“How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.” — Peter Sloterdijk
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March 29, 2013
Too Much Gibberish Online
Posted by franc hoggle under censorship, cults, disinformation, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, moral panic, new new atheism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: clarity, Cynics, falsehood, frauds, Sloterdijk |[5] Comments
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
The humility of a psychopath. Otherwise, I’m quite speechless.
https://phawrongula.wikia.com/wiki/TAM_2012_T-Shirt_Manufacturversy
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/author/harriet-hall/ (more…)
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 20, 2013
Does Ed Brayton Realise How Stupid He Sounds?
Posted by franc hoggle under disinformation, hyperreality, new new atheism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: charlatans, Ed Brayton, frauds, freethoughtblogs |[7] Comments
“Thanks for the ‘heart surgery’ donations! LOL!!! What a bunch of chumps. But the ribs were delicious”1
Almost certainly. And given the median intellect of the knuckle-draggers that read him, it’s not an issue.
After close to a year of shadowy insinuation about Michael Shermer being some kind of monstrous misogynist and sexual predator, freefromthoughtblogs has now clicked into full gear and is openly demonising him. To the surprise of nobody.
The flag to release the hounds came when Shermer responded to a series of stock standard FfTB smears and misrepresentations directed at him by Ophelia “the prune that talks” Benson -
Nontheism and Feminism: Why the Disconnect?
At the time of writing, that article is offline, but the cache copy can be seen here.
This is more of the same quote mined gibberish that Benson barfs up on a daily basis – “context” is evidently a tool of patriarchal oppression which can be dismissed and reality is best defined by the cultural Marxist practice of selective editing and imbuing meaning to what they really said through the filter of guilt by association and social demographic. (more…)
January 17, 2013
The Face Of US Skepticism – Blocked By CFI
Posted by franc hoggle under disinformation, ethics, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, new new atheism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: atheismplus, cfi, charlatans, confidence tricksters, dereliction of duty, frauds, freethoughtblogs, Kool-aid, liars, middle class and entitled, pudgy pink princesses, Rebecca Watson, Ron Lindsay, skepchick, SkepticInk |[21] Comments
How CFI deals with criticism under CEO Ronald A. Lindsay
There was I time when I would be surprised by this. That time is long gone. (more…)
January 13, 2013
Adam Lee – The Toady’s Toady
Posted by franc hoggle under disinformation, ethics, fascism, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, new new atheism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: Adam Lee, ass-suckers, change.org, DaylightAtheism, freethoughtblogs, petition, Rebecca Watson, skepchick, slanderers, Stephanie Zvan, Thunder00t, toadies, weasels |[5] Comments
Wormtongue – what Adam Lee hates seeing in the mirror
When you look at the whole menagerie of A+, freefromthoughtblogs and Skepchick and the various toilet slaves, snake oil peddlers, shills, frauds and confidence tricksters that squirm around it like maggots in carrion, it is a daunting task to try and determine which is the most obsequious toady of the lot.
I think that title has to belong to Adam Lee / DaylightAtheism though. He’s come from nowhere in the last few months, but with sheer bloody minded determination has made even yay-yap slugs like oolon look like ethical pillars of independent thinking, dignity and self-respect.
Adam’s first claim to fame was the glossy, clinically fact-free, propaganda advertorial he managed to inject into Salon – and leave a sour taste in many people’s mouths that Salon too can be consigned to the pile of online media portals that have “editorial integrity” as a marketing buzzword and not something that they actually waste any time on practising. (more…)
December 15, 2012
RationalWiki Showing It’s Anything But Again
Posted by franc hoggle under disinformation, hyperreality, misandry, new new atheism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, toilet slaves | Tags: horseshit, manufacturing consent, RationalWiki |[37] Comments
It’s called “sarcasm”
Wrote previously that RationalWiki is anything but and seems to be completely owned by baboons. Another minor teacup storm seems to have broken out. This time, steamrolling non-partisan information on Atheism+.
What is there to discuss here? Not a lot. RationalWiki has shown beyond any reasonable doubt that it is virulently ideological and that the only safe position to take is to treat any information it contains as suspect and that it cannot be taken at face value without verification from more credible external sources.
I just want to document choice excerpts from the Talk:Atheism_Plus page for posterity – (more…)
December 8, 2012
Jumping On The Meme Bandwagon
Posted by franc hoggle under cynics, gender, misandry, new new atheism, philosophy, shrieking hysteria, toilet slaves | Tags: cunts |[15] Comments
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…)
November 6, 2012
Atheism+, Undisputed Community Endorsement
Posted by franc hoggle under disinformation, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, new new atheism, populism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: atheismplus, beached whales, freethoughtblogs, Oolon the slimy turd, slimepit, UrbanDictionary |[22] Comments
“We’re popular. Really we are. Please believe us.”
The Atheism+ shills are still bombarding the web on any white space that’s available and still conning gullible web-zines and newspapers for free advertorials on the new, improved brand of snake oil. Building a bogus presence that is somehow representative of the greater community out of snappy soundbites and flatulent wind.
Whilst the chumps at these journals may fall for the hogwash by abdicating editorial responsibility, and the laziness of not creating genuine content instead of relying on cheap filler, the unfortunate and very visible reality is that the greater community is now far more capable of spotting cheap confidence tricksters and is refusing to buy into it at all. And the really grim reminders of reality are found in the oddest of places, such as UrbanDictionary…
On September 3rd, someone posted an entry, rather accurate if snide, of Atheism+. It took the subnormals at Atheism+ over a month to notice and react in the all to familiar manner -
VOTE DOWN this hateful URBAN DICTIONARY entry
by SushiQ » Wed Oct 10, 2012 12:28 am
Self-explanatory. Go get ‘em. ‘Cause that’s non-”non-existent” misogyny.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Atheism%20Plus
Better still, put up a REAL definition! (more…)
