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#fundie #transphobia #sexist #wingnut #crackpot #interphobia

“Students do not shed their First Amendment rights at the schoolhouse gate,”

This is a real interesting line to go with because in the past the Right Wing has argued that, acksually, students and employees don’t have much in the way of First Amendment rights when it conflicts with the professed beliefs of their employer or the school board. I don’t think this is a change of heart so much as an intent to apply it just as selectively as they did with State’s Rights and Parent’s Rights.

Tatsuya Ishida #racist #conspiracy

This isn’t the only example of Laura Loomer being depicted as Jigsaw with long hair. Until this strip, nobody knew who that was supposed to be, other than someone Jewish, probably. Tats can be really bad at symbology sometimes because he forgets that his brainworms are uniquely his own.

Philip Morris #transphobia #conspiracy

There are 3 groups of people who want to add a “P” to LGBTQIA+: Pedophilia apologists, who want pedophilia to be considered a normal, oppressed sexuality; Fundies, who don’t see any meaningful distinction between all the groups under the umbrella, as it’s all equally perversion and/or degeneracy to them, and would like the non-fundies to see it their way; and Pansexuals, who are tired of being lumped with Bisexuals or being regulated to the “+” among with rare and obscure identities. I don’t think that “plus starts with a P, therefore pedophilia is secretly in there already” is going to get much traction.

Possum Reviews #wingnut

I remember liberals being on the fence about an 8-year-old drag queen known as “Lactatia”, due to his stage name and performance being borderline child-inappropriate. He was one of the performers featured on “Drag Kids”, not “Cuties”. You *might* find a few liberals who strongly defended this, though if there were any I’m going to side-eye them.

Somewhat confusingly, “Cuties” refers both to a French film which criticized the sexualization of young children in the media (which was controversial because they accurately depicted it in order to criticize it) and a Netflix series which was just flat-out the very sort of thing the movie criticized. You’ll likely find some liberal defenders of the former but probably none defending the latter.

Richard DuPree #racist #conspiracy

The human-skin lampshades were real, but it gets blown out of proportion because there were only a few of them. The “roller coasters of death” (AKA “holocoasters”) are a recent invention of 4chan. I haven’t heard of any of the others, though I wouldn’t be surprised if some or all of them referred to experiments being done by Josef Mengele. ~~I’m also a bit surprised that the debunked human-fat soaps wasn’t included here, as that would at least be something a lot of people have heard of.~~ [edit: I could have sworn that wasn’t included]

Elon Musk #wingnut

“Anyone who doesn’t agree with Hitler is a Nazi” is a sentiment which seems to be going around these days.

Tatsuya Ishida #transphobia #racist

@Anon-e-moose #242903
He *is* American, but since he’s non-white and his parents are Japanese immigrants, there are people who would claim otherwise. Best not to validate that claim even indirectly.

NSM88 #racist #conspiracy

Haven’t read the Scientific American article, but: 1.) NASA lost some of their original data 2.) Standards are much higher now 3.) NASA has a much lower budget 4.) Most importantly, going back to the moon just to go back to the moon would be a pointless stunt, the main purpose is to test out some space-related technology which will be essential for later stages of the Artemis Project.

“Failing to placate rabid bigots” is on very the bottom of their list of potential concerns.

various commenters #wingnut #racist

because they cannot swear allegiance to our Constitution.

By which you mean that you personally believe that whatever strawmen born of your personal ignorance cannot be trusted to so swear, therefore any real people who you identify as such strawmen should not be trusted by anyone.

Samantha Fulnecky #crackpot #fundie #transphobia

She wrote a theology essay for a sociology assignment, and didn’t meet the standards for either. What grade would anyone expect, realistically?

It’s quite likely that she took this class on purpose in hopes of getting a media attention and/or martyrdom moment. Which she basically got.

@White__Rabbit #wingnut

This feels like they couldn’t quite bring themselves to go with either “most other people are NPCs” or “people who don’t agree with me are sheep influenced by malign forces” so instead tried to split the difference, but the result was highly abstract and borderline incoherent and this is the best metaphor they could come up with to explain it.

Chillturtleguy #dunning-kruger #fundie

It’s trivially easy to prove, scientifically, that a lot of people *claim* to believe that God is real. Actually proving that a lot of people *do* believe God is real, as they claim, would require extensive neurological scanning, and no one’s ever tried because we all kind of just take it for granted. That wouldn’t prove that said belief is correct, or even justified regardless or correctness. You need to, like, actually produce God so we can study his realness or lack thereof.

ScottieMcDowell #pratt

Benny Johnson #racist

80 Million is nearly a quarter of the current US population. Do you really think there are anywhere near that many?

For reference, the estimated number of undocumented immigrants is only about 10 million.

Steven L Anderson #wingnut #sexist

It’s been an interesting evolution to see: Out of the Republican women in the US House of Representatives, Nancy Mace started out okay-ish for a conservative but has more recently been descending into lunacy, Marjorie Taylor-Greene used to be deep in the lunacy but is slowly pulling out of it, and Lauren Boebert remains an ignorant, classless attention-seeker. MTG gets only partial credit, though; it’s a case of developing empathy on specific issues only when those issues start affecting her adult children, which is sadly the best you can expect out of a typical conservative.

Tatsuya Ishida #racist #conspiracy

What’s weird about this is that there’s a parasitoid wasp (eucharitid) that lays eggs on ant larvae, but not adult ants, and they don’t control the host in any way. There’s a parasitoid fungus (cordyceps) which mind-controls adult ants, but it doesn’t “lay eggs” or produce “larvae” in any meaningful sense. There’s a parasitoid fly (apocephalus) which lays eggs on an adult host and mind-controls them, but they attack certain species of bees, not ants. In short, there’s no known species which does exactly what’s depicted in the comic.

Tatsuya Ishida #transphobia #racist #conspiracy

@TheKingOfRhye #241994

He went one step further in As You Like It, where a woman pretends to be a man pretending to be a woman. Played by a male actor, of course.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention #conspiracy #pratt #quack

EK Legend pt3 #psycho

In a recent military survey of active-duty troops, 80% said that they would not obey an illegal order, 9% said they would, 9% said they weren’t sure, and 2% refused to answer. So the military itself mostly doesn’t agree with you there.

John Horvat II #fundie #wingnut #forced-birth #conspiracy

This is all mostly true, (“Mostly” because on the average, Millenials and Zoomers are/were doing a bit worse than Boomers and Gen-X did at the same age, so exceptions don’t count for much when you’re talking about the aggregate) but you’re missing at least one major thing. The standards for raising children are considerably higher. Try to raise kids like an early 20th century (or earlier) poor person and people will probably call CPS (Child Protection Services) or their national equivalent. That combined with shaming people for having children that they “can’t afford” (to raise at current standards) is definitely going to have an effect, though how much is an open question.

There’s also a strong correlation between better education and fewer children, but I don’t think there’s a direct causation but probably due to a number of loosely related factors which generally coexist alongside education levels.

To the limited extent that there might be an “individualist” or “postmodernist” psychological aspect to it, some people (myself included) believe that having children is simultaneously among the most selfless and the most selfish things you can do, averaging out to neutral, so they feel more free to choose not to have any if it’s not right for them and/or not fair to their potential future children. This is bizarre to those who adhere to the more traditional thinking where it’s both purely selfless and largely mandatory.

Ken Ham #fundie

Having a conscience does not equate to having awareness of any being granting that conscience, assuming that were true in the first place. Nor does that being granting such knowledge imply that they did so through “conscience”, unless you’re using a very strange definition of the word. Non-sequitur, at minimum.

James Antonius Fulk #racist #conspiracy #wingnut

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is, at the top, a Marxist-Maoist-Leninist trained and led revolutionary movement

Might as well stop there, nothing you can say about this will have any value.

The closest thing there is to a “top” in any of the recent left-wing movements is protest coordination, where one or more small national-level groups get together and debate the best day and themes for the bigger protests, and then encourage local groups to spread the word. Leadership is diffuse and tenuous. Nearly everyone who shows up is independent, and hierarchy is virtually nonexistent. Ideology is limited to a general “this thing is bad, mmmkay” and supply-your-own reasons why. Funding, if any, is very limited, mostly from small grassroots donations, SorosBux™ is not a real thing.

This is utterly baffling to most people with authoritarian mindsets, or are only experienced with strongly hierarchical ways of organizing, so they have to fit things in best they can with what they know and invent conspiracy theories to fill the gaps. As a way to understand reality, it doesn’t work.

Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans #transphobia

Back in the day, there were a lot of people who supported gays and lesbians in the abstract, maybe were even allies (albeit usually superficial ones), but the moment any of their family or friends came out they went homophobic. Likewise, the reverse happened, people started out homophobic but once one of their family or friends came out they started becoming anywhere from superficially supportive to sincere allies. Same for trans people too, really, but a lot less visible due to far fewer trans people being uncloseted and seeking transition.

The only thing which has really changed is that LGBTQIA+ people are living much more openly, so there the people who would switch like that, in either direction, are more likely to be facing the situation where they would do so. Thus, seeing more people “stepping away” doesn’t mean much in terms of overall support for transphobic ideologies. It could easily mean that things are becoming a bit more polarized, or that it’s canceling out. Or it could even be like how church attendance is gradually going down in many countries, and fewer people identify as Christian, but the average remaining attendance is increasingly fundie… so the fundies mostly see more and more of their own and as a result think the general public is becoming more and more like them. The opposite appears to be true in most places, at least in regards to some social issues.

This is one of those things where you really need to look at the big picture.

Gavin McInnes #crackpot #quack

No. Ammonia and bleach are pure substances, while urine is water and urea and traces of salt and miscellaneous waste products. It leaves behind a sticky, smelly yellow residue when the water evaporates, it doesn’t just vanish. And nobody wants you to spread around the bacteria from you touching your genitals.

Also you should wash your hands after touching ammonia or bleach, you really do not want to get traces of it in your mouth or eyes. Or someone else’s mouth or eyes.

f3llyn & Dokolus #transphobia #wingnut #pratt #fundie

I find it fascinating how some of the people who mock the idea of “words as violence” still describe words as violence (though usually without using the V-word) when they’re feeling attacked. I don’t know if that’s true of the OP, specifically, but total lack of self-awareness among those who do.

olafoneeye1562 #sexist

@Timjer #241128
Might still be worth pointing out: Warhammer 40,000 does have a toxic dudebro subculture which thinks that the patriarchal, fascist Imperium of Man is something to admire, the existence of the Adepta Soritas notwithstanding. They’re not the majority from what I hear, but still a substantial minority. I don’t know if Classic Warhammer or Age of Sigmar have anything similar.

Graham Linehan #transphobia

Who do you mean by the “central trans figures”? Is this some new conspiracy theory thing?

Not that it probably matters. I’m 90% sure anyone who advocates for gender-affirming care for minors counts as a “pedophile” here.

Alex Newman #wingnut #conspiracy #racist

MLK was a socialist. That’s something which conservatives have long tried to erase, in order to claim him as their own and wield him as a club against black people for not being “respectable” enough. (Read: “I don’t judge you by the color of your skin but by the content of your character, and your character is that of an uppity N-slur.”) That’s not the same as being a communist though, not that the typical wingnut understands what either is. He was also a left-wing Christian minister. I suppose that he might be heretical from the view of some right-wing churches, but most people would not consider him anti-Christian.

Anon #sexist #psycho

Vox Day and Steve Bannon #wingnut #psycho #conspiracy

despite his three electoral victories, he hasn’t served a second term yet.

He didn’t win either the popular vote or the electoral college in 2020, so in no way can he be considered to have won three times. Also by the end of his current term (and arguably, by Jan 2027) he will count as having served two terms, so he can’t get a third one. You can’t proactively rules-lawyer the present state to justify future actions.

Unless you’re claiming that this is Trump’s third term and he hasn’t served his second yet, in which case no. Not how anything works.

farrakhan fanboy #racist #moonbat

You should have at least included the image. Typing out the text is a courtesy in case of someone using a screen reader, or if someone goes through the archives and the image became broken at some point.

Text is here:

Ongoing Colonization-Genocide
White European Species upon arriving on Brown Part of World
[Albino cockroach: “Vacate your lands now, I was here 3000 years ago (as per book of encyclopedia)”]
Leave your Grandmother Homes, Farms, Trees, Villages, River its all mine now. Don’t be an anti-termite!

Discrete Music #transphobia #pratt

@pyro #240540
Before the 1990s, even. The first such “very special episode” was on The Jeffersons… in 1977.

Well, the examples predating the 1990s were pretty sparse, so they were certainly missable, but if you were an adult regularly watching TV in the US during the mid-1990s to early 2000s, they were just common enough that it would be surprising if you never saw anything. Also there were at least a handful appearances of trans people being interviewed about their experiences on daytime talk shows during that period. But that really depends on the age of the OP and their TV-watching habits, since (again in the US, not sure about elsewhere) such episodes became less common after the early 2000s, and trans people weren’t fully normalized in the media until Orange is the New Black in 2013.

Anonymous #ableist #conspiracy #dunning-kruger #transphobia

My [redacted] adult [daughter] has been trapped in the trans nightmare

The nightmare-trapped person is you. The one trapping you there is also you.

Discrete Music #transphobia #pratt

@Anon-e-moose #240502

Unless you’re referring to some minor character from later in that series (Konatsu?), Ranma himself is an involuntary sex-shifter, but still almost exclusively identifies as male regardless of current physical form, so not a great example of being either transgender or genderfluid. A much better example is the earlier Stop!! Hibari-kun from 1981. The main character, Hibari, is AMAB, but identifies as and lives as a girl. I mean, it’s a comedy and there’s some problematic Japanese comedy tropes, but she’s not treated like some weird pervert or anything like that. Granted, that one’s obscure in the West outside the trans community, but it was popular enough in Japan to get an anime in 1983.

Chick Publications #fundie #mammon

Let me guess, yet another long list of things which are thoroughly debunked and/or irrelevant and have been repeatedly responded to at length, but the average fundie either doesn’t understand or doesn’t care, therefore “no one can answer” them.

Ethan White #crackpot #wingnut #magick #conspiracy

I looked at the actual map of DC, and there are long gaps and spots which don’t line up quite as perfectly as they’re trying to portray here. The actual reason for a wide array of interesting geometric patterns which you can make with the street grid (especially if you ignore gaps) seems to be due to six-pointed spokes overlaid on a regular NWSE grid.

But let’s say that the city planners actually intended for the squashed pentagram and the elongated compass pattern to exist and be good enough for whatever mystic purposes they had in mind despite all the imperfections (and apparently either threw in some extra spokes as a distraction, or made more mystic patterns that the conspiracy theorists missed), that still wouldn’t mean that “they” can actually harness magic.

Hanne Nabintu Herland #wingnut #conspiracy

LANGUAGEOFSHAKESPEARE #wingnut #racist

Christianity (or just certain branches of it) is both the only thing which is not a religion *and* the only real religion, depending on whichever benefits Christian fundies more at that particular moment. Everything else is either a religion or not a religion depending on whichever benefits other people less. Consistency doesn’t matter when supremacy is at stake.

whatismyfuckinlife #kinkshaming #dunning-kruger #moonbat #sexist #racist

Polyamory does have some social and legal complications, and erasure is an issue. It’s probably true that, for most people who openly practice it, they wouldn’t consider it to be on the same level that lesbians and gays have historically faced, but that “openly practice it” may be a significant qualifier. But poly issues haven’t been studied to anywhere near the same degree as LGBTQIA+ issues, because erasure, so it’s hard to say.

Regardless, just because something is less of a problem doesn’t make it not a problem. People can work on both small issues and big ones.

Tatsuya Ishida #racist

This is just what he’s doing now. After several months of an incoherent, meandering, pointless “Yaweh vs. Norse Gods” plot which grew like a cancer out of a Snow White “parody” he’s just doing antisemitic caricatures of Hollywood movies, all of which have been from the 1990s so far except one from the early 2000s and another from the 1970s. (This one, “As Good As It Gets”, is from 1997.) Because he’s been out of touch for so long that his pop culture knowledge basically ends in the mid-2000s.

Tatsuya Ishida #racist

@Bastethotep #239695
That is probably exactly what he meant.

Incidentally, the strip’s title (“holocoaster”) is a reference to a 4chan meme about how 6 million bodies would have had to have been rail-carted through the ovens in order to dispose of them all in a relatively short timeframe. This is ignoring that the majority of bodies were buried in mass graves and the cremation went on for years and only really amped up towards the end of the war.

Jim #transphobia #wingnut #conspiracy #fundie #racist

Kash Patel had to be repeatedly reminded at first that he is technically the head of the FBI, and not some low-level disgruntled employee who posts on social media about how the FBI is too slow to act because nobody seems to be in charge of anything.

Wal Thornhill #crackpot #dunning-kruger #conspiracy

This is just electromagnetism. It has nothing to do with the debunked electric universe theory.

The cut out section from the original text states that scientists “may be missing something” and that something may have something to do with “not accounting for” electrically charged plasma in their models of the universe (by assuming that all matter is neutrally charged), but it’s just a vague insinuation which doesn’t directly tie to electric universe. Also it’s nonsense, as astrophysicists very much do account for that.

Tatsuya Ishida #racist

“Dumb White Guy” predates TV and originated on radio, and remained popular for several decades because it’s a fantasy that you can be a useless fuckup and everything still always ends up okay just ‘cuz you’re white and male, often complete with a middle class lifestyle and a hot wife. It seems to be dying out though.

“Evil White Guy” These are rarely the protagonists, and are nearly always taken down by the heroic white guys. And also this trope would mostly go away if Nazis would stop being Nazis.

“Sad White Guy with AIDS” is basically just *one* movie, Philadelphia, from 1993. I mean there are probably a few arthouse films which could be described that way, but unless I really missed something, no other big-budget Hollywood movie. This may be because Tatsuya’s pop culture knowledge stems mostly from the 1990s and 2000s.

“Heroic White Guy Sacrifices Himself and His Family so Blacks and Browns can flourish” is an exaggerated and mostly inaccurate description of White Savior Complex. I’m not sure who likes these things because most Liberals and most Conservatives hate it (for very different reasons), with occasional exceptions. Regardless, I wonder what Tats would make of its sorta-opposite counterpart, Magic Negro, which is even more problematic and thankfully mostly dead.

Parents With Inconvenient Truths about Trans #transphobia #fundie

@TheKingOfRhye #238644
“Bingo games”?? What the hell is this woman talking about?

I’m pretty sure they’re talking about bingo-like grids in the form of JPGs posted online, where you mark off intra-community stereotypes and common experiences. It’s sort of like a yes-no questionnaire with the answers displayed in grid form. Generally silly stuff, like how bisexuals stereotype themselves as not being able to sit on chairs properly, or non-binary people stereotype themselves as really liking frogs, which you probably wouldn’t know unless you were part of those communities. Though I would suspect that, if their kid actually showed them something like that, it would be a more serious version.

Tim O'Brian #transphobia

remind their child, who was born a girl, that she is a girl in reality, that’s simply affirmation of her sex. But that's not how the Left sees it.

No, we see it that way just fine. What we don’t agree is that “sex affirmation” is what’s called for in this situation.

Eric Dubay #conspiracy #dunning-kruger

I did a bit of quick research, and it appears that most people average to 6th cousin to everyone in their local area (and their “remove” equivalents) if their family is from there and there’s not a lot of inflow of new people to that area, and an average of 14th cousin to everyone in the world. Rich, powerful, and famous white people aren’t exactly a fully open breeding group; 8th is hardly weird, and 11th would be unusually distant. Also it’s kind of funny how “related by marriage” (an in-law, in this case) somehow has a similar degree of whatever sort of genetic influence they’re claiming here.

This is probably the result of not understanding exponentials. Also even the Bible suggests that bloodlines don’t mean much beyond a 7th remove (and just plain cousins are at a 3rd remove).

Jeffrey Dean #wingnut #conspiracy

Arsonists generally aren’t intentional murderers. People do die from fires, obviously, but it’s an unreliable way to kill people unless you can purposefully trap them in a windowless room or something. And if it’s just about ruining someone and/or sending a message, obviously you would make an effort to be sure no one’s home.

Pete Hegseth #pratt #dunning-kruger #wingnut #racist #psycho

“This decision is now final, and their place in our nation’s history is no longer up for debate”

So you’ve declared yourself the Pope of US History, and all historians are now priests under your command? I don’t think they’d take too well to that.

Wayne Allyn Root #conspiracy #wingnut

…Is this an admission that several Republicans are on the payroll of drug lords or plan to be, but that’s fine because IOKIYAR, yet you still need some scapegoats for it anyway? I mean, I don’t think WAR has any actual clue what either of the US political parties are doing generally, but assuming that this is based on rumors that we’re all about to hear and not his own demented imagination…