That, sir, is a work of sublime genius. We salute you!
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That’s orange peel…
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Thanks, David. But I actually wasn’t aware this was an anti-Semitic bullshit on top of the general bullshit level. I haven’t dug far enough, for reasons of sanity.
Just FTR, I’m usually acutely aware of antisemitism and take to steer clear of anti-Semitic cliché. But lizard people, of all conspiracy shit on the internet, is so clearly not even worth any serious thought that I tend to stick by it and continue using it as a joke.
However, I checked the English Wikipedia just now and was served the mind-blowing number of 4% (±2.8%) of registered voters in the US believe in it. That’s roughly 5 million people.
Which is shocking first, but then, Donald Trump is the current president of the US of A and I don’t know what’s worse.
To clarify,
I think it should be clear that this isn’t silent endorsement either of Trump nor of the wackiest “conspiracy” on the interwebz since the Bielefeld-Verschwörung. While four out of 100 seems a high number, those four riders of the apocalypse are supposedly not the ones you are talking about?
Nazis taking that as a “code”, OTH, will not assume any endorsement on this board. I’m all for caution, but this? Nope. Just too crazy.
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He’s much better known in the UK than in the US, but we have a couple of popular conspiracy theorists here with loyal followings, and Icke has an audience through them. I had though you might have known about him either through references here or because he does occasionally go on speaking tours (or tries to) in other European countries, and opposition usually inflates his notoriety.
The fact that Icke stole one of his major ideas from a common sci-fi trope (we even had a popular TV miniseries about lizard people, V), or maybe woke up one day unable to distinguish between revelation and rerun, doesn’t mean we can’t use the concept in the original sense. Nobody looks at Doctor Who’s Slitheen and thinks they got the idea from him.
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Salute B3ta.com user ‘HappyToast’, not I
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Is this clickbait or is there a legitimate mystery?
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Icke is something I am not acutely aware of, but CT personalities in general are utterly forgettable. I don’t even have to try, with the exception of that bullfrog who is possibly named Jones.
In regard to the sci-fi / fantasy trope, it even might be interesting to look at the cultural roots of that in historic sources. I would not be surprised if this used to be an anti-Semitic trope in the very first place: othering works splendid if you can paint the other as far from a human than a reptile. Seriously, it would not be one bit surprising if Jews as a group would have been described as reptiles.
Already the scriptures use a snake, of all animals, as a personification of sin and evil. What’s easier to go for if you want to slander someone?
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The traditional antisemitic animal portrayals are the octopus and the pig (“Judensau”). I don’t think Icke was being either scholarly or clever.
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From some angles he looks unsettlingly like my grandmother. This makes me feel bad, because she was an awesome lady.
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The color version has a timestamp of 5:30pm on the 7th. The blackface version went out at 8:38pm, though he could have deleted the earlier version and retweeted.
The Twitter feed is strange, but there are several pictures in it that were taken from the vantage of the press pool.
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That’s his face.
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Man. In the photo on the right it looks like he’s using every ounce of energy he has to force that unreasonable facsimile of a smile onto his face.
The grimace grin is made even weirder by the contrasting colours on his head.
It’s not nice to judge people by their looks, but he does this to himself on purpose so I figure it’s fair game.
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IIRC that was the takeaway that Jewish advocacy groups told Ronson before he interviewed the lizard-people-conspiracy-theorists. Then he went back to the Jewish advocacy groups and said “guys I don’t think this is code for ‘Jewish People,’ I think when they are talking about lizard people taking over government they mean literal lizard people.” (For his part, Ronson is Jewish.)
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Yeah, I know. The octopus is a quite recent slur, I vaguely recollect. Industrialisation period.
The “Judensau” is quite old, 13th century, but a regional example of a religious slur.
(I assume you are aware of the recent lawsuit in Germany?)
On topic: there is no real need to invoke lizards. Only humans can be like this. We are, in that way, sightly exceptional, because we developed something sometimes called culture.
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It’s not “The White House” - it’s just a Twitter user that uses the name “White House Photos”.
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I suspect he doesn’t normally let his hairline show because
- That crazy ‘do normally helps obscure the edge of his fake tan, and
- He reportedly had some scalp surgery done to hide the onset of male pattern baldness and the scarring/hair plugs would probably be obvious from up close.
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Now they’re obvious from low orbiting satellites so “winning?” 
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