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Noted sources of truth the New York Post and the Daily Mail are reporting that a DC physician has filed for divorce from her political consultant husband, and is claiming that he is having an affair with Rep. Ilhan Omar.quote:Dr. Beth Mynett says her cheating spouse, Tim Mynett, told her in April that he was having an affair with the Somali-born US representative — and that he even made a “shocking declaration of love” for the Minnesota congresswoman before he ditched his wife, alleges the filing, submitted in DC Superior Court on Tuesday. A money quote: quote:Beth Mynett said in the filing that the most concerning thing about the excursion was her hubby’s decision to “put his son in harm’s way by taking him out in public with Rep. Omar, who at that time had garnered a plethora of media attention along with death threats, one rising to the level of arresting the known would-be assassin that same week.” Omar's campaign has employed Tim Mynett and paid his company $250k for consulting fees and travel costs, which Dr. Mynett alleges were funneled to her husband for illicit purposes. The right-wing Twittersphere is, of course, buzzing. But my favorite so far comes from OANN's Chief White House Correspondent: quote:Ladies, are we being too hard on @IlhanMN? Who among us has not dumped their brusband and sought a legal US citizen to marry - just before the immigration authorities arrive with deportation papers?
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Aug 28, 2019 08:11
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lol, is anyone other than the post and the daily mail running this story?
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Aug 28, 2019 15:08
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I love that quillete felt the need to clarify that they didn't actually fire Andy for helping neo-nazis. Wouldn't want people to think they were distancing themselves from violent fascists, that might send the wrong message to their readers.
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Aug 28, 2019 17:21
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Who is reading Quillete these days? All I hear about is them getting dunked on. Even from, like NPR and Slate. And they don't seem to be for the Federalist Townhall crowd. How many secret phrenologists are there?
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Aug 28, 2019 20:34
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This picture is hilarious because chuds like to use it to demonize socialism. Even though that man who got unpersoned was probably the second worst human being in the entire country at the time.
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Aug 28, 2019 21:29
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Aug 28, 2019 21:48
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Reefer Madness causes shootings. Another premiere Cucker Tarlson take.
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Aug 28, 2019 22:21
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Yeah we've been just slaughtering each other here in Canada since weed was legalized last October. Just a bloodbath. As a weed and gun-haver myself I have personally harvested the skulls of a dozen innocents this week alone.
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Aug 28, 2019 22:24
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Lassitude posted:Yeah we've been just slaughtering each other here in Canada since weed was legalized last October. Just a bloodbath. As a weed and gun-haver myself I have personally harvested the skulls of a dozen innocents this week alone. I'm looking forward to your analysis of the Canadian brainpan in Quillette
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Aug 28, 2019 23:04
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Chilichimp posted:lol, is anyone other than the post and the daily mail running this story? Janet Mefferd from American Family Radio is the only radio or TV pundit I've seen running with it, but her whole thing is being Pamela Geller Lite so that's not surprising.
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Aug 29, 2019 00:06
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Redeye Radio still going hard with that Overstock Guy 
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Aug 29, 2019 01:13
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Sarcastr0 posted:Who is reading Quillete these days? All I hear about is them getting dunked on. Even from, like NPR and Slate. And they don't seem to be for the Federalist Townhall crowd. My guess is the Sam Harris/Thunderf00t/Dave Rubin crowd. Those that are way more bothered by someone unlike them getting any oxygen or say than all the really nasty poo poo they claim to oppose but always find a way to excuse or avoid mentioning.
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Aug 29, 2019 03:17
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https://twitter.com/zei_nabq/status/1166917907273703426?s=20
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Aug 29, 2019 10:35
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Sephyr posted:My guess is the Sam Harris/Thunderf00t/Dave Rubin crowd.
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Aug 29, 2019 12:28
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Yeah, toss another one onto the pile of 'something that exists everywhere else, and everywhere else being places that don't see nearly the level of gun violence that we do in the U.S.'
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Aug 29, 2019 12:38
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The National Review love that Chapelle went after Jessie Smollet and really seem to love that he said human being and friend of the family. So much so that they ended the article with it https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/dave-chappelle-goes-after-jussie-smollett/amp/
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Aesop Poprock posted:The National Review love that Chapelle went after Jessie Smollet and really seem to love that he said human being and friend of the family. So much so that they ended the article with it]  Imagine the mental spidermanning done 15 years later when he turns around and goes "Yes, if you suck a dick you should be PROUD to be a f*static as TV is thrown in river*"
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Aug 29, 2019 18:21
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pangstrom posted:I don't know who thunderf00t is but yeah it's basically if you took liquid IDW and poured it into a jar shaped like The Atlantic. Thunderf00t was a homebrew Mr. Wizard YouTube science guy until he got trubomad that Anita Sarkeesian was plotting to destroy video games with feminism or something and now he’s one of those folks who screams about ladies 24/7 instead of doing homebrew science poo poo anymore.
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Aug 29, 2019 18:55
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nine-gear crow posted:Thunderf00t was a homebrew Mr. Wizard YouTube science guy until he got trubomad that Anita Sarkeesian was plotting to destroy video games with feminism or something and now he’s one of those folks who screams about ladies 24/7 instead of doing homebrew science poo poo anymore. He was also big in the New Atheist/anti-creationism movement before he pivoted, which is a big factor in why the tone of the alt-right is "we are the calm, rational, scientific ones, everyone else is just dumb and so goddamn crazy".
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Aug 29, 2019 19:08
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All the creationist stuff I saw as a youth group teen said that promoting evolution would lead to Naziism. Turns out they were right 
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Aug 29, 2019 19:16
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It’s stuff like this why I have reservations writing Joe Rogan off as a complete chud. He’s not really on their side, he’s just the Most Credulous Human Being Ever. He believes everything everyone tells him is true and has no concept of object permanence, so alt-righties line up to be on his show because he’ll go “wooooow, maaaaan, shiiiiiiit” at literally anything they say because it’s all brand new and mind blowing to him. Always.
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Aug 29, 2019 19:23
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rogan is actually a dullard rather than a true believer. the problem isn't that he agrees with his guests it's that he platforms them at all. he has on occasion pushed back on his right wing guests when it's something he actually knows about (rubin on construction regulations) but otherwise he's useless because he's a dolt.
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Aug 29, 2019 19:37
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nine-gear crow posted:Thunderf00t was a homebrew Mr. Wizard YouTube science guy until he got trubomad that Anita Sarkeesian was plotting to destroy video games with feminism or something and now he’s one of those folks who screams about ladies 24/7 instead of doing homebrew science poo poo anymore. You haven't been watching him recently, he's back to the science stuff. Trying to make caesium or something.
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Aug 29, 2019 20:06
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nine-gear crow posted:Thunderf00t was a homebrew Mr. Wizard YouTube science guy until he got trubomad that Anita Sarkeesian was plotting to destroy video games with feminism or something and now he’s one of those folks who screams about ladies 24/7 instead of doing homebrew science poo poo anymore. His fans turned on him due to his anti-Brexit stance (it jeopardizes his real job) and they mocked him because his dad died.
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nine-gear crow posted:It’s stuff like this why I have reservations writing Joe Rogan off as a complete chud. He’s not really on their side, he’s just the Most Credulous Human Being Ever.  So he's just a really useful idiot instead of a really terrible human being? Still pretty malicious at the end of the day.
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Aug 29, 2019 20:13
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Ague Proof posted:His fans turned on him due to his anti-Brexit stance (it jeopardizes his real job) and they mocked him because his dad died. And then one of the guys who made fun of him because of it eventually was made fun of because his son was stillborn. They do love turning on each other.
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Aug 29, 2019 20:35
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:He was also big in the New Atheist/anti-creationism movement before he pivoted, which is a big factor in why the tone of the alt-right is "we are the calm, rational, scientific ones, everyone else is just dumb and so goddamn crazy". I was involved with these oeole back when I was in college and finally could build a social network of people who weren't involved with the church. I had pushed back against what I thought was creeping bigotry and reactionist thinking. Turns out they were already those terrible people and just using creationists as socially acceptable targets.
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buddhist nudist posted:I was involved with these oeole back when I was in college and finally could build a social network of people who weren't involved with the church. I had pushed back against what I thought was creeping bigotry and reactionist thinking. Turns out they were already those terrible people and just using creationists as socially acceptable targets. I wonder how much long term damage blowhards like Thunderf00t and The Amazing Atheist have done to secularization. I remember thinking 10-15 years ago that rational skepticism could be the key to long term unfucking society. It could combat magical thinking and remove huge catalysts for bigotry and hate. Then even “respectable” atheists like Dawkins went full CHUD on anti-feminism, tossing out mountains of actual evidence for patriarchy and went with  bullshit instead.It’s probably also that as a group white men are terrible people. And white men are waaay overrepresented among atheists. In retrospect I was incredibly naive to think that a bunch of affluent white dudes could (or would even bother trying to) help make social progress.
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RasperFat posted:I wonder how much long term damage blowhards like Thunderf00t and The Amazing Atheist have done to secularization. There is really and truly nothing about being atheist or secular that combats magical thinking and bigotry and hate. Just look at how France is constantly using "secularism" to bash Muslims.
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Aug 29, 2019 22:04
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fishmech posted:There is really and truly nothing about being atheist or secular that combats magical thinking and bigotry and hate. Just being an atheist doesn’t do much to combat magical thinking. Arriving at the conclusion of atheism through rational skepticism, however, is anti-magical thinking. Religiosity is the strongest indicator for supporting regressive and hateful policies. It transcends every demographic from gender to orientation to income to race. I never said that everything would be fixed without religion. Just that some of the biggest catalysts for hate and anti-intellectualism would be eliminated.
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Aug 29, 2019 22:16
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RasperFat posted:Just being an atheist doesn’t do much to combat magical thinking. Arriving at the conclusion of atheism through rational skepticism, however, is anti-magical thinking. I disagree as religion is just like anything else people believe in.
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RasperFat posted:Just being an atheist doesn’t do much to combat magical thinking. Arriving at the conclusion of atheism through rational skepticism, however, is anti-magical thinking. I think this is a correlation and causation problem. People who buy into dumb arguments for hate and policies that go against their own interests are likely to also be ready to buy into arguments for why Gautama Buddha wants you to raze a Muslim village.
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Right before the skeptics movement got ripped apart by our own version of gamergate, a big lingering question at the conventions was whether religion and skepticism could co-exist. The people I followed pointed out that everyone had beliefs, and that while religion as we know/practice it would ideally go away at some point, it's not really the enemy. It doesn't matter if people go to church, regularly see a psychic, go hard on QAnon, or follow some alt-right nutjob. The focus should be on helping people ask questions and actually understand things. The new atheists crowd were still obsessed with just mocking people and hitting easy targets. The biggest shock for young me was seeing just how much of the anti-creationist crowd was just there to beat up an easy target. When I went to college, I almost joined the school's skeptics club but I turned and pretty much ran away after meeting the people in charge of it. An unholy mix of wanting to continue "deep" philosophy 101 dives on Sunday mornings and hold wonderful activities like letting/encouraging people to do "draw Muhammad" jokes in the main square (isn't South Park so funny!!!!). And also complaining about the school paying for an on-site Muslim spiritual adviser. I guess the writing was always on the wall. But yeah, I can't help but think about how much damage they've done. I'm kind of embarrassed to claim that I'm an atheist anymore.
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https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1167216699193602050
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Aug 30, 2019 01:41
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Clearly he's touring the world is search of these fences that were designed by the same famous fence designer.
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happyhippy posted:You haven't been watching him recently, he's back to the science stuff. It reminds me of Roosh making a video about how he’s taken up baking bread, which is totally not feminine, baking is about science which is manly as hell. https://twitter.com/classiclib3ral/status/1044688473423261696?s=21
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RasperFat posted:I wonder how much long term damage blowhards like Thunderf00t and The Amazing Atheist have done to secularization. some time after around 2012 or so, i started slowly falling out of favor with new atheism thanks to some more overt islamophobia by the likes of bill maher and sam harris. but what really snapped me out of it was oddly enough, richard dawkins feeling the need to chime in and poo poo on rebecca watson during elevatorgate. i mean, why the gently caress did one of the foremost atheists of the time feel the need to mock a woman for not wanting to be talked to by some rando on an elevator? Mr Interweb fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Aug 30, 2019 |
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Aug 30, 2019 03:22
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He's just playing the LARP version of Captain Park's Imaginary Polar Expedition.
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Mr Interweb posted:some time after around 2012 or so, i started slowly falling out of favor with new atheism thanks to some more overt islamophobia by the likes of bill maher and sam harris. but what really snapped me out of it was oddly enough, richard dawkins feeling the need to chime in and poo poo on rebecca watson during elevatorgate. i mean, why the gently caress did one of the foremore atheists of the time feel the need to mock a woman for not wanting to be talked to by some rando on an elevator? Not just mock her, but specifically go on a galaxy brained rant asking how any American woman could complain about harassment when Muslim women were being stoned. That was a wild time. And yeah, you had poo poo like Bill Maher being lauded as an atheist hero while he's arguing against germ theory. Someone once said that as lovely as GamerGate was, it was like the blood testing scene in The Thing. It sucks and it's going to hurt, but it's probably better to know who the monsters are in your crowd. Except it turned out that most of the core of the atheist/skeptics movement was rotten.
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