And is the fentanyl they’re handing out to kids the same fentanyl that apparently kills any police officer that comes within 50 feet of it?
That’s the stuff. If it can take out a battle-hardened street cop at 50 feet, just imagine what it’ll do to kids! Innocent, God-fearing AMERICAN kids!
Shame we can’t get a few more real head asplosions out of these folks instead of just rhetorical freakouts.
Maybe you can combine it with this one
and Just have a general, “Restaurants offering Veggie options” freakout.
Oh God, I followed that link and then saw a related story at the bottom. Apparently Mississippi has made it illegal to use the word “burger” in marketing vegan projects. Put “veggie burger” on your menu, go to jail. Not sure if this should be a separate freakout or part of the general veganism freakout.
One can only hope that here is a town in Germany named Veggieburg.
I’m not entirely sure I couldn’t endorse such a law in principle, if it could be adapted to apply to chicken and/or turkey “burgers,” and “licorice” that’s flavored like fruit instead of licorice.
While we’re dreaming, how about a law against political fundraising organizations named “People for [something good]” who’re in fact funded by Big Business to prevent [something good] from ever happening.
I’d be on board with banning names that are contradictory to what they’re actually doing. Don’t call it “People for [something good]” when it’s actually “People for [something bad]”.
Team, we have hit a milestone - 300!
| Number | Item | Year (appx) | New | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | Backmasking music - play songs backwards, get exposed to Satan | 1982 | X | Backmasking - Wikipedia |
| 20 | Willie Horton | 1988 | X | Willie Horton - Wikipedia |
| 32 | Ebonics | 1996 | X | Ebonics (word) - Wikipedia |
| 35 | Mozart CD’s being given to newborns in GA (Limbaugh, especially) | 1999 | X | https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/03/science/mozart-for-baby-some-say-maybe-not.html |
| 261 | Mermaids should only be white! | 2022 | X | |
| 262 | Mississippi makes it illegal to use the word burger in re: to animal product burgers | 2022 | X | Hungering for a Christian response to Mississippi’s veggie burger ban – Baptist News Global |
| 270 | White Replacement Theory, another Tucker specialty | 2022 | X | |
| 271 | Woke D&D | 2022 | X | Dungeons and Dragons Players Face the Radical Left |
| 272 | A 50yo recipe, the Orange Fool, outraged the Right who assumed it was talking about… the orange fool. | 2023 | X | |
| 273 | A breakfast restaurant has the temerity to call itself Woke. | 2023 | X | |
| 275 | ChatGPT won’t say the n-word! | 2023 | X | Conservatives Are Obsessed With Getting ChatGPT to Say the N-Word |
| 276 | CHINESE BALLOONBIDENBIOWEAPON! | 2023 | X | GOP Rep Warns That Chinese Balloon May Have ‘Bioweapons’ From ‘Wuhan’ |
| 277 | Demar Hamlin was injured because he was Covid vaxxed. | 2023 | X | |
| 278 | Fox News gets mad at mascot for near-forgotten eatery A&W for… reasons. | 2023 | X | Fox News Fell for an A&W Joke About Its Pantsless Mascot |
| 280 | Jordan Peterson gets mad at a towel dispenser | 2023 | X | https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1628292293173342208?s=20 |
| 282 | Milk Choice - Elise Stefanik gets mad about chocolate milk not being offered in some schools | 2023 | X | Stefanik Introduces Bill to Protect Milk Choices in Schools | Press Releases | Congresswoman Elise Stefanik |
| 283 | OAN increases annual fee for DirectTV from $0 to $13 million. DTV says no, drops OAN. Right freaks out. | 2023 | X | |
| 284 | Pink Floyd is too woke! (50th anniversary logo redo) | 2023 | X | |
| 285 | Power Saving on Game Consoles | 2023 | X | Xbox becomes first 'carbon aware' console, but not everyone is happy: 'Woke brigade is after video games' | Fox News |
| 286 | Right is mad about Chic-Fil-A’s veggie chicken sandwich. | 2023 | X | Conservatives Are Pissed at Chick-fil-A's 'Woke' Sandwich |
| 287 | The Black National Anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing, was sung at the 2023 Super Bowl. Guess who got upset? | 2023 | X | https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/1624845737585524741?s=20&t=IfQClwDjDBLJcPXFsCR1yA |
| 288 | Tucker Carlson rants about which M&M he wants to fuck, gets so goddamned weird about it Mars Inc was like yeah, maybe you people are such twisted snowflakes that giving fake characters, based on a candy, actual genders might get us literally shot. | 2023 | X |
A couple of new columns, this time to filter out new ones and to add links.
Keep them coming, and thank you!
The full list (as of now):
ETA: You know what? It’s getting cumbersome. Give me a second…
… and we’re back to 299, because I have ebonics twice. Dammit. Someone, I need a freakout, stat!
I’ve got one!! Freedom of the Press!
I guess that means they’re very strict textualists. As in
Some text we like. We’re very strict about enforcing that. Some text we don’t like. We’re very strict about ignoring that. See how consistently strict we are!
The current list:
Click
| Number | Item | Year (appx) | New | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People being ineffective is OK as long as it is a white man. Bush 2. Trump. | 1789 | ||
| 2 | Immigrants will make America Poorer and dirtier | 1844 | ||
| 3 | Communism | 1919 | ||
| 4 | Socialism | 1919 | ||
| 5 | Movie X is inciting violence/sex/drugs | 1934 | ||
| 6 | Music X is inciting violence/sex/drugs | 1955 | ||
| 7 | Islam | 1959 | ||
| 8 | Socialized medicine has incredible wait times! | 1961 | ||
| 9 | Liberal Media | 1965 | ||
| 10 | Jane Fonda | 1972 | ||
| 11 | Gun fetishism | 1974 | ||
| 12 | Anita Bryant’s crusade against gays | 1975 | ||
| 13 | Supply-Side Economics | 1975 | ||
| 14 | Snail Darter Controversy | 1978 | ||
| 15 | AIDS | 1981 | ||
| 16 | Tax and Spend Democrats | 1982 | ||
| 17 | Backmasking music - play songs backwards, get exposed to Satan | 1982 | Backmasking - Wikipedia | |
| 18 | Constant misuse of Born in the USA | 1984 | ||
| 19 | Hey ho, hey ho, Western Civ has got to go! | 1987 | ||
| 20 | Willie Horton | 1988 | Willie Horton - Wikipedia | |
| 21 | Central Park Five | 1990 | ||
| 22 | Political Correctness | 1990 | ||
| 23 | Sovereign Citizens | 1990 | ||
| 24 | Spotted Owl Controversy - It Kills Jobs! | 1990 | ||
| 25 | War on Christmas | 1990 | ||
| 26 | Flag Burning Controversies (1991 is first listed, but flares up every so often.) | 1991 | ||
| 27 | Hillary Clinton (really, a list of her own) | 1991 | ||
| 28 | Polls oversample democrats | 1992 | ||
| 29 | Gay Day @ Disney | 1995 | ||
| 30 | Stem Cells | 1995 | ||
| 31 | USPS must be profitable! | 1995 | ||
| 32 | Ebonics | 1996 | Ebonics (word) - Wikipedia | |
| 33 | Ellen Degeneres | 1997 | ||
| 34 | A Hurricane will strike Disney - Pat Roberston | 1998 | ||
| 35 | Mozart CD’s being given to newborns in GA (Limbaugh, especially) | 1999 | https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/03/science/mozart-for-baby-some-say-maybe-not.html | |
| 36 | Starbucks Christmas | 1999 | ||
| 37 | Teletubbies are gay | 1999 | ||
| 38 | Anti-LGBTQ | 2000 | ||
| 39 | Book bans | 2000 | ||
| 40 | Border Security | 2000 | ||
| 41 | Elian Gonzalez | 2000 | ||
| 42 | Laura Bush did what? Well, she’s right with Jesus NOW… | 2000 | ||
| 43 | The War on Terror | 2001 | ||
| 44 | French Fries (Freedom Fries) | 2002 | ||
| 45 | Paul Wellstone’s Funeral | 2002 | ||
| 46 | Shoe inspections on airplanes | 2002 | ||
| 47 | Boycotting Heinz Ketchup because of John Kerry’s wife. | 2004 | ||
| 48 | Gay Marriage | 2004 | ||
| 49 | John Kerry’s wife is a foreigner and can’t be First Lady | 2004 | ||
| 50 | Patriot Act | 2004 | ||
| 51 | Swift Boat Veterans for Truth | 2004 | ||
| 52 | Ted Koppel read names of Iraqi war dead on Nightline (2004), implying war wasn’t going well. | 2004 | ||
| 53 | I have a wide stance! | 2005 | ||
| 54 | Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine | 2005 | ||
| 55 | Obama Katrina 01: Katrina (2005) | 2005 | ||
| 56 | Participation Trophies | 2005 | ||
| 57 | Duke Lacrosse scandal | 2006 | ||
| 58 | Janet’s Boob | 2006 | ||
| 59 | Terry Schiavo | 2006 | ||
| 60 | Michael Moore’s F 9/11 | 2007 | ||
| 61 | Elitist Obama mentioning aurugula to a bunch of Iowan farmers who planted…. Aurugula. | 2008 | ||
| 62 | Happy Holidays! | 2008 | ||
| 63 | You didn’t build that | 2008 | ||
| 64 | ACORN | 2008 | ||
| 65 | Common Core | 2008 | ||
| 66 | Joe the Plumber | 2008 | ||
| 67 | Moochelle Obama | 2008 | ||
| 68 | Obama and Tire Pressure as an energy saver. Right freaked out about Obama repeating a fact found in those little yellow handouts given by Shell back in the 1970s. | 2008 | ||
| 69 | Obama golfing | 2008 | ||
| 70 | Obama Katrina 02: Affordable Housing | 2008 | ||
| 71 | Obama used a teleprompter! | 2008 | ||
| 72 | Saul Alinsky, father of Community Organizing, hated by the Right for such. | 2008 | ||
| 73 | The 2008 Obama terrorist fistbump with Michelle | 2008 | ||
| 74 | The Ohio State Flag is mistaken for an Obama flag | 2008 | ||
| 75 | The Sarah Palin Experience. All of it. | 2008 | ||
| 76 | Gender-Neutral Restrooms | 2009 | ||
| 77 | Michelle Bachman | 2009 | ||
| 78 | Michelle Obama food initiatives - School Lunches | 2009 | ||
| 79 | Michelle Obama is a man | 2009 | ||
| 80 | Obama bowed! | 2009 | ||
| 81 | Obama Katrina 03: The 2009 Swine Flu epidemic | 2009 | ||
| 82 | Obama’s Mustard | 2009 | ||
| 83 | Sharia Law is coming! | 2010 | ||
| 84 | Ground Zero Mosque | 2010 | ||
| 85 | HPV vaccine | 2010 | ||
| 86 | Obama caused ISIS | 2010 | ||
| 87 | Obama didn’t wear a flag pin! | 2010 | ||
| 88 | Obama Katrina 04: The Haiti Earthquake of 2010 | 2010 | ||
| 89 | Obama Katrina 05: Ebola! | 2010 | ||
| 90 | Obama Katrina 06: Unaccompanied Children at the Border! | 2010 | ||
| 91 | Obamacare | 2010 | ||
| 92 | Tea Party | 2010 | ||
| 93 | Obama Katrina 07: MF Global problems | 2011 | ||
| 94 | Obama Katrina 08: Mississippi River floods | 2011 | ||
| 95 | Tan Suit Gate | 2011 | ||
| 96 | Benghazi | 2012 | ||
| 97 | Birth Certificate | 2012 | ||
| 98 | Crisis Actors | 2012 | ||
| 99 | Keystone Pipeline | 2012 | ||
| 100 | Miley Cyrus is training girls to be trashy | 2012 | ||
| 101 | Obama Katrina 09: BP Oil Spill | 2012 | ||
| 102 | Obama Katrina 10: Hurricane Sandy | 2012 | ||
| 103 | Obama Katrina 11: Hurricane Isaac | 2012 | ||
| 104 | Obama’s plan to wind down AFG coincided with election | 2012 | ||
| 105 | Operation Fast and Furious | 2012 | ||
| 106 | Austerity (Debt Ceiling debate 2013) | 2013 | ||
| 107 | Birth Control | 2013 | ||
| 108 | Bundy/BLM | 2013 | ||
| 109 | Comicsgate | 2013 | ||
| 110 | Gamergate | 2013 | ||
| 111 | Government shutdown: 2013 | 2013 | ||
| 112 | Ha! There was a trucker protest in 2013, too! | 2013 | ||
| 113 | IRS targeting conservatives (they didn’t) | 2013 | ||
| 114 | Marine holding an umbrella over Obama’s head and not the marine’s own. | 2013 | ||
| 115 | Obama paying for a muslim culture museum out of his pockets (2013) | 2013 | ||
| 116 | Obama’s feet on desk | 2013 | ||
| 117 | Rebranding suicide-bombers as homicide-bombers | 2013 | ||
| 118 | Sandy Hook | 2013 | ||
| 119 | Seccessionist movements | 2013 | ||
| 120 | The Duck Dynasty Debacle/Phil Robertson (2013) | 2013 | ||
| 121 | George Soros | 2014 | ||
| 122 | Obama saluting a marine with a coffee cup in his hand | 2014 | ||
| 123 | Ten Commandments in public spaces | 2014 | ||
| 124 | Immediate, negative reactions to ANYONE who criticized Trump, including the Pope. | 2015 | ||
| 125 | Poor, rapey, Brock Turner! | 2015 | ||
| 126 | Sad Puppies - The Right decides to game the Hugo Awards | 2015 | ||
| 127 | Tide Pods - The Kids Are Eating Them! | 2015 | ||
| 128 | Voting to remove protection from VA’s pro-gun control governor (2015) | 2015 | ||
| 129 | But Her Emails! - Hillary Email Scandal | 2016 | ||
| 130 | Liberals are why we X! | 2016 | ||
| 131 | Locker Room Talk | 2016 | ||
| 132 | Russia Hoax | 2016 | ||
| 133 | Shut up and dribble! - LeBron dares speak to progressive issues | 2016 | ||
| 134 | Anti Cheneyism | 2016 | ||
| 135 | Anti McCainism | 2016 | ||
| 136 | Beyonce mentions BLM, police brutality in a 2016 Super Bowl performance | 2016 | ||
| 137 | Gold Star Family fight | 2016 | ||
| 138 | Islamic Travelers (and subsequent religious-based bans) | 2016 | ||
| 139 | Jade Helm will have US Military ‘take over’ US. | 2016 | ||
| 140 | Losing Advertiser Support = Free Speech being Suppressed | 2016 | ||
| 141 | Melania Trump is an inspiration as a foreign-born First Lady | 2016 | ||
| 142 | Mocking the concept of Safe Spaces | 2016 | ||
| 143 | PizzaGate | 2016 | ||
| 144 | Republicans became Pro-Slavery when Michelle Obama said she lived in a house built by slaves. | 2016 | ||
| 145 | RINO 's are The Evil | 2016 | ||
| 146 | Target announcing non-discrimination against transgenders | 2016 | ||
| 147 | Teen Vogue writes Anti-Trump articles, how dare they, stick to teen stuff! | 2016 | ||
| 148 | Trump Fact-Checked during debate | 2016 | ||
| 149 | Trump was sent by God | 2016 | ||
| 150 | Windmills cause cancer | 2016 | ||
| 151 | AOC is The Evil | 2017 | ||
| 152 | Caravans of Migrants | 2017 | ||
| 153 | Confederate Statues | 2017 | ||
| 154 | George Zimmerman | 2017 | ||
| 155 | Government shutdown: 2017 | 2017 | ||
| 156 | Jim Acosta (How dare he ask the President questions?) | 2017 | ||
| 157 | Kathy Griffin (Decapitated Trump Head) | 2017 | ||
| 158 | Kneeling by Kaepernik | 2017 | ||
| 159 | Kuerig (destroying machines after advertising pulled from Hannity) | 2017 | ||
| 160 | Large crowd sizes at 2017 inaugral | 2017 | ||
| 161 | Nancy Pelosi Gavel | 2017 | ||
| 162 | Qanon | 2017 | ||
| 163 | Sanctuary Cities | 2017 | ||
| 164 | Sarah H Sanders being heckled at a restaurant | 2017 | ||
| 165 | Transexuals playing school sports | 2017 | ||
| 166 | Unite the Right rally | 2017 | ||
| 167 | Leslie Stahl is being mean to Trumpie! | 2018 | ||
| 168 | Antifa | 2018 | ||
| 169 | Avocado toast as an example of Millennial ‘waste’ | 2018 | ||
| 170 | BLM in general | 2018 | ||
| 171 | BLM/Antifa riots have destroyed cities | 2018 | ||
| 172 | Blue Lives Matter/Thin Blue Line/Police fetishism | 2018 | ||
| 173 | David Hogg | 2018 | ||
| 174 | Government shutdown:2013 | 2018 | ||
| 175 | Greta Thunberg | 2018 | ||
| 176 | Michelle Wolf joking about Sarah H Sanders | 2018 | ||
| 177 | Nancy Pelosi ripping Trump’s speech in half | 2018 | ||
| 178 | Nascar (banned confederate flag) | 2018 | ||
| 179 | National Butterfly Center | 2018 | ||
| 180 | Obeying the Law is unfair if you’re in power (Lewindowski running for Congress the day he is indicted.) | 2018 | ||
| 181 | Paper Straw Controversy | 2018 | ||
| 182 | Poor Brett Kavanaugh! What does his possibly being an alchoholic rapist have to do with anything? | 2018 | ||
| 183 | Release the Memo! | 2018 | ||
| 184 | Samantha Bee calls Ivanka a Feckless Cunt | 2018 | ||
| 185 | Sexuality | 2018 | ||
| 186 | The Wall around Obama’s house meant he was a hypocrite about the border wall! | 2018 | ||
| 187 | Walmart selling satanic messages in music | 2018 | ||
| 188 | Democrats are banning beef! | 2019 | ||
| 189 | George Floyd | 2019 | ||
| 190 | Gillette (said toxic masculinity is bad in a 2019 ad, toxic whining ensued) | 2019 | ||
| 191 | Hunter Biden | 2019 | ||
| 192 | Kyle Rittenhouse worship | 2019 | ||
| 193 | Nike (Colin K ad) | 2019 | ||
| 194 | Nikole Hannah-Jones @ NC | 2019 | ||
| 195 | Pronouns | 2019 | ||
| 196 | The 1619 Project | 2019 | ||
| 197 | The Hunt (2019 film Trump rage-tweeted about. The controversy caused the film to be released streaming only) | 2019 | ||
| 198 | Trump whines about Low-flow flush toilets | 2019 | ||
| 199 | Wokism | 2019 | ||
| 200 | After I acted like a fascist, racist, grifter, libs are preventing me from getting a job! | 2020 | ||
| 201 | Anti-Fauci | 2020 | ||
| 202 | Arnold becomes a RINO because of masks | 2020 | ||
| 203 | Biden’s dementia (compared to man, woman, person, camera, TV) | 2020 | ||
| 204 | Big Bird | 2020 | ||
| 205 | Cancel Culture | 2020 | ||
| 206 | Child smuggling in furniture (in general, actually) | 2020 | ||
| 207 | COVID Vaccine | 2020 | ||
| 208 | Cracker Barrel offers Impossible Sausage, makes zero other changes. | 2020 | ||
| 209 | Defund the Police (no!) | 2020 | ||
| 210 | Disney is too woke for Ron Desantis | 2020 | ||
| 211 | Doctor Suess estate removing books | 2020 | ||
| 212 | Dominion Voting Machines | 2020 | ||
| 213 | Genders (identity) | 2020 | ||
| 214 | Ivermectin | 2020 | ||
| 215 | Jill Biden is NOT a ‘Doctor’. (She is. Just not a medical doctor.) | 2020 | ||
| 216 | Mail-In ballots | 2020 | ||
| 217 | Masks | 2020 | ||
| 218 | Nancy Pelosi at Hairdresser | 2020 | ||
| 219 | Nick Sandmann - High Schooler who arranged confrontation with NA activist for conservative Grift Point$ | 2020 | ||
| 220 | Old People Should Die for the Economy | 2020 | ||
| 221 | People’s Convoy | 2020 | ||
| 222 | PePe LePew being left out of LeBrons Space Jam | 2020 | ||
| 223 | Plandemic | 2020 | ||
| 224 | Taylor Swift endorses Democrats | 2020 | ||
| 225 | The Big Lie | 2020 | ||
| 226 | Transgenders will use the same bathroom as your children! | 2020 | ||
| 227 | Walmart NOT selling guns! (Which Walmart reversed after conservative whining) | 2020 | ||
| 228 | When MLB moved the All-Star game from Atlanta | 2020 | ||
| 229 | Let’s Go, Brandon! | 2021 | ||
| 230 | Liberal/Woke/Gay Agenda | 2021 | ||
| 231 | White Replacement Theory (Carlson) | 2021 | ||
| 232 | White Supremacy is a hoax (Carlson) | 2021 | ||
| 233 | 2021 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Protest | 2021 | ||
| 234 | Baby Formula to illegal immigrants | 2021 | ||
| 235 | Cardi B’s WAP | 2021 | ||
| 236 | Cocaine Orgies | 2021 | ||
| 237 | CRT | 2021 | ||
| 238 | Dark Brandon - Started as a right-wing op (in China), was co-opted by the left. But, for the purposes of this list, it was INTENDED to be a RW freakout. | 2021 | ||
| 239 | Defund the FBI (yes!) | 2021 | ||
| 240 | Freedom Convoy | 2021 | ||
| 241 | January 6th denial | 2021 | ||
| 242 | Jewish Space Lasers | 2021 | ||
| 243 | Monkeypox is caused by Gay People | 2021 | ||
| 244 | TN tries to make Bible Official State Book | 2021 | ||
| 245 | Trump is secretly President! He will announce himself on Inaugration, er, President’s, er the First Day of, er, some day in August, er, when the COVID thing is straightened out, that’s the ticket! | 2021 | ||
| 246 | Yoga being taught to children | 2021 | ||
| 247 | I did this! stickers put on gas pumps | 2022 | ||
| 248 | Turning Red (Pixar movie) featured characters (a 9yo Asian-Canadian immigrant) white people could not relate to | 2022 | ||
| 249 | … while Paul Whelan was not | 2022 | ||
| 250 | Abortion | 2022 | ||
| 251 | Biden ate an ice cream cone | 2022 | ||
| 252 | Biden’s $500k beach house | 2022 | ||
| 253 | Britney Griner Getting Released from a Russian Prison… | 2022 | ||
| 254 | Elon Musk will bring Freedumb to Twitter! | 2022 | ||
| 255 | Herschel Walker’s entire candidacy | 2022 | ||
| 256 | Interracial Marriage under fire since Roe fell | 2022 | ||
| 257 | Iraq has nuclear weapons | 2022 | ||
| 258 | It’s OK to steal nuclear documents | 2022 | ||
| 259 | Light Bulbs (incandescent bulbs being phased out) | 2022 | ||
| 260 | Lizzo played a musical instrument 335,000,000 Americans didn’t know existed | 2022 | ||
| 261 | Mermaids should only be white! | 2022 | ||
| 262 | Mississippi makes it illegal to use the word burger in re: to animal product burgers | 2022 | Hungering for a Christian response to Mississippi’s veggie burger ban – Baptist News Global | |
| 263 | Pelosi has expensive ice cream! During Coronavirus! | 2022 | ||
| 264 | Sex Toys at Target (A MTG Special!) | 2022 | ||
| 265 | Stop the (Kari Lake) Steal | 2022 | ||
| 266 | Student Loan Debt Forgiveness: Bad! PPP Loan Forgiveness: Good! | 2022 | ||
| 267 | Students are forced to identify as animals | 2022 | ||
| 268 | Suicide Prevention Hotlines (grooming pedophiles) | 2022 | ||
| 269 | Supreme Court Data Integrity | 2022 | ||
| 270 | White Replacement Theory, another Tucker specialty | 2022 | ||
| 271 | Woke D&D | 2022 | Dungeons and Dragons Players Face the Radical Left | |
| 272 | A 50yo recipe, the Orange Fool, outraged the Right who assumed it was talking about… the orange fool. | 2023 | ||
| 273 | A breakfast restaurant has the temerity to call itself Woke. | 2023 | ||
| 274 | Banning Electric Cars to save the fossil fuel industry (Wyoming) | 2023 | ||
| 275 | ChatGPT won’t say the n-word! | 2023 | Conservatives Are Obsessed With Getting ChatGPT to Say the N-Word | |
| 276 | CHINESE BALLOONBIDENBIOWEAPON! | 2023 | GOP Rep Warns That Chinese Balloon May Have ‘Bioweapons’ From ‘Wuhan’ | |
| 277 | Demar Hamlin was injured because he was Covid vaxxed. | 2023 | ||
| 278 | Fox News gets mad at mascot for near-forgotten eatery A&W for… reasons. | 2023 | Fox News Fell for an A&W Joke About Its Pantsless Mascot | |
| 279 | Gas Stove Freakout | 2023 | ||
| 280 | Jordan Peterson gets mad at a towel dispenser | 2023 | https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1628292293173342208?s=20 | |
| 281 | Kevin McCarthy Speakership Race | 2023 | ||
| 282 | Milk Choice - Elise Stefanik gets mad about chocolate milk not being offered in some schools | 2023 | Stefanik Introduces Bill to Protect Milk Choices in Schools | Press Releases | Congresswoman Elise Stefanik | |
| 283 | OAN increases annual fee for DirectTV from $0 to $13 million. DTV says no, drops OAN. Right freaks out. | 2023 | ||
| 284 | Pink Floyd is too woke! (50th anniversary logo redo) | 2023 | ||
| 285 | Power Saving on Game Consoles | 2023 | Xbox becomes first 'carbon aware' console, but not everyone is happy: 'Woke brigade is after video games' | Fox News | |
| 286 | Right is mad about Chic-Fil-A’s veggie chicken sandwich. | 2023 | Conservatives Are Pissed at Chick-fil-A's 'Woke' Sandwich | |
| 287 | Ron Desantis and the Florida R’s propose bill limiting criticism of the government. | 2023 | X | SILENCED: Florida bill would severely limit criticism of government |
| 288 | The Black National Anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing, was sung at the 2023 Super Bowl. Guess who got upset? | 2023 | https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/1624845737585524741?s=20&t=IfQClwDjDBLJcPXFsCR1yA | |
| 289 | Tucker Carlson rants about which M&M he wants to fuck, gets so goddamned weird about it Mars Inc was like yeah, maybe you people are such twisted snowflakes that giving fake characters, based on a candy, actual genders might get us literally shot. | 2023 | ||
| 290 | Death Panels | 1994 AND 2010 | ||
| 291 | Republicans mad about Obama’s Christmas cards | 2008-2016 | ||
| 292 | Obama Katrina 13: Fort Hood shootings | 2009 AND 2014 | ||
| 293 | Obama Katrina 14: Kentucky Ice Storm | 2009 AND 2015 | ||
| 294 | The Debates are unfair! | Every 4 years | ||
| 295 | Thoughts and Prayers as a response for every shooting in America | Every Day (literally) | ||
| 296 | THE MLK quote - The only MLK quote conservatives quote is the ‘content of character’ line. | Every January | ||
| 297 | Amend the Constitution so that Foreign Conservative of the Moment can be President! | Every So Often | ||
| 298 | College Speakers | Every So Often | ||
| 299 | Satanic Panics | Every So Often | ||
| 300 | People being effective is a sign that Obama/Biden is failing! (i.e., Agents siezed a record amount of fentynal gets translated to Our agents are failing and it’s the Presidents fault) | Whenever a Dem is President. |
I wanted to post this now, #301, but I want to talk about this shitty article later:
I thought it was racist and trying to steal nuclear secrets, that doesn’t seem very woke.
I read a lot of science fiction in my life. Most of it positive, of course, even the dystopian stuff for it all implied we had a future. But there is a reason why Ellison’s I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream was such a shocking trendsetter that it is famous today, in ways his other masterworks (like Jeffty Is Five) are not. Commonly anthologized, it would not surprise me to have made Norton’s.
I think about that story whenever I read of attempts like the above, for Ellison never explained… from memory, and we all know how reliable that is… how the AI came to hate, or if it did, it was vague as befits a short story which doesn’t care about the details of the dead civilization which built the Damned thing.
But I wonder if Ellison would have ever thought that the reason why the AI in his story became so full of hate was because 30% of the population worked on making sure it could be tribal and hateful, and complained when it wasn’t.
Which brings us to that horrific moral abomination of a Washington Post story linked above. Fortunately I was able to use some time-tested free techniques to break the paywall and was able to get the entire article, because goddamned if I’m paying for this shit.
ANYONE want to guess what the first two words in the article are?
“Christopher Rufo”
CR was the asshat who literally made CRT another right-wing bogeyman, pulled it out of the air and said “you can rile up enough racist white Americans (and discomfited black allies) to win elections”… and he was right, as we found in the VA’s governor race. Everything the man said about CRT was a lie, everything… except that he could rile up racist white Americans (and discomfited black allies) to win elections.
On that issue he was 100% correct.
And here we are, 300 entries in, and we are seeing it again. A complete, absolute, 100% non-issue - our AI’s* are currently non-tribalist haters - and here the Washington Post is, just absolutely willing to lend its credibility to another multi-year RW freakout promulgated by a man who literally makes a living by creating racist lies.
This article begins like so many other articles which have covered these topics:
What? Why is the blame for the controversy being ascribed to the companies and the technology and not people like Chris Rufo? Even the damn tagline gives these two brand names a level of control which strongly implies sentience and the ability to influence events:
Seriously, what the ever-loving fuck is this? Bing is a goddamned machine! This is like saying “Toyota wishes to stay out of the protests” because people are driving their Toyota’s to the protest!
WaPo! ChatGPT ain’t doing shit. Bing ain’t doing shit. It’s the goddamned people who are trying train an AI to hate and tribalize which should be your focus - why are you not asking “WHY DOES CHRISTOPHER RUFO WANT AN AI TO HATE PEOPLE?” instead of asking "YEAH! WHY DOESN’T THE AI HATE PEOPLE?
Look at this fucking sentence, people:
If you ever want a perfect example of how language shapes the expectations of power dynamics, just marvel, simply gaze and marvel at the above. Only one group is specifically identified - The Republican Party. The very next clause uses “critics”… well, critics of what? The structure implies critics of Republicans. And who is trying to avoid the issue? “Tech Companies”.
I would also note that this line admits to the structure of RW freakouts and admits that this structure has successfully driven years of debate. “Republicans” freak out. “Critics” respond. “Others” ignore.
Reading further, you will find that every authority quoted is on the Right side of the spectrum. Rufo. Marc Andreeson. Alexander Zubatov. One ex-employee is provided, deep in the article, to provide a full three quoted words (broken into two quotes, I shit you not) in a kinda defense of what’s happening on behalf of the AI, but the entire piece is perfectly created to legitimize a debate mankind should be smart enough not to have: whether or not to program our computers to hate us.
Good going Washington Post. Keep doing this and, in time, you, too, will have no mouth and must scream.
*I am using AI as a short descriptive, this isn’t the thread to explain that “these things aren’t really AI’s”.
Chris Rufo is a huge flywheel in the conservative hate machine, constantly finding new angles to push and language to use. He’s the one responsible for whipping conservatives into a frenzy over “Critical Race Theory” being taught in grade schools, for whipping them into a frenzy over Drag Queen Story Hour, and for turning Republicans against Disney for being mildly in favor of queerness. When you see someone frothing about “Gender Ideology” and calling anyone they don’t like “Groomers” it’s Rufo’s words coming out of their mouth, and he’s not even subtle about how he’s taking control of narratives and twisting language to his own ends.
Folks talk about how they’re grateful Trump was too stupid to apply his evil effectively, Rufo is exactly the sort of effectively evil sonofabitch that activists on the left need to keep a very close eye on.
By the way, shouldn’t water flouridation be on the list? That was a John Birch society (among others) freakout.
Legos have become woke by including characters with diversity. Those damn Danish socialists.