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@Zinnia

various commenters #transphobia

Going to point out that without no-fault divorce, one would first need to transition for there to be a legitimate “fault” in the marriage. You pretty have to have one or the other available, at minimum, in this situation. (Also you should just allow no-fault divorce in general.) I mean you could theoretically blow up your marriage some other way (in practice, not as easy as one might expect), but why screw up your life any more than is necessary?

Congressman Paul Gosar & various commenters #wingnut

It should take one day, and one day is all it took until very recently.

It takes half a day to call the majority of races, but it takes as much as 2 (and or rarely, 3) days to count every last regular vote and at least a week for all the straggling absentee and overseas military votes. And then in the rare cases where the race was still too close to call days after the election, there needs to be at least one recount to make sure there were no errors. There’s a reason why the new congress isn’t seated until 2 months after the election, 2½ in the case of the US president. This is not starting “very recently”, this is the way it’s always been, and it actually used to be somewhat worse before modern vehicles became common (for complicated logistical reasons).

Andrew Anglin #racist

Allowing random citizens to commit murder and then using the justice system to determine retroactively whether it was a crime depending on the validity of the target? Ignoring that you’ll never get people to agree on where the lines should be drawn in regards to “validity”, even the police aren’t supposed to execute suspects. I mean, they do occasionally and then sometimes get away with a slap on the wrist; but even were that universally considered an “acceptable sacrifice” for a functioning society, ordinary citizens have never had that much latitude. Not even in the wild west.

2nd Smartest Guy in the World #wingnut #conspiracy #dunning-kruger

We are the Unborg. Your compliance or lack thereof is irrelevant. Your delusions and ignorance are irrelevant. Your utter lack of comprehension of what is happening and why is irrelevant. Your inevitable declaration of “victory” in a meaningless game which no one else is aware of, let alone playing, is irrelevant. You will be ignored.

Persimmon64 #transphobia

Most, but not of all those points, are true enough in a vacuum; but when they’re used it as part of a TERF argument, the reason why they’re being made is the inherent presumption that trans women are delusional crossdressing men. There’s a bit of circular logic going on here; the conclusions which logically flow from the premise are then used to justify the premise. And on top of that, they would be just as true and relevant if trans women weren’t men, so long as crossdressing men exist… and they do, separate from trans women, but they’re also (mostly) not making any claims of womanhood, rendering the whole thing a misaimed targeting.

And then are a few points which are pretty definitely wrong, severely weakening the whole thing. And the “A woman is an adult. A woman is female” part can either be read as tautological (and tautological statements are always technically true in boolean logic but inherently useless and/or meaningless), or reductionist in a way which not every woman agrees with because it’s rooted in misogyny and/or identity gatekeeping.

Ron DeSantis #transphobia #wingnut

I can guarantee that the people who keep making these laws are thinking one of two things - that they’re imagining a man in a dress, or a trans woman who looks pretty much like a man in a dress, going in the women’s restroom, and they’re attempting to ban that without considering the other effects because they can’t imagine any; or they know full well that these things amount to a hard or soft ban on all trans people ever using a public restroom, but they’re still not thinking of what effect this is likely to have on androgynous-looking people. In the latter case, “live a life of misery or we’ll fuck things up for you” isn’t quite the flex they think it is.

rick Luten #wingnut #pratt

There do exist some companies who face something like a “get woke go broke” pressure, but even more who face something like a “get woke *or* go broke” pressure. And then there are a few like Disney who face both at the same time. So their usual “compromise” is showing a gay person or two in a brief, non-plot-significant scene which can be cut out for certain overseas markets. (The Owl House is most daring thing they’ve done, but it was created primarily for US audiences.) That’s about as close as they can get to not “being political”, the problem is that the far Right considers anything which doesn’t blatantly cater to their sensibilities to be “political”, because they consider their preferences to be the “default”… but doing so would be seen as taking a political side by everyone else.

B.E. Lewis #crackpot #ufo #conspiracy

Now, there is certainly a remote chance that some dromaeosaurid evolved to human-level sapience, developed spaceflight, and abandoned the solar system for whatever reason, possibly nudging the planet-killer asteroid into a collision course to spite the ones who refused to leave, but that’s purely in the realm of speculative science fiction with the barest hint of actual science. And by now they’d be tens of millions of years removed from their origins on earth; any speculation by a bunch of idiot primates why their far-distant descendants would return just to mess with said idiot primates, assuming such a thing were happening, is almost certainly going to miss the mark by miles.

Mike Stone #wingnut #sexist #homophobia #transphobia #racist #conspiracy

#1 is realistic, at least seen from the view of someone shallow-minded. #3 is sort of true in some places but ridiculously exaggerated; I doubt any teacher would get rid of the US flag (they would instead display both) or put cutesy decorations around their picture of the president, and if they did they would be justly reprimanded for unprofessionalism. #2, #4, and #5 are just stupid and wrong and not how anything works.

As for #6, insect-based foods are still “exotic” in most of the West - not nearly common enough, and often not nearly cheap enough, to realistically be served in a school cafeteria. I would strongly suspect that this would never happen unless/until it was already normalized to the point of being ordinary food. Given how right-wingers feel about the subject, the real-world equivalent is something like serving two slices of white bread slathered with tomato-flavored corn syrup, with a slice of processed soy-oil-and-cellulose “cheeze” between them, and calling it a “cheeseburger” despite the lack of anything resembling a burger, because the conservative legislature slashed the school lunch budget to basically nothing or there’s some pretty blatant embezzlement going on. Which basically isn’t going to happen in any place remotely like their “liberal nightmare school”.

Andrew Anglin #racist #dunning-kruger #conspiracy #transphobia #ableist #wingnut

(by hanging! Like he’d gotten caught killing a nigga for his Air Jordans!).

What. Seriously, what.

Back in the late 1980s Air Jordans became something of a status symbol among black youth; there was some story in the national news about a kid being killed just so his shoes could be looted. This lead to the racist stereotype of “black kids are so greedy and violent that they’d kill each other over *shoes*!” I hadn’t heard anything about hanging being involved in that incident, though.

A quick check shows that multiple such incidents have occurred over the decades, with the last notable one being in 2021; none appear to have involved hanging in any way, most of them the killers were adult drug dealers who killed them for other reasons and then took the shoes because they were valuable on the black market. I couldn’t find any where the killer was executed in any manner, most just got life in prison if they were caught.

I have no idea if he’s referring to an obscure incident, remembered wrong, or is just trying to make a racist joke about how Eichmann was killed for something “trivial” and badly botched the delivery. And in the latter case, in order to get the “joke”, you have to get the mindset that black people being killed is no big deal, especially when it’s one of their own who does it. (And when black people protest because someone was tortured to death by the police on-camera, it’s “funny” because they’re getting upset over nothing, that sort of mindset.)

Megyn Kelly #conspiracy #enbyphobia #wingnut

They don’t have genitals, and they probably don’t reproduce anything like biological organisms, so at minimum any purposefully gendered appearance would be entirely superficial. Perhaps also useful for social purposes, since apparently they do have genders and a very-close-to-human psychology (for out-of-universe reasons, to make them more understandable to human children, clearly) but likely not anything more than that.

Of course, if any race had binary genders, it would be robots. But nobody said it had to be a single binary digit; it could be that males are 10 and females are 01, but occasionally you get a 00 or a 11. (I’m joking; even if they had fully binary processors, it’s not likely that any sapient machine’s experience of gender would be simple enough to be reduced to a few bits.)

Anonymous #dunning-kruger #sexist #transphobia

Incels think that being a “manlet” (by which they mean short, and some of them consider “under 6′ tall” to be “short”) is a crippling disadvantage for men when it comes to dating, to the point where without any special advantages to make up for it they’re already doomed to inceldom. While real, the disadvantage is slight, and not nearly as much as being transgender is in today’s social climate… and yet, most trans men who are looking for someone manage to find somebody. It’s almost like incels are hyperfocused on all the wrong things in order to avoid any sort of self-reflection.

various commenters #transphobia

The Washington Post did their own poll here rather than conduct it through a polling company with a good reputation. I don’t know their methodology, so I can’t say if there’s any skew in who got polled. Regardless, the takeaway here is that roughly 55-60% support transition for adults, while only 35-40% support transition for children and only 30% support sports teams being segregated by gender rather than birth sex. (I say roughly because it appears there were more than one question involving each of those subjects, and they’re not giving precise numbers for all of the results.) It sounds like the questions were pushing the idea that transition for children involves hormones and surgery, which if so may be messing up the results.

That’s not great, but also not exactly “good news” for transphobes either. Particularly since the WaPo also notes that support for trans people is up from a decade ago, and probably isn’t done increasing yet.

Morpheus11 #quack

The TV doesn’t even help ease the symptoms, just distract you from them while you’re resting, because it’s really no fun to be bored while you’re miserable and can’t do a whole lot.

various commenters #transphobia

@Yutolia #165258

Most of them actually think that this is no big deal. Not the actual acts of rape or spousal abuse (generally speaking; there do exist ones which are totally fine with that, so long as the “right” people are doing it), but people talking about it or even outright advocating it, because free speech.

various commenters #transphobia

Meanwhile, most of the Flat Earthers are treating the acceptance of “Transgenderism” is every bit as much of a global conspiracy as “Spinning Ball Theory”, they’re just not focusing on it as much.

Pass the Puck #quack #transphobia

Weeding out the known and likely confounding factors from studies involving *that* while still getting enough data points to be statistically significant would be a nightmare, and they would just claim the studies were invalid because they don’t understand why the steps taken to eliminate the effects of the confounding factors are there to reduce bias rather than to skew the results a certain way.

Michael Voris #fundie #wingnut

I think that they’re running off of the idea that being aware of danger (or at least what they perceive as danger) makes people more vulnerable to it, somehow. Like being aware of sex makes you more vulnerable to being raped; being aware of LGBQ people makes you more likely to be seduced by those people and then “turned”, like they were vampires or something; being aware of T people makes you more likely to be peer-pressured into depression and self-mutilation; being aware of LGA people makes you more likely to abandon your sacred breeding duties; being aware of “wrong” religions might cause someone to convert to another religion or abandon religion altogether. Even some of the “Jesus is my copilot” types seem to believe that so long as they stay ignorant of the likely consequences of their actions, God will rescue them from any predicaments that they blunder into. This is despite that Jesus specifically told his followers not to be like that. Though if they weren’t mostly ignorant of the bible, they might be in danger of knowing this…

John Gideon Hartnett #conspiracy

The chips being tracked are in people’s cell phones, not their bodies. I would presume that, due to privacy laws in most places, tracking is very limited for non-volunteers, who are mostly unidentified individuals, and volunteers will mostly be people who are civic-minded enough to get fully vaxxed.

Clay Higgins #fundie

Clay Higgins is the one who, during the first Trump impeachment hearings, struggled to comprehend even the basics of what was being discussed. I’m not sure he fully understands what a library is for.

Vox Day #wingnut #sexist

A bit later, I wondered if Vox Day has reason to fear for his marriage/relationship, this is some sort of solidarity with a handful of prominent conservative men whose wives divorced them over the past few years, or if VD is just being a social disease as usual.

I couldn’t find out much about the likelihood of the former. He has a wife and at least 4 kids, his primary residence is apparently in Switzerland but he doesn’t seem to spend a lot of time there, that’s about all I could find.

1. Despite some people using the phrase “marriage contract”, a marriage certification is not actually a contract.

2. To the limited extent that it has contract-like attributes, it isn’t between the two people being married; it’s between both of them and the issuing government body.

3. You may be thinking of a prenuptial contract, which is an actual contract, albeit usually lacking any sort of “no divorce ever” clause because that’s not legally enforceable in most of the world. Or more likely, a marriage covenant, which is not a contract in the legal sense but a cultural and/or religious observance.

American Hypnotist #wingnut #conspiracy

Trump is a master persuader.

He has failed to convince me of that.

@Only2Genders #transphobia #homophobia

I know that this is aimed at a certain audience which would look upon the image in horror and/or disgust mostly because over the past couple years they’ve been primed to react that way, but I can’t help but marvel at how awesome those costumes are.

thormemeson #wingnut

“Facts and data” = “right-wing narratives”

There still do exist some cities with crime problems (and overpolicing, which essentially manufactures crime) but it’s been going down over time. Very few are crime-infested hellholes, even Detroit isn’t nearly as bad as it once was. The only place which comes to mind which might count as a crime-infested hellhole is Gary, Indiana, which is mostly known for how not to be a city. Meanwhile violent crime is rising in the rural parts of conservative states - the “0hi0” meme might be a joke, but it’s based at least in part by the state’s failed responses to disasters and crime waves, particularly in more rural areas, on top of the more general incompetence displayed by some state agencies once the conservatives completely took over.

It’s a narrative which they need to be true in order for them to hold the moral high ground, but it isn’t.

various commenters #transphobia

I’m 90% certain that AFAB and AMAB were invented because none of the previous existing terms accounted for the existence of intersex and nonbinary people, and stuck around because they’re just broadly useful and about as non-problematic as you can get.

These terms make no presumptions as to a person’s genetics, their gender, or even their current sex; the M/F parts do imply a specific birth sex and presumed-”At-Birth” gender, but the “Assigned” part negates any inherent assumption as to whether they were determined correctly. If they really think that most trans people would object, then they’re out of touch.

David Wright #kinkshaming #crackpot #fundie

Having sex with someone means “You’re basically helping them masturbate”? To me that suggests autosexual rather than asexual, but I could be wrong. Regardless, I don’t think he is even capable of imagining anyone having a satisfying sex life, let alone that what works as a “satisfying sex life” differs considerably from one person to the next. That’s not any position to be talking about most other people’s sexualities.

Nagolbud #conspiracy #quack

“Viruses cannot be spread from animal to human” is something I’ve seen before, more argument from incredulity than anything else, but understandable given only the most basic knowledge of biology. Understandable but very wrong. But “cannot be spread from human to human”? Do you even know what a virus is? (Reads the rest of it) No, no you absolutely do not. Are you mistaking them for antibodies? That’s the only thing which even vaguely makes sense. (If so, also not how antibodies work.)

Jennifer Bilek #transphobia

…Though more on topic, this has very “all which is not forbidden is required” vibes. This attitude that all people will be forced to alter themselves is not something which anyone is advocating for in general… though some posthumanists are like “you want to remain with the foolish homo sapiens in their slow extinction while everyone else joins in our great and glorious future? allrighty then, no skin off my oflactory detectors”. Which is really jerkish and elitist in a way which I would never defend, but probably not genocidal.

You know, there are an awful lot of things lumped together under the term “transhumanism”. It’s one of those amorphous scary things which some people don’t know what it means and don’t want to, they only know that it absolutely must be forbidden because… um… because it must be bad, otherwise we wouldn’t forbid it, clearly! Originally the term referred to a broad school of philosophy which originated during the mid-19th century (though proto-transhumanists existed going at least a century further back) which was all about discovering the limits of the human experience and using what they learn to better society for all people. That’s not what most think of when they hear the term, though. Some things which commonly get referred to as “transhumanism” these days:

Cyborgism: Already exists, and as part of many people’s lives to at least a limited extent. Despite commonly being seen as “half-biological-half-machine sci-fi beings”, cyborgism essentially started with things like peg-legs and hook-hands centuries ago (and arguably, even further back, in the form of crutches and monocles), and has changed to various new forms as technology itself advances. There’s some discussion whether someone who has become extremely reliant on their smartphone to function in everyday life counts as a cyborg, despite smartphones not typically being seen as parts of or extensions of one’s body. Some might wish to make a distinction between “true cyborgs” (the sci-fi concept which doesn’t exist in the real world yet) and people who have been “augmented”, but unless/until there are new races which are born cyborg and can’t be anything else without radical “de-augmenting”, it’s really a matter of degree.

Bioforming/Heteromorphism/Modding: There isn’t a good name for the concept as a whole that I’m aware of, these terms all have specific connotations which aren’t universally applicable. Basically means reshaping one’s body for a specific purpose and/or aesthetic. Cosmetic surgery, including SRS (Sex Reassignment Surgery), definitely count as this; as do piercings and tattooing; biohackers would probably insist what they do counts, but most of what they do is pseudomedicalist woo; gene therapy will count once it gets more advanced, as what currently exists is extremely limited and usually not visible in effect; some more extreme versions will probably be possible in the future, like furries becoming actual furries instead of having to wear costumes, or people changing their bodies to function normally (or better than normally) in microgravity. Can overlap with cyborgism but doesn’t necessarily.

Extropianism/Posthumanism: For now, these exist only as radical subsets of philosophical transhumanism which say that rather than be satisfied with improving society for all humans, we should also improve humans themselves. Posthumanists would go even further, believing that our descendants and perhaps even our future selves need not be members of the species homo sapiens in any meaningful sense. I say “for now” because the true believers would very much like to manifest their views into the real world ASAP. Much caution is needed here, because both groups are currently infested with techbro elitism and occasionally racism.

“Transgenderism”: Not really a thing, at least not how those who commonly use the term seem to imagine it. Nobody is transing your kids’ genders, as that would require major neurological engineering (read: brain surgery) in a way which probably won’t be available for several decades at least, and possibly gene therapy as well, if it’s possible at all. I’d think you’d very much notice that. Nor is anyone advocating for such a thing to happen.

BondiBlue #transphobia

From a medical perspective, this is an “experiment” which was largely concluded well over a decade ago. Not that this matters to people like them; it’s “new” to them, so therefore it’s only just beginning. No past data matters because it’s all “made up anyway”, no new data could ever matter because it’s only “valid” if it presupposes and affirms their not-how-anything-has-ever-worked worldview.

From a social perspective, I suppose it could be looked at as an “experiment” of sorts, as part of the ongoing experiment where we slowly take away the right and ability for morally lazy people to shit on designated “social inferiors” so they can feel better about themselves, what would society be like after? That’s been going back for over a century, though, and hasn’t reached the point where we can find the answer yet. It’s also not intentionally an experiment, nor does it have proper controls, it’s just a moral imperative.

Elvis Dunderhoff #sexist

If you’re trying to make the case that 12-year-olds can make reasonable judgments and/or decisions about sex, therefore age of consent = bad, this is not at all helping your case.

Lindsey Graham #ableist #dunning-kruger #transphobia

So first I thought it was the litterbox thing again, and then nope, it’s transphobia, but then I started to wonder, is that actually a distinction with a difference with some of these sorts? Because some of them seem to lump together freedom of expression and freedom of identity into a nebulous category of badwrong, and furries are just as much part of that category as trans people, just not something they’re focusing on nearly as much.

Which reminds me of the joke “I don’t want to be put into narrow boxes, I’m not a cat”.

James Gilliland #conspiracy #wingnut #ufo

It is 2023, the governments and religious institutions have failed to bring us Universal Peace, Brother/Sisterly Love, Individual Freedom and Prosperity.

This is not, and never has been their purpose or goal. They exist primarily to create and maintain large-scale social stability, and secondarily to keep the powerful in power. The idea which we even should be concerned with such things, or at least for the vast majority of people, only really dates from the 1800s, and wasn’t even taken all that seriously until after WWII. But what progress has been made on those fronts has mostly been done *in spite* of religion and government, even when people have essentially forced them to change their ways… because again, that’s not really what they’re for.

Now if you’re someone who was a member of the western white middle class circa 1950s-1960s, or likely would have been if you were alive back then, then certainly some things are probably a little worse for you today. Also you would likely have been sheltered from certain harsh and often cruel realities that people outside your bubble often had to face, so the world would have seemed better than it actually was. But on the whole? I’d very much prefer to live today, thank you very much.

However, given the mentions of things you disapprove of, I very strongly suspect your idea of “Individual Freedom” does not match mine, and would hardly be surprised if your idea of those other things were different as well.

Bennett Lee Ross #crackpot #magick #ufo

This part is so nonsensical that it doesn’t even need deconstructing, but I was in the mood anyway.

The DNA helix is a dodecahedron made up of fractal hydrogen

In order to create a dodecahedron, you need atoms which form at least three bonds, and ideally either three or six. I only know basic chemistry, but hydrogen has a valence of 1, which usually means that it can normally only form one bond but might be able to form two unstable half-bonds under unusual circumstances (some elements don’t behave exactly like you’d expect based on its valence number, and I don’t know about hydrogen specifically). You might be able to do something like that with boron or aluminum, don’t know, but I’m 99.9% sure not hydrogen. No wait, this is “fractal hydrogen”, which doesn’t exist, thus is therefore magic. That explains it.

You could also maybe make a dodecahedral frame out of DNA strands, if you could somehow link them together using 3-way protein joints, but it would be questionable if the DNA would actually be functional.

I suspect that this is one of those weird 5-Dimensions obsessions, and they saw one of those abstract pentagon-based representations of a 5-D object, but those are aren’t dodecahedrons, which are 3-D objects.

That is triggered by phonon harmonics

A “phonon” is a type of virtual particle, specifically of sound. It’s possible to mathematically model sound as being carried by a particle rather than a wave, though as we know what *actually* causes sound, it’s entirely fictitious. The phonon is mostly used as an example of how we don’t actually know what’s going on at quantum scales, but we can make reasonably accurate predictions about certain things using virtual particles, which are not necessarily any more real than the phonon. (That being said, some of our theories do require certain types of virtual particles to become temporarily real, which might be a sign of a flaw in quantum mechanics as it currently exists.)

Initiated by heart coherence

I’m going to assume that “heart” does not refer to the literal physical organ (though it might, if this is one of those people who think emotions originate from a hunk of muscle in one’s chest), in which case this seems to saying that you manifest your own DNA by feeling things really hard at it.

Candace Owens #homophobia

Someone who I watch occasionally on YouTube pointed out that when someone’s channel is focused on a particular subject, you only see the side of them which relates to that particular subject. Likewise if someone is an activist dedicated to a specific cause, or you only see someone in a specific environment or forum dedicated to a particular thing, if you don’t know them personally, you’re not going to see much else. And for someone who doesn’t want talking about same-sex relationships to be normalized, even someone talking about the (non-sexual) stuff they do with their same-sex partner can stand out too much in their minds in a way they personally find unpleasant. There’s probably a name for a fallacy and/or bias involved here, but I can’t think of one offhand.

There do exist a tiny number of gay people who are “obnoxiously gay” even to other LGBTQIA+ people, and in almost every place you might see them. But are they really any worse than The Straights™? You know, those obnoxiously breederific cishets who most straight people are embarrassed to be seen with when they get like that.

Michael Baxter #crackpot #wingnut #conspiracy

At least the conspiracy theory about biolabs made some sense, if your main/only concept of “biolabs” was military weapons labs… which *is* what the term tends to be associated even with a lot of people who aren’t conspiracy theorists, even though they’re only a tiny minority of them. This is just a straight-up speculation about something which would be highly unrealistic even if the utterly deranged and even more unrealistic “adrenochrome” conspiracy theory was real. While, as others have pointed out, completely misses the actual likely reasons, which you don’t even need to be super smart to figure out.

This level of brain rot is just sad.

Donald Trump #transphobia #fundie #crackpot #dunning-kruger

They’d probably do something ridiculous like take a bunch of mental health stats of trans people pre-transition, note that on the average they have worse mental health than the general public, declare that transitioning is the cause of their mental health issues (despite this being pre-transition data), thus it should be banned.

Andrew Edwards #elitist #racist

@Malingspann #163076

AE thinks people of all skin colours are equal, but whites are more equal than non-whites?

I think he’s trying to make the distinction that dark skin color is a good proxy for determining whether someone is of inferior character, but it’s not actually the color of their skin which gives them that inferior character. Sort of like, if you see a big red vehicle, it’s reasonable to assume at first glance that it’s fire truck, but it’s not actually the bigness or the redness which makes it a fire truck. Though in this case, it’s more like assuming that a car being yellow is a good proxy for it being a lemon (in the old-fashioned slangy sense of being prone to breaking down), and thus all yellow cars should be treated as lemons, which is superficial, dumb, and wrong.

Dennis Prager #racist #dunning-kruger #fundie

The inferior morally hate the morally superior.

And I’m sure that you have ten billion excuses why your bigotry isn’t hatred. Ain’t buyin’, Mr. Inferior.

various commenters #transphobia

If you could identify into your oppressor class, wouldn't you emulate the worst of their behaviour?

As perspectives on human nature go, this is pretty bleak.

Geoffrey Grider #fundie #quack #conspiracy

Sure, the “references” have been “removed”. It’s not like the KJV wasn’t rewritten in places to conform to political norms circa 1611 England…

Andrew Anglin #wingnut #homophobia

Is Nick Fuentes the President? No? Then he can’t offer you a cabinet post. Also the Secretary of State can’t overturn Supreme Court decisions, especially ones which are unrelated to his duties.

If this is a joke, it’s incoherent. Same if it’s not a joke.

Tatsuya Ishida #crackpot #homophobia #pratt #racist #transphobia

@Malingspann #162386

The two strips before that make it clear that it *is* an A Clockwork Orange reference. They’re also a reference to the idea of “Trans Day of Vengeance” which is currently going around some Right-Wing circles; basically that there will soon be a violent uprising of young trans people against Christians. Or straight white men. Or gendercrits. Whichever one of those groups they most identify with.

As for where they got the idea? Biden’s Press Secretary made a speech for Trans Day of Visibility, and they “figured out” that the speech included a “coded message” for young trans people to prepare to attack, wait for the signal, and the Biden administration will have their backs when it happens. Which I’m like 110% sure isn’t going to happen, unfortunately even if it’s just paranoia on their part it’s still stochastic terrorism.

Ewaranon #crackpot #conspiracy #dunning-kruger

Even if the theory that oil was produced on the boundary of the mantle was proven correct (and abiogenic oil theory was created by people who denied that the world is more than 6000 or so years old) it doesn’t necessarily mean that it would be produced faster than we’re using it up. The fact that we have to keep digging deeper and deeper on the average for new oil strongly suggests it’s not, even without any other evidence. That theory also doesn’t really take coal into account, AFAIK, and is also useless at predicting where to find oil, unlike the alternative.

Julie92845 #transphobia

Looking up rabid right-wingers with the first name “Adam” the only one of significance which comes up in Google is Adam Laxalt, the former Attorney General of Nevada, who is currently a major backer of Ron DeSantis. Last name “Walsh” mostly just gets Matt Walsh. Probably the latter, though my Google searches could always be contaminated because I have looked up things about Matt Walsh a few times in the past.

Anon #conspiracy #crackpot #dunning-kruger

In case anyone needs to know how one can speed up, slow down, or turn in space without “pushing off of” anything, you basically can’t. But that just shows that the OP doesn’t fully grasp Newton’s Laws of Motion; flinging out high speed particles in one direction results in the propellant and the satellite/spaceship/rocket/etc pushing off of *each other*.

Simply being aware of the existence of recoil should be enough to at least vaguely grasp the concept. *Should* be.

Every-ist And-ophobe #transphobia #dunning-kruger #pratt #interphobia

Tatsuya Ishida #conspiracy #crackpot #transphobia

His portrayal of trans women is contradictory. They cut off their genitals, but have huge crotch bulges. With a few exceptions, they have have big muscles and beards, unlike most of the in-comic men, and display them proudly, except when they’re covering up their faces and sometimes bodies with holograms. They semi-openly state that they’re “not real girls”, but get offended if anyone else says it. They’re violent threats who never do anything worse than pee outdoors, engage in petty vandalism, and cry, and rarely even that. Exception is the easily-defeated cosmic-horror-who-is-actually-an-animate-statue who only got violent in self-defense.

For some reason, I am reminded of The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything.

[Edit] Well, that aged poorly. The latest strip has a trans woman shooting up a church and Biden giving her a medal.

various commenters #transphobia #conspiracy

There do exist a minority of trans people who went through an edgelord phase, or occasionally, an actual Nazi phase, but most of them were like 13. They grew out of it. Why haven’t you?