Skyknight

@Skyknight

PETA #crackpot #quack

But as I alluded to above, cats effectively domesticated themselves when focusing on the rodents raiding human grain storage. Humans didn’t have to (and, more importantly, couldn’t at the time) control how they bred. Natural selection was the only actual mechanism at work.

Would PETA consider this as cats committing perfidy against themselves?

@Yutolia #80359

...Who wants to tell them that evolution—and Nature as a gestalt—are insensate and non-teleological? And that’s before whether they interpret the first few chapters of Genesis (Abrahamic-centric already) so literally that all life “must” have started herbivorous.

Although that might owe something to Paul’s misunderstanding of the Eden situation. El banished Adam and Eve so they couldn’t compound problems by partaking of the Tree of Life and becoming immortal. In other words, they started mortal. Death wasn’t born of Adam’s (alleged) sin; it was there from the onset!

@Yutolia #80344

As strange as this sounds, does this extend to symbiotic relationships like clownfish/sea anemones and oxpeckers/wildebeests? (Okay, oxpeckers do open up scabs at times—they’re eating ticks to get at the blood they’ve consumed—but otherwise...) I’m not sure here if PETA’s actual grievance is with humans as a whole (just no one tell them that cats as a whole adopted humans, not the other way around), carnivory existing in life at all (what’s their take on sundews?), or mortal life in general (what happens when they discover Gnosticism?).

Eric Holthaus #moonbat

I wouldn’t be surprised if those behind BitCoin et al. have a frat boy mentality (I’m not terribly trusting of techbros’ view of right and wrong). That’s not the same of thinking cryptocurrency itself is misogynistic, though.

Jeff J. Brown #conspiracy #moonbat

The only problem here is that China and Russia are also deeply racist against non-Han/non-white, respectively. (q.v. Uighurs, Tibetans, Chukchi...) More important is that this isn’t just a matter of racism specifically, but kyriarchy—a webwork of interlocking hierarchies. Not just racism, but also classism, nationalism, ageism, sexism, ableism, and so forth.

Like it or not, Russia and China are just as kyriarchical as the United States and Great Britain, and just as unworthy of your adulation. Denounce the authority of the First and Second Worlds alike, and bolster the Third World against them both.

SubhumanAbomination #crackpot #sexist

Anonymous Coward #76445131 #crackpot #dunning-kruger #conspiracy

Um...you do realize that we have phases too, known as Day, Night, and Twilight, yes?

CPAC attendees #wingnut

@exatron #79925

Or worse yet, take a page from Rome and deem him an ascended demigod, like was done with deceased imperatores.

Fighting Monarch #conspiracy #crackpot #transphobia #wingnut #racist

Do you perchance realize you’re painting Harris as heroic? Granted she’s not as heroic as she thinks (she still thinks military intervention, like we still have with Syria, is a Good Thing, for instance), but still preferable to your own seeming attempt to mandate cis for all, regardless of psyche.

SubhumanAbomination #crackpot #sexist

@The_Crimson_Ghost #79870

I meant emotionally/mentally. I’m aware they think women are by definition masochistic, but do they really want to acknowledge their implicit corollary that men are by definition sadistic? I’d think they do, but their insistence on being bona fide Nice Guys suggests reluctance on their part.

Maybe if we broached to them that eros by itself is a poor foundation for a relationship, we’d get somewhere. It needs to be alloyed with philia for anything viable—and by my understanding, the alloying will make sex more enjoyable for both parties in the process.

David J. Stewart #fundie #sexist

SubhumanAbomination #crackpot #sexist

Why would women on the whole want to perform bestiality in the first place, dogs or otherwise? What do you think sexual pleasure consists of, anyway?

Rich Deem #fundie

Who wants to tell him that omnipotence wasn’t actually an attribute of El before contact with Persian and Hellenic ideas of divinity? “Stronger than all the other Mesopotamian gods combined” doesn’t necessarily mean “Can create a life-sustaining world with no tornado issues whatsoever”, for instance.

BeamBrain #moonbat

@Bastethotep #79694

Well, starting with not having a vanguard party, one hopes. Wasn’t that an innovation of Lenin’s, anyway? And I wouldn’t be surprised if non-Leninist Marxist thought has found other ways to refine Communist ideas (like Doing Something about Marx’s Eurocentrism).

Judy Byington #wingnut #conspiracy #psycho

BeamBrain #moonbat

@BeamBrain #79663

You’re still not explaining how to avoid all three. With any one of them, the poison of authoritarianism still persists. How do we expunge that poison outright?! Because as the USSR (from Lenin onwards, thank you) and China evince, Communism isn’t exactly authoritarianism-proof.

(Just to make sure, we are agreed that authoritarianism is inherently evil, yes? Whether claimed to be for the elite, for the gestalt nation, or for the workers. Especially when that authoritarianism helps succor genocidal goals, like with China trying to extinguish Uighur culture as a whole, or the USSR trying to de-nomadic the Chukchi, and thus shatter a massive chunk of their culture, or the myriad cases of the United States betraying the Indigenous treaties.)

Robert Bruce #magick #elitist #quack #mammon

starcrapoo #racist #sexist

In what way do European phenotypes prove more beautiful than any other phenotype? For I greatly doubt it’s just going to be lack of UV armor. (And what will they make of a white—male or female, cis or trans—who genuinely considers very dark skin the most beautiful to them?)

BeamBrain #moonbat

@BeamBrain #79657

Er, what part of his claim said he was completely fine with capitalism? Is one permitted to dislike all of fascism, capitalism, and communism? (With or without being anarchist—and I don’t think he’s anarchist.) Certainly there’s the socialisms that don’t partake of Marx and Engels, at least. I know Bakunin greatly disliked Marx, and he was definitely no friend of capitalism or authoritarianism (which fascism is a particularly distilled form of).

@BeamBrain #79501

The problem is that fascism and communism—at least communism as informed by Lenin (read: including Trotsky, Stalin, and Mao)—are both authoritarian, the source problem for humanity. Same with capitalism, seeing how it’s just mercantilism Mk. II. You may want to look to anarcho-communists, anarchists in general (just not so-called anarcho-libertarians and anarcho-capitalists), and any economic system that abjures fascism, capitalism, and communism alike. (I’d say look for a third option in general, but the fascists have already seized that phrase...)

Robtical #psycho #sexist

@Titania #79394

Assuming we’re talking about someone who counts bedding sex workers as actual ascension, rather than mere coping. Many incels want nothing less than a long-term, specifically bound to an indefinite-duration exclusivity pact, bedmate (with looks on par with at least...{thinks}...Anne Hathaway?) with no proactivity whatsoever.

Gaia Staff #crackpot #ufo #magick

“Matias says the main preoccupation of the Alithir was to work with our planet’s water to connect the vibrations of Earth and all beings as one consciousness.”

You’re absolutely sure this doesn’t paint the Alithir as villains? Just how many people do you think want a hive mind?

Strider73 #fundie #psycho #conspiracy #wingnut

Gabriel Erb #fundie

Robtical #psycho #sexist

How is sexual slavery (i.e. sex work neither volunteer nor paid) better than being unable to get a bedmate? You’d squawk even more than you currently do if your own bodily autonomy was breached; how can you complain if a sex worker suffers the same? “Sex worker” does not necessarily mean “suffers from satyriasis/nymphomania”!

OverBeforeItBegan #dunning-kruger #psycho #sexist

Gabriel Erb #fundie

Dom Clark #racist #wingnut

You may want to consider how your list of fascistic traits (which already diverge spectacularly from Umberto Eco’s) could be used to describe Juche, at least by the lights of a Juche adherent. Somehow, I don’t expect you to be thrilled.

That list alone is not a ward against authoritarianism, to say the least.

Lordgoro #god-complex

I’m not sure what metric he’s using to see if his psyche is human or not. I know there’s the “God’s ways are not our ways” conceit, but without a fully detailed comparative, determining whether his mind is angelic (var. fallen or otherwise) is going to be difficult.

Strider73 #fundie #psycho #conspiracy #wingnut

@Bastethotep #79164

Now I’m curious how they think sapience (or any other mental quality that may exist) isn’t sufficient for being entrusted with rights. Especially since that means the rights are no longer rights, but rather privileges.

BeamBrain #moonbat

First make sure they’re actually aware that’s the general mechanism of capitalism (and, for that matter, mercantilism)—maybe not necessarily the obliterative measures you listed, but certainly any form of unrelenting extraction and homogenization it can get away with. Until then, lay off the scorn of those who aren’t actually archons.

Strider73 #fundie #psycho #conspiracy #wingnut

@Yutolia #79126

Even if they somehow weren’t “real people”, they’re still obviously sapient, so the rights et al. still ought to apply. Would they have this demeanor towards peaceable interstellar aliens, whether humanoid, insectile, molluscan, piscine, eldritch, or anything else? I hope not.

Josh Bernstein #wingnut

“Rush's work now continues as one of God's newest and most important Angels.”

I’d sooner expect him to be a lieutenant of Azazel himself, or at least Ronové or Ipos (they both seem to be fans of slavery), than of El.

domesticatedcunt #sexist

Andrew Anglin #sexist

@Bastethotep #78778

How many steps do you suppose he has left before joining the Gnostic chorus in pronouncing Physical Reality itself as inherently filthy?

EmpathicDesign #wingnut #psycho #sexist

@ChrisBP747 #78798

Not that I understand why they think non-virginal women should be punished in the first place. Especially with the usual claim that men should “sow wild oats”, despite that meaning that women...well...have sex with the men in question. Why, basically, should women be punished for helping men do what’s expected of men?

Admittedly, this is assuming that the very existence of the desire to punish is reactive, not proactive or free-floating. Still doesn’t explain where the desire to harm, or at least inconvenience, came from at first, though.

Anonymous #conspiracy #racist #crackpot #pratt #dunning-kruger

Either a finite line or an infinite circle? Is something precluding an infinite line? (Serious question. What part of infinity requires repetition?)

Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey #fundie #conspiracy

You’re not really making a good case for why ecumenism is evil. I see no malice, and no, failing to be completely loyal to Pius IX’s understanding of the papacy is not malicious. Why are you emphasizing the Christ’s alleged kinghood in the first place? Do you follow wisdom or might primarily? (You’ll find most of us follow the first.)

You follow a scion of Judaism to begin with. And Judaism’s foremost concern is Justice, with loyalty to El just being the easiest way to accomplish such (the Noahide Laws, at least without the LGBT prohibition, are the next easiest). Learn from them.

Feynman and Coulter's Love Child #transphobia

@Lucilius #78533

I don’t doubt he thinks he does have a reason. Unfortunately, that reason is probably “Browbeat everyone who fails to be like Me back into their diamond-etched-from-everlasting-to-everlasting place”.

Arthas93 #wingnut #sexist

Lauren Boebert, US Representative for CO District 3 #conspiracy #wingnut #crackpot

I’m sure we’ll eventually get electricity-powered (read: eventually solar/wind-powered) helicopters at some point.

robbinsville #psycho #racist

@Mathius_dragoon #78475

That matches pretty well with Eco’s list of ur-fascistic traits, actually. Belonging to the White Race (or whatever the in-group is defined as) isn’t just a thing to be proud of. It’s also the only thing you’re allowed to be proud of, else you’re splitting the “Chosen Ones” over minutiae.

David J. Stewart #fundie #crackpot

@Mathius_dragoon #78482

As I alluded to, he explains it away as the Antioch manuscripts (which the KJV was translated from) being the inspired full text, with the attendant divine qualities being conducted to any translation which relied solely on Antioch, and no other texts. Certainly not the “corrupted” Alexandrian manuscripts.

robbinsville #psycho #racist

All other species...? Even the local Black-Capped Chickadees that happily fly onto one’s hand to get sunflower seeds?

Maybe they should look into what’s inciting this sort of wrath, because I’m not convinced Envy alone could do it. Misuse of “superiority”-born power would help.

David J. Stewart #fundie #crackpot

@Creativerealms #78416

I’m guessing the important thing is *which* basal texts were used for a template, in this case the Antioch manuscripts rather than the usual Alexandria manuscripts. That there isn’t really any such thing as a perfect translation from language A to language B, if only because of differing idiom and nuance therein, must not occur to Stewart. Even if he’s probably working backwards—the Antioch manuscripts are inspired because the KJV derived from those is the clearest example of a divine The King in Yellow out there. Just replace “shattered mind” with “wholly hierarchical mind”. (Jury’s still out on the death sentence bit, even if it’s less Hastur not taking chances and more the idea of the very universe detesting the chosen of God.)

Nordic Resistance Movement #dunning-kruger #racist

@Bastethotep #78228

Now I’m curious what it is about Earth that makes it less than ideal (I’m looking at the kind of seismic activity that conjured Mass Extinctions Two through Four), and/or any exoplanets that actually seem more life-amenable.

Morgue #crackpot #god-complex #dunning-kruger #magick

Jack Hyles #fundie #crackpot #god-complex

@KZadBhat #40549

Sorry to wake this up after so long, but I think Hyles’s point was that referring specifically to the King James Bible was redundant. That referring to the Bible should auto-indicate that that’s the translation being used, especially since he thinks only the Antioch sources are accurate, as opposed to the far more usual Alexandria sources.

The emphasis on including even clear neologisms like “mercyseat” on pain of being deemed not “properly” translated makes this seem not like just concerns of proper piety, but full theurgy. As though it’s not the Bible unless it can impel an immediate conversion and Sinner’s Prayer when “properly” read, as though it were the divine equivalent of The King in Yellow.

Henry Makow, PhD #conspiracy #wingnut #fundie #transphobia #homophobia #racist #sexist

Quoting the Protocols as though they were reliable sources of truth shatters your claims all by itself.