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I can sit here and do a refutation point by point but that’s a PRAAT. Instead I think the last paragraph is more insightful. He uses the word “worldview” which has a very different meaning in fundie than most outsiders think.

For fundies a worldview isn’t something that develops as a result of one’s experiences, knowledge, and beliefs. Rather it’s the opposite. A proscriptive set of ideas or beliefs that one must then apply to interpret the world. That’s how he can talk about a “Christian Worldview, an “atheist worldview”, etc. That’s why to Ken there can be no neutrality and why the scientific method simply doesn’t compute for him.

It’s also why he can claim things to be religions when they aren’t (that and taking a quote from a SCOTUS opinion out of context). If religion is simply about beliefs than by that analysis yes it’s a religion. By that same analysis science becomes a religion. But, religions aren’t about individual beliefs, they’re a type of group activity. The extent to which groups of atheists can take on aspects of religion is obviously a longer more complex topic that I don’t have the expertise to analyze.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t just stop with Ken. It how they justify their attacks on education.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. #quack #pratt #racist #crackpot

The scientific agencies are going to be in for a world of hurt over the coming years and the damage will ripple through US science for decades to come after this.

Ben Bartee #transphobia #dunning-kruger

This is the exact same language that you used against gay people and the exact same language you used against black people. Maybe it’s the system that’s sick and not the the people ground down by it?

Donald Trump #racist #wingnut #psycho

@Timjer #217003

And compromise the integrity and impartiality of the investigation. The crash was almost certainly not caused by diversity initiatives, there are probably multiple points of failure. But now that he’s made this partisan with his racist and ableist fog horns it will be a problem when the board ignores DEI completely. But will they be able to do that without partisan interference? I doubt that this White House will allow that. I fear either way the report will become more partisan and people less likely to believe it. That will only further serve to weaken an important piece of our transportation system that keeps air travelers safe.

Ben Garrett #fundie

Andre McCoy, the Genetically Modified Skeptic, summed it up perfectly in his recent video. They’re being sold dark enchantment.

William Hoadley #wingnut

Anthony Esolen #wingnut #sexist #conspiracy

Yeah it’s funny, architects in DC have been eschewing fasces and that repeating branching swastika pattern a bit too much since World War II huh?

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) #transphobia #psycho

Let me guess Tommy you know if a few “camps” where those kids like can be sent to after you’ve removed them from their homes?

various commenters #transphobia

I feel like what people don’t understand is that it’s not that Harris lost because she embraced trans rights, but rather how heavily of a motivator anti trans was for republicans. Hopefully, the presence of Sarah McBride and the links between the lgbtq+ community will help the Democrats to message better on this, especially since all the anti trans laws in the world won’t bring down the cost of eggs.

Matt Walsh #psycho #transphobia #wingnut

Nah, we’ll just lay low where we have to, organize as much as we can, educate and tell our stories and outlast you.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 #transphobia #wingnut

Sarah talks about things like policies and and improving people’s lives. The GOP seems obsessed with stalking behaviors and wrecking using the state to bully children and rob their futures.

Got Questions #fundie

You’re not only misrepresenting that hypothesis but you’re also telling us that you haven’t read the Bible without actually saying that. Because guess what, at no point does it actually claim to be written by your god in any of the texts that compose it!

The hypothesis you reference also says that Yahweh and El were Canaanite deities which 13 Canaanite tribes came together as a common nation and began conflating their attributes into a single god and generations later took that to mean that was the only god. Guess what, the fingerprints of that hypothesis are all over many of the texts that make up the Bible.

John Marshall #transphobia #wingnut

State of the Nation Editor #wingnut #racist #conspiracy

Musk probably should have been arrested for a pump and dump following his SNL stunt with DOGEcoin. Just saying…

Valentina Gomez and Laura Loomer #racist #psycho

The fetishization of state imposed violence is a hallmark of fascism.

Bennett Lee Ross #crackpot #magick #conspiracy

The Vatican is built over top of a Roman burial ground but so is much of the city of Rome and Vatican City. The chapel in Portugal is real and there are hanging corpses, including a child’s. The chapel is a very elaborate momento mori that the monks built after they relocated the town’s cemeteries.

James Carville #transphobia #racist #elitist

@DarkPhoenix #213991

The problem is that he’s still influential and he’s not the only democrat who blames trans people for the loss. What they don’t understand is that bullying queer kids is meant to motivate the GOP base. Very few swing voters who went for Trump voted for him because of trans people.

It’s like what happened with marriage equality after 2004. Preventing it was an issue to motivate Bush voters, very few people didn’t vote for Kerry because of his non support of the issue. But Obama opposed it in 2008 and probably set the cause back at least 4 years.

Except almost no kids are obtaining surgeries and most Democrats tried avoiding the topic rather than standing up for the dignity of a small minority of people and families. I would also rather lose than to sell out their civil rights and dignity and utilize the tools of the state to intimidate and bully people who are different.

Snake Baker #crackpot

There are actually a few theistic Satanist communities. My understanding is that they tend to have different mythological basis on who Satan is, different than how the entity is depicted in the Bible. I think that they are a spin-off of 19th century theosophists.

But the majority are atheists and DID pick the name to offend Christians. Mostly the fundie types who are obsessed with Satan beyond how he’s depicted in the scriptures. Also the serpent in Genesis isn’t the devil, the author of Genesis just intended it to be a talking snake.

But what makes you quiver is that Satanists aren’t a parody religion like the Pastafarians. They are a legit community of people who identify with the figure of the antihero devil and reject arbitrary authority. They’re a full on religion and expect the law to treat them like it.

Lindsey Graham #sexist #wingnut #psycho

Well… a civil jury found something on your best pal (who you were “done with) the President Elect. There’s also at least one, sorry two of your favorite SCOTUS justices.

Gay bullying, it is real #homophobia #fundie

@Starlight #213693

They plan to DARVO the LGBTQ+ community back into the closet. I will admit the coming years will be a rocky road and met with many setbacks. But as long as we stick to the truth, keep standing up for ourselves and what’s right, we will get through it and on to someplace better.

John. C Wright #racist

The only people who ask that question are the ones who don’t want to see black people earn those degrees in the first place. They have deliberately muddied the waters about how the concept works - its a tie breaker nothing more nothing less.

Gaybullyingitisreal #homophobia #conspiracy

Judith Rose #transphobia #conspiracy

Or maybe it’s because they get rejected by their unsupportive families, live in communities where political leaders are openly demagogues against their existence, and don’t have trusted adults in school to turn to since the state is mandating that they be ratted out and exposed. So they feel isolated, are vulnerable and have no one else to turn to.

If you are truly concerned for their safety, then you should support policies that encourage their acceptance and won’t stigmatize them. That way they can complete school and find stable jobs and be valued members of their communities.

Conservapedia #conspiracy #wingnut

Of course I have to get sucked into this. Dictators always have their simps, people looking through rose colored glasses and deliberately ignore or downplay their atrocious acts, and talk nostalgically good old days when there was no crime, etc. etc. People like that can seem great especially when liberalism seems to be faltering or a corrupt socialist dictatorship implodes and everyone else is left to lick up the pieces. When the dictators simps are well connected enough and can spread their message people will listen.

As for the second quote, all Hurtado was saying was that the declassified evidence from CIA archives doesn’t show the same level of direct coordinating and planning for the Chilean coup like it does for others in the region. The Nixon administration, however did send the message that they wanted it to happen, weren’t going to oppose it, and that they would really really like it if the military did it.

BestRegards #transphobia

When a person learns that a close family member is trans it definitely stirs a huge range of emotions. I’m not here to question the validity of them. I also feel like the LGBTQ+ community could do better at letting people have the space to work through those emotions because the people who oppose our existence defiantly take advantage of this to recruit people to their cause.

But this is also the exact same language that was used by those opposed to the rights of cis-gays and lesbians. It’s the same language that was used by those who oppose interracial relationships that are cis hetero normative. So, the hate remains the same, it’s just who their particular target is that changes.

Gizortnik & Wizardslayer #dunning-kruger #pratt

Fascism is an emotional appeal to an imagined and idealized “order” and central to its claim is that a strong *man* is needed to restore, reimpose or maintain this order typically by force. So there’s a big difference between liberals encouraging people not to patronize certain media figures and fascists who seek to use the organs of the state to cajole and coerce compliance with the official line. A big difference between the government asking social media companies to tamp down the spread of potentially deadly misinformation and rumors and the state punishing an entity for spreading information that damages their leaders.

You claim to respect free speech. However, what you respect is the idea of it, ie the cultural resonance it has as part of the American identity. Thus, that’s how you can justify explicit and outright attacks on it. It’s the feeling of freedom, not actually freedom.

WrongToy #transphobia

Liz Wheeler #forced-birth #wingnut

I don’t have a daughter but if I did I’d want her to live in a country where she can make the best informed decisions for herself, guided by sound medical science. I’d want her to live in a world where medical providers don’t have to worry about the police and can act decisively in situations where milliseconds matter. I’d want her to live in a state where professionals can offer her the full benefits of reproductive care and haven’t all fled or found other specialties because some federalist society lawyers think they know better. If she wanted to be more sexually active than me I’d want her to be able to make the best decisions and and ensure all parties fully, enthusiastically, and actively consented. If she were assaulted I’d want law enforcement to have the time, resources, and prioritization to thoroughly investigate the crime and forensic evidence and not treat her like the criminal for reporting her allegations.

One candidate promises a country where that could be possible. The other doesn’t.

Donald Trump #crackpot #dunning-kruger #wingnut

Jesse Kelly #racist #fundie

You know what really makes America great? Due Process.

Arenlaef & Women1st #transphobia

@feralwanderer #210127

And many TERFs would be screaming at the top of their lungs complaining about players who are cis and aren’t “traditionally” looking feminine. Look at the cases of those boxers, the runner Castor Semenya , or even the Williams Sisters. It is also something that I wish Martina Navratilova would remember about her experience but it seems she’s fallen down the TERF rabbit hole.

Ben Shapiro #dunning-kruger #wingnut

Riley Gaines #forced-birth #wingnut

Yes, yes, we all know Sanger was a racist and a eugenicist. That’s old news. You know who else was a racist and eugenicist? James Dobson. And guess what one organization moved on from their founder’s dark views the other never really did. I’ll give you a guess as to which…

Dr. Abby Johnson #forced-birth #wingnut

Any political party that wants the government to tell you what medical procedures you can get or what books you can check out from the library cannot call itself the party of small government.

Christopher Anthony #fundie #wingnut

I mean Trump is the one talking about debasing our currency and implementing policies that will result in much higher inflation. You know the same phenomenon which resulted in the crisis of the third century and subsequent destabilization of the empire and the split of the east and west.

PresumedWoman #transphobia

Brent Johnson #wingnut #psycho #conspiracy

Meanwhile, multiple FEMA workers have had to pull their teams out if effected areas due to he threats they have received and people have refused to evacuate to safety because of the lies and misinformation. This is why the feds were politely asking social media companies to crack down on disinformation during the pandemic and it’s what happens when radicalized courts who don’t care about the 1st amendment tie the government’s hands. Finally, this is also on the ownership of X who bought the platform specifically to make it into a far right disinformation superhighway.

Ramprakash Solanki, Dinesh Baghel, Jasodhan Singh, Veerpal Singh and Laxman Singh #fundie #psycho #magick

I’m actually curious if something else is going on here, ie this was plain old child abuse and no one wants to admit it so the authorities or even the perpetrators cooked up this “tantric ritual” story.

Ken Ham #fundie #pratt

“Worldview” is fundie jargon. It has much more of a proscriptive sense than a simply an outlook people adopt based on their experiences and knowledge. Rather they see it as a framework by which people interpret all aspects of their life based on specific Christian theological beliefs. One could simply adopt and apply this “worldview” and its distinct from a Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, athiesr, etc., “worldview”. This is why he can claim “atheism is a religion” (won’t speak for religious studies scholars who have long and fascinating legitimate debates about this question).

The thing is the rest of us be they religious or not, theistic or not don’t work like this.

Mammonist Grifter of the Year 2023 primary election

nonenosome2 #transphobia #wingnut #forced-birth

Trump is probably honest when he says he doesn’t know what’s in Project 2025 because he can’t read more than a page or two. But let’s not forget that JD Vance wrote the forward to the President of the Heritage Foundation’a book. I also guess that they’re not going to issue the Schedule F executive order and not appoint all of those flunkies they previously identified?

As for your “exemptions” they’re worded deliberately vague. Nothing to tell an ER doctor or hospital when they’re in the clear or when they will be landed in front of the state’s Attorney General’s office.

Donald Trump #racist #wingnut

@JeanP #206937

The federal government already assigns legal permanent residents something called an alien number (A#). It’s nine digits just like a Social Security number and is intended to keep track of immigration records and those files contain information like addresses, phones, and family members. Information they voluntarily gave the government in order to live in the United States. For president who wants to throw due process out the window they would be a major source of information.

Charlie Kirk #conspiracy #wingnut

Needs a #PRATT tag.

You’re allowed to
ask, you made this post, didn’t get it taken down, or go to jail for it. But just because you can question results doesn’t mean that the rest of us have to take your questions seriously. Especially since you have never provided any evidence beyond rumor and innuendo.

You know how corrosive “just asking questions” is which is why you persist. Especially, since it gives all the permission you all need to impose your Hungarian style election rigging on the rest of us. And I can guarantee once that happens you will make sure that nobody will dare question that.

E.W. Jackson #fundie #wingnut #transphobia

This is how they give themselves permission to commit more acts of violence when they don’t get their way.

J.D. Vance #racist #wingnut #crackpot

Why is this quote not on billboards across south Florida by now?

Klonen75 #sexist

I think if the OP and his followers want to go “on strike” and. Or do *anything* the week of a November 3-9 or would be more than ideal. And stay at home all 7 days, especially Tuesday. We would all appreciate your sacrifice.

Nancy Seidler #transphobia

@TheKingOfRhye #204750

Because they are fascist and fascism is an emotionally based argument for a sense of proper order. And what could possibly be more “disordered” than someone not abiding by a gender binary? Since fascists have to have an enemy to destroy they amplify the issue and demonize.

Since they’re speaking from a place of emotion, no amount of data and no amount of personal testimonies will sway them.

Jesse Watters #racist #conspiracy #pratt

@Skyknight #204477

It’s more fair to say that their definition of “Christian” has been changed to that of a political identity above all else and is less focused on issues of doctrine than it probably ever has been, certainly than in JFK’s time.

It’s telling that Hillary Clinton could explain what Methodism is, why it’s important to her, the values she’s learned from Methodism, and how it has influenced her life’s actions and choices; Joe Biden is a regular Sunday mass attendee and can also talk about the importance of the Catholic Church on his life and views, but Trump can’t even hold the Bible right side up and he’s the one the religious right upholds as the “Christian” candidate.