The Lion Guard is a bit more than “pro-Trump”. They’re definitely violent far-right and aligned with white supremacists. 

No one took any responsibility. The Caller, which publishes all sorts of bigotry with regularity, essentially just played the victim. The other two just denied it. The comically bigoted “Western Civilization” think-tank, which I bet couldn’t define that term in a neutral way if anyone asked them, tossed some bigotry…

Ah, you’re incredibly stupid. My mistake. 

There is no such thing as a “right to exist”. It does not exist in international law. You cannot cite any treaty or even part of customary law that defines it.

I’ve given up on that battle. There’s a lot of international stuff I think that could actually drive comments but I just don’t think they have the staff for it. Stuff like this is easy, and going for low-hanging fruit right now, with journalism basically failing as an industry, is probably smart. Comments drive…

They’ve put loyalists in every major national and state position, and changed rules on the state level in multiple states. I don’t think they got their big “absolutely no other primary candidates allowed” rule. But they’ve got control of everything to de facto enforce that. Walsh could sue, but I doubt he’d win and I…

The party apparatus will not give anything to Walsh. Trump and his loyalists have already made sure of that. They’ve made it impossible for any Republican challenger to access the RNC’s resources. They laid that groundwork over a year ago in some cases.

He’s just as much a worthless racist and this “what about civility??” farce will just pad his pockets and raise his profile for future grifts. You could maybe, if you’re very gullible, waive away half of his statements, but this isn’t even all of it. His Islamophobia is serious, deeply embedded, and not something he’s…

I’m bringing this idiocy out of the greys so everyone can familiarize themselves with the username of what seems to be yet another useless troll. There’s a couple similar comments like this bashing Splinter. The “I like Joe Biden and if you disagree with me it’s because you don’t respect black people” comment had a…

Which policies, be specific. His policy proposals haven’t been very specific yet. Nothing compared to Warren.

Pretty sure this “network” is just a bunch of angry far-right internet shitlords  combing Twitter and Facebook. If the media outlets in question clearly take a stand against bad faith controversy mongering they’ll have nothing. Sure, if someone said something really anti-Semitic years ago there should probably be some…

The legal argument is that they’re fired for not conforming to “sex stereotypes/expectations”. So essentially a gay man is fired for not conforming to a heterosexual idea of what a man is. This is the same argument used for trans people fired. While “sex” is the term in the original statute, later legal rulings have…

Yeah, that’s a reason I watch all of this beyond just normal news reading. I’m a polytheist. Muslims and LGBTQ folks are the bigger targets these days but in the ‘90s pagans were the bogeyman. I was a child then, but it all got passed down. I’ve still dealt with a lot of prejudice and discrimination even though we’re…

That and a similar authoritarian mindset. A lot of the ex-evangelical crowd on Twitter has been hitting on that point for awhile. There’s a fundamental desire for authoritarian leadership friendly to them. They aren’t committed to democracy if it fails their interests. 

Well, the majority of the OT is a fictional history, anything before the Babylonian Captivity is heavily fictionalized and edited to suit the Judahite monarchy and their new religion. Really anything before the Hellenistic period is worth being skeptical. Once you get into the Seleucid era much of it seems to have…

That’s a good point. There’s also a weird amount of hostility among white Americans who identify as “white” with practices that are “too ethnic” even if they’re from “white” cultures. People who hate Polish food and think it’s too foreign. People who celebrate St. Paddy’s day but get angry when you speak a cúpla focal …

I’m worried the Supreme Court will approve this. Their record is awful. I still remember the case they ruled sectarian prayer before government meetings was fine as long as they tossed in one or two non-Christians per 100 meetings. It didn’t get a ton of press, though it was big in the pagan community because one of…

Honestly, not sure it’d make a difference. These people claim a lot of the past that was before the concept of “white” (which begins in the late 1500s at the earliest). Ever wonder why “Western Civilization” includes Mesopotamia and Egypt? Neither were “Western” even in the reductive and near-meaningless sense the…

I’m not a Christian, but I’m pretty sure race isn’t actually mentioned in the Bible. Especially considering the early Jews circa 650 BCE or so, when it looks like the OT was compiled and redacted, had no concept of “white people”. The Genesis narrative probably dates from around that time. At that point monotheism…

Wow, I expect the first part these days, but I’ve got to say the “no mixed race marriages!” part was more explicit than I thought. Saying that to the face of a woman whose father was Syrian no less (though 20 years ago he might have been considered white).