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[MorleyDev]

To bring it back around to the current US politics, many of you may enjoy this cathartic rant from British Comedian Jonathan Pie.

[nenjin]

I don't know you that well nenjin, but from the little personal stories you just told I'd imagine you didn't have it that bad growing up and thus got to be emotionally healthy for the most part. Emotionally healthy people can use the internet exactly as it was intended: as tools for information or enjoyment, and leaving it exactly at that. Emotionally unhealthy people, desperate for an escape from their lives, are given a means of egress that recedes infinitely into cyberspace.

This can easily lead to the sick person becoming entrenched in digital activities, not because they truly enjoy them but because they don't hurt; and while the internet can teach a lot, it can't teach the kind of complex social skills that only being face to face with other people can teach. Every second spent in front of the screen is a second spent feeding an illness rather than finding a cure.

So, to summarize, the internet doesn't create the problems, but it can makes them worse, all the more so because it seems like a harmless activity that keeps you off the streets and away from drugs, but it is that same seeming harmlessness that lets people get caught up in it for long, long periods of time.

My parents divorced when I was 8. I then moved 3 or so times over the next 4 years. I experienced a lot of instability, from my perspective. Had a hard time making friends at first. I had two supportive parents but they were both dealing with their own issues? Did I have it as hard as some people? No. Did I have it harder than some others? Yes.

Your final point really summarizes it though: the internet is a tool. Nothing more. If that using that tool doesn't destroy your life, some other tool will. Be that drugs, gangs, sex or what have you. Or maybe you use all those things in some form of moderation to cope. Pointing at the internet as the source of all ills is missing the bigger picture I think. If you're gonna get wrekt, it doesn't matter what tool you use, you will get wrekt. It's just a matter of what flavor wrekt'd you end up at. Comparing all the various negative outcomes, being lonely is probably the least bad of them. Versus ended up drug addicted, pregnant, beat up, or any of the other various ones.

[MorleyDev]

Even Fox are so very tired of Trump's shit it seems, such that even they are cutting away from the press conferences when they make baseless accusations.

For a channel that has spent the last four years acting as defacto state-sponsored propoganda...well, it'll be interesting, and probably very predictable, to see how someone with as transactional a worldview as Donald Trump reacts to what he'll surely see as a big betrayal.

[Starver]

I'd appreciate a (double-)update to https://xkcd.com/1122/

Randall's in a good mood, it seems...

[misko27]

"Only challengers from Deleware can beat an incumbent with a website."

It is known.

[delphonso]

Go to Fox News' facebook
Look at the number of followers
Refresh the page.

You can watch it go down in real time. It is very satisfying.

[Reelya]

Wow you're right, refresh every few seconds and the numbers keep falling.

EDIT: Was watching a Vox video recently dissecting how FOX thrives by making up fake outrage so they can avoid discussing any actual politics or issues and keep their viewers distracted from any actual policy discussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzoZf4IAfAc

Then noticed that the top story on that FOX facebook page is "Nancy Pelosi refuses to denounce socialism as she seeks another term as speaker". So, basically, the "story" is that Nancy Pelosi didn't mention anything related to socialism in any way? The story is actually that FOX called her office multiple times with a stupid bait question and she didn't get back to them at all, so she's therefore pro socialist now. This is basically QAnon levels of logic here, Pelosi has consistently failed to call out the deep state satanic cannibal pedo cult, why is she covering up for the deep state satanic cannibal pedo cult? The point being there's nothing remotely socialist about just having public hospitals and decent minimum wage laws. Regulation in a capitalist system doesn't turn it into socialism.

[hector13]

They’re not cannibals, they’re satanists.

Jeez Reelya, get your “facts” straight.

[Reelya]

They're both cannibals and satanists, they can be both. They consume the children's andrenochrome to stay young and/or prevent themselves from reverting to their lizard form, depending on who you ask.

EDIT: gotta share this one for people. Many QAnons believe JFK Jr (who died in 1999) lives and/or was murdered (or survived an attempted murder) by Hillary Clinton. He then went deep undercover, and recruited a reluctant Trump to win the whitehouse to enact his revenge from the shadows.

However, not completely in the shadows, he is disguised as a MAGA T-Shirt salesman at Trump rallies named Vincent Fusca. The funny thing is that Fusca is on record short-change people $5 or $10 here or there on his T-Shirts, so the theory is that this Billionaire Bruce Wayne type is undercover seeking revenge while grifting people a few quid here and there on the side for his overpriced Trump merch. Lots of QANons are keen to get their photos taken with a bemused Fusca, and they're on record saying "we know who you really are" etc etc.

EDIT2: Here's a live one. QAnon alien technology conspiracies from a true believer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smOz2nm-_PU

The gist (not necessarily based the video, but it's related) is that the secret military intel unit that Q works for has a time machine reverse-engineered from a crashed UFO and they can see into the future. Hence how Q Drops predict the future. And when Q drops are wrong or nothing happens that's merely because we slipped into a different timestream because of the Q Drops thus that future was avoided, Terminator style. Q himself actually referenced Looking Glass after the conspiracy was spread about, so they're happy to have people pushing this stuff.

Seriously the amount of times Q/QAnon references movies and stuff from movies is insane. "You're watching a movie" is also one of their sayings, to imply that all the normal news and reality is fake and only Q's reality is what's behind the curtain.

[Lidku]

And when Q drops are wrong or nothing happens that's merely because we slipped into a different timestream because of the Q Drops thus that future was avoided, Terminator style. Q himself actually referenced Looking Glass after the conspiracy was spread about, so they're happy to have people pushing this stuff.

LMAO

[McTraveller]

And when Q drops are wrong or nothing happens that's merely because we slipped into a different timestream because of the Q Drops thus that future was avoided, Terminator style. Q himself actually referenced Looking Glass after the conspiracy was spread about, so they're happy to have people pushing this stuff.

LMAO

Where's John de Lancie when you need him....

[Reelya]

Ugh, I just went to 8kun for the first time after hearing about that site on the QanonAnonymous podcast, and the top post in their pol page was ... kiddie porn pics. Closed the site and never going back. I don't want to read Q Drops that much.

So, Q the christian warrior actively fighting the 'deep state pedos' behind Pizzagate and the Mole Children knowingly promotes and still exclusively posts on a site riddled with kiddie porn. I'll stick to hearing about it in the podcast.

[scriver]

...Is Q a person?

[Reelya]

QAnons believe that Q is a military insider fighting a secret war on behalf of Trump against a cabal of child-eating satanists who took over the government. (100% Democrats btw). Some of them claim there's video of Hillary Clinton and Huma Abadin eating a kid's face off.

Basically the posts are like that navy seal copypasta, pretending to be an insider.

Q comes from "Q clearance" because it sounds cool. However, "Q clearance" isn't military, it's a department of energy security clearance for the design of civilian nuclear reactors. So the guy chose that because it sounds cool, however it's basically nonsensical that a guy who's handle is a Department of Energy security clearance is fighting this fight.

[scriver]

But is it a person?