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Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

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Fjolsvith wrote: post #269
shadowgovt wrote: post #251

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I'm using "nonsense" in place of the word I choose not to, to keep the conversation polite. It doesn't indicate a lack of danger. Don't mistake the lack of force behind the word for its denotation. Belief in Protocols-of-Zion-originated global conspiracy theory is also nonsense.

> Belief in Protocols-of-Zion-originated global conspiracy theory is also nonsense. Then disbelieve it out of existence. Just because someone believes nonsense, don't think it isn't dangerous.

100% agreement. Some nonsense is dangerous.

Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

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Post by shadowgovt »

Fjolsvith wrote: post #270
shadowgovt wrote: post #250

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The fact that I haven't heard of 8kun until right now is indicative of the utility of shutting these things down. If people have to go to a backwater site only known about by word-of-mouth, that's fine. Much better than broadcasting conspiracies through Twitter and FB. "There is a secret truth to the universe known only to this secret cabal in the back of this drinking parlor" is an old trope. Far more expected than…

> Better for Twitter to give it the axe, lest people confuse a badly-hashed-together conspiracy theory for actual truth. QAnon just needs you to believe it a conspiracy theory a little longer.

If it's not a conspiracy theory, what is it?

Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

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Post by Fjolsvith »

shadowgovt wrote: post #272
Fjolsvith wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Better for Twitter to give it the axe, lest people confuse a badly-hashed-together conspiracy theory for actual truth. QAnon just needs you to believe it a conspiracy theory a little longer.

If it's not a conspiracy theory, what is it?

Call it war.

Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

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Post by Fjolsvith »

shadowgovt wrote: post #274
Fjolsvith wrote: post #273

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Call it war.

Wars have two sides. Who's on the two sides of the QAnon... "not conspiracy?"

Educate yourself. You might find out which side you're on.

Take the red pill.

Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

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Post by shadowgovt »

Fjolsvith wrote: post #275
shadowgovt wrote: post #274

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Wars have two sides. Who's on the two sides of the QAnon... "not conspiracy?"

Educate yourself. You might find out which side you're on. Take the red pill.

Already done, and I find the entire thing entirely wanting.

That's the thing about conspiracy theories, they differ from reality because reality is consistent; conspiracies are merely internally consistent. They break down in the light of real world evidence. A man threatened people in a pizza parlor, demanding to see the pedophile ring running out of the basement of that building. The building had no basement. It would be amusing, or pitiful, if he hadn't had a gun to do the threatening. A theory doesn't deserve a second chance after something as foolish as that.

I wish you the best of luck out there, and I hope you get out of the grip of this 4chan-originated delusion. I wish I could help you, but on this side of the facts, the whole thing is so ridiculous that I don't understand how anybody sees it hang together.

Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

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Post by Fjolsvith »

shadowgovt wrote: post #276
Fjolsvith wrote: post #275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Educate yourself. You might find out which side you're on. Take the red pill.

Already done, and I find the entire thing entirely wanting. That's the thing about conspiracy theories, they differ from reality because reality is consistent; conspiracies are merely internally consistent. They break down in the light of real world evidence. A man threatened people in a pizza parlor, demanding to see the pedophile ring running out of the basement of that building. The building had no basement. It wo…

Why did the IRS stop sending collections notices back in January and stopped all collections actions?

Why would I ask this? Because its the MF IRS that NEVER stops trying to get a cent owed to them.

That 4chan conspiracy explains this when nothing else does.

And besides, that Pizzagate bit you decry as the end of QAnon's veracity hasn't yet reached its conclusion.

Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

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Post by shadowgovt »

Fjolsvith wrote: post #277
shadowgovt wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Already done, and I find the entire thing entirely wanting. That's the thing about conspiracy theories, they differ from reality because reality is consistent; conspiracies are merely internally consistent. They break down in the light of real world evidence. A man threatened people in a pizza parlor, demanding to see the pedophile ring running out of the basement of that building. The building had no basement. It wo…

Why did the IRS stop sending collections notices back in January and stopped all collections actions? Why would I ask this? Because its the MF IRS that NEVER stops trying to get a cent owed to them. That 4chan conspiracy explains this when nothing else does. And besides, that Pizzagate bit you decry as the end of QAnon's veracity hasn't yet reached its conclusion.

> Why did the IRS stop sending collections notices back in January and stopped all collections actions?... That 4chan conspiracy explains this when nothing else does.

Literally nothing else? Not the fact there's an international pandemic so collections right now are like squeezing money from a stone? Not even the fact they didn't stop (i.e. people kept receiving collection notices right up to the People First Initiative)?

> And besides, that Pizzagate bit you decry as the end of QAnon's veracity hasn't yet reached its conclusion.

The pizza parlor running a pedophile ring out of its basement had no basement. That's as concluded as it gets.

Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

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Post by Fjolsvith »

shadowgovt wrote: post #278
Fjolsvith wrote: post #277

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why did the IRS stop sending collections notices back in January and stopped all collections actions? Why would I ask this? Because its the MF IRS that NEVER stops trying to get a cent owed to them. That 4chan conspiracy explains this when nothing else does. And besides, that Pizzagate bit you decry as the end of QAnon's veracity hasn't yet reached its conclusion.

> Why did the IRS stop sending collections notices back in January and stopped all collections actions?... That 4chan conspiracy explains this when nothing else does. Literally nothing else? Not the fact there's an international pandemic so collections right now are like squeezing money from a stone? Not even the fact they didn't stop (i.e. people kept receiving collection notices right up to the People First Initiat…

But the pandemic reaction didn't start in America until after January.

I have figured out which side you're on.

Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

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Post by shadowgovt »

Fjolsvith wrote: post #279
shadowgovt wrote: post #278

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why did the IRS stop sending collections notices back in January and stopped all collections actions?... That 4chan conspiracy explains this when nothing else does. Literally nothing else? Not the fact there's an international pandemic so collections right now are like squeezing money from a stone? Not even the fact they didn't stop (i.e. people kept receiving collection notices right up to the People First Initiat…

But the pandemic reaction didn't start in America until after January. I have figured out which side you're on.

I'm on the side that doesn't naively swallow assertions that collection notices weren't sent in January and February without fact-checking them. The IRS announced increased enforcement in February.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-increases-visits-to-high-in...

Where is the evidence that collections were suspended in January and February?

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