RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/July 2016

July 2016
"I am an idiot": Ryan Bundy declares himself a Sovereign citizen. Spoiler: it still doesn't get him out of jail. Bradley Cooper, star of the conservative propaganda epic American Sniper, was spotted attending the DNC making conservatives go batshit on Twitter, shocked his movie role was just an act. The American Family Association: "The Bible teaches us that there is a supernatural world inhabited by the Triune God and holy angels who do his bidding. But that supernatural and unseen world is also inhabited by dark spirits who serve the god of the underworld, Satan, and do his bidding. Just as God can be invoked in prayer, so can dark spirits who serve their dark overlord." (Translation: The GOP invited a Muslim to offer a closing benediction at their convention.) Ben Carson: Growing up rich is a disadvantage The dumbest way to defend the feminist cause David Duke: Jews did Melania's plagiarism. (HT Mammoth.) Twitter has permanently banned Milo Yiannopoulos LessWrong-style rationalists, specifically Scott Alexander fans, continue spouting neoreactionary talking points, suggest "A sterilization plague that ideally targets the less intelligent 90% or whatever. Done in secret and presented as a natural occurrence..." Don't worry, it'll be "paired with compassionate material," because these are definitely good people and not at all the second coming of 1920s eugenicists. (Note that this started from a discussion about getting rid of mosquitoes.) Karl Rove does something sensible for once, by calling airport security on Alex Jones Is My Intolerance of Your [[Islamophobia| Intolerance]] Intolerant? Altogether now! The best way to end excessive police violence? According to one protest group, get rid of the police. Rick Wiles: Satan Using Pokémon Go To Spawn 'Demonic Powers' And Murder Christians. Clinton is running for President, Pokémon is a tool of Satanic indoctrination...it's the 90s all over again! Pam Geller Sues The US Gov't Because Facebook Blocked Her Page; Says CDA 230 Violates First Amendment. Full of all sorts of nonsense, considering the CD230 doesn't apply and isn't used to take down such items, even though Geller is claiming it's a "heckler's veto". Rudy Giuliani believes that "Black kids are 99% likely to kill each other" and says Black Lives Matter is "inherently racist". The neoreactionary/alt-right cultural critical analysis of Zootopia is a gold mine, (((brackets))) and all. NaturalNews, in response to the FBI not charging Clinton: Jim Bob Duggar: Molestation Is Common In Christian Families. The money quote is ''“It was a very difficult situation. But as we talked to other parents and different ones since then, a lot of families have said that they have had similar things that happened in their families.”'' These would be other Quiverfull families. Fox News is worried that the Statue of Liberty might be a transwoman. Conservatives freak out over ‘UN takeover’ after spotting trucks made in Virginia and sold overseas. Mr. Mean-Spirited (actual blog name) knows that professional archeologists are just the well-paid tools of multicultural elites. Careless thieves Noble amateurs who dig random artifacts up and hang them on their walls are the true lovers of history! Nassim Nicholas Taleb: "Who do you think is behind the 107 Laureates petitioning for Greenpeace to stop blocking golden rice? The answer is Monsanto!" This is not a surprise to why sane people do not take you seriously! DUMB BRITISH BLONDE FUCKS 15 MILLION PEOPLE AT ONCE, courtesy of Pornhub. Rule 34 has been broken. Christy Sheats was right to shoot her daughters, because they were "sleeping with black boys" and why should she "have to explain to her friends why she was carrying around a yellow mixed baby." Oh yeah, and she's a martyr for Christ and we should appreciate her will to die for Christ. UPDATE: She doubles down - "I will NOT apologize for my views in that blog. Miscegenation is WRONG and it will destroy the white race as we know it."