#great replacement

[castilestateofmind]

"Every man and every nation has the sacred right to preserve their differences and their identity in the name of their future, and in the name of their past".

-Jean Raspail.

[trump666traitor]

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[liberalsarecool]

Tucker should be at The Hague.

[brantheblessed]

[papirouge]

delusional rightoids: WhiTe pEoPle abOliShed SlAvErY

also White people less than a century ago (after slavery got 🤪abolished🤪):

wasn't this mess slavery? 🤔

Oh my bad, White historians were smart enough to brand it as ✨"slave labor"✨ to sound more civilized than these filthy savages of southern hemisphere

Beside lines on paper, yall abOliShed nothing! Only a few decades later yall psychopaths were back on this shit lmao

"b-but it was war!!" (gulag weren't the result of war though)

So you think slavery in times of war makes it any remotely different/more acceptable than when it's not? Fine, hopefully you realize that the same happened between African kingdoms you low brainer LOOOOVE pulling out whenever your gassing yourself up as the good slave abolishing saviors saving the days against those filthy savages. If you are willing to make a distinction between war prisoner and slaves, why can't you do the same for any other civilization than the Whites?

Before strawman'ing about Black downplaying African slavery (if you knew what you were talking about, you people would know there's an ongoing discussion within the Black diaspora about this issue, so much that some ADOS felt angry about "The Woman King" movie whitewashing their history of slavery), maybe you should turn around and ask yourself why you guys are incapable to remotely think critically of your own White on White slavery History which is much recent than the last Dahomey wars.

Don't throw stones when you're living in a house made of glass.

[probablyasocialecologist]

The census’s main findings are that we’ve had an increase in people defining themselves as not religious and a linked decrease in people identifying as Christian. Small increases in the number of people who identify as Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist have also been registered.

On ethnicity, the percentage of people categorising themselves as white has gone from 86% to 82%. Leicester and Birmingham are the first two cities in the country where ethnic minorities make up a majority of the residents. Seventy-three other cities remain solidly white majority.

But newspapers and politicians have distorted this data – either deliberately or unintentionally stoking anxieties of a ‘demographic crisis’ and that the days of a White Christian nation are over.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Another mass shooting in America, so where's this "good guy with a gun" that conservatives love to screech about whenever we bring up gun control?

A gunman wearing military gear and livestreaming with a helmet camera opened fire with a rifle at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket in what authorities described as “racially motived violent extremism,” killing 10 people and wounding three others Saturday before he surrendered, authorities said.

Police officials said the gunman, who also wore body armor in addition to military-style clothing, pulled up in the afternoon and opened fire amid shoppers at a Tops Friendly Market, the shooting streamed via a camera affixed to the man’s helmet.

“He exited his vehicle. He was very heavily armed. He had tactical gear. He had a tactical helmet on. He had a camera that he was livestreaming what he was doing,” city Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said at a news conference afterward.

Gramaglia said the gunman initially shot four people outside the store, three fatally. Inside the store, a security guard who was a retired Buffalo police officer fired multiple shots at the gunman and struck him, but the bullet hit the gunman’s bulletproof vest and had no effect, Gramaglia added. The Commissioner said the gunman then killed the security guard.

Video also captured the suspect as he walked into the supermarket where he shot several other victims inside, according to authorities.

Police said 11 of the victims were Black and two are white. The supermarket is in a predominantly Black neighborhood a few miles (kilometers) north of downtown Buffalo.

“This is the worst nightmare that any community can face, and we are hurting and we are seething right now,” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said at the news conference. “The depth of pain that families are feeling and that all of us are feeling right now cannot even be explained.”

Gramaglia said Buffalo police entered the store and confronted the gunman in the vestibule.

“At that point the suspect put the gun to his own neck. Buffalo police personnel -- two patrol officers -- talked the suspect into dropping the gun. He dropped the gun, took off some of his tactical gear, surrendered at that point. And he was led outside, put in a police car,” he said.

The suspected gunman was later identified as Payton Gendron, 18, of Conklin, a New York state community about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Buffalo, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. The officials were not permitted to speak publicly on the matter and did so on the condition of anonymity.

The suspect was being questioned Saturday evening by the FBI, one of the officials said, and Conklin was expected to appear in court later Saturday.

At the news briefing, Erie County Sheriff John Garcia pointedly called the shooting a hate crime.

“This was pure evil. It was straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community, outside of the City of Good neighbors ... coming into our community and trying to inflict that evil upon us,” Garcia said.

Elsewhere, NAACP President Derrick Johnson issued a statement in which he called the shooting “absolutely devastating.”

“Our hearts are with the community and all who have been impacted by this terrible tragedy. Hate and racism have no place in America. We are shattered, extremely angered and praying for the victims’ families and loved ones,” he added.

Separately, the Rev. Al Sharpton called on the White House to convene a meeting with Black, Jewish and Asian “to underscore the Federal government (is) escalating its efforts against hate crimes.” In a tweet, Sharpton said that “leaders of all these communities should stand together on this!”

The shooting came little more than a year after a March 2021 attack at a King Soopers grocery in Boulder, Colorado, that killed 10 people. Investigators have not released any information about why they believe the man charged in that attack targeted the supermarket.

At the scene in Buffalo on Saturday afternoon, police closed off an entire block, lined by spectators, and yellow police taped surrounded the full parking lot.

Braedyn Kephart and Shane Hill, both 20, pulled into the parking lot just as the shooter was exiting. They described him as a white male in his late teens or early twenties sporting full camo, a black helmet and what appeared to be a rifle.

“He was standing there with the gun to his chin. We were like what the heck is going on? Why does this kid have a gun to his face?” Kephart said. He dropped to his knees. “He ripped off his helmet, dropped his gun, and was tackled by the police.”

Tops Friendly Markets released a statement saying, “We are shocked and deeply saddened by this senseless act of violence and our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families.”

At the White House, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Joe Biden was receiving regular updates on the shooting and the investigation and had offered prayers with the first lady for the victims and their loved ones.

“The president has been briefed by his Homeland Security advisor on the horrific shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., this afternoon. He will continue to receive updates throughout the evening and tomorrow as further information develops,” she said.

Attorney General Merrick Garland was briefed on the shooting, Justice Department spokesperson Anthony Coley said.

More than two hours after the shooting, Erica Pugh-Mathews was waiting outside the store, behind police tape.

“We would like to know the status of my aunt, my mother’s sister. She was in there with her fiance, they separated and went to different aisles,” she said. “A bullet barely missed him. He was able to hide in a freezer but he was not able to get to my aunt and does not know where she is. We just would like word either way if she’s OK.”

Payton Gendron is the suspect accused of killing at least 10 people at a Tops Friendly Market grocery store in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday, May 14, 2022. Gendron was taken into custody at the scene, Buffalo Police said. Three others were wounded. Gendron is facing first-degree murder charges in New York state court and could also face federal charges, including hate crimes, officials said. The names of the victims have not been released yet.

A racist and anti-Semitic manifesto and a Twitch livestream were attributed online to the gunman, but authorities have not verified those accounts. A graphic video emerged that shows bodies lying in the parking lot as law enforcement officers take the suspect into custody. Gendron is from Conklin, New York. He said in the manifesto he is an 18-year-old college student and a self-described white supremacist. Gendron was shot by a security guard, but was not injured because he was wearing body armor, Buffalo Police said at a press conference

Conklin is more than 200 miles southeast of Buffalo in the Southern Tier region of New York. Gendron included his name in the manifesto and The Associated Press confirmed his identity with law enforcement sources. Gendron appeared in court Saturday night for his arraignment, officials said. He is being held without bail. He is scheduled to return to court in five days, according to authorities. A mugshot has not been released, but photos from the local media show Gendron in court:

The manifesto, which talks about the extremist far-right white or great replacement theory and includes alt-right 4chan memes and jokes, is similar to ones written by shooters who attacked a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, the Tree of Life synagogue in Pennsylvania and an El Paso, Texas, Walmart in recent years, Yale professor Jason Stanley says.

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The manifesto fixates on mass immigration.

“Mass immigration and the higher fertility rates of the immigrants themselves are causing this increase in population. We are experiencing an invasion on a level never seen before in history,” it says. “Millions of people pouring across our borders, legally. Invited by the state and corporate entities to replace the White people who have failed to reproduce, failed to create the cheap labor, failed to create new consumers and tax base that the corporations and states need to have to thrive.”

It continues, “This crisis of mass immigration and sub-replacement fertility is an assault on the European people that, if not combated, will ultimately result in the complete racial and cultural replacement of the European people.”

The manifesto, which refers to “white genocide,” contains a name and says that the author is “18 years old as of writing this. I am the sole perpetrator of the recent attempted mass shooting. I lived in Southern Tier, New York all my life with both my parents and 2 brothers. I believe I am ethnically white since my parent’s nationalities are from north-western Europe and Italy. I graduated highschool with a regents diploma with advanced designation and am currently enrolled in SUNY Broome with a major in Engineering Science.”

It continues, “I would love to continue this but there are bigger problems I’m more concerned with. I am not a warfighter, nor have I been enrolled in any military or tactical training, so excuse any mistakes I make during my attack. I was never diagnosed with a mental disability or disorder, and I believe to be perfectly sane.”

He claimed to be an “INTJ” personality type and included photos of a fake active shooter that often circulate online after mass shootings. The manifesto contains many pages of anti-Jewish memes and graphics.

The manifesto states:

"Why did you decide to carry out the attack?

To show to the replacers that as long as the White man lives, our land will never be theirs and they will never be safe from us.

To directly reduce immigration rates to European lands by intimidating and physically removing the replacers themselves.

To intimidate the replacers already living on our lands to emigrate back to their home countries.

To agitate the political enemies of my people into action, to cause them to overextend their own hand and experience the eventual and inevitable backlash as a result.

To incite violence, retaliation and further divide between the European people and the replacers currently occupying European soil…

To add momentum to the pendulum swings of history, further destabilizing and polarizing Western society in order to eventually destroy the current nihilistic, hedonistic, individualistic insanity that has taken control of Western thought."

The shooting is being investigated as a hate crime and case of racially motivated violent extremism, FBI Special Agent in charge of the Buffalo field office Stephen Belongia said. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York is also assisting in the investigation along with state and local authorities.

Erie County District Attorney John Flynn said at the press conference, “This individual will be arranged on a charge of murder in the first degree.” He called the shooting “despicable.” Flynn added, “That charge of murder in the first degree carries with it a life without parole sentence.” He said additional charges could also be filed at a later date.

[bravecrab]

I watched Netflix's Day Shift last night, the Action/Horror/Comedy, that see's Jamie Foxx as a vampire hunter named Bud Jablonski.

SPOILERS/SPOILERS/SPOILERS/SPOILERS

This film is very conservative. Bud is a working man with a family to support, except the meager money he's getting from his vampire hunting work means that his marriage is on the rocks and his wife and kid might move away to Florida.

The reason for Bud's poor wages; he has been kicked out of The Union, a vampire hunting guild, that demands that Bud's work adheres to obscene levels of bureaucracy. Big John (played by Snoop Dogg) helps Bud get back into the Union so he can make some quick money, to avoid losing his family. Part of the deal with The Union, is that Bud must be accompanied by the field-adverse union rep, Seth (Dave Franco).

Seth is a gun-fearing, rule-obsessed coward, who pisses himself every time he encounters a vampire. A conservative's idea of a liberal/leftist. Seth is a plant by The Union to report Bud as soon as he breaks any Union rule, to kick him out again.

Meanwhile, the centre of power in the vampire world of LA is shifting. Ruthless Latina vampire, Audrey San Fernando (Karla Souza) has plans to take over, which includes burying the previously powerful European vampires under cement, recklessly converting humans into vampires, and manufacturing a vampire sunscreen which will allow them to do more daytime attacks and take over. She also has a vendetta against Bud because he killed her daughter.

So let's talk conservatism in Day Shift. Firstly there's the anti-union sentiment of this film. Bud just can't survive as a hard working man outside of the Union, and even when he does work with the Union, his wages get siphoned away through Dues and other Union fees, by bureaucrats who sit behind a desk all day (implying a parasitic relationship).

Secondly, Seth's caricature of the liberal crybaby, who literally gets called a Snowflake at one point, is supposed to be entirely pitiful, until his arc makes him reject his non-violent nature, and ultimately choose to work the field as a vampire hunter, than as a desk jockey. He gives up his liberalism to become a Real Man.

Thirdly, I have strong feelings that Bud Jablonski and Big John were written as white characters, before casting Foxx and Dogg. Despite the hip hop soundtrack, Bud and John's blackness is not integral to the plot of this movie. If anything it's there to abstract the film's blatant conservatism. And it's not the only race aspect of this film.

Which takes us to my fourth point, while there are many types of vampires in this film, our problem is identified as the Latino Vampires. One of Bud's first kills in the film is identified as a Mexican vampire (and based on the pricing he is offered for their fangs, they are concidered a low-class of vampire), and also our main antagonist, Audrey, is definitively Latina. She is ruthless not just to the humans, but to other vampires, as previously mentioned, burying the European vampires under cement in her quest for power.

The specific threat she poses is one of contamination, and eventual takeover. Hey look folks, it's The Great Replacement Theory.

Also before we move away from the race politics of Day Shift, I want to quickly mention the characters, The Nazarian Twins. They are big burly men's men. Very effective killers of vampires, and based on the accents, I would say Eastern European coded. While they are clearly on the same skill level as Bud and Big John, there is a bit of Weird Foreigner in them highlighted by them sharing the same wad of chewing gum. As much as they can kick as much ass as our protagonist, they aren't American enough to be the heroes.

To wrap up, Day Shift is a story about labour, and about the dangers of foreign takeover upon our family values and livelihoods. It is on par with the Zombieland films for using horror imagery, and conservative comedy, to tell a Fox News friendly narrative.

And I didn't even touch on things like how Vampire Hunting is Free Market, killing the vampires for profit rather than community protection (or it would be if it wasn't for the regulations), or how giving a shit that the vampires were once human, converted against their will, is consider woke by Bud. So add Anti-Regulation, and Anti-woke to the conservative counter for Day Shift.

As a leftist, can't say I recommend this one.

[uboat53]

Over the last few days I've had a good deal of back-and-forths with some people opposed to gun control regarding the recent mass shooting in Texas and I've run into an interesting consistency in those conversations that triggered a thought. LONG RANT (TM) time.

INTRODUCTION

So the basic outline of the conversation is this, I'd mention gun control laws that may have prevented the situation such as Universal Background Checks or Safe Storage laws and the response would pretty much always be some variation of "those laws wouldn't have worked because he already had the gun in his hands."

I would then explain how, yes, he already had a gun in his hands, but the goal of these laws would be to change the situation so that a person like him would not have a gun in his hands in this situation and the response, consistently would be "but he would have gotten a gun and had it in his hands anyways." No matter how many times we went back and forth, this would remain the same.

This was pretty consistent, over several conversations with several people. There was a sort of mental block that prevented them from imagining a sequence of events that did not end with a dangerous man having a gun in his hands at the moment he became enraged.

FIRST THOUGHTS

My first thought was that they genuinely didn't understand the point I was making, but after I made the point in several different ways to several different people with the same result, I started thinking about other possibilities. After a while, my mind went to something else I had been reading lately, the concept of how Calvinism has affected modern conservative thought.

Specifically, Calvinism includes the concept of predestination, that certain people are predestined to be good and certain people are predestined to be bad. It is very much an "us vs them" mentality, similar to what you see spreading today in modern conservatism. Given that the strident opposition to gun control that we see today is fairly recent, starting only in the 1970s along with the entry of the religious right into politics, it's certainly seems possible to me that this could be related.

So let's outline the causal mechanism here. If you believe that certain people, let's call them "criminals", are predestined to be bad and to do bad things, then the situation is irrelevant. In this worldview, the only thing that can be done is to react once the bad person starts doing the bad thing, you cannot actually prevent them from doing it.

CONNECTIONS TO OTHER THINGS

There are two other things I've noticed in discussions with conservatives that seem related to this. The first is that I've often heard conservatives describe gun-control laws as "punishing lawful gun owners" and the second is that you often hear about how "welfare spending doesn't really help people".

What connects those two things is that, when you dig into them, they reveal a fundamental way of thinking about people and the law. The welfare spending one connects pretty clearly to the Calvinist idea; poor people are poor and giving them money will not change that, but the other one is a bit more indirect.

You see, if criminals can't be stopped from being criminals, then the law can't prevent crimes. Fundamentally, the only thing the law can do under this view of the world is punish wrongdoing after the fact. This means that, under this view, gun-control laws, like all laws, are purely punitive and, since they can't stop criminals from committing crimes, the only thing they can do is punish people who are not criminal.

A FUNDAMENTAL VIEW OF SOCIETY AND THE LAW

And that's where you hit a fundamental difference between how liberals and this type of conservative view the law. You see, in the liberal view of the world, crimes happen because of a combination of means, motive, and opportunity. If the law can alter that combination in some way, it can prevent crimes from even happening in the first place. In the case of the Texas shooting, for example, if this man could have been prevented from owning a gun in the first place or if he could have been prevented from having it easily accessible, then the crime might never have occurred.

In this particular conservative view of the world, however, crimes don't happen because of those three factors, crimes happen because some people are simply criminals and are effectively predestined to commit crimes. Laws cannot be made that change destiny or fundamental human nature, they can only punish crimes after they occur. In the case of the Texas shooting, the man was fundamentally a criminal and so he would have found a way to get a gun and commit the crime no matter what laws were passed.

This fundmental difference in how liberals and conservatives see the law seems to percolate into every debate of politics if you look closely enough. Liberals generally view the law as preventative, that the right changes in law can prevent many of the ills of society, while conservatives generally view the law as punitive, that the law exists primarily to punish people. This is why you see the common conservative argument that liberal laws and policies that attempt to change situations that exist are actually "punishments", they cannot conceive of the law any other way.

To a liberal there is no point in punishing someone for something unless that punishment serves a deterrent effect against future wrongdoing while, to a conservative, there is no point in trying to prevent what is predestined to occur anyways.

AN ASIDE ABOUT EVIDENCE

I should note that the evidence is not equal for these two worldviews, in fact it's overwhelmingly on one side. There is an extraordinary amount of evidence showing that welfare substantially reduces poverty and that gun control laws substantially reduce homicide and violent crime in general, for example.

On a great number of issues as well, the concept that the law can prevent bad situations from occurring in the first place is supported by mountains of evidence, though the evidence backing any individual policy may vary. Meanwhile, the evidence that punishment is effective is a bit more mixed, but leans toward the conclusion that punishment alone may not reduce crime.

Of course, conservatives don't support punitive policies for their deterrent effects, they support them because they believe that bad people deserve to be punished. The evidence in this regard is more of an external justification than an internal one.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN

That's the real question, isn't it? Well, I think I have an idea as it regards my specific conversations but there's also the broader implications.

For the conversations I've been having I think the implication is simple, you cannot discuss gun control (or other hot-button issues) without directly addressing the elephant in the room. Unless you address the fundamental idea of whether or not the law can impact behavior, there is no possible way to argue that gun control will make any difference on crime rates.

More specifically, there's no way to do that without addressing this predestination idea. As long as the idea is lodged into their head that criminals are gonna crime no matter what you do, there is no way forward. I'm still working on how to approach that.

As far as the broader implications, yeah, it means that conservatives are going to continue to oppose things like gun-control and welfare no matter how much evidence piles up showing that they work. I'm not sure there's any way to change that either at this point.

THE PERSISTENCE OF THE BELIEF

Now the most confusing part of this to understand from a liberal point of view is the persistence of a belief that is contradicted by just about all available evidence. Now, I could tell you about how there are conservative scholars producing evidence that contradicts the other studies and that this buttresses their beliefs, but it really doesn't. Those studies are basically like the elections that the USSR used to hold, they're just show to give "reasons" for public debate. If you knock them down, and many of them have already been refuted by further research, they'll come up with other "reasons". The reasons themselves are not fundamental to the belief, they're just there as shields for it.

No, the reason for the belief, as far as I can tell, is that it satisfies a psychological need. After all, if there are people predestined to be bad then there are also people predestined to be good, and you might be one of those good people! How do you know if you're one of the good people? Well, simple, good people do good things. As long as you keep doing good things, you must be one of the good people.

How do you know you're doing good things? Well, your community will tell you what things are good and who is doing them. As long as you do the things judged to be good by your community and the community recognizes you as a good person, then you are a good person.

I realize this is a simplification, but it's also fairly accurate to what's going on. Talk to someone who holds these kinds of beliefs enough, dig enough to get down to the foundation of the belief and that's really the core of it. It's a psychological structure built up to convince them that they are one of the good people and, if you were to collapse that structure, they would be bereft. How do I know this? I used to do it.

You see, I went to school in far northern California, in an area I generally referred to as "a slice of the Bible Belt transplanted into California". Nowadays it's known as the place where the Bethel megachurch holds sway and a local militia group has seized control of the county government, so fairly in line with the type of conservatism I described above. As an atheist (I knew fairly early on what I believed religiously) in this environment, it wasn't uncommon for Christian classmates to try to convert me, sometimes forcefully (verbally, not physically). Because of this I got very good at debating and, more than once, I shook the foundation of someone's faith.

So that's why this belief can persevere even in the absence of or against all evidence. It is a structure that meets a psychological need, the need to be, no, to know that you are "good". The evidence and reasons they give are not fundamentally the reasons that they believe it and, if you knock them down, they will just come up with more or find a reason why you must have been wrong.

THE EFFECTS OF THE BELIEF

Honestly, where this gets really interesting is when you start to look into other effects of this belief. I've already covered how this affects law and policy, basically a blanket aversion to any policy that isn't punitive in nature or that doesn't punish the "right" people, but there's even bigger effects that show up when you look for them.

As a particular example, it makes them incredibly vulnerable to racist ideas. Racist ideas also traffic in the concept of inherently "good" and "bad" people and, if you take out the specific descriptions of who, exactly, is "good" and who is "bad", they sound very similar to this kind of predestination thinking.

Pundits like Tucker Carlson and the late Rush Limbaugh have been particularly effective in using this similarity to effectively launder racist ideas like the Great Replacement among others into mainstream conservative thought by presenting them as political rather than racial in nature. Today, for example, two-thirds of Republicans agree with the idea that demographic (racial) changes are not naturally occurring, but are being actively forced in order to replace "conservative white voters" and the theory is voiced by a significant number of Republican elected officials.

CONCLUSION

So yeah, not sure what to make of this or how, exactly to address it, but there's a lot of conservatives out there who form their politics around the idea of predestination. This leads to them being fundamentally unable to understand the concept of using law and policy to change things for the better. It also makes them vulnerable to racist ideas because the fundamental idea of dividing the population into good and bad people isn't actually all that different.

As I said, I'm still in the early phases of figuring this out, so any thoughts anyone has would be appreciated.

[callese]

[nodynasty4us]

It's the white supremacists who believe the great replacement conspiracy theory.

[ceevee5]

The situation is not likely to improve any time soon. According to the UN, the number of international migrants in 2019 was 272 million – 3.5% of the global population. War, violence, inequality and the climate crisis will exacerbate the situation. Incidents such as the Buffalo shooting look like an extreme manifestation – and hopefully a wake-up call – but the real issue is that the line between the “full-fat” and “replacement lite” versions is eroding, potentially paving the way for full-blown fascism. “The growth of rightwing extremism, by definition, can only happen when conservatives lose that firebreak, or cordon sanitaire, against the radical right,” says Feldman. “When conservatives are seduced by rightwing extremism, that’s when the problem becomes magnified. That’s not to say that rightwing extremism isn’t always a problem, but it will stay on the fringes unless it’s invited in.”

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[quotesfrommyreading]

It is no surprise, then, that Carlson has also taken to promoting a lightly sanitized version of the “Great Replacement” theory, which posits that shadowy elites are plotting to replace the country’s white majority with brown minorities—a claim that has motivated multiple anti-Semitic massacres on American soil. Carlson is careful never to explicitly implicate Jews in this supposed scheme, as white nationalists do, but the far-right members of his audience can fill in the blanks after he hits all their preferred beats.

The conveyor belt from all-purpose conspiracy to anti-Jewish specificity doesn’t stop there. It’s how Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene went from claiming that Democratic leaders were running a pedophile ring out of a pizza store and that no plane hit the Pentagon on 9/11 to fulminating about Jewish-run space lasers and seconding accusations that Israel’s Mossad killed JFK. This is how QAnon became JewAnon. And it’s why the rise of conspiracism should concern us all.

  —  Why It’s Become Harder to Joke About Anti-Semitism

[brantheblessed]