Inspired by some of the discussion in this thread. I don't think it's appropriate place for that discussion there, but hey why not have a separate thread for it

If I think religion is not good in general, am I Reddit and cringe and basically Richard Dawkins?

  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    finally came to a head around 2012 with ElevatorGate. The scorched earth take no prisoners nature of ElevatorGate pretty much destroyed whatever was left of the internet atheist power structure.

    fucking what is elevator gate

    • UlyssesT
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      2 months ago

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      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        dare to suspect that the Youtube atheist fad of "debunking" creationists shifted gears to being really mad at feeemales and stayed there, only expanding the rage to SJWs/wokeness/DEI after that moment.

        You'd suspect correctly. There was some base misogyny there to build on, see TheAmazingAtheist and the disgusting things he said about SA including to an actual SA victim.

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          2 months ago

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          • booty [he/him]
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            2 months ago

            I didn't realize I remembered them until you said you remembered them and then I also remembered exactly what the words were. Wild how such vile sentiments can embed themselves in your brain like that, isn't it?

        • vegeta1 [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          Amazing atheist and several other atheists did wonders for the proliferation of garbage reactionary content on youtube

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    • WilsonWilson [comrade/them, any]
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      2 months ago

      Avoid going down the elevatorgate rabbit hole if you value your sanity. The same people involved in elevatorgate started GamerGate.

      • WilsonWilson [comrade/them, any]
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        2 months ago

        I hear that thunderfoot (don't look that up) broke his brain on Brexit and Covid so now he's back on center-left but likely still a misogynist. Dawkins, Ham Sarris, Shermer, Jillete et al. just got old and feeble or outright ded like Randii and Dennett. They only pop in now and then to say something like "more jews won nobel prizes than muslims so we should exterminate all muslims" which they've been doing since GWOT