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Martin Kerr #wingnut #racist

The empire lasted nearly 1,500 years the majority of the time it was Christian. Also, the main cause of the fall of the west was currency debasement, inflation, and increasing reliance on mercenaries.

Donald Trump #conspiracy #crackpot #wingnut

Of course DOGE is likely targeting the non political statistical agencies and the ones providing grants to universities and economists doing the work independently that would be able to tell what’s actually happening with those things.

Matt Walsh #wingnut

Given how Musk has specifically opposed methods that will have stronger effects on countering climate change like mass transit, I have to wonder about his commitment to the cause.

Donald Trump #transphobia #wingnut #god-complex

@Malingspann #219397

Or Venus and Serena Williams and dozens of other black athletes. Also, Martina Navratilova was talked about this way which angers me even more that she got sucked into TERF ideology (she was also coached by Rene Richards who was a trans player in the 70s).

It was never about trans women per se but instead about narrowly defining who is an “acceptable” woman. There have been dozens of reports about cis girls who are “too” big, tall, too black, or just happen to beat someone’s princess.

Kent Hovind #fundie #forced-birth

Actually Kent had a good idea! Hear me out. Before cars if someone was driving a vehicle and hit a pedestrian it was the driver who was presumed responsible. In the early 20th century that was the case until Detroit invented a crime called “jay walking” the word “jay” had a connotation of a backwards or stupid person back then. It was marketed as a public safety measure but its real goal was to get people and officials to think that streets and roads are for cars and nobody else. Drivers were basically given free passes to run over people and cities soon were designed with cars in mind first, transit and walking last.

So maybe capital punishment is excessive but he’s on to something.

Missouri State Representative Phil Amato (R) #forced-birth

But no a central registry of firearms please we don’t want the government to be intrusive.

Temple Coins #fundie #god-complex #dunning-kruger #mammon

And how much do you want to bet that this organization doesn’t have a single Jewish person associated with it? So please explain why it’s ok for you to claim somebody else’s sacred symbols and use them to rip people off stamping them into “collectibles” not worth the zinc contained within, and also using them to promote idol worship of an idle person?

Rep. Shane Jett #psycho #fundie

I don’t think any law should be based on the Bible nor am I going to argue the Bible with this guy, though I’d like to know why he thinks that the law violates it since I doubt it truly does.

I think the important question is what does it say about Mr. Jett that he thinks that this law isn’t biblically based?

Vic Biorseth #fundie #wingnut #racist #homophobia #conspiracy

The Catholic Church emphasizes the emotional components of religion probably more than any other Christian sect and possibly of any religion. Have you seen Catholic art and architecture or listened to any of their music? Now compare that to any Protestant church and tell me which one makes the appeal to emotion?

Arenlaef, vulvapeople & crodish #transphobia

@Malingspann #218582

They just changed the target with the times. Before this it was gay people, “statists”, feminists, black people, communists, and ultimately Jews. You also don’t need to dig too deep beneath the surface of any of those to find the antisemitism

Lauren Boebert #wingnut

There should be no faces on the desecrated Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe. But bills like these aren’t serious. They’re intended to get people talking about that and not about how Lauren will cut her own voters’ Head Start and Medicaid benefits to zero.

various commenters #transphobia

By the NCAA’s own estimates this affects less than a dozen people and I don’t think that they are all scholarship athletes either. Not only will those people be affected but any female athlete “too tall”, “too broad”, or too black will be singled out. Athletes may be subjected to the old “poke and prod” tests or some who have lived their whole lives thinking of themselves as cis (the story of Stella Walsh until the results of their genetic tests come back showing that they have a chromosomal abnormality that DQs them.

various commenters #transphobia

@Malingspann #218095

Is older than you’d think. The seminal book was Janice Raymond’s book “The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male” in 1979 but attitudes like that had been circulating in rad-fem and rad-lesbian circles well before. The book lays out all the same claims, talking points and arguments that are used today, nearly verbatim.

I think people really don’t understand or appreciate how much anti trans and by extension anti LGBTQ+ bigotry truly motivates the GOP. There should be no mistake about this: we are in the heart of a moral panic and witch hunts never truly go b away, their intensity changes or they shift their targets. So we are looking down a very long barrel here. Out extremely fractured news media landscape will make this task even harder.

So we need to stand tall and firm, knowing we will see a lot of losses in the coming years. But we have to keep to the truth, we have to keep being empathetic even to TERFS, we can compromise on our tactics but never on our demands and our facts. Maintaining the fight is as important if not more so than winning it.

It reminds me of King drawing on the story of Moses seeing but not entering the promised land. That’s why the story resonates over the years. Maybe I’ll get to see full equality but probably not. But it’s not about me but the future and we can’t give that up.

Jesse Watters #transphobia #psycho

Just look at the youth suicide stats. States whose governments are most hostile to LGBTQ people and whose politicians are scapegoating them have higher rates.

various commenters #transphobia

Nobody was required to have them in their signatures before this order.

Harry Matadeen #quack #crackpot #mammon

This post is a refreshing throwback. Thanks for reminding me of a more innocent time in skepticism.

Janice Turner #transphobia

I wish these politicians would have the guts to look these kids in the eyes with a straight face and explain why they are taking away their happiness, their medical care, their ability to play with their friends, and scapegoating them. Every one of them is a coward.

Also, it’s a crime that kids who go to schools and are parts of their communities can get banned from their teams but home skool kids can benefit from these “Tim Tebow” laws and displace actual members of the community from their teams.

various commenters #transphobia

I realize that we probably have very few people that read this site who live in Mace’s district (SC-1 the white areas surrounding Charleston). But in case we do or our readers know people who do please ask some critical questions. How has a targeted harassment campaign against ac fellow member from another state improved your life? How has her attacks on a small minority of people, some of whom are most probably her own constituents, who don’t want to be subject of a witch hunt really made your live better or strengthened our national security? Has it built or maintained a road or port?

If you can genuinely answer yes to any of those questions than by all means continue to vote for Ms. Mace. If you can’t than vote her out and vote for someone who will put your interests first.

Ben Bartree #transphobia

@Malingspann #217793

And she’s in the House not the Senate. It was confusing me is this person talking about Tim Kaine or Tim Scott who are Senators.

Donald Trump #racist #wingnut

Ken Ham #fundie

I can sit here and do a refutation point by point but that’s a PRAAT. Instead I think the last paragraph is more insightful. He uses the word “worldview” which has a very different meaning in fundie than most outsiders think.

For fundies a worldview isn’t something that develops as a result of one’s experiences, knowledge, and beliefs. Rather it’s the opposite. A proscriptive set of ideas or beliefs that one must then apply to interpret the world. That’s how he can talk about a “Christian Worldview, an “atheist worldview”, etc. That’s why to Ken there can be no neutrality and why the scientific method simply doesn’t compute for him.

It’s also why he can claim things to be religions when they aren’t (that and taking a quote from a SCOTUS opinion out of context). If religion is simply about beliefs than by that analysis yes it’s a religion. By that same analysis science becomes a religion. But, religions aren’t about individual beliefs, they’re a type of group activity. The extent to which groups of atheists can take on aspects of religion is obviously a longer more complex topic that I don’t have the expertise to analyze.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t just stop with Ken. It how they justify their attacks on education.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. #quack #pratt #racist #crackpot

The scientific agencies are going to be in for a world of hurt over the coming years and the damage will ripple through US science for decades to come after this.

Ben Bartee #transphobia #dunning-kruger

This is the exact same language that you used against gay people and the exact same language you used against black people. Maybe it’s the system that’s sick and not the the people ground down by it?

Donald Trump #racist #wingnut #psycho

@Timjer #217003

And compromise the integrity and impartiality of the investigation. The crash was almost certainly not caused by diversity initiatives, there are probably multiple points of failure. But now that he’s made this partisan with his racist and ableist fog horns it will be a problem when the board ignores DEI completely. But will they be able to do that without partisan interference? I doubt that this White House will allow that. I fear either way the report will become more partisan and people less likely to believe it. That will only further serve to weaken an important piece of our transportation system that keeps air travelers safe.

Ben Garrett #fundie

Andre McCoy, the Genetically Modified Skeptic, summed it up perfectly in his recent video. They’re being sold dark enchantment.

William Hoadley #wingnut

Anthony Esolen #wingnut #sexist #conspiracy

Yeah it’s funny, architects in DC have been eschewing fasces and that repeating branching swastika pattern a bit too much since World War II huh?

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) #transphobia #psycho

Let me guess Tommy you know if a few “camps” where those kids like can be sent to after you’ve removed them from their homes?

various commenters #transphobia

I feel like what people don’t understand is that it’s not that Harris lost because she embraced trans rights, but rather how heavily of a motivator anti trans was for republicans. Hopefully, the presence of Sarah McBride and the links between the lgbtq+ community will help the Democrats to message better on this, especially since all the anti trans laws in the world won’t bring down the cost of eggs.

Matt Walsh #psycho #transphobia #wingnut

Nah, we’ll just lay low where we have to, organize as much as we can, educate and tell our stories and outlast you.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 #transphobia #wingnut

Sarah talks about things like policies and and improving people’s lives. The GOP seems obsessed with stalking behaviors and wrecking using the state to bully children and rob their futures.

Got Questions #fundie

You’re not only misrepresenting that hypothesis but you’re also telling us that you haven’t read the Bible without actually saying that. Because guess what, at no point does it actually claim to be written by your god in any of the texts that compose it!

The hypothesis you reference also says that Yahweh and El were Canaanite deities which 13 Canaanite tribes came together as a common nation and began conflating their attributes into a single god and generations later took that to mean that was the only god. Guess what, the fingerprints of that hypothesis are all over many of the texts that make up the Bible.

John Marshall #transphobia #wingnut

State of the Nation Editor #wingnut #racist #conspiracy

Musk probably should have been arrested for a pump and dump following his SNL stunt with DOGEcoin. Just saying…

Valentina Gomez and Laura Loomer #racist #psycho

The fetishization of state imposed violence is a hallmark of fascism.

Bennett Lee Ross #crackpot #magick #conspiracy

The Vatican is built over top of a Roman burial ground but so is much of the city of Rome and Vatican City. The chapel in Portugal is real and there are hanging corpses, including a child’s. The chapel is a very elaborate momento mori that the monks built after they relocated the town’s cemeteries.

James Carville #transphobia #racist #elitist

@DarkPhoenix #213991

The problem is that he’s still influential and he’s not the only democrat who blames trans people for the loss. What they don’t understand is that bullying queer kids is meant to motivate the GOP base. Very few swing voters who went for Trump voted for him because of trans people.

It’s like what happened with marriage equality after 2004. Preventing it was an issue to motivate Bush voters, very few people didn’t vote for Kerry because of his non support of the issue. But Obama opposed it in 2008 and probably set the cause back at least 4 years.

Except almost no kids are obtaining surgeries and most Democrats tried avoiding the topic rather than standing up for the dignity of a small minority of people and families. I would also rather lose than to sell out their civil rights and dignity and utilize the tools of the state to intimidate and bully people who are different.

Snake Baker #crackpot

There are actually a few theistic Satanist communities. My understanding is that they tend to have different mythological basis on who Satan is, different than how the entity is depicted in the Bible. I think that they are a spin-off of 19th century theosophists.

But the majority are atheists and DID pick the name to offend Christians. Mostly the fundie types who are obsessed with Satan beyond how he’s depicted in the scriptures. Also the serpent in Genesis isn’t the devil, the author of Genesis just intended it to be a talking snake.

But what makes you quiver is that Satanists aren’t a parody religion like the Pastafarians. They are a legit community of people who identify with the figure of the antihero devil and reject arbitrary authority. They’re a full on religion and expect the law to treat them like it.

Lindsey Graham #sexist #wingnut #psycho

Well… a civil jury found something on your best pal (who you were “done with) the President Elect. There’s also at least one, sorry two of your favorite SCOTUS justices.

Gay bullying, it is real #homophobia #fundie

@Starlight #213693

They plan to DARVO the LGBTQ+ community back into the closet. I will admit the coming years will be a rocky road and met with many setbacks. But as long as we stick to the truth, keep standing up for ourselves and what’s right, we will get through it and on to someplace better.

John. C Wright #racist

The only people who ask that question are the ones who don’t want to see black people earn those degrees in the first place. They have deliberately muddied the waters about how the concept works - its a tie breaker nothing more nothing less.

Gaybullyingitisreal #homophobia #conspiracy

Judith Rose #transphobia #conspiracy

Or maybe it’s because they get rejected by their unsupportive families, live in communities where political leaders are openly demagogues against their existence, and don’t have trusted adults in school to turn to since the state is mandating that they be ratted out and exposed. So they feel isolated, are vulnerable and have no one else to turn to.

If you are truly concerned for their safety, then you should support policies that encourage their acceptance and won’t stigmatize them. That way they can complete school and find stable jobs and be valued members of their communities.

Conservapedia #conspiracy #wingnut

Of course I have to get sucked into this. Dictators always have their simps, people looking through rose colored glasses and deliberately ignore or downplay their atrocious acts, and talk nostalgically good old days when there was no crime, etc. etc. People like that can seem great especially when liberalism seems to be faltering or a corrupt socialist dictatorship implodes and everyone else is left to lick up the pieces. When the dictators simps are well connected enough and can spread their message people will listen.

As for the second quote, all Hurtado was saying was that the declassified evidence from CIA archives doesn’t show the same level of direct coordinating and planning for the Chilean coup like it does for others in the region. The Nixon administration, however did send the message that they wanted it to happen, weren’t going to oppose it, and that they would really really like it if the military did it.

BestRegards #transphobia

When a person learns that a close family member is trans it definitely stirs a huge range of emotions. I’m not here to question the validity of them. I also feel like the LGBTQ+ community could do better at letting people have the space to work through those emotions because the people who oppose our existence defiantly take advantage of this to recruit people to their cause.

But this is also the exact same language that was used by those opposed to the rights of cis-gays and lesbians. It’s the same language that was used by those who oppose interracial relationships that are cis hetero normative. So, the hate remains the same, it’s just who their particular target is that changes.

Gizortnik & Wizardslayer #dunning-kruger #pratt

Fascism is an emotional appeal to an imagined and idealized “order” and central to its claim is that a strong *man* is needed to restore, reimpose or maintain this order typically by force. So there’s a big difference between liberals encouraging people not to patronize certain media figures and fascists who seek to use the organs of the state to cajole and coerce compliance with the official line. A big difference between the government asking social media companies to tamp down the spread of potentially deadly misinformation and rumors and the state punishing an entity for spreading information that damages their leaders.

You claim to respect free speech. However, what you respect is the idea of it, ie the cultural resonance it has as part of the American identity. Thus, that’s how you can justify explicit and outright attacks on it. It’s the feeling of freedom, not actually freedom.