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Stew Peters and Michael Yon #racist #conspiracy #psycho

I don’t think even all rightward will be happy with your AI guns that will likely kill non-white citizens. Like as not, they’re not all racist—some are “just” classist.

Jesse Lee Peterson #fundie #sexist

Liz Wheeler #wingnut #conspiracy #transphobia #forced-birth #pratt

@Yutolia #191122

Even more that they think non-binary thought is ontologically impossible. Hence they think us allowing for suicide is “actually” demanding everyone extinguish themself.

Actually, that makes me wonder how they think God understands human individuality (or even cherub individuality!).

<@KeithInc.> #191101

I don’t think their authoritarianism admits to the ideas of choice or context. Only the mandate of {insert alleged actual perfect thing, be it, say, endurance or suicide} actually exists.

Padraig Martin #racist

@PMSFKS #191063

Given the nature of law enforcement entrapment, I think your point is probably still germane for his main claim as well.

Jesse Lee Peterson #fundie #sexist

Anyone else get the feeling he’s projecting his anger at being abandoned to his grandparents as a child? Probably feels too much indebtedness to said grandparents to acknowledge that they were even worse for him…

C.T. #wingnut #racist #psycho #pratt

You do realize that by positing a need for “Nordics” to have no other ethnicities amongst themselves, you’re not showing much faith in their resilience–something I’d expect to be part and parcel of any sort of superiority–don’t you?

Seriously, look at, of all people, Nietzsche’s understanding of an übermensch–not bothered at all by “lesser” humans draining him because they can’t actually harm him. Just let them have their fun, don’t bother antagonizing them further, and move on.

Ken Ham #fundie

Darwin meant “fittest” as “most able to function in some way in an ecosystem” (i.e. fitting in a niche), not “most powerful”. Herbert Spencer was the main advocate of ill-named Social Darwinism, and it’s not likely you needed atheism to pick it up. Certainly not back then with eugenics not being atheist-only. In fact, I suspect the whole point of the infamous Might is Right pamphlet was to satirize Social “Darwinism” by showing it as incompatible with the ideals of both Testaments, however much (the typically upper-classes) adherents of Spencer thought otherwise.

Pastor Bobby Leonard #sexist

@Titania #190735

And on that note, how do they explain naturist communities as being neither rape-beset nor fully libertine?

Ken Ham #biphobia #conspiracy #forced-birth #fundie #homophobia #transphobia #wingnut

@JM1234 #190726

And/or they’re trying to re-normalize their precepts by claiming that most everything relies on proof-optional faith in something.

There’s also the whole “personal relationship, not religion” conceit, cone to think of it. Probably defining religion there in terms of demanding unquestioning acceptance of The Rules, and seeing fundagelicalism as exempt because it’s about accepting salvation (via self-enslavement…) instead.

Pastor Bobby Leonard #sexist

@PMSFKS #190666

That’s certainly how the Calvinist interpretation of Total Depravity works. Only God can really be deemed innately virtuous; everything else (even cherubim, I expect) is a vice elemental unless controlled by God, which effectively still leaves him as the only virtuous actor around.

Never mind that particularly with Vincent Cheung-grade prelapsarians, I’m not sure how they parallel God and human thought. Although I swear Cheung himself thinks there isn’t really any such thing as flux (he says God doesn’t actually think…despite having a will he’d need thoughts to arrive at to begin with…as he’s already perfect, everything’s preordained from everlasting to everlasting…You see the problem, right?).

Steve Kirsch #conspiracy

What is behind all this anti-vaccine argument besides conspiracism, anyway? At utmost extreme, I suspect a belief that they fear God hates when someone tries to deal with disease with anything besides prayer/theurgy.

James Lasher #fundie #wingnut #sexist #conspiracy

Ephesians 6:12 was more likely about the Roman Empire, and its animating ideas. Paul’s point was that even if an imperator or governor died (whether by old age or your hand or other), the will to keep the Empire running would just send a new imperator/governor to fill the vacancy. The real thing to quell was empire’s justifications—not physical persons, but ideas that were about as physical as breeze and shadow, but still plenty influential.

Bride Ministries International #fundie #crackpot #magick #ufo #conspiracy

<@KeithInc.> #190557

They probably think “prayer” and “theurgy” are absolute synonyms.

Actually, this puts me in mind of On-Land Freemen putting sky-high amounts of faith on crafted legalese keeping them safe.

Jesse Lee Peterson #crackpot #dunning-kruger

The Rev. Steven Roland #conspiracy #fundie

Things like the incest line were not mandate, but flat recordings of a given rabbi’s view that would quickly get shouted into oblivion by the other rabbis assigned to the decision.

You keep making the mistake of thinking the Talmud is deemed as having equal (or greater!) authority compared to the Torah. Enough.

Medeea Greere #crackpot #wingnut #conspiracy #racist

Wayne Allyn Root #conspiracy #crackpot #wingnut

@Bastethotep #190413

Hm. Didn’t know he had such in his résumé.

Although my point was more that games don’t have remotely the gravity of anything political—and I’m not about to bring gambling onto the balances.

And what is he doing analogizing an election (or anything else political) to a mere game, anyway? I know a good many people conflate politics and team games, whether or not knowingly, but this is ridiculous.

Ben Garrison #conspiracy #wingnut

You’d think just making Trump a fifth face on the mountain would be enough.

What’s shooting him this far above even Reagan and Bush-43 with them, anyway? Just that much more (ostensible) devotion to flat greatness? Although I’m not sure what they’d make of Lord Acton’s observation that Good and Great tend to be incompatible. A Good world is top priority (and ensures their survival better than Evil Great), anyway.

Explain, with documentation, how much suffering non-formalized immigrants have brought in to begin with. I really don’t think you’re going to succeed, especially with my flat rejection of nativism.

Elon Musk #ableist #dunning-kruger #crackpot #forced-birth #quack #sexist

@Peacemonger373 #190303

What, he thinks he’s the progenitor of the latest master race…?!

C.T. #wingnut #conspiracy #racist #sexist

various commenters #transphobia

@Lucilius #190266

Well, they do think/claim that if not quelled now, it will harm them in the future. Although I’m not sure how well they can see “woman” as something other than a subset of “woe magnet”. Think in terms of whether they’d get along with original Gnostics.

Henry Makow PhD #sexist #racist #homophobia #wingnut #conspiracy

C.T. #wingnut #conspiracy #racist #sexist

However did Europe manage itself before the Visigoths rose to power…

Come on. You’re doing nothing to prove yourself the best human possible.

Matias Page #racist

I’m waiting for the “lest” that explains what happens if they don’t. Honestly, no possibility that they might be trying to distance themselves from the CCP?

Various Anonymous Cowards #sexist #homophobia #fundie #conspiracy

@JeanP #190102

Depends on how they define civilization, honestly. I suspect that in their eyes, Greatness/Will to Greatness is not optional. Despite the point Lord Acton made in his letter about how Good and Great tend to be incompatible.

Vox Day #fundie #conspiracy #wingnut

@Tilver #190123

He probably thinks oppression of Christians can’t be motivated by anything but besotment with instant gratification, as in “You just want to sin!”. So if (at least from here) he’s definitely not on Team Gratification, he can’t be a heretic. (Or thereabouts.)

Not that I’m sure if his idea of rightful happiness fits either of hedonia or eudaimonia.

No free speech nor trade nor movement…Yet I feel like he considers Free Will real. Not exactly any meaningful way to implement it, though. With my luck, he’ll claim it was instilled in humanity not by divine sculpture, but by partaking of the Tree of Knowledge. i.e. God didn’t want us to have Free Will, only Lucifer did. Although I genuinely have no idea whether he’d say the cherubim have Free Will or not, as well as whether they should. The attitude would logically settle on only God rightly having Free Will (i.e. not even Jesus nor any of the cherubim), but only one entity with agency is effectively the same as none having agency. God wouldn’t really have any unpredictable persons to get new concepts or angles from.

<@KeithInc.> #190089

The ending point is probably that antisemitism and racism are novel concepts–and knowing him, probably not actually woes by God’s lights, as compared to anti-Christianity.

Boskov01 #conspiracy #crackpot #wingnut

@blue87 #190078

More likely a belief that the double standard is actually divine mandate. Essentially using “God’s ways are not our ways” as an all-purpose way to excuse injustice as actually One True Justice. (It was actually meant to portray El as level-headed and not incensed by every aggravation as compared to your typical thin-skinned ruler in Mesopotamia or the Levant.)

Akste #magick

ElijahLinn #magick #moonbat

I’m not sure whether he’s being serious in full about this. Okay, too much faith in Hamas being good for Palestine (even if they do somehow rebuff Likud’s forces, I don’t think I want to see what they’d do to Palestinian Jews), but the spellcasting directions might be just a framing device to explain his faith in them being Palestine’s Good Guys.

Various Anonymous Cowards #sexist #homophobia #fundie #conspiracy

How’s procreation going to become irrelevant? Are you expecting immortality soon, or reproduction via cloning?

What are you expecting a “proper” society/civilization/etc. to look like and consist of, anyway? What would your typical daily life involve? (The rest of you note the tacit asexual, whether innate or performative, at the end. I don’t think male-male sex is on their itinerary.)

hache #pratt #conspiracy #dunning-kruger

@Malingspann #190027

Bold of such ones to assume they’d be uncomfortable. During Makhno’s expropriations in Ukraine (basically redistributing wealth so that everyone had equal, definitely-viable-for-living-on amounts), the formerly-richest peasant families actually did not suffer for their lessened net worth, and do not appear to have held grudges against Makhno. The same lessening-without-discomfort seems to apply to green living from here.

Todd Friel #fundie #pratt

That’s not how philosophy, religious philosophy included, works.

hache #pratt #conspiracy #dunning-kruger

You know plants can’t take in an unlimited amount of food at once any better than we can, yes?

Bishop Richard Williamson #fundie #wingnut #racist #conspiracy #homophobia #transphobia

For other “lovely” elements, he’s a convicted Holocaust denier (who was exiled from the Society of St. Pius X precisely for not going silent on it!) who believes “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” are factual. I know that the SSPX founder was a supporter of Vichy, but I have no idea whether Williamson shares that sympathy (he was only born in 1940). Given the Holocaust denial, however…

Ray Comfort #fundie #crackpot #pratt

<@KeithInc.> #189844

He’s a New Zealander, so he’d better know about kiwis and kakapos (flightless parrots). I can see how he was trying to speak generally, mind.

Meanwhile, evolution doesn’t deal in any kind of teleology. That’s what’s meant by “not complete”—nothing to imply that the form is set in diamond, “completed”, for all eternity, not when still further environmental flux is certain.

And I’m not impressed with the claim that horses were crafted strictly to be steeds. Less anthropocentrism, if you would?

"The Anunnaki Collective via Starlight of the Divine” #ufo #magick #crackpot #god-complex

Sidney Secular #wingnut #racist #conspiracy

Just because some early indigenous might have had Caucasian-ish skeletons doesn’t mean they were meaningfully related to your own forbears. Putting aside whether one or both sets would disavow you for your selfishness.

Christian Pundit #fundie #homophobia #transphobia

While I’m still surprised that such ones think paedophiles are so profuse at all. Never mind a pretty fair number of paedophiles genuinely acknowledge how malign their impulse is and so gladly isolate themselves from children. You know, choosing justice/virtue/kindness/etc. over gratification…which puts the lie to Calvin’s understanding of total depravity, actually (Augustinius was referring to a full marbling of both virtuous and sinful desires in every part of the human psyche, not even remotely unalloyed sinfulness).

Wayne Allyn Root #wingnut

More “shut up and sing”? You’re in trouble if she ever goes the Bruce Springsteen route with her songs…

What are you expecting of female musicians, anyway? All of them just akin to Japanese idol singers? (Hopefully without the vampiric industry structure…)

Gustav #racist

How about no conquest, period? If accomplishing conquest is necessary to be a superpower, then even apart from anarcho-socialist arguments, superpowers are inherently evil. All you’re doing is playing Might Makes/Is Right, when Might should be subordinated to Right.