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rev van mev #quack #psycho

Sadly, given that incels are usually asocial-to-antisocial and often shut-ins, we can’t expect them to be among the dying, for the most part. Not because they deserve it, no one does, but because once this is over they’re going to be a slightly higher portion of the population and that’s going to cause headaches for everyone else.

sapphicshinigami #transphobia

If it was just myth, you’d have a point about being cautious about reading a too-modern interpretation of them.

It’s not just myth. I’m aware of the cults of Bacchus and Cybele, which were big with gender-variant people of all stripes, as well as the “Apollo sometimes gets drunk and puts souls in the wrong bodies” thing which people probably would not come up with and joke about for generations just to be randomly silly. There’s probably more that I’m not aware of, this isn’t my wheelhouse. It’s not even just Greek either; a wide variety of past cultures offer ample evidence that, even if most of them didn’t have direct equivalents of the word “transgender”, it would be a severe stretch to explain away everything in a nice neat cishet manner.

various Commenters #transphobia

There are a couple of likely ways that they could be misunderstanding this.

The first is that, the smaller the minority, the more they need allies among the majority to make any real civil rights progress. It’s not that they need to cater to said allies, or include them among their number - sure, there are occasional “allies” who make it all about them, but those are bad allies.

The second is that there are occasional idiots who insist that LGBTQIA+ should have an “S” for straight in there, or men who whine that feminists rarely to never deal in men’s issues. I would like to point that these people are not representative of anyone other than themselves, and are also totally missing the point.

Regardless, this has nothing to do with trans women being women.

Vasily Nebenzya, Igor Kirillov & Sergei Lavrov #conspiracy

It’s not like Putin’s trying to convince the world. Everyone can fucking see what you’re doing, Pootie, and despite how noisy they are, the Q-nuts and other assorted crazies don’t have much real power. What matters is whether enough people in Russia believe it. Do they? Obviously some, but how many is unclear.

Various Commenters #transphobia

Also, how many out trans people were misgendered in death? Unless they were famous, all of ’em katie. Doing otherwise would reflect badly on the family’s honor.

Kerry Cassidy #crackpot #conspiracy #magick #wingnut #ufo

They’re just throwing around the word “biolab” as a sinister phrase without really knowing what it means.

Universities have biolabs. Hospitals have biolabs. Pharmaceutical companies have biolabs. Even some forensics labs have biolab divisions. Every major city in the world has maybe a dozen of them.

Military-run weapons biolabs are usually located nowhere near major cities, and for a good reason: if something goes horribly wrong, you really don’t want it to go wrong in a high-population area. And while this particular screed doesn’t specifically mention them being in cities (unless it’s in one of the cut sections), there’s this conspiracy theory going around where Russia is shelling Kyiv and Kharkiv to take out the biolabs within.

The second half is… you’re combining waaaay too many sci-fi dystopias into one scenario there.

@Bastethotep: Your corpse is superhuman now. But it’s being piloted by a posthuman superintelligence which was assimilated by the borg.

Torchy Blane #transphobia #homophobia #sexist #wingnut #conspiracy

The evolution towards a more casual environment in some workplaces has been a boon to more than just trans and nonbinary people.

Also, this attitude is… weird. I’m assuming that you think most/all boys desire to conform to hypermasculine norms but just by seeing alternatives in their life they feel uncomfortably pressured to… not? I have some bad news for you.

Andrew Anglin #transphobia #fundie

Being loud and in-your-face isn’t a sign of popularity. Polls consistently put people who at least sort of share your beliefs at about 30% of the population.

Granted, the majority opinion isn’t always the most ethical one, but at minimum it doesn’t speak well to your chances.

“do it in their own bedroom” faggot argument,

Gee, how generous to accede to what everyone, straights included, were doing anyway.

Psalm1Tree #fundie

The shroud of Turin has been radiocarbon dated to roughly late 1200s - early 1300s. Now radiocarbon dating isn’t 100% accurate, but there have been various other tests pointing to around that same time. Even if they’re all wrong, that doesn’t mean that the person in question is Jesus.

Adrian Sol #homophobia #transphobia #racist

<@KeithInc.> #117460

Also of note, there’s certainly rampant speculation of the sexuality and/or gender identity of GNC (Gender Non-Comforming) people in history; though we probably shouldn’t let that go above the level of “for fun” if the evidence is too limited to make any real judgment. Modern terms and concepts around those things mostly didn’t exist, and we have no idea how they’d describe themselves if they existed today. That means that some people’s true selves will be erased forever, but misidentifying GNC cishets isn’t much better.

That being said, there are still lots of examples where writing off GNC people as “we just don’t know, so let’s assume cishet by default” is an exercise in willful blindness and stupidity. The rare mistakes are probably worth at least getting some historical representation.

Fundies from Ignite America #fundie #racist

Sigh. At what point does it go from “That’s not what Critical Race Theory means” to “Okay, that’s one of the definitions *now* thanks to a campaign of widespread propaganda, but not something your political opponents have ever been advocating” like so many terms captured by the far right?

Various Commenters #transphobia

I thiiiiink I just cracked the code.

“You can’t be attracted to me without my consent! That’s rape!”

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LESBIANS DON'T WANT YOU.

Whenever they say this, it’s a case of No True Scotsman. When a cis lesbian does date a transwoman, she’s suddenly a bisexual appropriating lesbianity. It also strikes me as being similar to when some straight men are like “nobody wants to see this gay shit” whenever a man is blatantly sexualized.

Owlchaser #transphobia

@ChrisBP747 #116242

what the hell “leave us alone” has to do with “shut up and get back in the kitchen” is anyone’s guess.

My best guess is that it’s “You’re dismissing women’s needs and concerns” and those “needs and concerns” includes women [read: TERFs] “protecting” themselves from trans people, by harassing them out of women’s spaces and back into the closet.

Jerry Derecha/Adrenogate #crackpot #conspiracy #magick #elitist

I’d probably have to do some deep research, but I would not at all be surprised that to find that Yaveh/Yaweh, before being adopted as the one true God by the Jews, was roughly correlated either Mars/Ares/Odin or Zeus/Jupiter/Thor, but not both. In addition, the other names mentioned are unrelated to either, and there’s no such thing as “the dragon Baal” (possibly confusing it with Bahamut/Behemoth? which is only a dragon in relatively modern interpretations but whatever).

Judy Byington #crackpot #conspiracy #wingnut #mammon

On Tues. 22 Feb all banks were required to be BASEL 3 compliant, and if not, they were out of business according to Fleming.

This is ambiguous, but if the intent is to imply that the deadline is 22 Feb 2022 as they appear to be saying, then this is incorrect - the deadline is 1 Jan 2023. Also Basel III guidelines only say that banks which have adopted the guidelines should not engage in international exchange with Banks which haven’t adopted them, which isn’t necessarily “out of business”, but is admittedly crippling, given that most major banks have agreed to adopt them.

Sat. 26 Feb Trump spoke at CPAC: “Everything is on Tape. Everything will be released and in about 3 to 4 weeks it will all be disclosed.”

Didn’t happen. Would be very surprising if *any* tape ever appeared even if he had said this, let alone one which had any sort of verifiable evidence.

Tues. 1 March was the RV/GCR according to Texas Snake. Tier 4B (us, the Internet Group) would be exchanging, plus on Tues. we would be entering NESARA and 1,000 years of Peace according to Fleming and Bruce.

I had to look up what that even means. RV = Revaluation (of currencies) [I initially misread that as “reevaluation”], GCR = Global Currency Reset, and also there’s apparently a conspiracy theory that I wasn’t aware of about an upcoming global adoption of the gold standard. Didn’t happen, and like hell that’s ever going to happen.

[Thurs 3 - Sun 6]

Even if the thing which is not happening were to happen, it wouldn’t happen anywhere near that fast. Even with full preparation in advance, the aftermath would still take months. And you know that some countries wouldn’t be prepared…

[The rest of it]

1,000,000% fantasy.

Pat Robertson #fundie #crackpot

“But God says, ‘I’m going to put hooks in your jaws and I’m gonna draw you into this battle whether you like it or not. And [Putin’s] being compelled after the move into Ukraine.”

Typical old testament God: Strip away people’s free will and force them to do evil, then punish them for that evil, because he has a “special plan” for someone else. Then again, Pat Robertson has always given me the impression of being one of those fundies who mostly ignore the new testament.

Alexandra Bruce #conspiracy #fundie #magick #wingnut

Since morale is a big factor in war, both sides are going to make at least some effort to encourage their own side and demoralize the enemies. So of course you’re going to see some exaggerations and outright lies. Videos of events, at least, are virtually impossible to fake in a short order, though a few of them being passed around are from 2014.

There are certainly reasonable discussions to be had about this, but the OP’s going waaaay off the rails makes it clear that they are not someone to have it with.

Allie Beth Stuckey #conspiracy #wingnut

One can be slightly forgiving in that people like this usually live in a social bubble and a media bubble where they see people like themselves everywhere, and barely see people not like themselves; there’s this whole narrative where they’re the majority, yet their cultural influence is limited and they’re under-performing politically.

There are a bunch of reasonable conclusions which can be drawn from that position - including that people like them are being politically disenfranchised - but all of them are wrong. The reality is unreasonable, unless they see outside their bubbles - but there are also political influences which are very invested in making sure most of them don’t do that…

That being said, only slightly forgiving, because their “reasonable” reactions are often very damaging.

Final Wake-Up Call #crackpot #ufo #magick #quack #conspiracy #mammon

If everyone had a ton of gold and silver, it wouldn’t be very useful as money. Also a lot of the planet’s gold is believed to be in the core, where you can’t get it.

Ken Ham #conspiracy #dunning-kruger #fundie #pratt

Mike King #dunning-kruger

Ah, well. The first truly large-scale trade networks, aside from the silk road, did pop up in the early 1700s, which could be considered the forerunner of “globalism”, and nationalism started popping up in the mid 1700s. But basically, the two worked together as best friends, which brought on the age of empires. It wasn’t until the empires collapsed that they became separate and somewhat opposed.

That being said, even today they’re not even truly opposed concepts - there’s some tension, but you can still have both, even without empires. Of course, if you’re subscribing to a very separatist and isolationist form of nationalism, and defining globalism in terms of evil overlords ruling over all, then I suppose they’d look entirely incompatible… but those aren’t really what those words mean, and aren’t even particularly realistic in today’s world anyway.

Tim Pool #wingnut

Let’s pretend that any of this was even remotely true. In what world does citizen’s arrest allow you to drag someone to your own property, torture them to death, and then… basically just leave the corpse there? And it’s not even remotely true, unless there was some massive coverup and coerced confession oh wait conspiracy theory got it.

I mean, I’m really not sure how much sense it makes to make a hero out of someone who was *involuntarily* martyred, but that’s a separate issue.

Scilence #crackpot #sexist #dunning-kruger #psycho

“Lolis” in that sense don’t exist. There is nothing genuinely “scientific” which can be said about things which aren’t real.

Buuut… let’s comment a bit further on that anyway. The standardized “cute/childish” look/behavior was originally called “moe” and was meant to invoke feelings of protectiveness rather than lust. That still exists, though it gets dismissed by some as “moeshit” because it’s desexualized. And japan being japan, they just couldn’t help fetishizing everything, so… lolis. But, you know, it’s basically candy. For ephebophiles (and in some cases, pedophiles) it’s superficially “better” than anything real. Similar to how for some people, candy feels basically “better” than food - it can be addictive, once you get too used to it even healthy food tastes like bland garbage in comparison, and yet it’s ultimately empty calories and will wreck your health if you eat it more than sparingly.

This is just what it does to people like you directly, and doesn’t even get into the ethics issues involved when it warps how you see other people. That being said, at present I’m not going to call for banning it in general; just, you know, the stuff which gets dangerously close to child porn. A thing being bad for some people isn’t necessarily a reason to get rid of it.

Anonymous Coward #80286756 #conspiracy #quack #wingnut

Virtually no one is ever like “isn’t it really suspicious that most people on *my* side”, yet plenty of people are willing to say the opposite, which says something about how fallacious that is.

Bennett Lee Ross #crackpot #conspiracy #wingnut #magick

Let’s examine the tiny kernel of truth inherent to this: High-energy electromagnetic fields can mess with the nervous system, potentially making people feel more irritable. Combined with high-temperature weather lowering people’s inhibitions, and blasting people with propaganda, could theoretically result in the more violence-inclined members of certain groups trying to kill each other. In practice, trying to generate a strong enough field via a plane would require a power plant’s worth of energy, would light up the sky like a miniature sun, and would probably melt the plane, and then you’d need to run this “experiment” many times to make sure it actually had such an effect, given that propaganda alone has been known to work.

This being said, 5G uses a portion of the microwave band which isn’t known to cause issues with biology (it might, in very subtle ways, but we’ll eventually figure that out if it does, because humans can be rather cavalier about consequences which can’t be known without decades of testing), and at extremely low energies. In fact, if it didn’t just pass through people (virtually) unhindered, it would be useless as a communication band. And if we’re not disrupting it just by existing, then it’s not disrupting us either - interactivity goes both ways.

Microwave weapons do exist, but their effect is very short range, measured in single-digit meters, and use a very different portion of the microwave band.

Socrates #crackpot #dunning-kruger #homophobia #wingnut

I would point out: “Gay” is an uncommon middle and last name, there are older movies which use the term “gay” in the older sense of “happy/joyous”, there’s “Enola Gay” which is both the nickname for the B-29 Superfortress Bomber plane and an anti-war song, there are at least as many people who have gay people in their lives as there are Beatles fans (and probably a lot more!) and as @Anon-e-moose said, a significant chunk of talking about gay people is hate speech, while as far as I’ve seen Beatles hate is rare and mostly from either One Direction fans (???why???) or from religious folks who are mad at John Lennon’s “Imagine” for dunking on religion. So why wouldn’t the number be higher?

Socrates #conspiracy #crackpot #dunning-kruger #racist #wingnut

The “rich Washington DC elites” have business ties with many different countries. That’s part of how they got rich. Why should it be surprising that some of them have business ties with one particular country? Particularly one which has the potential to be an economic powerhouse, but has had trouble getting to that point in the post-Soviet era and needed some outside help? Not seeing the forest for the trees, here.

DietCokeAddict , BJ581 & sojourner_truth_ #kinkshaming #transphobia

I’ve long believed that, once trans people are no longer the primary target in conservative crosshairs, furries would most likely be next. Maybe I’ve just been noticing more, but it seems like there’s been a slow rise in people publicly or semi-publicly coming out as a furry in the past several months, and with corresponding levels of hateful reaction.

Regardless: Fuck you, leave furries alone.

Ann Coulter #crackpot #elitist #racist

This is another of those “toxic masculinity? are you saying men are toxic?” sort of situations. Congratulations, you failed grammar!

Naval #crackpot #dunning-kruger #elitist #mammon

Golden Dawncel #psycho #racist

Ukraine should be nuked

Not happening. Putin wants Ukraine’s resources and cities, not radioactive craters.

Ironically for you, in the unlikely chance the world goes up in nuclear hellfire, Ukraine would most likely be among the places still standing, for however long humanity lasted at that point.

Various Blackpillers #sexist #psycho #racist

“Polonia”? Really? [Edit] Apparently that’s a very old name for Poland, and is still used in an old-timey fashion. Never mind.

If you mean Femen, then they’re currently in Ukraine, and protesting the invasion. https://femen.org/putin-go-home-3/

And also, women are joining up with the guerilla forces. I can’t speak to the gender ratios, but at least some of them are fighting for their homeland.

Candace Owens #conspiracy #dunning-kruger #wingnut

Legend says that if you speak the name “Hunter Biden” three times while looking in a mirror, a time machine will show up with Trump’s missing votes.

Rhaast #psycho #wingnut

One would hope that, were Putin that far gone, the military would disobey and not fire any nukes. There’s no glory for Mother Russia if Russia ceases to exist.

PrimalRedemption #crackpot #conspiracy #racist #wingnut #fundie

@Bastethotep #115494

Wow. That’s impressively both less and more stupid, somehow.

David Mahan #fundie

Let me guess. Is this the version where you tell the person who is trying to rape you “no thanks”, and if that doesn’t work, clasp your knees together? And we’re talking children here, which makes this approach even less realistic. Or is this the magical thinking version where if you’re resolved to chastity, you simply won’t be targeted?

I mean, a lot of people who don’t really understand rape or sexual abuse have some really weird and messed-up ideas which lead to victim-blaming, but either of these lines of thinking is wronger than usual.

PrimalRedemption #crackpot #conspiracy #racist #wingnut #fundie

Siiiigh. I’m assuming that “concave earth” is actually just one of those flat-earth variants which need to be concave in order to explain away some of the discrepancies in the physics of their flat-earth model. The one I’m most familiar with is the one where the world is a crater within a vast sea of ice (Antarctica) which is only melted because the sun is moving around in a circle above where the equator is. No, I have no idea how the sun is supposed to hover up in the sky, but I’m sure somebody’s tried to explain it.

PWsecretlysubpoenaed #conspiracy #dunning-kruger #pratt #wingnut

If somebody had posted this back when Q was still active, I would have hoped that this was satire. Not that it wasn’t all over the place, but what I saw wasn’t *this* all over the place. Sadly, at this point I really don’t think it is.

Andrew Anglin #homophobia #transphobia #dunning-kruger

Wow, lots of equivocation here. You’re creating and attacking a strawman philosophy where physical sex, sexual orientation, and sexual activities are all treated as “choices” which are not fundamentally different from each other, and all choices are of equal moral status. Of course it’s incoherent. You created it to be.

This is the problem with consent theory – it can just mean whatever.

I’ve seen this sentiment pop up before, and it’s projection. It’s people who muddy the waters for their own benefit (to be predatory, or to dodge the consequences of reckless behavior, or to cavalier about other people’s personal autonomy) who act like consent is some unknowable thing which can’t really be quantified - and accuse others of trying to define “consent” to mean whatever they want it to, for personal benefit.

Massresistance #transphobia #dunning-kruger #pratt

“We are living in an unprecedented global health crisis, with confirmed cases of COVID-19 increasing on a daily basis … we need to be bringing people together, not dividing them.” [In other words, not protect children from lunatic ideologies and damaging medical procedures?]

I’m going to focus on this one entirely because, like usual, once it’s truly set in with the Republican Party that there’s been a political and shift and their power has diminished, they resort to “You know, Democrats, if you *really* want to get the important things done, why don’t you just compromise and give us some culture war victories? If not, then we’ll drag things out and water things down and people will hate you because you didn’t do enough and it will be all your fault.” And appeasing them to get things done didn’t work all that great under Clinton and backfired under Obama.

And in the end, it’s because the “culture war”, particularly their “right” to engage in “traditional bigotries” unhindered, matters to the most recent crop of Republicans more than anything else. Even abortions, guns, and class warfare against the poor.

Matt Walsh #transphobia #wingnut

You know, if Matty-Matty MonMattwalsh (I decided that tacking on “Mc” would be an insult to Scots, so I used “Mon” for “Monster” instead) has a (at least presumed) legal right to spew this kind of shit, I wonder how people like him would react if US trans folk tried claiming that transitioning was a First Amendment right. Like, maybe frame it as a form of self-expression, or something.

I’m not saying that would be a good idea to argue that on an actual legal level (or maybe it might be, no idea) just that it might be funny if they got apoplectic about it.

Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton #wingnut #transphobia

Hmm… I’m noticing an increase in Tradcons playing up the “mutilation” angle, which used to be mostly TERF territory. In a recent quote from Ken Paxton, “In reality, these 'sex change' procedures seek to destroy a fully functioning sex organ in order to cosmetically create the illusion of a sex change." This seems suspiciously like goalpost-moving, like they’ve lost most of the traction in their earlier arguments. And assuming medical technology marches on, one which they will definitely have to shift again, sooner or later.

Regardless, it’s interesting how even people who they see as men (or at least claim to) are presumed to have no right or control over their own bodies, because… genitalia, or perhaps just flesh, is sacred now? I mean, some of them do have issues with tattoos and breast implants but you almost never see them trying to legislate that. And they’re using various forms of “but what if children” as a clobber argument, as if we were on the verge of radically changing how children’s legal rights and protections work. (Granted, they probably desperately need to believe that…)

The-Great-Work #crackpot #wingnut #conspiracy #mammon #dunning-kruger

@TheKingOfRhye #115427

I’m not 100% certain, but I think the logic behind the phrase “sovereign citizen” is that your “person” and your “private self” are two different things. The government claims sovereignty over your “person” (in the form of citizenship) as a means of controlling your “private self”. SovCits attempt to “reclaim” their person/citizenship from the government so that they and only they have sovereignty over it.

Regardless, they’re trying to have their cake and eat it too - all the rights and protections of citizenship with out any of the restrictions and responsibilities. Because they’re just too dumb to realize that if it worked even remotely like they think it does, they would end up being a “stateless person” and would, at best, have the status equivalent to a foreign tourist.

James White #fundie #homophobia #kinkshaming #transphobia

Oh come on now. Wrath (generally considered to mean channeling anger and/or hatred into violence) is practically a virtue for the right these days.

Matt Walsh #transphobia #wingnut

Matty-boy, in your war on trans kids, is the worst-faith arguments imaginable really your only weapon?

Michael Saylor #crackpot #mammon

I looked into him a bit and apparently he’s deep into blockchain woo. Which I really should have realized was going to become a thing eventually. Some of his quotes look like this:

#Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.

His less obtusely metaphorical quotes strongly suggest that he considers himself a prophet, and he’s prophesying the end of government-backed currency, and… also he apparently thinks poor people don’t have any meaningful power or voice, and those who don’t buy into the one true crypto (Bitcoin) before the currency collapse are going to be rendered poor… so I’m thinking that maybe the #god-complex tag is appropriate here as well, or at least would be if there was more context in the OP.

Kevin Logan & oenz #psycho #sexist

@The_Dybbuk #115209

I think people are getting stupider and stupider right in front of my eyes.

I don’t think that’s really true. My take is that most people start out stupid. Some people stay there. Other people get smarter over time, some broadly, and some in limited areas. For those who become broadly smarter, there is an increasing awareness of how generally stupid everyone who stays there truly is.

And that’s without how the gradual increase in social media makes stupidity even more visible, and specific forms of stupidity more organized. And organized stupidity can be scary, even dangerous. But even before social media existed, pretty much every generation had people who despaired that humanity appeared to be getting dumber. Granted that some of those people would be the kind who appear on this website today, most often under “Dunning-Krueger” or “pyscho”, but generally they’re decent enough folks who just don’t realize that it’s not everyone else who’s changed, it’s themselves.

But assuming that’s all true, don’t let it go to your head. That way lies Dunning-Krueger territory. Stay humble, check yourself, be kind to others even if they screw up unless they’re horrible garbage humans, blah blah blah, I’m sure you can figure out more good advice on your own or will be able to eventually. 😀

Michael Saylor #crackpot #mammon

The most common reason why people get into cryptocurrency is that they don’t trust governments with economic regulation. The biggest problem with how cryptocurrencies economically function* is that, once enough people use them for them to become economically viable, they start developing all the major problems which forced governments to regulate their economies in the first place.

That’s not to say that economic regulations don’t ever have problems - they very much do - but for people who aren’t criminals, or reckless greedheads, or free-market fanatics who have no issues with the richest locking everyone else out of the market (or are foolish enough to believe that won’t happen), most regulated economies are safer than unregulated ones.

*I specified “how cryptocurrencies economically function” because, depending on your political priorities, you might see other issues surrounding them as bigger problems.

Doctor Placebo #transphobia

I’m generally amused at how some people throw around the prefix “nu-” as if the thing being described were some sort of vague threat to the cishet gender orthodoxy, or as some wacky embarrassing new trend which should be ignored in hopes that it will go away, or both at the same time. Admittedly part of it’s because when I read it my subconscious initially jumps to it being the French word for “nude” which brings up some imagery that they’d *really* have a problem with, particularly if they’re talking about a children’s show. But there’s also the aspect where tacking “nu-” on to things they don’t like threatens to become an embarrassing trend itself…

Laura Wood #quack #conspiracy

That is… certainly a take. One which has only vaguest possible semblance to reality, in that some of the words appear to be used according to the usual definitions, independently of what their sentence is saying.