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Forward Synthesis #wingnut #psycho

What wingnuts say with spite, I say with conviction: protest marches are virtue signaling.

Specifically, they are a costly, honest signal. The time consuming nature is the whole point, because it proves that the people involved are committed. In particular, if they are willing to show up to a protest, it stands to reason that they will show up to vote.

Making them illegal would, theoretically, merely make them more costly. In practice, it would be an asshole filter: it would grant lawbreakers a reliable way to communicate with their government, while depriving law-abiding voters of the same ability.

Various commenters on religion and atheism #conspiracy #crackpot #dunning-kruger #fundie #wingnut #pratt

“The religious recognize that 1) evil is real,”
Um, not all religions think that evil is a thing.
Quite a few think that the split is between personal interest and group interest. Selfish and Generous.
Sure, selfish can look evil, to some people, but it isn’t necessarily.
If i promote myself at work, that might be selfish.
OR, maybe I’m trying to get more pay so i can put my kids through school. That’s generous.
It’s certainly not as black/white as you paint it.

Your worst nightmare #fundie

“Atheism is a misconstrue of reality at the most basic level”
Misconstrue, is a verb. You can’t be A Misconstrue. But that’s just reality. Yoy were saying…?

“and has given rise to such harmful ideologies such as Marxism and nihilism.”
Actually, all the nihilists I know are Christains. The guys that say if there were no god, they’d be out there, raping and killing and living as if there were no tomorrow… Probably eating fatty foods and bouncing checks.
And Marxism doesn’t require atheism.

“Most tragic of all though is how deeply irrational atheism is, a form of irrationality that itself almost defies comprehension.”
It has been said that evil can never really understand good.

“The reality of God is manifest all around us, from the unimaginable vastness of our universe with it's hundreds of billions of galaxies to the complex micro-universe of individual cells to elaborate machinations in animal and plant physiology's and the diverse ecosystems the comprise.”
Hopefully your god will smite you for that sentence.
Anyway, I do not see that LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of space requires a divine creator. You’re over-impressed by complexity, but that’s not exactly proof that it requires a deity.
And diversity seems to argue against a creator. Why would he need two solutions to the same problem?

“We can also add to this list the phenomena of human consciousness, moral truths, the existence of beauty, miraculous occurrences and fulfilled biblical prophecies.”
Again, none of those actually require a god. We evolved to use thinking as our survival tool. So we keep getting better at it.
We developed morals so that we could group together without killing each other.
Beauty is too subjective to be the sign of an objective creator. Again, why would he make blondes beautiful to some people and brunettes beautiful to others?
And I have no evidence miracles stand up to scrutiny. They’re always friend of a friend’s testimony.
And it’s funny seeing Christains yap on about bible prophecy. Jesus did NOT meet the prophecies that were supposed to tell us that the Messiah had come, that’s why the Jews aren’t Christains.

“To miss the divine import of any of these aspects of God's creation is to flout reason itself.”
Oh. It’s reason you used. Please repeat the chain of reason that goes from ‘I see a sunset and find it beautiful’ to ‘therefore God.’

“Yet, this is precisely what atheist's do, and it points to the fact that other factors give rise to the denial of God.”
I don’t think that’s what I do, though. I see a big universe, but I do not see WHY that requires a god, much less the specific god described in the Bible. It’s Consistent With your creation story, but not proof of…

“Atheism is not the result of objective assessment of evidence, but of a stubborn disobedience;”
Then show me the evidence and tell me why it is evidence. Not just appeal to big numbers and complex processes…

“it does not arise from the careful application of reason but from wilful rebellion.”
Still waiting for you to show me the reason.

“Atheism is a suppression of truth by wickedness, the cognitive consequence of immorality.”
That’s funny. I pay my taxes, drive at the speed limit, park where parking is allowed, I don’t use drugs without a prescription, and I have never cheated on my wife in 40 years.
Christains, right now, support an adulterer, a felon, a draft-dodger, an embezzler, a thief, a grifter, a racist, with growing dementia, as the man in charge of everything.

“In short, it is sin that is the mother of unbelief.”
Keep telling yourself that.

Tatsuya Ishida #racist #conspiracy #wingnut

Dear Me. Dumbass,
The work camps killed people within the walls. And the neo nazis you love so are only seeing you as useful idiot. Nothing more

Bro. Randy #fundie

“FACT: SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE is a myth that occurs nowhere in the Constitution of the United States.”
This is not a fact.
The Constitution consists of three things.
First is the original document. (Insert Bart saying ‘Duh’ here)
Second is the body of ratified amendments to the original document. (Insert Lisa saying, ‘Of course.’ here)
And third is the body of Supreme Court Decisions that explain and amplify the written words of the first two. (Insert Homer saying, ’D’oh!’ here) Imagine them as footnotes to the Constitution. Note, not the interpretation of an interested but separate observer.
So when the Supreme Court Decision states that the 1st Amendment’s meaning IS to erect the wall of separation between church and state, that phrase sure as fuck is IN THE CONSTITUTION.
All other facts and interpretations are immaterial and surplus to need.

SisterNChrist #fundie

Parents With Inconvenient Truths about Trans #transphobia

Transsexuality already was studied in the 1920s and isn’t a modern fad.

Most wizard doctors are former gender doctors

I’d thought that what you call “gender doctors” already would have been jailed beforehand in your fantasies.

SisterNChrist #fundie

“Since the Lord works in such marvelous mysterious ways...the mysterious man in the truck could've been none other than the Lord Himself, who ran over that Wiccan (wicked) display.”
Some Christain used a pickup to trample the civil rights of another US citizen. No need at all to invoke an invisible dickbag who hasn’t spoken to anyone without a Lisp since Moses….

Tatsuya Ishida #racist #conspiracy #wingnut

I take it that Mr. Ishida is one of those people who accepts “Arbeit macht frei” at face value. After all, when has too much work ever killed anyone?

Arbeit macht frei
durch Krematorium Nummer drei.

I’m sure he’d be more than happy to lead us there by example.

Unknown Author #fundie

“[Name] is a good Christian and if she has any questions she can find the answers in the Bible.”
Mommy, I have a question. What’s the value of Pi?
The Bible tells us it is three. Use three.
Okay.
‘F-, see me after class.’

1oftheflock #fundie

“So why is the universe then.”
The universe is. That’s sufficient for science.
How the universe came to be is science. There is evidence we can use.
Why is the universe? IF there is a why, that’s not really part of the science. Religion is quick to supply the why, but there’s no real reason to believe any of them know the right answer.

“Big bang doesn't cut it either.”
Why not?
What evidence do you have that the Big Bang Theory doesn’t actually cover?
Or do you just not like that as an answer?

“If you quote thermodynamics you still have to explain where the tiny little particle that exploded into the universe came to be.”
No, really don’t HAVE to.
We’d like to. We may not ever be able to, though.
Like, CSI can solve many murders, but there are some that there just isn’t enough information available for a solution.
A pity, but that’s how science works.
Religion cannot STAND not having an answer, so they’re willing to make shit up.

“Please tell me, if not God then what?”
I don’t believe in ANY of the gods. You do. YOU need to show why god.

radorth #fundie

“I guess you don't get why Jefferson said that Christianity, "divested of the rags of the clergy, is the friendliest to liberty, science and the freest expansion of the human mind."”
Pretty sure he wasn’t talking about the Catholic Priests. Or not just them. He meant all clergy. ALL of the people who try to tell their flock what reality is, what they need to do, what God wants of them.
He had more of gnostic view of Christains being Christains, doing what they thought their personal god wanted with them, personally. Without middlemen telling them how to be Faithful and using them as a political power.

JannTosh70 #sexist #dunning-kruger #pratt

Pele referred to the sport he participated in as ‘The Beautiful Game’: he was a great promoter of football.

And when he of all sporting greats gave his backing to women’s football, all you are is ugly, OP.

Parents With Inconvenient Truths about Trans #transphobia

P1: Men and women are different.
P2: Dogs and pigs are different, biological organisms and attack helicopters are different, and wizards and non-wizards are different.
C: Therefore, believing that you are of a sociological construct (i.e., gender) different from the one assigned at birth is as egregiously irrational and absurd as believing that you are of another species or of another ontological essence (real or fictional) altogether. [EDIT: Or, to put it more concisely: transgender bad!]

To quote Dusty Smith: “LOGIC. Fuck yes!”

JannTosh70 #sexist #dunning-kruger #pratt

@Percy_Jelley #246384

I am impressed, really.
Nicely done and well put.
I could only hope to ever be as eloquent.
but i hope you washed your hands after you typed that…

This is an incredibly nuanced, impartial, subtle, well-researched, mature, respectful, perspicacious analysis that absolutely does not treat feminists or women in general as any kind of monolith (he is careful to make specifications like "women on social media", and actually cites Hillary Clinton by name!). The author not only dispels the myth that there are women who are genuinely egalitarian, but also does not even dignify with a response the blatant lie that there are any conservative women with internalized misogyny who attack feminism while simultaneously benefiting from it. The adroit usage of the words "cold hard fact" and "truth" effectively buttress his position. The brilliant line about "women and children" (which I've heard before in a conversation between sociology geniuses Peter Boghossian and Stefan Molyneux) is just the cherry on top. You can practically see the citations from XU, FacebookU, InstagramU, and YouTubeU.

Just the sort of refreshingly masterful piece of scholarship and moral courage that you'd expect from a Reddit University graduate who is clearly outstandingly well-versed in all schools of feminist theory and has exhaustively studied women from all walks of life.

We have women soccer players demand equal pay despite playing less games as another clear example.

When this was a controversy back in 2015 the women’s national team was bringing in more money then the men’s national team but getting paid less then half the salary.
He does have a little bit of a point about the draft in that female politicians have dodged the issue but not much of one. The reason is that conservative men have acted to keep women from the draft while at the same time complaining that women are not equal as long as they are not drafted. Double standards in that regards are not just limited to women.

Women don’t want equality. They want special treatment”
You’re mixing apples and oranges. They want equal opportunity, not to be equal in all respects.

“It is a cold hard fact that despite women claiming they want equal treatment to men, they actually balk at the idea of real equality and actually want special treatment for being a woman.”
Wow. You repeated your premise.
And made your error much clearer.

“We have affirmative action and DEI helping women get jobs easier”
Because they aren’t given equal opportunity in the workplace… If and when they have that equal opportunity, they won’t need any affirmative action. But left to themselves, white men tend to promote other white men.

“and even flat out gives them lower standards for certain job,”
Citation needed? Someone says, ‘I need the person in this position to ____ 30 units a day, but I’ll take 20 if it’s a woman.’?

“ and not a single woman, even one in a high position, is calling for these policies to be rescinded and for women to compete on an even playing field.”
But you don’t mean an even playing field. What you mean is a playing field that’s unsupervised. Which is shown, time and again, it isn’t even. And we’re back to needing affirmative action.

“Women, especially women politicians, routinely play the woman card and use the sexism accusation to push back on criticisms.”
Well, this is a sexist statement, so, yeah, probably.

“Women politicians and activists demanded women be able to join combat roles but when it is brought up that shouldn’t women be subjected to a draft then, they either avoid the subject or defend the idea that only men should be forced to die for their country.”
We don’t have a draft.
And the draft is stupid for any country that’s not fighting for its very survival.
We shouldn’t have a draft for anyone unless we’re invaded by an actual threat to our existence.
What in the name of a chimney sweeping fuck does that have to do with women in combat? The better medals in the military go to combat positions. People who have been in combat get promotions faster. The entire system rewards combat, and if that’s restricted to men, then the system rewards only men, which is sexist.

“They also routinely make everything about women. Hillary Clinton’s “women are the primary victims of war” quote is the prime example.”
Ah.
One quote is not ‘everything.’
You’re just a fucking sexist and you’re oversensitive to ANYTHING being about women.

“We have women soccer players demand equal pay despite playing less games as another clear example.”
An example of people making everything about women is a woman not getting equal pay for an equal job?

“And the primary thing, you see women on social media constantly complaining that men aren’t “chivalrous” and don’t immediately give up their seat for them on a bus or immediately help them with a heavy box or something and cry about “good men being gone” despite them being the ones that claimed they want equality!”
Holy mother fucking snowflake.
Just lump all women together AND all their complaints coming from the same mouth, huh? As stated, they don’t want to be men. They don’t want to be equal to men in all respects you illiterate sexist misogynistic pig of a Neanderthal. But having the same chance to be a CEO, or a doctor, or a general is not the same thing as expecting help with lifting things.

“The term “women and children” is still constantly used and not only do women not push back against that, but they use that term THEMSELVES.”
You should probably avoid political discourse in the future. You don’t understand it, you cannot process it, and you just look silly trying to offer your two cents now that they’ve done away with pennies.

Michael Tellinger #ufo #magick #crackpot #conspiracy

Oh and now money conspiracy theories of the type anti-government extremists promote.

So do you recruit people who work for free, telling them that they don't need money?

And interesting, the embrace of Sitchin's racist pseudoarchaeological nonsense...

JannTosh70 #sexist #dunning-kruger #pratt

The draft? Really? That’s your example?

Most women who oppose the draft oppose it for ANYBODY.

Sasha Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, U.C.L.A.) #ufo #crackpot #conspiracy

So those borrowed name/beings are whatever and change from story to story? Is that tower the Etemenanki? Hypothesis 1 or 2 or 3 or ... so you don't know anything, finally, plus they're all false.

So who's that serpent brotherhood today? Your UFO cult?

Erectus telepaths? And how do we seek evidence for such an outlandish hypothesis? It's not even something that's possible, "telepathy", magic-communication, would be a term used by those who don't comprehend a type of communication, or who invent one.

Eden is mythology, not history.

Parents With Inconvenient Truths about Trans #transphobia

By all means, enjoy the world of magic and wizardry, just please don’t drive on any of that shit. The roads are bad enough as they are.

@Sasha #246369
in 2076, transphobes will still be predicting a wave of lawsuits against the "gender industry" as masses of trans folk detransition,
declaring that TERFs were right all along

While MAGAs still insist that Trump got robbed of reelection in the Stolen Election of 2020 and that Nicole Good tried running down the ICE agent who shot her.

Sasha Lessin Ph.D. (U.C.L.A. Anthropology) & Janet Kira Lessin #ufo #crackpot #conspiracy

Why wouldn't they use a better magnet than gold? Why wouldn't they use a material less vulnerable to friction? If they needed gold and were so powerful, why did they need slaves to mine it from a rocky planet for them? Why must they resort to genetic technology that did not exist in the time those deities were worshipped? Can you clearly identify your alien "subraces" today, instead of letting us infer that perhaps they're human social concepts, social structures and ethnicities?

Where is the evidence of those strong ancient magnets and of advanced magic technology? We have a pretty well documented history of human technology, we're the ones who had to develop the scientific method and technology and we can even in a single lifetime track multiple generations of a particular technology. We can open an encyclopedia or book and learn about the premises of those very technologies that we have developed. We can visit museums and see those inventions, we can also consult patents databases. This means that you appear to be ignorant about all that human history, or are willing to deny it for some agenda.

You appear to promote pseudoarchaeology stealing the achievements of civilizations like those of the Iroquois, you appear to promote racism claiming that miscegenation would be some nefarious plan...

Then you suddenly end with potentially contradictory messages calling for an end of patriarchy and "slavery", apparently disconnected from the rest except for the imaginary cosmology that supposedly enslaved us.

Meanwhile, there's a real world and real problems to solve.

techristian #fundie

“What good comes from telling a child that they have a common ancestor to the monkeys and apes?”
What good comes from telling them the speed of light in a vacuum, or the acceleration value of gravity? They’re facts. We teach them facts AND how we determined them to BE facts.

“That is real good for self esteem?”
This is what I learned and my self-esteem survived. Asking Jan Brooks to marry me in 1967 didn’t turn out so well, but evolution did not do me in.

“Then believing we are only animals we can begin to live like animals...”
Do you guys never get tired of making the same tired argument?
We are animals.
ANything humans do, is ‘living like animals.’
Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa like an animal.

“.multiple sex partners for one thing.”
Many humans have multiple sex partners.

“I'm sure that the belief in evolution , and the derived philosophy, is partly responsible for AIDS and the rapid spreading of AIDS.”
Actually, it was Reagan’s bible-thumping kakistocracy that refused to take the necessary steps to protect us from AIDS, so, no, you’re just bigoted.

Sasha Alex Lessin, PhD. #ufo #crackpot #dunning-kruger #conspiracy #ableist

So... yeah, patriarchy has not been universal throughout human history and can be overcome again, but... Your reasons are completely bonkers. It's like a Star Wars or Game of Thrones with borrowed names...

Also, since those are deities from ancient human traditions that were borrowed and adapted a long time, the Marduk-Enki relationship seems to have changed often. In some legends they're brothers. Then there's the Marduk-Enlil confusion, the Enki-Ea confusion, the Marduk-Ea confusion... The pantheon changes, the role of "servants" too, etc. In the Torah, they seem to both have merged into Elohim/Yaweh for the monotheistic adaptation of the flood myth.

TL Adamson #fundie

“All history revolves around the Bible”
Most of history is either older than the bible or at least dates before those culture heard of the Bible.

“First the Bible: Whether people agree with it or not, the fact is, the holy scriptures verify the truth of history the best.”
Doesn’t mention Ur. I mean, at all.
And there’s no record of world-wide flood.
ANd Egypt never kept slaves…

“This incomparable written record is the most accurate and trusted of all for a reason.”
Actually, historians tend NOT to trust accounts if they don’t know who wrote it, when, or for what purpose. So, anything anonymous is not trustworthy history.
And SAYING that, say, Matthew wrote a book is not evidence that Matthew wrote it. There isn’t even scripture saying, “I’m Matthew And This Is My Testimony.”
Also, Moses wrote the first five books BUT this includes description of his funeral…

“It passes any test devised by man or time.”
When David asked for donations to construct the Temple, many people donated. They gave him "for the service of the house of God five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of bronze, and one hundred thousand talents of iron."
This was about 1000 BC, or so?
The daric is a coin named after the King Darius the Great.
Darius the Great was about 500 BC.
So they could not have donated in coins which didn’t exist, yet.

“No other recorded holy document or book compares.”
Not even close.

“Real history, archaeology, mathematics, and science align themselves continually with it.”
No, they do not. They constantly counter it or the experts ignore it.

Sasha Alex Lessin Ph. D./Janet Kira Lessin #ufo #crackpot #wingnut #moonbat #racist #conspiracy

All of that is really homo sapiens sapiens and some of the homo sapiens sapiens fantasy. Authoritarianism and racism are really a homo sapiens sapiens thing too, of subjugation and xenophobia against homo sapiens sapiens. The homo sapiens sapiens, [...]

Parents With Inconvenient Truths about Trans #transphobia

50 years from now, in 2076, transphobes will still be predicting a wave of lawsuits against the "gender industry" as masses of trans folk detransition, declaring that TERFs were right all along.

You just wait.

You'll see.

Gerald Clark/Dr. Sasha and Janet Kira Lessin #crackpot #ufo #moonbat #magick #conspiracy

[...] Enlil, Commander of the gold mining expedition to Earth from the planet Nibiru, “to ensure genetic supremacy for his fabricated messiah,” had Mary artificially insemination that gave Jesus a genetic advantage” [...] Enlil staged a failed assassination attempt against baby Jesus to make him a celebrity [...] Jesus moved to France with his wife and kids; he led the resistance to the Anunnaki-Nibirans [...] Jesus, from his home in France and in North America, defied Yahweh [...]

Loloooolz

Where does the Bible speak of Jesus' genetics, where do more ancient texts from the region refer to the genetics of those deities? Confused genealogical claims don't refer to a genetic code. The genetic code was only discovered recently. Where is evidence that Jesus would have been to India, France or North America? Claims by crackpots like Joseph Smith are only claims offering no evidence whatsoever.

I like the idea of Enki as a deity of wisdom, who also saved humans and of Ummanu, Apkallu... and sometimes wondered if some adopted him as a deity today. Well, I find this kind of UFO cult...

R.J. Stove #fundie

“Second, I knew that those who yelled loudest against Catholic clergymen for being perverts were the same individuals who considered perversion eminently OK, when anti-Catholics practiced it.”
Ah.
You’re conflating gay and pedophiles. I’m okay with gay, not with pedophiles.
I’m okay with hiring gays, but not with covering up for pedophiles.
I’m okay with priests having sex with each other or adult parishoners, not with pedophiles.
I don’t yell at Catholic clergy for being gay.

AprilMayJune #conspiracy

“While I was being witnessed to I was scared to death of Hell! That worked out ok because I got saved as a result.”
So the ends justify the means, you say.

“ To me now it doesn't matter if I was "scared into it" or not..."
Like DARE exaggerates the risks of drugs. To scare people straight.
And Mormons grossly exaggerate the risks of sex, to keep girls clean.
But time after time after time, we find that when people lose the fear, they stop avoiding the bad stuff. Mormon girls at BYU meet upper classmen who have sex without lightning striking and they go wild. People find out you can smoke weed and not shoot a movie theater, and try all the drugs.
If people become convinced Hell isn’t a problem, they’ll be free to try al lthe sins…

“I'm just glad that I am saved and on my way to Heaven!”
Yeah, never mind if the tactics were not sound, now you’re still afraid of Hell.

Parents With Inconvenient Truths about Trans #transphobia

I knew a wizard on my first boat. He seriously felt that he was a Catholic Wizard. Saw no difference between spells and prayers, both being specific invocations.
Knew a few gays on several commands.
And have three transgendered coworkers.
THey’re all pretty normal people trying to get through all the bullshit, same as the rest of us.
All you’ve highlighted here is your intolerance and misunderstanding.

Nice fanfic, OP.

But when there’s a trans character in “Hogwarts Legacy”, you want to hear how Reality uses ‘Expelliarmus’ on not only That Which Must Not Be Named…?!

It’s super effective!

Tatsuya Ishida #conspiracy #racist #transphobia #kinkshaming #psycho

@PLMMJ #235954
are bears a right-wing dogwhistle for pedophilia now?

It’s Pedobear, so it’s pedophilia.

Forward Synthesis #wingnut #psycho

“Karl Popper in ‘The Open Society and Its Enemies’ writes that the question is not how do you get good people to rule. Popper says this is the wrong question. Most people attracted to power, he writes, have ‘rarely been above average, either morally or intellectually, and often [have been] below it.’ The question is how do we build forces to restrict the despotism of the powerful. There is a moment in Henry Kissinger’s memoirs—do not buy the book—when Nixon and Kissinger are looking out at tens of thousands of anti-war protesters who have surrounded the White House. Nixon had placed empty city buses in front of the White House to keep the protesters back. He worried out loud that the crowd would break through the barricades and get him and Kissinger. And that is exactly where we want people in power to be. This is why, although he was not a liberal, Nixon was our last liberal president. He was scared of movements. And if we cannot make the elites scared of us we will fail.”

—Chris Hedges

“Revolutions may be defined as retarded, and proportionately violent, acts of mimesis. The mimetic element is of their essence; for every revolution has reference to something that has happened already elsewhere, and it is always manifest, when a revolution is studied in its historical setting, that its outbreak would never have occurred of itself if it had not been thus evoked by a previous play of external forces. An obvious example is the French Revolution of A.D. 1789, which drew its inspiration in part from the events which had recently occurred in British America—events in which the French Government of the Ancien Régime had most suicidally assisted—and in part from the century-old achievement of England which had been popularized and glorified in France by two generations of philosophes from Montesquieu onwards.

“The element of retardation is likewise of the essence of revolutions, and accounts for the violence which is their most prominent feature. Revolutions are violent because they are the belated triumphs of powerful new social forces over tenacious old institutions which have been temporarily thwarting and cramping these new expressions of life. The longer the obstruction holds out the greater becomes the pressure of the force whose outlet is being obstructed; and, the greater the pressure, the more violent the explosion in which the imprisoned force ultimately breaks through.”

—Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History

banning protests is automatically a step to a tyranny with no input from the public

Banning protests indicates that the government has become frightened of its own citizens. When there is no trust between the authorities and the public, that is when tyrants seize power.

Americaman #wingnut #psycho #racist

I took a look at the linked website and the entire backlog (there's not much), and...eesh.
*Antisemitic conspiracy theories all over the place, with "Jews control the world" being the major one.
*There's some rather gory violence - one strip has Americaman unknowingly kill an African-American child with a riding lawnmower, while another has a trans person bludgeoned by "the Noticer" (a masked "villain" who spews long-debunked talking points and whose goal is to save the white race).
*The author's targets are frequently slapped with stereotypes, such as Indians having poop (sometimes even visibly defecating) and telephones.
**African-Americans get it especially bad: if they're not depicted minstrel-style or ape-like, they're grotesque masses of flesh and gaping minstrel-style faces (one strip does the latter to a six-person all-Black jury).

...So yeah, definitely a worthy target for FSTDT.

[Edited 1/21/26 to expand on things.]

Forward Synthesis #wingnut #psycho

“If you have grievance with the goverment, just write a strongly-worded letter! That always works!”

Except, A: It doesn’t, as Chuck Schumer has proven time and again. And 3: That assumes the government against whom you bear grievance can read.

Donald J. Trump #crackpot #dunning-kruger #god-complex #psycho #wingnut

I’m thinking of crowdfunding to hire a bokor or a houngan to raise up Fred Trump as a zombie so he can finally, fucking finally hug this fat fucker and put whatever abandonment issues he has carried with him all these years to fucking rest.

Or, y’know, eat his brains. You spin the wheel, you take your chances, right? At this point, either outcome is a positive, I say.

Forward Synthesis #wingnut #psycho

Those who are protesting against an oppressive regime reduced to using basically paramilitaries to shoot at others said regime doesn’t like.

And then there’s Iran, amirite OP…?!

I’m also looking at you, Don Old Fart.

I get to be consistent here

Consistently being an asshole, but ok, at least you’re consistent.

Or you don’t know what the fuck Free speech is because a good way that people can express their discontent with the government is to gather in groups and yell about it and your response tells us all that you are every bit the authoritarian that you claim to be against.

alli #fundie

“The first humans weren't born. They were created by God. They were created as adults and God breathed life into them.”
So, biblically, life begins at the first breath.
That solves the abortion debate.
It’s not the taking of a life until after their first breath.
That’s when the spirit enters the body.
I mean, if we’re going to let bible stories influence our legislation…

“Different viruses aren't an example of evolution.”
This is how creationists keep saying there’s no evidence for evolution. When we offer evidence, you say ’THat’s not evolution!’ for no really good reason, showing you don’t understand much in the way of science.

“That's like saying that dogs have evolved b/c of all of the different breeds that they are."
Um, yes. Mutations are encouraged by selection. Same thing that happens in evolution, but at a faster rate.

“A dog is a dog, and a virus is a virus.”
So, if i take your wife and give you the third-superior man in charge of the janitorial staff of the Empire State Building, would you fuck him?
If she’s a human and i replace her with a human, you have no logical complaint, right?

“ I don't want to open the Origin of Species.”
But you do want to talk as if you know a fucking thing about evolution.
Do you let bible critics say whatever they want without reading the Bible?

“ Why would I want to read something that will poison my mind?”
Ah. So you didn’t read the bible, either.

"I have heard about evolution a lot in school. It comes up almost every year. I'm not saying that you have to accept God. My proof is the Bible, desert, and the moon.”
You keep thinking it’s evolution OR God. You can accept both if you like the evidence for either of them.

“If you're talking about drilling ice, then that has been proven wrong.”
Creationists like Hovind insisting that it’s wrong is Not The Same as Proof (or Disproof).

“Carbon dating has also been proven wrong.”
Sorry, wrong again.

“In carbon dating one part of an animal dated a lot different than another part.”
Citation, please?

“What are your other resources?”
quite a bit more than you can imagine, i would guess.

“I'm not telling you that you have to accept God. This is what I know is truth. I'm sorry that you are denying Father and I will be praying for you.”
I deny all gods, not just yours, and evolution is NOT the reason I do so.
You’re barking up the wrong tree and just look ignorant.