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crodish #transphobia

the tiny minority of "passing" transwomen were actually stealthing into our toilets who ACTUALLY only wanted to pee,

Implying that the main reason which present-day trans women enter restrooms is to perv on other women. You’d think people would have noticed it happening if that were the case, since it’s not at all easy to do that discreetly and people *will* screw it up a lot. Even in the poorly-designed American restrooms which have privacy issues.

The rest of this is equally idiotic, I just wanted to focus on this in particular.

Steve Sailer #dunning-kruger #racist #pratt

I’m not aware of any way which “search” is considered problematic. It *is* problematic to use the word “discover” if doing so would effectively dismiss the people who already knew about the thing in question for centuries or millennia as being unimportant, particularly if it was initially “discovered” by talking to said people.

It’s possible that “extra-terrestrial” will become problematic in the distant future when humanity has a good reason not to use Earth-centric language. As it is, this is the only real frame of reference which we can reasonably work from (aside from maybe extra-solar), and unless aliens are listening in, it harms no one. (And even if aliens are listening in, it’s hard to imagine why they’d fault us.)

“Intelligence” I might give you, as this word is too broad and vague and is occasionally used in a problematic way, and is technically not what SETI was trying do detect, at least not directly: “technology” or “civilizations” would make for a more accurate description, but a worse acronym (and the aesthetics of acronyms *do* subtly affect what people think of them and how well they’re remembered, so that can’t entirely be discounted). It was also a product of its time.

Regardless, words are not problematic simply because someone decided that they *wanted* to be offended and so made up ridiculous connotations and then forced people to accept them. They’re problematic because they imply, or are commonly used to imply, things which give incorrect impressions at best and harmful ones at worst. The fact that some people can’t see that or don’t care doesn’t change anything.

Prussian Society of America #racist #elitist

The thing about race supremacist is that one of the cores (and usually THE core) of their identity is that they are a member of [race], and being a member of [race] makes them inherently superior in all the ways which “really matter”. There are other elements involved, but this seems to be the most universal one.

Add in the fact that most of them have limited empathy and imagination, they can’t understand why other people wouldn’t think the same, that racial identity is part of the core of other people’s selves, or that other people wouldn’t necessarily see [race] as superior. This results in the sort of nonsense where other races “obviously” would attempt to oppress or genocide the “superior” race out of jealousy given half a chance, so we must oppress or genocide them out of self-defense. Anyone who attempts to prevent this is either a traitor or an idiot who just “can’t see”.

And when [race] is the one with the power to do most of the oppression, the “strongest” point of evidence is the pride celebrations of the oppressed (this comes up with homophobia and transphobia as well), because they can’t imagine how a coping mechanism against unconsciously accepting one’s own outside-impressed inferiority is not an expression of jealousy of the “superior” group.

SakuraBlossoms #transphobia

Identifying as trans usually means you're a straight homophobe

I tried to make sense of this line and failed. If you assume that gender identities aren’t real and trans people mostly date people of the same birth sex, then being self-hating *gay* homophobes is a “reasonable” conclusion given the premises (but not the only possibility). If you assume that gender identities aren’t real and trans people mostly date people of the opposite birth sex, then self-hating straight *heterophobes* is a likewise “reasonable” conclusion. If you do believe that gender identities are real, then I’m not sure what sort of misunderstanding would result in the particular combination of “straight homophobe”.

The only things I can come up with is that this is derived from a mashup of two different ideas which “make sense” from the point of view that gay/lesbian people are real and trans people aren’t, but they failed to notice that said ideas were mutually exclusive in some respect… or else maybe they have a really strange concept of what “straight” means.

Regardless, it appears that trans people are approximately 30% straight, 30% gay/lesbian, 30% bisexual, and 10% asexual, so assuming that trans people “most commonly” prefer date people of either sex and/or gender in particular is an incorrect premise.

Stonetoss #ableist #dunning-kruger #wingnut

If one were inclined to be charitable towards that general point of view, there do exist people who refuse to avail themselves of certain options, not because those things are effectively unavailable to them, or are quackery, or are high-cost-low-success-chance, or are too disruptive to their lives, but because the idea of doing it causes distress. Even then, assuming they’ve evaluated this situation correctly (and there’s a good chance they haven’t), people who think this should still butt out because you can’t just “get over” that sort of distress quickly or easily even under ideal mental health conditions, and it’s far harder when you’re suffering depression, so it’s usually far more productive to tackle the depression itself even if it means whatever you’re doing might not necessarily be the best option or combination of options.

PebbleYeet’s particular take is definitely not one you should charitable towards. He’s assuming that fat = unhealthy (not always true), that healthier living is the cure (it would help a little, so maybe in mild cases it would work as a treatment, but in severe cases the effort would drain away what little willpower you have, which is also needed for other things), and that it is a cure (false, if it’s at least partly psychological you need to untangle the root of the issue, otherwise you’re just treating it but avoiding an actual cure, and if it’s at least partly a chemical imbalance then depending on the exact cause there may not be a complete cure).

Jesse Kelly #wingnut

Dammit, this better not be actually happening. Rebekah Jones, the medical scientist who “leaked” the actual covid stats for the state of Florida back when Governor DeSantis was releasing faked data to downplay the actual infection rate, just got swatted. DeSantis says there was a warrant…

Babylon Bee #wingnut

The liberal version of this joke looks very different: “This is unfair! Now anyone could be targeted by the FBI, if they keep stolen government documents in the storage room of their golf resort!”

Eric Trump #wingnut

I wondered if this was connected to Jared Kushner mysteriously falling into a huge pile of Saudi Money ($2 Billion), but probably not, as the tweet was a few days ago and the money thing was 4 months ago. Unless Kush just gave his father-in-law a big chunk of that money…

<Typical KiwiFarms UserName Here> #psycho #sexist

…But anyway, they had a lot more evidence than just “he said, she said” at the trial, and also he pretty much admitted it, so “it’s a false accusation which was only believed because the courts think wahmen are perfect angels who never lie” is just flat out libel.

[Edit] Also, for future reference, the poster’s nym is not “Typical KiwiFarms Username Here”. The original header included the nym in question, but I assume that it was changed because it was extra super offensive.

Um. I looked into this. “Dr. Nick Bate” was his online pseudonym; his real name is Nickalaus B. Stoutzenberger. He was sent to prison for anally raping his much younger stepsister multiple times in 2009-2010 (she was 6-8 during that time, he was 19-20). His “defense” was that he was a coprophiliac (that is, had a sexual fetish for feces) and it was her fault for not wiping after using the toilet… and he apparently filmed something really gross in order to prove his fetish. This did not go well for him, like at all. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison in 2015, but will be eligible for parole hearings after serving 16½ years.

Bad as that was, it shouldn’t be a distraction from the fact that some of the Kiwifarms posters are mocking both him and his victim.

Bennett Lee Ross #crackpot #ufo #magick #conspiracy

I think this is derived from the idea that Earth is the “middle sphere” where souls are born, and once they die here, they live forever in a higher or lower “sphere” based on who they were on Earth? The lower spheres are collectively “hell” and the upper ones collectively “heaven”. If this is what they’re referring to, then they’re saying that Nimrod went to the fifth heaven after he died, the sphere of Mars (where the “righteous warriors” go), but attempted to build a tower up to the seventh heaven, the sphere of Saturn (saints, and God himself, at least until three additional heavenly spheres were added to the mythos: Fixed Stars, Primum Mobile, and Empyrean). Except that’s still a bit off from what they’re actually saying, so probably some more nonsense got mixed in there.

Dave Alford, Salt Lake County Council #fundie #dunning-kruger #racist

He later reacted to the backlash with “My tweet was not a biology lesson but was intended to simply point out that a baby, the umbilical cord, and the placenta are part of a new and developing body, with its own unique DNA and gender, separate from the mother,” (exact quote). People then pointed out that this is a very different usage of the word “separate” than used in his original message.

Jesse Kelly #wingnut

“Communist” just means “anything which I hate and fear because I don’t understand it and don’t want to”.

Marjorie Taylor Greene , Lauren Boebert & Paul Gosar #wingnut

Doesn’t really work though. A banana republic can’t support very many wealthy hedonites, even fewer than a powerful nation like the US can, so there’s no way that anywhere near all of the 25-30% of hardcore repub voters are going to benefit that way.

McAllisterTV #wingnut #ufo #magick #conspiracy

HOW TO SELL YOUR SOUL!

Assuming you believed souls existed, why?

Most of the “articles” on that site appear to be a single paragraph of incoherent nonsense which might not have been written by actual humans. In most cases, the main part of the “article” is actually a video, which may or may not be vaguely related to the text. In this particular case, the video appears to be an hour-long advertisement for a herbal supplement or something (I watched less than a minute). This might be a case of “badly-trained text robots say the darnedest things”, in which case it doesn’t really belong here. If it’s not, I weep for humanity.

kaltkalt #sexist #psycho

I didn’t even believe this until i saw how big the "rape play" forum is on fetlife.com

And you are assuming that a small subset of a small subset of the population talking about something on a fantasy level means that most people want something for real? The BDSM community isn’t most people and Rape Players, regardless of their relative numbers within the community, aren’t most BDSMers.

Look, roughly a third of the population has a rape fantasy or two at some point, or at least that many are willing to admit to it. Most of those don’t fantasize about it very often. Regardless of how often they do so, it’s not as simple as “women see themselves as the victims and men see themselves as the perpetrators”. The reverse also happens (and yes, I’m going to admit that I’ve fantasized about it a few times, but as the perpetrator, and I’m a woman), or someone might switch between the two. And it’s actually very common for someone to not exist in their own fantasies at all, with both/all parties being seen from the third person.

But the vast majority of those people don’t want it to happen even on a pretend level. What someone fantasizes about (or for that matter, what kind of porn they watch, if any) isn’t necessarily reflective of their real-world desires. For that matter, some particular thing may not even be reflective of their usual fantasies, especially if it’s just a rare one-off thing.

And those very rare individuals who really do want to engage in “rape” on a pretend level? If they’re on somewhere like Fetlife discussing the subject, it’s in part because they want to know how to do it safely, because real rape is traumatizing and play rape gone wrong isn’t a whole lot better. (And yes, even the person in the perpetrator role can be traumatized if it goes wrong.) Virtually no one really wants to be psychologically damaged, even if they believe they “deserve” it. And I doubt you’d ever see anyone who does on BDSM websites.

Charlie Kirk #wingnut

@KeithInc.:

Depending on what the video showed, that might make things far worse for him.

Supposedly some of the documents are so top secret that the FBI and the courts aren’t even allowed to let the public know what kind of documents they are, let alone what sort of things may be on them. If the videos leaked even a hint of what they are…

Which of course is why they’re not just letting this go, even for the sake of “no recriminations”. I’m not sure even Biden could stop this.

@MsGiveZeroFox #transphobia #conspiracy

I’ve seen what happens when lesbian TERFS end up in trans-friendly WLW (Women-Loving-Women) spaces - they stubbornly misinterpret things like “you should accept that trans women are women” as things along the lines of “you should accept a TIM (Trans-Identified Male) inserting his penis inside you whenever he feels like” no matter how much anyone tries to correct them. I mean, every meaningful subset of humans contains garbage people (unless the definition of said subset specifically excludes “garbage people”), so I have no doubt that somebody is saying something like that somewhere… but there’s no way that it’s anywhere near common. And I really, really doubt that the Stonewall Charity is officially pro-lesbian-rape.

Congressman Paul Gosar , @14W , @Lifetimeresident & @zersetzung_org #wingnut #racist

Border security is basic sovereignty.

That’s not what “sovereignty” means. It refers to the power which governments grant themselves in order to enforce and legitimize their authority.

A government can choose whether it wants its borders to be closed, porous, or open, and then wield its sovereignty to enforce whichever (or, I guess, not, if it has other priorities). What you’re suggesting is that a nation inherently needs its borders closed in order to… maintain its integrity or whatever you think that will accomplish, which is… certainly a position one could take. But that’s a different thing entirely.

@CallieMac88 #transphobia

I did more checking, and I was unable to confirm that she was either born in 1988 or has ties to Nazi groups. (Closest I could find is that she’s signal boosted at least some of the extreme anti-trans views of Posie Parker, who does have ties to White Nationalists, but that’s a weak connection.) I also completely misunderstood the message in the OP - it appears that Allison Bailey is a prominent member of LGB Alliance (for the lurkers: a group which believes that TQIA+ people don’t belong in the LGBTQIA+ movement), and Caroline McAllister (the above CallieMac88, who is currently a member of the Albion Party, was in the Scottish National Party until 2020) thinks Bailey is an Intersectional Feminist seemingly for the sole reason of her supporting “LGB rights”. However, the “neo-lib feminists” which she’s referring to are actual Intersectional Feminists and Bailey leans heavily Gender Critical / TERF.

Apparently, there’s been some friction in recent years as some members of the SNP (Scottish National Party, center-left, overwhelmingly in control of Parliament at present) want a “compromise” between the Intersectionalist and Gender Critical views by requiring trans women to be “no longer genitally intact” before being allowed a legal gender change, in order to really, *really* discourage predatory men from pretending to be trans women in order to gain access to women’s spaces. (Most are not denying trans women are women, instead saying that cis women’s need for “sex-based protections” should be a higher priority than trans rights.) The majority of the SNP, but not an overwhelming majority, instead support lowering barriers for trans people to change their legal sex. Caroline McAllister (CallieMac88) supported the “compromise” view back in 2017-2019, but since then she’s taken on more extreme views and left the SNP for the Albion Party (center-right, fairly new, very little power at present), and a handful of others have as well.

Yeah, I fell down a rabbit hole there. And I didn’t even find what I was looking for. But that should give full context who she is and what’s going on here.

Andrew dobson #fundie #psycho

No matter how little we may think of them, no one should be nuked. Period.

@CallieMac88 #transphobia

The enemy of her enemy is her enemy?

I did a quick check on her, and while I’m not 100% sure where she falls on everything, she doesn’t seem to be the sort to align with MRAs unless she has no idea what they’re really like. Though this quote in particular stands out (at least to me):

“I do not think trans people are paedophiles per se. I believe self ID creates a significant deficit in safeguarding that abusive men can & will exploit. This should not be viewed as controversial.”

@Dizy03157088 #transphobia

@Malingspann, @Taln_Reich:

I’ve also seen the argument that it “forces” a label on them which they didn’t choose and don’t identify with, and is an attack on their perception of being “normal” in a way which doesn’t need any labels, except maybe “straight”. (Though I’ve seen a few of them claim that they don’t even identify as “straight”, they’re just “normals”, and I’m not entirely sure if they were joking…) That’s not a slur, but an out-group label - though it’s not like most of them know what an out-group label is, so “slur” is probably the closest description most of them can come up with.

That’s a pretty weaksauce argument, though, since a lot of cis people now identify as cis, and the kind of people who don’t do that rarely have any issues with putting out-group labels on other people - and even sometimes don’t have issues with using slurs. You know, like how most TERFs object to being called TERFs (and to being called cis, for that matter) but call trans people “troons”, among other things, in order to dehumanize them. If they genuinely believed either out-group labeling or slurs were inherently bad, then they would make a point not to do such things themselves. (It’s only bad when it happens to them…)

Various commenters #wingnut #racist

So the sky on your planet is… I’m guessing mauve?

@bernie_eee #transphobia

@ChrisBP747 #137559

“Trans Identified Men/Males” is their term for trans women. They’re trying to make fun of the idea that trans women are women by implying that they can get pregnant despite “not having a vagina”, because if they were “really women” they would be able to get pregnant. They’re trying to parody a strawman idea which no one actually holds and not even doing it right.

@Dizy03157088 #transphobia

I notice that they used the term “critical thinking” a lot.

As much as any “critical thinking” may be going on, it’s coming from a place of ignorance. I suspect that there isn’t a whole lot of actual thinking going on, critical or otherwise.

@bernie_eee #transphobia

Roe v Wade affected everybody in the US, it just affected people who were capable of becoming pregnant (or believed they were, in case of those who are infertile but don’t know it) more than those who weren’t.

Just because you can put incoherent nonsense in people’s mouths doesn’t mean they actually say it.

Queenfaggo #homophobia #transphobia

Well, if you were a well-off and lived in certain countries in Western Europe circa the 1920s, then you could semi-openly live as gay or lesbian. It still wasn’t entirely safe, but you could. Likewise if you were a member of the aristocracy in certain eras in certain parts of the world, you could get away with it if you weren’t obnoxious about it. You’d still pay a bit of a social penalty, but you weren’t in significant danger of losing your power (or your life) over it. There did exist some stone age cultures which were tolerant of it, but they made up only a very tiny part of the global population. Beyond those narrow circumstances? Not in the slightest, and it’s disingenuous to equate those experiences with those of the vast majority.

James Gilliland #ufo #magick #quack #wingnut #conspiracy

There were some idiots in the news recently who loudly insisted that the sun and the moon were in the wrong place in the sky, because they didn’t take the Earth’s axial tilt into account. This is somehow weirder. Even if this is entirely a figment of their imagination, the concept of energy bands is artificial; outside of the human perception of color they exist mostly because of technological limits. We can conceptually divide them up any way we wish, what matters is how useful those divisions are. If there were absolute, discrete bands and those somehow changed, I can’t imagine how that would affect biology, unless it was extreme enough that it also screwed up how color works, and we would see that.

Generic Username #conspiracy #transphobia

@Citizen_Justin #137532

One thing which really confuses the issue is that the boy actually was “transsexual”, at least according to the medical definition which existed at the time: someone who had their physical sex surgically altered. Gender dysphoria or gender incongruency didn’t factor into that. John Money was attempting to muddy the waters by equivocating “transsexual” (the now-obsolete medical term) with “transsexual” (LGBT+ sociopolitical term for what is now called transgender). It’s easy to fall for that trap if you really want to fall for it, despite it requiring a bit more mental gymnastics than it used to.

Various commenters #wingnut

You people seem disturbingly entitled to other people’s reproductive choices, and sound like the kind of people who are disturbingly possessive of children who aren’t even yours.

Quantum Nutrition Labs #quack #crackpot #mammon

Dude, the “unwanted ions” which you are referring to is just static electricity. You can get rid of it by touching a doorknob.

True Democracy Party #crackpot #wingnut #moonbat #conspiracy #dunning-kruger #magick

So, at least this one recognizes that there isn’t remotely near enough gold, silver, and platinum to back the money which exists today, and also a large chunk of the amount we do have is being used for other things. Most gold standardists are in denial about this, or think it somehow doesn’t matter.

But their solution is… magic. Not asteroid mining, not even fusion-induced transmutation, magic. And then they get into defending against space lasers. Let’s wait until those exist before we start worrying about it, okay?

Liz Wheeler #wingnut #transphobia

What’s scary about their thought process when it comes to these “jokes” is when they claim that inanimate objects (“my gun identifies as a wireless peacekeeping device”) or abstract concepts have a personal identity which can be expressed. They’re basically putting humans on the same moral level as things which aren’t alive or don’t physically exist.

I’m sure that some of them will try to hide it behind the veil of “Lolrandom absurdist humor”, but even if they’re being honest (press X to doubt) the fact that they’re taking a joke meant to dehumanize certain people to an extreme which effectively dehumanizes everyone doesn’t get them a pass in a political environment which is heading in the direction of the only entities having “real” rights being fetuses, corpses, guns, churches, and corporations.

Michael Peroutka and Dan Cox #wingnut #fundie #dunning-kruger

In between the morally vacuous grifters, who stand for nothing but their own power and wealth, and the pure reactionary types, who are constantly jumping between outrages at the things which they don’t understand because they are forbidden to understand them, is the most dangerous at all: the fanatics. No lie too vile, no cheating too low, no crime too unthinkable, and sometimes even no sin too wicked… so long as it leads to the “greater good”. And far too often, this “greater good” looks indistinguishable from their “greater evil”, except in who benefits from it.

U.S. House of Representatives candidate Lavern Spicer #transphobia

@Titania: Just FYI, “Pharaoh” meant “great house” and referred to the seat of the government, not the ruler. The ruler didn’t actually have a specific title, though in some eras, they were considered to be a minor god. The idea that it meant “king” is a misunderstanding passed to us through us through the Greeks.

Regardless, even [mis]used as a title for the ruler, it’s a gender-nonspecific one, like “monarch” or “sovereign”. The confusion here is due to most “Pharaohs” being men, and most languages having different names for male and female rulers, so it seems like the female counterpart is missing. Again, not how the word was actually used by its culture of origin.

ShittlerNiggler #homophobia

Is this about AIDS or monkeypox? Because that’s not really how AIDS works and definitely not how monkeypox works.

U.S. House of Representatives candidate Lavern Spicer #transphobia

It would be one thing if people like this said things like “There is no ‘declaring pronouns’ in the Constitution”. Most of the time it wouldn’t mean anything no matter how profound it sounds to them, but at least it would be technically correct.

As it is, they’re just unironically engaging in the unfunniest version of “me Fail english? that Unpossible”.

Teddy Daniels #wingnut

I’m Gen-X and in my experience, most “fistfights” in my day were bullying victims getting tired of being beaten and hitting back. Suddenly the ongoing violence which adults barely paid attention to became significant and it’s time to severely punish the victim! Oh and I guess we gotta do something about the bully too, let’s give them a little wrist-slap. If that’s what you’re thinking of, then 🖕🏻 you.

Regardless, you’re assuming that all kids have the same physical capabilities and fighting talent, that certain bigotries aren’t real or don’t matter, neither does significant age differences, and also that we should be encouraging violence as a valid method of resolving disputes. That’s neither remotely true nor the world most people would want to live in.

JeromemeReplies #wingnut

Something you don’t understand: Sex isn’t just involved in pregnancy. In most social animals, humans included, sex also plays a major part in social interactions and relationships. (Insert usual caveats about sex-repulsed aces.)

The fact that unlike other social animals, humans can make both connections (well, at least some humans, anyway) puts a great deal of tension between both of those things. That tension is removed when you decouple sex from pregnancy, at least until the people involved choose otherwise, which is why we have contraception and abortion in the first place.

Or maybe you do understand, and you subscribe to old-timey morality where suffering is good and enjoying life is evil, because you’re either a masochist or a hypocrite.

The Argorians via Lev #ufo #magick #dunning-kruger

a crop circle appeared, showing that the finished 5D plasma actively fills the entire Earth’s space.

They’ve had some pretty big advances in crop-circle technology lately. /s

@StellaDoves #transphobia

So, men don’t? Is this a case of misandry, or “we forgot about transmen, part 9513921″? Oh wait they’re TERFs, so both.

Regardless, I’m not sure I want to know what you consider to be “sex-based rights” which override gender-based ones. It’s probably something really stupid.

Fertile Dating #psycho

I will say that rape trials are often kind of fucked-up. Not only are the laws sometimes decades behind the times, but you’re likely to get removed from the jury pool if you don’t believe harmful myths around rape. That’s not even getting into how in many places there are a lot of barriers against justice which are encountered even before the trial.

Buuuut… I very strongly suspect that in order to meet a good-enough standard of his “evidence-based laws”, we’d have to run thousands of experiments where people were *actually* raped, and then have some fairly objective means of determining long-term trauma which don’t rely on personal testimony (while somehow keeping the victims from knowing that the whole thing is an experiment, to avoid confounding factors - after all, knowing that there’s some powerful organization out there doing such a thing could be traumatizing in itself). And then he’d just reject the answer anyway because he’s incredulous at the idea that rape is harmful, especially when it’s female-on-male.

Marjorie Taylor Greene & Allum Bokhari #wingnut #transphobia

You know, if they were slightly more *and* slightly less insane in the right ways, and actually meant exactly what they said, then we could go ahead and ban the specific things which they say they’re against, despite that no one is actually doing them. We’d end up with half a zillion laws which are about as meaningful as forbidding people from spray-painting graffiti on whales, but at least they’d stop being ridiculous for awhile.

But no. In the real world, giving them what they really want means overly broad laws which screw over everyone, often in unintended ways, except that they scream like a stuck pig and then demand blood if it ever affects one of them or someone they look up to. And that’s when it’s not overly vague laws which are hard to enforce but nevertheless have a chilling effect on free speech, usually done in the name of free speech. So sadly, that’s not a solution.

Icaros #conspiracy #wingnut

It’s also because we understand this script

Who is “we”? I’m not one of them, clearly. Please enlighten me on the nature of this “script”.

Mike King #fundie #dunning-kruger

“Modernism” is a philosophical and aesthetic movement which has existed in some form since the mid 1800s (and still does) but had its heyday around 1930-1945. The above description doesn’t sound anything like modernism to me, but people have strange ideas about things sometimes. It also sounds kind of like conservative misunderstandings of postmodernism, which is a very different thing, but I’m not sure it’s meant to be that either. I kind of suspect that he’s talking about current pop-culture trends, which is not at all what “modernism” means, but it’s hard to tell from the OP alone.

Regardless of which one he’s talking about, idiot barely understands it.

Don Spectacularis #magick #ufo #crackpot

Your personal beliefs shape your perception of reality, and the collective beliefs of those around you shape your social environment. They do not shape reality itself. The belief that you can just personally will existence to conform to your personal preferences is… well, let’s just say that if it’s real, anyone who’s succeeded no longer exists in the same reality as everyone else. So why are you still here?

Andrew Anglin #sexist #racist #conspiracy #transphobia

It’s a violation of my freedoms when you make it harder for me to be an opportunistic predator! 🙄

Pro-life Wisconsin #sexist #fundie #psycho

No, it actually legally is considered abortion in some (most?) jurisdictions. Also, even where it’s not, that doesn’t necessarily prevent people from calling it an abortion and/or banning it separately. And there *are* people who are trying to ban it on the grounds that “sometimes they both die? welp, God must have wanted it!” Your argument is nothing more than sophistry disconnected from real-world politics.

Mike Adams The Health Ranger #wingnut #conspiracy #fundie #dunning-kruger

I don’t see the big deal about eating bugs? I’ve had lobsters, crabs, shrimp, and silkworms.