The humility of a psychopath. Otherwise, I’m quite speechless.
https://phawrongula.wikia.com/wiki/TAM_2012_T-Shirt_Manufacturversy
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February 26, 2013
This Is What Harriet Hall Gets For Negotiating With Terrorists
Posted by franc hoggle under disinformation, gender, hyperreality, misandry, new new atheism, nihilism, populism, propaganda, pseudo-science, pseudo-skepticism, stupidity, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: Adam Lee, baboons, charlatans, DaylightAtheism, frauds, FTB, Harriet Hall, liars, narcissists, psychopaths, PZ Myers, Science Based Medicine, sociopaths |[5] Comments
February 14, 2013
The Thought Terminating Cliche
Posted by franc hoggle under cranks, cults, disinformation, fascism, gender, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, new new atheism, nihilism, nonsense, populism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, puritanism, shrieking hysteria, stupidity, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: 1984, atheismplus, brainwashing, charlatans, dogma, frauds, freethoughtblogs, gender feminism, Maoism, orwell, personality cults, skepchick, Stalinism, Stasi, thought control |[6] Comments
Cesspit of lies link
I’m going to pull an Ophelia Benson and just do a block text dump, add a line or two and pretend I’m a huge intellectual.
Loading the Language
The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliche. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis. In thought reform, for instance, the phrase “bourgeois mentality” is used to encompass and critically dismiss ordinarily troublesome concerns like the quest for individual expression, the exploration of alternative ideas, and the search for perspective and balance in political judgments. And in addition to their function as interpretive shortcuts, these cliches become what Richard Weaver has called “ultimate terms”: either “god terms,” representative of ultimate good; or “devil terms,” representative of ultimate evil. In thought reform, “progress,” “progressive,” “liberation,” “proletarian standpoints” and “the dialectic of history” fall into the former category; “capitalist,” “imperialist,” “exploiting classes,” and “bourgeois” (mentality, liberalism, morality, superstition, greed) of course fall into the latter. Totalist language, then, is repetitiously centered on all-encompassing jargon, prematurely abstract, highly categorical, relentlessly judging, and to anyone but its most devoted advocate, deadly dull: in Lionel Trilling’s phrase, “the language of nonthought.” (more…)
January 22, 2013
The Art Of Fearmongering
Posted by franc hoggle under conspiracists, cranks, cults, disinformation, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, moral panic, new new atheism, nihilism, populism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, shrieking hysteria, terrorism, yellow journalism | Tags: charlatans, Charles Manson, frauds, freethoughtblogs, hysteria, Jim Jones, Kool-aid, Marshall Applewhite, ophelia benson, PZ Myers, snake oil |[10] Comments
Ophelia Benson learns a new big word – stochastic
Blood libel (also blood accusation[1][2]) is a false accusation or claim[3][4][5] that religious minorities, usually Jews, murder children to use their blood in certain aspects of their religious rituals and holidays.[1][2][6] Historically, these claims—alongside those of well poisoning and host desecration—have been a major theme in European persecution of Jews.[4]
Blood libels typically allege that Jews require human blood for the baking of matzos for Passover, although this element was absent in the earliest cases that claimed (the contemporary) Jews reenacted the crucifixion. The accusations often assert that the blood of Christian children is especially coveted, and, historically, blood libel claims have been made to account for otherwise unexplained deaths of children. In some cases, the alleged victim of human sacrifice has become venerated as a martyr, a holy figure around whom a martyr cult might arise. Four of these have been previously canonized as saints, namely William of Norwich, Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, Simon of Trent (Simon was decanonized[7] in the 20th century), and Gavriil Belostoksky who remains canonized in the Russian Orthodox Church. — the Cesspit of Lies (more…)
January 15, 2013
Kicking 2012′s Carcass Out The Door, And Maybe CFI’s Too
Posted by franc hoggle under censorship, disinformation, gender, hyperreality, idiocy, Jacobins, misandry, moral panic, new new atheism, nihilism, populism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, yellow journalism | Tags: atheismplus, cfi, charlatans, confidence tricksters, dereliction of duty, Ed Clint, frauds, freethoughtblogs, Kool-aid, liars, middle class and entitled, Paul Kurtz, pudgy pink princesses, Rebecca Watson, Ron Lindsay, Russell Blackford, skepchick, SkepticInk, slanderers |[27] Comments
The Center for Ideology
Let me paint a landscape for you as 2012 ceased to be…
On November 12 2012, Russel Blackford, in a rare moment of absolute exasperation, tweeted what most folks actually feel, but restrain themselves from articulating -
I will NOT be attending any convention / conference that features Rebecca Watson as a speaker. What were the Australian Skeptics thinking? smh
— Russell Blackford (@Metamagician) November 12, 2012
dilbert.com
On November 10, Rebecca Watson took her very own brand of air-headed cluelessness to new heights in a talk at Skepticon 5, dragging evolutionary psychology through the mud as some kind of tool of patriarchal oppression. Whether Blackford’s tweet was a direct result of this exhibit of buffoonery or not is not known, but doesn’t seem likely given the video was not posted until November 20. If by some chance it did, it only vindicates Blackford’s outburst as Watson now consistently paints a picture of skeptics and atheists to the outside world as a bunch of ill-educated, poorly read, perpetually squabbling clowns. Remember Galileo Becky? No, that was not an excusable “slip up” – it’s basic junior high school level history/science knowledge. It reeked of the pig ignorance of a stupid girl-child that fills her vast expanses of idle time between booze ups playing video games and tweeting snark instead self-education – the latter being what many folks would assume came as a minimum responsibility for someone that feeds at the teat of the community and claims to represent it. (more…)
January 8, 2013
Samizdat
Posted by franc hoggle under fascism, Jacobins, media, misandry, new new atheism, nihilism, populism, pseudo-skepticism, puritanism | Tags: Arab spring, atheismplus, freethoughtblogs, grass roots, light at the end of the tunnel, Paula Kirby, resistance, Samizdat, Sisterhood of the Oppressed, skepchick |[17] Comments
I myself create it,
edit it,
censor it,
publish it,
distribute it, and …
get imprisoned for it.
samizdat – System whereby literature suppressed by the Soviet government was clandestinely written, printed, and distributed; also, the literature itself. Samizdat began appearing in the 1950s, first in Moscow and Leningrad, then throughout the Soviet Union. It typically took the form of carbon copies of typewritten sheets that were passed from reader to reader. The subjects included dissident activities, protests addressed to the regime, transcripts of political trials, analyses of socioeconomic and cultural themes, and even pornography. Samizdat disappeared when media outlets independent of the government emerged in the early 1990s. — Merriam-Webster Concise Encyclopedia (more…)
November 25, 2012
Crazy Ophelia Keeping The Snarl Stats Up
Posted by franc hoggle under great idiots of the world, hyperreality, new new atheism, nihilism, pseudo-skepticism, shrieking hysteria, yellow journalism | Tags: barking at shadows, batshit insane, crazy cunt lady, Dear Muslima, gibberish, incoherence, ophelia benson, prunes, snarling |[14] Comments
Benson – still snarlin’
Quite amazing. Ophelia “crazy cunt lady” Benson is an unstoppable machine. Only days after posting the comprehensive study on her linguistic barbarism, she manages to hork up this fur-ball of incoherent snarling in what is pretty much her standard format nowadays, stolen “fair use” quoted text outnumbering her “original” words by ~2:1 (124:72 to be precise in this instance). Here she is spitting and cursing about Saudi plans to electronically monitor the movements of their women, much as privileged westerners track house pets. The article she cites, and others elsewhere, are short on detail as to exactly how the Saudis are going to implement this, but it looks like they are falling short of implanted microchips – (more…)
November 20, 2012
Project Prune Grep
Posted by franc hoggle under disinformation, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, moral panic, new new atheism, nihilism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, puritanism, shrieking hysteria, stupidity, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: Butterflies and Wheels, fear, freefromthoughtblogs, freethoughtblogs, hate, loathing, misery, ophelia benson, prunes, self-pity, wallowing |[15] Comments
Quantifying the incidence of gratuitous snarl and fear/pity language on Butterflies & Wheels
Dr. Franc Hoggle
Department of Gyno-Podiatry, Universidad El Toro Caca Grande
La Habana Vieja, Cuba 10100
-= ABSTRACT =-
Westernised professional wailing (唱板板, or “singing the banban”1) as a career and lifestyle choice is one of the most challenging, yet least known, branches of the classical performing arts. It distinguishes itself from its eastern roots – that of professional mourners hired for funerals as public showing of the social status of the deceased – by being far more entrepre’neurial and a business model in its own right. It is a complex, multidisciplinary form of expression that distills the finer subtleties from Munchausen Syndrome and certain aspects of HPD into its own unique brand psychodramatic theatre. Notable laureates of this school have been Glenn Beck, Anita Bryant, Joseph McCarthy, Jenny McCarthy (no relation), Catharine MacKinnon and Fred Phelps – those that have taken the mundane, the nonsensical and the nonexistant and, through applied hyperbole, hysteria and robotic repetition of fear-mongering and artificial “us and them” division, have escalated non-problems to the status of cancers that threaten to undermine society itself, thus ensnaring and captivating an audience of the feeble and the powerless that are incapable of articulating their bottled up angst unassisted. As with all styles of thespian expression, language is the primary tool and here the language of demonisation and persecution is the key to establishing a stage presence and an unforgettable persona in the eyes of the target audience. Yet this language is too seldom analysed, let alone quantified. This paper attempts to enumerate the frequency with which the language of demonisation and persecution occurs in one particular contemporary ideological ghetto – that of the collective that has formed around freefromthoughtblogs, Skepchick and it’s mutant offspring Atheism+.
© 2112 UNESCO Social and Human Sciences (more…)
October 14, 2012
Stefanny Zwan’s Vibrator Is Broken – Addendum
Posted by franc hoggle under censorship, hyperreality, misandry, moral panic, new new atheism, nihilism, populism, pseudo-skepticism, puritanism, yellow journalism | Tags: atheismplus, beached whales, change.org, Edwina Rogers, frauds, freethoughtblogs, JT Eberhard, Justin Vacula, liars, SCA, Secular Council for America, slander, Stephanie Zvan |[11] Comments
Click to embiggen and steal
Demonisation of the other is as old a human pursuit as exchanging sex for personal advantage and the quest for mind altering chemicals. Common motivators are personal power plays, petty revenge or the common malice of the Queen bee high school girl. The unacknowledged motivator however is to accentuate the alleged shortcomings of the other, which almost always are trivial in comparison to the character failures of the finger pointer, and thus distract from where the real rot lies.
Zwan’s anti-Justin Vacula petition is a prime example. As discussed previously, this is a case of a pretty worthless exhibit of humanity lacking both the skill and intellect to contribute anything meaningful to life exercising jealous spite to skewer someone that does. And in the broader freefromthoughtblogs perspective, it looks like a case of Goldilocks and the Three Gallows – (more…)
October 1, 2012
Stefanny Zwan’s Vibrator Is Broken
Posted by franc hoggle under disinformation, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, new new atheism, nihilism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, yellow journalism | Tags: atheismplus, change.org, Edwina Rogers, frauds, freethoughtblogs, JT Eberhard, Justin Vacula, liars, Natasha Leggero, SCA, Secular Council for America, slander, Stephanie Zvan |[39] Comments
Funny how appropriate images tend to find you
Another day, another new low from freefromthoughtblogs. It’s become a race to the bottom to see who can be the viler piece of shit. Sulky Amy (who kicks ass on a daily basis) made a superhuman effort, firstly with her crocodile tears at this years TAM, followed by her spurious DMCA takedown party (copies of notices). But now, Stefanny Zwan is going for gold by launching a petition against a fellow community member, a person that actually does stuff other than whine and wallow in self pity1, Justin Vacula -
(On the off chance that change.org actually does take down petitions that serve no purpose other than to defame, a mirror of the petition can be seen here)
The immediate absurdity is, of course, how Zwan, or any baboon blogger (let alone any of the minions of subnormals that constitute their readership), could ever declare anyone as being “unfit for any leadership position” – a sentiment parroted ad nauseam in the comment section, as per patented FfTB synchronised individuality – the absurdity being the implication that one of their own could somehow be more “worthy”. (more…)
September 20, 2012
AtheismPlus – Diversity Equals Monoculture
Posted by franc hoggle under hyperreality, misandry, new new atheism, nihilism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: atheismplus, baboons, Chris Clarke, freethoughtblogs, gibberish, groupthink, monkey-see-monkey-do, MRA, PZ Myers |[24] Comments
AtheismPlus – synchronised individuality
This is incredibly amusing.
Some weeks ago, the Naked Emperor, coming down with a case of gretachristinitis, trumpeted the addition a co-dependentblogger to the original baboon board – one Chris Clarke who is, apparently, “a phenomenal writer, a true progressive, and a committed environmentalist” – but regardless, Myers’ private little North Korea has been chugging along, business as usual. As a follow-up to Myers’ most recent outburst of demagogue tripe, reader Quawonk deposited this latest dung ball in a comment here -
“I do get how uncomfortable it can be to have data accumulate against a proposition which you desperately wanted to be true.”
Gobsmacking as usual. This is not a sudden epiphany of personal revulsion, but just another shallow dig at horrible MRAs – the socially acceptable Jewish substitute for the freefromthoughtblogs Sturmabteilung. Either completely devoid of self-awareness, or conscious of the hypocrisy and simply not caring – end result is still the same. This piece of nonsense can be found at the following link, and it is recommended to read it for yourself prior to proceeding -
