Originally published at: A close reading of the QAnon Shaman's self-published manifesto | Boing Boing
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I’m glad he did it, so the rest of us don’t have to!
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I’m sure it makes the Unabomber’s screed look the height of scholarship and rationality.
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His Mommy did his homework on that too.
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Perhaps he’ll be talking out of his rear end in the near future.
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I now want to see a comic book villain a bit like the hive-mind ferrets from Vinge’s A Fire Upon The Deep called Joseph Gerbils.
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Martian Luther King would disintegrate them
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Take 2d6 SAN loss…
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And learn the Mythos Spell: Extra-euclidean Fundament.
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Apparently, watching a lot of Warner Bros. cartoons counts as research?
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There’s very much this “leap of faith” thing about people like him, and it was weaponized by people hungry for power and lacking in a basic moral sense.
It’s one thing to show up for a protest when there’s news footage of a cop shooting an unarmed man in the back, but to show up ready for war because you think “pizza” and “pasta” are secret code words sex traffickers use to communicate among each other. . . .
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good lord, can we PLEASE stop talking about him? his 15 minutes are long expired.
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I ran into a QAnoner in a Facebook group I belong to. She insisted that Hillary Clinton is a pedophile who eats babies and that there’s plenty of videos out there. I asked for a link and was told to use a TOR browser on the Dark Web. I don’t know that these folks use Google…
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Ted Kaczynski was a university professor with a PhD before he went cray cray so that probably helped.
/s
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Wait, how come they aren’t accusing all of Italy as being one giant paedophile state?
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Joseph Gerbils sounds like a member of the Guild of Calamitous Intent.
Probably only a level 4 though.
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I’m not sure that advanced studies in mathematics did too much to polish his literary skills; but my memory of my impression of reading it was that it was actually a pretty solid examination of how technology (irresistibly from the perspective of the individual) progresses from being tech-demo/cutting edge to de-facto mandatory over time; and how he was other than pleased with the implications of that trend in the context of various present and emerging technologies.
You have to be a fairly serious anarcho-primitivist, as he is, to follow his argument to the “so the only thing to do is kill the people in R&D as soon as possible, before it’s too late”; but if you expect raving lunacy you will, depending on your standards for that, either not find it or find it confined to relatively discrete premises and carried elsewhere by a reasonably stable train of thought.
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Maybe…
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Yeah, my feeling from the start has been that if the Chansley-media complex wants to put him in porn, fine, I’ll take a look; but otherwise they don’t have a product. And TBH, without the costume even the porn idea isn’t that compelling.
I assume the audience is people who want to perv at otters, but refuse to scratch that itch unless the news pretends to “incidentally” do it for them. And in 2021 that’s unacceptable. We’ve spent trillions building out an ultra-advanced porn infrastructure, and if people still won’t use it then it’s time to cut them loose.
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Thank you for tagging this “mainstream republicans”! It’s crucial that eveyone understand that this type of thinking is not an aberration within the GOP; it’s exemplary of the disconnection from reality that the Party has cultivated for decades. "Cult"ivated - no pun intended.
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