RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/April 2024

April 2024[edit]

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President Obrador of Mexico says drug cartels are "respectful people" who "respect the citizenry" in comments to a reporter.

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Russell Brand has announced that he's getting baptised as a Christian, describing it as "an opportunity to leave the past behind".

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Everyone's criticising South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem for, in her new book, writing about how she shot a new puppy she bought because it was rambunctious. Well, everyone except Michael Knowles.

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The New Republic profiles the techno-fascist musings of Silicon Valley venture capitalist Balaji Srinivasan. In a two part podcast in September 2023, Srinivasan (using crude political stereotypes) divides the US population into "blues" (Democrats), "reds" (Republicans), and "grays" (tech-bros). Srinivasan believes that "blues" are an "ethnic group" that is at war with "reds" and "grays", and spends much of the podcast outlining ethnic cleansing plans to drive "blues" out of cities that the "grays" (aligning with the "reds") take over. Srinivasan's plan includes special uniforms for tech-bros and the "reds" that align with them, anti-"blue" propaganda films, and special parades for the "gray" tribe. Such demonstrates the continued (increasingly authoritarian) influence of the neoreactionary movement within parts of the American tech venture capital scene.

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Telegram shared a blog post that included multiple neo-nazi dogwhistles, including "1488" and "4/20" (Hitler's birthday). The "1488" was later replaced with "1391", which isn't much better.

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Tucker Carlson on The Joe Rogan Experience: "[T]here's no evidence that evolution— In fact, I think we've kind of given up on evolution. The theory of evolution as articulated by Darwin is kind of not true", "[T]hat's why it's still a theory almost 200 years later".

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Giggling doe-eyed young nuns? Communion wafers replaced by potato chips? Catholic groups cry "Blasphemy!"

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JK Rowling presumes Harry Potter actors Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe want to apologize to her for being pro-transgender, rejects their presumed apologies in advance.

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Someone managed to coax Gab's AI chatbot into revealing its default prompt, revealing its delightful opinions on the Holocaust and the Great Replacement among other topics.

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Mauricio Garcia is suing multiple right-wing media organisations and figures for falsely claiming he was a mass shooter to millions of people, including showing his picture to those millions, resulting in his family receiving death threats. The defendants include: Fox News, Hollywood Unlocked, Louder with Crowder and Steven Crowder, Newsmax, Owen Shroyer of Infowars, Timcast Media Group, TelevisaUnivision, and Today News Africa and Simon Ateba. The full lawsuit can be read here.

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In light of the Cass review on transgender care, Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull has demanded a review of Gillick, in effect gaslighting the removal of support for minors in abortion and contraception.

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Twitter has replaced its human-curated news headlines with A.I.-curated news headlines. On the first day of the feature's unravelment, it made up a story about Iran striking Israel with heavy missiles.

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Baltimore mayor faces racist attacks after bridge collapse, including accusations of being a "DEI Mayor" (despite having been elected with a landslide 70% of the vote).

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Matt Walsh defends the white nationalist group VDARE.

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Republicans in the Minnesota legislature have introduced a bill calling for the investigation of chemtrails. Similar bills have been pushed in Tennessee and other states.

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Brazilian government publishes a press release calling Taiwan "Chinese Taipei" after an earthquake

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Michigan Rep. Tim Walberg on Gaza: "We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid. It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick".

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Some silly Republicans propose renaming Washington’s Dulles Airport after Trump

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Chaya Raichik stutters and struggles to define wokeness in Indiana University while being laughed at by students.