Posted on 12/18/2022 5:52:50 AM PST by NetAddicted
Earlier this week, Elon Musk tweeted an emoji of a white rabbit and told people to follow it … Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D., explained that Musk was “explicitly” encouraging his 120 million followers to start following QAnon, “a domestic terrorism movement.” An explicit directive to follow QAnon would have gone something like, “Follow QAnon,” but she doubled down, revealing that Musk was using “memetic warfare” to conceal his creation of a network to organize violence.
QAnon is most commonly associated with “Pizzagate,” which held that there was a pedophile ring being run out of a D.C. pizza shop. We’ve heard quite a bit about QAnon lately as the public at large cracks down on child exploitation: When people called out Balenciaga for its ad campaign pairing little children with teddy bears dressed in BDSM gear, three New York Times style writers placed part of the blame for the backlash on QAnon and Fox News. “When High Fashion and QAnon Collide” was the title of the piece.
Now Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo is calling #TwitterFiles journalist Matt Taibbi “pizzagate curious.”
Instead of chasing child sex predators or terrorists, the FBI has agents — lots of them — analyzing and mass-flagging social media posts. Not as part of any criminal investigation, but as a permanent, end-in-itself surveillance operation. People should not be okay with this.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 16, 2022
Taibbi now officially pizzagate curious https://t.co/1LFgz9Ymr9
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 16, 2022
We already knew you were a little icky, Josh, but wow
— Latentem (@Latentem) December 17, 2022
Josh, earlier this year I interviewed an FBI agent literally pulled off a child exploitation detail to chase misdemeanor J6 cases. Here the point is agents flagging social media instead of real work. This makes me “Pizzagate-curious”? How desperate for a point can you get? https://t.co/3k9g6I9RyO
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 17, 2022
How many FBI agents are devoted to solving the murders of 4 college kids in Idaho?
80 full time agents were assigned to Twitter. How many to Facebook, Google?
— Sandy 〽️ (@RightGlockMom) December 17, 2022
Didn’t they send 15 FBI agents to investigate the “noose” in Bubba Wallace’s garage?
Josh is ratio-curious: he is curious how quickly Matt’s QT can ratio him.
— Justin (@Aristofoneez) December 17, 2022
Establish branding, reinforce the messaging over months, and it then becomes a useful shorthand label you can slap on anything that can't be argued away.
— Varkie (@VarkieLiefe) December 17, 2022
Oddly enough, this type of FBI behavior is what leads to the kind of distrusting environment that births the same conspiracy theories they’d later be monitoring.
— A (@pleibian) December 17, 2022
Josh is about as useful and insightful as Olbermann at this point in history.
— please don't follow (@Shimrod23) December 17, 2022
That’s how they try to shut people down, Matt. I’m so tired of it. Never have I seen a more cultish group than they … so those are the words they use. No thoughtful dialogue … just hateful words.
— Laura KBB (@NonsenseEnd) December 17, 2022
It’s a pretty simple and proveable statement. Every cop camping behind a tree for a speed trap is a cop that could be actually fighting crime. No different here.
— FrankJay (@fjs_ig) December 17, 2022
Kind of like how you’re groomer adjacent, Josh?
— Conspiracy Theorist Expert (@ConspiracyBan) December 17, 2022
That's quite a leap you are making there. Christ almighty.
— Milkbone (@clarksthockey) December 16, 2022
Forgot how defensive libs get when people accuse pedos. Kind of weird.
— Pedro (@PluisPedro) December 17, 2022
Wow… that’s you’re takeaway ?
— Xakattak (@zachmoos) December 17, 2022
"The FBI telling Twitter to delete parody accounts is good, actually. And we knew this all along. Anyone reporting on it must have lost their mind"
— Alice (@AliceFromQueens) December 17, 2022
Maybe Marshall needs to have another look at the latest batch of #TwitterFiles to see just how closely the FBI was policing low-follower parody accounts. QAnon’s just a label liberals use to get conservatives to shut up.
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Related:
LOL: Everyone is making fun of TPM’s Josh Marshall for TWEETING about his Mastodon herdhttps://t.co/Z7UPpJ8NUg
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 17, 2022
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“Give me work, and go away…”
Exactly my mindset.
And, BTW, I’m NOT a team player, so please don’t ask that question in an interview. LOL!
Well, the DNCMedia acts like a hive mind. Very few of these people, whether in print or video, have a single thought of their own.
When Matt Taibi and Bari Weiss went off the reservation, the rest, especially the nasty, arrogant homosexuals, like Josh, went after them claw and nail.
It’s like a one-way bitch fight.
Hey Josh, are the people whispering such things to you about Qanon and such in the room with us right now? Can you point them out to the rest of us?
Have you gone off your lithium, Josh?
:)
What do you know about such things? Done even a smidgen of research yourself?
Well, when Universities hand out doctoral degrees like candy bars, you'll see the occasional Ph.D. who won't know what the word "explicit" means or when to use "implicit", instead.
Those are not even the worst images I saw when looking at pizzagate stuff several years ago.
Lara Logan Drops Truth Bombs Live On Air: Globalist Elite ‘Dine on Blood of Children’...
I immediately thought of Alice in Wonderland and the need to follow the evidence down the rabbit hole.
The people involved said it wasn't true, and CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, NYT and even FOX backed them all up.
Just how much debunking do you need, Bob??????
“ I’m technical, not a manager, and 100% remote.
Give me work, and go away…”
Me too. Not a team player either. Seems to be a common mindset for engineers
The problem he has with Taibbi is that he’s just too curious.
There used to be a time when curious was a good trait in journalism.
Agreed. Most engineers are like us.
Aside from thinking that way, I quite despise corporate society.
Meetings about meetings about meetings…
“ Meetings about meetings about meetings…”
Auggghhhhhh!
Don’t get me started or I will assemble a task force for scheduling meeting creation meetings
“And there are Qtards, the zealous adherents of this nonsense.”
Never ceases to amaze me that the Q/Pizzagate threads always draw in folks who use the word “Qtards”.
If the information is so outlandish and retarded, why do you waste your time or breath?
Your meeting will trigger me, so we need an additional meeting about future HR training…
We can split the difference and just do the diversity seminar hosted by the woman with the ginormous rack
How else will they know they’re Qtards unless someone tells them?
I’m rarely able to discern true thought on Twitter, so I largely ignore it.
Yes. Thank you. I was just going to say this.These " wE 0WN thE LiBZ!!! " stories are circle jerking that accomplish nothing. We are getting DESTROYED by the left. This form of "jernalizm" could be mistaken for a deep state psyop, and I wouldn't even be mad because it basically accomplishes the same goal.
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