https://twitter.com/MMAFighting/status/1307550524393234432
You gave me the dragon energy when you shook my hand on Sunday at your rally.
>You gave me the dragon energy when you shook my hand on Sunday at your rally.
https://www.mmafighting.com/2020/9/20/21447357/president-donald-trump-calls-colby-covington-following-ufc-vegas-11-win-im-proud-of-you
>https://www.audubon.org/news/are-birds-actually-government-issued-drones-so-says-new-conspiracy-theory-making
For much of its devoted fanbase, Birds Aren’t Real is a respite from America’s political divide—a joke so preposterous both conservatives and liberals can laugh at it. But for a few followers, this movement is no more unbelievable than QAnon, a right-wing conspiracy theory turned marketing ploy that holds that someone with high-level government clearance is planting coded tips in the news. Therein lies the genius of Birds Aren’t Real: It’s a digital breadcrumb trail that leads to a website that leads to a shop full of ready-to-buy merchandise.
Exploiting conspiracists for profit is nothing new, says Mike Metzler, a social media influencer and viral-content creator on Instagram. Amazon sells dozens of styles of QAnon T-shirts that have become a fixture at Make America Great Again rallies around the country. What’s different is that while many QAnon believers wear their shirts in earnest, most Birds Aren’t Real fans seem to wear theirs to be ironic and on trend.
McIndoe’s movement got a free jolt of publicity on October 30 after Chicago-based journalist Robert Loerzel tweeted a photo of a Birds Aren’t Real flier he found on the street. The same flier also popped up on Reddit numerous times over the past month. The hectic and cryptic nature of the website makes it an incubator for conspiracy theories like QAnon. The Reddit forum r/conspiracy has 721,000 anonymous subscribers alone.
While some people will draw parallels between QAnon and Birds Aren’t Real (they were both launched in 2017, after all), their popularity on Reddit is the only true similarity, says Brooke Binkowski, managing editor of the myth-busting website TruthOrFiction.com and the former managing editor of Snopes. “Birds Aren’t Real is a good one, but it in no way ranks up there with the incredible complexity of whatever QAnon is,” she says over email. “QAnon has caught on because it's interactive, it's always evolving, and it's completely vague—so vague that anything they say could be ‘true’ if you interpret it the right way.”
>Police are not properly trained to deal with us
Why aren't you just letting me have my way?
VERBOTEN
https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/burlington-teacher-draws-criticism-support-over-lesson-including-black-lives-matter-resource-materials
"Black Lives Matter is not religious, it is not political, it is a human right," said Darnisha Garbade, who leads up the Burlington Coalition to Dismantle Racism.
Others said they believe the teacher is promoting her personal beliefs.
"The board needs to take action on this because if this is not fulfilled and approved in the curriculum the materials that were used will be minimum to what will happen in the future," said Philip Ketterhagen, who used to serve on the school board.
>20%
>curriculum never got board approval