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Gaedhal #wingnut #racist

A Red Giant, to oversimplify, is a star that has lost its core

A star goes Red Giant when the core becomes too dense. It’s accumulated too much material other then hydrogen/helium, material that doesn’t fuse or doesn’t fuse the same way.

It is almost as though “secular humanism” is just an aggressive form of Christless/Godless Christianity. “Secular humanism” is what is left when the myths and miracles have evaporated

Those two things are not the same. Secular humanism in the west seems like secular Christianity sometimes because Christianity pervades so much of culture. It’s very different in places where Christianity isn’t as popular.

Donald Trump #crackpot #wingnut

A US crewman from a submarine was evacuated to Greenland for emergency hospital care, options on a sub being pretty limited. This is probably how this whole routine got started.
The US Navy has 2 hospital ships, both are in dry dock right now for refitting. They are not even in Louisiana, they are in Alabama and neither has home port in Louisiana. I’m guessing Landry mentioned something about the evacuated crewman and the US hospital ships and Trump’s addled brain ran with it.
This isn’t wingnut or crackpot in the usual sense, it’s grandpa having a bad day and telling a story with no point that doesn’t make sense.

Alex Jones #wingnut

Somebody who doesn’t even understand what the argument is about. The Constitution gives the power to apply tariffs to Congress. Congress has delegated some of that the president under certain circumstances. Trump tried to define “I want to apply tariffs” as an emergency that was sufficient to let him apply tariffs. The court didn’t buy it.

Tatsuya Ishida #conspiracy #racist #wingnut

Even for a conspiracy this doesn’t make any sense because the history is simply wrong. The allies considered Russia a hostile force at the start of the war in the west because Russia had worked with Germany to split Poland. It was ignored only because fighting with Germany was a more immediate concern. Russia was happy to ignore the war until Germany invaded Russia, then Russia suddenly joined the allies for survival. For the rest of the allies nobody liked Russia but keeping Russia supplied kept German forces occupied. During the war there was real concern that Russia would simply not stop moving west after Germany was defeated.

Marco Rubio #wingnut #racist

We want allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will ever be tempted to test our collective strength.

That didn’t stop Putin in Ukraine because he knew the US would back out of it’s promises. It isn’t enough to appear frightening, a country also has to be consistent and reliable enough for it’s promises to be taken seriously.

Helena Carey #crackpot #wingnut #dunning-kruger #conspiracy

Like most chemtrail theories this physically doesn’t work. An eclipse might take hours in total but for most of that it’s a small partial eclipse that is moving. The period of deep darkness lasts minutes at most.

otakucode #psycho #moonbat

Really? And how do you justify the idea that evolution over millions of years produced a being that is driven to have sex, develops secondary sex characteristics that have no purpose other than enticing others to have sex with them, and that the satiation of their desperate desire would lead to harm? How is it that evolution planted this trap and human beings still survived?

Evolution is not morality. One of the basic signs of sentience is realizing that, you have failed.

Jake Paul #wingnut

This argument that you either back the police/state/military or you reject them is a staple of simple minded absolutist views. It’s also fundamentally wrong, you can think one law is good and another bad, one police force works well and another badly run, one method of enforcement just and another unjust.

Konstantin Malofeev #wingnut #fundie #crackpot

Russia is the descendant of the Roman Empire? Like the Nazis, somebody desperately wants the glory of Rome and can’t have it.

Laurence M. Vance #wingnut

Free doesn’t mean anarchy. Free means the state keeps out of your way unless they have a legitimate strong reason to get involved. The government has a good reason to regulate alcohol, it’s dangerous and addictive, worse it’s often dangerous to people other then the ones drinking because it reduces judgement and dexterity.
I will agree that the actual laws are a confusing mess, a product of every state regulating it on their own with no consistency and not much logic. This is a product of a free society also, in a free society groups are free to set their own regulations. So for some things we have weird patchworks of laws.

Razrback166 #homophobia #pratt

When they say “white” it should be read as “bland”. The pre-streaming shows were designed to appeal to large cross sections of the population. In the new streaming era shows need to attract and keep an audience more then just be generally OK. So they are more focused and aimed at more narrow audiences.

Matt Walsh #conspiracy #wingnut

The fact is that the “conspiracy theorists” were right.

They were not. The conspiracy theorists talked about a network of Democrats sacrificing children, turns out it was largely a network of Republicans with ties to the Russian government.

NeonGrendizer #fundie #pratt #crackpot

This is just silly because he doesn’t understand what these organizations are for. NATO has done very well in keeping USSR/Russia from attacking any NATO country. The UN was never meant to be a military force, it’s a platform for negotiations.

Derek Andrews #wingnut #conspiracy #dunning-kruger

This is the latest Trump denial of reality lie. Trump has said that people have told him that the files exonerate him. I expected it to take another day or two to show up here but I guess the hard right does nothing but repeat Trump any more because having any ideas of their own is dangerous.

Andrew Tate #sexist

A lot of people, both men and women, call ChatGPT “he” or “she”. Most do it casually because in English it’s easier to have a conversation using a gender term. English sounds weird talking to “it”.

LVNDRVCE #fundie #god-complex #psycho

You know your in for some good hardcore fundamentalism action when he starts off equating liberalism with cannibalism. Unfortunately the rest lacks the charm of the first sentence, not quite managing the frothing at the mouth fundamentalism, it’s just blind self righteousness and white/Christian superiority.

Allie Beth Stuckey #forced-birth #wingnut

And I just want to know: why do you only speak out against perceived injustices when Trump is in office? Why is your public outrage exclusively dictated by Democrats?

How about the rate of injustice went way up? A senior judge in Minnesota pointed out that ICE has violated more court orders in January then many Federal Agencies have in their entire existence.
ICE is committing injustices at a farcically fascist level, in ways the Nazi’s would be proud of. They are grabbing people who don’t look American enough off the street, taking them to detention, questioning them, and when they show they are American they are dropped off in different states with just the cloths on their back.

Allie Beth Stuckey #wingnut

- ICE and border patrol agents, by and large, do a good, compassionate job that is very difficult. Like any group - teachers, pastors, social workers, etc - there will be those who are corrupt or bad at their jobs, and it’s ok to acknowledge that if apparent

Trump is actively recruiting the incompetent and corrupt, and then throwing them into the field armed.

- ICE’s job is necessary and good. Removing illegal aliens, including those who have committed heinous crimes against American children, should be able to be done without conflict. This is normal business that has been conducted in similar ways under both R and D administrations. The chaos is not caused by Trump. It is caused by those who hate Trump

It is caused by ICE’s incompetent and showboat tactics. The big flashy poorly planned operations are causing the chaos.

- America, like every country, has the right and responsibility to defend its borders, protect citizenship, and enforce immigration law. This is necessary for national sovereignty. This is not “kidnapping,” and it’s not just violent criminals who need to be deported.

It is kidnapping when ICE just grabs people who look non-American off the streets to hit quota. When American citizens don’t even get a chance to contest the situation before being shipped to a detention center in another state.

- Lots of overlap between those decrying ICE and those who: never said a word about immigration enforcement under Biden & Obama, have never expressed concern about the lives lost because of illegal immigration

Actually there were complaints under Biden and Obama but not as many. This is because ICE managed to arrest and deport more people with less problems through quiet careful enforcement of the law.

Donald R. Tveter #fundie

The meaningful question isn’t “would I like it?”, it’s “should god do it?”. And the answer is obviously yes. If god knew that every sin would prevent eternal bliss in heaven then he should be stopping every single sin, no matter how trivial.

Mom22 #conspiracy #crackpot #quack #transphobia

The similarity is a result of you all repeating back the same talking points in your small echo chamber. You end up sounding like each other and your stories start including bits that actually came from other people’s stories without realizing it.

Wulf Ingessunu #crackpot #racist #magick

It’s a mythos layer cake. If I’m cutting the layers correctly it’s a revisionist (weird Arthurian/Atlantian) retelling of mythos of the original revisionist (brothers war version) mythos retelling of the historical mythos (Crowley/Thule/Vril) floating around during WWII.

various commenters #wingnut #racist

Control of illegal immigration is actually not terribly hard. Fine companies for hiring illegal aliens and provide a good system for determining which people are legal and which are not. This has been tried and shown to work but the Republicans keep blocking it when it’s tried. The wealthy Republicans want an underclass of illegal workers who can be paid less then minimum wage so they don’t want an effective system.
No need for some elaborate international conspiracy. Just recognize that the rich in general don’t have the best interests of the poor and middle class in mind.

Russ Winter #wingnut #dunning-kruger #conspiracy

In fact, it’s my belief that conspiracy inquirists, or truthers, excel at introspection and even self-critique, a trait strangely lacking in their doubters.

And yet he doesn’t apply any introspection in his theory.
He doesn’t even notice the fundamental problem that conspiracy theorists don’t agree. As a group they have many different contradictory theories, so the majority have to be wrong.

Donald Trump #wingnut #pratt #conspiracy #homophobia

Trump said that Renee Good was a paid agitator on the day of the shooting. Before he could have received a detailed report on what happened and likely before he knew anything at all. If there is some secret information that Trump has access to that shows that Good was paid then it should be made public, otherwise Trump should shut up.

Trustyourperceptions #sexist #crackpot

Trustyourperceptions #crackpot #sexist

Lauren Chen #wingnut

She was never moving towards him.
Ignoring that though there is a more fundamental problem. He walked in front of the car while she wasn’t moving. ICE agents are not supposed to get in front of cars for several reasons, including the risk of people driving at them. An officer can’t put himself in a dangerous situation and then claim the situation justifies shooting somebody.

JannTosh70 #sexist #dunning-kruger #pratt

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.

Vladimir Putin #god-complex #fundie

Parents With Inconvenient Truths about Trans #transphobia #wingnut

If you think experts on Trans issues are reading the same script your not really listening. They argue and disagree all the time, you just object to the whole topic.

Clif High #crackpot #ufo #dunning-kruger #conspiracy

Creating a model for large scale human interaction that is useful is beyond our capacity. Trying to create a model for non-human intelligence you don’t understand but you think is smarter then you is obviously absurd. Your just mirroring how you think a god would act back to yourself and calling it a sophisticated model.

SiriusB Shaman #crackpot #magick #conspiracy

Better writing then most, author should consider a career in fiction.

Ken Cao #wingnut #conspiracy

China may not be happy about it but they also saw what happened to the USSR. If the situation gets that bad they will scale down their military to the point that it’s enough to keep the population under control and no more. They don’t need a lot of expensive ships and planes and missiles to keep the country under control, they can cut military spending way back.

@Lucilius #245971

It’s debatable how well the Chinese economy is doing. Since the housing collapse in China their internal economy has not been doing well, they are trying to grow the economy through exports. To do this they are subsidizing exports to the point it’s cutting into their internal economy. So their economy is showing growth but the people of China are not better off, at least not as much as they should be.

Stephen Miller #wingnut

He is also grossly wrong because he is making a bully argument. The US beat up a weaker country and Miller is now fishing around for a justification for doing it. The best argument he can come up with is “How dare you be friends with somebody other then us, we will beat you until you call us your friend.” It isn’t an argument for building actually allies, it builds a fragile empire that breaks apart and becomes a lot of enemies as soon as the other countries can.

INCOGMAN #conspiracy #racist #homophobia #wingnut

He has a bit of truth in that Trump is doing this over an understanding of oil economics left over from the 80s not because of drug cartels. The rest is a huge spew of conspiracy theories dumped on top.

Anonymous #sexist #homophobia

What she is doing here is attributing all of the problems of patriarchy, status, wealth and power to patriarchy. Labeled that way just fixing gender problems won’t fix the patriarchal system because all of the abuse of status, wealth and power will still exist. Variations of this issue are common among radfems, who often attribute all of the evil in the world to men.

Mora Grace #fundie #conspiracy

First paragraph has some truth to it. Then wanders off into conspiracy theory area that makes no sense. In general the capacity of human water redirection is insignificant compared to what a major storm can drop.

Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov #sexist

Putin’s taking this up now because Russia needs children. Population growth was already negative before the war, the war with Ukraine has had a terrible effect hollowing out adult male population. The state has starting encouraging marriage and promoting having children.

Donald J. Trump #crackpot #wingnut

The end result will likely be Afghanistan all over again. The US won’t invest the time or money to actually fix the country, eventually the population will turn against the US forces and companies in the country. 10, 20 years down the road the US will pull out, Venezuela will nationalize the oil industry again. Importantly though, this will all happen long after Trump is out of office so it won’t be his problem.

US Vice-President J.D. Vance #conspiracy #racist #wingnut

Vance doesn’t believe a word of this. He is just playing up to the far right because he thinks he needs their support next election. Vance’s defining feature is his lack of any convictions, he is a political chameleon that will take any position that he thinks will help him. He was anti-extremist right up until he was offered the VP slot behind Trump, then he quietly switched to far right himself.

Tatsuya Ishida #racist #conspiracy #crackpot #dunning-kruger

I notice also he changed Hitler’s mustache to something more stylish by modern standards. Hitler’s little nub of mustache was intentional. That little bit was a mark of WWI soldiers because it was all that they could have under a gas mask.

@Malingspann #245051

Plus the Asian side of WWII had been running for some time before Germany started the conflict in the west. The US, UK and France would have gotten involved in Asia at some point.

Fritz Berggren #fundie #racist

It’s particularly funny trying to pull this absurdity on Moses. Moses had a wife who was not from an Israeli tribe and likely black. Clearly he was not obsessed with nationalism and ethnic purity in the way modern Christian nationalists are.

various commenters #wingnut #racist

@Peacemonger373 #244622

In truth they are mostly pissed that Trump is too much of a coward to use the full range of force and violence at his fingertips. Trump has used force only on a small scale against opponents who couldn’t defend themselves, both internally and externally. Internationally, after some dancing around even the Mexican drug cartels was too scary of a target, he decided to pick on Venezuela instead. Internally he is only using force against illegal aliens, who have trouble even defending themselves in court. Against his political opponents it’s only lawsuits that use government money to drain their private finances.

Donald Trump #wingnut #god-complex #dunning-kruger

Most likely somebody at the Navy realized they could get Trump to agree to anything if they called it the “Trump” class ship and told him it will be a flagship. It’s a lot of novel technology so it will be reworked multiple times, probably even before the first two get finished. And notice that the planned date is after Trump leaves office, the Navy probably already has a plan to rename the project once Trump is out of office.

Wayne Allyn Root #conspiracy #racist

There are sensible arguments to be made for tightening restrictions on Chinese scientists but this isn’t one of them. It’s an emotional appeal based on one case.

Them Before Us #homophobia #transphobia

He confuses same sex households and households where parents transitioned. Then he complains that studies of same sex households are too small and not independent (which is no longer true) and then does far worse by using stories from children who rejected their parents situation as evidence.

Various Conservatives #wingnut #racist #psycho

I feel like one of the biggest problems Trump is running into right now is all these little courts, they want to throw up little blockages against everything he’s trying to do, whether it be his tariffs or deporting people. So I’m very pro-strong executive, strong leader, strong man.

The US has a very strong president. Both by global standards and in an absolute sense of what he can do. Trump is running into problems with courts because he is trying to break the law. He is trying to run the government the same way he ran his business, do what I order and we will sort it out in court if anybody objects. This is a terrible way to run a national government, causes lots of court cases and does long term damage.

[deleted] #homophobia #biphobia #transphobia

Sounds like a bunch of people trying to one up each other on how tragic their lives are. Very high school behavior. Hopefully they do grow out of it.