RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/July 2022

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July 2022[edit]

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25Steven Pinker's "intellectual" solution to the Ukraine invasion is beyond stupid.
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34GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz: "Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb."
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38Russia Today: LGBT ‘propaganda’ faces complete ban in Russia. A new bill compares the promotion of “non-traditional sexual relations” with war propaganda and inciting national, racial or religious hatred
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45Game designer Hideo Kojima (Metal Gear series, Death Stranding) is misidentified as Shinzo Abe's assassin by a Greek news network, far-right French politician Damien RieuWikipedia and others following a 4chan-spawned shitpost on Twitter. A man who wrote a game the central theme of which is information control and misinformation on the internet.
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26After the British bank HalifaxWikipedia announced it would be offering staff name badges with optional gender indicators to its branch staff, transphobes on Twitter kicked off about it. Halifax said if they disagreed with the policy, they were free to close their accounts. Despite the news, The Times reports the incident was a load of hot air, as the number of customers leaving the bank was negligible.