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

February 2024

27

TERF Helen Joyce was recently found on a public train reading Harry Potter smut on FanFiction.net. Her organisation, Sex Matters, responded by claiming it was research into the "significant role of fan fiction" in causing children to "develop trans identities". The smut piece is about cis, straight teenagers (Hermione and Draco), not queer or trans minors.

30

Fox News: black people will vote for Trump "because they love sneakers".

25

Ben Garrison picks perhaps the dumbest reason possible to be mad about AI-generated art. (You can also spend $550 on a "collectors item" featuring this cartoon.)

23

Sen. Tom Woods' response to being asked about the murder of non-binary teenager Nex Benedict was "I represent a constituency that doesn't want that filth in Oklahoma". Sick stuff.

33

Former Hillsong leader Brian Houston accidentality tweets the phrase "Ladies and girls kissing", instead of Googling it.

21

US representative Andrew Ogles advocates for genocide against Palestinians.

27

Steve Bannon: "Globalists are trying to set an apartheid state here in the United States for the MAGA movement."

22

A Frontiers Media journal peer-reviewed and published a paper full of AI-generated gibberish and a figure of a rat with a massive deformed penis. The paper has been retracted.

21

TheBlaze: "Sure, the left has Taylor Swift, but we have Catturd"

27

Ian Miles Cheong is currently facing backlash from the broader Malaysian community for his pro-Israel views, forcing him to claim he's not actually pro-Israel.

24

Erik Prince, the founder of the Blackwater PMC, just called for the U.S. to colonise countries in Africa and Latin America.

26

Sen. Tom Cotton repeatedly asks Singaporean TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is he's associated with the Chinese Communist Party.

22

Ron DeSantis on Ilhan Omar: "Expel from Congress, denaturalize and deport!"

17

Dozens of members of Congress attended the National Gathering For Prayer And Repentance, with some delivering anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ rants. A much more loony Jon Hamill of Lamplighter Ministries warned that this nation has been “making deals with our enemies through idolatry, witchcraft, false religions, and secret orders, secret societies” and prayed that God will “annul all covenants with Baal, Moloch, Ashtoreth which have bound us.”

30

Candace Owens: "I am a big believer that Hollywood was created by the CIA."....an agency established in 1947 was responsible for something that was popularised in 1913.