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Tatsuya Ishida #racist

@PLMMJ: Her going “woke” is the consequence of eating the poison apple. She’s basically a woke poison-element zombie at this point in the “story”. It gets stupider and much weirder later on, but most individual strips are near-impossible to make sense of out of context. Hell, some of them don’t appear to make much sense *in* context.

Let’s just say that the current plot (still on Snow White) reads like a semi-autobiographical story about Tats (the Prince) trying and failing to “rescue” an OnlyFans camgirl or someone similar (Snow White) who barely even acknowledges his existence, while also grappling with some personal issue which intertwines both religion and sexuality. Except in the last few strips he seems to be trying to force a happy ending anyway via deus ex machina. That might be reading too much into it though.

[Edit] Nevermind, they’re both dead now. I think.

RFK Jr. #conspiracy #dunning-kruger

Older people who are like RFK jr grew up in an era when people with significant health issues did one of the following: died as children, often after their repeated indications of distress were silenced; were kept hidden away and seldom seen by the public; or lived harsh lives in toxic environments and avoided showing any obvious signs of weakness, only to drop dead in their 40s and 50s, but that was in the slums and anyone not living in the slums avoided thinking about or interacting with those people much. So they want to return to that era, when everyone the non-slum-dwellers saw in their day-to-day life was healthy or at least looked that way, without the understanding that it was an illusion covering up an ugly reality. Or understanding that modern medicine makes health issues more visible, identifiable, and survivable in the long-term, rather than creating new ones which didn’t exist before.

Younger people who are like RFK jr grew up without experiencing a world lacking high-tech medicine and near-universal vaccination. They’re being seduced by the (usually) honest but very faulty descriptions given by older people who never saw through the illusion. That doesn’t mean that we need to cater to the sensibilities of either group, obviously, but it does make dealing with them a problem which doesn’t always have easy solutions.

Tatsuya Ishida #racist

1. Urban areas are (usually) more diverse
2. Urban areas are (usually) more liberal
3. Urban areas have more *total* crime, including hate crimes and “racial violence”
4. Urban areas have high population density

There are a wide variety of hypotheses and conclusions which one could draw from those points, some more questionable than others, but the really stupid and terrible ones ignore #4 or at least fail to connect it to #3. I mention this because most of Tatsuya’s statements about diversity stem from one of these really stupid and terrible ideas.

Dramatic_Director_46 #transphobia #wingnut

You can make anyone look crazy by inventing your own beliefs and behaviors for them. Like, I used to think Christians were just harmless weirdos. Gather together on Thursday afternoons, eat chocolate cake, wear funny hats, and read excerpts from Christian Adraste’s novel “Adventures of Magical Sky Wizard” and the sequel “Sky Wizard II: Raise the Lode”? Whatever, you do you. But I found out that some of them are force-feeding people chocolate cake, resulting in choking deaths and the occasional allergic person dying from anaphylactic shock, not to mention that force-feeding is assault which is illegal. Christians are a menace who need to be dealt with.

luckieduckiepaddles and various commenters #racist #wingnut #sexist #ableist

Slightly off topic, but I suspect that the Venn Diagram of “people who think minorities are inferior because they breed like rabbits” and “people who demand that White people start breeding like rabbits” is nearly a circle.

Lady Liberty #racist #wingnut #conspiracy #psycho

“The suffering of innocents justifies the suffering and death of unrelated people!” okay, time for your meds grandma.

Pam Bondi #crackpot #dunning-kruger #wingnut

There are at least two errors here. The first was that the assumption that the LD50 of fentanyl is 100% fatal (“LD50” means “Lethal Dose for 50% of the population”). This was “fixed” in the second version of the quote (not shown here) by cutting the number in half.

The second was the assumption that people only take fentanyl once, and always just enough to hit the LD50. That is not how recreational drug use works. That would be like pointing to a liquor store, and calculating the estimated maximum number of people who could potentially die of alcohol poisoning if everyone drank the store’s entire stock all at once. Even if they calculated it correctly, that’s not a particularly useful statistic.

TapParticular5095 #fundie #crackpot

Logic says its an experimental drug, logic says people around me are getting seriously ill or dying, Logic says look at natural remedies first,

This strongly suggests that the OP has no clue what “logic” even is and is mistaking it for something else, possibly “intuition” (which is a very personal thing, essentially a reasoning shortcut, and is rarely objective even when it turns out to be correct). Or if any of this is derived from logic (or fallacious “logic”), then I’d be curious to know what premises they’re working from, because they seem like they’d be disconnected from reality.

Matt Walsh #dunning-kruger #wingnut

Popular-Block-9907 #moonbat #elitist #dunning-kruger

I’m aware that there are nudists who say similar. Most of them just do it because it’s fun or they prefer it or whatever, but then you get the occasional small groups of weirdos who think that if you don’t buy into their philosophy, you’re not a real nudist, just a person who engages in clothing-free recreation.

I suspect this sort of thing pops up in just about any subculture, and it’s just as idiotic regardless of which.

Anti-vax parents #ableist #crackpot #psycho #quack

Ignoring that it’s not correct in the first place, I’m baffled by the idea that an occasional dead child is justified by the fact that the action (or lack of action) leading to that outcome would have been better for them than the alternative if they hadn’t died. That’s some serious pretzel logic.

Parents With Inconvenient Truths about Trans #transphobia #fundie

@Citizen_Justin #220905

Not specific to trans kids, but in situations like this usually it’s some kind of abuse. Either the parent thinks whatever they’re doing is perfectly normal and for the child’s own benefit, or they refuse to believe themselves an abuser and repress their own memories, the latter often resulting in “it was just once or twice and it wasn’t that bad.” If at any point (and likely at multiple points) there’s a confrontation over this, the parent immediately dismisses the child’s experience and demands the “real reason” why the child is afraid of them or avoiding them or acting out or whatever. And after it’s clear that things are hopeless, most children are going to keep their eventual escape plan, if they have one, secret. Maybe some other things as well.

As a result, there is a *lot* which the abusive parent simply can’t explain when they talk to other people about the situation. Some of the details are hidden from them. Some they have effectively hidden from themselves. There might be things which make themselves look bad out of context, but because they don’t fully understand the context in the first place, they’re not sure how to explain it in a way which makes them look good, so they leave it out. (And usually, if they *did* understand, it would just make them look that bad or worse anyway.) And on top of that, sometimes abusers are genuinely traumatized by their children leaving them and going low-to-no contact, and trauma can further distort things by causing memory gaps and avoidance of painful details. Said trauma is still self-inflicted and a consequence of abusing their child, so they don’t deserve any sympathy for it.

Or it could always be something so bizarre and unbelievable that almost nobody could reasonably be expected to properly explain what’s going on, but given the source of the OP…

various commenters #transphobia

First they came for the cheating males,

This is the most bizarre line in the whole thing.

Okay, the obvious interpretation is that it means “men who cheat on their partners”, but who is even coming for them? Yes, nobody likes a cheater, except conservative political parties in some countries for whatever reason, but that’s not gender-specific. It’s not illegal, and they’re not particularly “persecuted”, except when they as individuals are total garbage humans for more reasons than just cheating. Even then, in communities where people are harsher on one sex or the other it’s more often women. It’s not out of the question that the original writer (Turtlefuzz) might have meant that in this exact way, it just seems odd in juxtaposition to the other things mentioned here, and likely involves heavy doses of confirmation bias if so - or, I guess, they think crackdowns against adultery are imminent or something.

Which is why it’s also possible that they meant something else - first thing which came to mind was trans women in sports, who might be “cheating” in the sense that they’re not participating “legitimately” in the category of their birth sex, which is a hot-button issue right now where the ‘phobes have a decent chance of winning in some places. Though that would also be a very odd way of phrasing that. Anything else I can come up with seems even less likely. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Then they came to me, and told me I could live my life again.

Who would even say that? Liberals? Are you imagining that if you defeat both the patriarchy and the eeeevil trans, Libs are going to come around? But the poem implies that you’re powerless and not the ones saving yourselves. Conservatives? Tradcons are going to be all “your life is in the kitchen now”, and right-wing libertarians aren’t going to lift a finger to “help” you. Centrists? In my experience they mostly just go to whichever side they see as most reasonable and ask them to make sacrifices in order to keep the peace. Intersectional Feminists? Hahaha no.

And all my sisters spoke out - Because now we could.

You are already “speaking out” against things you see as a threat. Why would you only start doing it (or start doing it even louder) after those threats are gone? Wait, are you mad that people don’t buy into your Cult of True Womanhood™ nonsense and think they’ll finally start to listen after the patriarchy and the eeeevil trans are vanquished?

Kent Hovind #fundie #forced-birth

If you kick a pregnant woman and the baby dies, you have to be killed.

This isn’t because killing infants or fetuses is murder - the Bible says that a baby doesn’t have a soul until after birth, and in general it’s rather cavalier about infanticide - it’s because you deprived the father of his rightful property, which may include the woman if it damages her ability to have more kids. That’s not the sort of presumption any modern secular legal system uses, and can’t reasonably be used to argue that abortion is murder in any case. Neither is property deprivation the sort of thing which gets the death penalty (or would have been, in places where the death penalty is now banned), even if some psychos want to be able to freely murder suspected thieves, vandals, and/or tresspassers.

…Also abortions aren’t forced on people by third parties (excepting forced government abortions, which doesn’t happen much of anywhere), and if someone kicks a pregnant woman that’s already illegal.

would easily translate into something related to [vehicular homicide]...

You’d have to establish that abortion is morally a form of reckless homicide first, which as stated above, isn’t really supported by the Bible, otherwise you’d be putting the cart before the ~~horse~~ ox. I suppose you could “establish” such by arbitrary fiat, but that’s not how law is supposed to work. And even then, “reckless homicide” is known as “manslaughter”, not murder. Considering that abortion is a deliberate, planned action which you can’t just “recklessly” jump into, how exactly would that work, anyway? “You might regret it later”? That’s not what “reckless” means from a legal perspective.

Eivind Berge #psycho

Some broad issues this touches upon:

1.) Since this is most likely in regards to pedophilia, the primary reason (from a legal perspective, in most jurisdictions) is because minors, particularly those who do not have at least a semi-independent financial situation and some adult life experience, are usually rather vulnerable to manipulation and abuse, including of the sexual sort. They may not have a good grasp of the risks and consequences. This goes double for younger minors who may have only a vague idea what sex is, if they know at all. While being an adult is no guarantee of any of those things, a clear cutoff age is provably effective at harm reduction.

2.) The secondary reason (again in most jurisdictions, though it can also be the primary one) is that pedophilia can interfere with parental obligation to protect their children from making harmful choices, and from other adults making decisions on the child’s behalf which are culturally the province of either the parent or the child. And occasionally, it can prevent parents from forcing their children to make harmful “choices”. Some jurisdictions do put way too much emphasis on parent’s rights and powers over their own children, but that’s a separate issue.

3.) Most people also find it disgusting, and that’s not a good reason (in itself) to ban anything - but that disgust is also not relevant to the supposed “rights” of pedophiles. Just because some people feel something is wrong doesn’t mean that this is necessarily the *only* reason to ban something and people just need to get over it.

More generally, not limited to pedophilia (or even sex):

4.) If you don’t agree with rules or laws which most people willingly follow, and that you are an exception which they shouldn’t apply to, then you are most likely exactly the sort of person who the rules were made for, and you either don’t understand why they exist or are delusional. They’d be pointless if the only people they didn’t stop were the worst offenders. (That being said, bad rules and laws do exist and most people agree to follow them mostly because it doesn’t personally cost them to do so. But in that case, object to the rules themselves rather than insist on being an exception, though I’m going to side-eye you if you knowingly object to most forms of harm reduction.)

5.) Consent is not unilateral. You don’t just get to decide that someone else, deep down, really really wants whatever you desire to do to/with them. Even if you’re right, that doesn’t negate the risk of harm which comes from forcing the issue - and if you’re the kind of person who frequently thinks that about other people, you’re almost certainly also the sort of person who is very rarely right and usually only by accident. And regardless of the legality of any actions taken to force the issue (or lack thereof) you don’t have the right to sympathy and/or a get-out-of-jail card for accidental abuse.

various commenters #racist #transphobia

CRT is not obscure. It's taught EVERYWHERE.

Conservatives couldn’t even tell you what it supposedly was until months after the anti-CRT hysteria, and then they decided to define it as repackaged, warmed-over “white guilt” bullshit. Nobody’s teaching that, and CRT in its original definition remains a minor college-level subject sometimes briefly mentioned in a legal or humanities class, usually as historical context of the legal and social environment of the 1960s through 1980s. I’m a bit surprised that TERFs fell for it, but then again, no one ever accused them of being smart.

Rob Wasinger #wingnut #transphobia #racist #conspiracy

I will point out that neither Star Wars nor Dukes of Hazzard realistically would have been influenced by the Reagan presidency in any significant way; first season of DoH was 1979, A New Hope was 1977, Empire Strikes Back was 1980. (Reagan didn’t take office until 1981.) Nitpicky, but not great examples of that point. Regardless, I don’t think the presidency has all that much effect on non-political films.

I also seem to remember that the US entertainment media during 1980s was also full of low-budget lowbrow trash films, softcore porn, dystopian sci-fi, and low-budget softcore dystopian sci-fi lowbrow trash porn, which at least in my experience were every bit as much reflective of the pop-culture zeitgeist as the “1980s classics”. Lots of people watched them, most just wouldn’t admit to it. Make of that what you will.

Regardless, I like modern entertainment better, generally. Less racism, sexism, other -isms, more relevance to the person I am today, more diversity of everything. Power to you if you like retro themes and/or older stuff, but I’m going to side-eye any attempt to shovel it in other people’s faces.

Medeea Greere #crackpot #wingnut #conspiracy

No sign of foul play so far… or if there is, they’re not releasing it to the public yet. But while it would be very unusual for a husband and wife to pass away within a very short time of each other, you can’t use the fact that it’s very unlikely as evidence that it’s not really what happened. Improbable things do happen, all the time - and while most unusual incidents do warrant investigation just in case, it usually turns out to be just random chance.

various commenters #transphobia

@Sasha #219144

There are actually have been two examples of it happening in the past decade, both pre-transition. One was Hannah Tubbs, who was a minor at the time… and sexually assaulted a *boy* of similar age. That doesn’t fit their broader “threat to women” narrative at all. The other was Isla Bryson, who is last I heard is serving time in a men’s prison for two rapes… and that *was* brought up on Ovarit at the time, though mainly in the context that the victims were going to be further humiliated by being forbidden to deadname their rapist in court (in the end, that didn’t happen). Which still doesn’t quite fit their usual narrative - Bryson wasn’t presenting as a woman yet, and wasn’t entering women’s spaces at the time, let alone attacking anyone in them.

There were a couple other incidents where they briefly thought they had something - Tara Wolf, but that was physical assault, and Darren Merager, who turned out to be a cis man who wasn’t presenting as a woman either and was only suspected of being trans due to a combination of anti-trans hysteria and nobody getting a good look at him.

Unless I missed something, that’s basically it.

When we talk about “believing women” or “believing victims” we’re mostly talking about discussing personal experiences, but also about not dismissing accusations out of hand just because they don’t sound quite right to us personally. After all, reality doesn’t always conform to common (and often questionable/inaccurate) narratives, especially since people who are evil and smart can sometimes make use of such narratives to get away with abuse more easily. And even if someone is lying, shutting things down without a very good cause can sometimes do indirect damage to genuine victims.

We are not talking about hypothetical threats or third-hand-or-above hearsay. (Second-hand can be acceptable, sometimes.) Just because you believe that hypothetical threats are imminent does not mean we should be compelled to agree - at most, we would agree that *you* believe it’s imminent. Which is still believing you, just not the way you would like.

various commenters #transphobia

You’d think if there were even *one* known example of a cis woman being raped by a trans woman in prison, that they’d be repeatedly be hyping it up as an example of the threat. The only incident I’ve ever seen them try to hold up as an example is the time two cis women got pregnant from a trans woman in prison; investigation revealed that it was consensual, so they eventually dropped that.

Niobe #transphobia

I mean, assuming we were talking about high schoolers or college students generally, we *should* be mentioning that some Hellenistic cultures tolerated a specific form of pederasty, and make it clear that this was a bad thing. Though also make it clear that the issue is older men manipulating younger teens into sex, not the part where it was usually with boys. (Note, as the OP mentions, these were college students.) I mean, there certainly are guest speakers who keep getting hired who have rather questionable views which they try to push on students, but there’s nothing here which suggests that.

various commenters #transphobia

“No medication a doctor prescribed has ever collapsed my endocrine system so this one won’t! Even though that’s the MOA!”

The only way that this even vaguely makes sense is that cross-sex hormones cause a reduction in gonadal function, which is either the intended “side effect” or a reasonable price to pay, depending on how they feel about their reproductive systems.

various commenters #transphobia

Where would the trans community be without sissy porn?

A (probably) single-digit percentage of trans women would take anywhere from a few weeks to a few years longer in their journey of self-discovery? It’s not nearly as significant as you think it is.

Judith Kusel #magick #ufo #conspiracy

pennygadget , WrongToy & Cattitude #transphobia

Why would someone who aspires to be seen as a fairly typical woman go out of their way to behave as a “gentleman”?

Rep. Shane Jett #psycho #fundie

@jsonitsac #218871

I think it’s from Probverbs 13:24, “He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly”, often given as “spare the rod, spoil the child”. This verse is often used to justify corporal punishment, and occasionally even more severe forms of child abuse. But that’s not “Biblical law” in any sense, just words of “wisdom” meant as advice.

Back when corporal punishment was more common, kids who stood out in some way (such as being disabled, or the only black kid) would often be scapegoated or singled out as an example for the others, resulting them in being beaten more often than anyone else, even if they were fairly well behaved.

Logan B #crackpot #racist #quack #ufo #mammon #conspiracy

If I didn’t already know that medbeds were scams which do nothing, I would actually trust Kennedy even less than Trump, and I really don’t trust either of them. Trump at least might be occasionally correct about something by accident, while Kennedy is wrong-flavored wrong with extra wrong about anything related to medicine.

Mothers Grim #transphobia #conspiracy

I first heard about trans people from the death of Brandon Teena in 1993. That does not mean that trans people suddenly popped into existence in 1993. And if you’re going to argue the existence of “transition floodgates” rather than trans people themselves, then I have some better dates - 1956 for Australia (Robert James Brooks), 1955 for the US and Canada (Christine Jorgensen), 1953 for France (Jacqueline Dufresnoy), 1946 for the UK (Micheal Dillon), 1930 for Denmark (Lili Elbe), and 1908 for Germany (Karl M. Baer, though there was a decades-long pause in Germany’s “floodgates” starting when the Nazis took over). Trans people temporarily returned to the public consciousness during the AIDS crisis mostly because some trans women were working as “crossdressing male” prostitutes who mostly served gay/bi men (mostly to afford even a *chance* at transition) and thus were at serious risk of infection - which was only a major issue because the “floodgates” (still a questionable metaphor) were already open.

Some of these people are trying so hard to push the idea that the mid-1980 rates of suicide for non-transitioning trans people are actually the current suicide rates for post-transition, and that those people would be totally fine if they could be “saved” from attempting it (or better yet, remain ignorant of the possibility). The irony is that some of them seem to sort of get gender dysphoria on an unconscious level, but have misaimed empathy born from thinking that sex and gender are 100% congruent, resulting in conclusions which are the opposite of reality. (Others just seem to be using it as one of many inconsistent post-hoc explanations why their transphobia is righteous.)

Tartarian Talisman #crackpot #fundie #conspiracy

Gaah, this is idiotic. There is so much wrong here and I don’t feel like doing a full takedown, so I’ll just go with “New Canaan and Eden are names given to those places by early US settlers, and they named them after things in the Bible, but not because they believed they *were* those exact places mentioned in the Bible, you douchewagon!”

[Edit] I later checked out of curiosity, and it turns out that the torreya (a type of yew which only grows in parts of Florida) is occasionally referred to as “gopher wood”, but that was again named after the unknown form of wood (or perhaps process involving wood) mentioned once in the Noah’s Ark story as “GFR”, not because it was that form of wood.

Juxtaposition1 #wingnut #crackpot #conspiracy

@Anon-e-Moose: If things follow the pattern set so far, we could easily make the equivalents of 6G and 7G with technology which exists today. But there’s a reason why we don’t: 6G would be complete overkill for current uses (5G is already overkill for a lot of current uses) and require transmission antennas to be even more closely spaced than the 5G ones, while 7G would use the portion of the microwave band which is hazardous to biology - it’s what’s used in microwave ovens. (The US and Israeli militaries have also tried to weaponize it but found it impractical.) It’s possible those terms could eventually be used to describe entirely new approaches to data transmission, but even 6G is likely to be at least a few decades away, regardless.

I read the original and the only “context” which was cut was definitions of some words and snippets of history. There’s no indication of how any of this is supposed to be related or how it supports the conclusion that we’re all trapped in a virtual reality experiment. Assuming that “matrix” even means virtual reality in this context, which isn’t at all a safe assumption - I suspect that it might mean some sort of broad psychological and/or cultural connectiveness or even a “consensus reality” sort of thing.

I’m also amused how one sentence refers to “marshall law” but the next one spells “martial” correctly.

Jim #wingnut #conspiracy

The Arctic Ocean isn’t a “natural border”? Also lots of other countries don’t, why is Russia especially “deserving” of buffer zones?

Ben Garrison #wingnut

Hopefully a near-future Garrison cartoon will show Mr. Patel fighting off hordes of vengeful FBI agents.

Tatsuya Ishida #racist

After a super slow-mo ~~vampire~~ ~~zombie~~ zompire apocalypse which fizzled out before getting very far, and a boring Drag-on Ball Zeus battle with Yaweh (which concluded with Yaweh losing only to a Deus ex Machina, ironically pulled off by mortals), Tatsuya decided to end the Faux-ancient-Greek storyline rather suddenly and is now focusing on a mix of racism and “Elon Musk is bad because porn”.

Ariel (Prolotario1) #crackpot #wingnut #ufo #conspiracy #mammon

On the tech stuff:

We don’t have robots in our home yet.
Aibos and Roombas aren’t robots? If you’re referring to something like Little Dog or Agibot, then those are ridiculously expensive and not yet ready for prime time. If you’re looking for human-intelligence robots, then AI isn’t there yet and it’s not entirely certain the current path will end up there.

We don’t have quantum computers on the market yet.
They’re still somewhat experimental, cost millions, and require supercooling.

We don’t have free energy yet.
Not realistic under current or near-future technology.

We don’t have flying cars on the market yet.
Still being worked on, none are scheduled to come to market until next year last I heard. [edit: some presales exist, but no guarantees they’ll actually come out next year.]

We don’t have teleportation yet.
You *really* don’t want that. Also presently nowhere near possible, you may have heard of “quantum teleportation” but that is a phenomenon unrelated to Sci-fi teleporters.

We don’t have food replicator yet.
They sort of exist, in the form of 3-D printed food. It’s slow, expensive, and not very good food.

We don’t have the hyperloop yet.
Still being developed in parts of Europe, with minor breakthroughs every now and then, but not expected to be workable in the near future. Largely abandoned elsewhere.

We don’t have AGI on the market yet.
We don’t have what most people would consider to be AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) quite yet. And if your definition of AGI requires it to also be ACI (Artificial Conscious Intelligence) then that’s probably a ways further off.

We don’t have Med-Beds on the market yet.
Something by that name was being sold, which is a form of “on-market”, but they were a scam.

We don’t have jump portals available yet.
Not possible under currently known physics.

[Edited for minor corrections and better phrasing]

various commenters #transphobia

It’s possible to work around that, sometimes - “pregnant people” can be replaced with “pregnant individuals”, for example - but it would render anything which focuses directly on some of those subjects incoherent, which might be part of the point.

At least quite a lot of things are being backed up and kept in non-government locations/servers, in case they’d otherwise be lost.

various commenters #transphobia

I checked the stats on serial killers and it says that there have been 3613 documented in the US alone, and there has been very limited documentation prior to 1970. Fictional serial killers, however, draw upon a handful of notorious ones (not all from the US) who were unusual even among their kind. As a result, the general public has a somewhat narrow and warped idea of what serial killers are like - not that they’re good people, by any means - but it does cause splash damage on certain groups of other people who aren’t inherently dangerous. While trans people are in the spotlight right now, I will point out another example which affects me personally. There have been some who kidnapped victims and tortured them to death in a scenario which had deliberate S&M trappings. As the S half of S&M, it made me reluctant to pursue it or talk about the subject for the longest time, and I had some deep insecurities about it which took a long time to get over it.

…That’s not even getting into the usual ignorance and logic fails here.

Judy Byington #wingnut #crackpot #conspiracy #mammon

People keep posting minor variations of this, yet it never, ever happens. Still hasn’t. Also JFK jr is still dead.

Geoffrey Grider #fundie #wingnut #conspiracy

All the people who are buying gold in anticipation of The Great Reset™ are going to be very disappointed. /s

Ken Ham #fundie

It’s pretty rare that religious fundies bother to address why modern technology works if science is just another religion, but you can’t pray a cell phone into existence. If they do, usually it’s something along the lines of “engineering and invention aren’t really science”. This is the first time I’ve seen someone invent a whole new category in order to break science into “undeniable” and “deniable because I’m ignorant”, though. It’s kind of like how some of them try to split Leviticus into laws for the ordinary believers and laws for Levantine priests in order to explain why it’s okay to eat shrimp and wear cloth of mixed fiber but not okay to be gay¹, even though the Bible itself makes no such distinction.

¹It probably was not meant to say even that. “Thou shalt not lie with mankind as if womankind” has been garbled via multiple translations… I’ve heard that the original was meant to say that a young boy’s virginity was not an appropriate sacrifice for a purity ritual, though I don’t know if that’s genuine or speculation based on incomplete information.

Tartaria Brazil #crackpot #conspiracy

A radium truther was not on my bingo list of weirdos to encounter.

I’m sure you can extract energy from radium easily enough, but I suspect that’s not common and/or efficient enough to be worth it. And it’s not “free energy” any more than uranium (or for that matter, oil) is free energy, you have to extract the stuff and it doesn’t work forever.

Medeea Greere #wingnut #quack #conspiracy

There are certainly people working on cancer vaccines. Some of it is for specific cancers. Some of it is broad-spectrum stuff, which, if it eventually lives up to their promises, would give results like “significantly improved survival rates for 20% of all cancers” - and either way, of course it’s possible none of the options currently being researched will actually work. If Russia had successfully developed and fully tested a broad-spectrum cancer vaccine - even an overhyped and overpromising one - I’d have heard of it from somewhere other than a conspiracy-theory site already.

Bennett Lee Ross #crackpot #ufo #magick #conspiracy

If it did not do it on gas Then why is not the public utilizing this hidden technology

You want to travel from Hong Kong to New York via a gravity assist from Venus? That’s going to take *months*.

Donald Trump Jr. #wingnut

@Timjer #217107

Notre Dame started construction in 1163 and ended in 1260, so 97 years, not a few months. Which was fairly typical construction time for a building like that. A few months might get you a small, poorly-built chapel. Your point still stands, I just thought it amusing that someone would expect a medieval cathedral to be built that fast.

Trump signed a jillion documents written by other people, and I doubt he’s read any of them. Nearly all of those are now being legally challenged. His “getting stuff done” is only just getting started.

Lisa Shultz #transphobia

people didn’t demand that I lie about the reality of my daughter’s birth sex as female

No one is asking anyone to do that, they’re asking that you consider that rarely relevant to the person he is today. Yes, I know that he was almost certainly “always a boy” but one needs to address this on a level which they can hopefully comprehend.

and try to force me to collude with the falsehood that she is a male

If you’re saying it to describe the present reality in every way which matters (or should matter) the vast majority of the time, then it’s not a falsehood. If you’re constantly trying to dredge up the perceived past to invalidate the present, then that’s really fucking weird.

Mayor Glenn Jacobs #wingnut

Tatoruzux #racist

You seem to not be aware of redlining. New York is one of those cities where redlining was prominent back when it was legal, and the effects still linger even today.

Jonny Bell #transphobia #dunning-kruger

Now the chickens have come home to roost..

This line confused me at first because I couldn’t figure how it was supposed to be applied to trans people or to transphobes or to Hollywood in general… until I realized they probably meant the women whose awards were “stolen from them by a man”. But that still didn’t entirely make sense because if Hollywood is genuinely that pro-trans (hopefully it is, but I can’t comment) then you’d think that it wouldn’t be any sort of big deal. But then I remembered that a lot of these people think that White Liberals don’t *really* like Black people and are racist deep down, they just virtue signal that they’re “woke” because they’re perverse or self-hating or something… so it’s probably the same sort of thinking going on here.