Just a little mind map I knocked up to visualise the motivations of the various players in the baboon kingdom. To be periodically updated. Inspired by The Political Compass.
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April 5, 2013
The Baboon Political Compass
Posted by franc under cults, Jacobins, media, misandry, new new atheism, populism, pseudo-skepticism, yellow journalism | Tags: all the usual morons |[7] Comments
March 22, 2013
Donglegate
Posted by franc under disinformation, gender, hyperreality, information technology, internet, Jacobins, misandry, moral panic, populism, propaganda, shrieking hysteria, social sites, stupidity, yellow journalism | Tags: adria richards, I'mBlackFemaleAndEntitled, lynch mobs, McCarthyism, PyCon, Rebecca Watson, SendGrid, skepchick |[15] Comments
Adria, could you please explain what the t-shirt means?
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Not a lot I can say about this that hasn’t been said elsewhere, and frankly, it’s not my horse race anyway. Yet another example of gender fem-bot Jacobinism rearing it’s ugly head – the godless and the gamers are far from the only ones under siege. I’ll leave the concise summary to ArsTechnica –
“Donglegate” is classic overreaction—and everyone pays
Adria Richard’s (her site looks like it’s currently being DDoS’ed) version –
Forking and Dongle Jokes Don’t Belong At Tech Conferences
I would have let this idiocy slide and left it to the propeller heads but for one item in the commentary on Richard’s piece – (more…)
March 14, 2013
The Threat Narrative
Posted by franc under gender, media, misandry, populism, propaganda | Tags: amanda marcotte, beached whales, Blaghag, cfi, Ellenbeth Wachs, freethoughtblogs, genderratic, Jen mccreight, Melody Hensley, ophelia benson, professional victims, prunes, PZ Myers, Rebecca Watson, skepchick, Stephanie Zvan, SurlyAmy, typhon blue |[4] Comments
I always feel humbled by great examples of atyphia – where precision clarity is expressed in it’s most concise and simple form. Typhon Blue (also) explains in just over three and a half minutes what I have squandered untold thousands of words on.
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February 26, 2013
This Is What Harriet Hall Gets For Negotiating With Terrorists
Posted by franc 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 21, 2013
Melody Hensley – Executive Director CFI-DC
Posted by franc under disinformation, gender, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, new new atheism, populism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, yellow journalism | Tags: amanda marcotte, cfi, csi, hypocrisy, McCarthyism, Melody Hensley, Ronald A. Lindsay, slander |[29] Comments
The censor never sleeps –
I was genuinely shocked. Not that Marcotte blocked me, but that I wasn’t already blocked preemptively according to the distributed wisdom of CFI Director Melody Hensley in her efforts to sanitise the internet and create a rape-free safe space where people from all walks of life can furiously nod in agreement with each other. I had never interacted with Marcotte prior to this, and the reply box being visible and active proved too much of a temptation. (more…)
February 14, 2013
The Thought Terminating Cliche
Posted by franc 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 |[8] 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 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 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 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 |[18] 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 6, 2012
Atheism+, Undisputed Community Endorsement
Posted by franc 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…)
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