New conspiracy theory: #HillarysBodyDouble is a plot to make Trump supporters look bad

IP, you are on fire today. I’m giggling so hard that my SQL is looking weird.

@Nick G:

The “Hillary Clinton’s body double conspiracy theory is a false flag” conspiracy theory is clearly itself a false flag aimed at making the Alt Right look stupid!

What’s more, the “”Hillary Clinton’s body double conspiracy theory is a false flag” conspiracy theory is itself a false flag” conspiracy theory is clearly itself a false flag aimed at making the Alt Right look stupid!!

And, as you may have guessed, the “””Hillary Clinton’s body double conspiracy theory is a false flag” conspiracy theory is itself a false flag” conspiracy theory is itself a false flag” conspiracy theory is clearly itself a false flag aimed at making the Alt Right look stupid!!!

If you live in an alt-reality, alt this makes perfect sense!

And so a new conspiracy theory was born, claiming that the Hillary body double conspiracy theory was itself a conspiracy — a “false flag” by evil leftists to make alt-rightists and other Trump fans look ridiculous.

That’s what they get for doing the Gamergate thing and having their “leaderless” movement that can be directed by anybody who shows up. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are people doing the Poe thing in the alt-right movement proper, and not just the #HillarysBodyDouble tag.

This is one of the numerous things that irk me about the mindset of these people: There is no truth, no reality. There are only aspects of truth, only points of view. Only appearances matter, only what the public can be made to believe.

If an outrageous claim is called out as the bullshit it is? If it was made by a well-known representative of the group, throw them under the bus. They were never one of us, they were an outlier (remember when some Men’s Righter tried to claim that Paul Elam was a fringe operative when he said something particularly terrible?). Or perhaps it was satire, a joke. If it was made anonymously, just claim it was a false flag planted by the devious enemy. It’s always No True Scotsman for these people.

Basically, do whatever the hell you want to, and then claim reasonable doubt when it backfires. We saw that in #GamerGate, we see it now. It’s the attitude of spineless, morally bankrupt, spoiled little brats who just want to watch the world burn because up in their privilege, they think the fire won’t reach them.

I have a friend who is pushing 80 and is a very proud Luddite – she only recently got her first smart phone after using a clamshell style cell phone for many years, and is still not clear on all the features of the new phone – and she had no idea Gamergate ever even happened until recently. I was trying to explain Internet culture to her, and how it related to Donald Trump’s candidacy (she thought the conspiracy theory over Hillary’s so-called Parkinson’s was hilarious). She does know who Howard Stern is, so I told her that basically, there were a whole lot of people out there who wanted to be Howard Stern, but their incentive to one-up each other is taking it way beyond the pranks that he was doing.

Here she is exchanging long protein strings with Bernie Sanders:

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@ Kat

“Dave” is such a sweet film. I especially love the last shot (when you see who his new security guard is); that always makes me cheer.

Speaking of politicians called ‘Dave’, the Trump campaign brought to mind an old Judge Dredd story. We were discussing that not all orange haired candidates were bad.

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I have seen screencaps of Facebook conversations, I don’t know if the people in them are serious or not, but they’re talking about Hillary’s soul having been transplanted into a healthier clone body. As if this is something she’s done several times before.

It’s a strange world we live in.

@ EJ

Hey, I haven’t sold my soul yet. Admittedly it is pretty heavily mortgaged….

(How you getting on with the Limerick?)

When I saw body double the other day, did not scan the article; thought it was about actual body doubles that Clinton used to keep possible assassins guessing. Guess I’m just not conspiratorial enough to keep up with the Alt Right.

@Rogue Angel

“But…but…she can’t be Tupac Shakur; she’s supposed to be one of those shape-shifting lizard-people alien overlords who works for the Illuminati or something.”

EXACTLY! Shape Shifting. Hillary and Tupac are the same lizard person (Lirson?) taking different forms. Obvious really.

In fact come to think of it, Hillary and Donald were both interviewed by Matt Lauer the other day, but only appeared separately. I’m just asking questions, but could that mean Hillary and Donald are actually the same Lirson? If they aren’t why aren’t they seen together? Besides all the times they have been seen together, because how do you know that wasn’t two Lirsons trying to throw us off?

I am acquainted with that limerick. (is it possible that I could have met it thanks to a mammotheer? Maybe elsewhere, I don’t remember. Swiss cheese memory.)
And a very fine one it is too.

There’s a theory floating around that Donald’s hair is actually a horcrux.

@Gert

Dunno ’bout G-d, but ‘VI’ definitely needs all the help he/she can get.

Are you intentionally trying to find veiled ways to reference mental health that can *technically* skirt by the comments policy, or at least go beneath notice? In a recent thread you also mentioned something about someone needing therapy. I wanna give you the benefit of the doubt, but given the things you’ve managed to start arguments over in the past, this seems sorta suspect. At best, please avoid implying a link between terrible opinions and mental health.