They are bike frame peeps that know how to weld ti. Just like in Asia. There are many consumer direct Ti frames now that can even be made to custom specs for less than half of what this company is charging. Sending money to countries where wages are lower results in US wages also dropping. SOME think that this is a negative thing. It will be better than a Chinese Ti frame, ChiTi is like ChiSteel, cheap tubes welded about half as straight as the cheapest factory over the border in Taiwan.
It does help you in a more statistical way though. I am based in the USA. We manufacture non-bike equipment in the US and China at factories that we own. The supply chain in the USA is more likely to get you a legitimate part or material. There is tremendous pressure in China to substitute lesser materials. We would get quotes for very inexpensive parts made in China only to find out that if we wanted the part made out of a verifiable UL listed material it was not much less than something made in the USA.
Unless you are careful your supplier will substitute cheaper materials. As long as you spend time continuously auditing the supply chain you are fine. Wait… No one wants US made frames! Support us! BikeRumor may earn a small commission from affiliate links in this article.
As Rodney Stark put it,. New religious movements are likely to succeed to the extent that their doctrines are non-empirical. There was no empiricism, just a series of narratives created by using what is needed at any given moment, which was all made possible thanks to the cryptic and ambiguous way the information was conveyed. One of the big advantages of Q and why it could spread so quickly was that Q could be anything.
Any conspiracy theory can fit into the grand Q narrative. Michal Barkun described this phenomenon as a Superconspiracy:. This term refers to conspiratorial constructs in which multiple conspiracies are believed to be linked together hierarchically.
Event and systemic conspiracies are joined in complex ways, so that conspiracies come to be nested within one another. At the summit of the conspiratorial hierarchy is a distant but all-powerful evil force manipulating lesser conspiratorial actors. MegaAnon, however, cannot be considered a Superconspiracy, because its narrative was insulated from other conspiracies. Besides being inspired by other theories, such as the New World Order and antisemitic narratives, Mega never managed to co-opt or incorporate more theories.
Even its main villain was specific and discrete. It is important to note that what attracts people to QAnon is not nature of the evil threat, but the belief that a victory over evil is imminent.
This is something that both Mega and Q share: their side is winning. Besides messages showing how their enemies are being defeated, there was the building towards a day of reckoning. Mega claimed that Trump would go live on TV with an emergency broadcast, so the fake news media cannot distort his message, in which he would deliver a speech about the truth and the crimes that his enemy committed. These ten days are commonly interpreted by Q followers as reference to Revelations , imbuing this movement with Biblical significance, which as Lorne L.
Dawnson and Jenna Hennebry explain is another characteristic of successful new religious movements:. They retain cultural continuity with the conventional faiths of the societies within which they seek converts. Instead of being confined to just a board on a site on the internet, it was able to increase its user base, build a social media ecosystem, and even inspire its believers to become successful congressional candidates.
Having examined why MegaAnon failed while QAnon flourished, next time I will take a look at how much influence these two conspiracies had on each other. Expert skeptical analysis of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and claims of the paranormal. About us. Alternative Medicine. A rotten apple spoils the barrel: the fad of drinking apple cider vinegar to lose weight Claire George - 7th January Aaron Rodgers is just the latest in a long line of sports stars touting health nonsense Brian Eggo - 3rd December The erroneous assumptions of so-called alternative medicine: The test of time Edzard Ernst - 29th November The death of John Lawler raises serious questions about the regulation of chiropractors Michael Marshall - 8th November The erroneous assumptions of so-called alternative medicine: Root causes Edzard Ernst - 22nd October The curious rise in the popularity of osteopathy in France Edzard Ernst - 27th September When it comes to research, so-called alternative medicine is hostile to progress Edzard Ernst - 20th August Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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