RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/March 2018

March 2018
Trans visibility is greater than ever but that's a double-edged sword

A cryptocurrency scam? Why not mix it with cold fusion ... and UFOs. We bring you: Synthestech! This is all the data Facebook and Google have on you The fucked up truth about Pocahontas.

How Fox News turned the March for Our Lives into an attack on the 2nd Amendment. Homosexuality isn't moral or immoral because it doesn't even fall under that spectrum. What the US can learn from Switzerland, a country with an insanely high rate of gun ownership that hasn't had a mass shooting since 2001. Reddit bans the sale of a number of items, including guns The link between psychopathy (not sociopathy) and leadership. How the National Rifle Association went crazy Mark Meechan (of Count Dankula "guilty of hate speech" fame) responds to the guilty verdict. Tearing apart Fox News' "Today's Atheists Are Bullies" article (original opinion piece here) Lonely death of Soviet scientist poisoned by novichok

The Free Speech Grifters - their obsession with liberal college students and how their narrative doesn't really reflect reality. How the Sykes-Picot Agreement ruined the Middle East. Plight of Phoenix: how long can the world’s 'least sustainable' city survive? It is in our own interest to improve the quality of life in poorer regions. Jordan Peterson [https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-deserve appears very profound and has convinced many people to take him seriously. Yet he has almost nothing of value to say.] [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/16/corporate-media-oligarchy-bernie-sanders The corporate media ignores the rise of oligarchy. The rest of us shouldn't.] On the mythology of Canadian peacekeeping

Chinese students living abroad put up "Not My President" posters on university campuses in opposition to Xi Jinping. YouTube, the Great Radicalizer It’s Time To Start Holding Cis-Exclusive Society Responsible for Trans Mental Illness and Death Has dopamine got us hooked on tech?