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Lazerbian #homophobia #crackpot

@Shirogane #232469
Yeah, okay, I didn’t check, so she’s that self-centered and dense and really wouldn’t get the point if someone used my argument or something similar.

Though you might want to avoid using “bitch” in the future, at least in the sense of “horrible woman”. It would be one thing if people were at least semi-actively de-gendering it to mean “horrible person”, but I haven’t seen that happening outside of gay men occasionally jokingly referring to themselves or each other as such. There’s a semi-legitimate use of the term to mean “reluctant/unwilling submissive” (as in “my bitch/their bitch”) which is largely ungendered, but outside of roleplaying that’s still somewhat questionable usage because it could be seen as victim-mocking.

If you really cared about gay men, why don’t you exclusively fight for *their* rights instead of yours? See how stupid that sounds.

TRUEMODELOFTHEEARTH #crackpot #dunning-kruger

Let’s say your math works out. Have you actually tested it against reality?

(Also how do you explain, if the world is concave, we don’t see it curving upwards in all directions?)

Rob Pue #fundie #wingnut #conspiracy

Identifying as “homosexual” or “transgender” or “pro-choice” or “democrat” or “republican” IS their god.

Sounds like “you can only have one identity” and the only valid one is “my version of Christianity”. Though this does require “man”, “woman”, “child”, “straight”, “husband”, “wife”, and probably a whole host of similar things to not count as an “identity”.

John C. Wright #transphobia

I can’t comment on all of those things, but at least two of them aren’t victories for your side:

Cancel culture failed to cancel American Eagle jeans

This one is just plain stupid. For a few days they were like “Liberals trying to push Sydney Sweeney because woke! Cancel American Eagle!” and for the next few days they were like “Liberals trying to cancel American Eagle because woke! Support Sydney Sweeney.” And throughout all that some liberals did point out that Sydney Sweeney is a bit problematic as a person, but otherwise made no actual “cancel” efforts and mostly just watched the idiocy from the sidelines. Great job punching yourself in the face and calling it a victory, guys.

…And then there were at least a few who said that “Libs be pushing Sydney because pedo pedo pedo” under the assumption that she’s a flat-chested teenager. She’s 27 and has a sizable bust, how old of pictures were you looking at?

Chuck Todd is gone.

Good. I don’t think they understand how much *everyone* hates Chuck Todd. How did that guy stay employed for so long?

Saber Tooth Tiger Mike #transphobia

Japan’s media is rather odd by western standards. It’s pretty liberal for the most part, if you ignore the rampant exploitative/gratuitous sexualization in some fiction genres (and you probably shouldn’t ignore that). But everyday life is pretty conservative for most people. Thus you get situations like same-sex marriage being common in fiction yet being illegal in real life. Depictions of trans people and genderfuckery can be a real mixed bag, too; for example (disclaimer, I have not personally read it) a recent manga series called “Chinchin Dabiru o Oe” (Chase the Peepee Devil) has cis women non-consensually getting magical genital changes, and apparently manages to have decent representation of genital dysphoria while also treating the whole plot as an immature joke. In situations like this I just throw my hands up and say “because Japan”.

Point is that Japanese and Western media aren’t really comparable, and without a (non-superficial) familiarity with everyday Japanese culture and politics you’re not really in a place to declare anything either political or apolitical.

Anon #crackpot #sexist #fundie #dunning-kruger

Symbiosis is when two dissimilar organisms biologically coexist; used casually it generally means either or both forms of mutualism, though technically it collectively refers to all of the below.
Obligate Mutualism is when one or both organisms can’t survive apart from each other.
Faculative Mutalism is when both organisms benefit, but can survive alone if necessary.
Commensualism is when one benefits and the other is not harmed, or at least harmed only mildly and rarely.
Parasitism is when one benefits and the other is harmed.

Parasitic wasps are technically parasitoids - predators which superficially behave as parasites at some stage of their life but eventually devour their hosts. Considering that human men very rarely cannibalize their significant others I’m going to side-eye that comparison. 😒

Also, brood parasitism would be being deceived into raising nonhuman kids as one’s own, like thinking a horse was a human child or something. Who would even be *that* stupid?

Donald Trump #crackpot #mammon #wingnut

One of the possible symptoms of Alzheimer’s is losing all sense of how numbers work. That’s not something you want to happen to someone who is in charge of things which often involve big numbers in some capacity.

Then again often Trump just makes up money numbers (and square footage numbers) based on his feelings, so this could just be a stupider-than-usual version of that. I’d still bet on Alzheimer’s based on other things we’ve seen from him.

Public Advocate of the U.S.A #homophobia

Gay dudes? I mean, some people do use “gay” and/or “dude” in a gender-neutral fashion, but if that’s not the intent then I’m pretty sure the top left and center left are lesbians.

Regardless, it’s pretty amusing that they choose these images for their scare propaganda. What, you couldn’t find any puppies or something? Or maybe a rainbow ghost?

Charlie Kirk #conspiracy #racist #sexist

What skill set does she have? I think we all know.

No, really, we don’t know. You vaguely insinuate, make a fill-in-the-blanks statement, but we have no idea what you personally think her “skill set” is, if anything. I doubt you have the courage to say what you really mean by that.

…For reference, Jasmine Crockett was a lawyer before she was a Representative. But I doubt that fits in whatever you’re trying to insinuate.

Quora/Ilja F. #crackpot #conspiracy

This is the first I recall hearing of the Tartarian Empire being centered in Siberia. Normally it’s in West Asia (that area south of Russia, west of China, and north of Afghanistan, a large chunk of which is Kazakhstan) because that’s where the actual Tartar peoples mostly live (and others as well).

Kim Goguen #crackpot #ufo #wingnut #magick #conspiracy

I’m sure the current AI is capable of inventing fictional diseases, and maybe even fictional realities where fictional diseases are real, but they can’t do anything more than exacerbate existing mental illnesses in people who should absolutely not be interacting with AI.

2nd Smartest Guy in the World/The Ethical Skeptic #quack #wingnut #crackpot #conspiracy

This is really dumb. In 25 years, a 20-year-old will become 45-year-old; they’ll have a higher average rate of cancer and lower fertility. That doesn’t mean that getting vaccines at age 20 (or earlier) caused it. Assuming that this is the sort of thing they’re trying to get at; it’s hard to tell.

No1Stupid #homophobia #fundie

incel draft dodgers

Who is drafting people into an incel army? Who is training you? Who is commanding you? And why?? I mean, everyone just assumes you all found your way into these communities on your own.

John C. Wright #dunning-kruger

Explain how “souls”, which are undetectable, apparently don’t obey physics, have no means of connecting to or interacting with physical bodies except “magic”, don’t also act in a deterministic manner if the universe is also deterministic. Also, if a “mind” requires “intention” and you’re one of those people who think animals don’t have souls, explain how animals even manage to do anything at all without minds.

Parents With Inconvenient Truths about Trans #transphobia

From what I’ve seen, the “core” of the furry community (that is, the more devoted/involved individuals) are disproportionally some form of LGBTQIA+. However, there are still quite a lot of straights. And the correlation is quite likely to be that LGBTQIA+ people, being something of outsiders to cisheteronormative society already, are more likely to join other outsider communities. In other words, it’s more likely that being trans (or gay, or whatever) is a “gateway drug” to furrydom than the reverse - though that’s a bad metaphor because being LGBTQIA+ is nothing like drug addiction.

Derek Huffman #wingnut #homophobia #racist

Boymom Hate 2! (Various Anons) #ableist #dunning-kruger #fundie #sexist #crackpot

Also to maybe help a little: in general, a “boy mom” isn’t just a mother with a son, it’s a mother with an unhealthy and obsessive (and occasionally a bit incestuous) relationship with their son(s), plus usually a cold, distant, and/or harsh relationship with their daughter(s), if any. If you’ve seen a family where the son is spoiled rotten and the daughter is never good enough, that’s a likely sign of a typical boy mom. Meanwhile the opposite is a “daughter dad” which is more likely to manifest as creepy purity obsessions.

This being said, the OP might not be using the above definitions, or might be believing that every mother is inherently a boy mom.

Eric Orwoll and Return to the Land #wingnut #racist

Now, technically the exclusion of non-whites from their community is a violation of fair housing laws, and it’s not likely that their claims of being a “private club” would have flown prior to the Trump Era… but who knows how that will go these days. But that probably shouldn’t be the main concern here. They’re forming what is known as an “Intentional Community”, and most ICs have no choice but to skirt the laws in some fashion, in order to provide the ideal environment for the kind of people who would create the community in question.

The bigger issues are twofold: First, ICs are pretty unstable. There are no real controls and very little framework for creating ICs. No real studies to indicate what works for the long term, and what doesn’t. There’s information out there, but it’s limited and a lot of it is questionable. At least they seem to have done some research and aren’t trying to create another “Galt’s Gulch” - those usually implode almost immediately. A lot of fringe communities probably should have their own separate spaces, but the modern world really isn’t set up for that.

The other is children. What few ICs which do seem to work long-term have few to no children, and survive by making an effort to recruit like-minded adults. But these people are all “must breed up lots of White kids” types. Bringing lots of kids into an inherently unstable environment is a bad idea in general, but there’s an added issue where these types are also very much “protect the kids from the outside world via ignorance” and “prevent them from straying off the one true path via ignorance and abuse”. The actual good reason to give fringe communities their own spaces is to improve the quality of life for those unusual people who belong in them, but this sort of thing creates nightmare traps for those who had no say in being part of them and don’t belong, just like cults do. And sometimes end up as a hotbed of pedophilia, as well.

So while it would be nice for the diehard racists to isolate themselves, this isn’t a good solution for that. I’m not sure if there even are any.

Flat Earth Library #conspiracy

Tesla, Rowbotham, and “Uzi-man” (Uziel Gal) weren’t scientists (or at least not professionally), they were inventors with a science background.

Voliva was a cult leader who never claimed to be a scientist.

Coach Dave Daubenmire #fundie #magick #conspiracy

Each of those 45,000 denominations knows that they are the one true way and all the others are wrong and will burn in hell.

(Okay, not literally true, there are denominations which don’t believe that there’s any such thing as one true way and some of those even allow for non-Christians to get a/the good afterlife, but that doesn’t make for an acerbic response.)

Irina Yugay #magick #ufo #crackpot

At first it sounded like it was going for the common-ish “it’s telepathy, except you can only use it to communicate with beings that you can’t prove exist outside your head” but then it went “it’s a kinetic/somatic language which your brain can download from the aether” and then to “you can’t use it to communicate, only to signal internal states”. And the latter makes me suspect that they don’t have a firm grasp on the concept of “language”. Regardless, it sounds like they invented a form of glossolalia (aka “speaking in tongues”) except instead of babbling things which sound like words, it involves exaggerated emoting and affectation. And maybe some spontaneous freeform “sign language” and/or pantomime as well.

SavageFarret #fundie #wingnut #homophobia #transphobia #dunning-kruger

Harassment and abuse aren’t merely “disagreement” and “free speech”. Even if one were to take you at your word that you genuinely don’t mean it and perceive it as anything more than disagreement, your intentions don’t matter as much as you’d hope if there’s a big disconnect between them and what you actually do.

Or, alternately, if what you’re talking about genuinely isn’t harassment or abuse (and that seems to be a big if here), then people still have the right to treat you and judge you just as harshly as you do others. Being religious isn’t any sort of immunity from being called out for what others see as bad behavior, even if you don’t see what you do as “bad behavior”.

Doug Duff #crackpot #wingnut #conspiracy

@JM1234 #230270
More to the point, if you can parse the entire thing without getting a headache, it’s clear that if anyone or anything doesn’t have a clearly definable associated location then their/its location is considered to be “the District of Columbia” for the purpose of debtor court jurisdiction. Subsection (h) is more narrow and specific, probably because the most common form of that is someone trying to take some form of legal action against “The United States”. I’m guessing that this is because the only court which has jurisdiction over the entire US is the Supreme Court, and nothing goes directly to the Supreme Court aside from legal battles between the governments of different states - so this way someone can’t do shenanigans and claim that because the US only exists within itself but nowhere specific within itself, only the Supreme Court can hear their case. (I may be wrong; not a lawyer.)

Gays Against Groomers #transphobia #homophobia

taught without parental consent or opt-out options

Due to the current level of controversy, it’s virtually never done as a “storytime” thing in actual kindergarten, (or, I guess 1st grade, if anyone’s doing that) but in opt-in extracurricular and/or non-school events. And it’s rather unlikely that anyone would trick you about that. Parental consent is already the standard, and “opt-out” is meaningless.

What most people like you are *really* worried about is that kids might find books like that and read those themselves before they’re old enough for them to feel comfortable indoctrinating them against LGBTQIA+ people. If they ever do, which they probably won’t, because it feels as icky as giving the sex talk and they probably won’t do that either. And that wouldn’t help you as much as you might think anyway; LGBTQIA+ people are out and much more visible now, both IRL and online, so it’s much more of a crapshoot whether they’ll end up as bigoted as you.

CRUSHING ALL ATHEISM and EVOLUTIONIST ARGUMENTS 4P #fundie #wingnut #conspiracy

Laura Ingraham #wingnut

I’ve heard a hypothesis that whatever’s in the files is more of a threat to some the wealthy donors of both parties than the parties themselves.

Female fascist #crackpot #racist #homophobia #psycho #sexist

I’d say that this is a bit different situation than the once-proposed #anti-semitic. In that case the vast, vast majority of the time, anything which is anti-Semitic is also racist and/or conspiracist (and usually both), making it not entirely redundant (as not all racism or conspiracy theories are anti-Semitic in nature) but still mostly superfluous. There’s also the factor that the #racist tag covers all forms of race-based and ethnicity-based bigotry, so it’s questionable whether we should single out one form in particular, even if it’s a particularly common one.

In this case, all of the heterophobic ones which I can recall have so far been covered by #sexist, due to sexism against men and usually women as well. It’s hard to imagine any which would not technically be covered by that, or #crackpot plus #psycho. But unlike #racist, we don’t have a catchall #sexual_orientation_phobia, and sexual orientation *is* not only a major component to heterophobia but also the most relevant one in most cases. There might occasionally be ones where any sexism is only a minor or indirect component to it and #sexist isn’t necessarily needed, as #heterophobia covers it just fine by itself.

I’m not saying “yes, we should” to either of them (I’m neutral on both) only that a #heterophobia tag seems to have a bit stronger argument going for it.

David Manney #racist #crackpot

There are two factors here: one is that ironic racism (or any other -ism) is still racism. Even if your intended purpose is to bash bigots, it can still backfire and/or cause unintended damage. This wasn’t as well-known or well-considered back then. Thus people are far more cautious about that sort of thing now.

The other thing is that you can only really mock things which are culturally relevant. Making fun of old-timey stereotypes and popular media which have been dead since well before the majority of the population was even born is not going to hit the same way as they would have back when they were still in the public consciousness. Even if some older people and some classics aficionados might still be familiar with the time period and the source materials, it’s still too far removed from its original context for most.

Female Fascist #crackpot #god-complex #psycho #sexist

All men hate women (1) #conspiracy #crackpot #psycho #sexist

Are you sure this isn’t just you in denial about having dark fantasies? Whether they’re caused by trauma or just being like that, projection and denial aren’t healthy.

Tatsuya Ishida #conspiracy #crackpot #transphobia

If it helps to make sense of this, Tats has implied many times in recent years that Christians and Muslims are just second-class Jews. This one has the additional implication that you can only be a real Jew by birth.

INCOGMAN #conspiracy #racist #forced-birth #homophobia #transphobia #wingnut #sexist

For some reason most of these idiots who keep saying “they think men can have babies” still believe that it’s about trans women getting pregnant, you’d think most of them would have noticed eventually.

Bryan Ardis #conspiracy #quack #pratt

How. How can you possibly get things this wrong, even as a joke.

Rob Pue #wingnut #fundie #homophobia

Sounds a lot like the 1980s.

Wake me up when your influences have been more uprooted from the culture and the halls of power, and I’ll start to take your claims of being a counterculture more seriously.

Noticing_stuff #racist

It might be interesting to see what would happen if people could sort themselves into IRL communities with a similar ease to the way they do with online communities, which is not a privilege afforded to most people yet. There’d definitely be meta-level issues to solve first if the separation wasn’t merely in terms of ideas and/or ideologies which are of no guarantee to manifest in any practical real-world way; especially when it comes to things like “this is how other people should/shouldn’t act” or “this is what other people should/shouldn’t tolerate”. Partly because real-world spaces aren’t designed to be partitioned in the way internet communities are, and partially because quite a lot of ideologies do not, by their very nature, limit themselves in scope merely to those who believe in them.

Getting back on subject, this person seems to think that people should be separated into communities by race and ethnicity, so that the strongly anti-diversity types among them rarely have to deal with anyone outside their own race and/or ethnicity. Setting aside practical and logistical concerns (of which are many and a bit of a nightmare), this ignores that mixed-race people and fusion-ethnicity families exist, and they’d have nowhere to go. Not to mention that a large chunk of the population is genuinely pro-diversity, and suddenly you’d have the opposite problem.

Benjamin Powell #psycho #crackpot

So, instead of fixing the problem, your idea is to make it easier to live with the problem (none of this works quite like the way the OP is implying, but I’m going with his premises for the sake of an argument…) but in a way which disincentivizes any real solutions in the future? I mean, once you get kids out working to keep their families alive, then it’s no longer nearly as much of a survival issue. So you can go right back to not making any serious efforts towards improving the quality of life for the poor, because organizations like yours (The Cato Institute) never actually concern themselves with things like that.

And there are solutions which would actually help solve the problem. Of course you’d object to all of them on ideological grounds. Which would show that you care more about ideology than people.

Of course, this is all disingenuous. This isn’t really about helping the poor, it’s about filling in the gaps caused by the current loss of migrant workers. And possibly also about creating more reasons to dismantle the social safety net, though I suspect that’s just a bonus.

AsiaCel (“Genocide all non-Mongoloid (and mutts) out of Asia”) #racist #dunning-kruger #psycho

I’m sure they’d try to frame it not as incels being persecuted per se, but an unfortunate situation brought on by “natural female degeneracy” which needs to be “fixed” by persecuting women, because women deserve to be persecuted. But then they’d have to explain why “no one” is persecuting women right now, if they deserve it so much.

Wesley Todd, Rev. Joel Webbon and Antonio #fundie #wingnut

The weirdest part is that this implies that “truth” - particularly that of history and current events - is determined by “mainstream consensus”. I read the original source to see if there was any clarification of what that means - whether “mainstream” is redundant in context or if it implies something else, like perhaps “non-mainstream people don’t get a say”, plus whether the consensus is of everyone or of experts or of leaders or whoever. None is provided, so I’ll assume “redundant” and “everyone” to simplify things, even if it feels like there might be some sort of “not everyone counts” involved here. Regardless, “what happened” is not an *opinion* and can in most cases can be objectively determined (within a degree of uncertainty, and not always with all the details); it’s not something which people just get to make up.

The description of Reddit as a symbol/haven of left-wing censorship (not in the OP, but in the original source) is interesting. Reddit in general skews younger and more liberal, though plenty of nonpolitical and right-wing subs exist. Reddit is community-driven social media, which means that the communities are free to silence you and kick you out if they think you’re being disruptive or really don’t like what you have to say. This is not any different from IRL/meatspace communities, and is not Reddit soft-censoring you. Reddit does ban communities which are sufficiently disruptive to other communities or which repeatedly and egregiously violate their rules, but virtually every social media does that regardless of political leanings, so there’s no reason to single out Reddit for that.

This reads like someone who spends most of their time in an information bubble, thinks that bubble is representative of the “mainstream”, at some point concluded that any differences outside of the bubble is “left-wing censorship of mainstream views”, and also has trouble distinguishing fact from opinion.

The Zetas via Nancy Liedar #ufo #crackpot #wingnut #conspiracy

The loss of NOAA means less reliable weather, geological, and climate data from the US and parts of the world which aren’t currently well-covered by anyone else, which is especially a problem for those places but also makes things less a bit reliable in general.

No one’s going to think “Nibiru” or whatever random alien/cosmic conspiracy unless it’s a personal obsession of theirs. It might be amusing to catalogue all of the mutually exclusive ways that various conspiracists react to events like this, but unless you’re already extensively studying them in the wild it’s probably not worth the effort.

Female Supremacy #crackpot #dunning-kruger #sexist

Aside from the fact that Female Supremacy attitudes exist to a limited extent among TERFs (even if it usually manifests as weirdly supremacist-flavored misandry rather than any conscious identification as such) it also exists in the BDSM community. It is not, in most cases, real, but a roleplaying game that femdommes and their subs do for fun… and when it is for real, they’re allowed to be open about that to a limited extent, but get shut down real fast if they’re stupid or offensive about it. Same goes for Male Supremacy attitudes in a BDSM setting.

Ann Barnhardt #homophobia #fundie #crackpot

This feels rather… “ironic” definitely isn’t the right word here, but not sure what else to use… in contrast to a work of fiction that I read very recently. Rampant sensuality, kink, sex, and drug use, in a similar vein to Brave New World and similar “utopian dystopias”, but forced on humanity by questionably “benevolent” aliens. The contrast here is that rather than this being “enforced narcissism” the aliens are creating an environment of ego death and near-pathological selflessness (and also learned helplessness, in some cases), which is the exact opposite. Meanwhile the people branded as “narcissist” and/or “psycho-spiritually unhealthy” (to use the OP’s words, not the in-setting terms) are the religious fundies, fascists, violent criminals, and greedy hyper-capitalists. Those people “need” to be trained out of their dangerous mindsets, or failing that (and it doesn’t take much to fail), get non-consensually blissed out and memory-wiped to the point of near-total personality death and made a personal ward of one of the aliens - “for their own good”, of course.

Neither view is inherently right, though. There is indeed such a thing as a “psychologically healthy sex pervert” (I’m not going to include “spiritual” into that because what “spiritual” means and how it’s experienced varies considerably between individuals, and for some people it’s a meaningless concept). But also some “sex perverts” very much aren’t, or become unhealthy because they’re approaching it in a very wrong way. This is further confounded by the fact that what is truly “selfless” and “selfish” is both context-dependent and mindset-dependent, and things can be both at the same time, which is why some people throw the narc-word around a little too casually in social, political, and religious discussions (due to ignorance and/or misaimed empathy). It’s a complicated subject, but I don’t need to watch a $20 video on “Diabolical Narcissism” to know that whatever the OP’s full views are, they’re utter trash.

[Edited for clarity] [Addenum: when I read it I wasn’t interpreting “sex pervert” as “gay”, just more generally]

Sebastian E. Ronin #conspiracy #racist

This feels like someone threw a bunch of far-left and far-right stereotypes in a blender, resulting in something like what a left-wing fascist might say, if any even exist.

Eric Hovind #conspiracy #fundie #pratt

Trying to destroy evolution with physics never works because their grasp of physics is equally poor.

Jelaila Starr #ufo #magick #conspiracy

Okay… but why? Doesn’t sound like a fun time for all those kids.

This sort of sounds like an “ancestor simulation” scenario. It’s a somewhat dubious idea that future civilizations might raise their kids in an artificial/simulated environment based on their distant past in order to impart them with firsthand experiences with social and moral issues which don’t exist in their perfect society, in order to keep those issues from ever popping up in the first place. Except in this case, they’re sending their children to be raised by aliens on less-than-perfect worlds, unknown to either their children or the aliens. Which seems even more dubious, both in terms of ethics and effectiveness. That’s not even getting into the part where they have a “mission” which they never volunteered for.

Parents With Inconvenient Truths about Trans #transphobia

Sounds like “thought and acted differently” was never about you being a woman, but about you having a fundamentally incompatible mindset.

mixtapenerd #wingnut #conspiracy #racist #sexist

So… is this one claiming that people only have the right to get upset about rights being taken away when it’s already happened? And when there’s a risk of it happening, people should not care or make a big deal of it and maybe even just let it happen or not happen or whatever? That’s a very strange attitude.

Stephen Falco #fundie #homophobia #psycho

@Sasha #228901

1.) You can shoot yourself in the back of your head with a small enough handgun, but you’d have to hold it upside-down and very awkwardly. If you can’t picture that, it involves raising your elbows over your head and lowering your forearms behind it, with one hand gripping the handle very improperly and the other on the trigger. It’s so awkward and unsteady that you might even miss, despite having a target range of zero. Or alternately, have a complicated Rube Goldberg setup.

2.) Contortionists and people with ridiculously oversized members (something like 10-12 inches / 25-30 cm) can give themselves blowjobs. It’s reportedly still rather difficult and kind of unpleasant to do so.

Medeea Greere #crackpot #quack #magick #conspiracy #mammon

suthernman #conspiracy #wingnut

<@KeithInc.> #229036
At least 2 states have banned “chemtrails” (Louisiana and Tennessee), with more considering it. I don’t know about the Tennessee one, but the Louisiana one doesn’t literally ban “chemtrails” (despite having been sold as such) but “atmospheric modification”. It seems to be fundamentally an anti-geoengineering law, which is not really a thing yet, though it does apparently authorize going after evil cabals with their weather control machines. 🙄