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moomin #conspiracy #racist #sexist #wingnut

Geez this is old-school conspiracy theory format. I haven’t seen it in forever.

Gr8Believer #fundie

Sometimes I can’t tell if this sort of thing is just *really* childish mockery, or if such things are really the extent of their “knowledge”. Because while I know there exist people who are just that ignorant, I’m really hoping they’re not as common as it sometimes appears.

Dalton Clodfelter #psycho #transphobia

Here’s what bullying generally accomplishes: After years of recovering from a life broken by bullying, the victim becomes… more resistant to bullying. Which comes at a high long-term cost, and is something they would probably not actually need if people cracked down on bullies a lot more. Meanwhile, from the perspective of a perpetrator who is genuinely deluding themselves into thinking it’s for the victim’s “own good” (assuming they see the eventual outcome, which they probably won’t), it’s a crapshoot whether the long-term effects are “better” or “worse” and whether their actions had anything to do with that, either way. That’s not even getting into how bullies sometimes harm themselves, usually in subtle ways, by those actions, but rarely have the self-awareness to understand how and why.

That’s all assuming that things don’t go sideways in a very bad way.

Peter Wright #dunning-kruger #sexist #wingnut

I wouldn’t be surprised if many, or even most, MGTOWs were aromantic. That just makes them male aromantics who are complete assholes, which doesn’t need any particular acknowledgement. It’s not even a socio-sexual microlabel, because there almost certainly exist MGTOWs who aren’t aromantic, so that just leaves “men who are complete assholes” which are a dime a dozen and most don’t even identify as MGTOWs. Really, it’s just a minor subculture who are dedicated to whining about how there aren’t enough of them to pull off a reverse Lysistrata plot.

David J. Stewart #dunning-kruger #fundie

Closely related species can usually produce hybrids. While it’s possible for hybridization to drive evolution, it’s neither sufficient nor necessary, and probably not common either, as hybrids themselves can’t always reproduce.

Massresistance #transphobia #homophobia #dunning-kruger #conspiracy #fundie

Various Commenters #wingnut #racist #conspiracy

Since Abortion started in the 70s the cherishing of any human life has been steadily devalued.

Life has always been treated as if it were cheap… unless you were one of the “highborn”, whatever that meant at any particular time and place (most often the nobility). Post WWII, the White Middle class was treated as being among the highborn, but since then there’s been very gradual decay in the inherent value of the white middle class but very gradual increase along nearly everyone else.

You can speculate the reasons behind that all you want, but you’d need pretty strong evidence that abortion rights had anything to do with that, given that it doesn’t seem to have happened in Western Europe, where abortion rights are still strong.

Bennett Lee Ross #crackpot #ufo #magick #conspiracy #wingnut

By the mentions of “stack” and “sleeve”, I see you’ve been reading and/or watching “Altered Carbon” and somehow mistook it for reality. While I haven’t seen either the book trilogy or the Netflix series based on it, I’m pretty sure that “stacks” are people and not AI-generated personalities, and there is no “lifeforce theft” or whatever the hell you’re on about. Also, we don’t yet have the technology to do that.

People who idolize celebrities are called fans
Because they project their energy onto the entity

That is… not a definition of “fan” which I’m familiar with.

Mitch McConnell #mammon #elitist #wingnut

There are far too many people out there who want others desperate and lacking in good choices, so that they can lord it over people who “deserve to suffer for not making good choices”. They get real pissy when it happens to them, though.

pj #fundie

There is evidence that laws and (formal) religion evolved together. Similar social pressures were involved, due to needing clear rules in order to function as a large-scale society. Both involved writing, which in most times and places only a limited number of people knew how to do, thus there was a lot of crossover between religion and government. Both reflected the moral values of the people at the time that they were written, at least to some extent (people could be manipulated or pressured into following things which most didn’t really believe in, but only to a point). It’s a chicken-and-egg issue as to which came first, and might have different answers in different parts of the world.

In modern times you can have one without the other, and most nations try to minimize the crossover between the two.

Also, not only does religion not necessarily prevent slavery, it can and has made slavery far easier.

Wayne J. Bush #crackpot #conspiracy #magick #quack

But where does all this energy come from?

The sun.

zay b #sexist

I’m always weirded out by people who frame human relationships in market and economy language. Yes, there’s some degree of exchange going on, but other people aren’t commodities or fungible goods! They’re not investments which exist only for future payoff! It’s also weird when the people in the conversation are both product and customer, as if they just somehow pick each other off the shelves. This is also usually the kind of person who refers to the relationship itself as “relationship maintenance” (as if having a life together was some kind of unpleasant chore).

I’ve tried pointing out that antiques exist, but that just goes into weird places like “antiques aren’t *actually* valuable and here’s why (cue lack of understanding of economic value)” or “antiques are niche interests not relevant to the conversation” or even “women age like milk, they can’t be compared to antiques”.

Patricia Cota-Robles #ufo #wingnut #magick

I note you are not saying who to vote for. I suspect that you’re trying to will your ideal candidates into existence, or failing that, mindjack some of the existing ones. I’d say “good luck on that”, except that engaging in a severe failure of morality to bring about a “good” outcome is not something I should be encouraging even if the attempt wouldn’t actually do anything.

xx_peepeefart69_xx #wingnut

You know, I kind of want to pit the “abortion is murder” crusader fundies against those “meat is murder” crusader vegans. Nobody wins, but at least it’ll keep them out of everyone’s hair for a few hours.

Pahlavan #sexist #wingnut #conspiracy #pratt

I don’t think they understand what those words mean. “Autonomy” means that one has the right to self-determination. “Body Autonomy” means the right to determine what happens to your own body (usually used in the context of health care, but also social, sexual, and employment situations). Fetuses don’t have rights, and don’t have the capacity to determine anything. Hell, even toddlers aren’t treated as having much capacity for determination unless you’re one of those people who let their kids run feral.

This isn’t even a case of aping left-wing political terminology without an in-depth understanding of the issues behind them, it’s a case of not even understanding regular language.

I’m guessing that they mean the right to inviolability, which is a different conversation from the one they probably think they’re having.

@TheJohnLittle #sexist #quack #conspiracy

One of those things where, when they come out of the blue, the WTF factor overwhelms the offense.

Lauren Boebert #fundie #transphobia #wingnut

Huh. Turns out there’s something called the “LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus”. There are two smaller subsets referred to as “task forces”, one specifically dedicated to Trans issues and another specifically dedicated to LGBTQIA+ Elder issues.

Their website doesn’t list the full membership of the task forces for some reason, just the co-chairs, but it does list the full membership of the Caucus, and there are a lot of familiar names on there, including my own representative. I don’t know if they actually accomplish anything useful, but it’s nice to know they exist, at least.

Steve Kirsch #conspiracy #wingnut

You know, this made me curious about whether dying from anaphylactic shock (particularly from an allergic reaction) counts as a “natural death”. It turns out that the answer is “it depends”. Sometimes it counts as a natural death for legal and/or statistical purposes, sometimes it counts as an accidental death, and sometimes “other”, sometimes it depends on the exact circumstances. And for legal purposes sometimes it counts as a homicide instead of or in addition to one of the other things (in at least some cases where it was induced by another person, whether purposeful or not). So there’s no universal agreement here.

Henry Makow PhD #sexist #racist #wingnut #conspiracy

@shy #133019
Men want power. Women want love.

TIL I’m a woman

I want both, does that make me non-binary? But non-binary people don’t exist in their world, so I guess I don’t exist then?

Evening-Lion4038 & RangerRickReporting #wingnut #fundie

You know, I’m tempted to troll these people. Pretend to support their views, but then segue into the things that the worst incels want which also happen to be fully compatible with their views… and end with “And the age of Satan begins!” It probably wouldn’t work unless I was a man or was pretending to be one online though, and even then unless they were very familiar with incels or it was part of a large-scale trolling campaign I’d just get dismissed as a random kook.

I’m only tempted, though. I know it’s a bad idea to fight evil with worse evil.

DabblingDonkey #wingnut

Personally I’m concerned that so many people are starting to say that everyone wants to do/live everything the “one true way” (whatever they think that is) and the only reason why anyone would choose otherwise is via violent coercion. Because it’s leading to the belief that the only counter is violent coercion the other way.

I mean, they always believed that, but we’re increasingly seeing that belief translated into action.

scalliano #wingnut #crackpot

Wanna bet this person believes in one-size-fits all culture? That actual quality of life doesn’t matter for those on the fringes, and they’ll only defend those people’s “rights” to exist in misery?

WestCanMan #wingnut #quack #sexist #conspiracy

@Speakeasy #132862

If you don't want it, you're free not to take it,

A lot of major companies gave ultimatums, though: “Get vaxxed, take other (more inconvenient) approved measures to keep you from infecting others, or get fired” and they really didn’t like that. It’s a total violation of their freedom to recklessly endanger themselves and others while denying that any danger exists. /s

Planet Kabiru via Erena Velazquez #magick #ufo #conspiracy #crackpot

pennygadget #transphobia

Maybe it’s time to realize that no one is on your side, never was, never will be?

Regardless of what you intend, your desired social policies were always aimed towards a patriarchy run by women. (Which is not the same thing as a matriarchy, and while conceptually bizarre, is not actually a contradiction in terms. The fundamentals of patriarchy can survive without men in charge.) Conservatives don’t want women taking over their system. Liberals don’t want a patriarchy or a matriarchy. You don’t even entirely want what you’re working for, because you’re hoping it will somehow end up as something different, but don’t have a plan… or a clue. Maybe you should take this as a wake-up call to rethink everything?

🌿Witchy Kay🌿 #fundie #sexist #wingnut #dunning-kruger #pratt

You can still get an ectopic pregnancy removed.

I find that wording a bit odd. Is this person thinking that “removing” an ectopic pregnancy doesn’t count as a real abortion, or that it will be re-implanted after? Because there’s never been a successful case of the latter.

And if the former, if you have an incurable condition where pregnancy has a very high rate of fatality for both mother and potential child, I’m not sure how you can justify an abortion in that case as a mere “removal”.

James Cary #sexist #fundie

I haz connnccceeerrrns… that kids being aware of a future where things might be different will make them think it’s actually true today and act accordingly, making them into dysfunctional adults!

Suuuurrre you do. We’re already deceptive towards children in small ways because it’s easier on us and them, and they manage to sort it out by the time they’re teenagers. You’re just worried that once they sort it out some of them will take this particular vision of the future as an ideal.

Jordan Peterson #dunning-kruger #pratt #quack #transphobia #wingnut

It’s been quite awhile since I’ve seen the argument that “trans people are just extra gay” (with the specific exception that transmen are “lost lesbian sisters” from TERFs). The fact that most transphobes at least sort of acknowledge that trans people have widely varied sexual orientations shows how out of touch he is.

Liz Wheeler #fundie #sexist #wingnut

We say it’s a zygote or a fetus for most of the pregnancy. We’re not discussing whether it is a baby because we have long established that it is not a baby. The fact that you don’t accept that answer doesn’t mean we aren’t giving one.

minotaurbeach #conspiracy #homophobia

Usually I can at least mostly imagine what the endgame of the supposed conspiracy is (even if it makes no actual sense in the real world) but I’m at a loss here. The fact that there seems to be two completely different conspiracies here doesn’t help.

Republican Party of Texas #wingnut

Some notes:

• This comes up pretty much every year.
• The Texas State Constitution says nothing about secession. Even if it did, there is currently no path to secession under the US Constitution; that would require an amendment.
• What the state might be able to do at this point is divide itself into up to 5 smaller states, which was part of the agreement for Texas to join the union. Whether the agreement is enforceable would be up to the Supreme Court, and even then, the new states might still need to go through the same process as any other prospective new State.
• I suspect the above will not happen because once there’s a serious enough threat to Republican power there that they’d try to split up to retain control in some of the new states, it would probably be far too late to try.

Charlie Kirk #conspiracy #wingnut

The year is 2040. Every white conservative male owns an AK-47 and totes it everywhere; anyone else possessing a gun is just asking to get slaughtered along with everyone else nearby. Mass shootings happen an average of 1.4 times per hour, usually in response to someone refusing to comply with demands which are illegal, impossible within the available time and resources, or even literally impossible. The cops mostly arrest people for complying with illegal demands under the threat of mass slaughter. The last two Americans die in a hail of each other’s bullets in 2054 over a trivial disagreement.

dn #psycho #wingnut #kinkshaming

Rape Pillows

I am aware that there are people who use body pillows as sex toys, often covered with pillowcases which look like Anime girls in lingerie. But… it’s a pillow. You can’t rape an inanimate object. There’s no evidence that sex with pillows encourages consent violations of flesh-and-blood humans (granted, I doubt there have been studies). Why do you think that this would be seen as anything other than a trolling attempt?

(Unless this is a slang term for something else entirely, though I doubt that because there’s no such entry in Urban Dictionary.)

Leor Sapir #pratt #transphobia #wingnut #racist

People who “diagnose” ROGD in their own children are transphobes and, with rare exceptions, also strongly enforced gender norms on them. You also can’t get an “official” diagnosis of ROGD (except from psych quacks) because it’s not a recognized disorder or medical condition. And such a diagnosis wouldn’t do anything meaningful anyway (except maybe give the parents an excuse to send them to conversion therapy or similar abuses) because there’s no recognized treatment.

@Sasha #132396
It’s a goal for tradcons, yes, though they might not care for the reasons why it’s happening. Neocons, not so much, especially the ones who fetishize teenagers.

Liz Wheeler #conspiracy #wingnut

That’s the problem with “law and order” conservatives these days (at least in the US, not sure about elsewhere). They don’t understand law (both what specific laws exist and how laws work), and their “order” is not one supported by existing laws.

Of course thanks to decades of blocking liberals and moderates from Federal Court appointments and the balance of the Supreme court shifting to having 5 Federalist Society members thanks to Trump, they’re working on changing the laws to what they think it should be (which is not always the same as to the way they think it should work, because again, they don’t understand law).

Nediljka_Orwell #transphobia

You do realize that’s already against the law, right? What you’re doing is adding an additional disproportionate punishment for a subset of the population. That’s a violation of both equal rights and justice.

Chadwick Moore #racist

My initial reaction was to suggest switching pride month with black history month, and then say that the straights can’t have Valentine’s day anymore. That would only work if this person is a fake gay though.

Avoid_the_Groid #dunning-kruger #racist

“Avoid the Groid” was a frequent poster on N*gg*rmania, a website which showed up here a lot for awhile, and then was banned from having posts about it due to there being very little variety in them. They have the “humor” of a virulently racist three-year-old (apologies to actual three-year-olds) except with less imagination. I’m going to guess that they lost their website at some point and this is a replacement.

Aleks Svetski #conspiracy #crackpot #dunning-kruger #elitist #god-complex #mammon

I will concede that there is one - and only one - good thing about cryptocurrency: the laws of the US, UK, Saudi Arabia, China, and Russia have too much influence over the major credit providers, and it affects everyone, the world over. This doesn’t meaningfully affect the average person yet, but for some marginalized or niche communities, it means that they either have to conform to certain norms or eschew credit for certain financial purposes, or even occasionally be forced to resort to illegal means to do/buy/sell things which are legal in their own country. While it does make it harder to do things which probably should be crimes everywhere but aren’t, it is otherwise not for the better.

Granted, Russia and China would be less of an issue if they successfully decoupled themselves from the global internet and economy, but that would be very bad for other reasons.

While crypto is an answer to that, it is not all that great of a solution. And these whiny techbros aren’t disadvantaged in any significant way. What do you even need to buy with them, cocaine? Work on drug legalization instead, idiot. Trying to convert a few extra million into an asset for financial reasons? Buy a luxury condo. (Actually don’t, this is a terrible trend which is slowly turning cities into wastelands of empty condos.) Otherwise that Sovereign Citizens Lite thing you’ve got going is just a greed cult.

Dave #fundie #sexist

I don’t think “subhuman” is the right word here. “ahuman” or “inhuman” fits better, depending on what connotation you’re intending. Or even “antihuman”, but that would be kind of a weird connotation for a supposed creator deity who supposedly hasn’t turned against his creation.

So The Transformed Wife gets a taste of what Fundies look like to regular people from another Fundie…

Kevin Sorbo #conspiracy #wingnut

If you’ve got a significant number of followers, a lot of them are going to be fake. Also most of them are going to be fake if you paid a bot farm to inflate your numbers.

A lot of people vote and also don’t use Twitter. 🙋🏻‍♀️ (Raises hand) A lot of people who vote and do use twitter don’t follow politicians.

Kajm #dunning-kruger

@TheKingOfRhye #131398 , @Sasha #131416

The Wall. It’s now crumbling and there have been a few collapses, and people have stolen chunks of it for scrap, but hey, he did a wall thing. Everyone loved that. [Narrator: Not everyone loved that.]

@We_Love_Trump #wingnut #conspiracy #quack

Gregory Hood #dunning-kruger #racist #wingnut

What else would you call them?

I mean, by historical ancestry, most hispanics are some mix of white, native central or south american (with sometimes a bit of native north american mixed in), west african black, and often a bit of north african as well. While there are indeed people who identify as hispanic whites and hispanic blacks who could in most cases select according categories if “hispanic” stopped existing, what about everyone else? “Mixed race”? “Other”? Racists aren’t going to see most of them as white, even if you insist they are.

Kajm #dunning-kruger

Not going to deny that Biden’s popularity hasn’t been doing so well for awhile. Some of that is people blaming him for not doing anything about price gouging and inflation (that’s congress’s wheelhouse, the president can’t do much). Some of that is people blaming him for not dealing with the supply chain issues (that’s a global problem which will take a long time to deal with). Some of it is for the increase in gas prices (what is Biden supposed to do, hand Ukraine to Russia on a platter?). Some of it is because he did too little or too much in regards to the pandemic. Some is because he’s “too old” (Trump is 4 years younger than Biden and will be “too old” in 2024, yet some of those people want him back). Stupid reasons, of course, but that sort of thing happens with a lot of presidents, as most people don’t really follow politics or global affairs all that much.

But “hard left in who they poll”? Not a thing. Right-wing media do push-polls so that they can influence their side’s popularity; mainstream and left-wing media try to get accurate polls so that their sides can strategize accordingly.

Blacks and hispanics are not “flooding to the Republican party”. There is a small increase in hispanics voting Republican out of (unfounded) fears of Venezuela-style socialism coming to the country, which is ironic considering how Republicans would likely deport them if they ever got real power. Black people have been voting Democrat more, in part *because* of Biden, but we’ll see if that lasts.

Sir Jaymo [ID] #wingnut #pratt

I’ve only ever heard “birthing people” being used as a category, not as a reference to individuals. Well, outside right-wing attempts to mock the concept. If a non-binary or agender person wants to refer to themselves that way, more power to them I guess, but I suspect that most of them who would prefer to use a non-gendered term for parent would just use “parent”.

Also, given that bees are a subcategory of fish, this would be like saying “no, you were stung by a non-aquatic invertebrate” if they were elsewhere. 😜

Jake Lang/Amir George #fundie #wingnut #conspiracy

Hmm… I just checked and apparently her name was actually “Rosanne Boyland” (no “e” between “Ros” and “anne”) but some websites have her first name misspelled as “Roseanne” or her last name as “Boylan” or both. Corrected that in my previous post.

Christian Patriot News #wingnut #fundie #conspiracy

Good lord, if anyone I knew who doesn’t follow this sort of stuff happened to read this, I’d probably have to give an in-depth explanation of every single one of the conspiracy theories mentioned here. Maybe I’d just go with “The people who think the 2020 election was stolen really went all-out with the conspiracy theory soup. You’re probably better off not knowing.”

Russian Government #wingnut

They might realistically be able to enforce this if Wikipedia were in any way Russian-based (it’s not; it’s based out of San Fransisco, CA and Tampa, FL) but allowing any government to dictate what it can publish would invalidate the website’s purpose for existing. At most, they can only go after editors within Russia’s borders.

It would be a different thing if this were an international business website which does business within Russia, but assuming they were located elsewhere they could always choose to not do business within Russia anymore if the required changes are unfeasible.