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The City of Dreadful Night
Amusingly, Q is here identified -- by one of his followers -- as a snake in the grass. Literally.
The image comes from this Reuters story which offers new research into the origins of the Q mythos.
A more granular review by Reuters shows Russian accounts began amplifying the movement as it started, early in the previous month.
From November 2017 on, QAnon was the single most frequent hashtag tweeted by accounts that Twitter has since identified as Russian-backed, a Reuters analysis of the archive shows, with the term used some 17,000 times.
The archives contain more than 4,000 accounts that Twitter suspended for spreading Russian government disinformation in 2018 and 2019 but preserved for researchers.
The trove shows that some of the Russian accounts tweeted about QAnon’s most important popularizer even before the anonymous figure known as Q emerged, then rewarded her with more promotion when she put videos about Q on YouTube.
I am not persuaded that Q himself is Russian. I still favor the idea that Q is a Germanophile, and that his pseudonym derives from the German word Quelle -- "source." The same word inspired Q theory in New Testament studies.
Although Q probably is not Russian, it is clear that Russia is doing everything it can to aid the cause of international fascism.
The coming horror. I predict that Trump will "win" this election even though a clear majority of Americans will cast votes for Biden. When you look at what's really going on in FL, in PA, in GA, in MN...well, I just don't see how the Dems can hope to conquer the forces of fascism.
The problem with the talking heads on MSNBC and CNN is that they refuse to accept the reality of election manipulation. The only commentator who mentions this factor is, of course, Brad Friedman. You really must listen to this podcast: It'll chase all of the optimism out of your soul with the same ferocity displayed by my dog when he chases squirrels out of the yard.
For example: In PA, they are using a new and untested ballot-casting system which practically has the words "RIG ME!" spray-painted on the curtain covering the voting booth. You really think Biden has a chance in that state? C'mon, man.
Heretofore, Republicans have felt constrained to keep the rigging limited by the number of undecideds, as indicated by pre-election polls. Everyone keeps telling us "In 2016, the undecideds all broke for Trump." Oh yeah? Where's the proof? The people who keep promoting this claim are cowards who refuse to admit that election-rigging is real.
The undecided vote was a limit in 2016 -- but in 2020, even that limit will be gone. Trump can no longer concern himself with plausibility. He needs to win this thing at all costs, because the alternative is terrifying. He must win.
That's why he's staying in the White House on election night. That's why he's building a new, allegedly impermeable barricade around the building. That's why he plans to use the National Guard as his personal defense force.
Something's in the air. Smells like war.
Perhaps the "official" results will be absurd on their face -- for example, California could go for Trump. Such an outcome could give Trump an excuse to "postpone" the entire election -- and to go to war.
If Biden "loses," how should Dems react? First and foremost, Democrats must forego their usual response: Heaping hatred on their own candidate. Biden did a few things wrong, but overall I would say that he has run one of the best campaigns I've ever seen.
And for God's sake, let's ignore the INEVITABLE complaints that the ticket wasn't sufficiently appealing to Black people. Black voters were the ones who picked Biden!
(And I will always be grateful to them for that.)
I have no doubt that a thousand loudmouth progs will argue that fucking Bernie would have had more appeal to African Americans. Arrogant white Bernie Bros think that they know better than Black voters what kind of candidate appeals to Black voters.
Pundits keep telling us that the key to winning elections is to increase the size of the Black vote. Sorry, but...no.
Blacks always come out in high numbers to vote. We can't demand more from them. We can't fairly ask them to treat every election like 2008.
The hard fact is that Black people are not numerous enough. Yes, they are the party's most loyal and (in my opinion) most sensible voters. But they are only twelve percent of the population.
Stop pretending that the number is higher. Stop treating a hard mathematical fact as a politically incorrect Great Unsayable Thing.
Here's the truth: Black people are distributed among the states in such a way as to diminish the effectiveness of their vote. Many Black people live in solid blue states -- California, New York, Illinois. In each of the southern states, Blacks are between 20-to-35 percent of the population. With exquisite precision, history has apportioned their numbers in such as way as to render southern Blacks nearly impotent.
To comprehend my point, imagine the result if a large portion of the Black people in Alabama were to move to, say, Georgia and Mississippi. That relocation program would result in four more Democratic senators -- probably Black senators -- as well as 21 electoral votes controlled by Black voters.
That's power.
Obviously, this relocation program is a pipe dream. One cannot fairly ask so many people to leave their homes. It's not gonna happen.
But what the Dems can do is pay more attention to Hispanic voters.
They are somewhat more numerous than Blacks. African Americans are substantially more likely to vote, but a Hispanic on the national ticket would surely increase Hispanic turnout. Best of all, many Latinos live in those all-important purple states: Florida, Texas, Arizona.
If Biden had been allowed to chose an Hispanic running mate, he'd have a better shot in Texas and Florida.
"No hope could have no fear." Then again, why am I even thinking this way? Why am I discussing strategy at a time like this?
However, the historians warn, particularly in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, “the temptation to take refuge in a figure of arrogant strength is now greater than ever”. They suggest citizens must be ready not only to defend democracy at the ballot box, but “if necessary, also through non-violent protests in the streets”.
“That’s the lesson, to not be complacent in moments like this,” said Jennifer Evans, a professor of German history at Carleton University in Canada and one of the lead organizers of the open letter. “This is a very dangerous time, and we all have a responsibility to prop up democracy.”
James Thomson's long poem The City of Dreadful Night -- the Bible of pessimism -- contains a scene in which the protagonist, wandering through the city on a sleepless night, stumbles across the entrance to Hell.
I reached the portal common spirits fear,
And read the words above it, dark yet clear,
"Leave hope behind, all ye who enter here:"
And would have passed in, gratified to gain
That positive eternity of pain
Instead of this insufferable inane.
And read the words above it, dark yet clear,
"Leave hope behind, all ye who enter here:"
And would have passed in, gratified to gain
That positive eternity of pain
Instead of this insufferable inane.
But the gatekeeper won't let him enter. Our protagonist cannot abandon hope if he had none to begin with. Hope is, in a sense, the entrance fee. The poet's outlook is so dark, they won't even let him set foot in the Inferno.
That's me. Right now.
No, I am not trying to suppress the vote. I'm not telling you to avoid the fight that will follow. I'm simply telling you who I am and how I am. You may try to gag Despair, but Despair will find its voice.
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