that was my point. And my arch-republican, very settled- in- her- mind friend smiled and said, 'Maybe he was teasing you.' This was preposterous to me. They didn't know each other at all. But now I've read this I see into both of their minds and I see her feeling a kinship with him and probably she also thought I was funny in my nutty enthusiasm. It's funny. And isn't it a shame that I was right? I miss him all the same. I even miss her a little bit, but true to her unimaginative kind, she broke off relations with me when I got divorced, (my actions leading to a breakdown of society). Maybe she foresaw me one day begging on the street because of this mistake. Thank you again, smart man. Are you a professor?
Prove it.
"No it wasnt. Pepe was chosen as a mascot becasue he was a loser, which is what 4chan and 8chan see themselves.
"
Pepe, like so many memes, was born on the “random” boards of 4chan’s /b/ (“b” for random) circa 2007, picked out of a webcomic by Matt Furie to become a macro. But why was he picked? We know now that 4chan’s actions are neither meaningless, “random”, or empty because they are labelled a “prank”.
Viewed through the lens of the people first posting him, Pepe makes nothing but sense. The original comic panels from which Pepe is excerpted feature him getting caught peeing with his pants pulled all the way down, his ass hanging out. Surprisingly, he is unashamed of this, “feels good man” he tells his roommate.
The grotesque, frowning, sleepy eyed, out of shape, swamp dweller, peeing with his pants pulled down because-it-feels-good-man frog is an ideology, one which steers into the skid of its own patheticness. Pepe symbolizes embracing your loserdom, owning it. That is to say, it is what all the millions of forum-goers of 4chan met to commune about. It is, in other words, a value system, one reveling in deplorableness and being pridefully dispossessed. It is a culture of hopelessness, of knowing “the system is rigged”. But instead of fight the response is flight, knowing you’re trapped in your circumstances is cause to celebrate. For these young men, voting Trump is not a solution, but a new spiteful prank."
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I live in Australia. I love our gun laws.
“You wanna shoot a gun, go to a gun range. And leave the gun locked up there when you’re done.”
State of Victoria, Australia
Privet. Isn't that a hedge?
Would advice from Qanon be a Q-tip?
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