Hey my kinderlach, my bubbies… I feel terrible dropping off the board posting-wise. But I am American. I am a queer Heeb humanist and progressive. That should explain it. I plan to return hopefully end of this week/start of next week. The Woo WILL Flow.
“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
- Mark Twain
I'm sure you've heard the news about the most likely outcome of the US presidential election.
It was kind of the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. My mental health is markedly worse being exposed constantly to the worst parts of humanity showcased on this site—and it's no doubt gonna be coming in droves in the coming days, so I've made the decision to move on and leave the site indefinitely for my sanity.
I may be back one day. I may not. I really don't know. But what I do know is I'm not gonna disappear into the abyss without a peep this time and make everyone worry to death about me.
I want you all to take care of ourselves and each other. And try not to stare into the abyss too long lest it stare back at you.
I love you guys.
We’ve narrowed every category down, and it’s time for the final vote!
Religious fundie of the year
Rev. Paul Mackenzie - https://fstdt.com/B7Z$F$6N4QWC5 - Bodies of the members of a now-dead starvation cult are found.
John Piper - https://fstdt.com/ZPL$8DJR5VMLD - Apologist for Biblical genocide, rather than explaining it away, explicitly supports genocide.
Kathy Schroeder - https://fstdt.com/$5YH6WY3.X368 - Thirty years after Waco siege, a participant still supports self-styled "second coming of Christ" David Koresh.
Timothy, Tina, and Damian - https://fstdt.com/27ZMLNLDXR5RB - Fundie adoptive parents have their kids beat each other when they fail to memorize their Bible verses.
Mohammad Ismail Zarei - https://fstdt.com/YST7GVW8KJ3.F - An Iranian government official rewards the American who stabbed Salman Rushdie, the British author of The Satanic Verses.
Wingnut of the year
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene - https://fstdt.com/8_4QS9NN9P8_K / https://fstdt.com/FSX8VGY_$Z66H - The congresscritter that gets heckled by the right for not being right enough and fact-checked by the SPLC at the same time.
Donald Trump (1) - https://fstdt.com/X7FCX6HGQNJGB / https://fstdt.com/H4XNRGRPX9NB3 - Confused about the number of World Wars and his opponent in 2016 and proclaiming his intention to be a dictator on his first day in office, all to the backdrop of a sustained incoherent meltdown about his trials
various commenters from gab - https://fstdt.com/JRYD2.FPNLWV6 - Not being allowed to lynch people is, supposedly, oppression
Bolsonaro supporters - https://fstdt.com/.RWJ4XQDWSFRD - Mob attacks the capital of Brazil, making unfounded accusations of election fraud and spreading literal shit over the place
Tyler Russell - https://fstdt.com/K75ZV4WW7$4SH - Got the “At Least He’s Honest” award for wanting a Trump Reich
Moonbat of the year
Kim Jong Un - https://fstdt.com/W.Z$9HY3HM.$K - Best Korea embracing child labour and death-by-overworking to fight against bourgeois decadence!
Karim Ibn Rashid (1) - https://fstdt.com/6L4GRSYNLVP9H - sexual symbolism seen in political icons, with Marxism-Leninism as the “ONLY heterosexual ideology.”
Haz Al-Din 🇷🇺 - https://fstdt.com/.HVCR6$_CQZF4 - rejecting gene theory in the name of “deteritorialization”
motherLover - https://fstdt.com/VVV6BM_P4_K89 - they’re calling for gassing teh joos, and they’re doing other anti-semetic stuff, and they might become violent, but they’re totally not anti-semites guise
Front for the Defense of the People’s Struggles of Ecuador - https://fstdt.com/5J9RRBCKC763D - hero-worshiping eulogy for a wannabe Stalin
Conspiracy theorist of the year
Georgia GOP Chair Kandiss Taylor - https://fstdt.com/CDL.ZZKK8.0K - she's a flag eather and wants Big Globe to stop their roundness propaganda
Tuckler Carlson - https://fstdt.com/Z6JGY2JLLGQX4 - he thinks nicotine is a mind-expanding drug that They don't want you to use
Mike Stone - https://fstdt.com/_.Y886V_LLL.2 - he claims Hamas, Al Queda, and ISIS are all secretly run by Israel
various commenters (1) - https://fstdt.com/JP.8MW98VB6_G - they think everything is a false flag, except the one where Germany attacked their own radio station and blamed it on Poland; that's a false false flag
Vladimir Putin - https://fstdt.com/HW7_BWSFDP265 - Goes full Reichsbürger
Ableist of the year
Feynman and Coulter's Love Child - https://fstdt.com/W88853CDXXHP6 - Blatant uncaring attitude. I hope he gets run over by a car and confined to a wheelchair.
Robert F Kennedy jr - https://fstdt.com/2S56VHMR4LBW8 - An “apology” for using the word “holocaust” to describe the autism “epidemic”.
Storm Robinson - https://fstdt.com/LSB5WW36ZWQR4 - An asthma truther. “You don’t need an inhaler, Becky, you need to go for a walk”
Racist of the year
Joseph Czuba - https://fstdt.com/HYFQF$DG4BQ89 - Czuba stabbed his neighbors because the radio told him Palestinians were bad
Unnamed Daghestani rioters - https://fstdt.com/CSMB2KFZVMHZ3 - a bunch of Russian Muslims that stormed an airport looking for Jews to attack
Mahmoud Abbas - https://fstdt.com/MWPK9G8.CZ8YG - "usury, money, and so on and so on" mean the Holocaust either didn't happen or was justified
various commenters (3) - https://fstdt.com/YX$8NLT9JZHMF - "Universal suffrage is enslavement of white men. Anyone supporting it supports our enslavement"
Florida State Board of Education - https://fstdt.com/QJN.HQF7$7FKG - the new Florida state board of education says that some Black people benefited from being enslaved
Sexist of the year
Heartless - https://fstdt.com/D$V3D8YVLLDW8 - Mocking the appearance of a rape-and-murder victim.
lesbian-king-kai - https://fstdt.com/KGSG8LWQTN898 - Wants to murder all the homeless males.
AsiaCel - https://fstdt.com/C$BSFXQLYPG7H - "To add to the [Nazbol] mix, we should also throw in Marxism-rodgerism (sexual communism) of one man-one woman as the best as we can do."
Andrew Anglin (1) - https://fstdt.com/$BXWF5C_89BW3 - "Women – at least when they are conscious and capable of mobility and speech – create far too many problems for society to sustain their presence long-term."
Sameera Khan and unnamed Taliban women - https://fstdt.com/PRVRS$VVVM_F7 - [Taliban members] say westerners need Andrew Tate because we are oppressed by feminists
Mammonist grifter of the year
Donald J. Trump - https://fstdt.com/P_Z7T6CVJM3K8 - "Due to the great Excitement and Success of my previous TRUMP DIGITAL TRADING CARDS, we’re doing it again - The MugShot Edition, available RIGHT NOW"
Marc Saint-Onge and John Altshuler - https://fstdt.com/9HPX5W.26YS2K - "The founder of a health and wellness company that sold “magic dirt” which was found to contain toxic levels of arsenic and lead after a campaign from anti-multi-level marketing activists, is back...Saint-Onge appeared in a launch video for Lovvare, a new beauty and wellness MLM"
Freedom Law School - https://fstdt.com/D7DG8733QGKTK - “Take these 7 steps to FREE Yourself of IRS deception, fear, robbery, and slavery, and LIVE FREE with our 100% Protection!”
Lothlorian Magick - https://fstdt.com/S6H4.3NKFGSPG - “**MIDAS TOUCH** Golden God Secret Society Haunted Dragon Djinn Skull & Bones Illuminati Warlock Templar Artifact! One of a Kind ~ Wealth + Luck x10! ** Occult WARLOCK Ring! $$$ Lost Treasure of Khastazia!”
Heteronormative crusader of the year
Yoweri Museveni, et al - https://fstdt.com/H2HYM_JPS4PJK - Yoweri Museveni, Robina Rwakoojo, John Musila and others "Ugandan MPs pass bill imposing death penalty for homosexuality
Léona Niassène mob - https://fstdt.com/RBWYSK7Z4.BBD - “We caught a homosexual and we burned him”
Alex Bailey - https://fstdt.com/GXSRXGH$T5CRK - Beat up an 80-year-old woman because he thought she was trans.
Travis Ikeguchi - https://fstdt.com/Z_XYYNNTGDFXB - “A 27-year-old man who fatally shot a store owner in California had torn down her Pride flag and shouted homophobic slurs, officials said on Monday”
Feynman and Coulter's Love Child - https://fstdt.com/_DC5N$FYR_PZ7 - Treats “Medical Assistance in Dying” as a final solution to the gay question
Forced-birth advocate of the year
Abby Johnson - <https://fstdt.com/$3_CDZPGR$S6G>, <https://fstdt.com/V7N_BJLJLV.K5> - Starts by advocating for abortion to be banned and surprised that the neoreactionaries aren’t grateful
Kaya Masters - https://fstdt.com/J7W_BM42G$XQF - Morally trading abortions for ten-year-olds forced to give birth
Feynman and Coulter's Love Child - https://fstdt.com/NZ.R.CR52TG65 - The whole DARVO playbook applied to life-threatening pregnancies gone wrong.
State Representative Rob Harris (R) and 21 other South Carolina State Representatives - https://fstdt.com/R.PH_XY723GKC - Lawmakers proposing the death penalty for attempted abortions.
Vogon Poet Loonerate of the year
Sneir - https://fstdt.com/BHXR.7_.PZLGJ - Incel gangsta rap
Bennett Lee Ross - <https://fstdt.com/?title=Bennett+Lee+Ross&after_date=2022-12-31&before_date=2023-12-31> - Hasn’t really changed since last year, has he…
Gisele Gurney, Brynn Miche and Jimbo Zoomer - https://fstdt.com/X4X2DGGGQK6ZC - Incel punk
Quack of the year
Tammy Nichols and Judy Boyle - https://fstdt.com/YN3LQZXWX3DHK - "If two Idaho state lawmakers get their way, it would become a criminal misdemeanor to administer a Covid-19 mRNA vaccine in Idaho"
Jason Klop - https://fstdt.com/QWYSGYYH4_XKJ - "A Fraser Valley naturopath who charged families thousands of dollars to give their autistic children pills and enemas made from human feces has agreed to give up his licence"
Storm Robinson - https://fstdt.com/LSB5WW36ZWQR4 - An asthma truther. “You don’t need an inhaler, Becky, you need to go for a walk”
RFK Jr. - https://fstdt.com/SZMPH8WCXN6SH - “COVID-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and Black people. The people that are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese”
Joe Salant - https://fstdt.com/KJS4R9Y5VH7$K - "An evangelical pastor who briefly shot to fame in 2015 for recording a rap song in support of Sen. Ted Cruz is now selling industrial-strength bleach tablets to parents and has admitted that many of his customers are using the product to treat autism in their children"
Magnetic crank of the year
Andrew Stiles, Washington Free Beacon - https://fstdt.com/TV66C3_X4SJRB - The fundie word redefinition project, version 23.05.
Andrew Tate - https://fstdt.com/SLJ32QG833$S6 - Andrew Tate has small dick energy.
One-liner of the year
Storm Robinson - https://fstdt.com/LSB5WW36ZWQR4 - “Asthma is the ADHD of Inflammatory diseases. You don’t need an inhaler, Becky, you need to go for a walk.”
TommyHunt - https://fstdt.com/NVW_JRYNG4.CG - “You can surgically attach a hundred penises to a woman but she'll never be a man.”
“CLASSY” FRED BLASSIE - https://fstdt.com/G8TW.X95$W$_G - “btw i can tell when your toddler is performatively coughing when you walk past me on the sidewalk as i’m smoking a cig and it’s pathetic”
Ben Shapiro - https://fstdt.com/L4R7BY45JFJ64 - “We tried a documentary about men joining women's sports leagues, but found out they'd have to take hormone treatments first. So we made a fictional film about it instead.”
Donald Trump - https://fstdt.com/GH33W5NZ9HNW6 - “[Xi Jinping] runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. Smart, brilliant, everything perfect.”
Lauren Boebert - https://fstdt.com/FYT_8LZ4JWF27 - “We should save the taxpayer some money and throw Fauci and Hunter in the same cell.”
Catturd - https://fstdt.com/_MFX$VBDDV29G - “If Medicine Worked you wouldn’t need to refill your prescription!”
Andrew Tate - https://fstdt.com/HV.KSWSXYQQ$9 - “Long Covid? Oh you mean... Gay?”
Matt Walsh - https://fstdt.com/MV5GP_H52RMT7 - “The facts say that the entire medical basis for anti-depressants is a thoroughly debunked myth and millions of people were drugged based on that myth”
Jesse Lee Peterson - https://fstdt.com/JJTVT8V5GLC6B - “A life without thinking is an AMAZIN' life.”
Chicken little award
INTHELORDSNAME - <https://fstdt.com/P7P5>, <https://fstdt.com/2XQ5> - INTHELORDSNAME from GLP insisted, several times, that Pope Francis and Barack Obama would be systematically beheading Christians no later than March 2023, and tossed into the lake of fire in September.
Gracie - https://fstdt.com/DNF5 - Man-on-car marriage should’ve happend by 2021. The world should’ve ended by 2023.
Edit: The top four were Donald J. Trump (4.5), Marc Saint-Onge and John Altshuler (4.0), Freedom Law School (3.6), and Lothlorian Magick (3.56). Joe Salant and JFK Jr./Bruce were tied with (3.33).
Continuing the primary election after religious fundie, right-wing wingnut, left-wing moonbat, conspiracy theorist, racist, sexist, quack, and heteronormative crusader of the year, here’s the primary ballot for Mammonist Grifter of the Year:
Freedom Law School - https://fstdt.com/D7DG8733QGKTK - “Take these 7 steps to FREE Yourself of IRS deception, fear, robbery, and slavery, and LIVE FREE with our 100% Protection!”
Lothlorian Magick - https://fstdt.com/S6H4.3NKFGSPG - “**MIDAS TOUCH** Golden God Secret Society Haunted Dragon Djinn Skull & Bones Illuminati Warlock Templar Artifact! One of a Kind ~ Wealth + Luck x10! ** Occult WARLOCK Ring! $$$ Lost Treasure of Khastazia!”
Joe Salant - https://fstdt.com/KJS4R9Y5VH7$K - Marketing bleach tablets as an autism cure.
Mike Adams the Health Ranger - https://fstdt.com/55BV4W$3X69$7 - I got a bingo on my “depopulation conspiracy theory” card
Donald J. Trump - https://fstdt.com/P_Z7T6CVJM3K8 - "Due to the great Excitement and Success of my previous TRUMP DIGITAL TRADING CARDS, we’re doing it again - The MugShot Edition, available RIGHT NOW"
Marc Saint-Onge and John Altshuler - https://fstdt.com/9HPX5W.26YS2K - "The founder of a health and wellness company that sold “magic dirt” which was found to contain toxic levels of arsenic and lead after a campaign from anti-multi-level marketing activists, is back...Saint-Onge appeared in a launch video for Lovvare, a new beauty and wellness MLM"
JFK Jr./Bruce - https://fstdt.com/.8X6XJ4RYN7W7 - "Wed. 29 March the Iraqi Dinar revalued in-country and began trading as a gold/asset-backed currency"
Continuing the primary election after religious fundie, right-wing wingnut, left-wing moonbat, conspiracy theorist, racist, sexist, and quack of the year, here’s the primary ballot for Heteronormative Crusader of the Year:
Edit: The top five were Yoweri Museveni, et al (with 5 points), Léona Niassène mob (with 5 points), Alex Bailey (with 4.8 points), Travis Ikeguchi (with 4.25 points), and Feynman and Coulter's Love Child (with 4.0 points).
Alex Bailey - https://fstdt.com/GXSRXGH$T5CRK - Beat up an 80-year-old woman because he thought she was trans.
Russian Propaganda - https://fstdt.com/.GXJSWML6WY - “An LGBT American Rooster tells a Russian Bear and Chechen pig “You must be like me”
Yoweri Museveni, et al - https://fstdt.com/H2HYM_JPS4PJK - Yoweri Museveni, Robina Rwakoojo, John Musila and others "Ugandan MPs pass bill imposing death penalty for homosexuality
Andrew Anglin - https://fstdt.com/$JZQ_8635QCM9 - “Gay sex in Africa is a Jewish conspiracy”
Léona Niassène mob - https://fstdt.com/RBWYSK7Z4.BBD - “We caught a homosexual and we burned him”
Nick Fuentes - https://fstdt.com/MVY9K92YP9VXH - “The straightest thing you can do is to never have sex”
Feynman and Coulter's Love Child - https://fstdt.com/_DC5N$FYR_PZ7 - Treats “Medical Assistance in Dying” as a final solution to the gay question
Travis Ikeguchi - https://fstdt.com/Z_XYYNNTGDFXB - “A 27-year-old man who fatally shot a store owner in California had torn down her Pride flag and shouted homophobic slurs, officials said on Monday”
Feynman and Coulter's Love Child (2) - https://fstdt.com/BB5WRDM_KHBB - “Daniel Woodall was an evil faggot who was pushing the radical sodomite agenda when he died, and we should never feel bad about his righteous punishment”
Vincent James - https://fstdt.com/HSS_L8JTMRYKB - “I’d say I choose the functional society where they throw gays off roofs and make women wear wear [hijabs]”
Jason Graber - https://fstdt.com/MJ_S7JHK_KKGF - “Any parent that would have their child, would have a transgender surgery done on them, any parent that would do that, they just need to be shot in the back of the head”
Ron DeSantis - https://fstdt.com/.Z7_SVX_JP68B - “DeSantis signs into law restrictions on trans Floridians’ access to treatments and bathrooms”
Michael Knowles - https://fstdt.com/NNRBVYW_L2X54 - CPAC Speaker Calls for Transgenderism to Be ‘Eradicated’
Tucker Carlson - https://fstdt.com/65S9M$L9C_WV8 - “The trans movement, it turns out, is the mirror image of Christianity, and therefore its natural enemy.”
@KevinaFaga - https://fstdt.com/8N4$N4F2.B9$J - Accuses transsexualism of being an eugenic scheme against non-gender conforming persons
unlearningtrans - https://fstdt.com/_883KDSKTTB43 - “Trans has made me skeptical of therapy and psychiatry”
Jennifer Bilek - https://fstdt.com/5M6XZVXF35RW9 - “Tran$” is not a type of person. It is a conglomerate of corporate, legal, psychological, & political pressure promoting industrial body dissociation”
Luis Miguel - https://fstdt.com/ZBV.0C$QXW7SG - “Ellen Page’s Story Proves That Transgenderism Is Demonic Possession”
For the last three weeks, I had been hospitalised due to pancreatitis again, only coming home last Friday. Through all this time, my dear feline Overlord, Maurizio, was once more a source of home sickness and a shining beacon to look forward to, and he meowed to me on the telephone and, as my mother tells me, caressed that thing where my voice had been imprisoned in.
He held out for me, but then, the last of his nine lives was spent. This morning, I saw him lying at a certain spot on the garden-path. At first, I thought he was just lying there. but then, I noticed that he did not react. And my fears were confirmed - he was completely motionless, slack-jawed, vacantly starring, cold. Dead.
For nineteen years, Mauri had been our ever beloved and loving companion. He was the light through such terrible times of darkness, such as the phase during his cancer where he would take him on a walk around the street late at night to find enough peace of mind to sleep - a custom that I would practice myself at several points since - or when I spent over a hundred day in intensive care, where a photo of him adorned my wall, proving to be a great conversation starter.
It is true that Mauri had fallen far from his pinnacle of vigour, rarely going outside and growing apathetic to mice when in his youth he had laid titanic rats under my bed several times (one time, it turned out to be still alive, until my mother slew it in a heroic fight). For the last years, he had been on medication, and he was starting to have trouble controlling his claws and climbing on furniture. In some moments, there were some concerning moments of frailty, but never for too long. All in all, it seemed to be doing not too badly, certainly not anywhere as bad as to consider euthanasia.
Nineteen years. A legendarily long, and certainly highly fulfilled, life for a cat. But still so short to a human, and a loss so painful no matter the time.
My pharaoh now lies buried under the shadow of the pear tree we planted in memory of my father in a cardboard sarcophagus, shrouded in a dear old yet faded and moth-damaged pillowcase of mine adorned with two curious wild kittens, covered in flower leaves and with catnip as his burial gift, arranged as if he were holding it in his hands as if sniffing it.
May he ascend to the realm of Bastet, the land of endless boxes, of rivers of milk and endless fields of catnip and valerian, where salmons and doves fly into one's maw already flavoured like gyros!
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Continuing the primary election after religious fundie, right-wing wingnut, left-wing moonbat, conspiracy theorist, racist, and sexist of the year, here’s the primary ballot for Quack of the Year:
Edit: The top five are: Tammy Nichols and Judy Boyle (4.71), Jason Klop (4.29), Storm Robinson (4.17), RFK Jr. (3.71), and Joe Salant (3.62)
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Guo Wengui - https://fstdt.com/3838CV892$5T5 - “A fugitive Chinese billionaire wants to auction sperm and eggs from unvaccinated donors on the right-wing social media platform Gettr.”
Jason Klop - https://fstdt.com/QWYSGYYH4_XKJ - "A Fraser Valley naturopath who charged families thousands of dollars to give their autistic children pills and enemas made from human feces has agreed to give up his licence"
Matt Walsh - https://fstdt.com/MV5GP_H52RMT7 - "The facts say that the entire medical basis for anti-depressants is a thoroughly debunked myth and millions of people were drugged based on that myth"
Andrew Anglin - https://fstdt.com/JQSCRBB3LSMCF - "alcoholism is a valid and perfectly healthy lifestyle decision"
RFK Jr. - https://fstdt.com/SZMPH8WCXN6SH - “COVID-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and Black people. The people that are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese”
Idaho State Senator Tammy Nichols and State Representative Judy Boyle - https://fstdt.com/YN3LQZXWX3DHK - "If two Idaho state lawmakers get their way, it would become a criminal misdemeanor to administer a Covid-19 mRNA vaccine in Idaho"
Christie Wright - https://fstdt.com/H6GNQ$FV4Y8K9 - "Remember, folks: with the rise of child psychologists we've seen the rise of medicated children, child anxiety, self harm, and suicide"
Joe Salant - https://fstdt.com/KJS4R9Y5VH7$K - "An evangelical pastor who briefly shot to fame in 2015 for recording a rap song in support of Sen. Ted Cruz is now selling industrial-strength bleach tablets to parents and has admitted that many of his customers are using the product to treat autism in their children"
Trump Supporters - https://fstdt.com/HKKWN2PT.BD.2 - "These are some anti-vaxxers feelings about Trump taking credit for saving lives with vaccines"
Storm Robinson - https://fstdt.com/LSB5WW36ZWQR4 - "Asthma is the ADHD of Inflammatory diseases. You don’t need an inhaler, Becky, you need to go for a walk"
Edit: The top five were: Heartless with 4.80 points, lesbian-king-kai with 4.57, AsiaCel with 4.40, Andrew Anglin (1) with 4.33, and Sameera Khan and unnamed Taliban women with 4.17 points
Continuing the primary election after religious fundie, right-wing wingnut, left-wing moonbat, conspiracy theorist, and racist of the year, here’s the primary ballot for Sexist of the Year:
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various commenters (1) - https://fstdt.com/7T2LK_.$JK243 - “[Being kind to women] means being unkind to men, rapists and in the very rare minority and some unfortunate souls with CAIS“
Sameera Khan and unnamed Taliban women - https://fstdt.com/PRVRS$VVVM_F7 - [Taliban members] say westerners need Andrew Tate because we are oppressed by feminists
Jonathan Shelley - https://fstdt.com/TGZ55PXD5WPVK - Not asking his wife if she wants kids or not...
OmegaKV - https://fstdt.com/49.S9N6DYZ.$B - "If I were ever to find myself in the position of an 80 year old man being wed to a 15 year old girl, I would absolutely go through with the wedding, despite the girl's unwillingness."
ChattyGremlin - https://fstdt.com/QGG87CH6MVGH9 - "In my silly utopia-dream, all men are castrated at birth!"
Abby Libby - https://fstdt.com/V7N_BJLJLV.K5 - The female misogynist earns the "leopards eating faces award" for getting mad when the wingnut men turn against women in general.
Dr. Abby Johnson - https://fstdt.com/ZLSX.TW2.3WK7 - "Don’t want to be a mother? Great. Don’t have sex."
Tetsujinmustdie - https://fstdt.com/5HJXH65RKMCF - "[STEM] jobs typically operate with logic and women don't really like logic."
AsiaCel - https://fstdt.com/C$BSFXQLYPG7H - "To add to the [Nazbol] mix, we should also throw in Marxism-rodgerism (sexual communism) of one man-one woman as the best as we can do."
lesbian-king-kai - https://fstdt.com/KGSG8LWQTN898 - Wants to murder all the homeless males.
Heartless - https://fstdt.com/D$V3D8YVLLDW8 - Mocking the appearance of a rape-and-murder victim.
Nick Fuentes - https://fstdt.com/XB$NVWZ72K_98 - "A lot of women want to be raped." ... Not funny, or even angering. Just sad and dumb ...
Andrew Anglin (1) - https://fstdt.com/$BXWF5C_89BW3 - "Women – at least when they are conscious and capable of mobility and speech – create far too many problems for society to sustain their presence long-term."
Prussian Society of America (1) - https://fstdt.com/CKW_5T3LPK8B9 - "DO NOT RESPECT WOMEN"
Prussian Society of America (2) - https://fstdt.com/YMNN.F5BDJWRH - "The Best way to treat Women is to not allow things to escalate with them, but to immediately attack by shock and surprise..."
Andrew Anglin (2) - https://fstdt.com/NW5W5DZ4WQYH - "The Taliban is a good model for healthy masculinity that Western men should emulate"
Edit: The top five were: Joseph Czuba with 4.67 points, Unnamed Daghestani rioters with 4.50, Mahmoud Abbas with 4.50, various commenters (3) with 4.43, and Florida State Board of Education with 4.25. The tie-breaker for 4.25 was the number of votes.
Continuing the primary election after religious fundie, right-wing wingnut, left-wing moonbat, and conspiracy theorist of the year, here’s the primary ballot for Racist of the Year:
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@Forever_Hitler_1488 - https://fstdt.com/2H7P5HTFLSGYG - a neopagan that wants to start a race war
Nick Fuentes - https://fstdt.com/85NS3.JLN4_MC - “What if we had Chinese soldiers on every corner [of New York City] and if Black person started spazzing out, they took a sword out and cut his hands off … and then they cut his head off.”
@Nature_and_Race - https://fstdt.com/6J4QHHRFG.BD (https://fstdt.com/?q=title=%40Nature_and_Race) - a very prolific "national socialist" that thinks racism is the natural order
Unnamed Daghestani rioters - https://fstdt.com/CSMB2KFZVMHZ3 - a bunch of Russian Muslims that stormed an airport looking for Jews to attack
Donald Trump - https://fstdt.com/M_7P_LZRL57SG - a Make The Great Wall Of America campaign ad
Itzik Zarka - https://fstdt.com/YYKK$L6NMTZV8 - "I wish another six million would burn" because some of them disagree with his judicial overhaul
Andrew Edwards - https://fstdt.com/XRJ$XSDWR$5JB - a white guy that wants to bring slavery back
Oved Hugi - https://fstdt.com/T._4QH9MKGZDK - he thinks Hitler was right to kill Ashkenazi; Mr. Hugi is a Sephardi Jew, you see, and that's totally different
Joseph Czuba - https://fstdt.com/HYFQF$DG4BQ89 - Czuba stabbed his neighbors because the radio told him Palestinians were bad
Cynthia McKinney - https://fstdt.com/NQKT8Z9HN83F4 - blames the Jews for the war between Russia and the Ukraine
JBSLAYER - https://fstdt.com/GSDHC8F5$SRN7 - thinks Hitler was on a godly mission
Southern ANglo - https://fstdt.com/KHR34P5GM2V55 - justifying the genocide of the Native Americans (insistently calling them "Indians," for no good reason AFAICT)
Roseanne Barr - https://fstdt.com/2H2M4RM89WXR6 - a Holocaust denier; you know, the kind that actively wishes it was real
Arizona - https://fstdt.com/YFQQS27$GLVNH - their racism is confirmed because these jewelry store robbers happen to be black
ryujinomega092095 - https://fstdt.com/C5PC$SG9_N7G - a sycophant that thinks Japan's too good to apologize for the WWII stuff
Mahmoud Abbas - https://fstdt.com/MWPK9G8.CZ8YG - "usury, money, and so on and so on" mean the Holocaust either didn't happen or was justified
Daily Salinas - https://fstdt.com/3X_P539B98_44 - a teacher re-posted a summary of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion on her Facebook page; later claims to have not even read it
Florida State Board of Education - https://fstdt.com/QJN.HQF7$7FKG - the new Florida state board of education says that some Black people benefited from being enslaved
Ambrose Cobb - https://fstdt.com/NQ3H$26YK2V84 - "Southern Nationalists" try to answer the conundrum: if we overthrow the yankees, what's gonna stop the blacks from overthrowing dixie the same way?
various commenters - https://fstdt.com/HXDYJ_W_RQ4W9 - trying to use meditation woo to make the country unsafe for non-whites
various commenters - https://fstdt.com/2CHYN75V8R529 - wants interracial sex to be seen as betraying your race
various commenters - https://fstdt.com/YX$8NLT9JZHMF - "Universal suffrage is enslavement of white men. Anyone supporting it supports our enslavement"
various commenters - https://fstdt.com/K4VF_7567JP.J - wants to kill brown people who so much as touch their kids, and is upset that if it was caught on video they probably would be punished for that
Just posting this to wish my fellow LGBTQ FSTDTers and allies a happy Pride month!
Edit: The top five were: Georgia GOP Chair Kandiss Taylor with 4.14 points, Tuckler Carlson with 4.00, Mike Stone with 4.00, various commenters (1) with 3.83, and Vladimir Putin with 3.83.
Continuing the primary election after religious fundie, right-wing wingnut, and left-wing moonbat of the year, here’s the primary ballot for Conspiracy Theorist of the Year:
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Jerry Derecha - https://fstdt.com/CCLYTRRK_7LFG - he thinks volanoes aren't real
various commenters (1) - https://fstdt.com/JP.8MW98VB6_G - they think everything is a false flag, except the one where Germany attacked their own radio station and blamed it on Poland; that's a false false flag
Vladimir Putin - https://fstdt.com/HW7_BWSFDP265 - he claims that modern Germany is an American puppet state
Tommy Truthful - https://fstdt.com/.RVJXM_P38Z.F - he uses numerology to try and figure out which celebrities are immortal and how they do it
Tuckler Carlson - https://fstdt.com/Z6JGY2JLLGQX4 - he thinks nicotine is a mind-expanding drug that They don't want you to use
Georgia GOP Chair Kandiss Taylor - https://fstdt.com/CDL.ZZKK8.0K - she's a flag eather and wants Big Globe to stop their roundness propaganda
Mike Stone - https://fstdt.com/_.Y886V_LLL.2 - he claims Hamas, Al Queda, and ISIS are all secretly run by Israel
Glenn Beck - https://fstdt.com/T47$YYGXQ9WC6 - he, and some of his followers, thought the EAS test was going to activate the COVID nanoparticles and turn everyone into zombies
Steve's Fairy Tales - https://fstdt.com/Q$MD5XDDH4YCG - he thinks Nagasaki was the target of a War on Christians
Alex Jones - https://fstdt.com/H9XCZ_S5TKYTD - he thinks the COVID lockdowns and vaccines killed 20 million people and that wants Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, and others ought to be publicly hanged
Wang Wenbin - https://fstdt.com/4SZ46$4P38GTK - when the United State government accuses the Chinese government of collecting genetic information against its political enemies, he says "no u"
I can feel my DNA changing. How are my other FSTDTers afflicted by the eclipse doing?
Edit: The top five were: Kim Jong Un with 4.60 points, Karim Ibn Rashid (1) with 4.33 points, Haz Al-Din 🇷🇺 with 4.12 points, motherLover with 4.00 points, and Front for the Defense of the People’s Struggles of Ecuador with 3.83 points.
Continuing the primary election after religious fundie and right-wing wingnut of the year, here’s the ballot for Moonbat of the Year:
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motherLover - https://fstdt.com/VVV6BM_P4_K89 - they’re calling for gassing teh joos, and they’re doing other anti-semetic stuff, and they might become violent, but they’re totally not anti-semites guise
Kim Jong Un - https://fstdt.com/W.Z$9HY3HM.$K - Best Korea embracing child labour and death-by-overworking to fight against bourgeois decadence!
Front for the Defense of the People’s Struggles of Ecuador - https://fstdt.com/5J9RRBCKC763D - hero-worshiping eulogy for a wannabe Stalin
Robert F Kennedy jr - https://fstdt.com/ZC3Z33.YKB$69 - he thinks vaccines and chemicals cause transness
Karim Ibn Rashid (1) - https://fstdt.com/6L4GRSYNLVP9H - sexual symbolism seen in political icons, with Marxism-Leninism as the “ONLY heterosexual ideology.”
Karim Ibn Rashid (2) - https://fstdt.com/RBS.B$NK.02VH - Islamic Communist Theocracy propaganda
Milton8 - https://fstdt.com/T5.TCNN67QDXD - when Hamas commits atrocities, it’s Israel’s fault
pojexali - https://fstdt.com/FF9.LRZMVVK2J - mass murder apologia
Mustang19 - https://fstdt.com/6NJQLVBQMNSPB - "Capitalism will collapse on September 17th 2026" (put it on your calendar for the Chicken Little Award in two years)
minisoc - https://fstdt.com/CZF49J559LHP6 - censorship apologia
Haz Al-Din 🇷🇺 - https://fstdt.com/.HVCR6$_CQZF4 - rejecting gene theory in the name of “deteritorialization”
Gearóid Ó Colmáin - https://fstdt.com/P4LLDD.V4Q3D - anti-semetic Zionist banking thing with particular points about the 20’s
Edit: The top five were: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump (1), and various commenters from gab with 4.40 points, and Bolsonaro supporters with 4.33 points, and Tyler Russell with 4.00 points.
Continuing the primary election after the choice of religious fundie, here’s the ballot for Wingnut of the Year:
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Andrew Stiles, Washington Free Beacon - https://fstdt.com/TV66C3_X4SJRB - Washington Free Beacon Alternative Style Guide for Reporting on Issues of Controversy (ASGRIC): the 2023 edition of the Wingnut Word Redefinition Project
Mike Stone - https://fstdt.com/FTQ6LTHQL8Z_ - Whining about how difficult it is growing up as a teenage boy in todays world
GodlyPatriot - https://fstdt.com/XG2QWMWZMDF9K - Crowing about former president Trump’s wisdom
Darth_Aurelius - https://fstdt.com/5SD5DSPJM3S_D - An incel that thinks Nazi Germany was awesome
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene - https://fstdt.com/8_4QS9NN9P8_K / https://fstdt.com/FSX8VGY_$Z66H - The congresscritter that gets heckled by the right for not being right enough and fact-checked by the SPLC at the same time.
Donald Trump (1) - https://fstdt.com/X7FCX6HGQNJGB / https://fstdt.com/H4XNRGRPX9NB3 - Confused about the number of World Wars and his opponent in 2016 and proclaiming his intention to be a dictator on his first day in office, all to the backdrop of a sustained incoherent meltdown about his trials
Tyler Russell - https://fstdt.com/K75ZV4WW7$4SH - Got the “At Least He’s Honest” award for wanting a Trump Reich
Feynman and Coulter's Love Child - https://fstdt.com/GWZWGG_JRRQDJ - Thinks that, if someone deserves to be killed, they must be a communist
various commenters from gab - https://fstdt.com/JRYD2.FPNLWV6 - Not being allowed to lynch people is, supposedly, oppression
Donald Trump (2) - https://fstdt.com/7YL3N.87S8R_J - ALL CAPS SCREED ABOUT THE BORDER
V Pas and Gary E Hoff - https://fstdt.com/P7MPDHLBXC$_D - Thinks low gas prices are a worthwhile trade for a dictatorship
transnazi - https://fstdt.com/DBMN95WY4XXN3 - Trans Nazi thinks Hitler was enby
Drew Dorans - https://fstdt.com/RCC46_BL_N32K - Calls OSHA and the USDA fascist
Louisiana State Senator Stewart Cathey Jr. (R-Monroe) and Peter Rykowski - https://fstdt.com/9MPSDZ3J5LQS7 - Introduced a resolution “affirming Louisiana’s right” to determine whether a federal act is constitutional, and to “nullify” it if they think it is
Luis Miguel - https://fstdt.com/T$HL.KH8N.WV3 - Declares secession to be constitutional, even though it’s not in there and “no government ever plants within itself the framework for its own demise”
Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. - https://fstdt.com/7K4.TF6J2Z42J - Fourteenth amendment conspiracy theory about it not being legitimately ratified
Georgian Southern Nationalist - https://fstdt.com/X9W6PH47233Y6 - Wants Georgia to secede from the Union again
Bolsonaro supporters - https://fstdt.com/.RWJ4XQDWSFRD - Mob attacks the capital of Brazil, making unfounded accusations of election fraud and spreading literal shit over the place
Look.
We can’t have twenty-six fundies of the year. We’ve got to filter them down first.
For this first phase, we’ll do a month-long poll of just the religious fundies. The top five will be kept for the final round. Then we’ll move on to the other categories with more than seven entries and do the same. Then, finally, we’ll do a reasonably-sized final round that won’t be eaten alive by ballot fatigue.
Edit: The top five were: Rev. Paul Mackenzie (score=5.0), John Piper (score=4.75), Kathy Schroeder (score=4.75), Timothy, Tina, and Damian (score=4.40), and Mohammad Ismail Zarei (score=4.25)
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Javad Larijani - https://fstdt.com/YNSNGN5$XY$JK - Muslim Iranian conservative politician wants to stone adulterers.
Aram Wedatalla et al - https://fstdt.com/$4G232BTXC7C7 - Muslim student files a complaint when their prof showed a medieval painting depicting Prophet Muhammad.
Sure Foundation Baptist Church - https://fstdt.com/HJ3HNS6HLHPSB - Christian baptist wishes death on an atheist.
Indian Government - https://fstdt.com/BR.W8CLB.G_N4 - India cuts the entry-level education beyond the bare minimum.
Brian Niemeier (1) - https://fstdt.com/WN5BJJXZFPYBK - Mammonist Catholic thinks the Ouija board is real.
Brian Niemeier (2) - https://fstdt.com/KT36DDNDN$6QC - Mammonist Catholic is anti-progressive and thinks modernism is going to end in mass death.
Mike Johnson - https://fstdt.com/Y7Y$6LPM2BNPF - Speaker of the House compares himself to Aaron and Moses.
Wayne Allyn Root - https://fstdt.com/657DHMJ6YLHXK - WAR JAQs off about the Democrats taking orders from Satan himself.
Timothy, Tina, and Damian - https://fstdt.com/27ZMLNLDXR5RB - Fundie adoptive parents have their kids beat each other when they fail to memorize their Bible verses.
M.L. Nowlin - https://fstdt.com/D2R35CX6L9GPC - Twitter user thinks the founders only wanted Christians to have religious freedom.
Kagman - https://fstdt.com/6_W$MCPG2WYGD - Pseudonymous fundie wants to blow up all the Muslims in the name of God.
Eric Hovind - https://fstdt.com/GM2_$GD3C569K - Fundie is explicitly anti-science.
John Piper - https://fstdt.com/ZPL$8DJR5VMLD - Apologist for Biblical genocide, rather than explaining it away, explicitly supports genocide.
Patriarch Kirill - https://fstdt.com/7LN2YZ57ZZ.D8 - Orthodoc leader defrocks a priest for opposing the Russia/Ukraine war.
Pastor Rick Morrow - https://fstdt.com/6HYMHBB8955WH - Pastor thinks autism is caused by demons.
Rev. Greg Locke - https://fstdt.com/JL3K5WY9M72X7 - Reverend hinks people in wheelchairs don't have enough faith to be healed by God.
Rev. Paul Mackenzie - https://fstdt.com/B7Z$F$6N4QWC5 - Bodies of the members of a now-dead starvation cult are found.
u/AnotherRichard827379 - https://fstdt.com/H$W33P_5MZRG - Redditor doesn't believe in human rights.
Ken Ham - https://fstdt.com/5Z$59TJJX$KCD - Fundie points out that atheists and Hitler both believe that children are the future.
Mohammad Ismail Zarei - https://fstdt.com/YST7GVW8KJ3.F - An Iranian government official rewards the American who stabbed Salman Rushdie, the British author of The Satanic Verses.
Charlie Fuqua - https://fstdt.com/H4NRMRFD8K9Q4 - Arkansas legislative candidate endorses death penalty for rebellious children.
Benjamin Netanyahu - https://fstdt.com/MJ5_B8BBMG9NF - Israeli Prime Minister compares Hamas to the Amalekites, who were all killed in Deuteronomy.
The Taliban - https://fstdt.com/LLLPD6P.3T_VJ - Islamic fundies think contraception is a western conspiracy; intimidate and attack anyone who has them.
Abdul Hakim Sharaee - https://fstdt.com/8.C2SP.B5684J - Afghanistan’s hard-line Islamist Taliban rulers have banned all political parties, saying there is "no justification" for them under Shari'a law.
Kathy Schroeder - https://fstdt.com/$5YH6WY3.X368 - Thirty years after Waco siege, a participant still supports self-styled "second coming of Christ" David Koresh.
The Rev. Steven Roland - https://fstdt.com/L6MVM$Y$8ZT.J - "Simply Christian" writer thinks K-ON is evil.
Just wishing a very Merry Christmas and happy holidays to my fellow FSTDTers! Hope you have a good one!
It’s time once again for the Fundie of the Year awards, the part of the year’s end where the fanatics are ranked, compared, and scored for our amusement.
As always, our first step is a nomination round. Leave a comment on this blog post to nominate someone for an award, and second the nomination by starring it. Put in some justification, plus a link. For example, if I wanted to nominate schwa for best sound, I’d write this:
[b]Best Sound: ə[/b]
Very soft-sounding and one of the most common sounds in English. The name is also inherently funny sounding, at least to me.
If you’re having trouble finding stuff, might I suggest the shiny advanced search function? You can search for stuff based on text, fundie name, tag, and date range.
The categories
The following categories will almost certainly be used in the election round. You can nominate other awards that you want, just like you nominate candidates for these awards. If others propose candidates for your award idea, we’ll put it on the ballot.
People:
- Religious #fundie of the year
- Right-wing #wingnut of the year
- Left-wing #moonbat of the year
- #conspiracy theorist of the year
- #ableist of the year
- #racist of the year
- #sexist of the year
- Grifter <#mammon>-worshipper of the year
- Heteronormative Crusader Award for #homophobia, #transphobia, #biphobia, #interphobia, and #kinkshaming
- #forced-birth advocate of the year (be aware that this is a new tag, and older quotes haven’t necessarily gotten it retroactively applied; I recommend searching for “abortion” if you’re having trouble finding one to nominate)
Quotes:
- Vogon Poet Loonerate Award for word poem or song
- Jack Chick Memorial Award for worst piece of art
- Dr. Nick Riviera Award for dumbest piece of quack medicine
- Magnetic Crank Award for quotes with more than three #tags
- One-liner of the Year: two sentences and 280 characters max
- Funniest quote
- Most disturbing quote
Special Awards:
- Chicken Little Award for predictions that didn’t come true. As a special exception, you can nominate quotes from previous years, where the prophesy was supposed to come true by 2023 and didn’t.
Other nominations:
- Website of the year
- Quote submitter of the year
- Commenter of the year: please click the #12345 number to get a link to just the comment
- Troll of the year: a special award for fundies that show up in the comment section
As you have likely already heard, former US First Lady Rosalynn Carter passed away on Sunday. She was a very passionate mental-health and caregiver advocate, and those are both things that are close to my own heart for reasons that hit home for me. I’m posting this to pay my respects to her and ask you to keep the Carter family in your thoughts.
We don’t just want to call it pro-life, because that’s a low-information, politically-positive name.
I’m going to close this poll on October 31.
* The “Please read before commenting” link at the bottom now has the more descriptive name “BBCode instructions”
* Tracking data at the end of Twitter URLs is now automatically stripped off new submissions.
Just posting this to wish my fellow LGBTQ FSTDTers and allies a happy pride month! I know things are rough for us right now, but they will get better. Progress always wins in the end.
This Thursday was Ascension Day, a public holiday in Germany, and my brother was home for the extended weekend. In the evening, he vomited profusely, and afterwards, he was suffering from loud-groaning pain in both the back and the stomach, as well as sweating intensely, so much that my mother drove him to the hospital. We were, of course, extremely worried, but at half past two, it was found to be just a bad lumbago and he was prescribed painkillers.
The next day, my mother drove them to the general practitioner so that he could get sick leave and reclaim the vacation day for the friday. Over the day, his pain was somewhat diminishing, but still great and moanful.
On Saturday, the pain was again a bit better, but he continued to be sweaty, and his eyes painful as he was unable to sleep. He had not eaten in this entire time, so my mother thought he may be hypoglycemic and used my glucometer on him. However, on the contrary, it was too high to measure. She called the ambulance. I had been going for a walk earlier and my mother had not realised that I was back, so I only heard from my room snippets of my mother talking about diabetes and telling my brother not to worry because it is very treatable nowadays, and at some point, the direction of what I overheard and the fact that my mother had gotten an immediate ambulant appointment for diabetes on a Saturday caused me to look what was going on and saw my brother in a gurney - I later learned that he had collapsed. My mother would afterwards drive to the hospital separately.
At the threshold of the hospital, he suffered a metabolic collapse. He was machinally resuscitated, but likely already suffered brain damage. At half past eleven, it was clear that it was extremely unlikely that he could be saved. My mother left me free whether to take a taxi or stay at home - after much agonising and many calls, we agreed that there would be nothing I could do for my brother, my mother or myself, so I stayed at home.
Tonight, at a quarter to two, he expired at only twenty-seven. He had been suffering from pancreatitis that had been going on for quite a while, but did not display the tell-tale labour-like pains. He had also apparently inhaled vomit.
I am thoroughly shaken and grieving, and I feel so alone and worried about my own health and burdened by being the only one left. My mother, of course, is absolutely broken, wailing and screaming in unutterable misery, and for the rest of her life, she will be asking herself if there is something she could have noticed, that she could have done to save him.
My brother was far from an easy person to get along with - untidy even by our standards, a picky eater, loudly arguing with the television, more than neglectful of any chores, seemingly unfazed… it is strange how strongly and how quickly even the things that annoyed us in life can become painful reminders of absence. But deep in his heart, he clearly was a good person, and recently, he had gotten a new job with much better perspectives where he had prospered - tragedy once against striking my family when things look to be going upwards.
The polls for many of the elections are closed, and we’re doing a runoff election to resolve the ties.
Religious fundie of the year
This year, Kerrie and Jason Struhs, and The “Saints” who tried to pray diabetes away are tied with the Assam lynch mob that hanged someone for dating outside the faith.
Both winners seem intent on putting their religion into action, either through ignorance or malice. Next year, maybe the winner will do it to themselves instead of some innocent victim.
Right-wing wingnut of the year
The winner for wingnut of the year, by overwhelmingly popular demand, is former President of the United States Donald Trump.
Because of course it is. He might not actually be the most unhinged wingnut we’ve ever had on here, but he was definitely the most notable, the most powerful man in the world, and yet somehow kept the wingnut persecution complex alive. And he’s also a total gaffe machine; very quotable.
Left-wing moonbat of the year
This year, North Korea officials Ri Il Hwan and Han Chang Sun—of the country and ideology that’s totally not a cult—tied with the Communist Party of Great Britain simping for Dear Leader Putin’s Glorious People’s War.
The dictators in question have not published a statement on whether they’d be interested in having Western tankies supply them with blowjobs.
Conspiracy theorist of the year
The conspiracy theorist of 2022 is Jerry Derecha, the Adrenogate blogger who’s too smart for Q and knows that the “Q Clearance Patriot” is actually a quantum computer run as a psy-op to identify and neutralize all the dissenters.
In a sense, I’m actually relieved to see this. Q probably is being run by some propaganda outfit, and it’s good to know that they haven’t totally mastered their marks. Still a conspiracy theorist that thinks sharing a first letter with Quatzecotal must mean something, which is why the award, but still.
Ableist of the year
The winner is Galit Distel-Atbaryan, the abusive mother.
It was a neurotypical parent of an autistic child last year, too. Narcissistic autism parents are the worst.
Sexist of the year
The unanimous winner, with a score of 5.00, is Imaniceguy, the father-daughter incest apologist.
The incels are making a big deal out of nothing. There’s a reason why this quote has a higher fundieness score than the actual murderers that tied for FOTY; at least they have the excuse of being trained from birth in their toxic culture. The incels made up this idea of ten-year-olds being sex material from scratch (arranged marriages were not usually consummated, because that’s cruel and stupid).
Racist of the year
For racist of the year, it’s a two-way tie between Prussian Society of America (2)—the Nazi fans who Dunning-Kruger their way through biology—and Gregcyber—the Confederacy fan who Dunning-Kruger’s their way through biology.
I know the “Prussian” thing is also COVIDiocy while the Gregcyber thing is anti-interracial-breeding, but still, both are great specimens of pseudo-biology in addition to being hate-filled racist screeds.
Mammonist grifter of the year
The winner is Aleks Svetski, the Bitcoin shill.
Some people would think it’s inappropriate to compare cryptocurrency with racism and murder-by-faith-healing, and on its own I guess it is. But a lot of Bitcoiners aren’t “just” Bitcoin shills; they’d be wingnuts worthy of posting here anyway even if they weren’t trying to get other people to buy their bags.
Heteronormative crusader of the year
The winner is Dalton Clodfelter, the bullying apologist.
Could’ve also been tagged for ableism and bodyshaming, which I guess makes sense. A lot of transphobia is just that with an extra dose of fear mongering.
Magnetic crank of the year
The winner is Cobra, from “The Portal”, a blog that mixes space aliens from another dimension with wingnut talking points about “woke ideology” and global warming.
L. Ron Hubbard wants his shtick back.
Jack Chick memorial award for worst art
The worst artist in 2022 was officially Ileana the Star Traveler. It’s this thing:
Quack of the year
The fake doctor of the year was Irène Grosjean, the pedophilia advocate.
It’s almost like the voters don’t like it when you hurt kids. What is it with that?
One-liner of the year
Anonymous Coward #80402537: “Is a man a homosexual if he has cats? Yes he is.”
Chicken Little Award for failed predictions
The winner is Sherri Tenpenny, who predicted that everybody who got the COVID vaccine would develop AIDS by the end of 2022.
Didn’t happen.
Website of the year
The winner is ovarit.com, a TERF site so prolific, the mods rate-limited it.
As an example, here’s their version of the ”penis as a fucking weapon” quote.
Submitter of the year
The submitter of the year is the very prolific @rabbirealm.
Commenter of the year
The commenter of the year is the consistently on-point @Zinnia.
You should’ve been nominated last year. In any case, you’ve kept up the high quality. Thanks.
Troll of the year
The troll of the year is the sock puppet master who’s obsessed with The Virgin Mary: @foxtrot / @Kingselyda2nd / @R2 / @Sweetcake.
And it’s time to vote on the Fundies of the Year 2022.
As per the new normal, visit the permalink to cast your vote between 1 and 5 stars; the fundie with the highest average score wins. If you have any trouble using the voting system, please contact us by posting a comment or reaching out to the Discord chatroom.
This poll will remain open until April 6. In the event of a tie, the runoff election will run until May 1.
Fixed the Next button on advanced search pages to not drop before/after date filters.
Tweaked the Reply button CSS to use a more consistent icon on different platforms.
Implemented a tighter rate limit on replying to a single discussion thread, to prevent people from making dozens of replies in a row and dominating the conversation.
It’s the 2022 Fundie of the Year awards, that time of year when we’re grateful for the insufferable fanatics in our lives and in the wider world.
As always, our first step is a nomination round. Leave a comment on this blog post to nominate someone for an award, and second the nomination by starring it. Put in some justification in the form of a link. For example, if I wanted to nominate Maltose for best sugar molecule, I’d write this:
[b]Best sugar molecule: maltose[/b]
For best taste and best method of production.
If you’re having trouble finding stuff, might I suggest the shiny advanced search function? You can search for stuff based on text, fundie name, tag, and date range.
The categories
The following categories will almost certainly be used in the election round. You can nominate other awards that you want, just like you nominate candidates for these awards. If others propose candidates for your award idea, we’ll put it on the ballot.
People:
- Religious #fundie of the year
- Right-wing #wingnut of the year
- Left-wing #moonbat of the year
- #conspiracy theorist of the year
- #ableist of the year
- #racist of the year
- #sexist of the year
- Grifter <#mammon>-worshipper of the year
- Heteronormative Crusader Award for #homophobia, #transphobia, #biphobia, #interphobia, and #kinkshaming
Quotes:
- Jack Chick Memorial Award for worst piece of art
- Dr. Nick Riviera Award for dumbest piece of quack medicine
- Magnetic Crank Award for quotes with more than three #tags
- One-liner of the Year: two sentences and 280 characters max
- Funniest quote
- Most disturbing quote
Special Awards:
- Chicken Little Award for predictions that didn’t come true. As a special exception, you can nominate quotes from previous years, where the prophesy was supposed to come true by 2022 and didn’t.
Other nominations:
- Website of the year
- Quote submitter of the year
- Commenter of the year: please click the #12345 number to get a link to just the comment
- Troll of the year: a special award for fundies that show up in the comment section
Add new “since” filter to the Top posts page. That way, it actually changes sometimes.
Add a way to have a user’s posts all be moderated, while their comments go straight through.
Given that I’ve been a regular here for many years, and that I intend to make a certain change, I thought it would be good to explain things in a blog post here.
As several of the FSTDT regulars have already known, I'm transgender — a trans woman. I had decided to hold off telling the rest of the community until I came out to my parents… which I finally did just a couple days ago.
They took it pretty well, and are accepting. I was afraid of how things might go, but fortunately, my fears were misplaced.
There are still some friends I've not yet come out to whom I plan on telling, and then — some time later — it'll be time to get things going regarding the path to the more physical and legal aspects of transition. This is Croatia, so that will be difficult, and there's no guarantee I'll be able to make it past the gatekeeping. But I certainly plan on doing what I can.
You might also note that my nickname here turned out to be very ironic 😄
Yes, I'll change it, and I had thought about what the new one might be. Since I've been here for a long time, I'll try to keep some name recognition. Somebody once suggested replacing 'Vman' with 'Voman', but the cringe there is through the roof :P
I'll go with 'Vgal', at least for now. It's similar to my erstwhile nickname, and I don't hate it :)
So yeah, that's another one added to the already absurd number of trans women around here <3
This August, the mod team voted to require an account for submitting quotes. This way, anonymous submitters can be contacted via private messages, which makes things a lot simpler.
If you still don’t want your name attached to your quote, there’s a checkmark at the end of the submission form to hide it. The mod team will still be able to see your username, so we can contact you if something’s wrong with the quote, but it won’t show up for people who don’t have mod privileges.
Redesigned user profile comments page with a few improvements:
* There is now a way to reach the specific comment instead of just the whole page. Click the comment number, or the permalink button in the menu.
* The buttons from the post page are now shown there, too.
- Slightly increased the font size of UI elements. Post text is still about the same as before.
- Fixed a stupid bug in the “Reply” function where unnecessary <brackets> surround usernames.
- Fixed a stupid bug in domain nav causing the Top link to break.
The other mods and I have come to the consensus that the pedo tag needed to be deleted. Most of the submissions didn’t really fit what we saw as fundie. Just because something is bad, doesn’t mean it’s a form of bigotry, fanaticism, or ignorance, so how can you say it’s fundie? And while there were a few hilariously bad pedo apologetic arguments, they really belonged in /r/BadWomensAnatomy.
The other tag we’re considering removing is #psycho. We haven’t done it yet, because it’s useful for filtering, but we are going to ask a favor: don’t submit something with just that tag. Fundieism isn’t just being evil and sick: it’s fanaticism and willful ignorance, and good submissions to this site are blatant about it.
The results of the new-tag poll are in, and #senpai_noticed_us overwhelmingly won! It’s now a tag available for use on submissions that mention FSTDT. Thanks to everyone who voted!
The other mods and I have come to a consensus that we need a tag for quotes that mention or are about FSTDT itself. We don’t know what to call it, though, but we have a few ideas. You can help us choose by voting on which tag names you like the most/least for this! Also feel free to comment with your own ideas for the name ❤️
Someone pointed out that I haven’t been as consistent as I should be with publishing patch notes. Sorry about that. It ends now.
I just pushed a new version of the FSTDT software. Here’s what changed in the last :
- The HTML templates have been converted from handlebars to askama, and refactored to use separate struct definitions for each page. If you aren’t technically inclined, just read it as “faster and easier to maintain.”
- The “Edit” button on comments has been pulled out of the More menu, so it is instead shown directly alongside the “Reply” button. This change only affects large screens; smartphone-sized screens will still put the Edit button in the menu, but only show it on top.
- When showing a score on a poll results page (that’s after a poll is closed), it will show only two decimal points, instead of showing the whole 64 bits of precision that are used while calculating it.
- The “Documentation” link at the bottom of the page has been renamed “Please read before commenting,” to make it easier to find.
- On the advanced search page, you can now exclude tags. Just start it with a minus sign.
All things must eventually come to an end, and that includes the cut-off date for these polls: the FOTY 2021 run-off, and the proposal for adding two new phobia tags.
As the two results with the highest average scores, the public sentiment is clear: #biphobia and #interphobia tags have now been added.
Naveen won the religious fundie award, David Barton won the wingnut award, Death to Western Imperialism won the moonbat award, Generation Zed won the WTF award, the unnamed Italian Anti-vaxxer won the quack medicine award, and the literal shit-flinging domestic terrorists won the Jan 6 insurrectionist award.
The polls for many of the elections are closed, and we’re doing a runoff election to resolve the two-way ties.
Religious #fundie of the year
This year, Naveen and the Purnea mob are tied for first. Neither of them are really the darndest things that fundies say, as they are things that fundies do.
I kinda want to laugh at the guy who sacrifices himself to God as an offering for giving him a job. Makes you wonder how he planned to work it.
But the other group, the one with the witch hunt, is a lot less funny. By the way, there are specific laws against this, with a conviction rate around 2.4%. Freaking caste systems.
#wingnut of the year
For right-wingers, this time there’s a tie between David Barton, the one that claims citizens should be allowed to own nukes, and Slavery Advocate, the slavery advocate.
There’s something deeply silly about someone who’s so caught up in their ideology that they completely accept the idea of giving wealthy people private ownership of weapons that could level a city. This is the kind of thing that lead to FSTDT getting political in the first place: is there really a difference between this guy, compared to the fundamentalist that condemns babies to hell and plans to kill everyone and let God sort them out? In what way has David Barton not made the invisible hand of the free market his god?
The Slavery Advocate is probably just a teenage edgelord that thinks all the attention is funny. And they’re not even good at it, claiming to be the only pro-slavery website on the Internet when they clearly aren’t.
#moonbat of the year
For left-wingers, there’s a two-way tie for first between maseisbigsexy, the one that thinks Joseph Stalin was an objectively better human being than Barack Obama, and Death to Western Imperialism, the historical revisionist that denies the Jewish Holocaust and the Uygur genocide.
Because nothing says anti-imperialist better than carrying water for Communist empires.
#conspiracy theorist of the year
We actually have a single winner for conspiracy theorist! Jerry Derecha’s first quote, the one about the COVID vaccine containing the rabies virus. Of course, you can trust Jerry Derecha when it comes to vaccines, since he’s the same guy that thinks drinking adrenalized blood is a good way to get high. It’s not. It’s a plot point from a movie.
Putting rabies in the COVID vaccine makes about as much sense. There’s no real motive for doing it on purpose, and since the COVID vaccines are 3D printed, it’s unlikely to happen by accident.
#racist of the year
The “winner” for racist of the year is Israel_is_Apartheid_, the one that wants us to hear both sides about Nazi Germany, specifically claiming that you can’t hear any version of history except the “Jewish-approved one.” This is, of course, false. If you want to hear Hitler’s side of the story, archive.org has a copy of “Mein Kampf” translated to English.
As I said on the post itself, it doesn’t make sense to assume that, just because Israel’s creation was a human rights violation, it should be assumed that the Holocaust never happened. After all, why should the Palestinians have to pay for Germany’s crimes?
#sexist of the year
The sexist of the year is Adil Khan, the pedophile.
He’s raped children, and claimed it wasn’t a big deal.
#transphobia of the year
The award for heteronormative crusader goes to Blackpillapologist, the one that says Hitler was probably “a tranny.”
Their reasons for saying this is nonsense, the whole “question” is irrelevant anyway, and the whole thing is filled with the usual “incel” gibberish rhetoric.
#ableist of the year
Ableist of the year, by .7 points, is AspieMom.
Because of course it is. It’s so short, pithy, and any parent who turns their back on their child definitely deserves .7 asshole points just for that.
#mammon of the year
This year’s award for being a con artist goes to Tim Tony Stark Rifat’s first quote, the one selling a Soul Augmentation Service.
If you want to know what happens if you don’t buy this, I suggest watching the documentary ”Bart Sells his Soul”.
#crackpot of the year
This year’s award for being an ignoramus goes to Unveiling Them, the one who literally claimed that Jesus spoke Elizabethian English.
You know, that thing KJV-onlyists said was a strawman version of their beliefs? This guy actually believes that, and makes arguments for why it’s true. The arguments are obvious nuttery to our resident linguists, but still.
#psycho of the year
This year’s award for being evil goes to Sweaty-Lawfulness-46, the redditor that enjoys watching people cry over dead children.
It’s kinda amazing that they actually managed to make the grade without even engaging in actual bigotry. It’s really just being an ass. But at least the story has a somewhat-happy ending: their Reddit account is suspended.
Funniest quote
The officially funniest quote for this year is H2ElectricBoogaloo’s post. The one about birthing baby Jesus by ejaculating on New Year’s midnight.
WTF award
The WTF award is another two way tie, and, as such, will have a runoff vote below. On the one side, it’s Generation Zed, the guide to harvesting alien livers, and it’s Jerry Derecha’s fourth quote on the other, claiming that 9/11 was a ritual to stop time.
For the rest of these quotes, I’ve tried to add some other comment to truly capture what makes them profound and worthy of an award, but this just makes me speechless. Alien livers? A ritual to stop time?
One-liner of the year
The one-liner of the year award goes to hitman, who thinks Amazon Chasers are gay.
In retrospect, it’s weird that hitman wasn’t a candidate for “heteronormative crusader.” They probably would’ve been competitive in that category, since that’s clearly a heteronormative quote.
Magnetic Crank award
The magnetic crank award for tag intersections, by a razor-thin margin, goes to Dominic Valanmahal.
This guy is definitely an religious fundie at heart, tying the whole thing together by blaming everything on violations of Gawd’s Way. It’s a reminder of why religious fundieism is a problem: it closes your mind to… everything. This guy’s view of godliness is only big enough for the neurotypical, the prudish, and anyone who’s unlucky enough to need medicine to function.
Jack T. Chick Memorial Award for Worst Artist
This year’s award for bad taste goes to Lena Ruseva.
I would want to give her the “Golden Calf” award, too, but we already gave that one out to someone more deserving.
Dr. Nick Riviera Award for Dumbest Quack Medicine
We have a three-way tie between aficiomaquinas (the starving cancer one), the unnamed Italian Anti-vaxxer (the one who works so hard to avoid getting his shots), and Chris Penelope (the one with the holy spirit fart).
Honestly, in spite of the small number of candidates, this has been a year with a lot of quack medicine. It’s just that these are the ones that stood out from the crowd. Any one of them would deserve the award, but it’s not much of an award if everyone wins.
Chicken Little Award for Failed Predictions
The award for failing to predict what 2020 would actually be like goes to LIBERALITY Comics. By a good margin, too. They clearly deserved it. As if the United Nations is even close to taking over the world.
Here they are in the Internet archive, claiming to be the “publisher of the first conservative comic book.” They’re not, by the way. Not by a long shot.
January 6 Insurrectionist Award
The best insurrection quote, according to our voters, are a two-way tie between the Oregon Republican Party and the literal shit-flinging domestic terrorists.
Fundies doo the darndest things.
Kinslayer of the Year
The award for killing people close to you goes to Shobha Mote, Sanjay Mote, the ones who beheaded their sister.
They didn’t even just kill her. They bragged to the police about it?!
Commenter of the Year
Congratulations, @Spacewyrm. You won!
Comment of the Year
Individual comment of the year goes to @kuyohashi #88302.
Taking down a stormfronter concept, especially one as stupid as a racist dating site, deserves it. It’s kinda shooting fish in a barrel, but at least it’s thorough.
Website of the Year
This award goes to Voyages of Light. The “channeling” woo blog. Want to pretend to be Chief Eagle Feather? Aliens? John F. Kennedy?
I’m not sure how many of their readers actually fall for it, but if they really think it can be done, there’s plenty of people who’ll offer millions of dollars to anyone who can channel a pre-agreed-upon password across the void.
Dear FSTDT members, we have something to discuss!
We've been having requests to add tags for biphobia, and if I recall correctly, also intersex phobia (interphobia) at some point. What do you think should be done about it?
There are several possibilities, and they have their positive and negative sides.
The original requests, if implemented, would result in new tags being made to cover particular sorts of bigotries and prejudices that might not align neatly with the existing tags (#homophobia and #transphobia).
Obviously, there’s the aforementioned #biphobia and #interphobia to add, but further tags might be called for if need be (like #enbyphobia for bigotry against non-binary people).
Now, on the plus side, this would be a pretty precise way of labeling these bigotries; it would also be more inclusive and prevent a message (even if unintentional) that we don’t care about the groups of people affected by them.
It’s not just that these bigotries exist; it’s also that bisexual, intersex etc. erasure does as well. That means that these groups of people often get overlooked in the discussions about the LGBTQ+ community and the problems its members face. And when such a lack of visibility and care by others are a daily reality for you, seeing it apparently happen on a site and community that matter to you can be hurtful and tiring.
On the other hand, one frequent submitter noted that they’re concerned about tag bloat, that is, an excessive and rising number of tags. Indeed, if you look at the tags we already have, there are quite a lot (22 as of this moment), and if there are too many, it can make submitting quotes more difficult, especially for our most prolific submitters. You might also remember that the previous version of our site had just three categories for years (‘fundie’, ‘conspiracy’ and ‘racist’), which got extended to four when ‘sexist’ was added.
There’s also the fact that there have thus far only been a few posts that would specifically qualify for the new proposed tags.
A possible alterative solution, one which the mod team is currently most in favor of (but let us know if you disagree, nevertheless!) is to unite all these tags (the two existing ones, as well as any proposed ones) into a single #queerphobia tag (another name is possible, for instance #heteronormative).
The good aspects of this choice would be that it prevents tag bloat, and that it would sidestep the need to introduce new tags for different strains of queerphobia in the future (as they’d be included in the new super-tag by default).
The problem is that, while neat and simple, that solution would kind of go against the spirit of the requests that prompted this discussion in the first place. What was requested was more recognition and precision, not less.
Also, while many of the fundies we quote aren’t very discerning in their general bigotry against LGBTQ+ people, there are those who only target specific subsections of it and not others — examples of that include many TERFs, or those members of the LGBTQ+ community who target other groups within that umbrella (e.g. there are gay & lesbian transphobes and biphobes, or enbyphobic transgender people). A single #queerphobia tag seems somewhat inadequate to cover that sort of nuance.
In essence, it seems that here we have a conflict between different needs and aims: on the one hand, user friendliness and simplicity — but on the other hand, better precision and the recognition of the identities and struggles that people, some of whom are our members, hold dear and are affected by. Thus, we decided that this is not something the moderators alone should decide on, but something that concerns the whole community, and that everyone should have a voice on.
Please cast your votes in the poll, and feel free to discuss the options (and propose new ones if you think they’d be better). Both the poll and your responses in the comment section will be considered when the final decision on the solution is to be made.
And, it’s that time again! Not just for another set of broken New Year’s Resolutions, but also for voting on the Fundies of the Year 2021.
First of all, a notable farewell to Cambria Will Not Yield, Wordpress blogger, COVID-19 denialist, Ebola denialist, anti-democracy pro-theocracy Trumpist, white supremacist, and overall magnetic crank. If you are right about heaven and hell, then hopefully I go to hell, because I would not like the company in heaven.
Bennett Lee Ross, as the only contender, wins the award of Poet Loonerate by default. Roosh V. wins the award for dumbest religious conversion, @Dialgatime321 wins troll of the year, and @rabbirealm wins submitter of the year, for the same reason.
As part of the new voting system, you can now cast your ballot by point and click.
Fundie
Gerald McDonald: trilogy of creationist fail (1, 2, 3)
Bong Bacolot: man contrasts repentant rapist going to heaven, unforgiving victim going to hell
Geoffrey Grider: Democrats put Congress under curse
Purnea mob: women beaten, forced to eat human waste
Mark Samsel: US Representative (R-KS) beats up student, claims student angered God
joy pullmann: fake journalist claims For Christians, Dying From COVID (Or Anything Else) Is A Good Thing
Naveen: Tamil Nadu man kills self as an offering to God for getting a job
David J Stewart: Prolific fundie says the Bible commands believers be depressed
Karlyn Borysenko: PragerU presenter thinks Jewish people chose to be killed in the Holocaust
Philip Daniel Mills: Man goes to prison after setting house on fire for Jesus
Wingnut
Unknown Trumpist: manatee found, ‘TRUMP’ carved into skin
Tim Boyd: Texas Mayor says, “the strong will survive and the weak will parish [sic]”
Marjorie Taylor Greene: Georgia Rep. files articles of impeachment against President Biden, first day
Dustin Koellhoffer AKA dustyk103: claims sex offender trial COVID cover up
Benjamin Netanyahu: Prime Minister claims Israel election fraud
Jason Riddle: 1/6 rioter enters the wrong election
Prussian Society of America: Nazis claim to own your mind, body, soul
chair0147: Redditor claims the poor don’t matter
Roosh V: PUA adopts Christianity
Lin Wood: Woman accuses Republican Rep. of communism
Gina Peddy: School administrator wants to teach “both sides” of the Holocaust
David Barton: Man claims citizens should be allowed to own nukes
Kurt Schlichter: Man calls for Strong Populist who says ‘no’ to everyone
Slavery Advocate: Website falsely claims to be ‘the only pro-slavery website on the internet’
Moonman1488: Incel claims totalitarianism is based
Liberty Hangout (1): Twitter user calls for new constitution with religious test
Višnja Pavelić: dictator’s daughter still an unrepentant ultra-nationalist who expressed a genocidal hatred of the Serbs
Liberty Hangout (2): Twitter user places allegiance to Donald Trump over democracy and the Constitution
CPAC attendees: group elects golden statue to Donald Trump
Moonbat
Red Youth: Tankie praises Joseph Stalin
The Pink Pill (1): Femcel imagines a world without scrotes
The Pink Pill (2): Femcel claims prison rape is karma
The Pink Pill (3): Femcel bashes gay men, explains why
maseisbigsexy: Twitter user sees Stalin as objectively better human being than Obama
Paektusan1948: Redditor sees North Korea as democratic country
Death to Western Imperialism: Twitter user denies Uygur genocide, Jewish holocaust
EricNeoMatrix: Atheist advocates televised execution of antivaxxers
Conspiracy theorist
Erena Velasquez: Woman pretends to be the Wraith Civilization, from the Pegasus Galaxy
Jerry Derecha (1): Adrenogate man thinks COVID vaccine contains rabies virus
Jerry Derecha (2): Adrenogate man rejects Qanon, claims Q is part of conspiracy
Jerry Derecha (3): Adrenogate man claims every Hollywood star except E. Page is transgender
Candace Owens (1): Conservative talk show host predicts downfall of governments around the world
Candace Owens (2): Conservative talk show host sees COVID lockdowns as start of New World Order
Candace Owens (3): Conservative talk show host worries about vaccine mandates for infants
Racist
Israel_is_Apartheid_: Anti-zionist wants us to hear “both sides” of Nazi Germany
Father Tadeusz Guz and Catholic University of Lublin internal ethics panel: A Polish lecturer who said that Jews had practiced “ritual murders” will not be reprimanded because his claims are the subject of “scientific discourse,” the university that employs him said.
Ben Garrison (1): Cartoonist doesn’t remember police shootings at BLM protests
Ben Garrison (2): Cartoonist depicts George Floyd dying with giant syringe kneeling on his neck rather than Derek Chauvin
robbinsville: Stormfronter supports hit-and-run perpetrator
Martha Huckabay: President of the Women’s Republican Club of New Orleans wants us to hear “both sides” of the trans-Atlantic slave trade
Sexist
Ahmad: Man claims woman is commodity
Various Incels: incels slut-shame gang rape victim
Various Incels (2): incels claim you can rape in self-defense
Dr. Dicklet et al.: incels say ideal woman age 4-12
Total Imbecile: incel advise incest
Snake Baker: man claims asking consent is “vibe killer”
Mayday: TERF assigns gender binary to intersex people
stolenrange: Redditor sees virgins as creeps who “are just allowed to walk the streets freely”
Greg Abbot: Governor signs “heartbeat bill”
Bernd: Incel thinks women need raped
Adil Khan: Gangster thinks raping 13-year-old girl not “that big a crime”
Heteronormative
Sven-Olof_Lindholm: debate.org contributors argue for death penalty of gay, trans people
Blackpillapologist: incel claims Adolf Hitler transgender
Various TERFs: TERFs claim end goal of queer theory “legalization of pedophilia”
Mariam Al-Sohel: Doctor claims gay people infected with “anal worm that feeds on semen”
Lily Cade: Woman says ‘Trans women are vile, weak, disgusting, whiny, fake-victim masturbators who should be ashamed of themselves.’
Unnamed Asshole: Australian man attacks his family because he fears his six-year-old son sitting on another boy’s lap makes him a homosexual.
Ableist
AspieMom: Mother says autism worse than cancer
Dominic Valanmahal: Man blames autism on adultery, masturbation, homosexuality, porn
distantmajin: debate.org contributors want to Euthanize the homeless and mentally ill
Mammonist
Sarah A. Hoyt: Author worries conservative boycott of Amazon may impact conservative book sales
Steve McKay: BTC System man promises guaranteed returns on Bitcoin
Brian Niemeier: Man sells bad robotech fanfic to conservatives
Tim Tony Stark Rifat (1): Man sells Soul Augmentation Service $10000
Crackpot
Unveiling Them: Blogger says Jesus of Nazareth spoke English
David hyphen Wynn full colon Miller: Man uses magick punctuation
Eric Dubay: Man claims Moon a glowing disc
Psychotic Evil
Sweaty-Lawfulness-46: Redditor enjoys people crying over dead children
Dave Grossman: Cop enjoys sex after killing
Ray Comfort: Banana Man claims babies harbor rebellion, evil
applewood: Amazon reviewer says witch hunts beneficial eugenics
Various contributors: debate.org contributors argue rape should be legal
Lauren Boebert: US Representative says Department of Education should be abolished
Emil Kirkegaard: Blogger proposes pedophiles have sex with children while they sleep
Kuriboh: Incel measures a man’s sexual worth by how many women he rapes
Funniest
Tim Tony Stark Rifat (2): Man claims Illuminati are Vampires
H2ElectricBoogaloo: Man claims you give birth to Jesus Christ by ejaculating on New Year
WTF award
Generation Zed: Youtuber gives guide to harvesting alien livers, sacred books
Theophrastus: Blogger claims culinary fusion satanic entry-ism
levitation: TERF asks why anime/hentai turn white people trans
The Best Part About Making Meatballs: Youtuber thinks black people can’t make meatballs
Joshua Feuerstein: COVIDiot thinks pro-vax preachers have no balls
Jerry Derecha (4): Adrenogate man claims 9/11 a ritual to pause time
Jacob Harrison: Man writes fic, “The Tragedy of Bastethotep”
One-liner
“Wanting a strong woman is a sign of homosexuality. Any masculine man wants a submissive woman.”
“There are no pronouns in the bible.”
“How can you go to church and pray when you’re wearing a mask? Do you think God can hear your prayers through a mask?”
“Men who own cats are beta males.”, claims “Superior Intellect”
“When did you realize that you were both a nazi and trans? For me, it was when I realized that I knew more about authentic white Christian femininity than 99.9% of all cis white women today, and I decided to embrace my true self.”
“Q was a scam to lure patriots into complacency. Alex Jones was right all along.”
“Believe it or not, a Christian theocracy would actually be far more libertarian/small-gov than a democracy.”
“If you support democracy, you are by definition not a conservative”
“If you’re a white women and are currently pregnant with a white baby boy.. do us all a favor and take a trip to planned parenthood”
“‘Is it a red flag if she believes in astrology?’ The opposite — it’s more of a red flag if she doesn’t believe in astrology. Means she is probably way too logical and masculine”
“As a vigilante myself (of the masked variety!), I was cheering for him [Rittenhouse] all the way.”
“A repentant rapist may be SAVED, but an unforgiving victim will be damned in hell throughout eternity.”
“I don’t remember Police shooting any Antifa or BLM members during those “peaceful protests” last year I remember police taking a knee…”
“If you're a white women and are currently pregnant with a white baby boy.. do us all a favor and take a trip to planned parenthood”
Magnetic Crank
Human Race Survival Resistance: Blogger claims to have snuff film of Hillary Clinton
John Lash: Man claims Gnostics Christianity developed remote viewing, beliefs about space aliens
Dominic Valanmahal: Man blames autism on adultery, masturbation, homosexuality, porn
Liberty Hangout (3): Twitter user claims Christian theocracy ‘more libertarian/small-gov than a democracy’
Icy-Flamingo-9693: Redditor thinks ‘Charitable giving should be made illegal’
Lily Cade: Woman says ‘Trans women are vile, weak, disgusting, whiny, fake-victim masturbators who should be ashamed of themselves.’
Bill Hick: Man speculates on ways to increase white birthrate
Kate Morgan: Woman says that white male fetuses should be systematically aborted
Keiko Fujimori & Other Wingnuts: Peruvian classists cry election fraud after Pedro Castillo polls well
Candace Owens (4): Conservative talk show host recommends colloidal silver supplements to fight COVID
Jack T. Chick Memorial Award for Worst Artist
Colonel-Knight-Rider: Manchild draws anti-racist virgin, colourblind chad, meme
WAtheAnum: DeviantArt contributor draws anti-pride-month stick figure comic
Lena Ruseva: woman paints Archangel Trump forcing a naked Biden and Harris from the White House
Dr. Nick Riviera Award for Dumbest Quack Medicine
aficiomaquinas: techbro claims cancer can be beaten by starving, bleach
Italian Anti-vaxxer: man who wanted a Covid vaccination certificate without getting the jab turned up for his vaccine with a fake arm
Chris Penelope: pastor alleges he heals people by farting the Holy Spirit on their heads/nostrils
Chicken Little Award for Failed Predictions
ChristExtra (1): Conspiracy theorist predicts Rapture of the Great Multitude in 2021
ChristExtra (2): Conspiracy theorist predicts Rapture of the Great Multitude in 2021
Patrick Scrivener: Man predicts China takes over the world in 2021
TheSavior: Man predicts 90% of the Chinese population dies in 2021
Gracie: Blogger predicts man-on-car marriage in 2021
MissMargo: Conspiracy Theorist predicts former Presidents of the United States arrested in 2021
Anonymous: Channer predicts Hillary Clinton declares herself Empress in 2021
LIBERALITY Comics: Artist predicts Godless Liberals give up control of the United States to the UN in 2021
January 6 Insurrectionist Award
Jason Riddle: 1/6 rioter enters the wrong election
Timothy Hale-Cusanelli: U.S. Army reservist arrested for participating in Capitol riot, known to coworkers a white supremacist, Nazi sympathizer, wore “Hitler mustache” to Naval security job
Robert Keith Packer: Man stormed US Capitol wearing anti-Semitic sweatshirt reading “Camp Auschwitz”
Pro-Trump domestic terrorists: rioters fling shit
Oregon Republican Party: politicians call 1/6 riot a ‘false flag’
gosia tomasz: Pole supports 1/6 rioters, Trump for president
William McCall Calhoun Jr: Attorney spreads violent rhetoric, defends 1/6 rioters
DeAnna Lorraine: 1/6 rioter calls conservatives who did not riot “wussies”
Unnamed sign-bearer at US Capitol protest: rioter holds sign reading: “CHINA IS ASSHOLE”
Kinslayer of the Year
Gideon Boakye: Pastor kills 9-year-old daughter after accusations of witchcraft
Matthew Coleman: Driving instructor murders his children to “save the world,” blames Qanon
Shobha Mote, Sanjay Mote: teenager arrested in western India for beheading 19-year-old sister while mother allegedly held the young woman’s legs
Devid R: German conspiracy theorist kills wife, three daughters, and himself after wife was found with fake vaccination card
Sharmila Begum, Azarudeen and Mohammed Saleem: six-month-old girl drowned to death allegedly as a human sacrifice
Submitter of the Year
@rabbirealm
Commenter of the Year
@Spacewyrm
<@KeithInc.>
Comment of the Year
@Spacewyrm #76692: “And then there's the question of why God would even want to deceive us like that? Why would he even want a young universe to look old? My theory: Our creator is a con artist. This universe is a forgery of a famous universe created by some other god that he tricked some third god into buying. The apparent age was necessary to make it look authentic.”
@kuyohashi #88302: Commenting a Stormfronter pitching a network of racist dating sites to fight miscegenation, kuyohashi spoofs what their Asian site would look like: “Herro, ferrow Asians...”
@Spacewyrm #102300: Spacewyrm on why TERFs are considered conservative.
<@KeithInc.> #73721: KeithInc.’s questioning of how Jesus would turn out if he ejaculated at New Year
Website of the Year
Voyages of Light
Prussian Society of America
Twitter
Just posting this because I hope everybody has a happy, safe, and Merry Christmas!
It’s the 2021 Fundie of the Year awards, that time of year when we recognize the fundies that stood out the most.
As always, our first step is a nomination round. Leave a comment on this blog post to nominate someone for an award, and second the nomination by starring it. Put in some justification in the form of a link. For example, if I wanted to nominate My Mother The Car for best TV show, I’d write this:
[b]Best TV show: My Mother The Car[/b]
For its clever writing, progressive values, and believable premise.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/MyMotherTheCar
If you’re having trouble finding stuff, might I suggest the shiny advanced search function? You can search for stuff based on text, fundie name, tag, and date range.
The other major new thing going on here is a bit of much-needed election reform. The previous FOTY awards were done by posting comments saying who you were voting for, and manually counting votes. This was annoying, for many reasons:
- It discriminated against mobile users, who had trouble filling in the ballots.
- Since you picked one candidate to vote for, you got vote splitting. Doing it in multiple stages lessened the effect, but does not eliminate vote splitting entirely. This not only messed up the outcome, but would also influences who gets nominated, because everybody intuitively knows about it.
- Manually counting votes is work. I don’t like work, so the announcements got delayed.
All of these problems are solved by the new implementation of score voting, which you’ll get to use once the nominations are done. You give each candidate a score from 1 to 5, and the candidate with the highest mean score wins.
Now, if only we could get score voting implemented in elections that actually matter…
Anyway…
The categories
The following categories will almost certainly be used in the election round. You can nominate other awards that you want, just like you nominate candidates for these awards. If others propose candidates for your award idea, we’ll put it on the ballot.
People:
- Religious #fundie of the year
- Right-wing #wingnut of the year
- Left-wing #moonbat of the year
- #conspiracy theorist of the year
- #ableist of the year
- #racist of the year
- #sexist of the year
- Grifter <#mammon>-worshipper of the year
- COVIDiot of the year
- Heteronormative Crusader Award for #homophobia, #transphobia, and #kinkshaming
Quotes:
- Jack Chick Memorial Award for worst piece of art
- Dr. Nick Riviera Award for dumbest piece of quack medicine
- Magnetic Crank Award for quotes with more than three #tags
- One-liner of the Year: two sentences and 280 characters max
- Funniest quote
- Most disturbing quote
Special Awards:
- Chicken Little Award for predictions that didn’t come true. As a special exception, you can nominate quotes from previous years, where the prophesy was supposed to come true by 2021 and didn’t.
Other nominations:
- Website of the year
- Quote submitter of the year
- Commenter of the year: please click the #12345 number to get a link to just the comment
- Troll of the year: a special award for fundies that show up in the comment section
Preparing this for the 2021 FSTDT awards, though it can also be used for other stuff, I’ve added a polling function that mods can use to collect public opinions. It’s based on score voting, a voting system that’s very simple, while neatly avoiding the really bad problems like the spoiler effect.
Here’s a sample ballot, to try it out:
Today, my grandfather died.
After staying lively long into his seventies, in the last few years, he had finally started to grow old, requiring at one time surgery for cataract, on the other
Last year. he had to be hospitalised for a blood cyst in his nasal cavity, and he developed dementia.
Two and a half month ago, a month before the start of my rehab, he had to be hospitalised again due to a fall, there were many complications including kidney congestion. His dementia grew far worse and he had to be moved to a nursing home. They also found cancer at his bladder that was apparently considered likely something he would “die with, not die off”.
During these times, my mother and I had intended to travel down to my grandparents, with my brother to take care of the Feline Overlord, but each time, sudden changes in my brother’s work schedule foiled that, and I did not have any other times available.
On Monday, he was hospitalised again, with a catheter infection with a sepsis, and there were agreements to limit the lengths to which they would go to keep him alive, for when it would be better to let him pass on then let him continue as a vegetable.
Very early this morning, my mother drove down to my grandparents. In the early afternoon, she visited my grandfather at the hospital, where he was in sedation. I happened to call her during this visit, and she set her telephone to loud so I could say something that he might hear, although whether anything managed to come through to him, we will of course never know.
When my mother returned, she had a phone call with her brother, and they were talking about how his sons and perhaps even my brother and I (the cousins dwell closer to my grandparents than we), may come to visit to see him one last time, and his telephone notified him that the hospital had tried to call him. And then, that was when my mother and grandmother got the call that he had died. I myself received her call (by the time I post this) about three hours ago, shortly after 7pm.
I cannot remember having seen my mother as distraught as in the last few days, and when she called, she was even worse - indeed, I had to call her back a bit later for a clearer talk.
He had a long and fulfilled life, and in the end, it was probably the better outcome, but that does little to reduce the impact of the loss.
My grandfather was eighty-two at the time of his death and had been married to my grandmother for sixty years. He was a farmer, a meat inspector and an outdoors person. I remember how he took us on drives around the landscape with the tractor, how he would often do repairs when he came here, the bows and wooden swords he made for us - one of which I still have -, how he at times told us stories of his childhood set “after the currency” (the introduction of the German Mark on 21th of June 1948).
Soon, my brother and I will have to travel down to the Taunus by train for the funeral, although we obviously do not know when yet.
- Bastethotep
Your post advocates __________, a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting fake news. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won’t work.
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else’s career or business
( ) Assumes that you can use textual metrics to determine if a claim is true or not
( ) Assumes that pictures can’t be faked
( ) Assumes that popularity equals truth
( ) Assumes that you can tell whether something’s true by where the web server hosting it is located
( ) Any social network that tries to adopt it won’t get used
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Requires fake news to opt into additional scrutiny
( ) Requires mind reading
( ) Puts additional strain on already underfunded and understaffed organizations
( ) Big Tech won’t put up with it
( ) ISPs won’t put up with it
( ) By the time you took it down, the damage would already be done
( ) Good luck finding a neutral third party on major political controversies
( ) Would just move the problem from Facebook to Signal
( ) “Trust No One” is not a solution
( ) The surveillance state already has more data than they know what to do with
—
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Readers failing to notice “this is a joke” disclaimers
( ) The existence of Schelling points other than the truth
( ) Black Hat SEO tactics
( ) “Residential IP” proxies
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Legitimate disagreement
( ) Context
( ) Bias
( ) Asshats
( ) Dog-whistle politics
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Linguistic drift
( ) Asymmetry of information
( ) Asymmetry of available resources
( ) The time it takes to verify a claim being far longer than the time it takes to write it
( ) New information coming out after a story has been published
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of fake news
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who literally believe in magic
( ) Technical illiteracy
( ) Hacking
( ) Astroturfing
( ) People with valuable information, but no capital
( ) Laziness
( ) Dishonesty on the part of fake news pushers
—
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) It would violate Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
( ) Technically, that’s how it already works
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Fake news was already a problem before Facebook; we called it “chain mail”
( ) Outlawing The Onion would be stupid
( ) Post ranking algorithms should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Any countermeasure that involves outlawing end-to-end encrypted private communication is unacceptable
( ) Any countermeasure that involves spear phishing is not going to work more than a couple of times
( ) We should be able to talk about the letter Q without being censored
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Who gave you the right to decide whether something is true?
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Anonymity does not destroy all class and power differences, and makes bad-faith participation more common
( ) The distinction between “political” and “apolitical” is not always clear-cut
( ) The distinction between “private” and “public” is not always clear-cut
( ) The distinction between “fact” and “opinion” is not always clear-cut
( ) People who can’t afford lawyers would be de facto excluded from the internet
( ) People who can’t afford bodyguards would be de facto excluded from the internet
( ) Your scheme would have made it illegal to share a video of police brutality without consulting the very institutions that benefit most from police brutality
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
—
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
—
This is a very, very old meme. Here’s a few older versions of it.
The votes for fundie of the year are in! Here are the top minds from around the internet that made this year such an interesting time:
Religious Fundie: Church of Cyprus (6⁄11)
This whole year has been following a theme. It’s a Coronavirus quote, showcasing the typical danger of having people run around thinking magic is real. And, no, this isn’t the only church that thinks this way.
Wingnut: Donald Trump (4/11)
You know it’s a special time when the President of the United States is wingnut of the year. Either we’ve gone off the rails, or he has. And he’s the one who recommended you inject disinfectant and UV radiation to cure the Coronavirus.
Moonbat: Adunaiii (7⁄11)
North Korea apologist? You want to be in a work camp? Who’s stopping you?
Conspiracy: JerseyPine (4⁄11)
It’s an anti-vaxxer, with some stuff about turning boys into girls with genetic engineering. You know, reasonable criticism of the satanic healthcare industry.
Ableist: Nobodysfool777 (3⁄11)
Uh… no. Just, no. That just isn’t done.
Racist: Spartacus (5⁄11)
Passerby did a great breakdown of the basics that are wrong with this. Let’s just say it’s a bit historically tone-deaf. And also ethically tone-deaf.
Sexist: goydivision (3⁄11)
Our typical incel take on amputation, of course, only talking about the most extreme case because nothing else is edgelord enough for them.
Mammon worshiper: Krana Rajan, Parvathi and Kumaresan (3⁄10)
Literally sacrificing people to mammon. Only the most peaceful religion in Tamil Nadu, folks!
Psycho: Raye Johnson (4⁄11)
You paid to have your daughter kidnapped? Where’s the part about what your daughter thought of the experience?
Homophobe: Six unnamed Jakarta vigilantes (5⁄11)
At least this one actually ended in an arrest.
Pedo: Lolimon (7⁄10)
I, personally, abstained from voting on this one, because ew.
COVID: Henry Makow PhD (7⁄10)
Also in the running for Drama Queen of the Year, because I have seen the future, and it is way over-the-top reactions to minor inconveniences.
Funny: David J Stewart (6⁄11)
“I'm not some religious nut, I'm a normal person.”
Sure you are.
Worst Artist: Aubrey Huff (6⁄10)
I’ve seen better stick figure drawings.
One-liner: Donald Trump (6⁄11)
Yeah, he sure showed everybody how weak the checks and balances in the US government are, didn’t he?
Magnetic Crank: Based Frog (6⁄10)
”Opression of most people is actually good.” I wish most quotes had that sort of opening line. It’s so generally awful that I think even most conservatives (because of course based frog is an alt-righter) would recognize how crap it is. And, in any case, the opening line and the name make it clear how to categorize this. It’s a wingnut quote.
… and also has parts that are elitist, ableist, racist, sexist, nationalist. About the only thing it doesn’t do is claim that the present social order is literally handed down by God, and that God doesn’t change and neither should we.
Website: pro-rape.com (8⁄11)
Speaking of opening lines that tell you everything you need to know about the contents, I present the site Pro Rape Dot Com.
Submitter: <@Why?> (7⁄10)
Because you’re so prolific, that’s why.
Troll: @Nomates (6⁄10)
I guess if it helps you sleep at night, you can imagine FSTDT as being run by a bunch of failures. I can’t stop you.
Commenter: @Passerby (6⁄9)
I mean, you wrote the takedown of Spartacus. One of your speeches would earn this award on it own, and you’ve posted a bunch of great comments.
Thanks, and here’s hoping next year will be different.
And, it's that time again? No, not for the ice capades, but to vote for the Fundies of the Year 2020.
To vote, just copy the following list of categories, paste it into your comment field and fill in the blanks:
Religious fundie of the year:
Wingnut of the year:
Moonbat of the year:
Conspiracy theorist of the year:
Ableist of the year:
Racist of the year:
Sexist of the year:
Mammon-worshipper of the year:
Psycho of the year:
Homophobe/Transphobe of the year:
Pedo of the year:
COVIDiot quote of the year:
Funniest quote:
Jack Chick Memorial Award for worst artist:
One-liner of the year:
Magnetic crank award:
Website of the year:
Quote submitter of the year:
Troll of the year:
Commenter of the year:
Religious fundie of the year:
- Apotheism: "By subversion of religion, sub-lunar forces (daemons) deceive souls so that they never reunite with the gods."
- Church of Cyprus: "blasphemy to think holy communion could spread viruses"
- Hausawa Filin Hockey upper-Sharia court, Inspector Aminu Yargoje, Idris Ibrahim and unnamed rioters: "A Nigerian Sharia court in Kano sentenced a 22-year-old gospel singer to death by hanging for alleged blasphemy in a song the singer wrote and circulated on WhatsApp."
- David J. Stewart: "I'm not some religious nut, I'm a normal person."
Wingnut of the year:
- Donald Trump
- Lieutenant Curt Hall: “the very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”
- Based Frog: "Oppression of Most People is Actually Good"
- Jim Lacey: "I contend that Scrooge, before he became 'enlightened,' was already doing more to help his fellow man than any of the other main characters we meet in A Christmas Carol. Moreover, by giving away a substantial portion of his accumulated fortune, he drastically reduced his ability to do even more good in the world."
- Christian Lüth: "The worse it goes for Germany, the better for the AfD"
- Strong One: "Nothing is gonna get better, everything is gonna get worst. Stop coping with this Beta uprising nonsense."
- Attila Hildmann and followers: "Hitler was a blessing in comparison to Merkel the Communist"
- Ron Ewart: "We call this solution, the 'Bullets of Freedom' and we offer this solution with a heavy heart."
- Salustio: "Every sane man deserve a JB"
- TheIncelRepublic: "Anyone just want to live in a total utopia patriarchy?"
- CrackingYs: "[Serious] A new Nationalist Socialist Dictatorship will be the saviour of incels and of our decaying society"
- Mike Huckabee: "[Donald Trump] could personally suck the virus out of every one of the 60,000 people in the world and suck it out of their lungs, swim to the bottom of the ocean and spit it out, and he would be accused of pollution for messing up the ocean, if he did that. There is nothing this President can do that will ever satisfy the people who hate him more than they hate the coronavirus."
- diggerfortruth: "10 Reasons why Hitler was one of the Good Guys"
- EvolaDidNothingWrong: "If breathing air was a socialist policy then yes we would all have to stop breathing air."
- Miroslav Škoro: "I will fight for the sanctity of the Homeland War, which must be elevated to the holiest place in Croatian history."
- Fraternal Order of Police: "A now-viral video of the confrontation shows officers throw Young and the teenager to the ground and then grab the toddler from the back seat. The scene was captured by Aapril Rice, who watched it unfold from her rooftop and told the Philadelphia Inquirer that watching a police officer take the baby was 'surreal' and 'traumatic.'"
Moonbat of the year:
- Gary Yourofsky: "Herbivores are the ONLY evolved species on the planet."
- wisepoetry: "You see so many white kids at high school or college who are proud to be able to speak Spanish."
- Commie Wave: "Stalin committed evil dictatorship by tryingnto resign multiple times, being refused by the politburo and forced to stay in power, by having no money and only one pair of boots upon his death, and by turning the Soviet Union from an agricultural backwater to the world’s premier industrial power, but sure no he was just an ebil authoritarian, says orwell, the man who ratted out every leftist to the british government, and who was just a fucking police asset"
- fitonkpo: "Yes. Businesses always get theirs. One day, the revolution will happen, and every businessman will get theirs in the guillotine."
- kosmos-sputnik: "GLORY TO THE GREATEST GENIUS OF THE XX CENTURY!"
- Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist): "this congress declares that obsession with identity politics, including sexual politics, is anti-Marxian"
- Ben Norton: "In addition to being a gov snitch, fraud George Orwell spent WWII demonizing the USSR as it defeated Nazism"
- YEAST: "If the DPRK is so oppressive, how do they remain stable, with no uprising whatsoever"?
- Adunaiii: "From my point of view, even a sentence in a DPRK prison holds greater meaning and brings greater happiness than any 'free' life outside Juche Korea."
Conspiracy theorist of the year:
- Lin Wood: "It all seemed so clear we overlooked one of the main participants in the theft of the election: THE REPUBLICANS."
- JerseyPine: "The White Adamic children of today DON'T stand a chance. When they are born, vaccines containing doses of xx (females) are given to little boys, while little girls are given doses of xy (males). This HELPS these young children right from the start THINK they should be the opposite gender that they are actually born."
- Lyle Zapato: "Black Helicopters (BH) are not just helicopters with a black paint-job as you may have been told. They are, in fact, autonomous agents -- lifeforms -- created by New World Order (NWO) agencies via nanobiotechnology."
- Izayacel: "CHASING WOMAN IS A SCAM"
- Edmund_Kemper: "he claims to have a wife. jfl i bet he doesn't. he's probably just some dumb 20 year old pretending to be in his 30s"
- Andrew Anglin: "Are the Dangers of Heterosexual STDs Massively Exaggerated to Prevent White Reproduction?"
Ableist of the year:
- Michael Alan: "I Wish My Kids Had Cancer: A Family Surviving the Autism Epidemic"
- Nobodysfool777: "Feeding our lesser offspring to animals would serve several beneficial purposes."
- ♡ CRIMEA RIVER ♡ (targeted): "Disabled people should be taking this month instead to thank all of US for putting up with their useless, crippled asses."
- Encyclopedia Dramatica: "Little Juliana is missing 30-40 percent of the bones in her face, so she can't bite down if you decide to rape her in the mouth, if for some reason you would want to stick your dick into a face that looks like it has been through a garbage disposal."
- OnlyTheGhosts: "Your 'aspie' community is nothing but nerdy folks tricked by the media and medical quackery."
- Whitney Ellenby: “Autism Uncensored: Pulling Back The Curtains”
Racist of the year:
- Vasily Kukushkin: "Der Sieg: 1944 is the propagandist national-socialist computer game."
- Spartacus: "I don’t think most Australians really celebrate the genocide aspect, but they should."
- Just me and Jesus: "If anything, it’s you black trash who are the 'subhumans'."
- Anonymous: "Do Allied WWII soldiers deserve our respect?"
- Billyape Pride: "It's been said that an infinite number of monkeys pounding away at an infinite number of typewriters would eventually produce the works of William Shakespeare. But could this ever happen with niggers?"
- Counter Semite: "Jewish neighbors! They are the worst."
Sexist of the year:
- jerrycan dan: "Your looksmatch is actually fucking dogs and dog dildos."
- Andrew Anglin: “You will never fix this Pakistani sex problem as long as you refuse to whip the girls involved, and permanently brand them on their faces with something that marks them as having been a whore for Pakis”
- Shree Sahajanand Girls Institute: “College students living in a hostel in the western Indian state of Gujarat have complained that they were made to strip and show their underwear to female teachers to prove that they were not menstruating”
- Andrew Anglin: "France: Slut Uprising at High Schools as Dirty Whores Demand a Right to Wear Hooker Clothes in Class"
- Mullappally Ramachandran: "Woman with self respect would kill herself if she were raped"
- Whisper: "You’ve heard this before. And you know it ain’t so. Because if you have been doing this a while, you have often heard 'no', and eventually gotten to 'yes, please', and even 'harder, daddy'."
- goydivision: "A woman without arms or legs is an ideal girl."
- Ethan Huff: "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is in the throes of celebrating Christina Koch, who’s become the latest woman astronaut to spend the longest time in space. But what’s the point of celebrating her achievement now that a biological man who thinks he’s a 'woman' can just sweep on in and claim the new record?"
- Murdoch89 and Edmund_Kemper: "Swede deserves to get gang raped"
- Andrew Anglin: "Women deserve to be drowned in cages."
- Romello Gaghan 2: "cheating is the alpha thing to do if you're a man"
- reddituser39682: "Why are men literally so obsessed with their rape worms? Imagine how much better society would be if males had their sperm harvested at one time, stored, and then they were all castrated."
- Alexander Stavropoulos: "Stavropoulos told police that he likes 'white women,' but was angry with them because they 'won't f--k me.' He wanted to 'get laid,' but couldn't, and it made him 'want to kill, for some reason. I just don't know why.'"
Mammon-worshipper of the year:
- Kambiz Golshani (inventor), Islamic Revolution Guards Corps and presstv (promoters): "a new technology that enables the detection and diagnosis of the new coronavirus within a 100-meter radius in just seconds"
- Temple of the Vampire: "I know that my beliefs in Ritual are fantasy but the magic is real,"
- John Anthony: "What if you could make a hot stripper, bartender or model your girlfriend or personal sex slave?"
- Tim Tony Stark Rifat (1): "Orgasm… Sublime Good® Bone Generator®"
- derasa: "I hereby use this media to inform you, that our company can clean out black deface currency, (stained money) bank notes,"
- Tim Tony Stark Rifat (2): "PROTECT YOURSELF FROM VAMPIRES SERVICE"
- Krana Rajan, Parvathi and Kumaresan: "Kalakkad police have nabbed three persons, including a tantrik (black magician), for allegedly attempting to offer human sacrifice to retrieve buried treasure."
- Barbie Garrett: "Astarte’s Slut Water: Elixir to unleash your 'inner slut'"
Psycho of they year:
- Anonymous: “(((Greatest Generation))) gets the bullet too“
- Raye Johnson: "Experience: I paid to have my daughter kidnapped"
- realtsuke: "I disagree with the concept of war crimes entirely."
- frustratedhapa: "[LifeFuel] My brother is in the hospital dying"
- CrackingYs: "[LifeFuel] Amanda Todd, the teenage girl who was cyberbullied into committing suicide by drinking bleach"
- Cancel: "The younger the victim, the less it should matter"
- Iamnothere000: "Sexual trafficking is the real incel rebellion / beta uprising."
- metabuxx: "Every hole should be circumcised at birth"
- Wristlet 2: "Ted Bundy did nothing wrong"
- RREEEEEEEEE: "Mother, daughter killed for honor in South Punjab. This is the kind of news that makes me proud to be a Pakistani."
Homophobe/Transphobe of the year:
- Six unnamed Jakarta vigilantes: The North Jakarta Police have charged a group of men who allegedly burned a 42-year-old transgender woman to death with aggravated assault.
- Smokety: "They should be persecuted on the spot. Kill them"
- Ask_If_Im_A_Cactus: "As a perpetual optimist, I’d like to point out that the suicide rate for post-op trannies is high— so this could be immigration control with extra steps"
- Impaled Nazarene: "Why should we tolerate pansy faggot shit"
- J.K. Rowling: "last December I tweeted my support for Maya Forstater, a tax specialist who’d lost her job for what were deemed ‘transphobic’ tweets. She took her case to an employment tribunal, asking the judge to rule on whether a philosophical belief that sex is determined by biology is protected in law. Judge Tayler ruled that it wasn’t."
- catatonicLlama: "I am Venus / With a penis"
- JJP158mk2: "ok lets hit 55% so we can say majority of transgenders kill themselves so we can declare transgenderism a deadly mental disorder"
- Sparrow’s Song: "The show is actually Jewish propaganda designed to convince incels to go gay."
Pedo of the year:
- Lolimon: “Up until 5 years old no actual penetration would be allowed (including anal), but little girls under 5 could give blowjobs and get their tiny little pussies rubbed.”
- Caamib: “Jeffrey Epstein took teen girls from modern Western culture, a culture where all women are doomed to become sluts…and he just encouraged them to become official prostitutes”
- Teah Vincent“A MUM cleared over sex with a 14-year-old boy today said she wants to see HIM punished - but insisted: "I'm not evil" in an online rant“
- Nathan Larson aka Leucosticte and Jim: "These days, incest may be the only chance of ensuring that one's daughter will be deflowered by a man who truly loves her and is committed to her."
COVIDiot quote of the year:
- Anonymous: "Flatten the curve is an elite joke and it refers to the population curve, not the curve of the virus."
- My 200 Cents: "Now if we can just have a judge cancel our own dicktator's edicts here in Texas, Covidiot Masskhole Gov. Gwreck A-Butt."
- Henry Makow PhD: "As Illuminati insider Leonard Cohen said, I have seen the future and it is murder."
Funniest quote:
- Anonymous: "Imagine seeing those 5 young ladies exploring their supple young bodies nude on a king sized bed."
- David J. Stewart (1): "I'm not some religious nut, I'm a normal person."
- Sadness: Submitter's note: This is an older thread I stumbled across today and I had to submit it for the hilarious gender mix up
- Rosalind: "Jump To Fight Cancer"
- David J. Stewart (2): "Could you imagine being a soldier in World War II, fighting as an American against the invading communists from the north to defend Korea? And while fighting one of your peer soldiers is going around selling BB guns, convincing many soldiers to trade in their powerful M16 rifle for a child's play BB gun instead?"
- Leo Lyon Zagami: "Confessions of an Illuminati Volume 6.66: The Age of Cyber Satan, Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics "
Jack Chick Memorial Award for worst artist:
- “Bobby” Colonel-Knight-Rider: "CLOSED DUE TO FEARVIRUS"
- Aubrey Huff: Image depicts a stick figure man lying on his back in a reclining chair while three stick figure women surround him. The first woman is fanning him, the second women is holding a bunch of grapes, and the third women is grabbing the man’s left foot.
One-liner of the year:
- Donald J. Trump “President Trump has done many great things (biggest tax & regulation cuts in history, Space Force, rebuilding our military, fixing the V.A., the Wall), but perhaps the most important of all will be what he is doing now, exposing the massive corruption in our Electoral Process.”
- Dr Mahathir Mohamad: “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past”
- Anonymous: "Lebensraum denial, like Holocaust denial, is a Jewish tactic used to discredit post-war National Socialists and make them seem like pussies afraid of their predecessors' success."
- Anonymous: “I wish the holocaust happened. I wish that every day”
Magnetic crank award:
- Alouicious Jackson: "The Great Cataclysm affected the outer planets first. The mythological stories of Mars, Venus, etc. were actually descriptions of these planets being struck by extraterrestrial objects."
- Based Frog: “Oppression of Most People is Actually Good”
- Adunaiii: "This way, I am philosophically fascist, authoritarian - all men and women in Juche Korea work for the betterment of their entire nation. Even the lowliest job is important."
- Billy Morgan: “The best kept secret of the esoteric grades of Freemasonry is ritual sodomy”
- Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey: “Nations Need Kings According to the Mind and Example of Christ the King”
Website of the year:
- boards.christogenea.org
- pro-rape.com
- mostholyfamilymonastery.com
- 3edgesword.blogspot.com
Quote submitter of the year:
- @rabbirealm
- <@Why?>
Troll of the year:
- @Nomates
- @NoLockdowns
Commenter of the year:
- @Vman
- @Passerby
Notes on how these items were selected
- To be eligible for vote, the comment nominating the quote needed to either be starred, or have a second comment nominating the same thing.
- The category needed to have more than one quote eligible for it. That left out "Anti-BLM Quote of the Year," which only had the "Black Lives Splatter" quote, Poet Loonerate, which only had Bennett Lee Ross, and Most Disturbing Quote, which only had Whitney Elleby.
- The category also needed more than one commenter to suggest quotes for it. That left out Elitist and Crackpot, which were only submitted by Bast and JeanP.
- Duplicates from psycho with other categories were removed, because there were so many...
It’s that time of year again: The 2020 FOTY awards. A special recognition for the most heinous, ridiculous, silly, and memorable quotes and sources of quotes for this year.
Anyone with a doomscrolling addiction has had no shortage of content to feed it, so let’s revisit the contributions of the quacks, racists, and conspiracy theorists that made it truly interesting.
If you want to find antifa quotes in January, for example, you’d run an antifa search, then click Date…, then set “posts before” to January 31st and “posts after” to January 1st. The result would be https://fstdt.com/?before_date=2020-01-31&after_date=2020-01-01&q=antifa
For the first step, we’re going to do a nomination round. To nominate a fundie for an award, leave a comment on this post saying who you want to nominate, and for what award, along with some justification (quote links, in particular). For example, if I wanted to nominate Visual Basic for Applications for the Best Programming Language award, I would write this:
[b]Best programming language: Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications[/b]
For introducing tons of people to the world of authoring their own malware, and being perfect enough that no new features need to be added.
You can second someone else’s recommendation by starring it.
Categories that don’t receive much attention will be culled, since they’re not much fun. I’d like to leave most of the categories up to the community, but we’re probably doing these ones:
Fundie of the year
* Religious #fundie of the year
* Right-wing #wingnut of the year
* Left-wing #moonbat of the year
* #conspiracy theorist of the year
* #ableism of the year
* #racist of the year
* #sexist of the year
* Grifter <#mammon>-worshipper of the year
Quote of the year
* COVIDiot quote of the year
* Anti-BLM quote of the year
* Funniest quote
* Most disturbing quote
* One-liner of the year: two sentences and 280 characters max (you know, the length of a www.twitter.com post), ideally less
* Magnetic crank award: best quote that falls under more than three #tags
Other nominations
* Website of the year
* Quote submitter of the year
* Comment of the year: please click the #12345 number to get a link to just the comment
* Troll of the year: a special award for fundies that show up in the comment section
The votes for fundie of the year are in! Here are some of the folks who made this show impossible:
Religious Fundie: Lady Checkmate (11/17)
She’s no longer a public figure, but she will always live on in our hearts and memories for her for her extreme censorship, troll paranoia and homophobia.
Go forth and conquer, fellow sockpuppets of Peewee.
Wingnut: Rabbis For Hitler (8/17), Monarchieliga (8⁄17)
This one was a draw between these two.
I’ll just let the phrase “Rabbis for Hitler” stand on its own. I have nothing to add to it.
As for the monarchist movement? I’ll just link to the anti-reactionary FAQ if you want to see it debunked. Or, if you prefer, I’ll just declare myself king and order the monarchy to be torn down, like the end of Magic Knight Rayearth. That show managed to be though-provoking and fun at the same time in a way that TV rarely manages.
Moonbat: EmmaRoseheart (7/17)
Alternatively, she could earn the “Hitler Ate Sugar” award for concluding that verisimilitude, being a root characteristic of fascism, is therefore fascist. A classic “there is no world outside of literary criticism” moonbat.
CT: Jacob Wohl (6/17), Deep State Exposed (6⁄17)
Two anti-feminist houses, both alike in insanity, come to another draw. Wohl pulls a bizarre concept where teh femenists somehow hate locked briefcases for their manliness, while Deep State Exposed takes “transvestigation” to it’s illogical conclusion and decides that the First Ladies of the United States were all trans.
Racist: Cuyen (9/17)
But incels are just a support group. Nothing problematic at all about sex tourism, and using your white privilege and money to extort sex. No, sirree, bob, nothing but a support group.
Ableist: Judith Newman (11/17)
You know how most bigots lighten up when it gets between them and their family, and you sometimes make fun of them for being hypocrites? I’d rather Judith Newman was a hypocrite.
Grifter: Sandra Porta (8/17)
Mary Sue: Caamib (7/16)
Nobody takes you seriously, caamib. That’s probably a bad thing, considering the chance that you might shoot up a school or something, but your beliefs are so far outside of the norm that other self-identified incels aren’t sexist enough for you. In spite of others’ doxxing you and digging up newspaper articles about you, there’s a part of me that refuses to believe that you’re for real.
Funniest Quote: DJS (Pillowfucker) (10/17)
I voted for the “seven elements of a crime” one, but the masturbation guru one is pretty funny, too. Davey also comes across as not-for-real, but at least he has the excuse that he was born into Christianity, rather than coming to it on his own like an incel must have.
Nightmare Fuel: Rev. Ronald E. Williams and Patti Williams (9/17)
This is actually a third-party article based on a boarding school that has been in FSTDT’s Top 100 for over a decade. And it thoroughly deserves being reposted. This isn’t just evil, it’s kind of dumb, proving that anyone who does it is so twisted that they not only don’t act charitably towards infants, they don’t even act in their own best interests any more. Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you, Mr. and Mrs. Williams?! And why aren’t you in jail?
Magnetic Crank: Sherry Shriner (8/18), Victor Justice (8⁄18)
One more draw. Sherry Shiner combines “New Age” quackery with Christianity, both, by name. She seems to think that the New Ages are right about everything, while simultaneously thinking they’re in league with the Devil. The post is borderline keyword-stuffing with its talk of DNA strands, androgyny, lizards, and gold.
Victor Justice, at least, seems to at least follow recognizable tropes of wingnuttery, and everything seems to follow from there. He just wants to discredit the environmentalists, and will do anything else necessary to pull it off.
Board: Daily Stormer (9/16)
Andrew Anglin desperately wants to be The Joker. Maybe he can follow Heath Ledger’s example?
Movement: QAnon (8/17)
A warmed-over version of old Satanism hate, combined with political conspiracy theories, and turned into a dumb meme. Truly, it is representative of the pinnacle of the decade.
Submitter: Bastethotep (9/17)
My friend, and fellow moderator. You have been around here longer than I have, and every sign shows no sign of stopping any time soon. You are truly a constant in this ever-changing world. Thanks.
Comment: Skidie(1) (6/17)
Dang, you can be harsh. But what’s better, unlike several commenters and most fundie OPs, you’re also completely fair. I just hope your optimistic view of the future really does come to pass.
Hey Folks!
It's finally time to vote for the Fundies Of The Year 2019!
To vote, just copy the following list of categories, paste it into your comment field and fill in the blanks:
Religious fundie of the year:
Wingnut of the year:
Moonbat of the year:
Conspiracy theorist of the year:
Racist of the year:
Ableist of the year:
Grifter award:
Mary Sue of the year:
Funniest quote:
Nightmare fuel of the year:
Magnetic Crank Award:
Board of the year:
Movement of the year:
Quote submitter of the year:
Commenter of the year:
I bolded the names of the quotees, use that to fill in your ballot. In cases where there's two quotes of the same author I marked them with (1) and (2).
I used a great deal of link embedding but fear not, ALL LINKS IN THIS POST GO TO SOME PAGE ON FSTDT. I want to encourage you to take a closer look before deciding.
Now, without further ado, here are the nominees!:
Fundies Of The Year:
* Religious Fundie Of The Year:
Lady Checkmate for her extreme censorship, troll paranoia and homophobia.
biblicalgenderroles for articles like “8 Biblical Differences Between Wives and Slaves”
Abd Al-Aziz Al-Khazraj Al-Ansari for praising the Qu’rans “mercifulness” in telling men not to hit their wives in the face when beating them.
Roosh V for completing his journey from PUA arsehole to fundie arsehole by embracing the “Godpill”
* Wingnut Of The Year:
Rabbi Eliezer Kashtiel and Rabbi Giora Redler. The Rabbis for Hitler.
NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer for fighting for 10-year-old girls' rights to own assault rifles.
Some /pol/ posters for glorifying Nazi officer Oskar Dirlewanger.
SendixBunny for their dehumanising Pinochet apologism.
Monarchieliga, a German Monarchist Movement that wants to drag Germany back to the Middle Ages. Literally. If you're still doubting this, here's an excerpt: "Restoration of freedom of mind, thought and speech via the establishment of a strict censorship office that is part of the Imperial Church"
* Moonbat Of The Year:
EmmaRoseheart, who claims worldbuilding is colonialist and Science Fiction is an innately fascist genre.
Aimee Terese, for breaking through the glass ceiling and becoming FSTDT's first brocialist woman.
AmbiguousSalt, who thinks Social Democracy is a variety of fascism.
Korean Friendship Association USA for their apologism for Kim Il-Sung.
Georgiy, who made an uncomfortable discovery about his "king", Stalin.
* Conspiracy Theorist Of The Year:
Annie Jacobsen: Roswell was a plot to create US panic, orchestrated by Stalin and Mengele.
Jacob Wohl's "feminist conspiracy" theory about locking briefcases.
Deep State Exposed®: "Merry Christmas to Melania Trump. The 1st female First Lady In U.S. history. Thank you Jesus!!! #MerryChristmasEve"
* Racist Of The Year:
Incel Cuyen, who wants to get a "password" to Africa to sexually exploit Pigmy women.
Shlomo: Everyone and your dog is a Jew.
This n-mania user, for his blatant ignorance of biology.
* Ableist Of The Year:
Judith Newman, for exploiting her autistic son for her book, which includes her arguing for a forced vasectomy after he turns 18.
I like to also nominate Whitney Ellenby, a similar beast, who forced her son into a Sesame Street show.(I know the quote is technically from 2020, but eh.)
Nobodysfool999 for his sickening view on autistic people.
Various incels on Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
Manly-Chicken for their denial of legitimate mental health problems.
Incel PM_ME_STRIPPERS, who "envies" disabled people for their alleged lack of sexual drive.
* Grifter Award (#mammon):
Sandra Porta for her offer to literally shit in the woods for a week for 450€.
Karin Tag of the Seraphim Institut, where you can Become a Crystal Skull Warden or just generally Buddha Your Life some.
Fostac AG, a Swiss woo company that basically openly admits to being a fraud.
Apotheke am Bahnhof for their ”Spagyrical Spray Protection against CHEMTRAIL”, sold at 15.35€ for 50 mL.
Melanie Missing for her 14 Unicorn Essences!
* Mary Sue Of The Year:
Tim Rifat, Master Magician.
Shifting SubliminalsHD, Dog Shifter.
Caamib for proudly portraying himself as a Villain Sue that makes incels look good in comparison.
Quotes Of The Year:
* Funniest Quote:
The quote that granted David J. Stewart(1) the honorary title of "Pillowfucker".
Anonymous, who thinks "Japanese girls have melanin receptors inside their vaginas".
Edo Nyland's bizarre crackpot "etymologies".
David J. Stewart(2) explains the Seven Elements of a Crime, which include lesser known ones such as See Also, References and External Links.
* Nightmare Fuel Award (most disturbing quote):
Members of the Disciples of Jesus Christ sect, who whipped a nine-year-old boy to death.
This chilling account from the Hephzibah house involving child abusers Rev. Ronald E. Williams and Patti Williams.
Mikemikev aka Michael Coombs: "What's wrong with murdering innocent children if it's for a good cause? And it is a little bit funny."
* Magnetic Crank Award (Formerly Beyond The Trifecta):
Laura Eisenhower, the "Global Alchemist, Researcher and Intuitive Astrologist
Sherry Shriner, who takes a rather complicated way of saying "energy drinks make you gay".
Victor Justice's weird "Little Greta" screed.
Other Nominations:
* Board Of The Year:
Raping Gurlz Is Fun: The name says it all. Run by our special fiends, openly would-be incestous Paedo sickos Nathan "Leucosticte" Larson and Caamib.
The Daily Stormer: As long as it's still there, right?
* Movement Of The Year:
QAnon, which we didn't cover much, but when we did, oh boy...
Ohio Republicans for passing into law that facts don't matter in classrooms and ordering doctors to perform medically impossible procedures.
* Quote Submitter Of The Year:
* Comment Of The Year:
Passerby(1)'s takedown of Nathan Larson.
JustAlongForTheRide's dissection of CKR's 100 Truths.
Skidie(1), draining the swamp that is the police force.
Bastethotep's overview over Eukaryont systematics.
Skidie(2)'s rant addressing fschmidt.
Another one of Passerby(2)'s masterpieces.
And that's it! If you have questions send a message to me, SomeApe. Have fun voting!
It’s that time of year again: The 2019 FOTY awards. A special recognition for the most heinous, ridiculous, silly, and memorable quotes and sources of quotes for this year. As always, you need to make an account to vote.
Also, I just added the “Date…” thing because I knew you’d want it to make the process of finding quotes to nominate more practical. Sorry it took so long to add it back after the big redesign.
If you want to find David J Stewart quotes in January, for example, you’d run a David J Stewart search, then click Date…, then set “posts before” to January 31st and “posts after” to January 1st. The result would be https://fstdt.com/?before_date=2019-01-31&after_date=2019-01-01&q=David+J+Stewart
For the first step, we’re going to do a nomination round. To nominate a fundie for an award, leave a comment on this post saying who you want to nominate, and for what award, along with some justification (quote links, in particular). For example, if I wanted to nominate African Cichlids for the Best Fish award, I would write this:
[b]Best fish: African Cichlids[/b]
Because these fish are beautiful, and they can be raised in fresh-water tanks. Salt-water tanks are painful to maintain.
You can second someone else's recommendation by starring it.
Categories that don’t receive much attention will be culled, since they’re not much fun. I’d like to leave most of the categories up to the community, but we’re probably doing these ones:
Fundie of the year
* Religious #fundie of the year
* Right-wing #wingnut of the year
* Left-wing #moonbat of the year
* #conspiracy theorist of the year
* #racist of the year
* #sexist of the year
Quote of the year
* Funniest quote
* Most disturbing quote: formally referred to as “nightmare fuel”
* One-liner of the year: Two sentences and 280 characters max (you know, the length of a www.twitter.com post), ideally less
* Beyond the trifecta: best quote that falls under more than three #tags
* “HUH?!” of the year: For quotes that appear to be fundie based on a few key words, but what the poster actually intends to say is a mystery
Other nominations
* Board of the year: may be fundie, racist, conspiracy theory, etc.
* Movement of the year: “Grassroots” attempts like #WalkAway, It’s Okay to Be White, and Drop the T.
* Quote submitter of the year: Don’t nominate @pyro. I don’t submit nearly enough.
* Comment of the year: Please click the #12345 number to get a link to just the comment.
* Troll of the year: A special award for fundies that show up in the comment section. Don’t nominate @pyro. That kind of thing is only funny the first time.
