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cavemankarl #elitist

And if the effective wait list for the job you are “worth” is decades long, what then?

(Cue the pedantic scolding by people who either bypassed the metaphorical wait list or don’t understand metaphor)

David J. Stewart #fundie #crackpot #sexist

Men can cheat all they want, so long as it’s with a woman. There’s very little (or even no) stain on him, it’s on the woman he’s cheating on and the woman he’s cheating with. That’s not a cause for divorce. Don’t ask for that to be explained, you’ll either get a non-answer, or some sort of demented-pretzel justification which either makes you despair for humanity or feel like slamming your head into a wall. If a woman cheats or is even suspected of cheating, then that’s not a cause for divorce either, but a cause for “behavioral correction” (abuse).

When a religious fundie claims that a wife must be absolutely obedient to her husband no matter what, occasionally someone asks them in response “well, what should she do if he forces her to commit crimes or worship Satan or something?” and the usual response is some non-answer, like “marriage is not a suicide pact”. They can’t give an answer which would imply that a woman has any meaningful agency, but they also don’t want to give an answer which would imply “just do Satan’s will and God will rescue you, eventually” so the only option is to be vague. Or even imply that any man who would do such a thing isn’t really a Christian, which really doesn’t answer “what should she do in that situation”.

People like Davey J are why it gets asked.

Brother Nathanael #racist #homophobia #magick #fundie #conspiracy

I admit to not knowing much about Kabbalism/Qabalism, other than it does have a more mystical/magical aspect compared to normal Judaism, but this strikes me as one of those transparently ridiculous claims like “as a child, I was a Jew, but then I saw somebody baking cookies which oozed red, and then I knew that it must be the blood of Christian children! So I left the cult as soon as I possibly could. It was totally not strawberry jam or something.”

Tatsuya Ishida #pratt #conspiracy #racist

This is actually really screwy.

Tats portrayed the invasion of Poland as Germany liberating the country from the Soviets. But here, Japan is not liberating China from anyone. The Japanese occupation of China is simply not shown and is barely mentioned, we’re just meant to assume that it’s benign based on absolutely nothing. Up to this point¹ in-story, there’s not been any mention of China being “jewed” or under any sort of outside control or malign influences. There’s also no mention in-story when the occupation started, other than it was almost certainly² before Hitler helped “wake up” the spirit of Japan and overthrow the Tengu, which incidentally, doesn’t seem to be complete yet, as the ‘Gu influences are still there. Even completely ignoring real history and focusing solely on what’s presented-in story, there’s been nothing to suggest that the situations involving China and Poland are meaningfully comparable, or that this message is in any way coherent.

I guess if you tried to sanewash it, perhaps the “you” in question refers to the Allies in general and not the US specifically, whose intentions towards China are the same as Soviet intentions towards Poland, because the whole is as bad as its worst members, so China is better off under the thumb of the semi-unJewed Japan rather than the fully-Jewed allies. But this requires some presumptions about what Tats is thinking (assuming he even is thinking) which are thus far not confirmed by the comic itself.

¹There’s a reason why I said “up to this point” - in a very recent comic a young Mao Zedong is shown receiving a “Bolshevik starter kit”.
²Tats jumps around in time a bit, so it can be difficult to tell what the exact chronological order is meant to be in-universe.

Blutstein #sexist #psycho

@Skybison #262267
A man. It’s derived from “foid” (a general slur for woman) which is short for “femoid” which I assume was originally meant to imply that some women aren’t properly feminine, making them a “feminine-oid”.

Jim #wingnut #conspiracy #sexist #racist

What a mess. So any political squabbles between the Democrats and Republicans are just a distraction from the real story, which is an invisible three-way war between libertarian technocrats, socialists, and the imaginary “deep state”. Except some of the Democrats are also socialists or members of the deep state. Also there is something called “postmodern capitalism” and I’m not in the mood to figure out WTF that might even mean since it’s probably total nonsense anyway. (You could reasonably describe NFTs and maybe Cryptocurrency as “postmodern capitalism” but given that he thinks the libertarian technocrats are opposed to it, it’s probably not about those.) Also White Genocide totally does real, he’s just throwing that out there without directly tying it into this conflict. All this is somehow going to trigger Civil War II eventually, maybe in the near future.

Okaaaayy. I’m guessing that it makes some sort of vague sense if you’re deep in conspiracy-theory land, but I’m not entirely sure about that given that there seems to be a lot of disagreement in the comments.

PITT Parents #crackpot #elitist #transphobia

You know, regardless of any other factors… attempting to repair a broken relationship by demanding that the other person return to you, declaring that you will pretend nothing happened and demanding they must also pretend nothing happened, and expecting that everything will go back the way things were before… it shows deep disrespect and/or entitlement, that soothing your own ego is the most important issue here, and depending on the specifics it may also show that you can’t easily engage in or keep a relationship without bullying someone into it (and/or being bullied into it yourself). And if “the way things were before” was largely imaginary or what caused the rift in the first place, then that makes your doomed attempt extra doomed.

This is true even if the other person was entirely in the wrong. This is true even if the other person was stolen away by an abuser or a cult. This is true even if “trans don’t real” (and it does real). It seldom works, it seldom lasts if it works, and the very rare situation where it both works and lasts is a deeply abusive and dysfunctional one.

DepravedAndDeprived #elitist #racist #sexist #crackpot #psycho

This is what you get when you cross a narcissist’s warped concept of empathy with the “some/most people are NPCs” meme, and add a some incel flavoring into the mix.

Though I might have had a bit of an epiphany here. Do incels typically make their entitlement towards women’s bodies a foundation of their identity? If so, then they would unconsciously perceive any rejection of that entitlement as a personal attack. And why would anyone constantly attack them? Because the attackers have no empathy. Of course the fundamental lack of understanding why anyone would reject that entitlement (or in some cases, the refusal to acknowledge that deep down, you really do know, because acknowledging it would be counterproductive to feeding your misery addiction) is itself a lack of empathy, so even if there was any truth there they’re still not in any position to object.

Cherie Zaslawsky #wingnut #racist #conspiracy

I was pretty sure that I read somewhere that California’s current population total is pretty stable, there’s a lot of people leaving, but also a lot of people entering, so the state has a high degree of “demographic churn”. A quick bit of research seems to confirm that this is the case. But more importantly, like most other places, the gradual, decades-long loss of population in rural and exurban areas and the inflow to urban and suburban areas is still very much ongoing. That alone would be driving a demand for more housing. It’s just that in the case of California, a very large chunk of that inflow/outflow is to/from other States.

But then there’s the issue where a lot of housing is being taken off the market and being used as a store of wealth rather than a residence, and most of the newer luxury condominiums were never used as housing at all. That’s just exacerbating the problem. That’s also not specifically a California issue; it’s something which crops up anywhere which can claim to an abundance of areas with high property values.

So it’s technically correct that “people are leaving California in droves”. It even might be correct that significant numbers of Hispanic immigrants (legal or otherwise) are moving into the cities - because they’re mostly staying in-state and have fewer job opportunities in rural areas, while rural whites are mostly moving to Texas or wherever [note: this is speculation, I did not research it]. It probably even is true that some people are genuinely confused over this… because they’re missing the big picture. But in the end, there’s no weird conspiracy going on, city development plans are long-term projects and are mostly reality-based with a big-picture focus, so they can’t be held hostage to the ignorance of the moment.

Hugo Knott #fundie #wingnut #forced-birth

I could see The Satanic Temple trying to do this, in a reaction to something fairly extreme which religious fundamentalists were doing, and it was much more appropriate of a response than their usual Baphomet symbolism. But I still wouldn’t bet on it ever happening, and TST isn’t “Democratic leaders” in any sense. And who else even would?

Of course, there’s a good chance that focusing on all the ways that “Democratic leaders” putting up a religious statue of a Demon wouldn’t make sense is missing the point of this “satire”. In which case we’re left with something like “Christian libs are too dumb to notice that they’re not real Christians and would openly worship demons if they were more self-aware” or something similarly unhinged, and went with Molech/Moloch due to some anti-abortionists associating it/them with abortion rights, and abortion rights associated with the Democratic Party (despite some Republicans supporting it as well). It’s not like most conservatives really know of any other options, anyway. Baphomet? Mammon? Maybe Pazuzu?

Nullsrc #wingnut #racist

In a vacuum, this sounds like “I want to be racist consequence-free”. In context, this appears to be mocking the idea of a liberal-run surveillance state, while also being gratuitously racist.

JourneyDog Tales #wingnut #racist

Well, if it gets far right-wing people to leave others alone, then it would actually be an improvement. It’s not like they’re ever going to stop making up nonsense about people unlike themselves, and then acting on said nonsense.

Unfortunately I suspect that this won’t become a common attitude, nor would it change things much for liberal members of conservative-majority families if it did.

furtherglory #wingnut #pratt #conspiracy #dunning-kruger

I don’t know German, but when I grew up it was common to use “murder” or “kill” in English in an exaggerated, non-literal, and occasionally humorous fashion. Such as “I’m going to murder you for that” as an exclamation of anger or displeasure. Or “my parents are gonna kill me!” I don’t hear that much anymore, maybe it’s just my social circles, but it is/was a thing, and I’ll leave it to any German speakers to clarify if something similar exists in that language.

Dinesh D'Souza #fundie #pratt #elitist #mammon

This is sometimes referred to as the Spider-man Fallacy.

Spider-man lives in New York City. You going to claim New York City isn’t real? Spider-man met Barack Obama in The Amazing Spider-man© #583. You going to claim Barack Obama isn’t real? So obviously, Spider-man is just as real as NYC and Obama.

JE Aggas #crackpot #fundie #wingnut #racist

If you spend enough time at it, you can find some phrase which communicates a close-enough version of a particular message which gives the results you want/expect in at least one of the various numerology systems. You can also do that to get a slightly different but meaning-wise similar-enough which gives something very different than you want/expect, but nobody does that. It’s just a particularly complicated and extra-meaningless form of confirmation bias.

Whiplash347 #wingnut #crackpot #conspiracy

History will remember the week of August 9-15, 2026 because that was when some anonymous rando announced on Twitter/X that God will cause something vague but sweeping to happen during the following month?

Tatsuya Ishida #racist #conspiracy #wingnut

During the Biden administration, Tats had a running “gag” where a poorly-disguised FBI agent would be all “how do you do fellow kids” and then try to get MAGA types to do something morally/legally questionable, and the “punchline” would be the MAGAs calling out “Fed!”. This was based on actual paranoia which was going around at the time, which was that Biden’s FBI was infiltrating MAGA in order to spy on them and maybe destroy them from the inside. He only did that “gag” straight a few times, but after that he did increasingly questionable variations of it, including a Star Wars “parody”. Ever since Trump was re-elected, he’s stopped doing that… until this strip. It doesn’t work very well as either a continuation of a running gag or as its own thing, even ignoring that it was never funny to begin with.

Chris Fox #homophobia #transphobia

As a mostly-straight woman, I take offense to the idea that the sex I have with men is 100% breeding and 0% hedonism.

Tatsuya Ishida #conspiracy #elitist #psycho #racist

…Here’s what I think Tats is intending with this, but I might be wrong. There’s a very broad concept, sometimes called “Who you are in the dark”, which has many different versions.

The original (or at least I think it’s the original) is “What would you do, if you knew you would never be found out?” which is usually intended to be a philosophical self-reflection. What the answer you come up with might say about the parts of you that you don’t usually examine. I don’t think this one applies here, as it seems that the people being portrayed as doing this aren’t making it about themselves and wish it to be known that they did it.

Another version is “How far would you go, if survival is on the line?” which may be used the same way as the above, but is more often used to point out that you can’t know for sure until you face such a situation, particularly if your life has always been relatively comfortable and safe. Clearly, this woman went very far (or was very lucky) and is willing to do even more, so there’s an element of that here.

And then there’s “Who would you be, if all illusions were stripped bare?” This has many different variations, depending on what the questioner thinks are the “illusions” which society, or civilization, or malign forces, or aliens, forces upon everyone. Some variations of this are used by awful people to try to make the point that everyone is as rotten as them, they’re just honest about it in a way most people aren’t. Tats seems to be portraying Marx et al as being these sorts of awful people, attempting to make their point in the worst possible way… and perhaps by extension, that all Jews would try to do the same, given the chance.

Jeff Hambrecht and Mitch Parsons #crackpot #fundie #sexist

Let’s say that this is only for 100% straight men whose main problem is that, under certain situations, they’re too distracted by women existing in their general vicinity to function properly. Let’s also say that either these are the only men who show up, or any other men who do are basically irrelevant.

This doesn’t solve the problem. It normalizes whatever neuroses they have which contribute to their situation, and also gives whatever pent-up sex drive they have even less outlet to be expressed, which may result in it being expressed more frequently or more inappropriately in other environments.

Now there are people who can subsume their sex drive into other, unrelated activities, but not everyone can do that, and there’s some evidence that this may not be psychologically healthy (or at least, that it might matter a great deal how and why you’re doing it). It might actually help a little if you also trained those men to subsume their sex drive into exercise, but that would still be a questionable practice.

Elizabeth Nickson #wingnut #racist #conspiracy

“What is truth?” they say. It’s rhetorical. “Whatever I say is truth is truth”, they answer. The Science is whatever I say it is.

“There is no truth, only dogma” isn’t quite paradoxical, but it is ironic, because this declaration (and most variants thereof) is itself dogma… leaving wide open the possibility that it might be (and probably is) wrong. Of course some (most?) people who would say things like that would add “we’re not saying that because it’s what we believe, it’s what our enemies believe but refuse to admit, and we’re showing how wrong that is” if called out, but that always appears to be projection.

Pierre Gosselin/Prof. Horst-Joachim Lüdecke #crackpot #wingnut #conspiracy

One thing which seems to be missing from this analysis (I didn’t watch the video associated with the article, but I would be surprised if it was included) is the concept of EROEI - Energy Return On Energy Invested. (Or if you prefer, EROI - Energy Return On Investment, but I prefer the former acronym.)

“Energy Return” refers to the power being generated, minus the unused excess and whatever is being lost in the process of power transmission. “Energy Invested” refers to the energy costs to build and maintain the power generators, as well as gathering and processing the fuel and building and maintaining the fuel processors, if relevant. In order for an energy source to be economically competitive, the EROEI ratio needs to be 8:1 or better.

Ever since around 2015, the ER side of the ratio for solar and wind have been dramatically improving to the point where they are now economically competitive in most markets, while the EI side of fossil fuels have worsened to the point where they are barely competitive anymore, and will likely drop below that in the near future. (Though some countries will artificially prop them up for awhile, and some of those are doing it a little already, because their current infrastructure is too fossil-fuel dependent.)

Yes, wind power is less energy dense, but guess what? That barely matters.

Conservapedia #fundie

atheism has no tradition

You could stop there, as an “atheist tradition” would be a bizarre almost-oxymoron. The closest thing to that would maybe be Festivus, but it’s barely a tradition and originated as a joke. And while it’s been adopted by a tiny number of atheists (mostly as, again, a joke), as a rule atheists don’t make atheist-based traditions because there’s absolutely nothing to base anything on. How would you even turn “Gods don’t real, also I never think about it in my everyday life and have no practices based on the nonexistence of Deities” into a tradition?

That’s not to say that a world of nothing but atheists would have zero traditions, there would just be fewer and they’d mostly be related to historical events. Also there would still be music and dance genres, it’s not like very much of it is specifically inspired by religion.

John C. Wright #crackpot #fundie

Storytelling has three tasks: to glorify God,

Very few stories have ever done this. Even most Christians are going to look askance at this one.

to recall the deeds of our ancestors,

Stories which do this tend to exaggerate and whitewash, eschew historical accuracy, and reinterpret them according to the cultural and moral norms of the current day.

and to teach the youth to love the lovely and hate the hateful.

That is a rather archaic use of the word “lovely”, the modern version is either “loving” or “lovable” depending on exactly what you meant. Given the sometimes valid phrase “no hate quite like Christian love” I suspect your standards for “hateful/lovely” may deviate significantly from the mainstream.

Also, stories exist to teach lessons, to explore situations outside the ordinary, to help the creator work through difficult issues (and often, to help others to either understand those issues better or work through it themselves), to present alternative perspectives, or even occasionally random flights of whimsy with no real purpose beyond maybe entertainment. Not sure if you’d count any of those things under your odd definition of “postmodern”.

AdOk57 #ableist

If your minor child is truly that dangerous, in most places you can get the state to take custody. Yes, you’ll probably take a hit to your reputation for doing that, but unless that’s all you care about it would be a small price compared to the alternative. If that’s not an option, you can probably get away with kicking them out and leaving them to their fates with very low legal risk (because jurisdictions which don’t much care about family safety probably won’t much care about that either), which is a really shitty thing to do, but if you’re truly that desperate…

But if you’re in that much of a panic over the idea that a child might murder you just because they’re disabled, you shouldn’t be having kids. Or be anywhere near them.

Tatsuya Ishida #wingnut #pratt #dunning-kruger #conspiracy

@Bastethotep #261194

Thankfully, no. His views on women have evolved over time and have always been at least a little problematic, but none of his self-inserts have ever gone there. The closest he’s ever gotten was Sleaze (Slick’s evil doppelgänger), who was probably not a full self-insert but a symbol of his personal guilt over porn consumption, and that wasn’t very close. His current self-insert appears to be a nameless German soldier who witnesses “Jewish” atrocities but does little more than make inane comments about them.

@Citizen_Justin #261188
The ‘Gu are, or at least were, allied with the Bolsheviks against Germany, such as in this strip here: https://fstdt.com/J9DMY98FV$X74

Whether as a literal war or in a more abstract sense was never clear, but there was definite opposition. It’s certainly plausible that the “real Japan” is waking up thanks to Hitler’s message, and this strip is the beginning of a convoluted plot to punish “real Japan” for waking up so the ‘Gu can try to take over again (and said plot will eventually end with a certain pair of bombs)… but Tats sometimes manages to surprise you with something even weirder than you expected, so I wouldn’t entirely count on something like that being his intent. At time of writing, he’s too busy getting mad at Reddit and trying to shoehorn *that* into his alt-universe WWII setting in between the strips about Veles (Slavic God of the underworld) to get back to the mostly-neglected Pacific Theater, and I currently have even less clue where he’s going with those.

Tats has mostly been ignoring the Eastern Theater, but his occasional attempts to touch on it are very schizo.

You’ve got the ‘Gu, who are Jewish Tengu, who are driving Japan’s (completely fictional) war on Germany on the side of the Allies. Then you’ve got the Spirit of Japan, represented by a Samurai Statue, who is being provoked into attacking the United States, which is one of the Allies, by the puppets of the “Western Jews” (including Roosevelt), because… um… nobody knows? Tats is trying to tell a very unhistorical story, but is also including some historical events which directly contradict that story, resulting in an incoherent mess.

John Horvat II #fundie #wingnut

Whether the US (or any other country) ever decides to go on permanent standard time or permanent daylight savings time, it’s going to be bad for some people but not others. For the countries which are currently jumping back and forth between them, it’s good for some people all of the time, bad for some people for part of the year, and bad for some people the other part of the year. And there are people for whom it doesn’t much matter which of the three versions you use. There’s no perfect option, and it comes down to what is being prioritized. I suspect that no change will happen any time soon, no matter how much some people complain, because when it comes down to difficult choices the easiest option is to do nothing.

I was wondering at one point why schools can’t just adjust their hours instead if children heading to school before dawn is a major concern (the further north you go, the less daylight savings helps) since I’ve seen businesses adjust their hours over the year, but then I remembered that school hours generally revolve around the middle class nine-to-five job (at least in the US, I have no idea if that’s common elsewhere). But nobody I know actually works those exact hours, and some do not even have a regular schedule, so I’m wondering if that’s really common enough anymore that we should still be privileging it.

TrueUnpopularOP #racist #wingnut #conspiracy

This isn’t even DEI, it’s the made-up conservative version of CRT, which in turn is mostly just a rehash of “white guilt”, which was never really a thing. Can’t even keep track of your own fictions, seems like.

GoneAnon #conspiracy #wingnut

Going to point out that one of the state’s two Republican Senators, Lisa Murkowski, endorsed Mary Peltola for the state’s singular House seat in 2022 and 2024, despite being a Democrat. She won both times. Given how popular Murk is in Alaskan Politics, that had to have an effect. Almost certainly not the whole story, but worth noting.

She’s running for the other Senate seat this year. AFAIK Murkowski is neither endorsing nor speaking against it. I wish her luck, regardless; we need as many Dems in the Senate as possible.

David J Stewart #fundie #sexist

It’s Davey J, he’s never gotten over the “betrayal” of his wife leaving him. If only women were interchangeable slaves with no personality, no preferences, and no freedom, or at least always pretended to be so in order to soothe men’s egos, this would never have happened! Of course he barely talks about men’s obligations and duties… because if he did, he’d have to confront the fact that his wife left him because he was the one who betrayed the family… by raping their daughter.

Megyn Kelly #quack #conspiracy

Fauci is currently being dragged out of retirement so he can once again appear before US Congress to answer some questions about the alleged coverup of the hypothetical Chinese bioweapons lab which produced Covid, despite there being no new evidence of that particular conspiracy theory. This may or may not be another distraction from the Epstein files.

Meanwhile, Schrödinger’s Covid is simultaneously harmless and killed millions, whichever conservatives need to be true at the particular moment.

Milli Sands #wingnut #racist #conspiracy

I doubt anyone really believes this, beyond a tiny number of people who are deep in magical thinking. No one denies that fighting against the present system, whatever it may be, demolishing it piece by piece, and rebuilding the pieces, won’t result in at least a little bit of pain to somebody, and probably a lot of pain to a whole lot of somebodies. It will not be a sudden, or a total inversion, and even in the best case scenario it will not be an utopia.

Then again, the OP seems to be engaging in a form of magical thinking themselves, so it might just be projection.

Generalorder4 #fundie #dunning-kruger

I haven’t seen the movie, but Ulysses wasn’t a good person in the original story either. For example, he killed a whole bunch of people for the crime of not knowing that his ship wasn’t lost at sea a decade ago and moving on with their lives. Well, technically it *was* lost at sea, it just turned out to be in the sense of “got lost and couldn’t find the way back” instead of the usual sense of “it sank and everyone drowned”. But you should have just known that he was alive and would have made his way back eventually, you fucking traitors.

Part of the confusion is that the original definition of “hero” wasn’t “do-gooder” but “is borderline to actually superhuman”. Today it’s sometimes used as a synonym for “protagonist”, and protagonists aren’t always good guys, but most people can easily tell the difference. Media literacy is dead, as they say, but it’s not quite *that* dead.

Rob Cunningham/KUWL #crackpot #wingnut #dunning-kruger

Initially I thought that this was going to be a Sovereign Citizens inspired thing which was going to advocate weakening national control over energy and data and giving most of the power to local areas. This might not necessarily be a bad thing, it depends on how the culture and technology evolves from here, but we’re still a ways off from that being realistic. But then I thought that it was going towards countries having their own separate internet completely cut off from the rest of the world (like North Korea does, mostly), but it didn’t go there either. Even ignoring that this has some issues caused by the OP not quite understanding how things work, I’m not sure what problem, real or imaginary, he thinks this is solving.

John Gregorek #crackpot #dunning-kruger

The whole “gravity is bidirectional” part makes me wonder if he thinks that stuff is pulled both up and down. Like “tide goes in, tide goes out” but not knowing that it’s caused by the moon (and to a lesser extent, the sun) enhancing or counteracting Earth’s gravity to a very limited extent. It’s still being only pulled “down”, just toward three different “downs” at the same time, at differing strengths. And he’s considering buoyancy to be the going-the-other-direction gravitational force? I think? But also treating things not caused by buoyancy as if they were? It’s a confusing mess where you can’t tell for sure where he went wrong from this synopsis alone, but you know it wasn’t just one thing.

Tatsuya Ishida #racist #conspiracy #wingnut

@leyo3 #260609
In-universe, those aren’t Jews being killed, but Russian peasants. It’s a “no, acksually, the holocaust is historical revisionism inspired by the gulags, which the Jew-controlled Soviets were responsible for”. And this strip implies that the seeds of this “revisionism” were planted by Jewish propaganda at the time. To make things even more ludicrous, the peasants were killed in part because the peasantry still worshiped the Tsar, which makes very little sense because the Soviet Union arose from the ashes of the Russian Revolution (1917). Which happened because most of the peasants *hated* the Tsar.

Tatsuya Ishida #crackpot #psycho #transphobia #wingnut

“The punchline is transgenders always kill themselves” feels a bit odd here, as that’s a regular Stonetoss thing, but not really a Sinfest thing.

Scarlet #conspiracy #crackpot #psycho #transphobia

I suppose it’s a step up that the Hirschfeld Institute is no longer considered a hallucination by those demented transgenderists or sinister historical revisionism, but it doesn’t stop them from being stupid about it.

Hirschfeld technically didn’t even invent the word “transsexuel” [sic] as “transsexual” was created by an anonymous German doctor back in 1880. (He thought he did, but the word was still virtually unknown in his time, and a lot of sources still credit him). Likewise, the concept existed in an inchoate form in modern medicine almost as far back as modern medicine itself, it just remained really obscure until some early psychologists became aware of it during the 1910s. You can, however, credit him for inventing “gender medicine” and being among the first to believe that being trans was not, in itself, a mental illness.

Vic Biorseth #wingnut #fundie #racist

Christians, and especially Catholic Christians, and even more especially Traditional Latin Mass Catholics.

You’re funny. To the extent that Christianity is being opposed in the US, Evangelical Protestants and Southern Baptists are considered bigger threats than Catholics, and more for their behavior and politics than their religion. That said, the Federalist Society does have quite a lot of Opus Dei Catholics, but they’re still hated for their politics rather than their religion, and the Federalists as a whole don’t represent Catholics in general.

White people, and especially male white people, and even more especially masculine male white people.

Correction: White supremacists, Male supremacists, and especially those who eschew healthy masculinity for toxic masculinity.

American patriots, and especially white Christian patriots, and even more especially America herself.

“Conservatives are patriots to a nation that never was. Liberals are patriots to a nation which is yet to be.” – Me
(That’s the optimistic version, the pessimistic one ends with “may never exist”.)
I’ve noted that conservatives easily get the idea that “being a traitor to ideals you never held” is stupid when it applies to themselves, but most seem to struggle with it when it applies to people not like themselves.

Moral people, especially in the Judeo-Christian sense of the word.

I am an atheist. My long-time boyfriend is a devout Christian. I’ve been to his church a few times, for events which were held there, because it was important to him. I don’t hate Christianity or even religion in general. Nor do the majority of people in left-wing spaces, at least as far as I’ve seen. Some are even Christian themselves, just not likely any kind which people like the OP would approve of.

Meanwhile the public figures which get opposed most fervently are usually those for whom their “Christian Morality” is an informed trait. There’s no good reason to believe that they’re moral even by Conservative Christian standards.

Jews, especially Israeli Jews, and even more especially Israel herself.

Oh wait, you’re serious. Let me laugh even harder.

Look, “Antifa” as a whole is pro-Palestine, because they’re anti-Genocide, and the government of Israel is doing the whole Genocide thing, but for most people, that’s as far as it goes. “Antifa” aren’t the ones who are attacking Jews.

@TatersForever5481 #260507

It’s rather old-fashioned (and never particularly common in the US that I’m aware of) to refer to countries in the feminine (similar to cars and boats) in English, but not unheard of. I think they’re usually grammatically gendered that way in Romance Languages?

Natalia #transphobia

Reminder that “detister” as used in this context is nonsensical - it’s likely based on that one study which used a really bizarre definition of “detistance”, and if not, then it’s about re-closeting themself and putting back on the false mask of one’s “absolute real true self” which the people around them demand that they always wear. And roughly 75% of detransitioners do so not because they weren’t really transgender, but because transitioning turned out to be too dangerous for them… or occasionally, because they stand to gain major benefits in the short- to mid-term which outweigh the suffering (an inheritance, for example).

I don’t know much about the Kiera Bell situation, but I wouldn’t be surprised that a genuine detransitioner (even one who affirms harmful myths about trans people) wouldn’t easily reconcile and forgive their parents for having been as toxic and delusional about trans people as the typical Pittparent is, especially if said parents are still as toxic and delusional about other things as well.

Jesse Watters #sexist #psycho

Watters later backpedaled, claiming that his statements weren’t about rape but boys-being-boys, as if that weren’t also problematic and rapey.

Mr Pool #wingnut #crackpot #conspiracy #mammon

I suspect this is related to the recent documents reveal that supposedly “proves” that China threw the 2020 election to Biden. They don’t say any such thing, but Trump claims they do, and his fans aren’t about to read them.

padded-eevee-pet #sexist #moonbat #transphobia

Well. I looked into this for more context, and… if there were ever a use for a #cisphobia and/or a #vanillashaming tag, this would probably be it.

Dr. Michael Salla #ufo #wingnut #crackpot #conspiracy

The surest sign that the US government hasn’t made contact with aliens is that Donald Trump hasn’t carelessly or accidentally leaked it.

Vox Day #racist #wingnut

For quite some time now, the US Constitution has been “unconstitutional” because it doesn’t match what an imaginary far-right version of the Founders would have written if they had existed. This predated MAGA, but it became less of a fringe view once MAGA got a hold of it.

The Supreme Court could *maybe* creatively reinterpret the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment… but it’s hard to imagine how they could, and then they’d also have to justify overturning United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898).

David J. Stewart #crackpot #fundie

When your life has been a DEAD END for many years, with no real hope of escape, everything looks like sour grapes.

I pity the people of Guam for having to put up with this asshat.

Maximus #wingnut #psycho #racist #fundie #god-complex

@JeanP #259676

Because what they’re for is “truth”, which they apparently believe is so self-evident that it doesn’t need to be explained.