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Jason KenneyCreate draft is the current right-wing populist premier of Alberta, and leader of the United Conservative Party, which formed from a merger before the most recent election. He has been unpopular recently under the COVID-19 pandemic, part of this being that he cut doctor's salaries. His campaign involved a conspiracy theory against Canadian environmental organisations, claiming that they received money from the US in order to prevent Canadian oil from being exported to any country other than the US. He has also been a federal cabinet minister for the Conservative Party. He also has a history of homophobia.

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The Boys Is an Amazon Prime original series based on the comic series of the same name that has become popular since it's debut in 2019. It has been praised for it's critique of alt-right ideology and American exceptionalism.

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Human Longevity WooCreate draft seems to be a topic that comes up a lot amongst people who push New Age and alternative medicine. A common talking point for these sorts of promoters involves an ill-defined period in the past when humans weren't being exposed to toxins and had longer lifespans

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Squirrel and Hedgehog is a North Korean propaganda cartoon that is shown to kids that became popular with furries for some reason. It glorifies military service while demonizing the Japanese, South Koreans, and Americans.

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Wolf Warrior 2 is the highest grossing Chinese film of all time, and is also complete propaganda, constantly glorifying Chinese involvement in Africa.

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FactCheckArmenia.com is a website whose stated purpose is "exposing Armenian distortions and hypocrisies". Despite the name, it is not a fact-checking website; it publishes false information denying the Armenian Genocide.

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TVP Info is a Polish public news channel run by a state-owned broadcaster. While it isn’t suprising that a populist government is using public media for political purposes, TVP Info is on a whole new level of propaganda. Almost entirety of the air time is spent on either showing how successful the government is (It isn’t.) or on attacking its’ opponents with most absurd accusations and buzzwords, aswell as promoting homophobia (they even made an entire schlockumentary about how „LGBT ideology” is trying to „sexualize children”, while comparing the rise of LGBT rights movement in Poland to an „invasion”), fear of refugees, euroscepticism, religious fundamentalism, Antifa-baiting, George Soros conspiracy theories and demonizing abortion (the last one intensified during the pro-choice protests of late 2020). The channel’s headlines were nicknamed by Poles as „headlines of terror” due to their extremely agressive and fear-mongering contents („Left-wing fascism is destroying Poland”, „Atheists want to take away 500+ (a state welfare program) from Poles”, „LGBT ideology is destroying the family”, „Opposition wants anarchy, because it lost the elections” - these are only few out of hundreds of examples). I’m reminding once again that this is a public station that is funded from people’s taxes. TVP Info’s bullshit definitely influenced the outcome of elections in 2019 and 2020 in favor of the ruling party aswell as general public discourse in Poland and there’s no sign that they’re planning to stop. Even worse, it was recently announced that a new English-language side channel appear in 2021, so the language barrier will no longer protect you.

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The Hammer and ScorecardCreate draft Conspiracy Theory alleging that Joe Biden and Obama stole the election using software developed by noted conman Dennis Montgomery

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Madison Cawthorn, a young GOP congressman from North Carolina who fancies himself as the Republican Party's answer to AOC. However, he is quite possibly a neonazi, given that he has said that visiting Hitler's vacation home was on his bucket list, as well as having been accused by multiple women of being a sexual predator.

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World Contact Day, a "holiday" that occurs every 15th of March where Ufologists mass-think the same paragraph of text in attempt to contact them aliens. Made famous by the song "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" by the Beatles Klaatu.

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Atlas Network - a network of right-wing "libertarian" (i.e. anti-regulation, anti-environmentalist) organisations, funded by Philip Morris, ExxonMobil, and other Kochs. It has a long history in pro-tobacco bullshit and is involved in a lot of dubious science including the Great Barrington Declaration.[1][2] It's also closely aligned with the State Policy Network which has similar aims, and links to the Cato Institute, etc.[3]

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Cynical Theories, a book produced in August 2020 by two of the perpetrators of the Grievance studies hoax. Cynical Theories, which has become a bestseller, criticizes a boogeyman in the form of "Woke" or "Social Justice" ideology, asserting that all of its various strands - fourth-wave feminism, queer theory, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, intersectionality - are steeped in and derive from 1960s postmodernist philosophy, which they see as opposed to liberalism itself. The book's blurb presents what appear to be straw-man distortions of numerous social justice talking points (e.g. "biological sex doesn't exist", "all white people are racist" etc.) This review outlines how the authors have misrepresented the words of influential writers such as Kristie Dotson and incorrectly characterized certain philosophers as postmodernists who "cannot by any scholarly standard be put into that bucket".

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The Gravel Institute is a progressive media outlet launched in September 2020. Named after Mike Gravel, the former senator from Alaska, the media outlet is designed as a direct aim against PragerU's disinformation and right wing propaganda.

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Brad Jones - Better known as the Cinema Snob, he has criticized movies and specials of a right-wing and fundamentalist nature for their bullshit and has expressed left-wing beliefs. Unfortunately, he’s recently been using his platform to make infrequent jabs at “the left” and political correctness and continues to be associated with Channel Awesome even after it went to shit.

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Little Light StudiosCreate draft is a fundamentalist YouTube channel based in Seventh-Day Adventism and specializes in Hollywood conspiracy theories. https://www.youtube.com/c/littlelightstudios/featured

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Howard Hughes - The original techbro. Billionaire, film producer, aviation magnate, casino owner, etc.. Also known for his obsessive behavior and severe hypochondria that lead to his reclusiveness twards the end of his life.

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Attila Hildmann - a Turkish-German vegan cookbook author and TV personality, who's also a far-rightist, conspiracy theorist, COVID skeptic, antisemite, and German nationalist?[4][5] Apparently he told a German Jewish group that the anti-COVID measures are worse than the Holocaust, which he elsewhere suggested Jews were responsible for.[6]

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Shungite - a type of rock that some believe protects against "harmful electromagnetic signals and radiations" and has healing powers. Could be at least added as a minor section under 5G.

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Richard D. Wolff A leftist economics professor who seems to be gaining a lot of traction recently. Social media presence, interviews by other leftists, praised by new york times.

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Work from home, also known as telecommuting, has been an option in white-collar professions for some time now, however the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak has forced it to become the norm. This caused some media sources to warn about the potential economic effects of people not buying avocado toast and skinny lattes during their lunches (oh the irony!).

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TheWorldMustKnowCreate draft TheWorldMustKnow, a website run by Jason, the creator of the new "free speech" social media service "WIMKIN" based on the same name. This website is a treasure-trove of yet-to-be properly debunked but yet still nonsense conspiracy theories regarding issues surrounding George Floyd's death, whether or not he really is death, whether it was staged, Bill Gates being tied to Nazis, and generally claiming that the CDC and Dr. Fauci are frauds and that COVID is a hoax. It would be very useful to have these issues debunked to satisfaction with the uprising of the new social media conspiracist haven 'WIMKIN'.

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Robert Woodson is a black conservative civil rights activist and community leader who regularly criticizes the BLM movement, mainly in the form of bringing up black-on-black crime. He also founded the 1776 Project to counter the (admittingly flawed) 1619 Project, which he claims the assumptions behind it are a form of white supremacyDo You Believe That?.

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Mike S. Miller is a comic book artist who is best known for his work in the Injustice: Gods Among Us comics series. Miller is a fundamentalist Christian with very conservative beliefs and openly supports Donald Trump. He proudly boasts his #MAGA allegiances and right-wing views through his creator-owned Blacklist Universe on Indiegogo, which has included Lonestar, the first book from BU, which has been accused of xenophobia, as well as a pro-Trump comic called The MAGAnificent 7, starring MAGA Superman Dean Cain. To no surprise, he was an ally of Comicsgate, an alt-right movement known for it's opposition toward the comic book industry's promotion of diversity and multiculturalism.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM9F1mYy9V_u_jkU7gOdVxg https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-maganificent-7#/

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Alex Berenson is a novelist and fucking liar whose 2019 anti-marijuana screed "Tell your Children" was denounced by multiple researchers and scientific communities for cherry-picking fear-mongering, and stretching the truth more than just a little. So of course, he is now hyped up by conservatives for grossly downplaying the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Marc Dutroux/Regina Louf – the former being very much a confirmed murderer and sex offender, the latter probably being a victim who started to suffer from mental health issues and began to make SRA/Pizzagate-esque claims.

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James A. Lindsay is a proll most well known for being involved in the creation of the Grievance studies hoax and for trying to politicize 2+2 He also tweeted about us. Despite presenting as a "liberal", he came out as "reluctantly" supporting Trump and the Rupublicans in 2020 (ostensibly because Biden is being controlled by evil postmodernism) to the point of supporting conspiracy theories about the election result, has transphobic tendencies, and has (jokingly) said on twitter that he would let someone sleep with his wife for 10.5 million dollars.

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Marsy's Law is an amendment to California's constitution and penal code that gives a special "bill of rights" to alleged crime victims, and expands the power of parole boards to deny parole to prison inmates with life sentences. Similar amendments have been passed in ten states and counting. It has been criticized by the ACLU for undermining the legal rights of the accused.

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Left-wing GlossaryCreate draft. We have glossaries for everything from Feminism to Transgender to Aro/Ace, why not a generic left-wing one?

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Bounding Into ComicsCreate draft is a website that reports on comic culture, comic books and entertainment in general. Bounding Into Comics has been accused of promoting hate through their association with Comicsgate, which rejects progressive themes in comic books. The movement has been described as part of the alt-right movement, and as a harassment campaign which “targets women, people of color, and LGBT folk in the comic book industry”.https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/bounding-into-comics/ https://www.vulture.com/2018/08/comicsgate-a-comic-book-harassment-campaign-is-growing.html

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Philip Giraldi, a former CIA intelligence officer, and crazy anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. Has his own column on the Unz Review, and likened Jews to "a bottle of rat poison". Believes American Jews started all those wars so they could bring Muslims to replace the whites. Also was once a foreign policy adviser to this fine jackass, as well as a climate change denier.

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Law and Justice Poland's biggest cancer party. Right-wing to Far-right jerks (Wikipedia seems to be in denial about the "Far-Right" part, but that's probably their shitty WPOV in action... (Two people seem to call them "Far-Left")). Against abortion, Homophobic, Created an "LGBT free zone" in Poland, Nationalists, Islamophobes and has embraced the Religious Right like the Republicans did.

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Common Sense Media, an organisation devoted to protecting children from harmful media influences by promoting age ratings, banning sales to minors, restricting children's time viewing media, promoting privacy rights, etc. Its funders cover a range of political views but include hate-monger Republicans like Charles R. Schwab, and it has partnerships with many media companies. Lead figure Jim Steyer is a campaigner for privacy rights especially for children, and a lead figure in the anti-Facebook group Stop Hate For Profit. Is it common sense? Is its science correct? Is it censorship of things kids should see, or defence against evil corporations?

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Dan Bongino is a right wing political commentator and pro-Trump supporter who's entire career is "owning the libs".

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Andrew Klavan, a neoconservative pundit and one of Ben Shapiro's best friends. Not-so-ironically a Global warming denier.

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KillstreamCreate draft, The far-right podcast/livestream hosted by Ethan Ralph.

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Tom Woods, A paleolibertarian/paleoconservative writer and one of the founding members of League of the South, and quite a defender of the ol' south to the point that he called abolitionists "utterly reprehensible". Has a youtube channel where he spews his opinions.

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Last Ounce of Courage is a Christian propaganda film about a small town mayor's personal vendetta against "the war on Christmas". It's about as ridiculous and moronic as it sounds.

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Cody Wilson: Wikipedia page on him. Founder of Hatreon, Gun-nut, had an interview with Glenn Beck in 2013, Crypto-Anarchist (whatever the heck that is) and has had some legal issues, one which includes having sex with a 16 year old and another one for beating up a child (which he got 7 years for).

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Laura Agustín, the migrations scholar better known for disputing the idea that sex trafficking is an actually statistically significant issue rather than a fig leaf for persecuting prostitutes under the guise of "rescuing" them. Coined the term "rescue industry" for the set of well-funded orgs that promote the idea of sex trafficking as significant and perform the "rescue", as well as their supporters.

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The Trump Prophecy is a 2018 Christian political propaganda film based on the ravings of a retired firefighter with PTSD who claims to have been told by God that Donald Trump would becomes president. Described by Vox as a depiction of Christian nationalism in the United States, The Trump Prophecy was released in a time when the idea that God was responsible for Trump winning the election was shared by several evangelical leaders like Franklin Graham, Richard Land, and Robert Jeffress.

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Gareth Icke, a singer-songwriter who is Dave's son, and has some really "interesting" views on things like vaccines, Soros, and the coronavirus.

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Killer Mike is a rapper of Run the Jewels. Mike is known for being a social and political activist, focusing on subjects including social inequality, police brutality, and systemic racism. On May 29, 2020, Mike spoke during a press conference with Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms in response to the death of George Floyd and the ensuing protests in Atlanta and other major US cities.

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Hatreon: Basically Patreon if it was founded by the Alt-Right, Far Right and those that have an obsession with the Second Amendment

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Ian Miles CheongCreate draft, an alt-right "journalist" who spreads misinformation and propaganda, and has history with GamerGate.

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Homonationalism, or how some LGBT+ people (specifically gay people) learned to stop worrying and love far-right ideology.

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The Hodge TwinsCreate draft are YouTubers, fitness experts, and stand-up comedians. Together, they own and operate the Hodgetwins fitness and entertainment brand. In recent years, they've become actively political and have come out as insufferable right wingers in support of Donald Trump.

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Denis Rancourt is a former professor of physics at the University of Ottawa best known for his years-long legal battle with his former employer over his 2009 firing, which he claims was politically motivated. An avid climate change denier, Rancourt most recently published a "study" purporting to prove that facemasks, lockdowns, and social distancing do not help against Covid-19, and that we should NOT try to stop it.

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Dead Horse InterchangeCreate draft: Link. Think Kiwi Farms, minus the doxxing. The majority of it's members are people who left the Farms, because of the doxxing. They have some pretty "interesting" topics in their politics sections. Such as Islam, Sweden, Germany, Feminism & SJW's, China, Black Lives Matter, How Dubya is worser than The Donald, Xi Jinping & The CCP, How the EU is banning Memes, The UK, California (Which they call "Commiefornia") & The "God Emperor" Megathread. They also have a lolcow section, or like they called it: "Internet Nobodies". Most notable topics there are: the one on Noah Antwiler from The Spoony Experiment (more than 2200 pages as of 24/05/2020), 2 topics on John Bain aka TotalBiscuit (literally celebrating his death, shortly after he succumbed to cancer), Angry Joe, Hbomberguy, Laci Green, Jim Sterling, The Skeptic Community, ProJared & Article 13. The owner of the site (Poonoo) has an interesting youtube channel aswell. If you look at the thumbnails for his "Atop The 5th Wall" video's, you'll see in the background a poster from a guy playing a guitar that has an interesting pattern on it.

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Janice Fiamengo is a particularly nutty anti-feminist MRA and English professor at the University of Ottawa with a bizarre (and possibly Poe's Law) fetish for inventions made by men . Also went onto the white nationalist Radio 3Fourteen to warn listeners that men live under a "feminist version of Sharia Law".

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Related to Mr Shockley below: James Watson, the co-worker of Francis Crick, experienced the same pratfall with his comments about the alleged differences between white European and black African intelligence.

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William Shockley was a physicist and inventor. He was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on semiconductors and discovery of the transistor effect. Throughout the civil rights movement, Shockley increasingly espoused eugenic theories about the biological inferiority of African Americans.

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John F. MacArthur[7], YEC, dispensationalist, homophobe, and as the Encyclopedia of American Loons describes it a "Belligerent, hateful madman whose lack of aptitude for truth is only matched by his narrow-mindedness. A breathtakingly dense fellow – and a dangerous one, for MacArthur seems to have quite a few followers."

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Seeing how big wikipedia's article is on this subject, I think that the Stasi deserves it's own article (there's only a bit of it written in the DDR article). Note: the Stasi article was previously deleted because it wasn't good enough.

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Ghost PoliticsCreate draft: Alias: True Capitalist Radio, True Conservative Radio, PoliticsGhost. An all-around crank, Ghost spews racist, sexist, Islamophobic, and homophobic garbage to a bunch of trolls and people who laugh at him interracting with them TENS of THOUSANDS of capitalists THROUGHOUT DA WURRRRRRRLD! He also dabbles in conspiracy-mongering (particularly ones involving "international bankers", Hilldebeest, WWIII being juuuuuust around the corner, HAARP, and denialism of the existence of space (No, seriously.).), transphobia, Brony-hating, fat-shaming, and generally being a massive scumbag. He has been known to give out numbers of callers on air, hang up on callers for "sounding fruity", and treat his few honest fans like trash. For a small-time podcaster, he has been the centre of a surprising amount of drama, including dox-wars amongst his fans.

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Pat Tillman was a professional football player for the Arizona Cardinals. In response to the September 11 terrorist attacks, he passed up a $3.6 million contract and joined the United States Army, which made him a symbol of patriotism and a poster child for Army recruiters. His service in Iraq and Afghanistan, and subsequent death, were the subject of national attention when he was killed by friendly fire. In recent years following his death, Tillman's image has been appropriated by right-wing bloggers, as well as Donald Trump, in response to the Colin Kaepernick protests. Despite the establishment's admiration for him, the real Tillman was an anti-Bush atheist who called the the Iraq War "fucking illegal" and maintained correspondence with one of his favorite authors, Noam Chomsky, who he had made an appointment with for after his return from the military. Because of his celebrity status at the time as well as the cover up surrounding his death, it is believed that Tillman was murdered by the military due to his opposition to the wars and the military industrial complex.

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Perhaps a page on CARM's leader and "Messiah" Matt Slick?

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Joseph BackholmCreate draft is a far-right Christian anti-LGBT bigot who is both a legal counsel and director of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview and former director and founder of the Family Policy Institute of Washington. Backholm is infamous for his transphobic and homophobic rhetoric and lobbying, has fought against marriage equality, defended conversion therapy, and maintains that gender identity and sexual orientation are a choice. He was the head of "Just Want Privacy", a campaign committee gathering signatures for Initiative 1515, a failed ballot that would've allowed businesses to discriminate openly against trans people by not allowing them to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity. He also recently created a right-wing Christian YouTube channel called What Would You Say?, which gives believers advice on how to respond to common statements regarding their faith such as "Jesus was a socialist" as well as how to give responses to affirm their prejudices against the LGBT. Aside from being a homophobic and transphobic asshole, he is also staunchly pro-life, anti-immigration, Islamophobic, anti-atheist, and doesn't entirely believe in the idea of the separation of church and state.https://www.queerty.com/anti-trans-activist-encourages-men-chase-women-bathrooms-20160617 https://medium.com/@elisacatrina/family-policy-institute-of-washingtons-just-want-privacy-lies-transphobia-and-what-to-do-86597aac95e1

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ZubyCreate draft is a conservative rapper who mocked trans people by claiming to break women's sports records by identifying as a women and says black people and women are not oppressed, but if they are they should "work hard and make the right decisions" to get over it. He's also been a guest on several right wing talk shows including Steven Crowder's show, fake university PragerU's show, Dave Rubin's show, Ben Shapiro's show, and was praised by Tucker Carlson who went on to say the left would tell people who disagree with gender fluidity to "shut up and believe it, or we'll hurt you,".

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Joshua CollinsCreate draft is an aspiring young politician running for Congress who is most notable for claiming to be the most left-wing federal candidate in U.S. history, founding the Rose Caucus, and using TikTok to further his campaign. He probably never heard of Gus Hall.

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Christmas with a Capital C is a 2010 Christmas Fundie movie where fundies play the victim, because evil atheism. Hannah & Jake did a review on it in 2018.

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Frank Dux is a martial artist whose alleged victory at the Kumite, a fighting competition, served as the inspiration for the 1988 cult film Bloodsport starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Dux's victory at the Kumite has been largely disputed, as has the existence of both the Kumite he described and the existence of his alleged teacher Senzo Tanaka. He has also falsified his military and CIA service, and was the subject of libel against Soldier of Fortune magazine in 1999 because of his lies.

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January 2019 Lincoln Memorial confrontation/Nick Sandmann (either name would work) — a poignant example of the need for proper fact-checking and the power of the media.

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Chapo Trap House Leftist podcast named after a Mexican druglord and the rapping slang for a drug house. One of the hosts platformed the Million Dollar Extreme Nazi on an open mic night he hosted and didn't boot him off the stage, whereas another has argued in favor of misogyny if it's the ruling class amongst supposedly other shitty things. Their audience (also known as the "Dirtbag Left") engages in online harassment to anyone who criticizes the show.

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La Luz del Mundo ("The Light of the World"), a Mexican-originated cultish church now widespread in areas of the US. Their "apostle," Naasón Joaquín García, is allegedly the leader of a pedophilic sex trafficking ring.

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Child Prodigy Wikipedia's article. Basically, kids that have developed a talent at a very young age.

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Vivian KrauseCreate draft, a Canadian blogger who claims to just be "exposing" the foreign funding of environmentalist organizations. However, it's very likely she is just another shill for the mining and oil industries.

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Friends of Abe was a support and networking group for politically conservative members of the Hollywood elite. Formed in 2004 by actor Gary Sinise, the group consisted of various actors, directors, and producers including Jerry Bruckheimer, Pat Boone, Jon Voight, Kelsey Grammer, Kevin Sorbo, and Scott Baio. The group dissolved due to split differences over Donald Trump.

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Grant ChisholmCreate draft is a street preacher and antique boutique business owner based out in Portland, Oregon. When he’s not selling the ultimate in Portland vintage wares he’s working as a street preacher, railing against strip clubs, homosexuality, Catholics, football, abortion clinics, marijuiana clinics, and probably most Portland residents. The Daily Beast has dubbed him "The Hipster Fred Phelps".https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-hipster-fred-phelps

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Art policeCreate draft: Named after a snarl word frequently used when I see stuff like this, I think it's Twitter artists whining about people whining about their artstyles, has a vibe suspiciously similar to Gamergate.

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Fidesz: Right-wing to Far-Right Conservative Party led by this fine bloke. Literally Hungary's answer to Trump.

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Chad Felix GreeneCreate draft is a conservative writer for The Federalist and American Thinker who frequently authors articles either A): attacking LGBT rights and activists (especially of the trans variety) or B): defending homo/transphobic people and orginizations (including Mike Pence). All of this while being gay himself.

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Shincheonji Church of Jesus — South Korean cult that has recently received press coverage because of its connection to the coronavirus outbreak.

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Dean Cain is an actor who was best known for playing Superman on Lois and Clark in the 1990s. Now a washed-up has-been, Cain has become more well known for being an outspoken conservative and right-wing pundit on Fox News and Louder with Crowder. He's a staunch Donald Trump supporter, supports various right wing individuals, groups, and causes, and has said some outrageous things on social media such as misidentifying R. David Edelman as the Ukraine whistle blower and supporting Gamergate. Cain also appeared in God's Not Dead, and 'performed' FBI Lovebirds, a live reading/performance of Peter Strozk/Lisa Page texts, in Washington, D.C. at CPAC alongside fellow right wing Trumpster Kristy Swanson. https://www.wonkette.com/worst-superman-dean-cain-proves-hes-an-asshole-again

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Project 100,000: A Vietnam War era scheme by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to fill out the ranks with recruits that were below established mental and medical standards. Billed as an attempt to prepare and empower said recruits with the latest in educational technology (ie: video presentations) for their return to civilian life. A massive failure that left surviving recruits worse off then they were before.

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Article on PSICreate draft http://www.principia-scientific.org/why-psi-is-proposed-as-a-cic/. A strong conspiracy and Pseudoscience website that promotes anti-vaccine propaganda and frequent misinformation regarding climate change http://www.mediabiasfactcheck.com/principia-scientific-international/.

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Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney are former journalists turned filmmakers. The couple calls themselves documentary filmmakers and investigative journalists, however, their brand of “journalism” is more aligned with right-wing propaganda than any actual form of investigation or truth. The couple is highly in denial of anthropogenic global warming and are staunchly in favor of the fossil fuel industry, which they demonstrate clearly in their "documentaries". For example, their most notorious piece, FrackNation, is a film that is staunchly in favor of hydraulic fracturing despite the proven disastrous effects that fracking has done to the environment. Because of this they've essentially established themselves as a mouthpiece for climate change deniers, and to no surprise, they are listed as "experts" by the Heartland Institute.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_McElhinney_and_Phelim_McAleer

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The Incel ProjectCreate draft: an old Incel documentary series from the now defunct Blip.tv from 2008 to 2012 [8]. Two months prior to the 2014 Isla Vista killings, the videos were deleted from Blip.

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Filip Dewinter: Far-Right Politician & member of Flemish Interest. Is good friends with these fine people. Has alot of shit on his name. He's basically the Belgian version of Geert Wilders, with the exception that Wilders never went to a meeting of Golden Dawn, whereas Dewinter did (I can't find a english source for this, sorry).

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Flemish Interest: Political Far-Right party in Belgium, formerly known as Flemish Bloc. They're racists, Neo-Libturds & Ultra Nationalists and claim to have tight connections with the Israelian Likud, The Swiss People's Party, The Republicans, & United Russia. As well as being close with Dutch Trump's cronnies, Le Pen, Salvini & Barrage The Farage. How would they solve the mass immigration problem? With boxing gloves!

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Jeanne Calment, generally considered the oldest person who ever lived and proof of the health-giving effects of cigarettes and being French. However there are claims that her longevity was faked and she was replaced by her daughter in the 1930s. It's amusing to see how she's used in health debates, but the debate over her age is more interesting.

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We should make an article about school grades in America, obviously the A-F scale, and how they are a terrible way to find out how intelligent a student is. Also, let's talk about how racist the grading system is, and how it favors white students over people of color.

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Diabetes. It afflicts millions of people in the First World, and so of course has attracted its fair share of alternative medicine and diet woo. Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes have different causes and different treatments, but you'd never know it to read some diatribes (e.g. Sugar Blues).

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America First Political Action Conference: kinda like CPAC, but with more paleoconservative racists. Featuring the likes of people who aren't racist, like Nick Fuentes, Michelle Malkin, and Patrick Casey.

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Paul Gottfried: a paleoconservative douchebag who coined the term "alternative right". Despite his sympathy with white supremacists, he is Jewish, thus making him closer to neocons than the paleocon he viewed himself as.

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Myles PowerCreate draft - a Youtuber who is skeptical of Alternative medicine and Pseudoscience (which he occasionally conflates with each other.) Miles has also tackled Holocaust denial, Conspiracy theories, and Genetically modified food. Some of his videos have even been mentioned in, if not cited as sources on our articles for Kyle Kulinski, Jilly Juice, and The Young Turks.

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The Base. No, not al-Qaeda, but the Russia-affiliated neo-Nazi group run by Rinaldo Nazzaro that wants to form a white ethnostate in the US.[9][10]

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AquiziamCreate draft: Link. Site has tons of Alien woo, "Body Language" woo, Conspiracy BS, Ghost woo, ect...

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Arch WarhammerCreate draft - A Youtuber who makes videos on Warhammer Lore, Video Games, and his political beliefs. Arch has asked if the Imperium in Warhammer 40k is Fascist [11] [12], discussed drama over him pertaining to the 40k Lore subreddit [13] [14] [15], among other wingnutty takes (e.g. gender pronouns, Christchurch shooting, and Project Veritas) [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]

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The Game Changers, a documentary about athletes with plant based diets, which alleged that animal agriculture was a leading cause of deforestation and carbon emissions, along with criticizing gender roles perpetuated by fast food commercials [25] [26] [27]. The movie has even been accused of promoting misinformation and pseudoscience, among other things [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34].

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There is this person who goes by the nickname of "Ghost" who's website has been covered by Media Fact/Bias Check as a questionable source [35] [36]. "Ghost" has also had numerous podcasts since 2008, usually spanning hundreds of episodes, each having a runtime of around two hours [37] [38] [39] [40]. Basically, "Ghost" is a wingnut, and a pretty nutty one at that [41]. Ghost has even gone on quite a few ableist rants [42] [43] [44], and went as far to tell fans of anime to commit suicide [45].

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Rich of ReviewTechUSACreate draft has had a variety of political opinions over the years. Rich has been a critic of Anita Sarkeesian [46], retracted criticism against PewDiePie and the "DEATH TO ALL JEWS" incident[47], and even referred to fat acceptance as a "plague".[48]

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James Stephanie Sterling (aka Jimquisition) has always been a staunch critic of what they perceive to be shady business practices within the video games industry, especially AAA publishers in recent years. JSS is also critical of Capitalism in general. [49] [50]

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Four-day week: there are a lot of articles recently claiming that a four day week in the workplace greatly increases productivity, as well as benefiting workers and the environment.[51][52] However, evidence is limited to a few, frequently-cited studies whose methodology is unclear, and a lot of claims seem exaggerated. There have been a few studies that seemed to find benefits (including fewer pointless meetings, less absenteeism) but the Hawthorne effect may be involved, durations were short, and it's hard to double blind these things.[53][54] In some cases cited (e.g. Utah cited on Wikipedia) workers still did the same number of hours, just over fewer but longer days, while others suggest workers doing fewer hours can accomplish more. There have been a lot of claims about political parties planning to make it mandatory. Labour at the 2019 UK general election allegedly planned it, but in fact their research found that a hard cap on hours wouldn't work.[55] Finland was reported to have been planning a four day week, possibly even with 6 hour days, but this turned out to be fake news.[56] So is there anything to it, what are the pros and cons, and is it all wishful thinking?

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