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It’s finally here! The Fundie of the Year 2023 awards blog

We’ve narrowed every category down, and it’s time for the final vote!

Religious fundie of the year

Rev. Paul Mackenzie - https://fstdt.com/B7Z$F$6N4QWC5 - Bodies of the members of a now-dead starvation cult are found.

John Piper - https://fstdt.com/ZPL$8DJR5VMLD - Apologist for Biblical genocide, rather than explaining it away, explicitly supports genocide.

Kathy Schroeder - https://fstdt.com/$5YH6WY3.X368 - Thirty years after Waco siege, a participant still supports self-styled "second coming of Christ" David Koresh.

Timothy, Tina, and Damian - https://fstdt.com/27ZMLNLDXR5RB - Fundie adoptive parents have their kids beat each other when they fail to memorize their Bible verses.

Mohammad Ismail Zarei - https://fstdt.com/YST7GVW8KJ3.F - An Iranian government official rewards the American who stabbed Salman Rushdie, the British author of The Satanic Verses.

Wingnut of the year

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene - https://fstdt.com/8_4QS9NN9P8_K / https://fstdt.com/FSX8VGY_$Z66H - The congresscritter that gets heckled by the right for not being right enough and fact-checked by the SPLC at the same time.

Donald Trump (1) - https://fstdt.com/X7FCX6HGQNJGB / https://fstdt.com/H4XNRGRPX9NB3 - Confused about the number of World Wars and his opponent in 2016 and proclaiming his intention to be a dictator on his first day in office, all to the backdrop of a sustained incoherent meltdown about his trials

various commenters from gab - https://fstdt.com/JRYD2.FPNLWV6 - Not being allowed to lynch people is, supposedly, oppression

Bolsonaro supporters - https://fstdt.com/.RWJ4XQDWSFRD - Mob attacks the capital of Brazil, making unfounded accusations of election fraud and spreading literal shit over the place

Tyler Russell - https://fstdt.com/K75ZV4WW7$4SH - Got the “At Least He’s Honest” award for wanting a Trump Reich

Moonbat of the year

Kim Jong Un - https://fstdt.com/W.Z$9HY3HM.$K - Best Korea embracing child labour and death-by-overworking to fight against bourgeois decadence!

Karim Ibn Rashid (1) - https://fstdt.com/6L4GRSYNLVP9H - sexual symbolism seen in political icons, with Marxism-Leninism as the “ONLY heterosexual ideology.”

Haz Al-Din 🇷🇺 - https://fstdt.com/.HVCR6$_CQZF4 - rejecting gene theory in the name of “deteritorialization”

motherLover - https://fstdt.com/VVV6BM_P4_K89 - they’re calling for gassing teh joos, and they’re doing other anti-semetic stuff, and they might become violent, but they’re totally not anti-semites guise

Front for the Defense of the People’s Struggles of Ecuador - https://fstdt.com/5J9RRBCKC763D - hero-worshiping eulogy for a wannabe Stalin

Conspiracy theorist of the year

Georgia GOP Chair Kandiss Taylor - https://fstdt.com/CDL.ZZKK8.0K - she's a flag eather and wants Big Globe to stop their roundness propaganda

Tuckler Carlson - https://fstdt.com/Z6JGY2JLLGQX4 - he thinks nicotine is a mind-expanding drug that They don't want you to use

Mike Stone - https://fstdt.com/_.Y886V_LLL.2 - he claims Hamas, Al Queda, and ISIS are all secretly run by Israel

various commenters (1) - https://fstdt.com/JP.8MW98VB6_G - they think everything is a false flag, except the one where Germany attacked their own radio station and blamed it on Poland; that's a false false flag

Vladimir Putin - https://fstdt.com/HW7_BWSFDP265 - Goes full Reichsbürger

Ableist of the year

Feynman and Coulter's Love Child - https://fstdt.com/W88853CDXXHP6 - Blatant uncaring attitude. I hope he gets run over by a car and confined to a wheelchair.

Robert F Kennedy jr - https://fstdt.com/2S56VHMR4LBW8 - An “apology” for using the word “holocaust” to describe the autism “epidemic”.

Storm Robinson - https://fstdt.com/LSB5WW36ZWQR4 - An asthma truther. “You don’t need an inhaler, Becky, you need to go for a walk”

Racist of the year

Joseph Czuba - https://fstdt.com/HYFQF$DG4BQ89 - Czuba stabbed his neighbors because the radio told him Palestinians were bad

Unnamed Daghestani rioters - https://fstdt.com/CSMB2KFZVMHZ3 - a bunch of Russian Muslims that stormed an airport looking for Jews to attack

Mahmoud Abbas - https://fstdt.com/MWPK9G8.CZ8YG - "usury, money, and so on and so on" mean the Holocaust either didn't happen or was justified

various commenters (3) - https://fstdt.com/YX$8NLT9JZHMF - "Universal suffrage is enslavement of white men. Anyone supporting it supports our enslavement"

Florida State Board of Education - https://fstdt.com/QJN.HQF7$7FKG - the new Florida state board of education says that some Black people benefited from being enslaved

Sexist of the year

Heartless - https://fstdt.com/D$V3D8YVLLDW8 - Mocking the appearance of a rape-and-murder victim.

lesbian-king-kai - https://fstdt.com/KGSG8LWQTN898 - Wants to murder all the homeless males.

AsiaCel - https://fstdt.com/C$BSFXQLYPG7H - "To add to the [Nazbol] mix, we should also throw in Marxism-rodgerism (sexual communism) of one man-one woman as the best as we can do."

Andrew Anglin (1) - https://fstdt.com/$BXWF5C_89BW3 - "Women – at least when they are conscious and capable of mobility and speech – create far too many problems for society to sustain their presence long-term."

Sameera Khan and unnamed Taliban women - https://fstdt.com/PRVRS$VVVM_F7 - [Taliban members] say westerners need Andrew Tate because we are oppressed by feminists

Mammonist grifter of the year

Donald J. Trump - https://fstdt.com/P_Z7T6CVJM3K8 - "Due to the great Excitement and Success of my previous TRUMP DIGITAL TRADING CARDS, we’re doing it again - The MugShot Edition, available RIGHT NOW"

Marc Saint-Onge and John Altshuler - https://fstdt.com/9HPX5W.26YS2K - "The founder of a health and wellness company that sold “magic dirt” which was found to contain toxic levels of arsenic and lead after a campaign from anti-multi-level marketing activists, is back...Saint-Onge appeared in a launch video for Lovvare, a new beauty and wellness MLM"

Freedom Law School - https://fstdt.com/D7DG8733QGKTK - “Take these 7 steps to FREE Yourself of IRS deception, fear, robbery, and slavery, and LIVE FREE with our 100% Protection!”

Lothlorian Magick - https://fstdt.com/S6H4.3NKFGSPG - “**MIDAS TOUCH** Golden God Secret Society Haunted Dragon Djinn Skull & Bones Illuminati Warlock Templar Artifact! One of a Kind ~ Wealth + Luck x10! ** Occult WARLOCK Ring! $$$ Lost Treasure of Khastazia!”

Heteronormative crusader of the year

Yoweri Museveni, et al - https://fstdt.com/H2HYM_JPS4PJK - Yoweri Museveni, Robina Rwakoojo, John Musila and others "Ugandan MPs pass bill imposing death penalty for homosexuality

Léona Niassène mob - https://fstdt.com/RBWYSK7Z4.BBD - “We caught a homosexual and we burned him”

Alex Bailey - https://fstdt.com/GXSRXGH$T5CRK - Beat up an 80-year-old woman because he thought she was trans.

Travis Ikeguchi - https://fstdt.com/Z_XYYNNTGDFXB - “A 27-year-old man who fatally shot a store owner in California had torn down her Pride flag and shouted homophobic slurs, officials said on Monday”

Feynman and Coulter's Love Child - https://fstdt.com/_DC5N$FYR_PZ7 - Treats “Medical Assistance in Dying” as a final solution to the gay question

Forced-birth advocate of the year

Abby Johnson - <https://fstdt.com/$3_CDZPGR$S6G>, <https://fstdt.com/V7N_BJLJLV.K5> - Starts by advocating for abortion to be banned and surprised that the neoreactionaries aren’t grateful

Kaya Masters - https://fstdt.com/J7W_BM42G$XQF - Morally trading abortions for ten-year-olds forced to give birth

Feynman and Coulter's Love Child - https://fstdt.com/NZ.R.CR52TG65 - The whole DARVO playbook applied to life-threatening pregnancies gone wrong.

State Representative Rob Harris (R) and 21 other South Carolina State Representatives - https://fstdt.com/R.PH_XY723GKC - Lawmakers proposing the death penalty for attempted abortions.

Vogon Poet Loonerate of the year

Sneir - https://fstdt.com/BHXR.7_.PZLGJ - Incel gangsta rap

Bennett Lee Ross - <https://fstdt.com/?title=Bennett+Lee+Ross&after_date=2022-12-31&before_date=2023-12-31> - Hasn’t really changed since last year, has he…

Gisele Gurney, Brynn Miche and Jimbo Zoomer - https://fstdt.com/X4X2DGGGQK6ZC - Incel punk

Quack of the year

Tammy Nichols and Judy Boyle - https://fstdt.com/YN3LQZXWX3DHK - "If two Idaho state lawmakers get their way, it would become a criminal misdemeanor to administer a Covid-19 mRNA vaccine in Idaho"

Jason Klop - https://fstdt.com/QWYSGYYH4_XKJ - "A Fraser Valley naturopath who charged families thousands of dollars to give their autistic children pills and enemas made from human feces has agreed to give up his licence"

Storm Robinson - https://fstdt.com/LSB5WW36ZWQR4 - An asthma truther. “You don’t need an inhaler, Becky, you need to go for a walk”

RFK Jr. - https://fstdt.com/SZMPH8WCXN6SH - “COVID-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and Black people. The people that are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese”

Joe Salant - https://fstdt.com/KJS4R9Y5VH7$K - "An evangelical pastor who briefly shot to fame in 2015 for recording a rap song in support of Sen. Ted Cruz is now selling industrial-strength bleach tablets to parents and has admitted that many of his customers are using the product to treat autism in their children"

Magnetic crank of the year

Andrew Stiles, Washington Free Beacon - https://fstdt.com/TV66C3_X4SJRB - The fundie word redefinition project, version 23.05.

Andrew Tate - https://fstdt.com/SLJ32QG833$S6 - Andrew Tate has small dick energy.

One-liner of the year

Storm Robinson - https://fstdt.com/LSB5WW36ZWQR4 - “Asthma is the ADHD of Inflammatory diseases. You don’t need an inhaler, Becky, you need to go for a walk.”

TommyHunt - https://fstdt.com/NVW_JRYNG4.CG - “You can surgically attach a hundred penises to a woman but she'll never be a man.”

“CLASSY” FRED BLASSIE - https://fstdt.com/G8TW.X95$W$_G - “btw i can tell when your toddler is performatively coughing when you walk past me on the sidewalk as i’m smoking a cig and it’s pathetic”

Ben Shapiro - https://fstdt.com/L4R7BY45JFJ64 - “We tried a documentary about men joining women's sports leagues, but found out they'd have to take hormone treatments first. So we made a fictional film about it instead.”

Donald Trump - https://fstdt.com/GH33W5NZ9HNW6 - “[Xi Jinping] runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. Smart, brilliant, everything perfect.”

Lauren Boebert - https://fstdt.com/FYT_8LZ4JWF27 - “We should save the taxpayer some money and throw Fauci and Hunter in the same cell.”

Catturd - https://fstdt.com/_MFX$VBDDV29G - “If Medicine Worked you wouldn’t need to refill your prescription!”

Andrew Tate - https://fstdt.com/HV.KSWSXYQQ$9 - “Long Covid? Oh you mean... Gay?”

Matt Walsh - https://fstdt.com/MV5GP_H52RMT7 - “The facts say that the entire medical basis for anti-depressants is a thoroughly debunked myth and millions of people were drugged based on that myth”

Jesse Lee Peterson - https://fstdt.com/JJTVT8V5GLC6B - “A life without thinking is an AMAZIN' life.”

Chicken little award

INTHELORDSNAME - <https://fstdt.com/P7P5>, <https://fstdt.com/2XQ5> - INTHELORDSNAME from GLP insisted, several times, that Pope Francis and Barack Obama would be systematically beheading Christians no later than March 2023, and tossed into the lake of fire in September.

Gracie - https://fstdt.com/DNF5 - Man-on-car marriage should’ve happend by 2021. The world should’ve ended by 2023.

lyamc #ableist #transphobia phoronix.com

[submitter note: in reply to “There are a lot of transgendered people in FOSS and who work with computers in general.”]

The actual connection is that the rate of autism is higher in software development than in other fields because people with autism have a much higher interest in things. Autism has more social anxiety, self-regulation and social issues, meaning they have trouble fitting in, and that sets them up for acceptance within the gender cult.

There's a few pathways, I'll give you two of them:
1. "I am constantly social anxious", "your anxiety is gender dysphoria" --> you're trans (is accepted by gender cult)
2. Porn addicted --> stops working as well, needs more exotic content --> cuckhold/sissy pron --> AGP --> you're trans (is accepted by gender cult)

Mammonist Grifter of the Year 2023 primary election blog

Edit: The top four were Donald J. Trump (4.5), Marc Saint-Onge and John Altshuler (4.0), Freedom Law School (3.6), and Lothlorian Magick (3.56). Joe Salant and JFK Jr./Bruce were tied with (3.33).

Continuing the primary election after religious fundie, right-wing wingnut, left-wing moonbat, conspiracy theorist, racist, sexist, quack, and heteronormative crusader of the year, here’s the primary ballot for Mammonist Grifter of the Year:

Freedom Law School - https://fstdt.com/D7DG8733QGKTK - “Take these 7 steps to FREE Yourself of IRS deception, fear, robbery, and slavery, and LIVE FREE with our 100% Protection!”

Lothlorian Magick - https://fstdt.com/S6H4.3NKFGSPG - “**MIDAS TOUCH** Golden God Secret Society Haunted Dragon Djinn Skull & Bones Illuminati Warlock Templar Artifact! One of a Kind ~ Wealth + Luck x10! ** Occult WARLOCK Ring! $$$ Lost Treasure of Khastazia!”

Joe Salant - https://fstdt.com/KJS4R9Y5VH7$K - Marketing bleach tablets as an autism cure.

Mike Adams the Health Ranger - https://fstdt.com/55BV4W$3X69$7 - I got a bingo on my “depopulation conspiracy theory” card

Donald J. Trump - https://fstdt.com/P_Z7T6CVJM3K8 - "Due to the great Excitement and Success of my previous TRUMP DIGITAL TRADING CARDS, we’re doing it again - The MugShot Edition, available RIGHT NOW"

Marc Saint-Onge and John Altshuler - https://fstdt.com/9HPX5W.26YS2K - "The founder of a health and wellness company that sold “magic dirt” which was found to contain toxic levels of arsenic and lead after a campaign from anti-multi-level marketing activists, is back...Saint-Onge appeared in a launch video for Lovvare, a new beauty and wellness MLM"

JFK Jr./Bruce - https://fstdt.com/.8X6XJ4RYN7W7 - "Wed. 29 March the Iraqi Dinar revalued in-country and began trading as a gold/asset-backed currency"

pmarreck #pratt #fundie news.ycombinator.com

You're right. Materialism IS the null hypothesis. And yet I know in my heart that its explanatory power is limited unless you want to write off all value, preference, feeling and meaning as “illusion,” which amounts to gaslighting.

What if the reverse is true? The only real thing is actually irrationality, and all the rational materialism is simply a catalyst for experiencing things?

The answer to this great question has massive implications, not just in this realm, btw. For example, crime and punishment. Why are we torturing prisoners in prison who were just following their programming?

Heteronormative Crusader of the Year 2023 primary election blog

Continuing the primary election after religious fundie, right-wing wingnut, left-wing moonbat, conspiracy theorist, racist, sexist, and quack of the year, here’s the primary ballot for Heteronormative Crusader of the Year:

Edit: The top five were Yoweri Museveni, et al (with 5 points), Léona Niassène mob (with 5 points), Alex Bailey (with 4.8 points), Travis Ikeguchi (with 4.25 points), and Feynman and Coulter's Love Child (with 4.0 points).

Alex Bailey - https://fstdt.com/GXSRXGH$T5CRK - Beat up an 80-year-old woman because he thought she was trans.

Russian Propaganda - https://fstdt.com/.GXJSWML6WY - “An LGBT American Rooster tells a Russian Bear and Chechen pig “You must be like me”

Yoweri Museveni, et al - https://fstdt.com/H2HYM_JPS4PJK - Yoweri Museveni, Robina Rwakoojo, John Musila and others "Ugandan MPs pass bill imposing death penalty for homosexuality

Andrew Anglin - https://fstdt.com/$JZQ_8635QCM9 - “Gay sex in Africa is a Jewish conspiracy”

Léona Niassène mob - https://fstdt.com/RBWYSK7Z4.BBD - “We caught a homosexual and we burned him”

Nick Fuentes - https://fstdt.com/MVY9K92YP9VXH - “The straightest thing you can do is to never have sex”

Feynman and Coulter's Love Child - https://fstdt.com/_DC5N$FYR_PZ7 - Treats “Medical Assistance in Dying” as a final solution to the gay question

Travis Ikeguchi - https://fstdt.com/Z_XYYNNTGDFXB - “A 27-year-old man who fatally shot a store owner in California had torn down her Pride flag and shouted homophobic slurs, officials said on Monday”

Feynman and Coulter's Love Child (2) - https://fstdt.com/BB5WRDM_KHBB - “Daniel Woodall was an evil faggot who was pushing the radical sodomite agenda when he died, and we should never feel bad about his righteous punishment”

Vincent James - https://fstdt.com/HSS_L8JTMRYKB - “I’d say I choose the functional society where they throw gays off roofs and make women wear wear [hijabs]”

Jason Graber - https://fstdt.com/MJ_S7JHK_KKGF - “Any parent that would have their child, would have a transgender surgery done on them, any parent that would do that, they just need to be shot in the back of the head”

Ron DeSantis - https://fstdt.com/.Z7_SVX_JP68B - “DeSantis signs into law restrictions on trans Floridians’ access to treatments and bathrooms”

Michael Knowles - https://fstdt.com/NNRBVYW_L2X54 - CPAC Speaker Calls for Transgenderism to Be ‘Eradicated’

Tucker Carlson - https://fstdt.com/65S9M$L9C_WV8 - “The trans movement, it turns out, is the mirror image of Christianity, and therefore its natural enemy.”

@KevinaFaga - https://fstdt.com/8N4$N4F2.B9$J - Accuses transsexualism of being an eugenic scheme against non-gender conforming persons

unlearningtrans - https://fstdt.com/_883KDSKTTB43 - “Trans has made me skeptical of therapy and psychiatry”

Jennifer Bilek - https://fstdt.com/5M6XZVXF35RW9 - “Tran$” is not a type of person. It is a conglomerate of corporate, legal, psychological, & political pressure promoting industrial body dissociation”

Luis Miguel - https://fstdt.com/ZBV.0C$QXW7SG - “Ellen Page’s Story Proves That Transgenderism Is Demonic Possession”

quaz0r #conspiracy phoronix.com

ClownStrike already revealed itself as an extension of US intelligence back when they were used to build the narrative that Russia hacked the DNC servers, overthrew US democracy, and installed a manchurian candidate as the US president.

Now its US election season again, with the same forces clashing again. "Joe Biden" is finally admitted to be as out of it as has already been obvious for a long time. Then a couple days later an assassination attempt on the orange man. Then a couple days after that... oh hey, remember ClownStrike? Yep, that ClownStrike. They entered the chat just now and "accidentally" crashed the whole planet. Oopsie doopsie!

Quack of the Year 2023 primary election blog

Continuing the primary election after religious fundie, right-wing wingnut, left-wing moonbat, conspiracy theorist, racist, and sexist of the year, here’s the primary ballot for Quack of the Year:

Edit: The top five are: Tammy Nichols and Judy Boyle (4.71), Jason Klop (4.29), Storm Robinson (4.17), RFK Jr. (3.71), and Joe Salant (3.62)

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Guo Wengui - https://fstdt.com/3838CV892$5T5 - “A fugitive Chinese billionaire wants to auction sperm and eggs from unvaccinated donors on the right-wing social media platform Gettr.”

Jason Klop - https://fstdt.com/QWYSGYYH4_XKJ - "A Fraser Valley naturopath who charged families thousands of dollars to give their autistic children pills and enemas made from human feces has agreed to give up his licence"

Matt Walsh - https://fstdt.com/MV5GP_H52RMT7 - "The facts say that the entire medical basis for anti-depressants is a thoroughly debunked myth and millions of people were drugged based on that myth"

Andrew Anglin - https://fstdt.com/JQSCRBB3LSMCF - "alcoholism is a valid and perfectly healthy lifestyle decision"

RFK Jr. - https://fstdt.com/SZMPH8WCXN6SH - “COVID-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and Black people. The people that are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese”

Idaho State Senator Tammy Nichols and State Representative Judy Boyle - https://fstdt.com/YN3LQZXWX3DHK - "If two Idaho state lawmakers get their way, it would become a criminal misdemeanor to administer a Covid-19 mRNA vaccine in Idaho"

Christie Wright - https://fstdt.com/H6GNQ$FV4Y8K9 - "Remember, folks: with the rise of child psychologists we've seen the rise of medicated children, child anxiety, self harm, and suicide"

Joe Salant - https://fstdt.com/KJS4R9Y5VH7$K - "An evangelical pastor who briefly shot to fame in 2015 for recording a rap song in support of Sen. Ted Cruz is now selling industrial-strength bleach tablets to parents and has admitted that many of his customers are using the product to treat autism in their children"


Trump Supporters - https://fstdt.com/HKKWN2PT.BD.2 - "These are some anti-vaxxers feelings about Trump taking credit for saving lives with vaccines"


Storm Robinson - https://fstdt.com/LSB5WW36ZWQR4 - "Asthma is the ADHD of Inflammatory diseases. You don’t need an inhaler, Becky, you need to go for a walk"

Sexist of the Year 2023 primary election blog

Edit: The top five were: Heartless with 4.80 points, lesbian-king-kai with 4.57, AsiaCel with 4.40, Andrew Anglin (1) with 4.33, and Sameera Khan and unnamed Taliban women with 4.17 points

Continuing the primary election after religious fundie, right-wing wingnut, left-wing moonbat, conspiracy theorist, and racist of the year, here’s the primary ballot for Sexist of the Year:

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various commenters (1) - https://fstdt.com/7T2LK_.$JK243 - “[Being kind to women] means being unkind to men, rapists and in the very rare minority and some unfortunate souls with CAIS“

Sameera Khan and unnamed Taliban women - https://fstdt.com/PRVRS$VVVM_F7 - [Taliban members] say westerners need Andrew Tate because we are oppressed by feminists

Jonathan Shelley - https://fstdt.com/TGZ55PXD5WPVK - Not asking his wife if she wants kids or not...

OmegaKV - https://fstdt.com/49.S9N6DYZ.$B - "If I were ever to find myself in the position of an 80 year old man being wed to a 15 year old girl, I would absolutely go through with the wedding, despite the girl's unwillingness."

ChattyGremlin - https://fstdt.com/QGG87CH6MVGH9 - "In my silly utopia-dream, all men are castrated at birth!"

Abby Libby - https://fstdt.com/V7N_BJLJLV.K5 - The female misogynist earns the "leopards eating faces award" for getting mad when the wingnut men turn against women in general.

Dr. Abby Johnson - https://fstdt.com/ZLSX.TW2.3WK7 - "Don’t want to be a mother? Great. Don’t have sex."

Tetsujinmustdie - https://fstdt.com/5HJXH65RKMCF - "[STEM] jobs typically operate with logic and women don't really like logic."

AsiaCel - https://fstdt.com/C$BSFXQLYPG7H - "To add to the [Nazbol] mix, we should also throw in Marxism-rodgerism (sexual communism) of one man-one woman as the best as we can do."

lesbian-king-kai - https://fstdt.com/KGSG8LWQTN898 - Wants to murder all the homeless males.

Heartless - https://fstdt.com/D$V3D8YVLLDW8 - Mocking the appearance of a rape-and-murder victim.

Nick Fuentes - https://fstdt.com/XB$NVWZ72K_98 - "A lot of women want to be raped." ... Not funny, or even angering. Just sad and dumb ...

Andrew Anglin (1) - https://fstdt.com/$BXWF5C_89BW3 - "Women – at least when they are conscious and capable of mobility and speech – create far too many problems for society to sustain their presence long-term."

Prussian Society of America (1) - https://fstdt.com/CKW_5T3LPK8B9 - "DO NOT RESPECT WOMEN"

Prussian Society of America (2) - https://fstdt.com/YMNN.F5BDJWRH - "The Best way to treat Women is to not allow things to escalate with them, but to immediately attack by shock and surprise..."

Andrew Anglin (2) - https://fstdt.com/NW5W5DZ4WQYH - "The Taliban is a good model for healthy masculinity that Western men should emulate"

Racist of the Year 2023 primary election blog

Edit: The top five were: Joseph Czuba with 4.67 points, Unnamed Daghestani rioters with 4.50, Mahmoud Abbas with 4.50, various commenters (3) with 4.43, and Florida State Board of Education with 4.25. The tie-breaker for 4.25 was the number of votes.

Continuing the primary election after religious fundie, right-wing wingnut, left-wing moonbat, and conspiracy theorist of the year, here’s the primary ballot for Racist of the Year:

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@Forever_Hitler_1488 - https://fstdt.com/2H7P5HTFLSGYG - a neopagan that wants to start a race war

Nick Fuentes - https://fstdt.com/85NS3.JLN4_MC - “What if we had Chinese soldiers on every corner [of New York City] and if Black person started spazzing out, they took a sword out and cut his hands off … and then they cut his head off.”

@Nature_and_Race - https://fstdt.com/6J4QHHRFG.BD (https://fstdt.com/?q=title=%40Nature_and_Race) - a very prolific "national socialist" that thinks racism is the natural order

Unnamed Daghestani rioters - https://fstdt.com/CSMB2KFZVMHZ3 - a bunch of Russian Muslims that stormed an airport looking for Jews to attack

Donald Trump - https://fstdt.com/M_7P_LZRL57SG - a Make The Great Wall Of America campaign ad

Itzik Zarka - https://fstdt.com/YYKK$L6NMTZV8 - "I wish another six million would burn" because some of them disagree with his judicial overhaul

Andrew Edwards - https://fstdt.com/XRJ$XSDWR$5JB - a white guy that wants to bring slavery back

Oved Hugi - https://fstdt.com/T._4QH9MKGZDK - he thinks Hitler was right to kill Ashkenazi; Mr. Hugi is a Sephardi Jew, you see, and that's totally different

Joseph Czuba - https://fstdt.com/HYFQF$DG4BQ89 - Czuba stabbed his neighbors because the radio told him Palestinians were bad

Cynthia McKinney - https://fstdt.com/NQKT8Z9HN83F4 - blames the Jews for the war between Russia and the Ukraine

JBSLAYER - https://fstdt.com/GSDHC8F5$SRN7 - thinks Hitler was on a godly mission

Southern ANglo - https://fstdt.com/KHR34P5GM2V55 - justifying the genocide of the Native Americans (insistently calling them "Indians," for no good reason AFAICT)

Roseanne Barr - https://fstdt.com/2H2M4RM89WXR6 - a Holocaust denier; you know, the kind that actively wishes it was real

Arizona - https://fstdt.com/YFQQS27$GLVNH - their racism is confirmed because these jewelry store robbers happen to be black

ryujinomega092095 - https://fstdt.com/C5PC$SG9_N7G - a sycophant that thinks Japan's too good to apologize for the WWII stuff

Mahmoud Abbas - https://fstdt.com/MWPK9G8.CZ8YG - "usury, money, and so on and so on" mean the Holocaust either didn't happen or was justified

Daily Salinas - https://fstdt.com/3X_P539B98_44 - a teacher re-posted a summary of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion on her Facebook page; later claims to have not even read it

Florida State Board of Education - https://fstdt.com/QJN.HQF7$7FKG - the new Florida state board of education says that some Black people benefited from being enslaved

Ambrose Cobb - https://fstdt.com/NQ3H$26YK2V84 - "Southern Nationalists" try to answer the conundrum: if we overthrow the yankees, what's gonna stop the blacks from overthrowing dixie the same way?

various commenters - https://fstdt.com/HXDYJ_W_RQ4W9 - trying to use meditation woo to make the country unsafe for non-whites

various commenters - https://fstdt.com/2CHYN75V8R529 - wants interracial sex to be seen as betraying your race

various commenters - https://fstdt.com/YX$8NLT9JZHMF - "Universal suffrage is enslavement of white men. Anyone supporting it supports our enslavement"

various commenters - https://fstdt.com/K4VF_7567JP.J - wants to kill brown people who so much as touch their kids, and is upset that if it was caught on video they probably would be punished for that

Conspiracy Theorist of the Year 2023 primary election blog

Edit: The top five were: Georgia GOP Chair Kandiss Taylor with 4.14 points, Tuckler Carlson with 4.00, Mike Stone with 4.00, various commenters (1) with 3.83, and Vladimir Putin with 3.83.

Continuing the primary election after religious fundie, right-wing wingnut, and left-wing moonbat of the year, here’s the primary ballot for Conspiracy Theorist of the Year:

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Jerry Derecha - https://fstdt.com/CCLYTRRK_7LFG - he thinks volanoes aren't real

various commenters (1) - https://fstdt.com/JP.8MW98VB6_G - they think everything is a false flag, except the one where Germany attacked their own radio station and blamed it on Poland; that's a false false flag

Vladimir Putin - https://fstdt.com/HW7_BWSFDP265 - he claims that modern Germany is an American puppet state

Tommy Truthful - https://fstdt.com/.RVJXM_P38Z.F - he uses numerology to try and figure out which celebrities are immortal and how they do it

Tuckler Carlson - https://fstdt.com/Z6JGY2JLLGQX4 - he thinks nicotine is a mind-expanding drug that They don't want you to use

Georgia GOP Chair Kandiss Taylor - https://fstdt.com/CDL.ZZKK8.0K - she's a flag eather and wants Big Globe to stop their roundness propaganda

Mike Stone - https://fstdt.com/_.Y886V_LLL.2 - he claims Hamas, Al Queda, and ISIS are all secretly run by Israel

Glenn Beck - https://fstdt.com/T47$YYGXQ9WC6 - he, and some of his followers, thought the EAS test was going to activate the COVID nanoparticles and turn everyone into zombies

Steve's Fairy Tales - https://fstdt.com/Q$MD5XDDH4YCG - he thinks Nagasaki was the target of a War on Christians

Alex Jones - https://fstdt.com/H9XCZ_S5TKYTD - he thinks the COVID lockdowns and vaccines killed 20 million people and that wants Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, and others ought to be publicly hanged

Wang Wenbin - https://fstdt.com/4SZ46$4P38GTK - when the United State government accuses the Chinese government of collecting genetic information against its political enemies, he says "no u"

Bruce Charlton #fundie charltonteaching.blogspot.com

In a world where death is understood as utter annihilation of the self; a life-focus on the alleviation of suffering is the precursor to a culture of death attained by suicide.

The common attitude that Men in general, Western Man specifically, and people-like-us in particular, are a "cancer on the planet", likewise feeds the implication.

And further; if anything like social apoptosis is going-on, such that the spiritually-defective are inclined to eliminate themselves; then the predicted mass distribution of Suicide Pills becomes not just rationally defensible, but something regarded as the highest kind of altruistic morality of which modern Man can conceive.

Left-wing Moonbat of the Year 2023 primary election blog

Edit: The top five were: Kim Jong Un with 4.60 points, Karim Ibn Rashid (1) with 4.33 points, Haz Al-Din 🇷🇺 with 4.12 points, motherLover with 4.00 points, and Front for the Defense of the People’s Struggles of Ecuador with 3.83 points.

Continuing the primary election after religious fundie and right-wing wingnut of the year, here’s the ballot for Moonbat of the Year:

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motherLover - https://fstdt.com/VVV6BM_P4_K89 - they’re calling for gassing teh joos, and they’re doing other anti-semetic stuff, and they might become violent, but they’re totally not anti-semites guise

Kim Jong Un - https://fstdt.com/W.Z$9HY3HM.$K - Best Korea embracing child labour and death-by-overworking to fight against bourgeois decadence!

Front for the Defense of the People’s Struggles of Ecuador - https://fstdt.com/5J9RRBCKC763D - hero-worshiping eulogy for a wannabe Stalin

Robert F Kennedy jr - https://fstdt.com/ZC3Z33.YKB$69 - he thinks vaccines and chemicals cause transness

Karim Ibn Rashid (1) - https://fstdt.com/6L4GRSYNLVP9H - sexual symbolism seen in political icons, with Marxism-Leninism as the “ONLY heterosexual ideology.”

Karim Ibn Rashid (2) - https://fstdt.com/RBS.B$NK.02VH - Islamic Communist Theocracy propaganda

Milton8 - https://fstdt.com/T5.TCNN67QDXD - when Hamas commits atrocities, it’s Israel’s fault

pojexali - https://fstdt.com/FF9.LRZMVVK2J - mass murder apologia

Mustang19 - https://fstdt.com/6NJQLVBQMNSPB - "Capitalism will collapse on September 17th 2026" (put it on your calendar for the Chicken Little Award in two years)

minisoc - https://fstdt.com/CZF49J559LHP6 - censorship apologia

Haz Al-Din 🇷🇺 - https://fstdt.com/.HVCR6$_CQZF4 - rejecting gene theory in the name of “deteritorialization”

Gearóid Ó Colmáin - https://fstdt.com/P4LLDD.V4Q3D - anti-semetic Zionist banking thing with particular points about the 20’s

Right-wing Wingnut of the Year 2023 primary election blog

Edit: The top five were: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump (1), and various commenters from gab with 4.40 points, and Bolsonaro supporters with 4.33 points, and Tyler Russell with 4.00 points.

Continuing the primary election after the choice of religious fundie, here’s the ballot for Wingnut of the Year:

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Andrew Stiles, Washington Free Beacon - https://fstdt.com/TV66C3_X4SJRB - Washington Free Beacon Alternative Style Guide for Reporting on Issues of Controversy (ASGRIC): the 2023 edition of the Wingnut Word Redefinition Project

Mike Stone - https://fstdt.com/FTQ6LTHQL8Z_ - Whining about how difficult it is growing up as a teenage boy in todays world

GodlyPatriot - https://fstdt.com/XG2QWMWZMDF9K - Crowing about former president Trump’s wisdom

Darth_Aurelius - https://fstdt.com/5SD5DSPJM3S_D - An incel that thinks Nazi Germany was awesome

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene - https://fstdt.com/8_4QS9NN9P8_K / https://fstdt.com/FSX8VGY_$Z66H - The congresscritter that gets heckled by the right for not being right enough and fact-checked by the SPLC at the same time.

Donald Trump (1) - https://fstdt.com/X7FCX6HGQNJGB / https://fstdt.com/H4XNRGRPX9NB3 - Confused about the number of World Wars and his opponent in 2016 and proclaiming his intention to be a dictator on his first day in office, all to the backdrop of a sustained incoherent meltdown about his trials

Tyler Russell - https://fstdt.com/K75ZV4WW7$4SH - Got the “At Least He’s Honest” award for wanting a Trump Reich

Feynman and Coulter's Love Child - https://fstdt.com/GWZWGG_JRRQDJ - Thinks that, if someone deserves to be killed, they must be a communist

various commenters from gab - https://fstdt.com/JRYD2.FPNLWV6 - Not being allowed to lynch people is, supposedly, oppression

Donald Trump (2) - https://fstdt.com/7YL3N.87S8R_J - ALL CAPS SCREED ABOUT THE BORDER

V Pas and Gary E Hoff - https://fstdt.com/P7MPDHLBXC$_D - Thinks low gas prices are a worthwhile trade for a dictatorship

transnazi - https://fstdt.com/DBMN95WY4XXN3 - Trans Nazi thinks Hitler was enby

Drew Dorans - https://fstdt.com/RCC46_BL_N32K - Calls OSHA and the USDA fascist

Louisiana State Senator Stewart Cathey Jr. (R-Monroe) and Peter Rykowski - https://fstdt.com/9MPSDZ3J5LQS7 - Introduced a resolution “affirming Louisiana’s right” to determine whether a federal act is constitutional, and to “nullify” it if they think it is

Luis Miguel - https://fstdt.com/T$HL.KH8N.WV3 - Declares secession to be constitutional, even though it’s not in there and “no government ever plants within itself the framework for its own demise”

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. - https://fstdt.com/7K4.TF6J2Z42J - Fourteenth amendment conspiracy theory about it not being legitimately ratified

Georgian Southern Nationalist - https://fstdt.com/X9W6PH47233Y6 - Wants Georgia to secede from the Union again

Bolsonaro supporters - https://fstdt.com/.RWJ4XQDWSFRD - Mob attacks the capital of Brazil, making unfounded accusations of election fraud and spreading literal shit over the place

Religious Fundie of the Year 2023 primary election blog

Look.

We can’t have twenty-six fundies of the year. We’ve got to filter them down first.

For this first phase, we’ll do a month-long poll of just the religious fundies. The top five will be kept for the final round. Then we’ll move on to the other categories with more than seven entries and do the same. Then, finally, we’ll do a reasonably-sized final round that won’t be eaten alive by ballot fatigue.

Edit: The top five were: Rev. Paul Mackenzie (score=5.0), John Piper (score=4.75), Kathy Schroeder (score=4.75), Timothy, Tina, and Damian (score=4.40), and Mohammad Ismail Zarei (score=4.25)

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Javad Larijani - https://fstdt.com/YNSNGN5$XY$JK - Muslim Iranian conservative politician wants to stone adulterers.

Aram Wedatalla et al - https://fstdt.com/$4G232BTXC7C7 - Muslim student files a complaint when their prof showed a medieval painting depicting Prophet Muhammad.

Sure Foundation Baptist Church - https://fstdt.com/HJ3HNS6HLHPSB - Christian baptist wishes death on an atheist.

Indian Government - https://fstdt.com/BR.W8CLB.G_N4 - India cuts the entry-level education beyond the bare minimum.

Brian Niemeier (1) - https://fstdt.com/WN5BJJXZFPYBK - Mammonist Catholic thinks the Ouija board is real.

Brian Niemeier (2) - https://fstdt.com/KT36DDNDN$6QC - Mammonist Catholic is anti-progressive and thinks modernism is going to end in mass death.

Mike Johnson - https://fstdt.com/Y7Y$6LPM2BNPF - Speaker of the House compares himself to Aaron and Moses.

Wayne Allyn Root - https://fstdt.com/657DHMJ6YLHXK - WAR JAQs off about the Democrats taking orders from Satan himself.

Timothy, Tina, and Damian - https://fstdt.com/27ZMLNLDXR5RB - Fundie adoptive parents have their kids beat each other when they fail to memorize their Bible verses.

M.L. Nowlin - https://fstdt.com/D2R35CX6L9GPC - Twitter user thinks the founders only wanted Christians to have religious freedom.

Kagman - https://fstdt.com/6_W$MCPG2WYGD - Pseudonymous fundie wants to blow up all the Muslims in the name of God.

Eric Hovind - https://fstdt.com/GM2_$GD3C569K - Fundie is explicitly anti-science.

John Piper - https://fstdt.com/ZPL$8DJR5VMLD - Apologist for Biblical genocide, rather than explaining it away, explicitly supports genocide.

Patriarch Kirill - https://fstdt.com/7LN2YZ57ZZ.D8 - Orthodoc leader defrocks a priest for opposing the Russia/Ukraine war.

Pastor Rick Morrow - https://fstdt.com/6HYMHBB8955WH - Pastor thinks autism is caused by demons.

Rev. Greg Locke - https://fstdt.com/JL3K5WY9M72X7 - Reverend hinks people in wheelchairs don't have enough faith to be healed by God.

Rev. Paul Mackenzie - https://fstdt.com/B7Z$F$6N4QWC5 - Bodies of the members of a now-dead starvation cult are found.

u/AnotherRichard827379 - https://fstdt.com/H$W33P_5MZRG - Redditor doesn't believe in human rights.

Ken Ham - https://fstdt.com/5Z$59TJJX$KCD - Fundie points out that atheists and Hitler both believe that children are the future.

Mohammad Ismail Zarei - https://fstdt.com/YST7GVW8KJ3.F - An Iranian government official rewards the American who stabbed Salman Rushdie, the British author of The Satanic Verses.

Charlie Fuqua - https://fstdt.com/H4NRMRFD8K9Q4 - Arkansas legislative candidate endorses death penalty for rebellious children.

Benjamin Netanyahu - https://fstdt.com/MJ5_B8BBMG9NF - Israeli Prime Minister compares Hamas to the Amalekites, who were all killed in Deuteronomy.

The Taliban - https://fstdt.com/LLLPD6P.3T_VJ - Islamic fundies think contraception is a western conspiracy; intimidate and attack anyone who has them.

Abdul Hakim Sharaee - https://fstdt.com/8.C2SP.B5684J - Afghanistan’s hard-line Islamist Taliban rulers have banned all political parties, saying there is "no justification" for them under Shari'a law.

Kathy Schroeder - https://fstdt.com/$5YH6WY3.X368 - Thirty years after Waco siege, a participant still supports self-styled "second coming of Christ" David Koresh.

The Rev. Steven Roland - https://fstdt.com/L6MVM$Y$8ZT.J - "Simply Christian" writer thinks K-ON is evil.

zmgsabst #wingnut #conspiracy news.ycombinator.com

That’s because DIE is just apologetics for modern racism and colonialism:

Poor Whites, Jews, and Asians are acceptable sacrifices to the racists behind that movement — which resembles modern colonialism, eg, dividing a population by providing special privileges to an ethnic minority to ease your rule. Increasing rape and murder against natives in European countries is fine, as long as it disrupts their cultural coherence and makes them subjugated to groups like the WEF.

That’s why DIE was promoted by Wall St, WEF, et al: they wanted to end the class conscious discussion of their behavior, so they rebuilt the KKK, fostered grievance narratives, etc — as a way to bring the population to heel.

That’s frequently discussed in populist circles (eg, Jimmy Dore, Russell Brand, Vivek Ramaswathy) and why the working class is defecting from establishment politics (and particularly, the racist, neo-colonial Left).

roman_mir #elitist #wingnut slashdot.org

Except this is completely backwards in a true Orwellian fashion. It is not the wealthiest, who are gaining most from society, it is society, who is gaining most from the wealthiest.

What is society gaining from all of the bums living on the dole or all of the homeless?

How much is society gaining from one single billionaire?

Of course the society turns it upside down and sideways, insisting that the billionaires are not paying some magic fair share, the reality is that if all billionaires were to disappear today, tomorrow this society would descent into poverty that hasn't been seen for hundreds of years.

cl333r #conspiracy phoronix.com

Inb4 another 10+ pages of comments on why Rust on the Linux kernel is worse than global warming.

Please remember that it's called Climate Change these days because it allows to tax the weather (people) regardless of what's going or not going on. It's the Swiss army knife of the future global religion.

Dr. Robert O. Young #conspiracy drrobertyoung.com

A man who lives nine miles away from where the Norfolk Southern train derailed reached out to us to sound the alarm on the bizarre coincidences that continues to pile up.

Bob Moore, a 70-year-old farmer and longtime resident of East Palestine, Ohio initially ignored local news reports urging residents to sign up for ‘MyID’ to receive a new biometric tracking device that provides first responder updates about an individual’s health condition amid an emergency or “major disaster!”

The suspicious timing of the U.S, government’s distribution of this wireless health-monitoring digital ID, exactly a week before the horrific chemical bioweapon disaster, warrants answers from the US Government!

“It was exactly a week before the derailment happened,” Moore said. “The people were asked to go to the local fire department in downtown East Palestine to get that ‘MyID’. They began monitoring your physical activity, your heart rate, your respiration, anything you might be exposed to...It’s a wireless monitoring device.”

Moore questioned whether the train derailment amid the ongoing destruction of the US food supply and pandemic simulations are part of a governmental scheme to destroy the United States as the Biden administration continues to institute the globalist “Great Reset” agenda.

“It makes your mind wander…food factories and egg farms and these types of disasters compounding. It appears that these bracelets are a result of that or some way to monitor whether this is really just a coincidental test town or not,” he said. “The fact that the program exists indicates that somebody somewhere knows something and wants to get data. Every piece of data that the government collects, that DARPA, large corporations, and multinational corporations collect, can always be turned against the citizen. Everything is vulnerable to weaponization and the most sacred thing in any weaponizing is data.

“These IDs were designed to collect our medical data and all of us are a little anxious about the medical situation and the trust of the medical community, and elsewhere, right now. Anyone not suspicious of medicine now is a fool.”

The 2023 Fundie of the Year awards blog

It’s time once again for the Fundie of the Year awards, the part of the year’s end where the fanatics are ranked, compared, and scored for our amusement.

As always, our first step is a nomination round. Leave a comment on this blog post to nominate someone for an award, and second the nomination by starring it. Put in some justification, plus a link. For example, if I wanted to nominate schwa for best sound, I’d write this:

@pyro

[b]Best Sound: ə[/b]

Very soft-sounding and one of the most common sounds in English. The name is also inherently funny sounding, at least to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa

If you’re having trouble finding stuff, might I suggest the shiny advanced search function? You can search for stuff based on text, fundie name, tag, and date range.

The categories

The following categories will almost certainly be used in the election round. You can nominate other awards that you want, just like you nominate candidates for these awards. If others propose candidates for your award idea, we’ll put it on the ballot.

People:

- Religious #fundie of the year
- Right-wing #wingnut of the year
- Left-wing #moonbat of the year
- #conspiracy theorist of the year
- #ableist of the year
- #racist of the year
- #sexist of the year
- Grifter <#mammon>-worshipper of the year
- Heteronormative Crusader Award for #homophobia, #transphobia, #biphobia, #interphobia, and #kinkshaming
- #forced-birth advocate of the year (be aware that this is a new tag, and older quotes haven’t necessarily gotten it retroactively applied; I recommend searching for “abortion” if you’re having trouble finding one to nominate)

Quotes:

- Vogon Poet Loonerate Award for word poem or song
- Jack Chick Memorial Award for worst piece of art
- Dr. Nick Riviera Award for dumbest piece of quack medicine
- Magnetic Crank Award for quotes with more than three #tags
- One-liner of the Year: two sentences and 280 characters max
- Funniest quote
- Most disturbing quote

Special Awards:

- Chicken Little Award for predictions that didn’t come true. As a special exception, you can nominate quotes from previous years, where the prophesy was supposed to come true by 2023 and didn’t.

Other nominations:

- Website of the year
- Quote submitter of the year
- Commenter of the year: please click the #12345 number to get a link to just the comment
- Troll of the year: a special award for fundies that show up in the comment section

John Carter #wingnut #racist #conspiracy barsoom.substack.com

So far as I know it plays no part in the plot of the Iliad, but if Agamemnon had been sufficiently cunning, perhaps he might have arranged for Patroclus to die specifically to elicit this emotional reaction from Achilles. Certainly the American ruling class has done essentially this on multiple occasions, indeed in essentially every major conflict in which it has been involved. They sunk the Maine and blamed it on the Spanish Empire, put the Lusitania in harm’s way to motivate entry into the Great War, allowed the Japanese to sink the fleet at Pearl Harbor in order to achieve the necessary Day of Infamy, invented the Gulf of Tonkin incident out of whole cloth in order to escalate involvement in Vietnam beyond mere military advising, and as for the New Pearl Harbour that inaugurated the War on Terror, well....

[picture of the aftermath of the 9/11/2001 suicide attack]

Which isn’t to say it always works. There have been several false flags in Syria, for example – mostly gas attacks – which the regime tried unsuccessfully to pin on Assad. Enough doubt and mockery was heaped on these claims by the forces of weaponized autism to prevent them from motivating the American public to support direct military intervention on a large scale, with the result that, remarkably and to the immense frustration of the neocons, Assad very much remains in power.

Still, I wouldn’t be surprised if we see some kind of outrage in the near future, to be pinned on Iran, or Russia, or even China. Maybe a low-level nuclear attack on an American city. Maybe the sinking of a carrier group. There are plenty of possibilities.

But outrage will not be enough. There must also be concessions. Agamemnon couldn’t rely solely on Achilles’ rage over Patroclus’ death, but also had to return Briseis. On that note, this post from /pol/ from back in February of 2023 seems prophetic:

@screenshot of 4chan

In the coming months the system will start backing down on a few woke issues due to concern about lack of participation of white men in the upcoming war. They know that diversity mutts are disloyal cowards and are incapable of winning a war […]

IMPORTANT: They still want to genocide western white men. Don’t be fooled by certain concessions the system will try to make. They still very much hate you, but need you to fight their war.

Andreessen Horowitz (AH Capital Management, LCC) #conspiracy #wingnut a16z.com

We have enemies.

Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas.

Our present society has been subjected to a mass demoralization campaign for six decades – against technology and against life – under varying names like “existential risk”, “sustainability”, “ESG”, “Sustainable Development Goals”, “social responsibility”, “stakeholder capitalism”, “Precautionary Principle”, “trust and safety”, “tech ethics”, “risk management”, “de-growth”, “the limits of growth”.

[…]

Our enemy is the ivory tower, the know-it-all credentialed expert worldview, indulging in abstract theories, luxury beliefs, social engineering, disconnected from the real world, delusional, unelected, and unaccountable – playing God with everyone else’s lives, with total insulation from the consequences.

Our enemy is speech control and thought control – the increasing use, in plain sight, of George Orwell’s “1984” as an instruction manual.

Our enemy is Thomas Sowell’s Unconstrained Vision, Alexander Kojeve’s Universal and Homogeneous State, Thomas More’s Utopia.

Our enemy is the Precautionary Principle, which would have prevented virtually all progress since man first harnessed fire. The Precautionary Principle was invented to prevent the large-scale deployment of civilian nuclear power, perhaps the most catastrophic mistake in Western society in my lifetime. The Precautionary Principle continues to inflict enormous unnecessary suffering on our world today. It is deeply immoral, and we must jettison it with extreme prejudice.

Our enemy is deceleration, de-growth, depopulation – the nihilistic wish, so trendy among our elites, for fewer people, less energy, and more suffering and death.

IGI-111 #wingnut #psycho themotte.org

Of all the boxes, the [ammo box] still hasn't been tried.

What the right should take from analyzing this rationally is that no amount of legal or illegal remedy will ever be enough, submit to the reality that good government requires at minimum a coup, and start plotting effectively.

If the punishment for dissent is the same as insurrection, there is no downside to the latter. And the powers that be know this which is why they immediately started purging the military.

No wistful demonstrations, no standing back and standing by. If any goals are ever to be met, then clearly one needs to start stockpiling weapons, making close connections, weeding out informants, subverting the military and planning for a violent confrontation.

It's either that or run your community away to another country that will protect you.

Prof Augusto Zimmermann and Prof John Gideon Hartnett #fundie #conspiracy caldronpool.com

Deliberate engineering of floods[20] and droughts on a grand scale has been occurring. The Western half of the USA is in a massive drought.[21], [22] Were they engineered by the dumping of millions of tons of particulate matter into the atmosphere in an effort to dim the sun?

Interestingly enough, all these features were predicted nearly 2,000 years in the Book of Revelation. In the last apocalyptic book of the Bible, at the sound of the first trumpet, we read:

Revelation 8:7:

The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. (emphases added)

The prophecy predicts “hail and fire mixed with blood”. Droughts can lead to massive fires, and also hail stones, as we have seen, are massive and have caused widespread crop damage. These effects could lead to famine and starvation which could be signified by the expression “mixed with blood”. This is also an allusion back to one of the plagues God sent on the Egyptians, which was judgment on the wicked (Exodus 9:22–25).

[submitter notes: fundie-provided citations below:]

[20]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-11/understanding-the-rare-weather-flood-event/100900554

[21]: https://www.nytimes.com/article/drought-california-western-united-states.html

[22]: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap.aspx

cbeach #wingnut news.ycombinator.com

Fediblock is a co-ordinated scheme for ostracising people from the Fediverse if they hold certain views. Generally it works by announcing blocks via the hashtag #fediblock, but there are also catalogues of instances to be blocked en masse, and automation available. One example of a list: https://joinfediverse.wiki/FediBlock

Some examples of reasons stated for blocking individual instances from the Fediverse:

* “libertarianism”

* “TERFism” (feminists that oppose modern trans ideology)

* “Trumpism” (blocking nearly half the American electorate based on their political views?)

* “free speech”

* “federate with evil instances”

Sounds sketchy, right?

At least Twitter 1.0 had concrete guidelines that it could use to justify its censorship.

As can be seen from the list above, Fediblock is highly partisan and arbitrary. An ideal tool for political weaponisation of the Fediverse.

@JohnFen

Surely, you don't want to be associated with those instances anyway, right? I'm not seeing the problem here. You aren't being excluded from the fediverse, just from that group of instances.

So if I express a liking for “free speech,” for example, my entire instance might be de-federated by Fediblock activists.

And if I join another instance and discuss “free speech” I will be swiftly booted out, lest Fediblock comes for their instance, too.

Can you see the issue with that?

Do I represent a subversive niche group when I advocate for dangerous ideas like “free speech”?

Am I the asshole?

@JohnFen

Not really, no … Just associate with instances where you're welcomed instead.

The issue here, as I see it, is orchestrated blocking of viewpoints. Not just on one instance, but across many instances. Fediblock is systematic and partisan.

Dave Hodges #conspiracy thecommonsenseshow.com

In a previous radio interview with Steve Quayle, he said two very disturbing things. the first was how very close the Deep State is to totally taking over and second, that his research, from years ago, discovered that FEMA camps would become beheading faclities. I have since been told and have been able to confirm FEMA's Billing Code for Death by Guillotine is ICD9-E978. This would be FEMA billing code as in FEMA camp.

The life insurance companies are going broke paying claims for premature deaths caused by spin off effects of the jab. Since the advent of covid, US life expectancy has decreased by two years. Pprivately, the life insurance companies are greatly distressed, but they will not publicly complain because their overt behaviors are controlled by Blackrock's ESG ratings! And let's not forget Fauci's gain of function research. This is all planned depopulation along with radical post-term abortion and the celebration of any lifestyle that does not end procreation! If one really wants to get an accurate glimpse of what the funders of Fauci's Gain of Function research want to do to you, please look at this:

erwgv3g34 #racist themotte.org

Jim Crow worked and lasted for a long time. So did slavery. Those are sane, stable solutions to the problem of having a racial underclass that is much less intelligent, much more impulsive, and much more violent than average.

Matthew B. Crawford #fundie #wingnut firstthings.com

The early twentieth century saw the birth of the administrative state under Woodrow Wilson, and a new political consciousness in which progressives came to regard themselves as a “civilized minority” as defined against a backward people. In the writings of Walter Lippmann and many others, the demos was regarded as an unreliable partner in the democratic project. Combine such an ambient elitism with faith in progress and confidence in the direction of History, as well as the dynamics of bureaucracies that must always expand and institutions that must reproduce themselves through personnel selection and educational formation, and you will get the kind of self-reinforcing cascade of sincere belief and class interests that can remake the world. Shaming the population permits the concentration of power, and it just seems to be in the nature of power that it wants to concentrate.

The 1619 Project might be understood as an attempt to consummate this logic, retroactively making slavery the very principle of the American regime and the animating spirit of the American people. Every crevice of American life stands revealed as needing supervision and correction. Fittingly, Joe Biden announced in the first week of his presidency that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion would henceforth provide the master principle of the federal government. Systemic racism provides the premise for the growth of the “immense tutelary power” that Tocqueville foresaw. If war is the health of the state, racial shame is the engine of administration. It makes men less proud, more administrable.

The line separating innocent victims from guilty oppressors, or the compassionate elect from the deplorable haters, has come to bear a lot of weight in a post-Christian politics that has forgotten the universal nature of sin.

Walter O’Dim #sexist datasecretslox.com

I’ll bite the bullet and admit that I think most women basically don’t have agency in the same way that men do, that they prefer to live their lives without the agency that men have, and that this is basically a Good Thing. The problem is reordering the world to insist that women have just as much agency as men when you’re unlikely to get them to actually act like they do. The majority of happily married men that I know basically take what amounts to a traditional head of household approach to how things are run - the man made the move in the relationship, made the decision to step to marriage, made the decision on buying a house, and makes many small decisions such as where to go to dinner. Of course, they want input from their wives and treat the decision-making process as being substantially predicated on making their wives happy, but they also certainly behave as though they know that their wives don’t want to make these decisions. Of note, these are not stay at home tradwives - I’m thinking of scientists, attorneys, IT professionals, and other high-agency careers women that would really prefer their husbands make calls.

Of course, pretty much none of them will phrase it that way, but it is what it is.

June patch notes blog

* The “Please read before commenting” link at the bottom now has the more descriptive name “BBCode instructions”

* Tracking data at the end of Twitter URLs is now automatically stripped off new submissions.

John Gideon Hartnett #conspiracy biblescienceforum.com

The image below is of a very small Bluetooth 5.0 chip (without battery). The adult finger is clearly shown yet the chip is still quite large.

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But that is not injectable via syringe. Many others, including these investigators, have shown the presence of graphene oxide/hydroxide in a hydrogel nanosized package in the blood of the [COVID] jabbed. Also strange crystalline shaped “chips” are seen under the microscope. Could a rudimentary chip be self-assembled from graphene and other components in the injection? Could this chip them be activated by the RF signal from the subjects own cell phone? In the video, the scientists suggested, that that is the case. Bluetooth 5.0 operates at 2.4 GHz which is the same frequency as many cell services including 4G and 5G [submitter’s note: 2.4-2.483 GHz is reserved for low-power radios like Bluetooth. It is not normally used for cell services, which use the carefully carved-out 2.3-2.4 and 2.5-2.69 GHz ranges instead.].

However, a former colleague of mine, a professor of physics and electrical engineering, tells me that self-assembling nano chips are 1 or 2 decades away. But the observations in the experiment described in the video have to be explained. So I plan on repeating their experiment if I can get enough volunteers, vaxxed and unvaxxed.

I have been preparing for this and so far I have found something quite disturbing.

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What on earth is Exposure Notification Service (Radar COVID-19)? Never heard of it. So I looked it up.

It seems like it has something to do with COVID-19 contact tracing. This means there are 3 transmitters in my area transmitting a signal looking for a handshake response back from people with “COVID”. I put that in quotes because it is the injected people primarily who are transmitting a MAC address, which means this COVID-19 radar is detecting those with the chips.

Niall McCrae & Patrick Henningsen #conspiracy #quack 21stcenturywire.com

According to Henningsen, the lab leak is nothing but an official conspiracy theory. The narrative, far from collapsing, is unwittingly reinforced by halfway house sceptics. Everything reported on mainstream media is for a purpose, serving the ‘progressive’ agenda. What may appear as mea culpa is a staged performance involving well-remunerated fall guys such as Fauci, and British health secretary Matt Hancock.

Not only does the lab leak cause obfuscation and futile debate, it fools unwary sceptics into perpetrating the big lie. If you fall for this tale, you fall for everything founded on the fundamental falsehood of a ‘novel’ (and possibly manmade) virus. It diverts attention from the iatrogenic scandal of the vaccines, while also preparing the ground for a global pandemic treaty. Instead of fumbling politicians with their petty squabbles and egos, the unelected and unaccountable World Health Organisation will assume control of every nation’s public health response to any future threat of a contagion. This will be justified by the many ‘mistakes’ governments made with Covid-19, as now being highlighted in mass media. By the same token, it also serves to excuse any ‘mistakes’ by governments and the pharmaceutical firms, as they can simply say they were trying to react quickly to a potentially engineered pathogen from an unregulated lab in Wuhan.

The cabal of pandemic fraudsters must be laughing. As cartoonist Bob Moran quipped, gain of function is really gain of fiction. To date, there is no actual evidence that viruses can be made more lethal, despite the huge amounts of research grant money awarded and theoretical reports.

Club-Swinging Brute Award

Icare4America #conspiracy freeatlantis.com

The Covid pandemic brought to light how much people were willing to give up for a little safety, it was sad to witness the degree of servitude, compliance, ignorance, reliance and in some cases utter stupidity we have reached as a species.

The dumming down purpose of education was a success. The herd mentality is deeply ingrained and the addiction to fear is systemic, so does real freedom stand a chance?

The constant overwhelming fear mongering with threats of climate disasters, global pandemics or nuclear Armageddon are designed to make you feel powerless and defenseless in the face of catastrophic threats and therefore needing of the governmental structures and processes to keep you safe and alive. ‘Little you’ can do nothing without them.

Freedom from the matrix is therefore dangerous in the eyes of the masses who feel they need the constant ‘protection’ from a hostile, dangerous world in continuous turmoil.

Those of us that are called conspiracy theorists; crazy, radical, nonconformists, us weirdos, have a vision, an understanding, a sense of the freedom that is ours to exercise and each day that we put it into practice, as difficult as it sometimes is, we are spreading the spark, the feeling, the notion, the awareness, that a better reality is possible beyond the matrix and that we don’t need it in order to survive.

In fact, it’s the matrix itself that is designed to keep us from thriving and merely surviving.

Our living example is the only thing that will transform the world. The herd will realise that it’s possible and as soon as they dare to step into freedom, the walls of the matrix will collapse.

This journey is entirely about learning, about knowledge and wisdom, but perhaps the hardest lesson, as sad as it is, is for humanity to learn to be free.
❤️❤️❤️

FOTY 2022 run-off election and results #announcement blog

The polls for many of the elections are closed, and we’re doing a runoff election to resolve the ties.

Religious fundie of the year

This year, Kerrie and Jason Struhs, and The “Saints” who tried to pray diabetes away are tied with the Assam lynch mob that hanged someone for dating outside the faith.

Both winners seem intent on putting their religion into action, either through ignorance or malice. Next year, maybe the winner will do it to themselves instead of some innocent victim.

Right-wing wingnut of the year

The winner for wingnut of the year, by overwhelmingly popular demand, is former President of the United States Donald Trump.

Because of course it is. He might not actually be the most unhinged wingnut we’ve ever had on here, but he was definitely the most notable, the most powerful man in the world, and yet somehow kept the wingnut persecution complex alive. And he’s also a total gaffe machine; very quotable.

Left-wing moonbat of the year

This year, North Korea officials Ri Il Hwan and Han Chang Sun—of the country and ideology that’s totally not a cult—tied with the Communist Party of Great Britain simping for Dear Leader Putin’s Glorious People’s War.

The dictators in question have not published a statement on whether they’d be interested in having Western tankies supply them with blowjobs.

Conspiracy theorist of the year

The conspiracy theorist of 2022 is Jerry Derecha, the Adrenogate blogger who’s too smart for Q and knows that the “Q Clearance Patriot” is actually a quantum computer run as a psy-op to identify and neutralize all the dissenters.

In a sense, I’m actually relieved to see this. Q probably is being run by some propaganda outfit, and it’s good to know that they haven’t totally mastered their marks. Still a conspiracy theorist that thinks sharing a first letter with Quatzecotal must mean something, which is why the award, but still.

Ableist of the year

The winner is Galit Distel-Atbaryan, the abusive mother.

It was a neurotypical parent of an autistic child last year, too. Narcissistic autism parents are the worst.

Sexist of the year

The unanimous winner, with a score of 5.00, is Imaniceguy, the father-daughter incest apologist.

The incels are making a big deal out of nothing. There’s a reason why this quote has a higher fundieness score than the actual murderers that tied for FOTY; at least they have the excuse of being trained from birth in their toxic culture. The incels made up this idea of ten-year-olds being sex material from scratch (arranged marriages were not usually consummated, because that’s cruel and stupid).

Racist of the year

For racist of the year, it’s a two-way tie between Prussian Society of America (2)—the Nazi fans who Dunning-Kruger their way through biology—and Gregcyber—the Confederacy fan who Dunning-Kruger’s their way through biology.

I know the “Prussian” thing is also COVIDiocy while the Gregcyber thing is anti-interracial-breeding, but still, both are great specimens of pseudo-biology in addition to being hate-filled racist screeds.

Mammonist grifter of the year

The winner is Aleks Svetski, the Bitcoin shill.

Some people would think it’s inappropriate to compare cryptocurrency with racism and murder-by-faith-healing, and on its own I guess it is. But a lot of Bitcoiners aren’t “just” Bitcoin shills; they’d be wingnuts worthy of posting here anyway even if they weren’t trying to get other people to buy their bags.

Heteronormative crusader of the year

The winner is Dalton Clodfelter, the bullying apologist.

Could’ve also been tagged for ableism and bodyshaming, which I guess makes sense. A lot of transphobia is just that with an extra dose of fear mongering.

Magnetic crank of the year

The winner is Cobra, from “The Portal”, a blog that mixes space aliens from another dimension with wingnut talking points about “woke ideology” and global warming.

L. Ron Hubbard wants his shtick back.

Jack Chick memorial award for worst art

The worst artist in 2022 was officially Ileana the Star Traveler. It’s this thing:

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Quack of the year

The fake doctor of the year was Irène Grosjean, the pedophilia advocate.

It’s almost like the voters don’t like it when you hurt kids. What is it with that?

One-liner of the year

Anonymous Coward #80402537: “Is a man a homosexual if he has cats? Yes he is.”

Chicken Little Award for failed predictions

The winner is Sherri Tenpenny, who predicted that everybody who got the COVID vaccine would develop AIDS by the end of 2022.

Didn’t happen.

Website of the year

The winner is ovarit.com, a TERF site so prolific, the mods rate-limited it.

As an example, here’s their version of the ”penis as a fucking weapon” quote.

Submitter of the year

The submitter of the year is the very prolific @rabbirealm.

Commenter of the year

The commenter of the year is the consistently on-point @Zinnia.

You should’ve been nominated last year. In any case, you’ve kept up the high quality. Thanks.

Troll of the year

The troll of the year is the sock puppet master who’s obsessed with The Virgin Mary: @foxtrot / @Kingselyda2nd / @R2 / @Sweetcake.

Craig Johnstone #conspiracy #quack un-pharma.com

[emphasis from the original]

What are the biggest lies the medical community has told us, in addition to falsely convincing everyone that they will heal them with drugs, and that diet and exercise are secondary to the drugs, if important at all?

* Only medical doctors are experts in health. Physicians are trained to be specialists in sickness and disease, not health. You have to be sick. And it is all about generating profit for drug companies by keeping you sick.

* Screening is for prevention. BS. Screening does not prevent diseases. It just puts colossal amounts of “research” money into the pockets of the drug companies. They don’t want people free of diseases. Which is why there still aren’t any cures for anything. Screening is, in essence, done for the purpose of actually promoting disease.

* Health insurance will safeguard you from illness. The opposite is true. Health insurance keeps you on the hamster wheel of sickness.

* Disease is a genetic hand you’ve been dealt. Nope. They put classifications like this on people to make them think there is no point in changing anything lifestyle-wise. So they will resign themselves to there being nothing they can do besides maintaining their condition with pharmaceuticals. Getting heart disease is not bad luck.

* More research is needed. This is a good one. There is never a cure just around the corner. The truth is, everything is curable. But it will never come from the medical system.

* You need to go to the hospital. The leading cause of death in North America is going to the hospital. Unless you desperately need surgery, or have been in a terrible accident, stay well clear of hospitals. Your education about how your body and nervous system works is usually the only intervention required.

* And the best one of all… You will get sick and die without a vaccine. Apparently, immune systems are unreliable and a faulty design. We know better than the one who created this marvelously complex and efficient, self-healing system.

Peter Koenig #conspiracy globalresearch.ca

The point is, they always warn us. But we don’t pay attention, because any Cult – and this is a Cult, you may call it the Death Cult, any cult, to be successful, has to announce their actions, their betrayal on humanity.

Yet, the bulk of the people is still oblivious.

When it’s all over, it will do no good to say – “we didn’t know”. This is totally unacceptable.

Scientists and common people do come out and tell the truth, by the millions, and ever more. We should muster at least the courage to listen, and admit that we have been lied to and that it is now high time to open our eyes, and take action to stop this crime on humanity.

There are NO coincidences.

Connecting the dots should also be done with the massive transport strike that hit Germany a week ago. Workers demanding pay raises amid high inflation. Union bosses called the demanded increases “a matter of survival,” while management described the strikes as “completely excessive.”

The Local, Germany’s news in English, reported late last week, Unions and German officials failed to come to an agreement in their third round of pay negotiations this week. Is this the beginning of a long-term wave of strikes?

These are the strongest, most economically and socially impacting and damaging strikes Germany has experienced in decades.

Why now?

Part of the “Reset Agenda” plans to destroy the European economy, beginning with a literal de-industrialization of Germany – the leader in the EU.

FOTY 2022 vote #announcement blog

And it’s time to vote on the Fundies of the Year 2022.

As per the new normal, visit the permalink to cast your vote between 1 and 5 stars; the fundie with the highest average score wins. If you have any trouble using the voting system, please contact us by posting a comment or reaching out to the Discord chatroom.

This poll will remain open until April 6. In the event of a tie, the runoff election will run until May 1.

Brubba #fundie #conspiracy patriots.win

@ChickenInspector

The left baited the Christians into believing the Satanic Panic of the 80s and 90s, which included video games and movies indirectly. That's why people think free speech isn't right wing.

That was no panic. It was all real.

Nadya #sexist news.ycombinator.com

The answer of why [social media has a greater negative mental health effect on teenage girls than it does on boys] is quite obvious to many people but no longer politically acceptable.

There is a large external pressure for studies to show that there are no differences between men and women while there is also demand for studies that show negative outcomes of women in comparison to men. The same problem happens again and again with these studies in that nothing explains the negative outcomes of women. Except one explanation that is instantly discarded for being socially untenable.

The intersectionalist looks at the studies and declares, "It must be something - let's keep looking!" while the sexist takes a look and nods.

Nobody is going to risk their careers or their funding when they can continue being paid to investigate other avenues of explanation. The suffering of people will continue until a more acceptable explanation is found.

And because I don't wish to speak between the lines: There are psychological and emotional differences between men and women. And, from all the humans I've known at least, women tend to give more of a shit about the opinions of other people than men give a shit about the opinions of other people. While the toxic negativity of social media impacts both genders I would honestly be shocked if it didn't impact women more if for no reason other than because they care more.

Clive Menzies & Niall McCrae #conspiracy thelightpaper.co.uk

Although money is the primary incentive for those delivering healthcare, other motives may be discerned. Control of the human herd has become fully visible since the covid project began in 2020. Mass vaccination is potentially, if not actually, a means to reduce fertility, while the billions who relented to the psychological warfare and received injections, have taken a serious risk with their health and longevity. Already, we can see that birth rates have fallen, while mortality is now about ten to twenty per cent higher than normal.

As Dawn Lester says: “You can no more catch a disease than you can catch a dirty neck.” Yes, people have taken ill, but for many reasons. We have been targeted with toxins, electromagnetic frequencies, and prolonged emotional stress, all of whichh deplete vitality. The nutritional quality of our food has been progressively reduced, making us much more susceptible to illness.

In April 2020, under the cover of lockdown, away from the prying eyes of relatives, there was a spike in deaths of the elderly, through the administration of end-of-life drugs, starvation and ‘do not resuscitate’ orders. Journalist Jacqui Deevoy has compiled an extensive dossier of this cull of the elderly. Meanwhile, those unlucky enough to be admitted to hospital and put in a covid ward were intubated and hooked on to dangerous ventilators.

The Lockstep section of a Rockefeller Foundation scenario planning report from 2010 predicted how a pandemic could
be used to establish the New World Order. Pre-programming through media and news reports rendered populations susceptible to terror. For mass vaccination to be accepted, people needed to be persuaded of the threat, and meekly accept potentially lethal, experimental injections.

Team Sunshine #quack iqfy.com

As the world struggles to come to terms with the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, one question that continues to surface is why the unvaccinated didn't do more to warn us about the potential dangers of being injected.

While well intending citizens lined up, did the right thing, and received their COVID19 vaccinations -- now seeming to do more harm than good -- their unvaccinated friends stood by and let them do it. Some of them said too little. Some said nothing at all.

Even though they knew what we didn't.

Our blood is now on their hands.

Those are strong words. But the unvaccinated had access to important information about the potential side effects of vaccines. They knew about the risks of severe allergic reactions, blood clots, and other serious health complications. They knew that vaccines did not immunize us. They knew it wasn't effective, and that they can cause more harm than good.

They knew all of that, but instead of warning us, the unvaccinated chose to remain silent. They chose to look the other way and not speak out about the potential dangers of vaccines. They let millions of good folks who did the right thing (at the time) fall to death and disease, and many antivaxxers even gloated online about how their coin flip had been the right bet. The more diabolical even urged folks they disagree with to "get boosted."

It has become all too clear. The silence of the unvaccinated was a dangerous, sociopathic, and irresponsible decision that has had serious consequences for those of us who received the vaccinations.

And silence is, after all, consent.

January patch notes blog

Fixed the Next button on advanced search pages to not drop before/after date filters.

Tweaked the Reply button CSS to use a more consistent icon on different platforms.

Implemented a tighter rate limit on replying to a single discussion thread, to prevent people from making dozens of replies in a row and dominating the conversation.

Jon Garvey #conspiracy #fundie potiphar.jongarvey.co.uk

On GB News last night someone had found a recent House of Lords report stating, as a matter of fact, that renewables will never be able to replace the energy supply we have, and hence outlining how (not if) the people will have to reduce their consumption of energy. It’s not just that they will have to pay to install heat pumps instead of gas boilers – they will have to get used to colder houses, because the inadequacy of the latter is already assumed. Foreign travel will not just be too expensive – it will be restricted (in line, of course, with the G20’s recent support for digital vaccine passports, despite their demonstrated uselessness as a public health measure). Local travel, too, will be limited by the inability of most to buy, or charge, electric cars.

None of this appears to be intended as belt-tightening necessary to get us through all the threatened climate tipping points until the new clean energy system is up and running. Rather, the future is all permanent sackcloth, ashes and low energy consumption by design.

Now that makes some kind of religious sense if you buy into the idea that we are guilty of raping Mother Earth by our greedy consumption of fossil fuels. I wrote about that myth here, and it’s surprising how even many Christians accept what is actually a thoroughly pagan idea, and an irrational one at that. Earth’s bounty, including fossil fuels, was given to us by God to use. But like so much of the Great Reset the myth seems purpose-made to impoverish the poor, especially, and reduce them to servitude. Why does Satan hate the poor so much (perhaps it’s just making people poor he enjoys)?