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Tatsuya Ishidia #racist

There’s a connection here, but it’s kind of a stupid one.

There are myths from various cultures about monsters or wizards who became immortal by putting their soul in an object and then hiding it. The hero finds it anyway and breaks it, kills the bad guy, wins the maiden, the end. This kind of thing is the inspiration for the modern “lich” monster. Koschei the Deathless is one of the less obscure of these inspirations, and as such had an outsized influence here. But in the 1980s, some depictions of the lich were, basically, evil undead greedy Jew wizard. So anyone who was familiar with that depiction might make a backwards inference of Jew → lich → Koschei.

Even then, I’m not sure why anyone would think that’s a gotcha. Koschei the Deathless is a villain who dies so that Ivan Tsarevich can rescue his wife Marya Morevna. It’s not like Russians glorify him as some “evil folk hero” or something.

(Side note: I mostly know this because some of the fans of the animé Puella Magi Madoka Magica referred to the magical girls as “liches” and it sent me down that rabbit hole.)

Tatsuya Ishida #pratt #wingnut

Wait, I have no idea about the others, but was there ever a non-aggression pact between Poland and Russia? Because I’d think that this would have come up prominently in WW2 history lessons if that existed.

Trinity Foundation #fundie #dunning-kruger

<@KeithInc.> #257974

“(3) Science commits the fallacy of induction.”
Citation needed.

Citation actually not needed, it’s just nonsense. There is no such thing as “the fallacy of induction”. *A* fallacy of induction (more commonly referred to as an inductive fallacy, and the majority of informal fallacies are those) is an error in inductive reasoning. Inductive reasoning may be weaker than deductive reasoning, but it is not inherently an error. It’s just not preferred where deductive reasoning is possible - and when it comes to scientific discovery, it usually isn’t. The fact that it usually isn’t is part of the reason why scientific proofs have to be so rigorous.

michaelprue9024 #crackpot #wingnut

This is what is called, as the youngsters say, a cope.

If US law is all that matters here, then the last war the US was involved with was WW2. The Vietnam War? Extended military operation. The Korean War? Also just a military operation. The Cold War? A series of proxy wars, which the US pretends not to have been directly involved in even though they sort of were, so they don’t count. But by any sane definition, all of those count, and so did this excursion with Iran. History will record it as a “war”. Hiding behind technicalities is a cope.

Tatsuya Ishida #wingnut

@Citizen_Justin #257852

Based on earlier strips, that’s a giant statue of Lenin, not the man himself. Based on Tatsuya’s usual symbology, the statue is probably meant to symbolize the spirit of Communism. Or maybe just the Soviet Union.

HPathy #quack #fundie #magick

exogenous homeopathy through biophotonic resonance

Words words words words *words* words words.

Each of those means something independently, but the whole is just gibberish. Taking just the first two, “Exogenous homeopathy” sounds like you’re not even taking any homeopathic “medicine” but there’s some sort of vaguely related process going on nearby as a form of treatment. Which may very well be what that means. But when you start adding in the other three words the result is a descent into madness.

Moritani #ableist

I don’t think “neurotypical” is an objective category. Different people have different ways of experiencing the world, and different ways of internally processing that experience. Different people have different levels of various instinctive drives. The full range of possible humanity is far wider than most assume. But even if not objective, it may still be a useful category; it’s the range of people for whom the society they live in does not cause them any inherent distress¹ or serious life challenges², or something along those lines. There are extreme outliers who would not do well in any functional society, but there’s a broad spectrum between that and whatever is widely considered “neurotypical”.

¹Excluding those caused by racism, sexism, classism, and similar -isms and -phobias, as those are not inherent to individual neurotypicality.

²Excluding those caused by physical disability, as this is not relevant to the subject at hand.

More relevant to the OP: just because someone has one particular trait (and likely, autism is not a singular trait but a range of them) doesn’t mean that they manifest in the exact same way, or even combine with other unrelated traits to produce the exact same outcome. This is a form of misaimed empathy brought on by not understanding just how much humans vary from each other.

Stephen Miller #sexist #racist #transphobia #wingnut

@Passerby #257607

Maybe it’s the ones who don’t particularly distinguish vegetarian and vegan because it’s a distinction without a difference as far as they’re concerned, and/or the ones who are offended by the “disrespect” vegans show them by not eating their chicken dish, because it’s “close enough”?

As a USAian, I do find that Bandon and Tillamook cheeses are decent (sorry Wisconsin, but Oregon has a bit higher standards). But if I want better than “decent”, then I usually spring for European or New Zealand imports.

@stonykark #257522

It’s inappropriate in most circles to wish severe suffering, serious crimes, or death on even terrible people. (Not that it was mentioned here, but prison rape counts, if anyone needed to know.) Anticipating someone’s assassination comes dangerously close to that. It is appropriate to wish for a fall from grace/power, obscurity, and losing friends/allies. (Particularly status-obsessed people might take any of these very badly and for a very long time, but it is generally deserved, and also something one can and should get over after an appropriate grieving period.) Complete loneliness for the rest of their life is generally acceptable but a bit iffy (some of the worst people shouldn’t be anywhere near others, but at the same time, it’s a form of severe suffering for some people). It is also acceptable to wish a comedic mild humiliation/injury (stepping on a rake or lego, getting eggs or pies to the face, as a few examples) so long as it’s expressed in a joking manner.

This whole bit of stupid started with a fluff survey of various Democrats what their favorite burrito was, and Talarico responded with egg, cheese, and potato breakfast burrito. Then some jackasses blarped “oh so you’re like a vegan huh” and it spiraled out of control from there. It won’t be long before he’s an obese blue-haired lesbian transgender vegan feminazi who hates Jesus and does witchcraft or whatever.

Tatsuya Ishida #racist

@TheKingOfRhye #257280

I did a little checking, and apparently the Ford V-8 continued production until 1953, but color TV wasn’t commercially available until 1954. So even pretending that this scene is a random aside which happened long after WW2, it’s still anachronistic. But the first black & white commercial was apparently in 1941. So *if* you ignore the part where it’s in color, it is plausible that someone who was well-off enough to have a television during WW2 might have seen a Ford V-8 commercial. But it’s still implausible that this commercial would have been openly antisemitic. It’s also implausible that someone from the 1940s would be using 21st century slang.

Greg Gutfeld #racist #psycho

To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln: “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for feeding others maggot-infested food, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

Smash JT #biphobia #conspiracy #crackpot #dunning-kruger #transphobia

This isn’t even what “bisexual lighting” means. That’s when you have a red or pink light source on one side and a blue one on the other, so seen from a position not near either source, anything in between them looks tinted both colors on each side with a hazy purplish border in between. It has nothing to do with certain colors merely appearing together in the art.

Donald Trump #ableist #crackpot

Does he even know what the word means? I’m genuinely curious.

Anon #sexist #psycho

In societies like that, 5-10 women in a harem was nowhere near normal, and mostly reserved for aristocracies. Even in well-off families, 2-4 was the norm, and poorer families usually just had just 1. And the “high value” men were usually high value… because they were the oldest son. That’s the primary qualification. It wasn’t uncommon for *only* the oldest son being allowed to marry, with any younger sons being backups if they survived.

Also men dying in large numbers was never “natural”, it was a side effect of how *some* agricultural societies organized themselves. Stone age societies, with rare exceptions, didn’t have that problem, and even some agricultural ones didn’t either.

Leekyfrmbville #psycho #sexist

This very much reads as “if you don’t let me commit a specific crime, I’ll commit a different crime!”

Tatsuya Ishida #conspiracy #racist #wingnut

@Smithnikov #257029

The really weird part is that, in this alternate reality, the US and UK had masses of troops and Tanks standing by to strike as soon as Germany invaded anyone else… but so far, they both still haven’t. Despite that Germany has very clearly and unambiguously invaded France, all that happened so far was the RAF bombing one city, and that was kind of glossed over. (Poland is being framed as defending the country against the Soviets, the London Bombing was propaganda leaflets.)

The Balfour Declaration, which sought to create a “Jewish homeland” whether they wanted it or not, was only seriously considered in the UK and was dead by 1922. The idea was revived during WW2 thanks to the holocaust, but the Balfour Declaration only indirectly influenced the eventual creation of Israel.

The Kalergi Plan isn’t real. The Nazis hallucinated it into “existence” based on a misreading of a single paragraph in Kalergi’s book. Which is weird in that, even if their misinterpretation was correct, there’s no reason to believe anyone had ever created any specific documents on promoting race-mixing.

Renel Sanon #fundie #psycho

Démocratie Participative #sexist #crackpot #racist #wingnut

I read the rest of it, and best I can tell (not 100% fluent in “Franch”, but I needed the practice) it’s just more of the same, a mix of incel whining about falling birth rates among white people, how white men are brutalized by women denying them sex, and immigrant bashing, with a bit of islamophobia on the side. The main site, despite billing itself as political, seems to be more racist than anything else.

Side note: “catin” is translated here as “slut”, but it’s more of a general derogatory term towards women. “Cunt” or “bitch” would probably make more sense in context.

Ilja F. #crackpot #racist #conspiracy

@Citizen_Justin #256792
claim the remaining beautiful architecture as their own. This extends to old Penn station in NYC

So basically, “ancient” White people from the year 1906 couldn’t have built modern-looking buildings. Instead an even more ancient West Asian people whose global empire collapsed at some point between the mid-1700s and mid-1800s (depending on which version of their fictional history) and vanished without a trace somehow continued to build stuff up until the early 1900s, despite that White people kept promptly claiming them.

Nephtali1987 #crackpot #fundie #magick #quack #conspiracy

one has to understand that Satan cannot create anything.

I suspect that this is a bastardization of “Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made” which is attributed to JRR Tolkien, but is actually an inaccurate summary of a paragraph in the Silmarillion. Essentially, Morgoth/Melkor, who is sort of Tolkien’s version of Satan, despised his own creations, so he decided to instead create only mockeries of things which had been made by others. (Presumably so that his creations would be hated by others as well.) This says nothing about Satan or evil in general, and the bible doesn’t actually say Satan can’t create anything. (And if he can’t, it might only be because he needs permission from God to do much of anything.)

XSpirit/Dr. John Brandenburg #ufo #crackpot #conspiracy

On Earth, cosmic rays convert argon in the atmosphere into radioactive phosphorus. If you’ve heard those jokes about radioactive bananas, that’s where it comes from. Because Mars has very little atmosphere and virtually no magnetic field, the cosmic rays reach the ground. It’s currently theorized that the cosmic rays convert barium and bromine in the soil into uncommon isotopes of xenon and krypton, respectively. More study is needed to be certain. Claiming nuclear war is a serious reach.

Jim Olsen, Republican Oklahoma State Representative #forced-birth #fundie

@PLMMJ #256501
Can you really say that they’re not an adult?

In a legal sense, one can really say that they’re not an adult, because they’re not 18 yet. Being at least 18 is literally the legal definition of adulthood. This shouldn’t be difficult.

In some abstract or metaphorical sense, then one can never truly be sure if someone is an adult yet, regardless of age. And nobody is going to agree on what abstract or metaphorical sense should count. The law cannot tolerate anywhere near that level of ambiguity while still retaining any force or meaning, that’s why the legal definition exists in the first place!

There are people who want to create such ambiguities and go with an awful lot of things based on vibes. (They’re often the sort who are offended by the term “vibes”.) Some of these people are convinced that they have very good judgement and should be allowed to decide stuff on behalf of other people, but in reality they usually have poor judgement, and don’t consider the broader consequences of other people making such decisions while having bad judgement, regardless. Some of those people want to be able to coerce others to do things based on personal convenience rather that whether it’s a good idea, as they act as if heir own personal convenience was the highest good. (They’d also be offended if you framed it that way.) Still others are predatory; they need the ambiguity to convince themselves and/or others that they’re actually not. And in the case of people like Jim Olsen, they want to be able to coerce people who haven’t yet gained full independence into a situation where they probably never will, in order to enforce a “tradition” whether its (sometimes unwilling) participants want to be involved in it or not.

One could debate which things really need to be unambiguous for legal reasons, but I don’t think you’d find many takers for removing the legal definition of adulthood, if for no other reason than it would invalidate a huge swath of other laws, some of which most conservatives are very much in favor of.

2nd Smartest Guy in the World/Nicolas Hulscher, MPH #quack #wingnut #crackpot #conspiracy

Basically claiming that “they” are trying to “depopulate” the world… by giving old people dementia? Or at least that recklessly giving more people dementia will result in depopulation. Whatever, dude.

I had to look up what “VAIDS” was. Apparently it’s the idea that the more you vaccinate, the higher risk of all your naturally acquired immunities will spontaneously get erased. And “unnatural” immunities don’t work well. As usual, this was made up by stupid people.

Hippesq #transphobia

There’s a degree of irony of being able to conceive of someone being trapped in a painful situation which is very difficult to escape… yet fail to understand that sometimes someone asserting and/or changing themselves in a dramatic fashion *is* the escape (or at least the attempt). And then maybe make things worse by doubling down and assuming the escape is actually the prison…

Dan Bilzerian #racist #wingnut #conspiracy

Abolish the ATF, IRS, and Federal Reserve

I’m not sure how much difference abolishing the ATF would do. I’m assuming that the intent is to weaken investigation and enforcement of some or all of the regulations which the ATF specializes in (federal ones relating to Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives) if not neutralizing them outright. In practice it would just end up dumping those cases on other agencies (I suspect mainly the FBI) which don’t specialize in them. This might just end up slightly weakening everything across the board rather than those things specifically.

Abolishing the IRS would make paying taxes entirely voluntary. I’d assume that some other agency, likely the Treasury, would take over the collection. Not sure if this is a case of “not paying taxes is unthinkable”, “it should indeed be voluntary”, “ban all taxes” (while not understanding how the government pays for things) or simply not understanding what the IRS does.

Abolishing the Federal Reserve without replacement would be a return to economic instability of the likes which few people alive have seen. It’s been a mixed bag - boom/bust cycles are kept from wreaking as much havoc as they would otherwise, more so before the Glass-Steagall Act was repealed in 1999, less so now. But the methods of doing this were often questionable, even to the point of effectively rewarding corporations for making bad decisions. The Federal Reserve probably does need to be better regulated or replaced with a new government entity which does its job better (“The Fed” is currently semi-autonomous). Which will probably not happen any time soon, but just getting rid of it is probably worse than leaving it alone for now.

Norman Finkelstein #transphobia

This would be like if there was a type of brain surgery which cured nearly all forms of schizophrenia while doing only minimal (and very acceptable to most people given the benefits) long-term damage… and then someone called it “celebrating schizophrenia” because it wasn’t 100% perfect and/or they personally didn’t consider brain surgery to be an acceptable practice.

Tatsuya Ishida #wingnut

If this Roman Centurion statue is meant to represent Italy, then this is the first (and still only) acknowledgement that Italy was involved in the war. Given how he is implying that Japan was fighting against Germany, this may be implying that Germany was literally alone against everyone else.

Or maybe not, the “Tengu kidnap children” storyline had a Samurai statue rescue the kidnapped child. Possibly this then represents Hitler metaphorically attempting to contact the “true spirits” of nations which were not “wholly corrupted by Jews” and failing. Which wouldn’t necessarily mean that Italy is going to attack Germany, they might just stand aside and do their own thing. It does make me wonder how he’s going to handle the bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or if he’s just going to ignore that.

(Side note: Since no one here has displayed any of his France-related strips, he depicts the French Government as being a bunch of pre-revolution aristocratic fops, which stopped being a thing 150 years before WW2.)

Edward Hudgins #elitist

It means believing in the long-dead myth of the entrepreneur-inventor supergenius who doesn’t need society, and also believing that you are one of them, while actually being an ignorant, self-centered fool.

David J. Stewart #fundie

There are 3 sorts of modern bibles:

1.) The KJV and its various translations and derivatives.
2.) Attempts to directly update the original texts to modern language because the KJV is a translation of a translation which also had some deliberate changes to it (and a few additions) to match early 1600s political and cultural sensibilities.
3.) Attempts to “update” the bible to a particular culture’s or denomination’s sensibilities, like the KJV was.

KJV-onlyists like Davey J insist that the KJV is the pure, uncorrupted version when it’s actually “hahaha, no”. The stupider ones think that this means Ye Olde Englishe was the actual language spoken by Jesus.

[deleted] #homophobia #transphobia #pratt

Tatsuya Ishida #conspiracy #dunning-kruger

I hope no one minds that I skipped way ahead from the last comic someone else posted, but the “Tengu kidnap children, also they’re Jews” mini-storyline and the “Soviets are the real Nazis, also they’re Jews” mini-storyline were honestly boring and pointless, and there’s a whole lot more of the latter after this. Also this is peak brainworms for Tats.

John Ramirez/Abby Trivett #fundie #wingnut #conspiracy

I did a little checking into him. At minimum he was never a member of The Satanic Temple (not that they’d have anything to do with either his current self or his claimed previous self), not sure about The Church of Satanism. There are apparently rumors that he was into Santeria for awhile, which is basically closer to the stereotypes of Voodoo than actual Voodoo is, but my quick search wasn’t able to confirm it. Regardless, his claims of being a “High Warlock” who killed 40 people via magic ritual sounds like a mix of edgelord and delusional.

Clandestine #wingnut #racist #quack #conspiracy

Calling them “parent nations” completely ignores history.

Taiwan has been independent for most of its existence, being claimed by China and/or Japan at various points in history (and also briefly being claimed by Portugal at one point), but with little being done to actually enforce those claims. Taiwan has only actually been meaningfully a colony of China from 1912 to 1949. There are certainly people of Chinese ancestry living there, the majority of people do speak a form of Mandarin¹ as a primary or secondary language thanks to that colonial period, and the culture does have a lot of Chinese influence, but there is also a lot of Japanese, Indonesian, and Pacific Islander ancestry and influence as well.

¹It’s been slowly evolving towards being its own language, due to Japanese and native Taiwanese influences, but it’s still a long way from being a truly separate thing.

Meanwhile Ukraine is generally agreed to have began its existence in 862 while Russia didn’t meaningfully exist until 1547, and had heavy Ukrainian influence at the time. If anything, this is sort of like claiming the United States is the UK’s parent. It is true that a lot people of Russian ancestry live there, due to Russia’s on-and-off colonization attempts of chunks of Ukraine over the centuries and the complete conquest during the Soviet era, but most people living there do not consider themselves culturally Russian.

Carmen Cojocaru #racist #ufo #magick #conspiracy

author George du Maurier Trilby

A 19th century fiction writer wrote a story about an evil Jew with magical hypnosis powers, therefore all Jews are evil. This is the worst attempt at the Appeal to Authority fallacy I’ve ever seen, to the point where it becomes a non-sequitur.

Side note: “Trilby” is the name of the book, not part of the author’s name.

theunreal1271, vhayashi7369, 150877z #crackpot #fundie #conspiracy

And I wonder if maybe there’s a certain sort of someone who believes that it’s only okay to endanger yourself if it also endangers others, but they’re also in denial about it. Back in the day there were smokers who seemed kind of like that, at least.

Donald Trump #wingnut #conspiracy

Are you saying liberals should submit to women? Not very tradcon of you.

Cenk Uygur #wingnut #conspiracy

While it’s true that we shouldn’t just assume everything unexpectedly weird is a freak accident, the phrase “freak accident” exists for a reason. The vast majority of unlikely things never happen, yet unlikely things happen all the time. Otherwise nobody would ever win the lottery.

Amandaslimelifecorner #homophobia #transphobia

I suspect that whatever you’re imagining, it’s very similar to what used to be called a “spinster” or “chronic bachelor”. What a nice man/woman, I wonder why they never got married? At least they’re close friends with their longtime roommate!

Known-throwaway-4039 #sexist

yea no women arent pedos just like most men, we don’t need to make things like rule 34 or what its called and draw a dick on a woman or her with overly big breasts everywhere

This is probably just badly written, but I find it amusing that this implies that creating art of women with penises, exceptionally large breasts, or any other form of unusual anatomy is somehow an expression of pedophilia.

Sunny Defender, G@yWad69 #pratt #psycho

“Consent” does not mean “agreement”. Or rather, it shouldn’t, but some people use it that way. It’s a much higher standard, and sometimes we have to draw seemingly arbitrary lines for the purpose of harm reduction. 18 is a common line for various forms of consent, including sexual consent, because that’s the point when they’re legally independent from the adults in their lives (if not always fully independent in practice) so it’s harder to hold some sort of dependency over someone’s head in order to manipulate them into the appearance of consent.

Looker for Truth #conspiracy #racist

Basically, if you had Jewish ancestors, you are secretly a Jew and work for evil ends even if you’re not religiously or culturally Jewish… and perhaps even if you’re not aware of your own ancestry.

This is just “pure white bloodline” nonsense. It’s not far removed from the equally stupid idea that if you have any mixed-race descendants, then your lineage ends there.

Looker for truth #wingnut #psycho #racist #conspiracy

if it could be achieved without great suffering on their part.

That’s a pretty big caveat. You can’t just genie-wish or Thanos-snap 999 of every 1000 people out of existence, the suffering and death toll of the remaining people would be pretty horrific. People would die in vehicle crashes and fires, some would have to take a (likely uninstructed) crash course in survival with a steep learning curve and possibly only a short time to do it, the loss of everything and everyone you know would cause serious psychological problems for most, and the suicide rate would be high during the first few years (and even higher in the first few weeks).

Now if 0.1% of the population had your particular standards of purity, and they could be yoinked out of this reality one at a time when it would be least harmful to everyone else, and it sterilized everyone so you couldn’t bring children who are unlike yourself into your new reality, also this was an ongoing thing, I could see some benefit to that. Of course I expect you’d object to the “no children” thing and likely find that at least some of the people who agree with you don’t actually meet your standards, so it wouldn’t exactly be a paradise for you.

sullyy #psycho

I have occasionally killed animals for food. It wasn’t exactly fun, more like a little sad, so I made it as quick and merciful as I could manage. In my daily life, I avoid inflicting unnecessary pain, death, and suffering to living things, even earthworms or insects. And on the few occasions when I accidentally hurt a dog or cat, I got down physically closer to their level and apologized in a tone which they could hopefully get the gist of, even if they didn’t understand my words.

I occasionally say, “I can’t understand, and probably don’t want to ever understand, the mindset of someone who loves to brutalize and kill just for the fun of it”, but there are people who would call me a hypocrite due to being a practicing sadist. From my perspective that is not remotely the same thing, it’s purely consensual and for the enjoyment of *everyone* involved. I do my best to avoid permanent physical and/or psychological damage, and comfort them after. But there are people who see that as being little different than the sort of selfish cruelty demonstrated by the OP.

So I take a hard line against anyone inflicting deliberate suffering, for both people and animals (and even plants to a limited extent). It’s not because “I’m not as bad as *those* people”. It’s not about sacrificing “lesser predators” so that people will look the other way. It’s because the line is way too broad and fuzzy, and having killed and inflicted pain with purpose, I have more reason than average to draw a reasonably clear distinction between what is evil and what isn’t. As a result, even if someone like the OP is pretending to be a psycho just to troll people, or is genuine but doesn’t do it much anymore, I have to consider them a danger to others and treat them accordingly.

DickBoomerman #transphobia

A bit off topic, but might as well post it here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RydBbwUUbls

This is a very short (a couple minutes) video which points out that there is a large overlap between the kind of woman who often gets called a “TERF” and the kind who defines womanhood primarily by the pain inflicted on them by male abusers and/or the patriarchy. And why this isn’t a good thing in general, not just because of transphobia.

Anons #wingnut #racist

There no proof in the Epstein files anyone raped any children, least of all Trump.

I understand how Trump can be mistaken for a child, but he doesn’t count. /s

Vox Day #conspiracy

But admitting that Trump is just that inconsistent would require acknowledging that he doesn’t fit Vox’s ideas of who the man is, which would be adding an unnecessary complication to Vox’s mental load, thus being in violation of Occam’s Razor. /s

Robert F Kennedy jr #crackpot #dunning-kruger #pratt #wingnut

Let’s pretend that percentages were redefined to work like this. He’s claiming the following: $600 ÷ (600%/100) = $100. Or alternately, $600 × (100/600%) = $100. Whichever one you would use depends on exactly how you would typically frame this new idea of what percentages are supposed to be, the math works out the same either way.

Under this new idea, let’s say that the price was instead reduced by 50%. The math then works out to $600 ÷ (50%/100) = $1200. Or $600 × (100/50%) = $1200. Ummmmm… so $1200 is lower that $600? And for that matter, increasing $600 by 50% would result in $300. Reducing *or* increasing something by 100% would both result in no change. Increasing or reducing something by 0% would break math.

The only way this could possibly make sense is if you used a different definition of “percentage” depending on whether you were reducing or increasing a value, which would mean reductions and increases could never be less than 100%, which would also be inconsistent with how math works in general.

Tatsuya Ishida #racist #conspiracy

For those who aren’t deep in anti-Semitic conspiracy nonsense: Praktischer Idealismus was a book written by Count Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi, and it presented ideas towards creating a more united Europe (The European Union didn’t exist until several decades after the book was written). The chapter on demographics noted, neutrally, in a single paragraph, that mixed-race people were becoming very gradually more common over time. For some reason, the original Nazis took that paragraph as evidence that there was some Jewish secret plot to dilute the “Master Race”, and Coudenhove-Kalergi was in on it and likely the outright creator of it. (Note that he was half-Japanese, but not Jewish.) In other words, the (nonexistent) “Kalergi Plan” was the original version of the “Great Replacement Theory”.

Alone-Conference-896 #fundie #homophobia

Well, if you truly want to live a life of misery and suffering for the desperate hope that it will somehow all be worth it, then that’s between you and the people who exploit that. But I recommend that you find some way to get over the resentment that other people aren’t following the same rules as you and live better lives than you as a result. It’s only going to make things feel worse for you in the long run.