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Ken Ham #fundie

Because most actually don’t care and are perfectly happy for religious people who are able to find homes in religious communities if that’s what they want and those communities help build rather than tear down a person.

There are some who trying to sell books with proactive titles or generate clickbait engagement and every now and then some atheists will blow off steam and implicate all of religion even if they know better intellectually. For those who experienced spiritual abuse in former religious communities than that can be a type of therapy.

Atheists are also working to partner with their pluralist religious allies to push back against the existential threat that people like Ken represent. It’s unfortunate but Ken and his oil billionaire backers have somehow won the branding war over who is “Christian” or what is “religion” and that shouldn’t be allowed.

Parents With Inconvenient Truths about Trans #transphobia

Sly Fawkes #transphobia

@PLMMJ #233278

It’s reminiscent of the old claim that gay people were that way because they had been sexually abused when they were kids.

Laura Wood #wingnut

Normally this is where we chime in On “citation needed” but we both know you don’t have that. She did say something about how burning police cars could be seen as a kind of reaction to the administration’s provocations but that’s hardly a call to violence or war.

But you don’t care. You’ve been itching to lock up and strip Americans of rights for the crime of disagreeing with you for decades.

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

I’ve been afraid of this ever since 2017 but I guess this was happening sooner or later.

BLS knows their work is super sensitive politically and has taken steps to do everything they can to avoid seeming like political pawns. At some point they’d have to deliver bad news. That doesn’t work for a man who genuinely believes reality is what he says it is. So, now expect rosy and implausible growth numbers every month.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.“

KOREA NEWS SERVICE #moonbat

Parents With Inconvenient Truths about Trans #transphobia

@Malingspann #231269

Or voucher programs (as implemented in the budget bill) for private schools. Vouchers for schools which may have little to no state accountability , aren’t required to admit a student, for schools that can kick out LGBTQ+ kids, for schools that don’t need to make accommodations for kids with physical or learning disabilities, that systematically robs public schools of funding, and leaves excluded kids in death spiraling public schools or forced them to have to travel long distances from home just to get an education.

This quote reveals all. It was never about trans people. It was never about furries. It was about systematically undermining public education in the US and doing it by creating a wedge issue out of a misunderstood minority.

Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans #transphobia #homophobia

She does realize these are the exact same hormones responsible for puberty right? I’m not sure that qualifies as a recreational experience.

Gays Against Groomers #transphobia #homophobia

Children’s Health Defense #ableist #conspiracy #dunning-kruger #quack

Type one is caused by some combination of genetic and environmental factors. It may never be preventable as far as we know. So, why are you robbing kids of the feeling of being normal and seeing themselves represented in pop culture? Or would you rather they live with shame over a stigma for something they have no control over whatsoever?

Unnamed Bajrang Dal members #fundie

Elon Musk #racist

Cole Harrison #wingnut

So basically the ruling said that the POTUS can issue an executive order, one that knowingly violates the constitution, that it can only be put on hold if and when it’s challenged, that challenge must be done by an individual and that one a judge does so can only apply it to that individual. The exception is if a state challenges it and if I understand would only apply in that state.

So as Justice Sotomayor pointed out in the dissent: imagine if a president ordered mass confiscation of personal firearms with no compensation. This would still occur unless every single gun owner challenged or if a state did so, leaving up people’s rights to the whims of the states they live in.

Rv. Douglas Wilson #fundie #elitist

Sure Doug and while you’re in Washington you should get to know your fellow Christian community. I’m guessing you’ll at least have some coffee with the Mariann Budde, the Episcopal
Archbishop who a member of Congress demanded be deported over a sermon she gave. Or even more when it comes to Christian persecution talk to the Metropolitan AME Church who was vandalized by anti Christian zealots and now hold the trademarks of their vandals.

Donald Trump Jr. #transphobia #pratt

This is the accusation in a mirror technique. There is no shred of evidence of terrorism perpetrated by trans or lgbtq+ people at large. Angry shouting at a church isn’t the same thing. Yet he accuses them of violent terrorism knowing this and knowing that the community and their allies have been targeted many times in the past.

Shane Morris #transphobia #forced-birth

Those positions aren’t as divergent or hypocritical as you think. Why? Because we aren’t the ones defining women solely by their ability to become pregnant at some point in their lives.

Charlie Kirk #fundie #wingnut

@Conscience #227522

One of the hosts of the “Straight White American Jesus” podcast is doing a chapter by chapter takedown of her book. Kind of entertaining.

Pete Hegseth #fundie #homophobia #wingnut

@Bastethotep #226187

He was in the military but was kicked out due to all the racist materials and over glorification of violence he was promoting. he doesn’t seem to believe in violence as a last resort or that if and when it is used, it should be proportionate and seek to avoid harming those not involved in it. Rather, he seems to think of it purely as a first resort, maybe even the only resort that it should be the divinely sanctioned duty and the honor of the military, to impose violence on those whom he sees us deviant.

This is, of course, a classic characteristic of fascism. Umberto Eco discusses this at length in his essay Ur-Fascism

ripx4nutmeg #transphobia

Yep, funny thing about statistics is that improbable things happen it doesn’t make it nefarious.

Donald Trump #wingnut #conspiracy #mammon

@Timjer #225443

The message he’s sending about what he thinks about bribery and loyalty is quite clear. If I were a part of Los Zetas or any other cartel I’d be instructing my colleagues to get caught wearing MAGA hats.

Charl Kleinhaus #racist #conspiracy

Let me guess you really “vetted” this guy didn’t you Little Marco and Kristi Noem? I’m guessing you applied the exact same standard you would apply if you saw a Muslim refugee posting that kind of content on social media? Right?

Conservapedia #wingnut #fundie #homophobia

Ok so Andy let’s talk about your brother John. He was raised in the same house and under similar conditions as you were. He was indoctrinated with similar beliefs and ideas. So, why did he become gay while you and your siblings didn’t?

Lynn Meagher #transphobia #homophobia #enbyphobia #wingnut

Missing from your “context” is the fact that many trans people are forced into marginal and riskier parts of society because of discrimination and stigmatization. But let me take a guess you see that as a feature not a bug.

Bill Donohue #fundie #conspiracy

In context that quote is saying the government can’t deny a religious group access to a space once it’s opened the door for any religious group. You made this bed now sleep in it.

Ken Ham #fundie

Never forget that their whole movement is based on the IRS pulling tax exempt status from their private Christian segregation academies. Today they not only seek private funding for religious education but also for those schools to not have to educate and treat every student equally. They want the ability to use religious reasons to leave out kids in the cold or in sub-standard schools. This isn’t limited to people who have different religious practices. They want to claim religious beliefs are their reason not allow kids with learning disabilities or from different socio economic backgrounds. And don’t forget LGBTQ+ families and kids will be on the outs too.

They want a system that’s like stripping funding from the local parks for everyone’s use, replace it with a system where you get a voucher for the local country club, which doesn’t have to admit you as a member or a guest, and then privatize and sell off the parkland to the highest bidder.

Don’t let anyone fool you or tell you otherwise.

Martin Kerr #wingnut #racist

The empire lasted nearly 1,500 years the majority of the time it was Christian. Also, the main cause of the fall of the west was currency debasement, inflation, and increasing reliance on mercenaries.

Donald Trump #conspiracy #crackpot #wingnut

Of course DOGE is likely targeting the non political statistical agencies and the ones providing grants to universities and economists doing the work independently that would be able to tell what’s actually happening with those things.

Matt Walsh #wingnut

Given how Musk has specifically opposed methods that will have stronger effects on countering climate change like mass transit, I have to wonder about his commitment to the cause.

Donald Trump #transphobia #wingnut #god-complex

@Malingspann #219397

Or Venus and Serena Williams and dozens of other black athletes. Also, Martina Navratilova was talked about this way which angers me even more that she got sucked into TERF ideology (she was also coached by Rene Richards who was a trans player in the 70s).

It was never about trans women per se but instead about narrowly defining who is an “acceptable” woman. There have been dozens of reports about cis girls who are “too” big, tall, too black, or just happen to beat someone’s princess.

Kent Hovind #fundie #forced-birth

Actually Kent had a good idea! Hear me out. Before cars if someone was driving a vehicle and hit a pedestrian it was the driver who was presumed responsible. In the early 20th century that was the case until Detroit invented a crime called “jay walking” the word “jay” had a connotation of a backwards or stupid person back then. It was marketed as a public safety measure but its real goal was to get people and officials to think that streets and roads are for cars and nobody else. Drivers were basically given free passes to run over people and cities soon were designed with cars in mind first, transit and walking last.

So maybe capital punishment is excessive but he’s on to something.

Missouri State Representative Phil Amato (R) #forced-birth

But no a central registry of firearms please we don’t want the government to be intrusive.

Temple Coins #fundie #god-complex #dunning-kruger #mammon

And how much do you want to bet that this organization doesn’t have a single Jewish person associated with it? So please explain why it’s ok for you to claim somebody else’s sacred symbols and use them to rip people off stamping them into “collectibles” not worth the zinc contained within, and also using them to promote idol worship of an idle person?

Rep. Shane Jett #psycho #fundie

I don’t think any law should be based on the Bible nor am I going to argue the Bible with this guy, though I’d like to know why he thinks that the law violates it since I doubt it truly does.

I think the important question is what does it say about Mr. Jett that he thinks that this law isn’t biblically based?

Vic Biorseth #fundie #wingnut #racist #homophobia #conspiracy

The Catholic Church emphasizes the emotional components of religion probably more than any other Christian sect and possibly of any religion. Have you seen Catholic art and architecture or listened to any of their music? Now compare that to any Protestant church and tell me which one makes the appeal to emotion?

Arenlaef, vulvapeople & crodish #transphobia

@Malingspann #218582

They just changed the target with the times. Before this it was gay people, “statists”, feminists, black people, communists, and ultimately Jews. You also don’t need to dig too deep beneath the surface of any of those to find the antisemitism

Lauren Boebert #wingnut

There should be no faces on the desecrated Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe. But bills like these aren’t serious. They’re intended to get people talking about that and not about how Lauren will cut her own voters’ Head Start and Medicaid benefits to zero.

various commenters #transphobia

By the NCAA’s own estimates this affects less than a dozen people and I don’t think that they are all scholarship athletes either. Not only will those people be affected but any female athlete “too tall”, “too broad”, or too black will be singled out. Athletes may be subjected to the old “poke and prod” tests or some who have lived their whole lives thinking of themselves as cis (the story of Stella Walsh until the results of their genetic tests come back showing that they have a chromosomal abnormality that DQs them.

various commenters #transphobia

@Malingspann #218095

Is older than you’d think. The seminal book was Janice Raymond’s book “The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male” in 1979 but attitudes like that had been circulating in rad-fem and rad-lesbian circles well before. The book lays out all the same claims, talking points and arguments that are used today, nearly verbatim.

I think people really don’t understand or appreciate how much anti trans and by extension anti LGBTQ+ bigotry truly motivates the GOP. There should be no mistake about this: we are in the heart of a moral panic and witch hunts never truly go b away, their intensity changes or they shift their targets. So we are looking down a very long barrel here. Out extremely fractured news media landscape will make this task even harder.

So we need to stand tall and firm, knowing we will see a lot of losses in the coming years. But we have to keep to the truth, we have to keep being empathetic even to TERFS, we can compromise on our tactics but never on our demands and our facts. Maintaining the fight is as important if not more so than winning it.

It reminds me of King drawing on the story of Moses seeing but not entering the promised land. That’s why the story resonates over the years. Maybe I’ll get to see full equality but probably not. But it’s not about me but the future and we can’t give that up.

Jesse Watters #transphobia #psycho

Just look at the youth suicide stats. States whose governments are most hostile to LGBTQ people and whose politicians are scapegoating them have higher rates.

various commenters #transphobia

Nobody was required to have them in their signatures before this order.

Harry Matadeen #quack #crackpot #mammon

This post is a refreshing throwback. Thanks for reminding me of a more innocent time in skepticism.

Janice Turner #transphobia

I wish these politicians would have the guts to look these kids in the eyes with a straight face and explain why they are taking away their happiness, their medical care, their ability to play with their friends, and scapegoating them. Every one of them is a coward.

Also, it’s a crime that kids who go to schools and are parts of their communities can get banned from their teams but home skool kids can benefit from these “Tim Tebow” laws and displace actual members of the community from their teams.

various commenters #transphobia

I realize that we probably have very few people that read this site who live in Mace’s district (SC-1 the white areas surrounding Charleston). But in case we do or our readers know people who do please ask some critical questions. How has a targeted harassment campaign against ac fellow member from another state improved your life? How has her attacks on a small minority of people, some of whom are most probably her own constituents, who don’t want to be subject of a witch hunt really made your live better or strengthened our national security? Has it built or maintained a road or port?

If you can genuinely answer yes to any of those questions than by all means continue to vote for Ms. Mace. If you can’t than vote her out and vote for someone who will put your interests first.

Ben Bartree #transphobia

@Malingspann #217793

And she’s in the House not the Senate. It was confusing me is this person talking about Tim Kaine or Tim Scott who are Senators.

Donald Trump #racist #wingnut

Ken Ham #fundie

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.