The Culture Wars

nimic said:
It's genuine, I fear.
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It's a bizarre alternative universe. The Turin Shroud entry I read was belligerently dismissive of claims it's not real or only medieval in age.
 
Jippy said:
Conservapedia must be pisstake? A very committed one though, given the amount of bonkers stuff on there.
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Stuff from there has been going viral on twitter past few days. What I've learnt is:
1. Absolutely started as (and its makers still think of it as) a serious thing.
2. Got major positive publicity in conservative media at launch (mid-00s, the Bush years) - it still reflects 00s conservativism rather than updating for Trump.
2. The in-charge is the child of famous conservative activist Phyllis Schaffly.
3. He may have written 90% of pages himself?
 
berbatrick said:
Stuff from there has been going viral on twitter past few days. What I've learnt is:
1. Absolutely started as (and its makers still think of it as) a serious thing.
2. Got major positive publicity in conservative media at launch (mid-00s, the Bush years) - it still reflects 00s conservativism rather than updating for Trump.
2. The in-charge is the child of famous conservative activist Phyllis Schaffly.
3. He may have written 90% of pages himself?
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Yep, it's basically Andrew Schlafly's passion project. He was my original "conservative kook who is so dumb he's funny", he was a whole thing on what I guess I'd call rational/atheist-ish internet almost 2 decades ago. These days it's not so funny because they're running for president of the US or buying social media companies.
 
berbatrick said:
Stuff from there has been going viral on twitter past few days. What I've learnt is:
1. Absolutely started as (and its makers still think of it as) a serious thing.
2. Got major positive publicity in conservative media at launch (mid-00s, the Bush years) - it still reflects 00s conservativism rather than updating for Trump.
2. The in-charge is the child of famous conservative activist Phyllis Schaffly.
3. He may have written 90% of pages himself?
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Thanks- that guy must have a lot of time on his hands. As nimic says, it's funny, eg the kangaroo article that everyone quotes about it hopping out of the ark, til you realise schools in some parts are probably teaching this as science.
 
berbatrick said:
Stuff from there has been going viral on twitter past few days. What I've learnt is:
1. Absolutely started as (and its makers still think of it as) a serious thing.
2. Got major positive publicity in conservative media at launch (mid-00s, the Bush years) - it still reflects 00s conservativism rather than updating for Trump.
2. The in-charge is the child of famous conservative activist Phyllis Schaffly.
3. He may have written 90% of pages himself?
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Oh dear
 
nimic said:
Yep, it's basically Andrew Schlafly's passion project. He was my original "conservative kook who is so dumb he's funny", he was a whole thing on what I guess I'd call rational/atheist-ish internet almost 2 decades ago. These days it's not so funny because they're running for president of the US or buying social media companies.
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Oh man, those were the days. I would spend hours watching Hitchens and Dawkin's debate fools. Then there was the AmazingAtheist, VenomFangX, etc.

It's scary to think how far the internet has regressed since then.
 
Phil Jones Face said:
Oh man, those were the days. I would spend hours watching Hitchens and Dawkin's debate fools. Then there was the AmazingAtheist, VenomFangX, etc.

It's scary to think how far the internet has regressed since then.
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A lot of the big "new atheists" turned out to have really questionable views on stuff. At least PZ Myers is still cool.
 
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nimic said:
That's a parody/satire account, though admittedly it's not always so obvious when you've got Ben Garrison doing things even more pathetic, just sincere.
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That's what I get for not doing more than 2 seconds of research

It's still real to me damnit!
 
Jippy said:
The centurion type seems to have three arms, which is certainly a future to dream of tbf.
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Well these types of ideologues are usually not too far away from claiming to keep the bloodlines pure through incest. So maybe it's not a mistake :lol:
 
The cringe is overwhelming. It'll be fun seeing Ackman battle against Business Insider though.

This guy literally beat out Brad Pitt competing for his wife. While you were losing sleep over not having toilet paper during Covid, he was making $2.6B shorting the entire economy. The dude is just built different.
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I saw some of the Gay stuff (...), this looks even worse

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There are 3 more like this, all basic definitions blatantly copied in a extremely stupid undergrad way, as though she doesn't understand which part is and isn't important for the definition.

Would be too good if his wife gets got :lol: cnut

What the feck is MIT media lab anyway?
 
Phil Jones Face said:
Oh man, those were the days. I would spend hours watching Hitchens and Dawkin's debate fools. Then there was the AmazingAtheist, VenomFangX, etc.

It's scary to think how far the internet has regressed since then.
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Back when @nimic still loved joe rogan...
 
berbatrick said:


Suffer bitch :lol:
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Unfortunately saw a new Ackman tweet (essay, really) where he mentions he talked to the owner of Business Insider, Axel Springer - a German company. This story may sadly not last that long.

e - i went to the MIT media lab and his wife's lab's homepage and none of the research makes any sense, at least to my narrow-minded "you should really understand one thing" mentality. what was epstein funding it for??
 
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Same old story:

https://www.idsnews.com/article/202...-sinno-suspended-psc-administration-palestine

Israel-American writer and activist Miko Peled speaks about Palestine to a crowd of about 75 on Nov. 16, 2023, in Woodburn 120. Indiana University administration temporarily suspended tenured IU political science professor Abdulkader Sinno after IU denied the room reservation for the event.

Indiana University administration temporarily suspended tenured IU political science professor Abdulkader Sinno following IU's denial of a room reservation for an event hosted by the Palestine Solidarity Committee while Sinno was the group's advisor. The decision has prompted pushback from faculty, with 14 current and former faculty authoring a petition in defense of Sinno and free speech on campus.

In a letter to Sinno on Dec. 15, Carrie Docherty, vice provost for faculty and academic affairs, wrote that Sinno violated IU’s Academic Appointee Responsibilities and Conduct policy, the Principles of Ethical Conduct and IU’s student organizations policy when he attempted to reserve a room for the PSC’s event with Israeli-American speaker Miko Peled on Nov. 16.

The suspension prohibits Sinno from teaching and advising graduate students during the spring and summer terms and prevents him from advising student organizations for one calendar year, immediately removing him from his advising roles for the PSC, Muslim Student Association and Middle Eastern Student Association at IU. The letter also bars Sinno from engaging in “any and all student-related activities.”

Though Sinno’s room reservation request received approval Nov. 6, he received a notice of a conduct violation ten days later, just hours before the event was scheduled to take place. Nick Cullather, the interim dean of the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, wrote the reason for the violation was that Sinno falsely or incorrectly indicated the room reservation was for an academic event when it was for a student organization and that Sinno listed Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures as his department even though the chair of the MELC department declined to sponsor the event.

The PSC, whose last-minute attempt to reserve the room after the initial cancellation had been denied by IU, which cited a lack of availability for security on such short notice, proceeded with the event because the speaker’s flight had already been booked and paid for.
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VorZakone said:
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:lol:
 
can't be bothered to read it anymore, but ackman is going totally insane. 2500 words/post, multiple posts/day, engaging deep in the replies, losing coherence.

 


The right in america has regressed past the right in india (check the comments on this very equivalent video, for example)

e - also, aren't Southwest pilots/management supposed to be quite conservative? Really eating their own...
 
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