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Fernando Cortés #conspiracy #racist #wingnut

I’m not sure what to make of this. Some of that isn’t necessarily entirely wrong (though I admit to not knowing enough about current Mexican cultural and economic issues to say that with any real confidence) yet it still sounds like a really bad take.

Various Commenters #wingnut

he's one of the most Nixonian personalities the GOP has had in a long, long time.

Even ignoring Watergate, that’s not really a good thing. Then again, Nixon minus Watergate would be an improvement over the vast majority of the GOP as it exists today.

And admittedly, I was not around to see Nixon in action, but I don’t really see much of a resemblance, so I’m curious what they think “Nixonian” means.

Various TERFs #transphobia

Ignoring the usual BS, I have to wonder, do they even know what a “fetish” is?

Most people who have sex kinks and/or fetishes (same thing, essentially, mostly a matter of degree) who indulge in them find their sex lives enhanced. It’s only when the fetish is non-consensual, disruptive to one’s personal life or the lives of others (most often by being a compulsion), or addictive in some manner, that it’s a problem. (And okay, it can also be a problem of a different sort if you engage in most forms of BDSM without knowing what you’re doing.)

This strikes me as both a weird form of sour grapes and a rather big gap in understanding human sexuality. And further, this particular take seems to be infantilizing trans women in a similar manner to how anti-feminists infantilize cis women - they can’t be allowed to make their own decisions because they don’t really understand what they want/need, we know that better than they do.

And then, finally, even if all that worked they way they seem to think it does, this still means very little, unless they can prove that cis women never fetishize themselves as women (with the possible exception of rare mental disorders, with all the caveats which come with trying to define something as a “disorder”) …which as far as I know no one has ever tried to do. And they’d almost certainly fail anyway, unless they used overly specific definitions which are clearly designed with an agenda in mind.

Also, some trans people have fetishes in addition to being trans. One would think they’d be able to tell the difference…

Mantronikk #transphobia #homophobia

“Gaining traction” eh? You been living under a rock? It’s been going on since something like 2013 and your side long lost the popular opinion, you’re hemorrhaging badly on the cultural aspect, and your occasional victories on the legal front are usually temporary.

(Also this should probably have a homophobia tag as well)

MakeMoralsGreatAgain #kinkshaming #fundie

Hope you at least got something for your martyr fetish out of it! 😝

Paul Kersey #racist

LOtR has many facets, among which are anti-racism and anti-nationalism facets, though the anti-racism part was kind of wrongheaded garbage due to being a product of its times and is also generally lost on modern audiences. So, why not play up that part of it and reinterpret it through a more modern lens? We reinterpret classic works all the time, and this would be within the spirit of JRR Tolkien’s original intent. Shakespeare probably gets the most of it. It annoys the purists, and doesn’t always work, but that’s how you know it’s hit the big leagues. And if this one bombs, there’s still the Peter Jackson version, plus any future versions which don’t bomb. So shouldn’t you be happy?

Trolling a little bit here, as I don’t know for sure if that’s how Amazon is approaching it, but: If you’re a Nazi or a Nazi wannabe, Tolkien would not approve of you.

nopenottoday #transphobia

There are people who are deeply insulted by the idea by the fact that you can’t necessarily tell how to refer to them at a glance. Others should just know. Occasionally this is taken to ridiculous extremes (“You will refer to me as Doctor!”), but even in the more common version, it feels like an attack on their ego and/or identity that others don’t make automatic and correct assumptions about them. Of course a lot of them don’t give the same courtesy to others; not only should their own identity be respected, but their own identification of others should be respected as well, even when it’s an attack on the other person’s ego or identity. For those who are that self-centered, decent people are going to side-eye you at best and middle-finger you at worst, and you probably deserve it.

For those who aren’t, but still feel anxiety over it: No one is forcing you to declare your pronouns. Most people who do so, do so voluntarily and unprompted; it’s still very rare that anyone even asks. If someone doesn’t, people will still guess, and nearly always get it right. I’m not going to deny that the fact that it’s gradually becoming more common means that eventually it may effectively become a form of peer pressure in some circles, even if people are virtually always respectful about it. I mean, it’s always possible that people could be disrespectful about it, but that’s reaaally missing the point. You do know how to deal with peer pressure, right? If not, you might have other issues which really need addressing, and once you’ve done so it may not seem so bad after all.

They really thought it was okay for that man to treat Ben that way because he called him a man.

Benny boy has been hyperaggressively misgendering trans and nonbinary people on camera lately, occasionally to their faces. His approach doesn’t play well even with a lot of people who think misgendering others isn’t a big deal. It’s kind of like he’s going full KKK and even the casual racists are all “whoa, too far, buddy.” If that’s what you really got out of it, that he calmly said something sensible and people are going berserk for no reason, then there’s probably no hope for you.

Matt Walsh #fundie #dunning-kruger #psycho

@The_Dybbuk #114257

This is so wrong it doesn't even fit the definition of wrong anymore

Take your pick: “Not even wrong” for something so far removed from reality that, even if it can be proven right or wrong within its own framing, it’s ultimately meaningless; “Wronger than wrong” for something which isn’t just incorrect, it’s more dangerous, damaging, or just plain off than an understandable mistake; or “Fractally wrong”, which is an error based on an error based on an error and so on, and the whole thing is part of a big mess where none of the errors are necessarily big ones in themselves, but you can’t really correct any of it without disentangling the whole thing. (My take on the terms, anyway; people interpret them somewhat differently, so YMMV.) I’m not sure which is at play here, maybe a mix of wronger than wrong and fractally wrong.

Prussian Society of America #ableist #racist #psycho #dunning-kruger

So, basically nearly the entire human race falls into the uncanny valley for you? I can’t imagine how much of a nightmare that must be. But that’s you, and only you. Most people, even when faced with what feels like an inescapable nightmare, don’t become borderline omnicidal, so that’s also just you. Please get help.

ChristianPatriotNews #conspiracy #wingnut #crackpot

MakeMoralsGreatAgain #fundie #kinkshaming

@Timjer #114241

What you’re referring to is typically called dominance, not sadism. You shouldn’t be ashamed of the mere desire either; just don’t do it unless you’ve got at least some idea what you’re doing and have confirmed that they’re willing. I’m long over with being ashamed of what I’m into, myself. The main point was to give an idea how the actual experience of it for most practitioners is rather different than how it’s portrayed in pop-culture, or even sometimes appears from the outside.

[Edit] Shortly after writing this, I had this thought: “People who have healthy sexual relationships approach it as partners: not merely two people engaging in the same activity, but working together for mutual benefit. It doesn’t usually work when one person is doing things mainly for the benefit for the other, and the other barely reciprocates. It *can* work, and even be rewarding, for certain types of dominant and submissive personalities, if they know what they’re doing… wait. That’s it, isn’t it? Your baseline for sexual relationships is a form of advanced-level BDSM under conditions of questionable consent and inadequate safety training, between people who wouldn’t generally comfortable with it even if it were done safely? No wonder you want to control sex so badly.”

Okay, everybody! It’s time for Auntie Zinnia’s woefully incomplete lecture on why fetishes aren’t necessarily unethical and kinkshaming is stupid!

I think it would be easiest to go by personal example. As I have said a few times on this site, I am a sadist. 😈 I’m not sure if I ever made it clear that I’m a practicing one, so here’s that confirmation. Sure, I get turned on by inflicting pain on others, both emotional and physical pain. But also I’m paranoid about causing real damage, to the point where I regularly stop and check how my partner is doing. 😟 And when it’s over, I hold them close so they can feel my breathing and heartbeat, and hear my words of comfort, just in case it messed them up anyway, because that kind of thing greatly helps most people get out of a messed-up state and back to normal.

Also note the use of the word “partner”. 👫🏻 Someone who works with me, willingly, to make it an enjoyable experience for both of us. The idea of doing lasting harm, or to an unwilling victim? Ugh, no. I mean, I’ll joke about it on rare occasions, but the idea of doing it for real makes me feel nauseous. 🤢 Because this isn’t some twisted power game, it’s a fun experience. For us. I don’t recommend it for everyone. Okay, there are people who frame it as a twisted power game, but it’s just pretend, and part of the experience for them. Not really my thing but whatever. 🤷🏻‍♀️

And that’s part of the problem, isn’t it? People who rail against “perversion” usually can’t imagine anything other than “man indulges his whims, indifferently to his woman’s needs and desires, woman submits reluctantly”. Have you seen how they picture mutually loving relationships? Weak loser male being emasculated by unnaturally domineering woman. 😒 Basically an evil mirror version of something which is already rather unfun for a lot of people, even when the reality doesn’t remotely resemble that. Because it “just has to” be one or the other. That’s not even getting into non-cishet territory, where their ideas are even more messed up. And what I do? Can be seen only as a horrifying monstrosity. 🦖

It goes a bit deeper than that: whether people truly enjoy themselves, in sex, in leisure, in life, is a distant second to whether they’re doing things “right”. Religion often gets involved here, but even when it doesn’t, it’s all about what “makes sense” to people with limited empathy and imagination, and have no clue what a healthy relationship looks like, or even what a healthy relationship feels like. And the irony is, even when it’s miserable or abusive, they can only imagine the alternatives as being somehow worse. 👻

Now obviously we shouldn’t base what activities are acceptable or how relationships work based on the lowest common denominator. We tried that in many different cultures over the past few thousand years and it really sucked for nearly everyone involved. ☹️ I’m not going to say that there aren’t any issues involved with consensual S&M or with a lot of other kinks, but people like this are missing so much of the picture that they can’t even begin to make a valid judgment. There’s a lot more I could and probably should add to this, but it’s running way too long already, so thank you for coming to my TED talk. 😀

Anonymous #crackpot #fundie #god-complex #magick

Another comparison: This is sort of like saying “Think about it, if you harass one of their secretaries maybe you’ll come to own [insert Fortune 500 company here]”.

Various Incels #conspiracy #dunning-kruger #sexist

Also, I could have gone without ever reading the phrase “Ghislaine Maxwell's mommy milkers”.

Bryan Melvin #fundie #crackpot #psycho

Few atheists ever watch these things, and I would suspect the total number ever converted by them could be counted on the fingers of one hand.

These mostly exist as affirmations for the already faithful that the unbelievers would totally convert if you showed them the light in just the right ways, and yes, you are oh-so-right for keeping the faith. This sounds like the kind which relies heavily on “what if this totally fictional story, where the plot is driven by magic, were actually true? wouldn’t you convert then?” in a very literal display of magical thinking. Considering that most atheists became or remained atheists in part because at some point they learned to recognize magical thinking (even if they had no name for it) and reject it as dysfunctional… good luck with that, buddy.

Various Incels #conspiracy #dunning-kruger #sexist

I can usually tell how all the bizarre nonsense ties together, or at least most of it, but not this time.

@Yutolia #114142

It doesn’t even work anyway. While the appearance of the face is determined in a limited fashion by skin marks and facial hair (including eyebrows), it’s determined to a greater degree by muscle/fat distribution and even more so by skull shape. You can’t just “steal” someone’s face, it requires such extensive alteration that the theft would be almost redundant.

Mike Wazaski #fundie #conspiracy

Most Eastern Asian languages also have (or originally had, a few of them adopted the convention of “WeekOne”=Monday, “WeekTwo”=Tuesday, etc. for modern times, with Sunday being some kind of pattern break) Sunday named for the Sun and Monday named for the moon, while the other days were named for the five elements (tuesday = fire, wednesday = water, thursday = wood, friday = metal, saturday = earth)… and the planets were also named for the elements. And by an amazing coincidence (probably not a coincidence) the associated planets line up exactly with the western days: fire = Mars, water = Mercury, wood = Jupiter, metal = Venus, earth = Saturn. Also Jupiter is associated with lightning in addition to wood, which is probably not a coincidence either.

[Edit] And I remembered a bit later that Jupiter (the deity) is also associated with oak trees…

Anonymous #crackpot #fundie #god-complex #magick

This reminds me of the time when the Orange One, the former US President whose name should no longer be spoken, “beat” the (under-18, inexperienced) son of the winner of a golfing tournament. And then declared that it meant he was the real winner of the tournament rather than the boy’s father. Oh, and “beat” is in quotes because he also cheated multiple times, in small ways. There’s a reason why he doesn’t get invited to golf tournaments, even non-professional ones for rich folks. This displays the same sort of supreme entitlement and catastrophic logic failure.

Mike Wazaski #fundie #conspiracy

Um, yes? It’s exactly like that in English too, except via Norse rather than Latin.

Mani (Moon) → Monday
Tiuw/Tyr (Mars) → Tuesday
Wodan/Odin (Mercury) → Wednesday
Thor (Jupiter) → Thursday
Frigga/Freyja (Venus) → Friday
…
Sunna/Sol (Sun) → Sunday

Saturday is the odd one out, as it’s named for Saturn which clearly isn’t Norse. (The Norse name for it is Laugardag, where laugar = bath/wash which the english word “laundry” derives from.) Regardless, the idea of naming the days after celestial objects is very, very, old and widespread, predating even astrology in its “classical” form, and not even confined to western cultures. It’s not clear to what extent its ultimate origins were in some sense astrological, but it’s a cultural and linguistic remnant, not a nefarious plot to get you into astrology.

Laura Wood and Lawrence Auster #racist

If you’re going to ignore the elephant in the room which is Native Americans / First Nations peoples in order to pretend that the US and Canada are “white homelands”, there’s still a couple of other issues to deal with - first, the US Southwest was predominantly hispanic before it was white, and is still largely hispanic in some areas, and also the majority of US blacks are roughly half-white and not significantly African by culture, because people like you made them that way.

And then, even ignoring all the American blacks with significant white ancestry, the number of bi-racial and multi-racial people are on the rise, so where are all those people going?

Some CCers #psycho #sexist

Welcome to the adult world! Some people are petty and childish and will probably never really grow up, but they’re legally adults and you have to treat them accordingly, even when they refuse to do the same in return. It’s a pain sometimes, but after awhile it’s just “ugh, whatever” and you just deal with it and move on.

I’m assuming you’re all young. If not, then you might be one of those petty and childish people yourselves.

Various TERFs #transphobia

ooof he's got a giant barrel chest which makes what are presumably silicone implants look like someone duct taped two oranges

[Googles images of Kim Petras myself]

Are we even looking at pictures of the same person? Yes, she’s got that artificial look that a lot of pop stars have, but even ignoring that, I’d never have guessed she wasn’t cis if no one said otherwise.

You may want to have your eyes checked. Or your hallucinations treated.

[Edit, @JeanP #114102]

She didn’t write it, though. The TERFs are going to have a field day when they find out that her songwriter is an accused rapist who mocks rape victims. Though that’s not really her fault, it’s basically a Ke$ha situation all over again.

Positron #transphobia #dunning-kruger

To say it doesn't work is like saying randomly hacking the brain does not cure brain tumor.

Pretending for a moment that this is a valid metaphor, why the fuck would you “randomly hack the brain”? Even if there’s a small chance of it working, wouldn’t that result in lower overall survival rates?

Positron #dunning-kruger

Quack Healer #fundie #psycho #quack #sexist

Victor Davis Hansen #wingnut #racist #conspiracy #homophobia

What would have happened had conservative demonstrators cut out a police-free “MAGA Zone” in Seattle rather than the exempted Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone? Would the media similarly romanticized such illegality?

1. Given the number of people who show up to a typical MAGA rally, you probably don’t have the numbers to pull it off.

2. Why would you exclude the police? That would be a radical departure for your side.

3. In the present reality, I doubt they’d romanticize it, given that your side has much smaller numbers of people (or at least people who are willing to take direct action), and also you’re fond of violent imagery and guns. You are very bad at not looking like armed insurrectionists. Now in an alternate reality where your side has the numbers and is presenting something like an actual mirror situation? Maybe. More likely, it would just make it all very confusing.

Kaoru #racist

@Conscience #114020

Unfortunately there were people who were essentially white who existed as chattel slaves - Octoroons, who were ⅞ white and ⅛ black, and often specifically bred so that rich people could legally have white-looking slaves. Because of the one-drop rule and all that. And there did exist at least a few black plantation owners who kept black slaves themselves. Don’t think for a moment that anyone who would support racial chattel slavery would necessarily be against their own race being enslaved so long as they were personally excluded.

Bud_Spencer #pratt #racist #wingnut

Something to note about the graphs: While I’m not sure what they’re actually measuring (only what they’re claiming to measure), there’s no particular reason why the results had to presented this way, or why “ingroup bias” had to be presented as a positive number and “outgroup bias” had to be presented as a negative number instead of the other way around, and it’s not clear whether this is some sort of absolute or relative comparison or even that the baseline is any kind of neutral. This is a good example of how presentation can be used to bias perception.

Jason Kenney #homophobia #quack

In a vacuum, I’d be generous and assume that, until proven otherwise, he’s the sort of person who isn’t a hypocrite and changed his views over time, yet still didn’t learn quite the right lessons. But given that he’s the Premier of Alberta, AKA Texas North, that seemed rather unlikely. So I looked him up. Noooope. He’s being a total hypocrite here.

Positron #dunning-kruger

@SpukiKitty02 #113965

If I were a sadist… wait, scratch that, I am one… If I were an unethical sadist, I would be sorely tempted to give the smug “feelings aren’t real” types (who are usually supreme hypocrites, anyway - it would be more accurate to say that other people’s feelings aren’t real to them) electric shocks or other forms of non-damaging torture and declare that their pain isn’t real, because no object commonly referred to as “pain” manifested when I did it.

Operation Q/Humorous Mathematics #crackpot #conspiracy #wingnut #racist

Uhh… There’s no organization named “Human Rights International”. I think you’re confusing it with the International Declaration of Human Rights, which a document which is part of the United Nation’s founding charter. Or possibly the Human Rights Commission, which monitors human rights issues but doesn’t directly take action. Regardless, there is also no global military organization, and if there were it probably wouldn’t hold trials for civilians or execute people. The closest thing is probably the International Criminal Court, which I’m reasonably certain doesn’t give death sentences. And you’d think that if Joe Biden was ever on trial for anything, anywhere, even before he was elected president, it would be a huge media spectacle. Or if he had disappeared long enough for a secret trial to happen, that would be a big media spectacle too. And then if they deepfaked his disappearance so thoroughly that nobody (including, apparently, the Secret Service) noticed he was missing, how do *you* even know there was a trial?

And that’s just the first few sentences…

Orwellito #quack #conspiracy #wingnut #fundie #conspiracy

I was curious about “why graphene oxide specifically” given that there are many known “graphene-class” materials by now, and found that graphene oxide has six slightly variant forms labeled 666a - 666f. I don’t know what the significance of 666 is here other than it appears to be some sort of standardized materials code, but why people are connecting it to the “mark of the beast” suddenly becomes obvious.

Lance Welton #conspiracy #crackpot

Regardless of his racism and islamophobia, Noah Carl is a *sociologist*. Why are you treating him as an authority on medicine and/or virology?

Sterling Price #wingnut

None tried to hunt down members of Congress. IMO it would have been a good thing if they had actually had blood in their eyes and dragged a bi-partisan selection of our Congressional prostitutes outside and promptly hanged them.

Shades of “the Holocaust didn’t happen, but it would have been a good thing if it did.”

This whole thing is basically declaring “we’re peace-lovers, not Khorne worshipers” while the actual mood ping-pongs between that and “blood for the blood god!”

Several Ovarit-members #kinkshaming #ableist

Because they’re uncomfortable, and anything which makes them feel uncomfortable is perceived as a moral failure on the part of the person making them uncomfortable, and it’s usually a short jump from that to violent threat and/or moral corruption.

But they can’t give a real reason. Or, at least not one which makes sense to, or is likely to be seen as valid by, members of the general public. Danger to society? People are wary of that type of argument because it’s usually proven false in the past, and often the subject is one where even political centrists have long moved on. Because God says? Religious fundies are finding their grasp on society becoming ever more tenuous. Danger to women? Tradcons and TERFs are both finding that, in an age of slowly creeping equality, that argument is holding less and less weight, because it relies on the presumption that women are helpless. Danger to children? Disgust at bestiality? Occasionally something outré like cannibalism, necrophilia, or coprophilia? Those still hold some weight.

Their attempts to tie their discomfort to any of those things doesn’t always work nearly as well as they hope, though. Regardless, they usually need to convince themselves before they can convince others.

Chap Ihezver/Human Race Survival Resistance #crackpot #conspiracy #fundie #ufo #magick #sexist #homophobia #transphobia

Steve Beckow #conspiracy #wingnut #ufo #quack

This is a bit off topic and not directly a response to the OP, but as good of a place as any to share it.

I had a dream last night. In it, there was an immaterial entity known as “The Conspiracy” which was corrupting the “human psychosphere” (collective unconscious) in an attempt to take over the world, by making certain people believe it was *already* in control of the world. It influenced conspiracy theorists into attacking “agents of The Conspiracy” - actually enemies of The Conspiracy, as the true (unwitting) agents were the conspiracy theorists themselves.

The being was forced into material existence and put on trial. It looked like a giant floating eye, with six long chains extending out like an asterisk. The result of the trial was that the being was allowed to *attempt* to rule the world, but it must do so via human political structures. It was turned into a human and given a legal identity, but it just ended up becoming a homeless lunatic.

I wonder what hardcore conspiracy theorists would make of that.

John C. Wright #dunning-kruger #homophobia

I can very much believe this person is a writer, unfortunately. “Pederasty” is not a word which you’re likely to see outside of old novels or historical documents, and writers are usually voracious readers. And writers with big egos often think they have some special insight into the nature of words, or the “true” meaning of certain words. These are not good writers.

Eugene Gant #dunning-kruger #racist

You know, if athletics weren’t one of the few realistic ways for black people to get ahead in society, you’d see a lot fewer black athletes.

Prussian Society of America #conspiracy #psycho #racist

“In the name of good, we must become evil!”

What’s next? In the name of sobriety, we must become falling-down drunk?

Jon Watkins #homophobia #conspiracy

If you think Superman is a symbol of American Exceptionalism, you’ve been seeing him all wrong.

Charlie Kirk #conspiracy #crackpot #transphobia #wingnut

@SpukiKitty02 #113522

But it must be heavily - regulated, lest that tech fall into the wrong hands.

If you mean using mind-modifying technology to create a post-discontent society (i.e. most people are slaves living in miserable conditions, and they love it) then count on that happening, or at least tinpot dictators *trying* to make it happen, sooner or later. North Korea will probably be the first, assuming it sticks around in anything like its current form. There might need to be international protocols for how to deal with such a situation.

For smaller-scale things, it’s not clear how much regulation is really needed, beyond “it’s illegal to modify someone’s will without their consent” and children can’t consent. Adults might be able to consent on behalf of children in some very limited cases, but we shouldn’t let that be a thing as a general rule. Partly to avoid the appearance of mind modification as a form of social engineering (and there is a danger of that happening, possibly even unintentionally, but whether that’s *likely* is an open question), and partly because there exist parents who believe a child is “malfunctioning” if they’re not acting as an extension of themselves, or the child is poorly adapting to an abusive/dangerous environment and they refuse to treat the environment as the real problem.

Urekkim #psycho

Just because you devalue your own life to the point where you barely care whether covid kills you doesn’t mean that other people should similarly devalue their own lives or others.

Russ Winter #transphobia #wingnut #quack #conspiracy

Pointing out that Japanese people have had a diet high in phytoestrogens for centuries and they don’t have a high incidence of breast cancer. Likewise, phytoestrogens are nothing like the estradiol which trans women take - 44mg doesn’t even do all that much, you need at least three times that every day for weeks to see any significant hormonal effect, and even that’s minor compared to what taking estradiol does.

And while phytoestrogens technically count as a type of xenoestrogen, not all xenoestrogens are the same or even really all that similar. The ones which are concerning because they’re contaminating the environment and promote breast cancer and male infertility come from plastics, not plants. Basically this whole argument is based on the premise that 3 related but very different things are really identical.

Daegames #pratt

A lot of D&D players have always been LGBT+, and used it partly to escape from a world where openly being LGBT+ was dangerous, and roleplay something closer to their true selves.

A lot of D&D players have always been bigots of various stripes, and used it partly to escape from a world where their bigotry wasn’t taken as absolute truth.

Older editions were subtly supportive of the latter, though generally not on purpose, while newer ones are becoming increasingly supportive of the former. I’ve heard criticism from the far left that it has roots in “white colonialism” which it hasn’t completely divested itself from. I don’t know enough to comment on that.

woodsglobal #crackpot #quack #dunning-kruger #pratt

The whole idea of “humans used to be able to live 200+ years” comes from the fact that in some east asian cultures, it used to be common for people to take on the legal identity of their parent, which might also be the legal identity of their grandparent, and occasionally it would even go another generation or two back. This results in the original person appearing to have never died from a legal perspective.

Or, I suppose, alternately it could be “the pre-diluvian peoples lived 800-950 years or until the flood hit, whichever came first, and Noah’s descendants lived a few centuries” thing from the bible, which doesn’t explain why human lifespans dropped to 70 or so by the time the old testament was actually written.

Aaron #fundie

@Conscience #113369

Heliocentrism means the sun is the center of the universe. I hope that’s not what you meant.

Relativity means there’s no such thing as a center of anywhere, aside from the center of gravity between any two objects.

That’s a very common issue not just with fundies but with far-right conservatives and bigots in general (I know, I know, the Venn diagram between all 3 is almost a circle) - they don’t meaningfully distinguish knowledge and belief, and instead of bothering to learn what anyone not like them knows or believes, they extrapolate it from their own ignorance.

Charlie Kirk #conspiracy #crackpot #transphobia #wingnut

Another transgender = transhumanist association by an idiot who doesn’t quite understand either.

While we’re at it, throw in voidpunks, furries, and biohackers to make it an unholy quintet.

Prison-break-out! #crackpot #quack #conspiracy

The earth was designed to continuously produce new fresh soft-water in ABUNDANCE that spring to surface

[bolded for emphasis] I thought God promised to never again flood the world?