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![]() ![]() ![]() | 40 | Lawrence WilsonCreate draft (website drlwilson.com). Promotes "nutritional balancing" and believes the world is run by "Rogues", extraterrestrial beings who manipulate society with a nice bit of jonanism |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Estus Pirkle![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 41 | Gad Saad,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Camp of the Saints![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 44 | Fellowship of the MindsCreate draft - a batshit insane right-wing conspiracy theory blog. Groups its content under tags including Sandy Hook Massacre (alleging it's a false flag), Boston Marathon bombings (ditto), Police State/NWO, St. Michael's Prayer Against Evil (various allegations of Satanism), Creation (guess what) Leftwing Pathology and Islam/Jews. Recent content includes alleging Roy Moore lost due to black voter fraud based on Reddit screenshots. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | What the Health,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Muscular Christianity![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | The Billy Graham rule![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 50 | 1791LCreate draft - A right-wing YouTube channel that's been operating since March 22, 2016 and accumulated 256k subscribers and 45m views since then. It seems to envision itself as a right-wing counter to The Young Turks and Vox's presence on YouTube, and several of their videos are made explicitly in response to them: What Vox missed about sanctuary cities, Vox's messy explanation of "extreme creators", How Cenk Uygur smeared his own reporter, etc. Other stuff includes How Khan makes it harder for London to fight extremism, A Worthless Agreement (about Paris), and Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Cult of Science. For bonus irony points, How CNN threatened to dox the WWE Trump meme is preceded by Inside the lives of top Trump tweet repliers |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Supersessionism,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 50 | Robert LindsayCreate draft (webshite), ex Communist Party USA founder of liberal race realism and the altleft, has a IQ of 147 and is friends with Jared Taylor; Chris Langnan and Gilead Atzmon once commented on his blog |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | Guns, Germs, and Steel![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | Paul BeckwithCreate draft - Another climate change doomer and an ally of Guy McPherson. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | Daniel KinchCreate draft - a guy on Quora with >1500 "answers" who describes himself as "author of work on near-term human extinction based on AGW". Claims that global warming will make humanity go extinct before 2026. Believes that "clathrate gun" (the supposed millions of tons of methane under the North Pole) will be the trigger, and uses nothing but links to "brooklynculturejammers.com" to justify said belief. Effectively, a more extreme version of the "Nature Bats Last" Guy McPherson, who is already profiled on here: a doomsday prophet either dispiriting those still capable of helping or making the entire field look ridiculous. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | War Room.![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 51 | A Twitter account called AntifemcomicsCreate draft[1] used to post strawmen comics. Comics can still be seen from the hashtag. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Lee Camp![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Scared Straight!![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Tony Katz![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 56 | Megalodon,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | The Portable Atheist![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | The Good Book: A Humanist Bible![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Mary Katherine Ham,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 47 | AltRight.com.![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 42 | Braving RuinCreate draft. Previously known as Edgy Sphinx before he got exposed for being an alt-righter just pretending to be moderate so he could dog whistle and introduce alt-rightism to centrists, Braving Ruin has such gems on his channel as De-Platforming = Death youtube, "Centrists" are liars (which is a totally not extremist thing to say) (YT again) and a video about (((Google))) (his anti-Semitic Triple parentheses, not mine) (more YT). He currently almost has 10,000 subscribers and over 150,000 views as well as over 4,500 twitter followers. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 68 | The Olympics![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Center for Organizational Research and Education![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 116 | Standing desks,![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 43 | Jewish expulsions![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Trae Crowder![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 38 | Either Mindfulness![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 73 | BearingCreate draft. Australian Youtuber, antifeminist, skeptic and general bigot and wingnut. His videos are mainly just roasts of feminists, fat people, transgender and gender queer people. He also targets tiny YouTube channels, and hides behind a cartoon avatar of the bear from Total Drama.![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 61 | UndoomedCreate draft. Youtube skeptic and atheist. Does a lot of anti-feminist vidoes but has also recently done vidoes against BLM aswell. His main gimmik is that his avatar is slenderman and he has a pretty cool voice. over 310,000 subscribers, over 32,000,000 views and 163 videos. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 87 | World of Warcraft.![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 46 | Rwanda,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 48 | Semen retention:![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 60 | Plant-based enzymesCreate draft: Various businesses and "medical professionals" (who lead said businesses) say that "plant-based enzymes" are apparently not denatured within gastric acid in order to sell them as food supplements. Examples: [20][21] |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 46 | Gary RuskinCreate draft: Alt-health dude who founded the anti-GMO group US Right To Know. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Patterns of Evidence:![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 50 | Tuttle TwinsCreate draft: A children's book series featuring a little boy and girl spouting libertarian talking points. Apparently they're taking the fundie approach and trying to get em' while they're young. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 43 | LifeWaveCreate draft: A placebo "health" product. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Mike Lester![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 59 | Kaiser Wilhelm II![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 67 | Spoon theory,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 49 | Francis E. Dec. Come on, that man at the very least played on the same league as Gene Ray |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 56 | Jeff DurbinCreate draft is a pastor at Apologia Church in Tempe, Arizona. At first glance, he looks like your typical American hipster, but looks can be deceiving. He's a fundamentalist and is the leader of the Red Door Ministry, a radical anti-abortion group that believes that any woman who gets an abortion should receive the death penalty. Along with picketing outside his local Planned Parenthood, Durbin hosts a weekly show on his YouTube channel, Apologia Studios. See also Extremist hipster wants to execute women who have an abortion. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | A Patriot's History of the United States,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Greg Palast![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Daryl Gates![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 50 | The ThawCreate draft, a 5 minute rant by Reach America filled with the usual suspects including the Christian persecution complex, lack of knowledge regarding the establishment clause, and America as a christian nation. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -28 | Emer PrevostCreate draft, apparently an awful MRA who died recently. Reader request. There's an ED article which may be mineable for actual sources. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 30 | The online Hapa community (or another title along these lines). There exists a moderately sizable, moderately vocal online community of half-white, half-Asian men pissed about the ubiquitousness of interracial couples composed of white men and Asian women, and who claim that having been born from such pairings themselves has bestowed them with mental illnesses, an inability to attract women, and hopeless futures among other things (they often cite Elliot Rodger as one of their numbers). r/Hapas is easily the community's principal watering hole; Model Minority is another. While the fetishization of Asian women is certainly a legitimate issue, this community often approaches the level of whininess, narcissism and misogyny characteristic of MRAs, MGTOWs, and Incels. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 76 | Reich-Wing WatchCreate draft is a YouTube channel dedicated to exposing any far-right individual and group who's political philosophy parallels that of fascist leaders like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 39 | FisherofMenCreate draft, one of the oldest members of Youtube's Conspiracy community (And probably one of the craziest). Notable mostly because he was arrested in 2016 for threatening to attack what he believes are enemies to Christianity/America if some vague crisis happens (read: Gays/Non-Christians). While some of the more pleasant cranks like WhiteRabbit just simply hopes he gets better from his "Illness", FisherofMen has recently been released and is now framing himself as one of the first "Christian Martyrs" of the New World Order, despite his trial and sentencing being publicized. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Trumpwave![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | MEMRI.org![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 122 | Lectin-freeCreate draft is the latest bit of food woo to turn up. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 82 | McDonald's coffee lawsuit![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | McMansion![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 49 | Brett KeaneCreate draft, who apparently was the original YouTube atheist, being the inspiration for all others like TheAmazingAtheist et al., although he has since alternated between christianity and atheism, mainly because of plagiarism and vote boting his videos, as well as being an e-begger. Today has a very small audience. His wife divorced him due to domestic violence. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 127 | Cult of SaturnCreate draft, an ambiguous, but obviously evil (and nonexisting) cult that Conspiracy Theorists like to invoke when their Apophenia isn't working enough for the usual, boring Illuminati symbols to be shoehorned. Simple things like cubes and rings are proof of some grand Conspiracy. It is a common scapegoat for Christian End Times, and Illuminati Predictions and Conspiracies. A couple of examples |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 53 | Straight pride![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 40 | David Pakman![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | William Walker,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 80 | Thuggees![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | broken window policing![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 113 | Doctor Who![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | selfhacked.comCreate draft |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | HeartMath Institute,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Dunno how we've missed covering Louise Mensch.![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 57 | Foreign Workers in Asia and the Middle EastCreate draft. To support their families, people of low socioeconomic status from developing countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines often travel to perform unskilled labor in capacities such as domestic service and construction work in nouveau-riche countries such as Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Singapore, wherein they are often subject to borderline slave-like conditions, including rape, domestic abuse and non-payment of wages, against which they have no means of legal recourse. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Male gaze![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 59 | War on HalloweenCreate draft Not actually a phrase that's thrown around in the news like the War on Christmas is by Fox, but many churches actively oppose the celebration of Halloween and even secular groups have opposition to both the supernatural inspiration of the holiday as well as certain costumes derived from historical hate groups such as Nazi's or the KKK.![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | The Doctors,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 44 | Perhaps an article on science advisers for fictional worksCreate draft in TV and film [28],Dr. John Underkoffler was one of the first for Steven Spielberg's Minority Report. Also ties into the authors of the science of superheroes books, Michio Kaku Science of the Impossible is another good source. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Inception![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 44 | Donnie RomeroCreate draft is an American Independent Baptist pastor and the founder of the Stedfast Baptist Church in Fort Worth, TX. He is yet another cohort of both Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist and Roger Jimenez of Verity Baptist and he is just as bad as both of them. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 42 | Color psychology![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 46 | Hentai![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 46 | Paul WittenbergerCreate draft is an Independent Baptist conspiracy-oriented filmmaker from Phoenix, AZ and a former Hollywood production crew member for film and television. He has directed and produced such "documentaries" as After the Tribulation, The Book of Revelation, New World Order Bible Versions, and Marching to Zion, all of which he collaborated with Steven Anderson. His website, http://framingtheworld.com/, is where he sells his "documentaries" and other merchandise. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1509561/ |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 66 | RecaptioningCreate draft or a less generic name - specifically, the alt-right practice of "redpilling" cartoons by other artists with white nationalist captions. Examples include Ben Garrison (whose opinions are half way there) and Sarah Andersen (whose opinions aren't). |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Aestheticization of violence,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 130 | Catholicism and far-right politicsCreate draft, the wikipedia category![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 120 | Eastern Orthodoxy and far-right politicsCreate draft, ditto for this one.![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 40 | Dean Saxton aka Brother Dean is a University of Arizona student who gained some media attention in 2013 for his protests on campus with Westboro-styled signs declaring that women who wear "short shorts" deserve to be raped, that "sorority girls" are whores, predictable homophobic slogans, and other bizarreness. While there is mention of him on the Brother Jed article, I think he should have his own article. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Paul Craig Roberts,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 123 | Shouldn't We have an article on slavery in the Qur'anCreate draft? There's an article on slavery in the Bible. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 51 | Gary FranchiCreate draft a.k.a Next News NetworkCreate draft is being put on notice for the following: 9/11 trutherism, doomsday soothsayer, clickbait headlines with questionable validity, and also spreading fake news at a rate. In a nutshell, he makes Alex Jones of all people look sane. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Original position![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Terence P. Jeffrey![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Belle Gibson![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 61 | The so-called People’s Protection ForceCreate draft[33] and Kevin Mugur Galalae. Here’s their "manifesto". Seems to me like some kinda super-crank magnetic mixture of the Alt-right (hails Trump as an anti-NWO hero, calls itself "Alt-news", defends Adolf Hitler outright, rants about the importance of traditional family structure) and NaturalNews/Zeitgeist Movement/GlobalResearch.ca-type moonbats in general (supports the Occupy movement, defends Russian propaganda). |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | Quite frankly, I'm surprised Kellyanne Conway![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Ami Horowitz![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 42 | truththeory.comCreate draft |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Questions White Men have for SPOOKs, a notorious Gish Gallop by the "Rationals" done as a "style parody" of two sketches by Buzzfeed. I'm shocked how this hasn't gotten a side-by-side rebuttal here yet, given its content being a bunch of strawman representations of intersectional feminism and anti-racism. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 42 | Heart of Darkness![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 38 | TL;DR/Teal Deer, yet another of the Rationals, who somehow manages to be even dumber, more smug, and more grating to listen to than his peers. Also known for being unable to let any criticism of himself slide (often completely missing/proving his critic's point in the process), confusing pedantry for intelligence, failing at pedantry, and for being unable to admit when he's wrong, even when his own audience points it out (see when he accused Anita Sarkeesian of making up the term neoliberal), alongside the usual angry right-wing YouTuber faults. (Currently a mention under Webshites.) Also the title of his channel make no fraggling sense since it stands for "Too Long; Didn't Read", and people don't read videos. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 86 | Alternative facts![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | Marching to Zion![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Hard right folks on the internet keep bringing up Mark Levin's![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 41 | I can't believe we still don't have an article on White Aryan Resistance.![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 33 | 5:2 diet:![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Currency Manipulation![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The Daystar![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 48 | Roger JimenezCreate draft is an independent Baptist pastor at Verity Baptist Church in Sacramento, California. A recording of a sermon, given by Pastor Jimenez, was posted to YouTube on June 13, 2016, the day after the Pulse Orlando Shooting (2016) which brought much criticism. In the video, Pastor Jimenez preached to his congregation that they should not be grieving for the victims of the shooting, and compared them to pedophiles. He is also a cohort of Steven Anderson, which should come to no surprise. |
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