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Robert Stacy McCain #homophobia

The fact alone you disingenuously try to point to a Canadian mental health study because you think you can torture a sentence or two to fit your narrative but move on quickly to decry the “socialized” medicine behind my country and that study you’re waving like a dog turd on the end of a stick as “Dark Age mysticism” is about all anyone needs to know about your intellectual honesty.

But then again we live in a post-fact world where words don’t mean anything and your precious fee-fees are more important to keep safe than your laws or the rights of anyone that isn’t you because you feel like you should have the right to fuck up everyone else’s life to keep feeling like you’re special.

Ted Cruz #fundie #sexist #wingnut

Did this guy become a politician by going door-to-door saying to everyone “You voted for me” before walking away and they somehow believed him? Is that how he got into government despite being unqualified to wash dishes, unlikable on any level, and quite openly hated by everyone regardless of their political affiliation in addition to being caught running from his responsibilities? Did somehow getting lucky with a Jedi Mind Trick gone horribly wrong get him his job and that’s why this spineless blobfish of a man can somehow come across as brazen, insulting the intelligence of literally anyone who was not in a coma on Jan 6 while everyone from the news, to the besieged politicians, to the rioters themselves took to every platform to broadcast the carnage?

How and why is Ted Cruz?

Lauren Boebert #wingnut

Joke’s on you if that’s how he figures he gets out of a divorce with the lion’s share.

Candace Owens #wingnut

Randomly stopping to think would be a very real existential crisis to the likes of you.

A vaccine is only effective against a known strain. When the strain mutates the vaccination is ineffective. Thus when idiots who don’t vaccinate pass the disease between each other to the point it mutates beyond what the vaccine can account for it renders that vaccine useless. If you have people vaccinate in great enough numbers that the strain the vaccine is designed to defeat has nowhere to go that it does not quickly meet its doom it has no chance to mutate.

This isn’t hard. It’s grade school level, why are you able to represent a university?

Oh yeah, it’s because the “university” you take money from is such a blatantly dishonest sham and insult to the very concept of human reasoning they pay you, a black woman, to play down how fucking awful slavery is, was, always has been, always will be, and what the lasting damage is.

And you take that money. With no shame and not a care for how much damage those lies do to anyone.

The sex industry is an already unspeakably exploitative thing and yet to call you a whore for the way you sell yourself out demeans that enterprise even to someone who hasn’t the capacity to draw a moral line between those who force others into prostitution and those who have little choice but to barter their bodies if they want to survive. You rent out your soul, Candace. Nice work though, getting paid so much more than what such a rotted and defective thing is worth.

James Lindsay #transphobia

BettERtoreigninhell #sexist #psycho

<@Malingspann> #126029

It’s short hand for a term pick up artists use. The gist of it is to find excuses to touch women on the idea it builds a physical connection. Everything here is some kind of sick perversion of already bad PUA advice.

Andrew Anglin #dunning-kruger #pratt #conspiracy

A claim repeatedly failed to be proven in any fashion in a court of law. While Trump operatives walked people through how to vote in two different states by listing a relative’s house as their place of residence, openly took down legitimate ballot boxes and set up fake decoys that would not be counted, crippled the already beleaguered post office, and blatantly harassed and intimidated both voters and vote counters.

And oh yeah, small thing no big deal really declared himself the winner without certification, tried to overturn the legitimate results many times getting caught and recorded harassing state representatives demanding they “find” or discount enough votes to swing it in his favour or taking the mask right off telling them to just declare him the winner regardless culminating in a much more violent coup attempt.

Greg Abbott #elitist #fundie #racist #wingnut

Really undercuts the “they know what they did” narrative.

But this is unsurprising from a man who doesn’t think paying taxes entitles taxpayers (which by the way includes illegal immigrants and excludes the one percent who keep getting tax breaks despite rarely actually paying their taxes, go fucking figure) to anything or paying their extortionate electric bills in a disaster Texas went to extreme lengths to avoid being required to prepare for.

John C. Wright #sexist

It’s a bit grating that the same people who can insist that personality must have a hard gender divide are also the ones who insist your gender is defined by your body rather than your identity and changing your body to match rather than subjecting yourself to a lifetime of mental torture to fit the expectations of people who will still be constantly looking down their noses at you is sacrilege.

Also if you don’t alter your body to be more in line with the masculine/feminine external ideal that’s also sacrilege.

Basically being yourself and having an individual identity rather than a mandate to bend to the will of an unforgiving collective is a mortal sin… Wait isn’t that what these fuckers keep saying leftism is?

WinterStone #crackpot

I think I’ll look at the much less prophetic, more immediate and tangible warning sign that women’s reproductive rights just got shanked in the spine after a decades long waiting game to stack the court paid off when the worst possible person got to pick three people all at once who were all belligerent, evasive, and even outright lied in their confirmation hearings. One of those lies was when specifically asked if they had designs on Roe v Wade.

Canada’s doubtlessly going to be getting a major surge of medical tourists.

Vincent James #homophobia #sexist

And as recently as right fucking now having a child when too young, too poor, or for any reason at all single (despite incredible societal pressure to get into a relationship and have children as quickly as possible, often with the insane advice that if there are issues in a relationship having a baby will somehow fix them instead of proving detrimental to the raising of said baby) is something women are shamed and ostracized for to such a degree it directly physically endangers their children. Especially if the reason they’re single is that the father is an abusive piece of trash because to an insane degree the public will get behind “daddy” even all he wants to do is make life miserable for his “defiant” family.

Oh, and parents that kill their children with willful neglect get “moral” support whether it’s because they’re conspiracy nuts, think prayers are more effective than penicillin, or just plain treat their kids as an unwanted burden and worsen their treatment simply as a middle finger to doctors or social services when they try to intervene because how dare they tell parents how to raise a child and how double dare they take that child away and keep them in hospital.

Looking at you again Ammon Bundy and the unbelievable way people support you threatening the lives of representatives of the law yet again and now creeping up on children in the hospital and harassing the staff when they tell you to get the fuck out of the pediatric ward. Jeff Younger, too.

Charlie Kirk #fundie #wingnut

Just so we’re clear: Your veiled threat is taken for what it actually is and your sham morals are seen for the sham they are.

Lauren Boebert #fundie #wingnut

Setting aside an incoherent conspiracy theorist who has never substantiated their claims and makes outrageous accusations just to be disruptive who supported an attempt to disregard the will of the people and install a dictator saying this…

The inability to question the will of The Man of The Household and reliance that the will of God is to find yourself a Man of The Household to submit yourself to and bear children for that will be indoctrinated into the unquestioning repetition of these beliefs is pretty much the singular recruitment tactic of the political right at this point.

Who are you and what do you want are very dangerous questions to conservatives when the answer is left to the individual rather than have it indirectly imposed that the “right” answer is very singular and the “wrong” answer is an affront to life that should be severely punished until the offender is “corrected” into being as they “should” be according to the model you are not allowed to question.

Matt Walsh #fundie #wingnut

If from the moment sperm touches an egg it is a person, then that “person” can be charged with a crime. With recent proposed changes to how self-defense works in the United States a person claiming self defense does not have to prove they were in any kind of danger or that the force they used was reasonable and indeed that the court must presume the dead party is guilty without establishing a crime.

Frame abortion as self defense. With intent no longer a factor can you prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a baby can’t kill to the same standard the next of kin somebody “stood their ground” against must prove to clear the dead person’s name going forward?

xAlienx #fundie

Your wager assumes that there is only one God - a God you think you have figured out despite every religion centered around Their basic idea hating each other often enough to kill - or else none at all which *somehow* makes the reality we live in meaningless and that there can be no such thing as good. It also assumes that this God is so egotistical they will make you suffer for not singing their praises no matter how disingenuously, something I would argue is already assuming such malevolence you’re just going to find yourself tortured eventually anyway with no offense required because it gratifies your God’s ego and a reason not to give them the satisfaction.

But what if this God actually values honest living instead and finds lip service to what you perceive as a monster - but are afraid to say it outright because you see them as a monster - much more offensive and a sure indicator that whatever morals they would instill are meaningless in the face of your fear as you take them less to heart than the threat of punishment? What if there are many Gods and ALL of them will find ways to punish you for taking a side? What if the God you ascribe to is even more insanely malevolent than you’re already assuming and an afterlife with them is eternal torture but pledging yourself to them the way you say is the “safe” bet is actually the only way they get their hands on your soul to enact this torture and you’re otherwise either reincarnated until you fall for their trap or pass into merciful oblivion?

That is not a safe bet. And frankly to live in eternal fear, to willingly throw away everything you are and everything you will ever value, to submit willingly to something evil because you’re taking long odds it might decide to go easy on you is not a life worth living and certainly not an afterlife to look forward to. If your God is willing to hurt you to prevent you from making a choice it’s already proof it can’t stop you. It’s not omnipotent enough to take that from you if you don’t fear it. And I’ll take the satisfaction of having defeated an “omnipotent” being simply by living a life to my conscience. My desire to be good is more powerful than your sick vision of God. Every human being can defeat your sick vision of God.

Kevin Sorbo #wingnut #sexist

And in one short sentence you know exactly what kind of dishonest, pig-headed, egotistically fragile manchild and double standards you’re dealing with and how desperate he is to project it on to everyone else.

Lauren Boebert #fundie #sexist #wingnut

You’re a mouthpiece for a conspiracy group that was willing to commit murder when you had to wear a mask outside so you wouldn’t inadvertently spread the plague. Something that thanks to your fucking conspiracy peddling makes North America the new Africa where that disease is concerned. Not surprising considering disinformation is EXACTLY why AIDS is as bad as it is in Africa.

But when you lose an actual right paving the way for others to be similarly subverted for often religious reasons despite that being explicitly unconstitutional? Meh, quit whining ya baby and have that baby even if it kills you. Which in the United States of America is a lot more likely than you think. Your right to vote’s getting some funny looks these days already lady, almost as bad as the right to vote for anyone that doesn’t have your particular levels of melanin are.

Lisa Renee #crackpot #magick #ufo #fundie #conspiracy

I’m sorry, actual Crystal Dragon Jesus peddling? You’re being that transparent and unoriginal? TV Tropes should be able to sue.

Liz Wheeler #fundie #sexist #wingnut #transphobia

A woman is a person, a sentient being that recognizes themselves and their existence with the capacity for thought and emotion. With the right to life, liberty, security of person, and dignity. Who they are is for them to determine. A person is not property, their mind and body not something to be broken and remolded at the pleasure of another without it being a crime against humanity.

Not so hard. And I think it’s a description that sits better with people than the unspoken definition you seem to be using: A womb that must maintain itself in service to the expansion of its tribe or lose its purpose and place.

Now you tell me: What is a person to you and what definition of rights do you use that they are inalienable to some and a nonsensical privilege to be revoked for others?

BibleProphecyFulfill #conspiracy

Absolutely failing to provide a shred of evidence in court 70 times over to judges Trump not only appointed but was caught reminding them he appointed them and that this meant they “owed” him doesn’t seem to mean anything to these people. And if you think the side you support is so unbelievably dirty that every last one of them lives in paralyzing fear of apparently extremely easily obtained and presumably prolific amounts of evidence of terrible things they’ve done being used as blackmail material you might want to rethink what it is you see in their character. And considering the ways they flagrantly ignore the law in plain sight whatever they don’t want known must be some unthinkably twisted shit.

Also if this undefinable “Deep State” simply decides who is in charge why would they need a guy to “rubber stamp” anything? Much less someone who they would be giving a reason to resent and act against them if they were coercing them with threats. That kind of overcomplicates and endangers the whole secrecy thing.

RubinDawn #dunning-kruger #pratt

The day that white supremacist fuck thinks he can speak for me is the day he gets to wipe his ass with his own tongue. Lucky for him he’s too busy acting like nobody that doesn’t serve his narrative deserves to speak their mind.

Prussian Society of America #sexist

Trying to uninvite people who likely already want absolutely nothing to do with you or events you aren’t actually hosting anywhere but your wistful dreams of not being socially maladjusted hateful losers that quickly exhaust any pity that prompts people to hang out with them loses a bit of its bite. Which is already feeble gums at best.

StevenR #fundie #wingnut #racist

Liz Wheeler #conspiracy #wingnut

Hi there, I’m from President Trump’s accountability help desk. I’m just here to let you know there is no pandemic, every medical professional in the world is murdering their patients for an untraceable 2000 dollars each. So untraceable not even they will find it in their bank accounts so stop asking. You didn’t lose your job, you have six more jobs than you used to have and they pay better than before especially if you’re black. Donald Trump won a second term. It was antifa that overran Capitol Hill and the President was so very worried for everyone that his phone broke. And there’s no such thing as Ukraine, Russia (which he would bomb and fake like it was China) is just winning back what already belongs to Putin.

And if you question any of this you are horrible and hurtful and fake news. This is why we opened up the libel laws to sue. Trump has never lost a case so you best be ready. That’s not a threat, how dare you say something like that.

Mitt Romney #elitist #mammon #wingnut

Do you want a workforce that can compete globally? A middle class to envy instead of a stark divide between have and have-not that employment does nothing to alleviate?

Or do you just want to scribble a smiley face on the kind of “bonded labourer” bullshit that you pretend you can wash your hands of when it happens in some faraway country full of brown people?

Candace Owens #fundie #transphobia #wingnut

Hilarious line considering the push to censor biology classes on “moral” grounds and replace them with abstinence only educations. In fact if any lesson makes somebody uncomfortable or feel bad Republicans made it possible to ban it from a classroom. Well, anybody that *matters* to Republicans feel bad, that is. Everyone else as always can quit their crying and eat shit.

Prussian Society of America #conspiracy #dunning-kruger #racist

A white supremacist complaining about the racially slanted propaganda of a self-superior white empire because it makes his white ancestors look like thuggish oafs who never accomplished anything and only took from others.

And in the same rant doing the same thing, just doubting other people’s whiteness.

Please excuse me, I need to show this to a pot and kettle that have been having an argument.

Liz Wheeler #conspiracy #fundie #wingnut

Thank heaven for these daily reminders because if all I had to go by was what he said or did I would never know any of this about him because everything he’s ever done in public is tell people not to make each other sick as was the job he was hired to do and that contrary to popular belief disease doesn’t give a flying fuck about your religion or nationality thus magical thinking won’t save a single life. He hides his insidious nature impossibly well in that regard. Thank you so much. I’d never have known.

rsliivergun #wingnut

If unions actually negotiated worse pay or conditions for their members employers would be welcoming them with open arms and a fancy dinner instead of ringing the alarm in a fit of shrieking hysteria and skirting the law in whatever way is necessary to punish workers for even thinking of the word. And the fact that employers do with frightening regularity break the law outright is another reason unions are needed. As one employee with the threat of a fabricated black mark on your work history endangering your chances of getting another job in the future and further weakening your position if you do get another job you’re all but powerless to hold a business accountable to the law even with the law clearly on your side. As a large, organized group with the pooled funds for a prolonged court battle? You have a fighting chance.

From a purely mathematical standpoint union dues will never outstrip the addition to your wages. From the practical view of someone grounded in reality dues are what pay for additional benefits and those benefits drastically reduce the cost of living meaning you keep more of what you take home in addition to taking home more.

I keep hearing the expression “you’ve got to spend money to make money” but it’s really funny how that never seems to apply when it’s a situation like this with immediate measurable benefits but rather when being prompted to essentially make a financial gamble, forced to contend with an extortionate monopoly, or throwing money at an outright scam.

Kevin Sorbo #wingnut

At this point in Cheeto Stubs’ presidency he had started a trade war that necessitated a more than 28 billion dollar bailout of impacted Americans. A bailout that in the case of the 7.7 billion earmarked for farmers it became extremely noticeable that farms owned and operated by black people were visibly stonewalled.

After already implementing policy of treating migrants and refugees in ways illegal under existing U.S. and international laws pretending the legal framework that they were applying for simply didn’t exist he began deporting them without their children who were held in poorly supervised detention centers likened by many to dog kennels. When children were finally reunited with their parents they were often psychologically disturbed, seemingly deliberately conditioned to be hostile to anyone that looked like them. Among other things they were forced to recite the American Pledge of Allegiance despite there not being any intention of treating them as anything other than criminal invaders who do not belong there and whose pledge counted for less than nothing, demeaning the Pledge and simply using it as an insult far more than refusing to stand upright for it. Some children were never reunited with their families at all. And if you have a complete sociopathic lack of any concern for anyone not American to your standards I should note that the people who detained the kids were psychologically impacted too, feeling hollow and disquieted around their own children because of what they’d done.

Trump also flagrantly insulted most of your allies, constantly leaked sensitive information compromising the military, and oh yeah FLAT OUT BETRAYED THE KURDS HAVING TROOPS ABANDON THEIR POSITION ON ZERO NOTICE AT THE REQUEST OF TURKEY AND CLEARING THE WAY FOR A TURKISH OFFENSIVE THAT RESULTED IN THE AT THAT POINT ROUTED ISLAMIC STATE REGAINING THE FIGHTERS AND LEADERSHIP THE KURDS HAD CAPTURED RETURNING THEM TO BEING A SERIOUS THREAT TO THE REGION AND EMBOLDENING LATER TERRORIST ATTACKS!

And other little niggles like abusing his office for his own personal enrichment, completely delegitimizing not just the free press but the concept of reality itself, constantly destroying documents he was legally required to preserve, denouncing America’s own intelligence agencies on international television, paying so little attention to any of his briefings that everyone who worked for him had to constantly repeat his name to keep him interested and use flash cards, it coming out he’s a serial sex offender, openly making every attempt possible to obstruct investigations into Russian interference in your elections because he knew they led back to him and working overtime to reframe the entire scope of the investigation as being about him and not Russia breaking the law in plain sight and trying to fire people he had no legal ability to fire but like everything else in his life before that point he hadn’t been punished for any of it.

And this is all BEFORE he botched the COVID response. He pointedly pretended it didn’t even exist. Then told the states they were on their own, except that if they actually DID ANYTHING he’d overrule them and force them to open up. And seized paid for PPE, auctioned off the strategic national stockpile while using FEMA - who draw from that stockpile - to bid against States to drive up the prices, fanned vaccine conspiracies only to later try to take credit for the first vaccine to roll out which was developed in a German lab and wasn’t part of his “warp speed” initiative which turned out to be spending most of its money on what can only be described as shell corporations with nothing to offer. And you know, fully encouraging the lawless chaos that’s dragged this bullshit out across not just the United States but the entire continent. Oh yeah, and the FUCKING COUP ATTEMPT.

But Joe Biden doing literally anything? Or failing to do what he says because he’s obstructed at every turn? It’s the worst thing ever either way for contradictory reasons.

Fuck you man. You’re making the decent shows you were in retroactively shit for having been in them and that’s almost an accomplishment.

LeGrandDuca ! #racist #wingnut

Right… a Frenchman who uses American English and notably speaks with contempt about “welfare” which the French call something different: Protection Sociale or social protection and hold in high regard as basic right. Repeating American conservative scare chords dependent on American ignorance of foreigners rather than the scare chords used by French conservatives and also quite ironically pulling a reversal on how they view the issue of multiculturalism vis-a-vis the English-speaking world.

Also, France is quite notorious throughout Europe for how badly they treat most immigrants and how much contempt they have for individual cultures demanding they conform to French norms with a ferocity that outstrips even America who at least pay some lip service to the idea of being a melting pot. Something especially pronounced in their attitudes when dealing with those from countries formerly colonized by France, which even today a lot of French politicians refuse to recognize as ever having been countries to begin with, fearing that they themselves might be colonized and denying formal citizenship to such people and their descendants even after generations living in France.

Even somebody coming from France who finds it all just the normal way things are would have to be working pretty hard not to see a deliberate singling out and exclusion of migrants from French society, an exclusion to the point police and the normally sacrosanct medical services simply don’t bother with calls from many of these increasingly boxed in migrant communities which are noticeably declining into slums though most Frenchmen are reluctant to call them ghettos... mostly on the basis that it sounds too American and it’s not just black people or any one race that are confined there. And “don’t bother with calls” from these communities is a far cry from being immune to arrest, indeed once one toe leaves these “sensitive districts” scrutiny is constant and arrest can for come any reason or none at all. Although America still takes the cake on that front with the added danger of summary execution.

Dana Loesch #wingnut

What the fuck constitutes kindness to these people? Issuing an avalanche of death threats and killing their own children by deliberately undermining any and all attempts to implement masks and vaccination - preferring fucking bleach and piss instead - and organizing roving bands of loud, disruptive, violent hooligans to flout the law wherever they could often armed isn’t kind.

What? Is it that you, personally, decided not to chuck firebombs and only break the law in ways that were convenient and consequence free for you only issuing supportive statements to those who went beyond to make that effort?

Fuck you and the asshole that threatened to burn my 7-11 down for reminding him it wasn’t just store policy but the law, you’re a greater danger to me or any given child than any number of black people demanding more police do their jobs like they were cops instead of gangbangers, gay pride events anywhere in the world be it university or the local fucking daycare, or people using the bathroom.

If you’re scared of any of those people how about you take your own advice and just lock yourself in living the shut in life you’re suggesting we should (and the temporary “lockdowns” that you so nicely did not adhere to were to prevent that becoming prolonged something that becomes painfully obvious when you look away from North America where this shit did not prevail and life has returned mostly to normal) despite it being such anathema to you you’re willing to spread death to everyone you meet and leave them to have normal lives? No? Society must cater to you and you alone or else burn so they’re the ones who must be driven out since even in their own homes you consider them dangerous to you?

“Emotional blackmail” of trying to convince you your actions have immediate consequences? While in the meantime you appeal to nothing but the emotions of fear and anger and now are trying to imply threats to much more literally blackmail and extort society to let you keep fucking it the way you’ve been fucking it but with even fewer consequences as you loudly blame everyone else? Eat shit. You might as well complete the combo.

Christopher Key #crackpot #dunning-kruger

How in the hell has humanity cheated natural selection this long when we’re producing enough of these morons for it to become tiresome?

Cancer Is The Only True God #psycho #fundie

@01010101

Generally the quotes here are supposed to be indicative of a defined and pervasive world view. This is most likely low-effort trolling… or it could be an incel, or it could be some weird extreme nihilist. It’s not clear.

I’ll grant there have been more than a few submissions that seem like little more than internet beefs until you scratch the surface. “Colonel-Knight-Rider” has been one such subject.

My own trouble finding clarity is one of the reasons I’m reluctant to submit things myself.

Unknown #racist

Kevin Sorbo #wingnut

@TheKingOfRhye #122939

Also of note is that it’s the Democratic party, not the Democrat Party. So it’s ican against atic.

Though the last person to say yes we can was rather unpopular with the GOP. Oh my, that’s right. There’s another way to refer to the Republican party, so that makes it GOP versus atic or crat or rats or “policy and direct effect on our lives are the absolute last thing I consider when voting.”

Charlie Kirk #crackpot #wingnut

Living in close proximity to others is likely to give you a more liberal perspective because it’s much harder to convince yourself you’re an island in an ocean where individual decisions only impact individual lives than if you’re a ten minute drive from your closest neighbour and comfortable in the knowledge that if you can see a living person from your front porch you have the legal right to tell them to fuck off out of your sight or else die for trespassing.

Your attempt at correlation was hilariously off the mark. Your ability to recognize cause and effect is almost indescribably warped.

Dmitri Peskov #wingnut

@Yutolia #122896

Honestly I would have expected that Putin would have just as much to fear from his underlings if they knew their lives were at stake. But that’s something I’ve never gotten about despots.

Who is this act even FOR at this point? The only people who don’t know what’s going on in Ukraine are those blocked from internet access who wouldn’t see this bullshit statement, a statement that begs some questions about the Russian forces that were already in Ukraine blowing things up if they’re not at war and how that isn’t an act or declaration of war in itself. And the Russian people who are having their information controlled - not as much as Vlad would like but controlled nonetheless - would be right to wonder why this is the first they’ve heard of their cities being invaded by Ukraine and why glorious leader kind of neglected to inform them of such things. Especially those families who have kin in the Russian military that have already died “not” invading Ukraine.

Kevin Sorbo #wingnut

You had an overinflated nobody as your previous president, it did not end well. Or were you announcing your own plans to trip over your own two feet and somehow land in office? Seems to work for the least suited.

Candace Owens #conspiracy #wingnut

It’s almost like current events aren’t some static thing that need your permission to change, isn’t it? Nah, that’s crazy. That would subvert the entire political world view you’re paid to represent.

nosubject and Submissive_Lucy #sexist #psycho

Short answer: No. Long answer: Fuck no and unspeakable things should happen to any scumbag that tries. May candiru infest you simply for entertaining the idea.

Luchy Placencia #conspiracy #ableist #quack

Vaccines don’t cause autism, but do you know what does do measurable brain damage that is being pointedly ignored in parts of Canada and a hell of a lot of the U.S. that affects children? (And my oh my what a coincidence this problem corresponds to areas with racial populations our countries have a long history of treating like garbage.)

Lead in the drinking water from aging pipes.

Pipes that could be replaced but somehow the budget always decides that something else is more important elsewhere. Especially galling when that’s replacing someone else’s not-quite-as-aged pipes.

Destroying the world is as easy as letting bigots make up whatever the hell they want to believe to justify treating everyone else like crap and blaming whatever they please to deflect when it spills back on them. Whether it’s along racial lines, attacking anyone that doesn’t fit into enforced norms, or manufactured moral panics.

Woodrow wilson Resurrected #pratt #racist

Anyone of colour is expected to follow “the law” even when what they’re being subjected to is not lawful.

To be stopped and searched at a whim. To have identification and property seized without cause or redress. To have their right to be in a public place challenged. To not have their right to self defense recognized even if fired upon. To be put in mortal danger and have the supposed peacekeepers regularly actively escalate into violence with the onus always on them to de-escalate but at the same time have any attempt at de-escalation be viewed as disrespect which is grounds enough for a fatal gunshot. To be fined beyond legal limits, to be jailed when others would be fined or simply warned, to be a hated invader in their home threatened daily by neighbours whose rights trump theirs and who would be considered justified pretty much by default in using lethal force if they ever felt the slightest bit threatened. And they are justified feeling threatened just by POC being in their sight while any suggestion that they are harassing said POC is hostile and ungrateful.

To always be presumed guilty, the establishment of a crime to come after punishment or in the post-mortem. And if they don’t like it? Well they can pack their shit and leave. If they don’t want to fit in with society nothing’s keeping them here, it’s “our” home not theirs and they’ll be reminded of that constantly. There’s no need for the majority to concern themselves with a “troublesome” minority’s wants even if they’re literally dying simply trying to follow “rules” that only apply as entities that want them to lose see fit to apply them.

But on the flipside? People like Ammon Bundy can ignore fines, resist arrest, hold police at gunpoint, assault federal employees, harbor known criminal arsonists, burst into an unrelated infant’s hospital room and harass the staff when he’s ejected, openly and explicitly threaten the lives of others including members of law enforcement by name…

And be celebrated for defending their “rights” to completely disregard the law because it inconveniences them.

The same people who would dismiss any wrongdoing if a black man was shot dead because he entered a 7-11 without a shirt with a policy not to serve shirtless people posted on the door and just say “if they followed the law it wouldn’t have happened” up in arms if the same 7-11 posted a mask policy and a white person not only came in without a mask but assaulted the sales associates for telling them to put one on and would expect the police to arrest the clerk. The same people who outright legalized vehicular manslaughter if it got rid of BLM protesters because being where they could be seen and heard was simply annoying and could disrupt shopping out for blood when “Canadian” Truckers were dispersed after days of playing British Bulldogs with the RCMP, ignoring orders to stop blocking roads in a deliberate bid to cause economic damage, and honking their horns in the dead of night specifically to harass and psychologically torment citizens.

And if we law abiding masses don’t like it? Well we can pack our shit and leave. They have no obligation to fit into society’s demands. It doesn’t matter that it’s “our” society if it gets in the way of their “rights” and to deny them that is the tyranny of the majority.

Carina Benton #wingnut #homophobia #transphobia #fundie

If explaining LGBT is teaching children explicit sexuality (and being trans has absolutely nothing to do with sex, disingenuous fundies insist on sexualizing gender as a concept) then the same would have to be said for any mention of marriage or what parents are, and anyone who ever says they want grandkids would have to stand accused of grooming their children for sex because it’s directly stating you want them to have sex so you will have those grandkids.

Woodrow wilson Resurrected #pratt #racist

Face the facts, Negroes, your race are a failed race because you're a feckless, unruly, uncivilized horde of feral proto-humans. You never figured out how to live in a society bigger than one or two squabbling families.

Looking at modern America - what you claim is “white culture” at its peak - and the complete inability to maintain any semblance of order during the pandemic because entitled idiots were aghast at the idea of limitations on their “freedoms” like having to wear a piece of fabric over their faces for reasons so inconsequential as a deadly contagious virus or cancelling travel plans to the point they would storm restaurants armed with rocket launchers and how it’s two-party system (two squabbling all encompassing dysfunctional families) handled it with the noticeably whiter of the two being by far the most willing to turn a blind eye to the law or let corpses pile in the streets and not just from the virus…

Friendo, you fall short of the fantasy hellscape you’re trying to saddle black people with. A hellscape you’re determined to bring into reality with your own hands. And they maintain more human dignity and concern for their fellow man than you even with you deliberately trying to stamp them under your boot because you will watch society burn - you will put it to the torch yourself - before you ever allow anyone to make you feel like you’re not inherently special or worse that others have just as much right to this world as you.

And everything after that quoted paragraph? Fucking lazy lies. The concept of settled civilization began in Africa, as did farming and irrigation. Brickmaking and glassblowing existed in Africa long before colonization, brick was just not used for permanent living structures. Anything that’s attributable to Egyptians is inevitably going to involve black people as well they were a major part of the population. There were absolutely black sailors, explorers, and traders, you just like to think the discovery of the Americas - an accident rather than a daring search for new lands - overshadows anything they did. Writing systems come and go even without colonials actively stamping out all evidence of them and arguments about about languages fading from existence certainly never get used against white people who are celebrated for even aborted systems or simply copying better ones like adopting Arabic numerals.

Africans had empires just like the rest of their neighbours. At some point though they collapsed and as with all history their bones were built on top of. Difference is while we continue to claim what’s built from our bones and what we built on top of theirs you deny them the same right. From our intervention onward everything considered positive belongs to us even if we’re not involved, something that is not allowed to work in the other direction for all they build in our society you deny them any share of the claim.

Brent Mitchell #fundie #wingnut

There are thousands of denominations that all follow Abrahamic scriptures, each of them born from the “true” religion being the law and somebody standing up and saying “you’re doing it wrong” and splintering off to worship God the “right” way denouncing everyone that came before and the inevitable splinter groups that repeat this cycle after. A tradition that dates back to Jesus who saw a people that lived by the letter of scripture but were selfish, self-righteous, quick to harm one another or excuse blatant heartlessness, and more concerned with lording grand displays of their faith over those they deemed “unworthy” than they were being anything approaching good people.

And Abrahamic scripture itself pulled this on previous pantheistic beliefs, beliefs adherents worked to wipe from memory meaning if the “true” religion is one of those - and frankly speaking, if there was one true God that communicated with humans from the very beginning wouldn’t it make more sense for an earlier belief system to be correct rather than one that comes much later - it’s gone forever.

Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity? - Vaas Montenegro

Starr County Sheriff’s Office #sexist

I saw this coming a mile off. We probably all did. Fun Fact: Naturally occurring miscarriages are also classified as “abortion” to some State laws. I least, I only hope it’s some and not all.

… Wonder if you can sue Texas churches as representatives of God for those, because I’m sure a lot of you have heard this phrase on the worst days of your life: He moves in mysterious ways.

I really want this bullshit to bite the amoral cowards backing it in the worst way.

Imaniceguy #crackpot #psycho #sexist

All those shitstains that try to paint just admitting lesbian, gay, transgender, asexual people exist all as acts of grooming? (That last one being an absolute wallbanger of a leap of “logic” beyond even the contortion act they try to use for the rest.) Show them this and let’s see how long they suffer to bluff like they’re anything approaching honest in their statements and “crusade” against those with openly admitted sexual designs where we can see them. Let two factions warring against humanity fight a flame war against each other for a while, we could all use a coffee break before they redouble their low-efforts.

Lila Rose #conspiracy #wingnut

I think this is how Simon of Trent was canonized…