>it’s not something new or novel
>"The Pentagon controlled the COVID-19 program from the very beginning and everything we were told was political theater to cover it up right down to the FDA vaccine approval"
>January 13 we celebrate Korean American Day
>this discussion should have been censored
This is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust.
https://mashable.com/article/q-identity-revealed-hbo-documentary
Ron Watkins seems to admit he's Q, in the dumbest possible ending to QAnon
Anticlimactic but bonkers.
The identity of Q — whom believers falsely think is a high-level military or government official who is bringing down a cabal of Satan-worshipping Democratic elites — was all but revealed in a HBO documentary that aired on Sunday. The end to the 6-part Q: Into the Storm was so anticlimactic it bordered on absurd.
Ron Watkins, who owns and runs 8kun (formerly 8chan), basically admitted he posted as Q in the finale of the documentary. It appeared to be an accident, or a winking "accident" to get credit.
In the doc, Watkins was talking about how he'd recently spent a lot of time spreading the false narrative that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.
“It was basically three years of intelligence training, teaching normies how to do intelligence work," he said. "It was basically what I was doing anonymously before."
Seemingly catching the slip-up, Watkins smirked then followed up with, "…but never as Q."
Both he and documentarian Cullen Hoback busted out laughing, realizing what happened.
Seemingly flustered, Watkins adds, "I am not Q."
>believers falsely think is a high-level military or government official who is bringing down a cabal of Satan-worshipping Democratic elites
https://mashable.com/article/qanon-conspiracy-movie-tv
Hollywood must bear some blame for the rise of QAnon
What primed millions to accept a wacky conspiracy theory? Try years of movies and TV shows about conspiracy theories.
Stop me if you've seen this one before. There's a guy (it's almost always a guy) who lives on the fringes of society, perhaps in a basement with a computer. He believes in a conspiracy theory that sounds a little nutty to his friends and family. He's the butt of jokes, until one day he's targeted for assassination. Turns out the Deep State is after him, because the conspiracy theory wasn't so crazy after all!
This paranoid thriller plot is, by now, one of the laziest tropes in the world of TV and movie writing. Not to be confused with the first wave of paranoid thrillers in the 1970s, classic movies which recounted actual attacks on democracy (All the President's Men, Z) targeted a genuinely out-of-control CIA (3 Days of the Condor) or examined our obsession with eavesdropping (The Conversation), this second wave of conspiracy entertainment dates back to the 1990s. That's when Hollywood appears to have discovered that if it sanded its villains down to a simple, shadowy "they," it could pander to a wide range of viewers who fear all kinds of secretive elite cabals.
Which is fine, up to a point; suspicion of power is healthy in any democracy. But now here we are in 2021, and a good chunk of the U.S. believes that the most obviously corrupt president in history was actually trying to bring down a shadowy cabal of liberal elites who abduct children and drink their blood. Polls in 2020 suggested that as many as 56 percent of Republicans believe some aspects of this bizarre theory, known as QAnon (though the actual numbers are hard to measure). Undoubtedly, the followers of Q helped drive the January 6 assault on the Capitol. And they may not be done yet.
The HBO documentary Q: Into the Storm, which wraps up Sunday, expends much effort on unmasking the shadowy Q who propagated the theory in the first place (spoiler alert: It has probably been Ron Watkins, admin of 8Chan, for some time). Largely unexplored is the more interesting question of why the fairy tales of QAnon found such fertile ground. Are the usual suspects to blame for sowing seeds of truth-free anti-Democratic paranoia— Fox News, Info Wars, Trump himself? Of course. Should we point the finger at social media algorithms for radicalizing unsuspecting users with extremist content? Absolutely.
More insidious and unexamined, however, is the role played by the entertainment industry itself — and not just in the case of the failed screenwriter who became a major QAnon influencer. The makers of popular stories spent decades telling us, over and over and over again, that our government was nothing but a mass of shadowy conspiracies, no matter who was in power. They had no agenda other than keeping you in your cinema seat or watching through the next ad break. Most of Hollywood would be horrified to think that they contributed in anyway to a conspiracy theory like QAnon, which claims that Hollywood itself is part of the blood-drinking cabal.
But a culture is always driven by the stories it tells itself. So should we really be surprised, in a world where we might watch dozens of anti-government thrillers each year, that QAnon and antivax conspiracy theories have taken root? Is it any wonder that an increasing number of viewers, even the ones who don't watch Fox, now distrust official narratives and "fake news" media, to the point where they stopped being able to understand the difference between truth and fiction?
>a good chunk of the U.S. believes that the most obviously corrupt president in history was actually trying to bring down a shadowy cabal of liberal elites who abduct children and drink their blood
>mind is gone
shill panic
>https://nypost.com/2023/01/11/meet-tom-bradys-new-admirer-model-veronika-rajek/
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>everyone that is working at OnlyFans is a whore, bitch, and a gold digger
>that's quite literally what they are
>Tsinghua
reminded me of beer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Tsingtao
The siege of Tsingtao (or Tsingtau) was the attack on the German port of Tsingtao (now Qingdao) in China during World War I by Japan and the United Kingdom. The siege was waged against Imperial Germany between 27 August and 7 November 1914. The siege was the first encounter between Japanese and German forces, the first Anglo-Japanese operation of the war, and the only major land battle in the Asian and Pacific theatre during World War I.
I'll Try, Sir!. American troops in the relief of Peking in China on 14 August 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion.
During the fiercely opposed relief expedition to Peking in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, when two companies of the U.S. Army's 14th Infantry Regiment were pinned by heavy fire from the east wall of the Tartar City and the Fox Tower between abutments of the Chinese City Wall near Tung Pien Gate, volunteers were called for to attempt the first perilous ascent of the wall. Trumpeter Calvin P. Titus of E Company immediately stepped forward saying, "I'll try, sir!" Using jagged holes in the stone wall, he succeeded in reaching the top. He was followed by the rest of his company, who climbed unarmed, and hauled up their rifles and ammunition belts by a rope made of rifle slings. As the troops ascended the wall artillery fire from Reilly's battery set fire to the Fox Tower. In the face of continued heavy Chinese fire, the colors broke out in the August breeze as the sign that U.S. Army troops had achieved a major step in the relief of the besieged Legations. For his courageous and daring deed in being the first to climb the wall, Trumpeter Titus was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
>People are free to live the lives they want.
empty stomach bullfrog noise means it's time for another coffee
>zero concern. keep filming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lansky
Castro marched into Havana and took over, setting up a command post in the Hilton. Lansky had fled the day before.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peru-protests-what-is-behind-violence-2023-01-12/
Peru protests: What is behind the violence?
At least 40 people have died in clashes between Peruvian security forces and protesters in the Andean country's worst outbreak of violence in over 20 years, as demonstrators call for systemic political changes and accountability for the deaths.
WHAT SPARKED THE PROTESTS?
Protests began after Congress removed President Pedro Castillo on Dec. 7, who was arrested and sentenced to 18 months of pre-trial detention on rebellion charges.
Castillo, 53, was embroiled in multiple corruption investigations and tried to illegally dissolve Congress ahead of a planned impeachment vote.
His removal was the latest blow in a years-long clash between Peru's executive and legislature. Castillo's vice president, Dina Boluarte, ascended to the job as Peru's sixth president in five years.