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Oct. 11, 2020 - Adventures in HellwQrld
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Solo Pod: RCV, Major Dad, QAnon Insanity

Ranked Choice Voting is good, QAnon is bad. This and many other controversial takes in this podcast. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hellwqrld. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hello everyone, Pogrom Politics here.
Today I'm going to be talking about the cognitive dissidence and how overwhelming it is in order to believe in literally anything QAnon says.
On top of that, I'm going to probably yell at Major Data a little bit and start off with talking about Ranked Choice Voting, which is a hobby horse of mine that you've heard me talk about a time or two in the past.
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Vote, vote, vote, vote, vote.
We need to win, or the world ends.
So it's kind of one of those things that sucks.
And hopefully we can make it not suck, or suck less, as it were.
But that's the world, hell world, that we are living in.
So, beyond all that, I first wanted to just talk about Ranked Choice Voting really quickly because I saw a thread on the Twitter-trons where... I understand this criticism.
I understand this belief that Ranked Choice Voting is some sort of virtue signaling act of purity where you give the Green Party vote, the Green Party your first vote, your rank one vote and then you give the Democrats your rank two vote or you just don't even fill out the second one because you just hate the Democrats and you're a Green all the way and you are a performative liberal in a way where you just
Talk a big game, but when it comes down to electoral politics, you're not going to back it up by actually ever voting for the Democrat because that is counterintuitive to your narrative and what you believe in.
Now, I do believe there are people like that out there who do do things like this, but the truth is is that In Maine, where the Democrat won the election through ranked choice voting, where they lost in the first round to the Republican and then won the later rounds when the two independent candidates that lead into Democrat had their votes transferred to the Democrat, that gave the Democrat the win.
Two-thirds of people did rank in the election.
One-third didn't rank, which is frustrating, but what can you do?
I mean, that's the nature of some people just not getting it, or refusing to opt into the process, as it were.
But in general, people did it, and it worked out the way that people wanted it to work out.
And I think the main benefit of ranked choice voting is that it creates alliances between like-minded major party, minor parties, instead of conflicts.
And what I mean by that is that in first past the post voting, which is what we have, Greens and Democrats are at each other's throats because the Democrat is screaming at the Green.
You're throwing your vote away.
You're helping the Republican win.
You are playing a spoiler.
This is dumb.
You should not be doing this.
Please do not vote Green when you know the Green has no chance of winning and it is a wasted vote.
And the Green will retaliate, the Democrat doesn't want to listen to these policies, that the Democrat is a sellout who will never achieve any actual Progressive goals or any advanced anything forward that there's no there's not a bit of daylight between the Republican and the Democrat and That they are going to vote for the true progressive candidate in this election and damn the consequences if the Democrat refuses to Move leftward and earn their vote as it were
Then they can pound sand, because they're not really helping me, so I'm not going to do it.
And this is the thing, is that these intra-ideology conflicts, or these intra-party squabbles, as it were, They're incredibly frustrating and they're incredibly enraging for both sides because the Green and the Democrat agree on most things but they just can't get on the same page about the vote.
And the vote is what matters in so much of these things because winning elections is how you legislate and you bring about change and how you wield power on behalf of your constituents to do things.
Now, what happens here is that instead of having this happen, with ranked choice voting, the Democrat says to the Green, I will vote for the Democrat 1, and I will vote for the Green with my second option, and I would ask for you to do the same, to rank the Green 1 and rank the Democrat 2.
And that is a compromise.
That is a way to make this... Our fight is now just between our side, where we put the one and where we put the two.
But now it's between us.
And if there's 55% of us and 45% of the Republican, now if we split our
votes, the Republican doesn't win.
Now, all our votes will either go to the Democrat or to the Green, and the Liberal candidate will win.
And the Conservative candidate will lose.
Which, at the end of the day, is what most of us want.
So, and this is the most important part about all of this, is that you put the Green Party candidate and you put their supporters on the spot to ask the fundamental question, do you actually want this progress to happen or are you just a nihilist who wants to play spoiler?
Which of these two are you?
Because if a Green candidate is running and they tell their followers, do not rank the Democrat second, don't do any of this stuff, like opt out of ranked choice voting, all of that, Then they are taking off the mask.
They are giving up the game.
They are admitting that they are working hand-in-hand with the Republican to kneecap the Democrat.
And this would be true of the Libertarian as well, who would say, don't rank the Republican second.
Don't do that.
Now you can obviously say that the Republicans and the Democrats come from a position of power and strength, that they can benevolently offer their number two vote to the Green or the Libertarian without much risk, yadda yadda yadda, but this is the thing is that offering up that number two is a sign of solidarity and it is a sign of compromise and agreement to work together.
And you can have a unity campaign Where the Green candidate and the Democrat go to a rally and they both speak, they both talk, they both hang out, they both compare ideas.
They both talk about why you should give me your one and the other person your two and we both hate the Republican equally.
And that, to me, is a breath of fresh air.
That is a revelation.
Because having both sides focusing their fire on the true enemy, the Republican, is a good thing.
It is a net positive.
And if the third party candidate will not do that, if they will not train their fire on the actual opponent, if the Libertarian will not go with the Democrat, if the Green will not go with the Republican, then you know what they are.
You know what they are and they have outed themselves.
And to me, that's important.
That is an important symbolic thing that I think impacts voters and it tells them what's going on.
And if that person was going to get like 3% of the vote, I think that honestly at that point, 1 or 2% of their voters are going to ignore their demands and they are going to check off the major party that they're more likely to support as their second choice.
They are going to buy into ranked choice voting.
They're going to do this.
And I know ranked choice voting feels like it's working around the edges.
And right now, in the year of our Lord 2020, with all this shit that's going on, it feels like such a small niche issue.
But the reason why we're in this situation that we're in right now is because of this.
It's because that we had more votes for the Libertarian and the Green Then Trump's margin of victory in so many states.
And before you say, well, the Libertarian votes would have gone to Trump.
Bill Weld, the Republican nominee for, the Libertarian nominee for Vice President in 2016, stopped campaigning Libertarian and was aggressively campaigning as anti-Trump in the final weeks because he was just like, look, Trump's such a dangerous outcome for America.
I can't, in good faith, continue to run this campaign honestly with Mr. Aleppo, as it were, so I'm going to tell people to vote for Hillary.
So, if ranked choice voting existed, how many Libertarians would have listened to Bill Weld and they would have marked down Libertarian 1, Democrat 2?
Who knows?
And again, you would think that most of the Greens would have marked Stein down 1 and Hillary down 2.
This is a thing that would fix problems.
And also on this thread, which was really weird, was people complaining about the governor of San Francisco and then they had They also mentioned that Burlington had one mayoral vote and they got a mayor that no one wanted which seems weird to me because ranked choice voting isn't just throwing a bunch of people's names into a hat and you shake the hat and you spill it over and oh look we have a mayor!
Um, ranked choice voting creates consensus candidates and all that kind of stuff.
And if this person was the consensus, then they were the consensus.
And I have heard the arguments of people complaining about the San Francisco mayor, but again, that's how this works.
That's how the system works.
And this was the consensus candidates.
It was the candidate that got the secondary and tertiary votes of people.
They were the candidate that More people were willing to accept over the other person.
And if someone wins the majority of the first place votes, it's over.
It's done.
So this is not like some sort of weird usurping of the will of the people.
So, it's strange.
It is strange to me that this is a thing where there's an actual anti-ranked choice voting mindset out there.
Because first-past-the-post voting sucks.
It leads to that what I just said about nihilists who have a cap of market share at like 2-3%, but they can tip elections.
They can control who wins and loses.
And that's really unfair.
Lindsey Graham just fought to push the Constitution Party guy out in the South Carolina Senate race because he was scared that those votes might spoiler him, that he might lose because of that.
If South Carolina had ranked-choice voting, he wouldn't have to worry about that nonsense about getting spoilered by some dumb third-party candidate that appeals to nobody but can just siphon off just enough votes to do damage.
And that is something that is far more damaging in the long run than any minor party candidate or any candidate that was a consensus candidate winning off of tertiary votes.
That's the system.
Learn the system.
Work within it.
Ranked Choice Voting is a good idea.
And if in 20 years after we have a bunch of Ranked Choice Voting elections and shit goes real bad, I will be the first to repeal it.
But I will not replace it with First Past the Post.
We'll find some other system.
We'll fix this.
But yeah, it's nuts to all that.
So anyhow, that's the Ranked Choice Voting tirade as it were.
Wow, that went way longer than I thought it would.
Anyhow, let's yell at Major Dad for a moment.
Nice, dumb, photoshopped hat, buddy.
Major Dad has told the world that I have helped spread the movement and grow his message better than anyone else ever could.
That's not true, and you know it, and if it was true, you would engage me.
You would actually talk to me, and you would actually try to prove your point.
And, uh, you can't.
Because you don't have one.
The first 72 Q-drops are bullshit.
You don't know anything about the Kennedy assassination.
I'm sure of that.
So, uh... Door's always open, big boy.
If you're listening and you're getting ready to photoshop more dumb crap on your hat, go for it.
But anyhow, main event of the night, as it were, is...
The cognitive dissonance of QAnon is so overwhelming.
It's so jarring just reading stuff they say and seeing them try to deal with it.
They try to deal with the words that come out of their mouths or that they type onto the screen and in a way they know what they're saying is bad.
I just tweeted out, like, PepeLivesMatter was screaming and yelling about arresting Hillary, and then after he screamed and yelled about arresting Hillary, he immediately did a 180 and was like, look, the arrests will come when our betters, when those stronger, smarter, more handsome, tougher than us, decree that the arrests should happen.
Then and only then will the arrests happen.
It is not ours to question when the arrests happen.
It is ours only to serve blindly and loyally to the God Emperor.
And this is the thing about QAnon.
It is constantly about telling you that the payoff is coming.
That it's going to happen soon and you're going to get what you want.
And then never delivering.
Just leaving you disappointed again and again and again.
And it's up to you to accept that disappointment and continue to tolerate that disappointment.
I saw AwakendOutlaw had a tweet about how, if anyone else tells me nothing's ever going to happen, I'll block them on sight.
And if you think I care about you, then fuck off!
And this is the thing, is that these people have a scam.
They have a grift.
And they're not about to give it up.
In the face of reality.
And they have to twist themselves in the knots to try to find ways to excuse why nothing happens.
And they also have to try to find ways to explain their own narratives.
Julian's room had a great question where he was just like, why did the deep state think that COVID would kill Trump?
Because Julian knows that COVID is bullshit and it doesn't hurt anybody.
And you have a 99.9% chance of survival.
Yet here's Q telling him directly that the Democrats poisoned Trump with COVID to bring about the 25th amendment and replace him and to destabilize our democracy and to damage Trump before the election.
And that's so ridiculous because Q has been consistently inconsistent that this is a shycom bioweapon designed to tank the global economy and install Biden as president but also you don't need to wear a mask because masks are bullshit.
And it nearly killed Trump but we had a secret cure for him but don't take the vaccine because the vaccine's bad.
And now, what's really funny about this is it really just goes to show you how Q has no control over his crowd.
Because if Q had posted a thing where he said, look, the shycoms used this bioweapon on us, and they did a lot of damage to us, and we need to mask up and lock down to let the virus run its course, and then we can get revenge on China, Q and I would tell him to fuck right off.
Because he doesn't have the kind of control to tell them to stand down.
He's only here to make them happy.
He's only here to play the hits.
He's not here to do a George Carlin routine where he tells you harsh truths.
He's here only to tell you pleasing lies.
That's the job of Q. He's here to tell you that Hillary's gonna get it and so is Obama and so is Comey and so is Brennan and so is Strzok and so is Page.
And everybody else.
We're all gonna get it.
We're all gonna go up that gallows.
We're all gonna take the drop.
Joe M's gonna pull the switch himself.
And that's that.
All the liberals are gonna die and it's gonna be great.
But you just gotta keep waiting.
And keep voting for Trump, you suckers.
And that is what makes it so funny is that you have this constant Talk in QAnon about being empowered, about being a researcher, about being awake, about knowing the hidden truth, about being morally superior to everybody else.
Because the other people are either fans of pedophiles, defenders of pedophiles, or just pedophiles directly, outright, openly.
Yet, You, the enlightened researcher, the brilliant decoder, the leader of men, as it were, on the digital battlefield, the digital soldier that you are, you don't have any pull.
You don't have any authority.
You don't actually have any control over the narrative.
You don't have any control over the story.
The story is cues and cues alone, and you will Just shut up and let Q tell the story as he sees fit.
You'll let Q make the arrests when Q sees fit.
Then you will do nothing but praise Q and Trump the whole time.
That's it.
That's your job.
Hate the enemy, love your heroes, and just keep tweeting, keep podcasting, keep streaming, keep donating to Praying Medic, keep giving money to Jordan Sather, keep buying books, keep buying t-shirts, keep buying hats, keep red-pilling family.
But don't ever, ever, ever question leadership.
Never question Trump.
Never question Q. Never do these things.
Unceasing, unrelenting loyalty to Trump and Q. That is it.
What is that?
This slavish devotion to people.
This unquestioning devotion to them.
That's the mark of a cult.
That's the mark of an infallible leader who cannot be questioned.
When you're angry that Hillary hasn't been arrested yet, Shut up!
Trust the plan.
What's wrong with you?
Why don't you trust the plan?
Are you really on board?
Do you really believe in QAnon?
Where we go one, we go all?
Are you part of the movement and honest and pure?
Or are you one of these crybabies who needs to see some results before you trust?
Are you a doubting Thomas?
Or do you have faith in your heart for Donald Trump?
It's literally a religion and it's so obvious.
It's so clear.
Because you cannot question what's going on.
You cannot ask why these things are happening.
I have asked a good few people in QAnon, hey, remember that Q drop where Q said that he had Hillary ready to cut a deal but then he didn't do it?
Do you think that was a mistake?
And none of them can say no.
None of them have said, oh yeah, Q fucked that up.
Because Q cannot fuck things up.
Q is perfect and infallible and right.
Trump cannot fuck anything up.
He is perfect and infallible and right.
They are divine.
Michael Flynn, as he's grifting these suckers, is divine.
And they will turn around and they will call you a sheep.
They will call you a sheep for supporting Joe Biden or Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or liking movies with Tom Hanks in them Or enjoying the music of literally anyone, because all musicians are satanists.
And that's the thing, it's like they project this slavish devotion, this fanatical belief onto you.
They think that you worship Biden, you worship Obama, you worship Hillary, the way they worship Trump.
And I don't know anyone who does.
I think anyone who's voting for Joe Biden knows what they're getting.
They're getting a guy who's a middle-of-the-road Democrat, who's gonna listen to his experts, and he's gonna do what he thinks is best.
But he's just a guy.
He can fuck things up.
He can make mistakes.
And if he makes mistakes, I hope he corrects them.
But that's it.
That's the package.
That's the plan.
I mean, a dude that is Joe Biden is way better than a dude who is Donald Trump.
It's not even comparable.
It's night and day which person is a better person and who has more mental acuity and understanding in order to be able to run the country as its president.
We don't have boat parades for Biden.
We don't have 12 guys in 18 wheelers driving trucks with Trump flags on them.
We're just people who do not worship Joe Biden.
We're just sick of Donald Trump.
And Biden's the only guy that can be elected president right now.
And he's fine.
He's perfectly fine.
That's it.
That's all you need right now.
Just the other option.
Not a sociopath who is sick with COVID and still running around speaking and talking to people and poisoning people with a deadly virus.
And we still don't know how healthy the lungs of that guy is yet.
All that other good stuff.
So yeah, maybe, I don't know, let's try the other guy.
The guy who doesn't have COVID.
Seems like a plan.
So, uh, having said all that, as it were, I'm gonna go to some questions.
And my Grand Inquisitor A.I.S.
Millard asks, uh, spooky, he says.
How does cognitive dissonance get accepted as a person gets slowly red-pilled?
What helps condition a skeptical newcomer to suspend disbelief?
It is, uh, that, it's the want to believe.
That's the first thing, that's the first thing, is that you want to buy into it.
Willingness and a desire to accept something goes a long way towards acceptance.
Once you've made the decision you want to buy in, it's hard not to buy in because you want to go down that road.
You've taken the first couple steps so you're going to keep going down that path.
And once you've done that, you don't critically think anymore.
Because critical thinking could stop you from walking down the path.
And you don't want to do that.
You want to keep walking.
You want to have fun.
You want to enjoy.
You want to engage.
You want to see where it's down the rabbit hole.
And that's the danger of all of this.
The danger of these conspiracies is that you get walking and you don't stop walking.
And now you go to Crazy Town!
So it's not good.
Also, he's asked, is Major Dad actually a military major or a dad for that matter?
The story of Major Dad is incredibly confusing.
That is all I am publicly allowed to say at this time.
If you're hearing this, Major Dad, I don't know what to tell you, bro.
But, yeah.
Not great.
So yeah, having been weirdly cryptic there, as I have to be, I'll move on to an off topic question.
What kind of ramen do you enjoy?
The answer is none.
I've never had ramen in my life.
Just that's never been the cheap food of choice for me.
Cheap food of choice for me is cereal.
I just love bowls of cereal.
Wheaties, Honey Nut Cheerios, Smart Start.
I haven't found that in the stores recently, but that's good.
A little sugary, but still good.
I just like a bowl of boring cereal.
Trying to shake off the COVID-20 I gained since lockdown.
And, uh, we're baby steps, all that kind of stuff.
Might start blogging about ye olde weight loss, as it were.
Had some QAnon pricks say, time's up, fat boy, to me.
And, uh, had AwakendOutlaw photoshop me into a bunch of fat people, which, uh, hey, I'm already there, buddy.
You don't need to, uh, add actually any more pounds to me.
I'm good.
I'm good to go.
So, uh, yeah.
Thanks.
But, yeah.
Ramen?
Just never went down that path.
FireBuildingFire says all your new followers should tune in so they can debunk you.
I wish they would.
That'd be hilarious.
I'd love for people to go at me.
Please do.
TrunksIsHere asks, I'd like to know if there's a way to find out how many of Major Photoshop's followers or bots have blocked about 40 in two days.
There's like a bunch of auditing systems that will check the bot levels of a person's follower count.
You can check Bot Sentinel.
There's a few options.
There's all these websites if you type in like how many followers, how many of my followers on Twitter are bots and so on.
You'll find hits.
There's ways to figure it out.
Cornelius Menace Deregulus, who is a QAnon believer, says, okay, can you tweet it?
I like to read things.
We got into a conversation.
And no, you're going to listen to the podcast.
If you don't like podcasts, sorry.
And Dung Beetle Patriot Warrior says, who did he steal the account from?
We don't know.
But Dapper Gander has done some research into it and they think they know people who knew the original Major Dad.
So that's interesting.
It is a confounding puzzle, I guess you could call it, about ye old Major Dad and if he's stolen Valor, if he took this account from somebody else, who knows?
I mean the evidence looks strong that he did, but I have evidence that he actually did serve in the military.
I have evidence of these kinds of things.
So I don't know how good my evidence is.
I don't know if the account really is his.
Totally.
But, uh, I have heard both sides.
So, yeah, let's leave it at that, as it were.
So, uh, that will conclude Ye Olde Pony Taste for, uh, this, uh, weekend, as it were.
I will be back with the gang on Tuesday to rant and rave about the world as it continues spiraling out of control.
Hopefully our president will not be on a ventilator and we won't be talking about acting or reigning President Pence by then because that would I mean, I look at this thing very simply.
If Trump loses, he's going to throw a fit, he's going to pout like a baby, but at the very least you're going to have him make some sort of move to brand OAN as Trump TV, and you're going to have, like, alternate Fox News with Trump.
Trump, Trump, Trump.
And at the very least, he'll be giving QAnon their dopamine hits as he backbites and second-guesses Joe Biden and talks about how when he was president he did an awesome job and how Biden's a fucking moron and blah blah blah.
And QAnon gets to be like, yeah, you get him, God Emperor, yeah, we're gonna run for re-election, you're gonna run in 2024 and beat Biden and take back the White House and save America from the cabal.
It's gonna be great.
And at least they're going to have that, whereas if ye olde president leaves the White House feet first or is on a ventilator for a long period of time, and due to his convalescence, Pence has to take over the job, Trump being in ill health or dead means that QAnon doesn't have their blankie to keep them Not afraid during the thunderstorm, as it were.
And when the baby isn't comforted, the baby cries and screams and it throws and it breaks things.
And I don't want the baby to break things, because that's going to be really bad.
So get some rest, Mr. President.
Stay alive.
Help us out here a little bit.
Just lose the Biden like a good egg.
And that way this Tuesday's podcast can be fun and exhilarating and not terrifying as I'm holed up in a bunker with everybody else and we're hoping that the world doesn't end.
So yeah.
So stay safe everybody.
Register to vote.
Vote.
Donate.
Work, work, work.
Live the dream and all that other empty platitudes that I like to spout at the end of these podcasts.
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