A little help
Still, the bakers reassure themselves by validating their beloved source, assembling what they call “proofs” — tangential connections between the bread crumbs and reality. Many of these have to do with the recurrence of certain numbers, like 17 (Q is the 17th letter) or 4, 10 and 20 (which correspond with Trump’s initials). These are known as “Qincidences,” and as Q often tells us, there are “no coincidences.” Scattered among Q’s crumbs are plenty of yeasty bits that could later be puffed up into Qincidences — hazy aerial photos, coordinates for downtown Manila, a ’90s rock video, alphanumeric strings that could be codes or passwords. More likely, according to a review by one security researcher, they are the result of random typing.
THIS IS THE STATE OF NEW YORK TIMES. THE JOURNALIST DOESNT KNOW HOW TO WRITE AN ARTICLE WITH RESEARCH
NYT should learn from us.
However
>Q is just one particularly absurd manifestation of this mode of thinking. A related tendency can be found in corners of the anti-Trump resistance, where Twitter gurus highlight whatever nuggets of the day’s news are favorable to their camp. Like the bakers, some flatter themselves by calling their work “research,” but their real formula is to aggregate and speculate. (If the Russian ambassador, Paul Manafort and Donald Trump were all present at the same Washington reception in April 2016, surely they must have hammered out the details of a criminal conspiracy then and there?) The president is forever on the verge of impeachment; the biggest bombshells are always just about to drop; the full perfidy of the Trump-Russia iceberg is always just below the waterline, visible only to those faithfully connecting the dots. These figures lack Q’s mystique (and are far, far better connected with reality), but they share Q’s vulnerability: Their influence depends on producing a nonstop stream of portentous tidbits, little pellets of encouragement to keep followers hitting the retweet button.
They mix lies with truth.
And finally,
>Mattathias Schwartz is a contributing writer for the magazine and a former staff writer at The New Yorker, where he won the Livingston Award for international reporting. His last feature for the magazine was about the former C.I.A. director John Brennan.
http://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/terrorism/powerful-must-see-9-11-tribute/2663294173001
We Will Never FORGET!
We Will Never FORGIVE!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-patriot-day-2018/
PATRIOT DAY.
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