RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/August 2021

August 2021
Pro-Trump "free speech" social media site GETTR flooded with Islamic terrorist propaganda. [https://www.okayplayer.com/news/fortnite-mlk-i-have-a-dream-speech.html Online multiplayer game Fortnite bizarrely decided to put together an exhibit commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech". Players quickly figured out that they could use emotes to throw tomatoes during the event or do the Gangnam Style dance next to the exhibit's segregated water fountains.] There so much suffering on Earth, would extinction be so bad? Business Insider tells the real human story of the pandemic: "I'm a landlord with 24 properties. We're suffering during Biden's eviction ban, and no one is helping." During the takeover of Kabul, Senator Tom Cotton called on Biden to "destroy every Taliban fighter in the vicinity" of the city. Apparently the military was supposed to have accomplished this with fucking magic or something. Concerning workers being paid little compared to unemployment benefits, Laura Ingraham says: "[https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1426017141724270597 What if we just cut off the unemployment? Hunger is a pretty powerful thing." Her guest, entrepreneur and Bar Rescue host Jon Taffer, agrees and comes out with, "They only feed a military dog at night, because a hungry dog is an obedient dog. Well, if we are not causing people to be hungry to work...these benefits make no sense"]. You have heard about COVID "sceptics", now there are germ "sceptics" who don't believe viruses cause diseases. From pillows to conspiracies: Mike Lindell's last ditch bullshit parade about election fraud is laughed at by everyone except for the far right conspiracy crowd, but is eroding trust in American democracy. Lindell also claims that God orchestrated Trump's removal from the White House so that the nation could see the "evil" of the election system. Charlie Kirk says that people who are still in serious financial trouble because of the pandemic deserve to be evicted and tossed onto the street. Candace Owens says, "women that don’t start families transform into angry, bitter, maladapted, shrieking sociopaths with their therapists on speed dial." No, Candace, it's probably just you. Graham Linehan: "trans ideology" is bad because Chris Chan. GBNews strikes again (Fox News no longer has a monopoly on idiotic arseholes, it seems.) Well Educated half-wit Neil Oliver compares those who refuse to comply with current guidelines to those who fought in World War II (All those credentials and he's still a moron.)

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