ChrisBP747

@ChrisBP747

Herbanomic.com #quack #crackpot #mammon

Well, with a bit of silver thrown in for good measure. And what is “active” oxygen anyway in this case? I mean, these are a bit too obvious about it, but never trust anyone using “Nano” or “Quantum” outside of measurements and physics. It never ends well.

Wayne Allyn Root #conspiracy #fundie #wingnut

The problem, OP, is that your side has been way too loud already for the fact that you are actually the minority overall. Where MLK had a dream, you have a nightmare. And that you actually think that corporations care for you tells me so much more about you than you might realize. None of it good.

Jonathan Witt (The article author) #fundie #dunning-kruger

Well, if nothing else, it is at least refreshing to see some new stupidity from creationists, I mean Intelligent Designers, I mean creationists, instead of the constant “BuT If We EvOlVeD FrOm ApEs WhY aRe ThErE sTiLL aPes?” nonsense.
Still, it ultimately comes down to once again using a strawman definition of evolution that has absolutely nothing to do with how we evolutionary biologists understand it. At this point it is hard to differentiate between them not understanding evolution and willful ignorance. It’s probably both.

BeardedLuckDragon #sexist #quack #crackpot

I wonder what the OP would say when he hears that *gasp* only one lineage of Y-Chromosomes of one man 120000 years or so ago has survived into the current day! The ultimate alpha perhaps?

Seriously though, what everyone else said. I could also pull alleged studies out of my ass (though I have no intention of doing so), but I would at least not make it as obvious as “Some guy, maybe, at a vague time during the 20s, when humanity didn’t even know about DNA, somehow found something that interpreted in a specific, stupid way is evidence for my own irrational worldview, oh but obviously I can’t cite him or anything”.

Got Questions Ministries #conspiracy #fundie #homophobia #kinkshaming #pratt

Actually, the current scientific consensus is the worst thing that could happen to homophobes: There seems to be both genetic as well as hormonal and epigenetic factors playing a part in causing homosexuality, with neither as simple as “this gene causes it” or “coming into contact with this hormone in the uterus causes it”. In fact we still don’t know entirely how these factors interact with each other. It seems to be a very complicated system for a complicated trait which exists more as a continuum (purely heterosexual to purely homosexual, with some additional variations branching out from there) than as clear-cut categories. What we do know is that this trait is pretty much settled in early childhood, and societal/psychological factors can’t really change it much beyond some very slight moves along the continuum (and those might be more about discovering already present feelings that just weren’t noted before).
Now why is this even worse for homophobes than the hypothetical “gay gene”? Because in that case they would simply switch over to the “sickness” narrative and push for a gene therapy to “cure” us poor gay people (or at least, super-rich conservatives would pay millions for such therapies to prevent their own children from being queer). Now they have neither. It is too complex a trait to just manipulate away and definitely biological in nature, so they can’t say it’s a choice. And I for my part revel in their inability to do something about it.

Terriyn Jonez #fundie #crackpot

This text reads like it was written by someone whose drug induced religious hallucinations kick in halfway through writing it.

bekkilyn #transphobia #conspiracy #wingnut

No. Just no. I of course don’t speak for the whole of the left, but if there is an abuser I would always side with the victim. The important word here being ‘if’. Abusers come in many shapes and forms and I agree that neither sexuality, nor gender is in any way a reason to side with an abuser. But no one rational on the left would do so. The problem is that you see people who don’t fit into your worldview as abusers basically automatically. And no one needs to side with you on that kind of irrationality.

Unknown Poster #dunning-kruger #elitist #moonbat

God, how much I hate this kind of fucking gatekeeping! The LGBT+ community is not there to be a ranked hierarchy of “who is being oppressed more”, nor should we excise people based on that! We are all different from what is accepted by the mainstream in one way or the other, and we are much stronger together without constant infighting about whether a group belongs to us (well, with the exception of any non-consensual sexuality groups of course) or not. Fuck TERFs, fuck aphobes, fuck biphobes. YOU are the problem, and if anyone should leave, it is you.

HellaHella #transphobia #pratt

@WarGoatHK417 #102241

They also never admit to any falsification, Popper himself noted that (some Marxists and other economic-political ideologies sadly behave in a similar way). People saying that they never had refrigerator moms and are still Aspies? Must be that they are either not Aspies at all, or in denial of their mother’s coldness towards them, yet another proof how damaging that relationship must have been. You can’t falsify their hypothesis, because every falsification you give is taken as yet another proof for it or explained away. Another hallmark of pseudoscience.

Bastethotep has lost his grandfather #announcement

Various Incels #crackpot #racist #sexist

“I believe that every race has its place on the globe and shouldn't mix, but there's no denying that ethnicities are dumber than whites and they're doing shit in politics, so whites must prevail in the end”
That’s literally white supremacy ideology. And then they have the balls to say just two comments after that white supremacy doesn’t exist.
Oh and by the way, there are quite a few possible explanations for that map which have absolutely nothing to do with any “races” being smarter or dumber than the rest (education, nutrition, the IQ tests not being culturally sensitive and containing biases etc. etc.). It also shows very suspicious data in general. Also these are at best averages, meaning that you idiots may stem from “high-IQ” countries all you want, you are still probably way low on the intelligence curve.

Push Those Buttons #quack #crackpot

@Bastethotep #98816

I’m actually pretty sure that it is the same way here in Germany, at least all the traffic lights here in Münster seem to work this way. Always thought that the system was taking into account that someone pressed the button at least to a minor degree, but it seems this is really not the case and just a mechanism to stop people from becoming impatient.

And yeah, this whole “gridlock London” idea is both hilariously ineffective AND stupid.

Lo-fi Republican #wingnut #psycho

I normally wouldn’t say this, but for some reason I would really like the OP to somehow find themselves in Afghanistan, suddenly ruled by the Taliban themselves, and NOT as a Taliban leader. I bet their tone would change drastically.
You OP are so far up your own ass that the reality you have in your mind bears only very tangential similarities to actual reality.

Feynman and Coulter's Love Child #sexist #wingnut

Oh yeah, the world has become a worse place because of women being able to vote, not because of climate change, or increasingly inhumane capitalism, or the destruction of the environment, all starting way before women were ever allowed to vote in most countries. In addition to that the reduction of poverty, increase in technology and overall higher living standards in developed countries weren’t stopped by women getting to vote there either. Almost as if you are talking directly out of your ass.

Unnamed Ohio Mother #transphobia #wingnut #conspiracy

@Vgal #96567

Ah thank you, I was confused. Though I bet that the “concerned mom” doesn’t believe that the second meaning is even valid. By the way, here in Germany it is even worse since gender, sex etc. only have a single word for all of them, “Geschlecht”. It makes discussing the subject extremely tedious since people tend to conflate gender and sex here constantly.

Prince32 #homophobia

I have seen the short, it’s basically about the trouble of coming out to ones parents with a bit of magical realism. In this case a guy who has a boyfriend he wants to marry still hasn’t come out to his parents and when they show up to help him move he tries his best to hide all evidence of his relationship before them, made more difficult by the fact that his body becomes swapped with that of his dog. In the end it turns out that his parents knew at the very least that he hid something from them and are crushed that he seems to have become more and more isolated from them over time instead of talking to them about it. He finally regains his body and comes out to his parents, who simply reiterate how much they love him and that they feared losing him entirely. The short ends with him finally introducing his boyfriend to his parents. It was very sweet.

I had a difficult childhood, especially because I had no idea what homosexuality even was until I was 15 or so. It caused me to constantly feel as if I was somehow “wrong” and ultimately made me depressed and lonely for a long time. In retrospect a film like this would have helped me a lot, even later on (coming out to my parents wasn’t easy either).

And this fucking asshole here is furious simply because the short depicts an absolutely normal guy, who just so happens to be gay. Nothing even hinting at sexuality (I’m not entirely sure, but I could swear he and his boyfriend don’t even kiss in the short). He’s just furious that there is finally media for children that doesn’t cater to his worldview, that doesn’t try to stereotype homosexuals or puts them into villain roles for the absolutely straight good guy to defeat or simply ignores us entirely, because silencing us, making it appear as if we don’t exist will hopefully uphold hateful stereotypes and make us vanish entirely at some point. There is nothing more to say than that I hope that his daughter will develop into a much less hateful person than he is.

MEYER #conspiracy #crackpot

At this point it terrifies me that some people’s worldviews have become so warped that they have everything backwards: Vaccines cause diseases, masks are an intrusion on individual rights (ignoring the fact that not wearing masks and infecting others that way is a way bigger intrusion), hell, some people are actually, unironically saying that germs and viruses don’t actually exist. How the hell do you even talk to people THAT far gone?

Space_Monkey #conspiracy #crackpot #psycho

I fear you will be long dead of COVID before you will see any of that happening to vaccinated people. It’s funny, these guys seem to have no idea (or they are really ignorant about it) what a relief even relatively awful vaccinations were to the public when they were first invented. I mean, it wasn’t great to put cow pocks pus into wounds of healthy individuals, but it somewhat worked against smallpox, a freaking horrifying disease that we should all be thankful for being eradicated. And we have come a long way since then.

Maybe these people have become too complacent in their little bubble, surrounded by vaccinated individuals they don’t realize that they mostly don’t catch very deadly diseases easily anymore because of vaccinations, so their focus is only on the perceived intrusion on their bodily autonomy and imagined side effects. Or they are simply damn stupid and believe any kind of nonsense about vaccines.

Dr. Not Rian's Luke #crackpot #dunning-kruger

I mean, theoretically correlation doesn’t imply causation… unless there is a well-known causative link between the two factors. Guess what! We found multiple decades ago that CO2 is a gas that can cause a greenhouse effect if pumped into the atmosphere in high degrees, and in contrast to water vapor it stays there for quite some time. The only sources of CO2 emission that weren’t there before the start of noticeable climate change are man-made. Scientific consensus is also not simply a few scientists sitting around and arbitrarily deciding what’s true. Nor is all of this a tenet of faith (what kind of faith would that be?). Climate change being mostly caused by human influence is the best model that we have, all alternative models were unable to explain what we are witnessing to a better degree. Climate change denial on the other hand is ABSOLUTELY not based on anything but the faith of its believers in one way or the other. So this is once again a case of projection.

Božo Petrov & Nikola Grmoja #homophobia #wingnut

This whole argument “We just want to protect the kids from LGBT propaganda, but we do tolerate LGBT, seriously you guys!” is becoming more asinine by the second. What the hell are you protecting children from? The horrors of sexual minorities existing? That a man can love a man, a woman can love a woman, that there are people who were born with the wrong body, that there are people who don’t really identify as one of the two “sanctioned” gender models? What is wrong about that? Where is the harm?

The reality is, about 10 percent of the children you want to protect are actually part of the LGBT you want to protect them from. You might not want to accept that reality, and it is clear that all you can think of is that all children should grow up in the easy category of “stereotypical man loves stereotypical woman and has numerous ‘normal’ children who will continue down this line” even if they don’t actually fit these categories. And to achieve that you are hoping that simply letting no one know that LGBT even exist is enough to enforce this. That’s basically the definition of discrimination against these poor children and LGBT. But sure, it’s us who try to force our gay agenda down your throat. What’s the saying again? For the privileged any form of equality is akin to oppression. Depressing and disgusting.

Joachim Hagopian #crackpot #conspiracy #fundie #wingnut #homophobia #transphobia

Sexuality and sexual relations between genders? Oh god, oh horror! Everything but that! Now sex between agender people, that’s absolutely ok according to the OP! You’ve heard it here folks!

Seriously though, Qanon is pretty much a revival of the satanic panic of the 80s combined with some extra conspiracy sauce, hypocritical “think of the children” rethoric and even more dangerous cultish elements. They’re becoming more hysterical by the day and in fact are now turning on their allies (for example multiple televangelists who tried to use Qanon for cheap political influence, but made the mistake of underestimating the sheer insanity of it all). Hopefully they will fragment further and further before they become even more of a domestic terrorism threat.

Jesse Lee Peterson #crackpot #wingnut #racist

Actually, closed borders make nearly zero sense once the virus is already inside a country. And even if it wasn’t you would basically have to isolate your whole country entirely for it to have any effect, no imports, no exports, nothing getting in or out, because if the virus enters in any way the whole concept is for nought. Sure, you might like that, but it would actually put the US into a severe economic depression and would probably lead to a major uproar by… well by people like you. And, well, the virus is already inside your country, so this is all just hypothetically speaking.

A virologist recently explained it like this: People entering a country with the virus add to the overall virus-infected population linearly. People already in a country are multiplying the virus-ladden population exponentially, meaning that the latter effect will always enormously overpower the former over time. Vaccines help against the exponential effect. Closing borders might at best help against the linear effect.

Closing borders after the virus is already widespread is nothing more than a political farce, a way to make people think of the problem as yet again something that was forced on them by the outside, not by incompetent and malicious politicians or their own ignorance.

Remedia Homöopathie #quack

Now, even within the insane and stupid belief system of homeopathy, what illness should literal bullshit (I know, I know, the unwanted pun is awesome) heal? E. coli infections? Why then cattle and not human excrements?
Not to mention that we wouldn’t need homeopaths if what they say about water having some sort of “memory” that gets more potent the lower the concentration of the actual substance in it is were true. We would simply take some river water, add some destilled water to it and bam, with all the stuff floating in there it could probably heal most ailments.
Oh sorry, you need to first magically “activate” that “memory” by knocking the whole thing against wood.
Why do so many people believe this incoherent bullshit?

Unnamed Ohio Mother #transphobia #wingnut #conspiracy

"There is nothing that could have prepared our family for this tragedy that is still unfolding. She was gender conforming, had mostly female friends her entire life… and had little interest in stereotypical masculine activities at all."

And NONE of these things have anything to do with whether he was trans the whole time or not. You don’t need to have stereotypically masculine interests to be trans. If he was happy with being gender (shouldn’t that read sex? after all he never identified as female) conforming she would have stayed that way. And what the flipping fuck does “having mostly female friends” have to do with anything at all? You are just trying to shift the blame to some alleged conspiracy and or brainwashing that you think your son fell victim too, when there is nothing to indicate that. And it is definitely no wonder that he broke off contact to you with that kind of attitude.

“We read the lies that only adults get surgeries or that our children have gone through rigorous psychological counseling. Neither of these is true.”

… your son was an adult when he transitioned, so while you seem to imply that his story proves these obvious falsehoods it has actually nothing to do with them. You are either a whiny asshole who can’t accept that your son became a different person than you hoped for or you are a sockpuppet spewing lies. I don’t know which would be worse.

Various Commenters #pratt #wingnut

@pyro #96246

This is what I was wondering, were those feminists for drafting only men (which would be a bit hypocritical) or were they against the draft entirely (a very much understandable position)?

Cowpoleon #transphobia

@Spacewyrm #96261

Also, if they were so indifferent to the trans-community before, how have they even heard of this story so fast? I have an active interest in such news and I just now heard of it. Maybe because I’m not just looking at transphobic comment sections to find a reason to validate my already existing prejudices? Who knows?

Really, this is pretty much the exact same strategy Hitler used in “Mein Kampf”: “Oh no, I was never antisemitic before seeing the evidence and researching for years and finding out what monsters the jewish people are! I definitely wasn’t swayed by the first random anti-jewish propaganda I came across in Vienna without a single critical thought forming in my head because it so neatly fit into my worldview, even though this is exactly what my roommate will later on say is what happened!”
Fuck everyone who still uses that kind of pseudo-investigative mask to hide their irrational hatred.

RockaBoatus #crackpot #homophobia #pratt #racist #wingnut

Actually from what I know it is the other way around, homosexuality seems to have a higher genetic proportion than intelligence has (which is still not clearly defined, yada yada). But I’m not surprised, people like you love to use biological determinism when it suits your worldview, but when it doesn’t…

The “early childhood” influences are probably simply hormonal ones while still developing inside the womb, NOT fathers not being there for us NOR some gay guys “recruiting” us (which is still blood libel!). The sexual preference is pretty much set in stone at an early age, only changing very slightly (and I mean that in the sense of from pure bisexuality to still bisexual but preference for men, not from homosexuality to heterosexuality).

Once again, we DO observe homosexual behavior in nature, so it is natural and most likely does have some form of evolutionary significance. You are also still comiting a naturalistic fallacy with this. It also doesn’t hurt anyone if you don’t count outside influences (like you) trying to put us down, so it can’t be a mental disorder.

YOU are trying to reduce us to lust and sex, but we aren’t more “guilty” of that than heterosexuals are. Besides, what is wrong with sex between consenting adults? Nothing. Consenting people should be able to love each other and have sex with each other however they please. And certainly not monitored by assholes like you OP.

Tucker Carlson #conspiracy #quack

Vaccines are never 100 percent perfect, mostly because of the different strengths of the immune response of the bodies of different people and that’s one of the reasons why as many as possible need to be vaccinated, so that any potential vector transmission becomes as difficult as possible, protecting those with immune deficiencies and reducing the possibility of new mutations to arise. And no one said they are perfect. Fuck you Carlson, you lying, fearmongering son of a bitch. Faucci definitely didn’t have anything to do with “creating COVID”. Your scapegoating and trying to redirect the blame from the orange fart and the rest of the damn Republicans might work for your audience, but no rational person would actually believe you.

Anonymous Californian #racist #wingnut

@Bastethotep #95434

I have a few friends here in Germany who are left-leaning but think that the problem with the left nowadays is that it is too preoccupied with “identity and gender politics” as well as minority rights and that this is the reason why it fails to get traction. Every time I try to make them realize that the right and even the conservatives are the ones dabbling into it all the damn time they reject that fact. I honestly don’t know anymore what I could tell people to make them see that right-wing not left-wing identity politics are the problem.

Ok so, this will be just as anecdotal as what you are describing here, but I’m a gay, white cis-man and I have been insulted, hurt, mobbed and lost friendships because I was gay. I NEVER had any problems with being white and cis. Is there some racism against whites as well? Sure there is!
But a) it doesn’t have any power over society and isn’t systemic, and b) you don’t answer racism by doubling down on racism and even ignoring that the people who you support now would happily throw you under the bus for identity politics yourself (that the right-wing was successful in making people believe that it doesn’t engage in identity politics when that is basically their whole stick is honestly something I can’t wrap my head around).

Either you are naive and are falling for their propaganda, you are so deeply racist that you couldn’t overcome it or you are a lesbian on the internet only. Critical thinking skills would probably help you a lot.

Texas Republicans #racist #sexist #wingnut

Ah yes, force baseless historical revisionism to make yourself look better, one of the ultimate intellectual crimes because of the serious danger that the things you are trying to let everyone forget will happen again this way. That never caused any amount of problems whatsoever for anyone, no Sir.
As if the whole “War of Northern Aggression” and “Lost Cause of the South” thing wasn’t insulting enough, what’s next? The Tulsa massacre was actually caused by black people? The native americans gladly gave up their primitive lifes so that european colonialists could spread through the Americas? This might sound like a bit of exaggeration, but that’s the insidious thing about baseless historical revisionism: Once you have convinced enough people that that’s how history went down, they will start to accept more and more outlandish claims using the same narrative and the original information will be lost and or ignored entirely as “propaganda” itself. That’s why it is so fucking dangerous, ultimately it leads to both mistakes of the past being repeated and historical information being lost entirely to all of humanity.

Various Commenters #psycho #racist #sexist

India has been a very structured society with a strict caste system for millenia, so it isn’t easily comparable with other multi-ethnic societies. Hindu-fascism is also strongly on the rise there.

The problem is that people like you always play up the alleged weaknesses of a multi-cultural society (strive between cultures, parallel cultures, discrimination etc.) but don’t acknowledge either the strengths of it (including the intense technological and cultural jumps multicultural societies went through because of all these different viewpoints coming together and creating things a single cultured society would not come up with) nor the weaknesses of single culture societies (stagnation, xenophobia, inability to cope with change, as well as strive for other reasons than culture).

Also: Individuals are not equal to all parts of their cultures and especially not just the bad parts. Not feeling empathy for the woman because she happens to be a muslim is abhorrent and just shows your lack of empathy. Trying to turn this into a screed against other cultures even more so.

Lynn Fitch, Tate Reeves et al. #crackpot #wingnut

"Scientific advances show that an unborn child has taken on the human form and features months before viability," she said ... and added that "states should be able to act on these developments."

Fitch obviously doesn’t want to go after the real culprit for the most abortions in the country: Natural causes… I mean God… I mean natural causes. That’s one of the reasons viability was chosen as the artificial deadline anyway from what I remember.
Oh and of course, states should follow the science (which I highly doubt exists in this case you dirty liar) only when it comes to abortion, but not when it comes to climate change, evolution, LGBT rights…

Akhnaton-II & thormemeson #crackpot #sexist #psycho #wingnut

“I saw them reposting rape statistics, advocating for gender equality in Muslim regions of Russia, spreading awareness about family abuse, and I thought they are better than 3rd wave ones.”

Err… those are not such crazy allegations and activities as you apparently think they are and that you do doesn’t cast as good a light on you as you think either.

Obviously I don’t know you at all OP, but even if every single one of these people was mean to you about their feminist views (which you obviously don’t share) and you didn’t provoke that behavior at all (which I especially doubt in that gender studies thing, after all I myself hear people without a hint of an idea what that is dismiss it as “not actual science” or “woke and wrong” and I have often told them to first educate themselves about it before saying that at least), it appears to me that you have a lousy way to debate other people. When they don’t agree with you you break off contact with them? It’s obvious you want to live in a bubble.

And I would think twice about agreeing to eugenics, thormemeson, it might be you who will be derived of child privileges or your life when it comes to that.

David Noel #dunning-kruger

@anonymous-80702773 #94576
@Malingspann #94600

Also, is it really that easy to group people together? For the longest time many people didn’t see the Irish or Slavs as “white” (and some still don’t). Lovecraft, one of the most well known xenophobes was horrified that he might not be as purely of english stock as he thought he was, one of his ancestors might have been *gasp* Welsh! I’m pretty sure the Egyptians of old would have made it clear that they are not in the same group as other middle eastern cultures of the time. Just a few decades ago inter-chinese racism was going strong, with Han-Chinese discriminating basically anyone else. And there are cultures who actually group people by their beliefs, not their extremely superficial external differences (and even that is questionable mind you). Such groupings are always artificial, it’s easy to focus on any random trait and declare “that group” to have it and “that group” to not have it. Let’s ask this differently: Would an alien visiting Earth think “oh yeah, humanity must consist of subgroups based on skin color” after seeing us? Not likely.

Now, combine all this with the fact that there are no actual biologically relevant differences that underline these groups and you’ll come to the conclusion that there is nothing especially rational or natural about this “othering”. Maybe xenophobia might have played a vital role in tribal communities or even earlier, but it is only harming us now and we CAN overcome it rationally, it’s not that transfixed inside us. The thing is that many people would rather prefer keeping up their irrationality and rationalize it than trying to overcome it. And that is certainly racism in the case of alleged “racial groups”.

Grouping us all into “Humanity” might not be the only POSSIBLE grouping. But it is the only rational one of relevance and importance.

@anonymous-80702773 #94543

To make it short, scientific racism is not discriminating against other races, but stating that there are human races at all. The OP clearly does so and is most definitely a scientific racist. But biology has proven quite a while ago that the concept of races doesn’t fit what we see in human beings (see my previous post for it). There is only one ‘race’, the human race. What people call ’races’ are very artificial groups based on superficial differences that are not helpful scientific models at all. So the only people who are still stubbornly trying to prove that race has some basis in biology are most likely actual racists. Same goes for the Out-Of-Africa theory, which is widely disliked mostly by racists who don’t like the implication of being related to black people. That of course doesn’t mean that any scientific racist (like the OP) HAS to also be a discriminatory racist, but the way he talks about the theory I’m pretty confident in people being right in calling him one anyway. Either way, he is definitely a form of racist.

Benjamin Fulford #crackpot #conspiracy #racist #wingnut

Interesting cultural math you got there:
Mesopotemia+Egypt = Babylon
Ancient Germany+Rome+Greece = Rome
So first of all, all these cultures interacted to some degree, and I would say Egypt and Greece had much more interaction than Greece had with the “barbaric” german tribes (for gods sake, the last egyptian dynasty consisted of the Ptolemeians which were greek, they shared gods, art and culture to some degree long before that too).
What any of that has to do with Babylon, which was definitely not monotheistic, is anyone’s guess. This doesn’t even begin to make sense.

Not to mention the rest of this drivel, Jesus!

David Noel #dunning-kruger

So many wrong assumptions and unwarranted arrogance. There are no races, and skin color and hair texture are based on a very small pool of alleles, meaning that under the right circumstances they can change pretty fast evolutionary speaking. In fact, as much as you will hate to hear it, it appears that not even 5 to 10 thousand years ago people in Europe still had pretty dark skin. Just because YOU put so much importance on these traits and think they are the be all and end all way to discern between “races” doesn’t mean that biology has to agree with you.

The genomic evidence is also damning: Every single non-african group is more closely related to groups in africa than the african groups are between themselves, and furthermore the genetic differences between non-african individuals is on average much, much lower than between individuals from africa (and that’s on top of the fact that human genetic variety is already quite low and that there is no allele specific to any group or “race”), both indicating a bottleneck effect in the past of non-african humans that only occured to them, very much hinting at an exodus from Africa by a small group of people.

The fossil findings only underline the genomic ones, as much as certain people hate the idea of originally stemming from Africa. I don’t. Rift Valley is a fascinating place. I wish people would finally give Africa the recognition it deserves: As the ancestral origin of us all.

Vox Day #crackpot #dunning-kruger #fundie

Vox, according to your arguments, every single mythical figure and god must have existed, why else did all these cultures forge all this false evidence for them?
You are quite obviously dumber than a brick and that flamethrower of yours has barely enough fuel in it to light a small candle.

Silence Dogood #dunning-kruger #racist #wingnut

And here I was, just recovering from my straw allergy. Pffe, pffe, it really gets everywhere!

Robert Kelly #dunning-kruger #racist

You know, at this point I’m getting tired of carefully unraveling this kind of gish gallop (and yes, that’s what it not so secretly is). Because is it really worth it trying to unravel hundreds of years of history, discrimination, tribal disputes, economic hardships, colonialism, different cultures, political ideologies, the pseudobiology racialism is based on, scientific advancement, the reasons why “white people” don’t actually exist as a group, the different shades of gray and black in global morality, basically all of the human condition just to tell this guy that no, “white” people aren’t actually the only capable group on the planet and that yes, he is a racist?

I wish I could say no, because it is taking away so much energy for so little gain. And in the end they usually declare themselves the winner of the debate anyway because of some random argument that was weak as hell but not adressed in the rebuttal. And humans being what we are people usually don’t want to concentrate on such long-winded counterarguments anyway, and what they’ll remember are the gish gallop’s easy to remember but totally inane arguments that they found emotionally satisfying.

So yeah, as much as it hurts me to say, but from time to time it is in my opinion ok to just shorten it all to “You are racist” in such a situation. Because the only way to win in a gish gallop game is not to play sometimes.
Well, perhaps a bit more detail should be added to make it clear where the statement is coming from though (“Your immense ignorance of politics, history and the fact that race is not actually a real biological thing that could cause the effects you describe, as well as your stream of weak predictions without any evidence makes it clear that you are simply a racist asshole” should suffice).

Tim Pool #pratt #psycho #transphobia #wingnut

Drag =/= stripping and grooming. Drag is also =/= transgender. You don’t know anything about drag, and your knowledge of transgender people is lacking as well. Instead you and your ilk are trying to fearmonger, sadly effectively when I look at LA right now. By the way, child beauty pageants have been around for decades now, and while I find them abhorrent you don’t seem to have a problem with them, even though they are arguably worse than drag shows (which at least can be seen as a way for kids to play and be creative, while beauty pageants are objectifications of young children to the benefit of their parents in my eyes… then again, I don’t really like beauty pageants in general).

Vox Day #crackpot #dunning-kruger #fundie #wingnut

Vox Day ladies and gentlemen, “superintelligence” that he allegedly is, once again not noticing that he is doing exactly the dumb stuff his opponents are talking about without even a hint of self-reflection or *gasp* critical thought directed at himself.

Every single anti-intellectual asshole I have EVER met in my life told themselves that “scientists have an elitist agenda” (what kind of agenda no one knows, but it might include communism, fascism, something something jews, globalism etc.) and that “objective (!) evidence obviously disproves them” without these dumb fucks ever giving any kind of evidence for it whatsoever. In fact for many of them their own beliefs ARE the “objective” evidence. And listen to me closely Vox: that’s not how any of this works. If you were a superintelligence as you claim, then the universe would be broken beyond compare, up would be down, the earth would be flat and yesterday would be tomorrow. Fortunately, it isn’t.

Kurt Schlichter #wingnut #fundie

Let’s examine the strong man’s statements. Simply saying them won’t make them true, so there must be some kind of action following them. All of them are of course totalitarian and don’t give many options to work with, making it easier to see what a train-wreck this guy would be (I’m assuming he has the power to enact these actions, not even Trump was powerful or dumb enough to actually enact many of these):

No, hobos, you can’t live on our streets.
- Since they have no home and also can’t live on your streets, where the hell should they live? Do you try to force them to move to Mexico and Canada? Or how about helping them, giving them support and homes that they can go to instead of living on the streets? But no, judging from your rethoric there is pretty much just the option that you want them to die outside the eyes of the public. And that’s if you aren’t fantasizing about shooting all of them.

No, criminals, you don’t get to commit crimes.
- Well, unless they are the strong man and his buddies of course. Also how does stating this actually make it happen? Strengthening the police to the point that they are equipped with military gear and putting even small scale offenders into prison for ridiculously long times, where they are being used as pretty much slave labor has obviously not helped at all. Or do you want to just kill them all too? But crime isn’t genetic, and there will always be crime as long as it promises a profit in one way or the other, no matter the risk. Your strong man won’t change that and in fact, increasingly totalitarian states usually have vast amounts of corruption and power abuse going on. Or is that not a crime for you?

No, Pentagon, you are going to focus on winning wars.
- That’s just laughably stupid. “If I say that we win wars, we’ll win wars!”, said the fascist before losing the war. Also the statement is strange in general. Why the no in front of it? What else does the Pentagon do that strong man doesn’t agree with?

No, academia, you do not get to take our money and use it to turn our kids into little commie saps.
- Ah, because anti-intellectualism has always helped any country engaging in it, right? Pol Pot was such a visionary apparently! Fuck you and your propaganda, if learning more about the world turns you into a socialist then that should tell you something and I would certainly ask myself in your position whether it is wise to go against that. Not that I think any of you idiots would think that rationally about it.

No, tech jerks, you do not get to decide what we can read and say.
- I’m not the biggest fan of big tech either, but honestly, you just said that your strong man will stop academia from teaching unimpeded, so you are already showing your hypocrisy. Let me guess, the strong man, not the “tech jerks” should ultimately decide what we can read and say and you would be totally fine with that right?

No, climate cultists, we are not going to live in caves because of your bizarre, quasi-religious weather obsession.
- Hahahahaha, wow, if that’s not the pot calling the kettle black! Your love for some fascist leader is a “bizzare and quasi-religious cult”, not the fear of humanity making the planet less and less habitable for ourselves for short-term economic gains. Your (and therefore strong man’s) ignorance is palpable!

No, media, you do not get to be partisan advocates and also treated like neutral truth tellers.
- Unless it is Fox News, or Breitbart, or… But those of course are obviously right in everything you say, isn’t it so?

No, Democrats, you don’t get to steal elections.
- Phew, finally a realistic statement, after all they never have and they never will! At last an easy and not-crazy, -fascist and -ignorant goal! Democrats will probably be a bit confused about never even considering doing it, but no party in general should steal elections, so that’s fine.
… oh, you meant that it is only wrong for Democrats and if the Republicans try it it’s fine of course. Yeah, go to hell asshole and take your strong man fetish with you.

Theo Tsourdalakis #fundie #pratt

Ah, the “significant dissent” from Darwinism. Let’s see. I roughly estimate the number of signees of this pretty stupid list as about 1200 people (and I was being generous). Of these people about a third are doing any kind of work in biology. Of that third only about half of them are conceivably working in fields which could be argued to give them the expertise on evolutionary theory necessary for informed dissent (biochemists and anatomists for example don’t usually have to necessarily be knowledgeable on evolutionary theories beyond the basics, and after a rough look at some of their publications they are mostly doing descriptive work on molecular structures and morphologies, NOT the evolutionary background of these).

Even here I’m generous because just stating their titles is obviously a good trick to hide the fact that they may not be knowledgeable enough to say anything about evolution (a PhD in biology is not really informative about that, who knows what their actual work entailed?). But let’s say this list contains about 100 to 300 people who actually could potentially know enough about the topic to give informed dissent. What does that tell us? Nothing. Project Steve found 1700 scientists named “Steve” so far who are in favor of evolution being real. If the dissenters have such strong evidence they could publish it, becoming instantly famous. They are not because their dissent is rarely scientific. In fact I don’t think I’m going too far by stating that many of them are dissenting because of pretty irrational reasons, i.e. their faith for example. Others have been shown to be actually in favor of evolutionary theory, but the statement they signed was

“We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged”

Which is too broad, and tries to claim critical examination in general for itself, implication: evolutionary biologists aren’t critical of it, which is fucking insane if you know ANYTHING about evolutionary biology, the role of natural selection for example, the specific target of selection, the role of neutral mutations and genetic drift, these are all things that have been heatedly debated for decades now. NOT though that evolution itself happens or that there needs to be some form of intelligence behind it!

The list is deceptive, wrong-headed and is pretty much only there to give false authority to creationists they don’t actually have nor deserve.

And for the fucking last time, there is NO meaningful difference between micro- and makroevolution on a conceptual level! Hundreds of microevolutionary steps will automatically lead to a makroevolutionary one! Your arguments from (nonexistent) authority are only there to stun the uninformed and deluded. Everyone else will see through such blatant deception.

Tesla Steinmetz #dunning-kruger #racist

Space as a privation? Preposterous, even just from a logical standpoint. Time as a concept? Depends on your definition of concept. Space can be described as a concept too. Both may be the single a priori known properties of the universe (i. e. they are fundamental to our perception of it themselves and therefore most likely not something generated only by our perception itself). Space definitely is not just emptiness, if you would take it away so to speak our universe and our perception wouldn’t exist.

Spacetime is simply another concept, I have no idea how you get the idea that we couldn’t combine the two. Reduce the spatial dimensions into one single axis, then use time as the other axis, and you can easily follow the paths of events along their worldline. This worldline changes if spacetime is warped, for example by being redirected towards a planets central mass. Voila, gravity. (I know it’s a VERY simplified explanation, but that’s basically what it boils down to from my understanding). It’s not even that difficult to grasp. Is it a model? Of course! Is that model actually reality? Probably not. Does that matter? For most people no, for theoretical physicists a lot, but this model explains nearly all observations we made so far AND predicted phenomena like black holes way before they were observed directly. A strong indicator that it’s at least a good approximation of how the macroscopical world works. The fact that this breaks down inside a black hole shows us that the theory is incomplete, but that was to be expected.

Also, mass is an observable trait of specific forms of energy, so there. It is theorized to be caused by matter sort of attracting and interacting with Higgs boson particles (which we were able to observe already). It in turn causes matter to warp spacetime. Again, a strong simplification, but you OP seem to be unable to grasp even simple a priori concepts like space, so probably best to keep it at that level.

And of course, the evil jews want the universe to be thought of as relativistic because…
I really have no idea what the point would be. Is this about the stupid conflation of the two meanings of relativity again?

Last but not least, that Einstein got huge opposition to his theory at first is normal procedure in science, contrary to what you believe scientists don’t just accept anything without questioning it at first, and the theory of relativity went against the classical believe of an absolute universe, so of course the opposition was strong at first. It wasn’t silenced by evil jews but by the model proving that it explained the universe better than what came before.

Daniel Quatro #fundie #homophobia

The intellectual dishonesty of making an unsubstantiated claim (“Homosexuality is unnatural!”), a naturalistic fallacy and then attacking the counterargument (“Well, it’s obviously not, homosexual acts have been observed in nature!”) by claiming that it is the very same fallacy is absolutely astounding. I don’t even know of the top of my hat what kind of fallacy that is, but it feels like some unholy fusion of the fallacy fallacy (wrongly accusing an argument to be fallacious) and the moving the goalpost fallacy (changing a disproven statement in such a way that the counterargument to it doesn’t work anymore, then declaring the counterargument as irrelevant).

By the way, homosexuality is not ok because it is natural, it is ok because there is no harm in it and no logical reason against it. Get that into your thick skull OP.

Anonymous Coward #76157531 #wingnut #racist #sexist #dunning-kruger

You know, I am getting really damn tired of all these supremacists constantly talking about IQ and the inner life of people as if they fucking knew ANYTHING about them or even just about the concepts they are talking about. What hints do you get for women being “purely emotional beings”? How exactly would that even work? You know that women can live on their own, so there must be rational thought involved. And female scientists couldn’t do their job if they couldn’t argue logically. Since both types of women exist they can’t possibly all be what you say they are. An easy logical argument, while I haven’t heard one yet of yourself. Oh and by the way, look up the indian nations before the colonists came, for such “savage” people they had astonishingly developed civilisations already. You are full of shit and if anyone is irrational here, it’s you.

Socrates #crackpot #sexist #wingnut

Actually the true statement would be “Behind every great person is a team of persons who laid the foundations of their work”. No matter who, the narrative of single individuals and geniuses coming up with ideas totally in a vacuum is simply not true. Every scientist builds on what came before, whether they be men, women or nonbinary, it doesn’t matter. That doesn’t mean at all that the individual contribution is negligible, just that your oh so funny and misogynistic meme doesn’t work in multiple ways.
Ada Lovelace was the first person to find out that computers could be used for more than just calculation.
Maria Sibylla Merian was one of the first people to study insects directly.
Marie Curie (sadly and accidentally) gave her life for her discoveries of the properties of radioactivity, and she is still the only person with two nobel prizes in scientific fields (and a personal idol of mine).
Laura Bassi, one of the first women who was granted a doctorate might be one of the best examples for why you are talking out of your ass: She lived in the 18th century, had no formal education at first, but had the luck of being discovered for her talents and gaining a patron. She successfully defended her mathematical and philosophical theses and was one of the first women to be allowed to teach at the university (though not all-male classes).
What does her story tell you? Up until then women didn’t even get the chance to get a higher education. If they wanted to do science they were pretty much forced to do so privately and as autodidacts and their research was usually ignored anyway. I said it before with the allegedly lacking contribution of gay people to society and science (poor Turing as well as Lovelace, their accomplishments being talked away on the very machines they helped develop) and it fits here again: You can’t oppress them all for multiple millenia and then use that oppression as proof that they never contributed in any way.
In fact, what amazing thing did YOU contribute to society? Being alive as a straight cis-man? Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but that’s definitely not an accomplishment on its own. So fuck off and learn a bit of real history instead of praising memes you like and hating on memes you don’t like!

Vox Day #crackpot #dunning-kruger

Can anyone tell me which article of The Economist he is talking about, or better yet, which paper he is talking about? I have seen climate change deniers quote mining and misinterpreting climate change research so awfully many times that I would never take stuff like this at face value.
I have seen papers describing some small irregularities in the models but basically stating that they work well, only for deniers stating that these irregularities must mean that the whole thing is absolute bogus. Every time any scientist states that CO2 isn’t the only greenhouse gas and effector of climate change we should consider, they spin this as proof that CO2 isn’t the main cause of climate change and therefore humanity has nothing to do with it (which is a non-sequitor, since usually these type of papers point out that the other sources are also man-made, like additional methane in the atmosphere). I wouldn’t trust these statements from The Economist itself and DEFINITELY not from freaking Vox Day, one of the biggest Dunning-Kruger victims alive!