I doubt anyone is getting rich off of bumper stickers and tshirts. I mean yeah, mostly their news is repeating the news and the cloak and dagger stuff is probably bs, but it's a convenient aggragation of things going on for people who are interested, but aren't glued to the newsites and journalists.
an actually useful news aggregator includes links to the news they are aggregating. They dont just post unsourced photos and headlines
like straight up this is stuff you do to make people form a mob and set fires and try to drag people out of their homes
Meh. I read what they say. I do not think this is where they're going with that. So far they have been promoting a non-violence during protest line. They sound like folks having a lark, not folks serious about unleashing the Hounds.
I mean, it’s fine to think that. It still doesn’t mean it’s not psychologically manipulative as hell. They’re in this to fuck with people and grift from them.
It’s literal q anon level psychological manipulation
And the Q like stuff? Pretending there’s some uprising right around the corner? Misleading people and feeding conspiratorial thinking shouldn’t be waved away because they “conveniently” share unsourced headlines
No one is going to shoot up a pizza parlor for these guys. And no one is going to go crazy convinced that Kevin Sorbo has illegally detained immigrants in his basement whose blood he's drinking. So they sell stickers that folks think represent them. They're not inciting violence & I doubt they will.
shit like this is literally how pizzagate was started. it begins with this.
The replies to the opening post of the thread shows how deeply and angrily people believe in the mythos. It’s such a bummer
it’s really weird to defend the actions of a blatant liar so much. like why do they feel personally invested in this?
There's never gonna be an equivalence here. AltNPS has far fewer gun nuts with hero complexes and wannabe military cosplayers, if any, who follow them. Who's our lefty populist president going to be? Gavin Newsom? I promise (as a CAian) that is not the same level of danger.
so here’s the thing: conspiracy theories lead to right wing extremism. Believing in just one conspiracy theory makes you much more likely to believe others. It’s why so much of the seemingly lefty conspiracies around “wellness culture” led a bunch of ppl to q-anon
i never said this will lead to a left wing demagogue as president. I said pizzagate started with this kind of conspiracy-minded shit. Spreading lefty conspiracies doesnt lead to a lefty conspiracy ecosystem— it pushes the ppl you fooled into the right wing conspiracy ecosystem that already exists
It’s very depressing that you’re setting the bar that low. It honestly makes me incredibly sad.
🤷🏼♀️ I feel like there are bigger, more serious things to be sad about right now.
They’re treading the same path that got us to this grifters’ paradise. We shouldn’t let liars prey upon people. Putting a stop to their influence is important and within our reach, unlike many of the bigger, more serious things happening.
Grifters maybe, but what's the grift? I still don't see anything beyond monetary. And that's small pennies. They're not sending fools after anyone. Not even a hint of anything like that.