QAnon, Blood Libel, and the Satanic Panic
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No aid or comfort to the liberals. No way.
My rights don't end where your feeeelings begin!
Then they came for me. But by then, there was no one left to object.
If you're conservative when you're young, you have no heart! If you're liberal when you're mature, you have no brain!
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What is it about George Soros that these conspiracy theorists are fixated on?
I know little about him myself, other than that he's a philanthropist, let alone anything to warrant an unhealthy obsession with him.
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Who’s better at math than a robot? They’re made of math!
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I know little about him myself, other than that he's a philanthropist, let alone anything to warrant an unhealthy obsession with him.
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86 the 46
Don't tread on me!
No aid or comfort to the liberals. No way.
My rights don't end where your feeeelings begin!
Then they came for me. But by then, there was no one left to object.
If you're conservative when you're young, you have no heart! If you're liberal when you're mature, you have no brain!
Mr. Soros does with his wealth what he wants, and not what the QAnon cultists, the MAGA Republicans, the Trump worshipers, and Trump himself want.
Find out why conspiracy theorists are fixated upon wealthy Jews doing what they want with their own money, and you will likely begin to understand their delusional mindset, too.
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My rights don't end where your feeeelings begin!
Then they came for me. But by then, there was no one left to object.
If you're conservative when you're young, you have no heart! If you're liberal when you're mature, you have no brain!
What do you have against justice, education, health, and a global free press?
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Last edited by magz on 19 Sep 2022, 12:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.: Personal insinuation removed
I think it's partly the mere fact that, unlike plenty of other wealthy people such as the Koch brothers (who also fund a bunch of political activist groups), the various groups funded by Soros tend to be center-left.
Lots of right wing groups get lots of funding from rich people, and they are absolutely horrified that they are not the only activist groups who have ever gotten any funding from rich people.
Anti-Jewish prejudice may be a factor here also, but probably not the only factor.
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About a historical antecedent, the beginnings of Renaissance-era and post-Renaissance "witch" persecutions:
The invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was initially met with skepticism by Vivian Lam, The Conversation, July 2, 2020.
Unfortunately, more and more people did believe it back then, with tragic results:
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Q'Anon Is So Much Bigger Than You Think It Is | Offline With Jon Favreau, Jul 9, 2023:
Summary:
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The QAnon variant of the traditional anti-Jewish blood libel is now being used against Jews of the Chabad movement. See the separate thread Secret Tunnel Under New York Synagogue Sparks Chaotic Scenes, beginning with this post.
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Where the "adrenochrome" claims apparently came from, according to How Donald Trump is spreading a dangerous mental illness to his supporters by Thom Hartmann, in Raw Story:
Where did this modern-day variation on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion come from?
When I was young my favorite writers were Ernest Hemmingway and Hunter S. Thompson, and my favorite Thompson novel was his Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Which is why a caller last year who started on a rant about Democrats harvesting “adrenochrome” from children caused me to both cut him off the air and go back to my copy of the novel to see if my memory was right.
Sure enough, there it was. Thompson was bemoaning running out of hashish and being almost out of opium when his “fat Samoan” sidekick offered an alternative:
“What is it?”
“Adrenochrome,” he said. “You won’t need much. Just a little tiny taste.”
I got the bottle and dipped the head of a paper match into it.
“That’s about right,” he said. “That stuff makes pure mescaline seem like ginger beer. You’ll go completely crazy if you take too much.”
I licked the end of the match. “Where’d you get this?” I asked. “You can’t buy it.”
“Never mind,” he said. “It’s absolutely pure.”
I shook my head sadly. “Jesus! What kind of monster client have you picked up this time? There’s only one source for this stuff…”
He nodded.
“The adrenaline glands from a living human body,” I said. “It’s no good if you get it out of a corpse.”
When Thompson pushes his “attorney” about where the adrenochrome came from, the fictional character tells the fictional tale of having once been hired to represent a child molester/murderer who’d presumably extracted it from one of his victims:
That little seed, entirely fictional, planted in the national subconscious back in the early ‘70s, has now blossomed into a full-blown flower of a belief held by literally millions of Americans.
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