Do we need a B thread?
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40 year old surf instructor from Santa Barbara! Thankfully we only have 1 mutual Facebook/Instagram friend that could have been bad lolol
Havenât finished it yet but the hbo max Q documentary is decent. So many weirdos involved.
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For those who donât follow the Vegas threadâŚ
https://twitter.com/LasVegasLocally/status/1432814013700706304
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Good piece here.
Not only do conspiracy theories build upon fundamental cultural patterns that are not easily uprooted, but established religions too are âcrippled epistemologies.â The implication did not escape QAnon believers: âIf Jesus were walking the Earth today, do you think youâd see him for his miracles?â one of them writes, âOr would you label him a conspiracy theorist?â Conspiracy theories are a matter of faith in what time holds in stock. The âtruthâ they embrace is defined by the revelation of what is to come, not logical demonstration. Not only is debunking powerless in such cases, but it is in the face of adversity and contrary evidence that faith proves itself through perseverance. Because they revolve around an apocalyptic sense of time, conspiracy theories are not just flawed ideas: they are also a specific way of being in the world.
In the absence of these cultural mediations, however, apocalyptic fears take a psychopathological turn: the collapse of oneâs world becomes a desolate and private experience, and the sense of loss is experienced outside any cultural community. One is overwhelmed by feelings of estrangement and passivity. The familiar becomes uncanny and the world ceases to be the solid ground in which the self is rooted: it no longer consists in stable and objective relations between things but seems to dissolve into their occult connections. As if walking through a booby-trapped house, one feels âat the center of a web of diffuse threats, hostile forces, obscure conspiratorial plots spun at oneâs expense.â The psychopathological apocalypse is the ultimate form of status anxietyâindeed what Hofstadter saw as the psychological underpinning of the paranoid mind. There was, however, a major difference: where Hofstadter saw a solipsistic mindset, De Martino saw the result of a cultural failure.
So, the Vegas Q conference is still going on, hosted at a hotel owned by the finance chairman of the state Republican Party.
https://twitter.com/daithaigilbert/status/1437398761492332544
Ahern came to national attention last year when he cleared out one of the huge warehouses used by his construction machinery rental company in Henderson, Nevada, to host an indoor Trump rally after the original venue canceled days before the rally, citing Nevadaâs 50-person limit on indoor events.
Ahernâs almost entirely maskless event, held in open defiance of state regulations, attracted over 5,500 people and earned him a $3,000 fine.
But this was nothing new to Ahern, who had previously hosted a Trump re-election campaign event at his hotel, featuring Trumpâs personal pastor Paula White. That event also breached COVID-19 lockdown regulations and earned the businessman a $10,000 fine.
Haha, ate at the Italian restaurant in this place a couple months ago. It was very good. Had no idea of the ownership of the hotel.
I dont think I get like 90% of the bottom one
Not busy enough but graphically close to his style.
Top one sucks because it looks nothing like Joe Biden. Without the label I would have thought it was Ted Turner or something.
Bottom one:
- Joe Biden loves ice cream cones but he sure bit off more than he can chew in Afghanistan!
- Arnold Schwarzeneggar lashed out at covid skeptics a month ago (âscrew your freedomâ) and is Austrian and therefore a fat ugly Nazi.
- Fed Chair Powell is going to destroy America with inflation very soon with his reckless monetary policy.
- I donât know, CDC sucks?
- SI included a transgender woman in this yearâs swimsuit issue.
- Hunter Biden is still a crackhead.
- Covid problems in the US are primarily caused by an infestation of covid-carrying sombrero-wearing Mexicans.
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Thatâs his gf. Sheâs been making 2nd-rate Garrison-style cartoons for a while now.
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Wife, actually.
I mean donât you just wanna go into a room full of these people and yell THE KID RAPERS WON HAHAHAHAHAHAHA?
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That one is depressing because you get a lot of kids/partners posting about their families all collectively losing their minds
The swimsuit model has a bulge in her bikini.
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