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Mr Pool #wingnut #crackpot #conspiracy #mammon

I suspect this is related to the recent documents reveal that supposedly “proves” that China threw the 2020 election to Biden. They don’t say any such thing, but Trump claims they do, and his fans aren’t about to read them.

padded-eevee-pet #sexist #moonbat #transphobia

Well. I looked into this for more context, and… if there were ever a use for a #cisphobia and/or a #vanillashaming tag, this would probably be it.

Dr. Michael Salla #ufo #wingnut #crackpot #conspiracy

The surest sign that the US government hasn’t made contact with aliens is that Donald Trump hasn’t carelessly or accidentally leaked it.

Vox Day #racist #wingnut

For quite some time now, the US Constitution has been “unconstitutional” because it doesn’t match what an imaginary far-right version of the Founders would have written if they had existed. This predated MAGA, but it became less of a fringe view once MAGA got a hold of it.

The Supreme Court could *maybe* creatively reinterpret the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment… but it’s hard to imagine how they could, and then they’d also have to justify overturning United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898).

David J. Stewart #crackpot #fundie

When your life has been a DEAD END for many years, with no real hope of escape, everything looks like sour grapes.

I pity the people of Guam for having to put up with this asshat.

Maximus #wingnut #psycho #racist #fundie #god-complex

@JeanP #259676

Because what they’re for is “truth”, which they apparently believe is so self-evident that it doesn’t need to be explained.

Asmongold #psycho

I don’t even need to know who he is or which group(s) he’s talking about to respond “calm down, Satan”.

And I do know who he is, mostly because a few months ago I watched a video where a couple of people did an overview of his history and a takedown of his views (it was part of a longer video which was not entirely about him) and if what I watched was accurate, he’s definitely unhinged, in the bad sense of the term.

Tatsuya Ishida #racist

I’m not aware of any indirect (and completely superficial) connection between Baba Yaga and Jews, unlike Koschei the Deathless. If there isn’t one, then my Koschei analysis was probably pointless, and Tats isn’t making spurious connections (or being inspired by someone else who did), he’s just making shit up. Which is probably the case, considering he did the same with Tengu.

Grateful Calvin #dunning-kruger #transphobia

One of the problems of trying to claim “normal” to mean “cishet” is that the word is very context-dependent, without any clear context it becomes a question of “normal in which sense?” Which can be an issue where precise language is needed, as it requires either repeatedly establishing the context or using awkward constructions. (Also potential self-othering problems with ingroup conversations, but they wouldn’t care about that.) And there’s also the issue that “normal” can imply “boring” or “mediocre” which I’m not sure the gender normalist types would care for.

It’s not completely impossible that “normal” could someday specifically mean cishet, but that’s probably going to take a few generations at least, and I suspect that it will make modern English media a bit confusing.

But really, all this is being generous and assuming the OP isn’t suffering from a case of “equality feels like oppression”.

Sean Davis #racist #psycho #wingnut

<@KeithInc.> #259265

I’m guessing that he thinks birth certificates are issued to the parents, so if two non-citizens have a child, no birth certificate for their child will be issued to them. Which would either mean that doctors would need to check the parents’ legal status before issuing any certificate, or someone would need to investigate everyone after the fact to insure that it was valid.

Rachel #psycho #quack #transphobia

Interesting that there’s a slip-up referring to her as “she” in the middle of it. It could be a typo or an autocorrect, but that seems unlikely, given that the S key isn’t that close to the H, and I virtually never see anyone screw that up with a cis person. In other words, things have most likely reached the point where misgendering requires conscious effort.

Matt Osbourne #transphobia

That’s a little bit off, but even if it were all precisely true… what would be the problem with that, exactly?

Fatherhood is now ‘found family’

Wait, I think I see the problem. They’re being told that their “superior” traditional lifestyles (or at least ideals, if they don’t yet live that way) are now on the same level as “inferior” alternative ones. For most people this doesn’t mean much because they never felt that their lifestyle was “superior” if they lived a more traditional way even if they’ve been repeatedly told that, so alternatives being “uplifted” doesn’t degrade their own marriage/family/relationships in any way. But for tradcons, everything about them including their lifestyle being “superior” is part of their identity, so being equal to an “inferior” person in any respect feels degrading.

Alex Collier #ufo #wingnut #crackpot #conspiracy #mammon

You know, I’ve never understood how this is supposed to work. Governments can just issue bonds. Why do they need to use people’s birth certificates as collateral? If they default, does that mean random people become citizens of a different country? I mean that’s assuming that bonds work like debts, which they don’t.

Dave Blount #wingnut

Next came denial that their brownshirts are terrorists.

One person shot at ICE agents in Texas last year, and that’s all the proof that they need that Antifa is a bunch of roving death squads. Of course they were primed for years to believe that this was either inevitable or already true, but that was the point of absolute confirmation for some of them.

Which illustrates a big difference between the Left and the Right - the Left does a decent, if imperfect, job of debunking and quashing rumors which threaten to infect their side, even when said rumors are politically convenient, while the Right makes virtually no effort at this and instead encourages the rumors to explode out of control when they’re politically convenient.

Arthur P Malorzo #wingnut #dunning-kruger

Apparently there’s a brand new conspiracy theory emerging right now that Chinese people are coming to the US en masse to give birth in order for their children to gain dual citizenship. What people think the purpose of such an action is, I have no clue yet. Future sleeper agents maybe?

[Edit] Spoke too soon, apparently it’s a plot to infect the US with communism. That still doesn’t explain how though.

pasta67 #wingnut

The only way this even sort of makes sense is if they think that big government is inherently oppressive, “the left” desires big government, and thus trying to use big government to end oppression is counterproductive and perhaps hypocritical? But the original discussion which this quote came from is about whether shooting at police and/or ICE agents should count as terrorism, and it appears to be a non-sequitur even in its original context.

Mom First #transphobia

Elon Musk and Vivian Wilson have disowned each other, so realistically nothing is getting his “son” back, regardless. Also he has 14 kids with 10 women and isn’t involved in any of their lives, so it would be weird if he was a crusader for “parents’ rights”, because doesn’t even care enough to be a parent. Really all he cares about is censoring trans people and their allies, under the hypocritical “free speech warrior” standards where it’s okay to silence minorities which I don’t like, because free speech means people can say whatever they want regardless of consequences, but they can’t silence me in return, because free speech means no one can be silenced. And likely the only (or at least main) reason why he cares about that is because his children were all sex-selected to be male, so his oldest “choosing to be trans” is a personal attack.

Marcus, obormot #transphobia

“Cisgender” (or “cis” for short) was orignially as an outgroup label, but in the decades since then, it’s also become a clinical gender-related category, and is even used by some people as an identity label. If it’s a form of “propaganda”, then it’s both unintentional and highly successful. (Is intentionality necessary for something to be propaganda?) Outgroup labels (usually) aren’t meant to be used outside of ingroup discussion, and when widely used that way it sometimes becomes a slur, though not always. That didn’t happen here.

I have noticed that the people who are the most uncomfortable with outgroup labels which apply to them are usually the same ones who have no issues with using slurs against other people (because other people are not them). Or at least their only issue is that they’d get shunned by polite company for using them.

Liz Churchill and Elon Musk #crackpot #pratt #quack

Well, early in the pandemic, there were quarantines. Mostly people who were already sick, or government people who traveled internationally. But a quarantine is not a gulag, and the quarantines had mostly gone away by the time vaccines were available. A relatively small number of people were shunned or fired for refusing to vaccinate, which is even less like a gulag.

James Copper #quack #crackpot

I will point out that the silicon dioxide in question is just glass, and isn’t the reflecting surface of the mirror. Originally it was made of silver, today it’s most commonly made of aluminum, but regardless, the slightest mar can easily ruin it, which is why we protect it by covering it with glass. Yes, quartz (the most common form of crystal used in crystal balls) is also silicon dioxide - but quartz is a crystal, and the mystical properties of a crystal ball supposedly comes from the fact that it is a *crystal*, while glass is an amorphous solid. So the OP fails at mysticism even before we get to the “you fail physics forever” parts.

Diane Yap #wingnut #elitist

Conservatives: let’s torment the poor in order to motivate them not to be poor

Also Conservatives: decimates middle class, reduces class mobility

Also also Conservatives: blame [insert demonized group here] for the inescapable suffering we caused

1ofMany #elitist

So, basically people can customize their play experience to an extent, which you experience as some sort of soft censorship just because others can play the game differently, which makes it a game for “no one”? That sounds like a you issue.

This doesn’t sound like a case of catering to the lowest common denominator, it’s catering to multiple denominators.

Tatsuya Ishidia #racist

There’s a connection here, but it’s kind of a stupid one.

There are myths from various cultures about monsters or wizards who became immortal by putting their soul in an object and then hiding it. The hero finds it anyway and breaks it, kills the bad guy, wins the maiden, the end. This kind of thing is the inspiration for the modern “lich” monster. Koschei the Deathless is one of the less obscure of these inspirations, and as such had an outsized influence here. But in the 1980s, some depictions of the lich were, basically, evil undead greedy Jew wizard. So anyone who was familiar with that depiction might make a backwards inference of Jew → lich → Koschei.

Even then, I’m not sure why anyone would think that’s a gotcha. Koschei the Deathless is a villain who dies so that Ivan Tsarevich can rescue his wife Marya Morevna. It’s not like Russians glorify him as some “evil folk hero” or something.

(Side note: I mostly know this because some of the fans of the animé Puella Magi Madoka Magica referred to the magical girls as “liches” and it sent me down that rabbit hole.)

Tatsuya Ishida #pratt #wingnut

Wait, I have no idea about the others, but was there ever a non-aggression pact between Poland and Russia? Because I’d think that this would have come up prominently in WW2 history lessons if that existed.

Trinity Foundation #fundie #dunning-kruger

<@KeithInc.> #257974

“(3) Science commits the fallacy of induction.”
Citation needed.

Citation actually not needed, it’s just nonsense. There is no such thing as “the fallacy of induction”. *A* fallacy of induction (more commonly referred to as an inductive fallacy, and the majority of informal fallacies are those) is an error in inductive reasoning. Inductive reasoning may be weaker than deductive reasoning, but it is not inherently an error. It’s just not preferred where deductive reasoning is possible - and when it comes to scientific discovery, it usually isn’t. The fact that it usually isn’t is part of the reason why scientific proofs have to be so rigorous.

michaelprue9024 #crackpot #wingnut

This is what is called, as the youngsters say, a cope.

If US law is all that matters here, then the last war the US was involved with was WW2. The Vietnam War? Extended military operation. The Korean War? Also just a military operation. The Cold War? A series of proxy wars, which the US pretends not to have been directly involved in even though they sort of were, so they don’t count. But by any sane definition, all of those count, and so did this excursion with Iran. History will record it as a “war”. Hiding behind technicalities is a cope.

Tatsuya Ishida #wingnut

@Citizen_Justin #257852

Based on earlier strips, that’s a giant statue of Lenin, not the man himself. Based on Tatsuya’s usual symbology, the statue is probably meant to symbolize the spirit of Communism. Or maybe just the Soviet Union.

HPathy #quack #fundie #magick

exogenous homeopathy through biophotonic resonance

Words words words words *words* words words.

Each of those means something independently, but the whole is just gibberish. Taking just the first two, “Exogenous homeopathy” sounds like you’re not even taking any homeopathic “medicine” but there’s some sort of vaguely related process going on nearby as a form of treatment. Which may very well be what that means. But when you start adding in the other three words the result is a descent into madness.

Moritani #ableist

I don’t think “neurotypical” is an objective category. Different people have different ways of experiencing the world, and different ways of internally processing that experience. Different people have different levels of various instinctive drives. The full range of possible humanity is far wider than most assume. But even if not objective, it may still be a useful category; it’s the range of people for whom the society they live in does not cause them any inherent distress¹ or serious life challenges², or something along those lines. There are extreme outliers who would not do well in any functional society, but there’s a broad spectrum between that and whatever is widely considered “neurotypical”.

¹Excluding those caused by racism, sexism, classism, and similar -isms and -phobias, as those are not inherent to individual neurotypicality.

²Excluding those caused by physical disability, as this is not relevant to the subject at hand.

More relevant to the OP: just because someone has one particular trait (and likely, autism is not a singular trait but a range of them) doesn’t mean that they manifest in the exact same way, or even combine with other unrelated traits to produce the exact same outcome. This is a form of misaimed empathy brought on by not understanding just how much humans vary from each other.

Stephen Miller #sexist #racist #transphobia #wingnut

@Passerby #257607

Maybe it’s the ones who don’t particularly distinguish vegetarian and vegan because it’s a distinction without a difference as far as they’re concerned, and/or the ones who are offended by the “disrespect” vegans show them by not eating their chicken dish, because it’s “close enough”?

As a USAian, I do find that Bandon and Tillamook cheeses are decent (sorry Wisconsin, but Oregon has a bit higher standards). But if I want better than “decent”, then I usually spring for European or New Zealand imports.

@stonykark #257522

It’s inappropriate in most circles to wish severe suffering, serious crimes, or death on even terrible people. (Not that it was mentioned here, but prison rape counts, if anyone needed to know.) Anticipating someone’s assassination comes dangerously close to that. It is appropriate to wish for a fall from grace/power, obscurity, and losing friends/allies. (Particularly status-obsessed people might take any of these very badly and for a very long time, but it is generally deserved, and also something one can and should get over after an appropriate grieving period.) Complete loneliness for the rest of their life is generally acceptable but a bit iffy (some of the worst people shouldn’t be anywhere near others, but at the same time, it’s a form of severe suffering for some people). It is also acceptable to wish a comedic mild humiliation/injury (stepping on a rake or lego, getting eggs or pies to the face, as a few examples) so long as it’s expressed in a joking manner.

This whole bit of stupid started with a fluff survey of various Democrats what their favorite burrito was, and Talarico responded with egg, cheese, and potato breakfast burrito. Then some jackasses blarped “oh so you’re like a vegan huh” and it spiraled out of control from there. It won’t be long before he’s an obese blue-haired lesbian transgender vegan feminazi who hates Jesus and does witchcraft or whatever.

Tatsuya Ishida #racist

@TheKingOfRhye #257280

I did a little checking, and apparently the Ford V-8 continued production until 1953, but color TV wasn’t commercially available until 1954. So even pretending that this scene is a random aside which happened long after WW2, it’s still anachronistic. But the first black & white commercial was apparently in 1941. So *if* you ignore the part where it’s in color, it is plausible that someone who was well-off enough to have a television during WW2 might have seen a Ford V-8 commercial. But it’s still implausible that this commercial would have been openly antisemitic. It’s also implausible that someone from the 1940s would be using 21st century slang.

Greg Gutfeld #racist #psycho

To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln: “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for feeding others maggot-infested food, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

Smash JT #biphobia #conspiracy #crackpot #dunning-kruger #transphobia

This isn’t even what “bisexual lighting” means. That’s when you have a red or pink light source on one side and a blue one on the other, so seen from a position not near either source, anything in between them looks tinted both colors on each side with a hazy purplish border in between. It has nothing to do with certain colors merely appearing together in the art.

Donald Trump #ableist #crackpot

Does he even know what the word means? I’m genuinely curious.

Anon #sexist #psycho

In societies like that, 5-10 women in a harem was nowhere near normal, and mostly reserved for aristocracies. Even in well-off families, 2-4 was the norm, and poorer families usually just had just 1. And the “high value” men were usually high value… because they were the oldest son. That’s the primary qualification. It wasn’t uncommon for *only* the oldest son being allowed to marry, with any younger sons being backups if they survived.

Also men dying in large numbers was never “natural”, it was a side effect of how *some* agricultural societies organized themselves. Stone age societies, with rare exceptions, didn’t have that problem, and even some agricultural ones didn’t either.

Leekyfrmbville #psycho #sexist

This very much reads as “if you don’t let me commit a specific crime, I’ll commit a different crime!”

Tatsuya Ishida #conspiracy #racist #wingnut

@Smithnikov #257029

The really weird part is that, in this alternate reality, the US and UK had masses of troops and Tanks standing by to strike as soon as Germany invaded anyone else… but so far, they both still haven’t. Despite that Germany has very clearly and unambiguously invaded France, all that happened so far was the RAF bombing one city, and that was kind of glossed over. (Poland is being framed as defending the country against the Soviets, the London Bombing was propaganda leaflets.)

The Balfour Declaration, which sought to create a “Jewish homeland” whether they wanted it or not, was only seriously considered in the UK and was dead by 1922. The idea was revived during WW2 thanks to the holocaust, but the Balfour Declaration only indirectly influenced the eventual creation of Israel.

The Kalergi Plan isn’t real. The Nazis hallucinated it into “existence” based on a misreading of a single paragraph in Kalergi’s book. Which is weird in that, even if their misinterpretation was correct, there’s no reason to believe anyone had ever created any specific documents on promoting race-mixing.

Renel Sanon #fundie #psycho

Démocratie Participative #sexist #crackpot #racist #wingnut

I read the rest of it, and best I can tell (not 100% fluent in “Franch”, but I needed the practice) it’s just more of the same, a mix of incel whining about falling birth rates among white people, how white men are brutalized by women denying them sex, and immigrant bashing, with a bit of islamophobia on the side. The main site, despite billing itself as political, seems to be more racist than anything else.

Side note: “catin” is translated here as “slut”, but it’s more of a general derogatory term towards women. “Cunt” or “bitch” would probably make more sense in context.

Ilja F. #crackpot #racist #conspiracy

@Citizen_Justin #256792
claim the remaining beautiful architecture as their own. This extends to old Penn station in NYC

So basically, “ancient” White people from the year 1906 couldn’t have built modern-looking buildings. Instead an even more ancient West Asian people whose global empire collapsed at some point between the mid-1700s and mid-1800s (depending on which version of their fictional history) and vanished without a trace somehow continued to build stuff up until the early 1900s, despite that White people kept promptly claiming them.

Nephtali1987 #crackpot #fundie #magick #quack #conspiracy

one has to understand that Satan cannot create anything.

I suspect that this is a bastardization of “Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made” which is attributed to JRR Tolkien, but is actually an inaccurate summary of a paragraph in the Silmarillion. Essentially, Morgoth/Melkor, who is sort of Tolkien’s version of Satan, despised his own creations, so he decided to instead create only mockeries of things which had been made by others. (Presumably so that his creations would be hated by others as well.) This says nothing about Satan or evil in general, and the bible doesn’t actually say Satan can’t create anything. (And if he can’t, it might only be because he needs permission from God to do much of anything.)

XSpirit/Dr. John Brandenburg #ufo #crackpot #conspiracy

On Earth, cosmic rays convert argon in the atmosphere into radioactive phosphorus. If you’ve heard those jokes about radioactive bananas, that’s where it comes from. Because Mars has very little atmosphere and virtually no magnetic field, the cosmic rays reach the ground. It’s currently theorized that the cosmic rays convert barium and bromine in the soil into uncommon isotopes of xenon and krypton, respectively. More study is needed to be certain. Claiming nuclear war is a serious reach.

Jim Olsen, Republican Oklahoma State Representative #forced-birth #fundie

@PLMMJ #256501
Can you really say that they’re not an adult?

In a legal sense, one can really say that they’re not an adult, because they’re not 18 yet. Being at least 18 is literally the legal definition of adulthood. This shouldn’t be difficult.

In some abstract or metaphorical sense, then one can never truly be sure if someone is an adult yet, regardless of age. And nobody is going to agree on what abstract or metaphorical sense should count. The law cannot tolerate anywhere near that level of ambiguity while still retaining any force or meaning, that’s why the legal definition exists in the first place!

There are people who want to create such ambiguities and go with an awful lot of things based on vibes. (They’re often the sort who are offended by the term “vibes”.) Some of these people are convinced that they have very good judgement and should be allowed to decide stuff on behalf of other people, but in reality they usually have poor judgement, and don’t consider the broader consequences of other people making such decisions while having bad judgement, regardless. Some of those people want to be able to coerce others to do things based on personal convenience rather that whether it’s a good idea, as they act as if heir own personal convenience was the highest good. (They’d also be offended if you framed it that way.) Still others are predatory; they need the ambiguity to convince themselves and/or others that they’re actually not. And in the case of people like Jim Olsen, they want to be able to coerce people who haven’t yet gained full independence into a situation where they probably never will, in order to enforce a “tradition” whether its (sometimes unwilling) participants want to be involved in it or not.

One could debate which things really need to be unambiguous for legal reasons, but I don’t think you’d find many takers for removing the legal definition of adulthood, if for no other reason than it would invalidate a huge swath of other laws, some of which most conservatives are very much in favor of.

2nd Smartest Guy in the World/Nicolas Hulscher, MPH #quack #wingnut #crackpot #conspiracy

Basically claiming that “they” are trying to “depopulate” the world… by giving old people dementia? Or at least that recklessly giving more people dementia will result in depopulation. Whatever, dude.

I had to look up what “VAIDS” was. Apparently it’s the idea that the more you vaccinate, the higher risk of all your naturally acquired immunities will spontaneously get erased. And “unnatural” immunities don’t work well. As usual, this was made up by stupid people.

Hippesq #transphobia

There’s a degree of irony of being able to conceive of someone being trapped in a painful situation which is very difficult to escape… yet fail to understand that sometimes someone asserting and/or changing themselves in a dramatic fashion *is* the escape (or at least the attempt). And then maybe make things worse by doubling down and assuming the escape is actually the prison…

Dan Bilzerian #racist #wingnut #conspiracy

Abolish the ATF, IRS, and Federal Reserve

I’m not sure how much difference abolishing the ATF would do. I’m assuming that the intent is to weaken investigation and enforcement of some or all of the regulations which the ATF specializes in (federal ones relating to Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives) if not neutralizing them outright. In practice it would just end up dumping those cases on other agencies (I suspect mainly the FBI) which don’t specialize in them. This might just end up slightly weakening everything across the board rather than those things specifically.

Abolishing the IRS would make paying taxes entirely voluntary. I’d assume that some other agency, likely the Treasury, would take over the collection. Not sure if this is a case of “not paying taxes is unthinkable”, “it should indeed be voluntary”, “ban all taxes” (while not understanding how the government pays for things) or simply not understanding what the IRS does.

Abolishing the Federal Reserve without replacement would be a return to economic instability of the likes which few people alive have seen. It’s been a mixed bag - boom/bust cycles are kept from wreaking as much havoc as they would otherwise, more so before the Glass-Steagall Act was repealed in 1999, less so now. But the methods of doing this were often questionable, even to the point of effectively rewarding corporations for making bad decisions. The Federal Reserve probably does need to be better regulated or replaced with a new government entity which does its job better (“The Fed” is currently semi-autonomous). Which will probably not happen any time soon, but just getting rid of it is probably worse than leaving it alone for now.

Norman Finkelstein #transphobia

This would be like if there was a type of brain surgery which cured nearly all forms of schizophrenia while doing only minimal (and very acceptable to most people given the benefits) long-term damage… and then someone called it “celebrating schizophrenia” because it wasn’t 100% perfect and/or they personally didn’t consider brain surgery to be an acceptable practice.

Tatsuya Ishida #wingnut

If this Roman Centurion statue is meant to represent Italy, then this is the first (and still only) acknowledgement that Italy was involved in the war. Given how he is implying that Japan was fighting against Germany, this may be implying that Germany was literally alone against everyone else.

Or maybe not, the “Tengu kidnap children” storyline had a Samurai statue rescue the kidnapped child. Possibly this then represents Hitler metaphorically attempting to contact the “true spirits” of nations which were not “wholly corrupted by Jews” and failing. Which wouldn’t necessarily mean that Italy is going to attack Germany, they might just stand aside and do their own thing. It does make me wonder how he’s going to handle the bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or if he’s just going to ignore that.

(Side note: Since no one here has displayed any of his France-related strips, he depicts the French Government as being a bunch of pre-revolution aristocratic fops, which stopped being a thing 150 years before WW2.)