If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

Let's see. To the best of my recollection Hemant Mehta in the past has actively rejected accusations that bloggers are responsible for what their readers do and think when it comes to other people. Bloggers, but not churches. And even though there's no part of Christian dogma that advocates gunning...

Tweeting is the secular prayer.

Breitbart is having a field day with this as the shooter was atheist but it has fuck all to do with his atheism. As one of Jerry's few reasonable posters has pointed out, atheist groups jumping on the "he must have done it because he's a Christian" thing and especially their callous mockery of the ...

Hemant and Jerry's crowd are both trumpeting the fact that the guy taught vacation bible school four years ago ergo he MUST be a Christian. Forget his Facebook feed and reports from people who knew the guy that he'd become obsessed with atheism recently. Forget that, thanks to the likes of the Clerg...

FA's position is now "it doesn't matter if the shooter is an atheist, but it does matter if he's a Christian."

My two favorite responses from the FA hordelets are:

-Hemant is the friendly one. The rest of us never promised not to be rude and hateful.
-Uh, we're not the hateful ones. We'd never advocate for violence.

Wmdkitty is making an ass of herself on Friendly Atheist as we speak.

In other news water still wet.

I hear that they spent at least $100,000 on a full page advert in the New York Times. Police say around 300 people showed up, after 5000 pledged to show up. In a lot of the pictures I have seen, it is old hippies who are unlikely to be the Antifa super-soldiers were were all looking forward to seei...

Lsuoma wrote:
Sunder wrote:Republican*
Thanks for clarifying that - I could never have guessed what you meant.

This is what happens when you take away a man's edit button.

Myers's condemnation of Twitter is proof that no matter how much any person or organization bends over backwards to appease SJWs they won't be happy until they hear the spine snap.

Also, regarding "whomst," this is apparently a meme in the black twitter sphere, like "woke."

Republican*

I love the Republcian tax plan as well. It balloons the deficit (and thus can't be passed in the senate without a full 60 votes), raises taxes on some middle-class Americans, and doesn't simplify tax filing despite reducing the number of brackets. Brilliant.

Oh no, it's spreading. I swear I only hit it once.

"Black Lives Matter" would have been much more successful in pointing out the problems with police brutality if it hadn't been based on identitarian bullshit but instead on pointing out police brutality (which might impact blacks more than whites, but impacts everyone who has confrontations with th...

"Black Lives Matter" would have been much more successful in pointing out the problems with police brutality if it hadn't been based on identitarian bullshit but instead on pointing out police brutality (which might impact blacks more than whites, but impacts everyone who has confrontations with th...

The Simpsons had already done the Rover parody in the episode where they all joined a cult.

Honestly if I had any amount of money to spend on state propaganda, Facebook ads seem far more efficient than anything else.

Jerry did a poll on "offensive" Halloween costumes where you can see what proportion of his readership is excessively touchy.

Even the blandest ones still scraped 3%.

That it's serious mental health problem is why people were so peeved at her. The most offended were ex military, who actually have to deal with, you know, real PTSD because they've seen their friends blown apart. But they were mostly men so of course Hensley has more credibility. They're probably a...

There's more evidence that Melody Hensley has PTSD than Myers ever had a career in science.

According to one of Hemant's hordelings, you can't be "in the closet" if even one other person knows your secret. Not much point being gay if you've got nobody to be gay with. I may have overstated my case. Specifically what they said is because his closest friends knew he was gay, he wasn't really...

According to one of Hemant's hordelings, you can't be "in the closet" if even one other person knows your secret.

it shouldn't have mattered whether a son was a bastard or not -- his maleness could be assessed simply by looking for his meat and two veg. (Of course, in the modern era it has become quite problematic to perform this assessment). Well the point is not that he's male, but specifically that he's a b...

I see Dumb Saunders popped into the FA thread to fight against homophobia by posting casual misogyny.

He also claims the 26yo Kevin Spacey was "well over twice the age" of the 14yo Rapp. Because he smrt and gud with num-burs.

A question for bastards. If the laws of primogeniture are purely about preserving male privilege why is it that only legitimate sons qualify? Although legitimate sons take presidence over daughters the heirs are still blood relatives of both parents. If it was just about male supremacy illegitimate...

The utilitarian argument is one thing, but Jerry's "artistic reasons" probably are not going to pass muster with his liberal readers. The utilitarian argument also has its obvious counter, which is that very few such niches exist anymore in the modern mechanized world, mainly just dogs that are good...

Another Jerry fit. He puts a post up about cat breeding and is surprised when his liberal readership does the most predictable thing in the world and says "well that's nice and all, but gosh pet breeding makes me uncomfortable and there's SO many shelter animals in need of homes out there." Hey, rem...

Septa Hemant joins in on Kevin Spacey's Walk of Shame: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/10/30/kevin-spacey-just-helped-the-christian-right-spread-one-of-its-nastiest-myths/ If "democommie" really is wmdkitty's sock, someone ought to let her know that "why did Spacey wait so long to...

You know who gave that impressionable young musli the idea to kill with a vehicle? That's right, Republicans. Caine 31 October 2017 at 7:18 pm Gosh, I don’t suppose anyone got ideas from all those upstanding republicans legislating the vehicular plowing down of protesters. Nah, that wouldn’t give a...

the biggest mass murder in modern history in Vegas

God dammit Peez had better thank his fucking lucky stars there are people like McEwan in the world ready to say something ten times stupider than he could ever dream up to make him look less horrible by comparison.

Apparently the Han Solo movie recently wrapped up filming. For those not aware, the original directors spent about four months filming a comedy which, when the execs saw it, resulting in them being thrown out and a replacement director brought in to reshoot everything, which has taken another full f...

"Compassionate" means "devoted to the moral foundations of Care and Fairness, that characterize the Liberal Left". Dawkins is a centrist, PeeZee is a SocJus fan, so that's why he's more "compassionate". I'm a bit more cynical. I think it means imagining yourself to be morally superior to your ideol...

Yesterday Wu held one of or possibly her first public fundraiser: A Twitch stream of her badly playing Wolfenstein, billed as "killing virtual Nazis."

The difference is that the Horsemen weren't being assholes for the sake of being assholes, but to shake the complacency of the Non-Overlapping Magisteria which dominated secular thinkers before them. Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens took on heavy targets, from the entirety of the Catholic Church to the Re...

Current Affairs response to Scott Alexander's response to the piece on new atheism from The Baffler https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/getting-beyond-new-atheism The author bleats on and on about what assholes the horsemen were and even the otherwise "compassionate" Peezus gets a mention. Even ...

I'm not a physicist, but according to everything I've ever read on the subject this is wrong. At the subatomic level it really is acausal. True randomness. Not like a coin flip where you could (in principle if not in practice) determine the outcome before the event happens. Quantum events are proba...

Just thought of something based on the idiotic hordelets dredging up that "imagine gender as a spectrum of points BETWEEN male and female." What if you identify as beyond male or female rather than in between? More male than male. Or more female than female. And that's still just working with a sing...

Hollywood is ailing, comics are fucked, I know there's a lot of grousing about SJWism there, but honestly there's perfectly reasonable economic explanations for the Hollywood collapse. A question a lot of people find themselves asking is "why not instead of one giant blockbuster a studio instead ma...

SJW-ism rots everything it touches - movies, art, education, mass media, politics, comics, videogames, sports, everything . It's the touch of death to turn anything with its own artistic or intellectual integrity into propaganda. Surely you wouldn't classify all those fields as dead already. Most o...

Nice academic youtuber I'd never heard of before, recommended by Prince of Queens and Karen Straughan, Benjamin A. Boyce, . His particular focus is the Evergreen events but goes more deeply into the theory behind SJW-ism, etc. I liked his Bret Weinstein interview. It's an interesting idea to think ...

It's always a laugh when Hemant's hordelings assume Matt must be a Bible-thumper for making fun of their idiocy.

Can Patheos go the way of FTB soon?

Am I mistaken or was McAfee the FA contributor who was always defending Islam and going after Dawkins? Don't forget his recent "some Vikings were probably Muslim" post. But yeah, I asked earlier if there was a reason this wasn't posted on FA as well, figuring even Hemant must have not wanted to tou...

political cartoons*

I think this cartoon would be a completely reasonable and not anti-semitic cartoon had: + Dershowitz said the things they attribute to him at the talk + They had attended the talk. At that point it would be an Anti-Zionist cartoon and if it shows the blood of Palestinians, so be it, that's not anti...

And for the record, I hate hate HATE being put in the position where I am defending idiotic regressives, but my principles tell me I have to in this case. I'm definitely not arguing that they deserve the most charitable interpretation or that there's no chance there's anything ugly hiding in there, ...

If you're going to intentionally misrepresent people, then you have no leg to stand on to complain about other people not understanding your best intentions. It's one thing to say "I am going to hold you to your own rotten standards." But that's not what's being done. Rather on this issue Jerry has...

And I despair of this mainly because I am honestly on their side and don't want to see them behave stupidly and use tactics that are sure to backfire. That's what the Dems did. And I can only tolerate it so long before I can no longer remain on their side.

The cartoon does travel in symbology often associated with anti-semitism, the blood libel etc., that doesn't mean this cartoon IS anti-semitic HOWEVER, Dershowitz also says: > the newspaper never even reported on the content of my talk and I don’t know whether the cartoonist was even at my talk. Th...

Is she deliberately doing the Mitch McConnell turtle face or is that just normal?

I just don't get how someone could be critical of regressives, know their policies are both bad and tend to backfire, and then carelessly adopt some of them anyway.

There's compartmentalization and then there's just being thick.

And now he's temp-banned that commenter for "trying to dominate the thread."

I've got essentially no respect left for Jerry. He may think he's pushing back against regressives, but fuck if he's not well on his way to emulating them.

FWIW I never noticed the "big ear" thing until I started hearing about it, and to me they don't look particularly big so much as his well-shorn hair doesn't frame them so they appear to stick out more. Speaking of Obama though, someone brought up the Ted Rall scandal, where IIRC DailyKos made him wi...

Also the insistence by Jerry and others that political cartoons in "public media" never show anything like this. I mean who ever heard of a political cartoon showing a figure with literal blood on his hands?

Now am I off my fucking rocker, or does the face not even qualify as a caricature? Because to me it looks like the artist, for all their lack of ability, gave his face at least as fair and accurate a treatment as possible. The body is an anatomical mess but I don't think that falls in the domain of...

Jerry's crew are convinced that this drawing of Alan Dershowitz is a horrible, racist caricture that deliberately exaggerates his features to conform with standard antisemitic tropes. Dershowitz happens to look like this: https://s3.amazonaws.com/thumbnails.thecrimson.com/photos/2013/12/13/013322_12...

Jerry's become a lot more authoritarian in recent times, and essentially only wants people to make comments that agree with his positions. I've thought for a while that he is an aspie who has done a fairly good job of running an emulation of the empathy and social skills most take for granted. That...

Reading the comments on Coyne's "Once Again: Is New Atheism Dead?" I'm taking note of just how many people thought Scott's article was agreeing with Sam Kriss. I think his particular brand of irony doesn't register until you've worked through a few of his posts. It's unfortunate that even in a plac...

Surprised McAfee's not dumping that over at FA. Think this was a story even Hemant didn't want to touch?

I know what's not funny: That Dave Silverman gets a paycheck for running the attendance figures of American Atheist events into the fucking ground.

If he got paid according to how good a job he actually did he'd owe his employer money.

Jerry comments on that Slatestarcodex piece on New Atheism as well as the original article Scott was commenting on.

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