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Henry Makow, PhD #conspiracy #sexist #racist #fundie

Back then communists (and socialists and masons, who were also “communists”) were trying to undermine everyone’s everything, to the point where there were people who were afraid of communists stealing their cats. And when that paranoia died down, we got the satanic panic as a substitute. And now satanists were stealing and sacrificing their cats…

Jerry Derecha/Adrenogate #crackpot #racist #ufo #fundie #magick #conspiracy #wingnut

“You have no right to be offended because I have decided you aren’t a legitimate target for that form of bigotry” …even if that made sense, it’d still be really unhelpful for those who are targeted anyway.

That’s ignoring the casual dismissal of white supremacy, followed by the crackpot salad used to justify it.

Various TERFs #pratt #transphobia

The weirdest part is where it’s implied that the schadenfreude extends to the minor height reduction effect which sometimes happens with long-term estrogen use. Taller transwomen are nearly always happy if it happens; shorter ones rarely mind. If this was intentional, then it’s a good example of how wide the disconnect is between reality and the shit they make up to justify their worldview.

Mark #fundie

If he thinks that’s bad, then there’s the now-defunct online game Conan: Exiles from around the same time. While I haven’t played it (not really a gamer) I can note that you started out with nothing, and stripped down to the bare minimum; depending on the server, the bare minimum was either not much more than underwear, or nothing but a skimpy loincloth (with even women being barechested), or flat out fully and explicitly naked. Stripping corpses resulted in the same degree of nudity, as did encountering other players who were just starting out.

Reportedly, the game was very much a deliberate going-through-hell experience, followed by making your own little hell kingdom in the world. It even had kidnapping NPCs, torturing them until they break, and then turning them into your personal slaves as game mechanics. I don’t know if there was any actual sex in it (given the source material I wouldn’t be surprised if it included rape), though you could turn male NPCs into sexy dancer slaves if you wanted to. And of course like most modern games it was fairly buggy early on.

You wanted to complain, should’ve complained about that one. Skyrim got nothing in comparison.

DavidByron2 #dunning-kruger #sexist #transphobia #wingnut

Most Transmen are happy to escape “female privileges” which mostly aren’t privileges in any meaningful sense. If they’re not full stealth then they’re not fully taken seriously as a man, which has its good sides (avoiding the worst of male stereotypes) and bad sides (lack of respect for identity, lack of full access to “male privileges” which are much more often actual privileges) but it’s not a good thing as a whole.

There do exist some remnants of second-wave radfem movements (and even then, not all of them) and their modern actually-feminist-and-not-just-appropriating-feminist-language TERF counterparts¹ who do sort of fit that description, but they’re a minority who definitely don’t represent mainstream feminism.

¹(By which I mean that not all TERFs are feminists in any meaningful sense, but some still are.)

Declan Finn #wingnut #psycho

There exist people who believe that London is under Sharia Law, and there are areas within the city where white people risk being executed just for being white. Of course, those people mostly don’t live in London, and even visiting the place makes that claim immediately seem dubious. This is more extreme than the New Jersey claim, and no less ridiculous.

This is just scaremongering by people who need to believe that Muslims are conquering the world and engaging in swordpoint conversions, so they can justify doing much the same themselves, except under the banner of “religious freedom” and “protecting Christians”.

Tenshi #dunning-kruger #elitist #homophobia #racist #sexist #wingnut

In addition to most of what other people have said, the typical incel is so socially inept that he (or rarely, she¹) grotesquely misinterprets normal human interactions. They see only bits and pieces of the surface level, link together unrelated elements, and apply the worst possible interpretation.

To be fair, most of them probably aren’t self-aware enough to know that they’re essentially projecting their own self-hatred on others. That doesn’t and shouldn’t earn them any sympathy points. It’s merely a useful piece of information for helping those who can be and are willing to be redeemed get out of the incel morass.

¹(Femcels do exist outside of parodies, though they’re much rarer and mostly lesbian. Also a tiny portion of younger transwomen say they went through an incel phase as teenagers, and most of them don’t expect to be quickly or easily forgiven for it. That does not mean, however, that most incels are deeply closeted transgirls, they’re not, and it’s transphobic to assume that.)

Linds Anthony #fundie

We have to follow God’s word… as interpreted by flawed humans. God doesn’t forgive… because *some* flawed humans don’t think he would. Okay then.

Eve knew PRECISELY what would happen if she ate the fruit.

Eve only knew what would happen based on the Serpent’s word. God only told Adam, and he didn’t say what the consequences would be, only that he shouldn’t do it. That is, unless the good book was written by flawed humans and your flawed human understanding is better than whoever wrote it…

maseisbigsexy #moonbat #pratt #psycho

Well, when you think that Stalin was merely a communist, but Obama was a communist, a fascist, a cultural marxist, and a secret Muslim, and that all of those things are bad, then this is a pretty obvious conclusion…

Arlo Calles #fundie

@Yutolia #98476

This is a poorly-written way of saying that the stars of the “fixed sphere” move at the same trajectory, while the “wandering stars” (planets) don’t.

This is also stupid and suggests that they don’t quite understand what “trajectory” means. The stars near the poles have vastly different apparent trajectories (from the geocentric view) than the ones near the equator; the former appear to orbit the earth more slowly and in a tighter circle than the “faster” equatorial ones. I think that they meant “same relative position”. (Of course, they don’t do that either - they’re orbiting the galaxy at different speeds and positions, but they’re so far apart that it takes thousands of years to measure the difference without modern tools.)

If it helps, remember: in geocentrism, the earth doesn’t spin. Day and night are because the sun orbits the earth.

angryallytoall #dunning-kruger #elitist #moonbat #pratt #racist #sexist #transphobia

My (admittedly limited) experience with discussions women’s spaces is that trans women tend to sit back and contribute only hesitantly, in fear of being seen as overbearing. Not all of them or always, but as a general thing. One thing which I definitely have not seen is trans women acting is if they knew more about cis women’s reproduction rights than cis women do.

Assuming that this isn’t just an asspull, I suspect that there’s a distorted perception going on here. Sort of like when men talk and talk and talk and won’t shut up, and women get very little chance to say anything, yet the men and at least a few of the women come away with the impression that the women were dominating the conversation.

Josh Bernstein #wingnut #psycho

So… you want to destroy the livelihood of farmers, miners, loggers, and truckers, just to spite cities? Which will then be quickly taken over by megacorps who actually like making money, ending the last of the small independent companies. Meanwhile, cities have a few weeks of food stored up, they can still get food from the nearby areas, just less efficiently, and they make most of the things which aren’t food. Most cities already have more water and housing than they need, the idea that these can easily be denied is laughable. The government can just send in the army if the small farmers go along and the agricorps are temporarily cowed, and not all of them will, if for no reason other than small organic growers tend to be liberal. I don’t think you’ve thought this through.

Arlo Calles #fundie

This is an excessively long Jeopardy answer. The question is, “what is geocentrism?”

Basically, this is a description of how things looked under pre-telescope geocentrism. (As in, the sun revolves around the Earth, and the stars are on a fixed sphere.) Back then there was no concept of a “satellite”, but if there had been, the moon wouldn’t have been considered one.

SamuraiGhostCat #moonbat #pratt #transphobia

That’s unusual. A TERF who embraces the term with pride rather than dismisses it as a slur. This isn’t the first time a small number of them tried to reclaim it, but it didn’t go well back then. (Note: they didn’t originally invent the term, despite the incorrect insistence that they did which has been going around lately.)

Bennett Lee Ross #crackpot #conspiracy #ufo #magick

Show me an actual “Tartarian Astronomical Clock”. Your dreams don’t count.

Also, your numbers are off. I did a calculation of how long it takes a sidereal year to re-synch with a solar year, and got ~25781.80 years per cycle and ~2148.48 years per age, not 25920 & 2160. [triple checked to make sure I didn’t screw up]

…This is the least of the problems here, but I was curious if the number was accurate, since I’d never previously seen anything more precise than “roughly 2000 years per age″. It’s not even that they or whoever they got it from forgot about leap years; that just gives a slightly lower result.

Dr James DeMeo #crackpot #magick #quack

Prussian Society of America #crackpot #conspiracy #racist #wingnut

What if intuition and wisdom tells me that mathematics and intellect are more useful than intuition and wisdom?

Dennis Prager #crackpot #dunning-kruger #wingnut

Your doctor knows nothing about COVID, nothing. All they know is how the virus works, that's all they know.

They know nothing about the virus, except for everything about the virus?

I know that Prager was attempting (badly) to say that doctors only know how the virus acts while inside the human body (which is, incidentally, false), but damn does this part sound really, really dumb.

Abigail Shrier, et al #transphobia

Given that “parental rights” in certain delicate situations (not just trans children) can result in a situation which is little better than (or even exactly the same as) “better a dead child than one which is happy in a way that I don’t approve of”, this is gross negligence. Children have every right to keep secrets from their parents, while sharing them with other adults, if the truth would likely cause the parents to make them severely traumatized or dead.

People like this don’t care about that, of course. Parents have “every right” to raise children to their values, and if that means making them be not trans, or whatever it is that they don’t approve of, then they have every right to know about these things so they can make them not be trans. Never mind that this is not how anything works, fucking your kids up pretty badly is acceptable if it means that they superficially appear not to be trans anymore. Children are property to them, not people. Their idea of proper child raising means forcing children into a pre-made mold, regardless of how ill-fitting it turns out to be. Their idea of “child abuse” is either a mold they don’t approve of, or doing anything other than that.

There’s also sometimes a weird contradiction here - if a child is trans, it’s because abusive parents are forcing them to into a trans mold, except when it’s their own child or one of someone who they know very well doesn’t approve, then it’s peer pressure and cultural influence. They can’t both be consistently true. (Neither is, obviously.)

Unnamed Asshole #homophobia #psycho

Hey now. Even if that sentence is far too light, we shouldn’t be encouraging prison beatings, or rapes, or murders. That goes nowhere good. When there aren’t any pedos or rogue cops or violent child abusers, the biggest targets are young people in for relatively minor crimes, transwomen who got shoved into men’s prisons (thankfully rarer now), black or hispanic people in the areas where the prison population is mostly white, and gay men who are a little too stereotypically gay. Solitary, even if for one’s own protection, is cruel enough already, let that suffice.

It’s one thing to note that this sort of thing is the reality and that no tears would be shed if it did happen. It’s quite another to actively wish it on someone.

speculareffect #sexist #racist #homophobia #transphobia #wingnut #elitist

I’ve warned several men over the past 21 years about women. I have, with an unfiltered perseverance, discussed the true nature of women, at lengths with hundreds of men. Some listened, others think they’ve got it all figured out.

Women and men are a little different on the average, but not *that* different, and individuals vary within a wide range regardless of sex or gender. Women aren’t aliens or cryptids or unfathomable beasts. Men like you tend to take false stereotypes about a tiny subset of women, the ~~ancient wisdom~~ stupid shit invented by elderly virgins who have vowed to never speak to a woman or even interact with them in any meaningful way, treat a badly distorted view of ages long past as if it were highly relevant to how people act today, throw them in a blender, overthink the hell out of it, and don’t bother to check your conclusions. (I exaggerate, but not by much.) And on top of that, you don’t even get *men* all that right either, because most men aren’t as fucked in the head as you. No one in their right mind would trust you to divine the “true nature” of a bag of Doritos, let alone women.

Feynman and Coulter's Love Child #racist

While I’m not familiar with this city in particular, it sounds like you’re confusing cause with effect.

See, black people are usually dirt poor, and dirt poor people move to places where the property values have already dropped like a rock. So it didn’t go bad because black people moved in, black people moved in because it went bad. (I know, I know, it probably sounds racist to say it like that, but I can’t think of any better way to phrase it.)

I mean, at some point in the process there being “too many black people moving in” might have also triggered a white flight among racists with money, but that counts more for “white people fucking things up unecessarily” than anything else.

Rudd-o #wingnut #homophobia #psycho

I don’t use twitter, but I assume you can always request that the suspension be reviewed, regardless of whether the cause is automation or user flagging. Maybe it was a mistake or malicious action and the suspension can be ended early - and if it’s automated, this can be used to improve future results. Maybe it was your bad; you worded it poorly and sounded like a murderous psycho by accident. Maybe you’re just a disingenuous asshole who knows you were probably in the wrong but wants to portray yourself as an injured party for undeserved sympathy. Given how you hint at what it contained, I suspect it’s not the first one.

John Branyan #crackpot #fundie #pratt

It would be surprising, yes, but that doesn’t imply that it happened with a purpose. “Something weird happened, therefore God” is not a sufficient answer, given that we’ve figured out quite a lot of “something weirds” so far and other being(s) were never a reasonable or necessary explanation for it. Unless you count “human hoaxers”, or “squirrels in the attic”, or “baboons doing whacky shit when no one’s looking”, etc. as “other beings”.

Besides, much more realistic than jello coming to life would be the materials in the jello coming together to form new life which is not itself “jello” in any meaningful sense. We wouldn’t even recognize that if it ever happened, only that the jello went bad.

John Branyan #crackpot #fundie #pratt

Comprehending any offered response to these statements requires thought.

It does, but the resulting comprehension reveals that the received statements are lacking in reason - circular logic, non-sequiturs, appeals to ignorance, appeals to an authority whose presumed existence *is* precisely what’s in question - a veneer of profundity, overlaying nothing.

See, I can use big words and have them actually say things, not just dress things up fancy so I can pretend to sound smart. I can also talk normally, which is usually better.

Various Incels #dunning-kruger #psycho #racist #sexist

The argument that certain groups of people (in this case, women) love being forced into near-slavery (or even actual slavery), and that if any of them say otherwise, they’re either lying or just need to be shown the “right path”, is unfortunately not limited to incels.

Jerry Derecha/Adrenogate #crackpot #conspiracy #magick #fundie #ufo

Time Transportal #crackpot #conspiracy #quack #ufo

You know, if we ever find a full-sized planet out in the Kuiper Belt (or even the Oort Cloud) what are the odds that these types are going to scream bloody murder when astronomers fail to name it “Nibiru”?

metabuxx #sexist #wingnut #conspiracy #racist

Sorry. You want bribes, you get a pack of cheap beer or a lotto drawing. If you’re lucky enough to live somewhere where that’s offered.

Mark Levin #wingnut #crackpot

“Breakthrough” infections don’t seem to be that common, though they do happen enough to be a real concern. The biggest issue is that, like all the other strains, around half the population shows no symptoms and could easily become a Typhoid Mary, so even if you’re vaccinated, there’s a small chance you could indirectly be responsible for many deaths. Why take any more chances than necessary? But of course if you have no empathy other people’s deaths isn’t a real consequence, especially if you didn’t cause them directly…

This is like saying “If I win the lottery then I can move to Paris” as if that were a foregone conclusion. And also assuming there was no reason to be vaccinated before the Delta variant became a real threat.

Tim Tony Stark Rifat #crackpot #racist #magick #conspiracy #psycho

Usually I can make at least a little bit of sense of these things… but yeah, I got nothing.

James Buchanan #conspiracy #pratt #wingnut

Let’s pretend that we live in a reality there was enough election fraud that Trump actually won some of the close states, enough to switch the electoral college total to him. Let’s say that also they didn’t fuck up the chain of evidence to the point where any proof they can offer is inherently tainted. This changes… not a whole lot. The electors in the electoral college already submitted their vote, Congress received it and certified it, Biden won, end of question, no take backsies. It works like this because in the age of horse-drawn carriages, disputes over the legitimacy of federal elections would be disruptive, could easily take many years, and by then it would be far too late anyway. Even today there’s no guarantee that it would be done with before 2024. Now what it would do is give a solid reason to launch investigation into who was responsible and punish them appropriately, and also for those states to pass regulations to make it harder for whatever form of fraud was used in their particular state more difficult. If, by some chance, Biden and/or Harris were at least partly responsible and not merely beneficiaries, then the potential for impeaching either or both. And impeaching and the removing both just gets you President Pelosi… And that’s only if one of them doesn’t resign first and the other appoints a new Vice President.

In short, the only way any of this nonsense works is if *all* of the above is true and Trump is somehow elected speaker of the House in 2022 (technically doesn’t need to be elected Representative for that, but he couldn’t vote in the House, and that would be unprecedented) and also the timing of everything happens to be right. He’s not getting the presidency back before 2024 otherwise, if ever. And hopefully never.

danceofangels #fundie #homophobia

Just for fun, I figured how to make the genetics work assuming that humans started from only two people. Since Adam and Eve were both artificial creations, and extremely long-lived at that, give them highly randomized gametes, so that no two eggs or sperm generators have the same genetics. Keep producing lots of kids as long as they live, and also have Adam do a bit of extra breeding with some of their descendants. For a bonus, give them both sets of reproductive systems and have Eve do a bit of pseudo-incest as well, though that’s probably not strictly necessary.

This ignores that there weren’t just two (or three) people per the bible as it says that the land of Nod was populated independently from the Eden Exiles, but it doesn’t say how many there were, or even anything about it really. With Noah’s family, on the other hand, it’s much harder to explain away the severe genetic bottleneck.

Marilyn J Williams #crackpot #conspiracy #wingnut #mammon

I’m pretty sure this is a rerun, but regardless…

There do exist patents for free energy devices and sonic healing devices. The problem is, the former is hideously impractical, as with current technology it would require an energy generator the size of a house in order to produce enough electricity to power a low-watt bulb, and would take longer than humanity has existed to break even with the energy costs needed to make such a thing… assuming no maintenance is needed for that entire time. Good luck with that.

For the latter, potential sonic applications to medical technology do exist, but they haven’t been well-studied because the uses appear rather limited and narrow. They definitely aren’t miracle cures of any sort, and any patent which claims such is extremely dubious.

There probably aren’t any patents for anti-gravity technology, but if there are, either they’re extremely unscientific or else highly speculative and aren’t possible to build any time soon.

Anti-maskers #quack #psycho

So I looked up this incident because I was wondering why they would be protesting a medical clinic of all places, and the only thing I could find was protesting the clinic’s mask policies, which still doesn’t explain much… I guess a patient there thinks it’s a violation of their civil rights or something and organized this? Whatever the reason, it gets a bit worse: the police demanded that Burns and the bystanders who tried to protect her to leave the scene, and let the protestors continue. The Police Chief says it was the right thing to do because he disagrees with mask policies…

Fox News, and only Fox News, claims that some third party tried to take away the megaphone and Burns was accidentally punched in the ensuing scuffle. The actual video shows that either nobody tried to take the megaphone or it happened at some other time and was unrelated to the attack. Fuck Fox News.

J.D. Vance & friends #crackpot #wingnut

Also, you can tell they’re not thinking about two (or more) parent families where they don’t vote the same. Most likely to happen in centrist families where one strongly leans R and one strongly leans D but get along fine because they don’t make a big deal of politics, or with people who sometimes switch parties for a particular candidate but not others (there were Biden Republicans who still mostly voted Republican for other candidates in 2020, for example) and their partner(s) wouldn’t, or at least not for *this* particular candidate. If the number of children aren’t evenly divisible by the number of parents, then that would result in a fraction of a vote. That’s not an impossible issue, but definitely one which would cause headaches. (Not that this is likely to matter, as it’s the *least* problematic aspect of it. But it is symptomatic of really not thinking this through.)

Lavern Spicer #conspiracy #quack

Have you ever considered that it might be reverse psychology? If we tell you to do it, that’ll insure that you don’t. And then you can die complaining how you were tricked. /s

J.D. Vance & friends #crackpot #wingnut

and you've said the world is going to end in 12 years, what do you care? ... It's this idea of absolute pessimism that the world's going to end and as a result, we're the problem and don't have kids.

There do exist doom and gloom liberals like this, ones which say “we won’t stop poisoning the world, so why bring more children into a dying world?” But saying all liberals are like that is like saying that all conservatives are like “God will end the world in 2028, we absolutely got the date right this time, we promise!” And ironically, the former is caring about the long-term future, albeit in a somewhat backhanded way, while the latter is very short-term focused.

Lavern Spicer #dunning-kruger #transphobia

Usually when people say something like “I don’t have pronouns” it’s pretty obvious that they really mean “I’m not going to play along with this ‘declare your pronouns’ trend, fuck you” though occasionally you see ones where you wonder if they actually get the concept or even know what a pronoun is. And then there’s this…

Gabriel Erb #fundie

Neither 6000 nor 2028 are perfect numbers. For reference, the first four perfect numbers are 6, 28, 496, and 8128.

In addition, 1000 and multiples thereof have no special significance beyond being big round numbers in base 10, so 6×1000 doesn’t mean much either, unless base 10 is somehow “magic” which of course numerologists usually seem to think so in the rare occasions where they can conceive of numbers existing in any other form. Unless he’s saying that 6000 is special because it starts with 6, which is even more arbitrary.

This is not even getting into the stupidity where most Young Earth Creationists claim that earth began in 4004 BCE, so I guess the world is going to end in 2004 then? I’m not aware of any YEC chronology where the world began in 4028 BCE, and he doesn’t provide one. In fact, he doesn’t provide any evidence or reason for anything beyond “because numbers”. It’s non-sequiturs all the way down.

Dr. Joseph P. Farrell #crackpot #wingnut #conspiracy

HAARP is an ionospheric heater. That is to say, its phased antennae arrays are designed so load energy into the ionosphere,

This is probably the most accurate portion of this post: One of the main things which HAARP is indeed designed to do is to dump energy into the ionosphere.

But one of the things which we have learned from HAARP is that it can’t be used as a “weather machine”. In order to be truly useful as such, it needs to be able to both dump at least a few orders of magnitude more energy *and* also be able to remove just as much energy, and also that would likely have some pretty nasty side effects for the state of Alaska even if it could be useful in other respects.

Personally I find it questionable whether there’s much, if anything, still to learn from it, but obviously someone still thinks it’s useful. I mean, if nothing else, there might still be political reasons for creating doubt whether the US actually has potential “weather machine” ability. It’s kind of stupid, if so.

Admirable_Elk_965 #dunning-kruger #moonbat #psycho #sexist

I would like to say that there’s an actual, practical reason behind the “young woman, much older man” phenomena, and that is: If a woman’s sole “career” is housewife, there’s little reason for her to wait for marriage, and a lot of reason for her husband to wait until his “breadwinning” career has been well established. That’s not to say that it doesn’t often lead to problematic social and relationship dynamics. Of course, “housewife” has never been the sole career for the majority of women, and it’s not even a thing at all for most people these days.

@Citizen_Justin #94743

The usual equation is “the younger should be at least half the age of the older, plus seven”. In that case, the acceptable dating age range for someone who is 21 would be 17-28. This has no force of law, obviously, and even most people who think it’s a good guideline wouldn’t want it to.

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

The exact percentage varies over time, but the number of people in the US who support easy access to abortion has pretty consistently hovered around 65-70%. Even in the most conservative states, this doesn’t drop below 40%. (If you count the right to emergency abortions under very limited circumstances, support goes up to over 90%, with even the most conservative states being in the 80-85% range.) Given any issue where the statistics are like that, the Supreme Court has pretty consistently ruled that one’s rights should not be contingent on which State one lives in (given that a lot of people spend their entire lives in their state of birth even if they’d prefer to live elsewhere) or the whims of a particular administration (whether state or federal, depending on the issue). In order to realistically see a reversal of Roe vs Wade, where it would once again be up to the states, it would need to drop to something like 50-60% overall support and several individual states with something like 20-30%. And even that’s no guarantee.

Though it’s complicated by the fact that the “right” to abortion has never actually guaranteed “easy access”. Some of the conservative states have eroded access to the point where a few of them effectively have a “soft ban”. This is basically a “compromise” which has been allowed by the courts, and perhaps only allowed to the extent it has due to decades of conservative court-stacking. It’s a pretty crappy compromise which runs contrary to the spirit of the original ruling, though.

Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph. D. #crackpot #ufo #conspiracy #dunning-kruger

If we had actual Sumerian tablets which said things like that, don’t you think they’d be better known? Also, how would it be proof of anything other than Sumerian priests taking too many drugs?

Ellis Washington #racist #wingnut #magick #conspiracy

For the millionth time, “Baal” is not a specific entity but a title, and one of the entities with that title is Baal Yaveh, AKA Yaweh/Jehova/Allah.

Nikita46 #sexist #kinkshaming

Er… what? The wife won’t have sex with him because she’s asexual and sex-repulsed, so the husband cheats on her with a sex worker, and apparently the reason the wife is sex-repulsed by him specifically because she knows he’s likely to cheat? I mean, it’s possible to frame this in a way which is consistent, if a bit contrived (as I just did) and requires both people to be idiots (which can definitely happen). But I strongly suspect that either they don’t understand asexuals or they’re trying to combine a pair of mutually-exclusive motivations.

Rick Wiles #wingnut #psycho

I interpreted “let’s meet at Gettysburg” as “let’s rescind the South’s surrender and return to a world where antebellum slavery never ended”. Not sure if they’re that terrible or I’m giving them too much credit and it’s actually something stupider.

Vijay Prozak #crackpot #elitist #wingnut

In the Middle Ages most people could not read or write, and those who could were strongly selected-for groups. If nothing else, even reading opinions of people from that era about how good life is are going to be biased.

Deidre Madsen #crackpot #ufo #magick

People like this will not be building the future, nor will they be participating in it on more than a superficial level. They can play at mixing pseudoscience and spirituality all they like, and retreat into their little fantasy worlds to hunt for their nonsense “truths”. The rest of us will look on now and again with a sort of sad amusement, and hopefully live our lives in ways which are a bit more real than they could ever imagine.

Before Its News #crackpot #conspiracy #wingnut #fundie

I don’t get it. What’s with all these supposedly experienced lawyers forgetting how to law, and then throwing themselves on a sword even when no one asked them to, and then setting themselves on fire? It’s like they’re throwing away their careers for a mere chance at a cushy job in a Republican party which may not want them (fanatic displays of loyalty are one thing, total displays of loserdom are another), assuming it even continues to exist in its current form.

At least the lunatics supporting them make some sense. Those people don’t understand law anyway, and don’t much care about it so long as it’s on their side.