Category: Bullshit

  • And you wonder why we’re cranky

    This is from Sky News. It’d be funny if it weren’t serious. Trans activists aren’t campaigning for this, because IT’S THE LAW. The relevant law is the Equality Act 2010, which formalised something that’s been common practice for decades. What’s actually happening is that bigots are telling blatant lies about the law and trans people,…

  • Cannon fodder

    I wrote this song about angry young men being groomed by right-wingers, and I think of it any time Jordan Peterson is mentioned: the stupid man’s idea of an intellectual has managed to build a very lucrative career by persuading angry young men that he’s some kind of guru. Peterson spoke at an event in…

  • One of these things is not like the other

    Much of the media – including people such as Brendan O’Neill, who you may recall has bad opinions for money; he was defending anti-semitic dog puppeteer Count Dankula a few weeks back – is exercising itself over whether it’s okay to call angry white men “gammon”, which of course it is. Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson…

  • A bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes

    The New York Times has published a glowing profile of “the renegades of the intellectual dark web”, an “alliance of heretics” that is “making an end run around the mainstream conversation” to an audience “thirsty to discuss subjects that have become taboo.” In other words, they’re controversialists, a bunch of white people with bad opinions…

  • “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

    I’ve been meaning to post about a particular kind of bullshit for a while: the use, particularly by bigots and other arseholes, of Goebbels’ tactic of repeating blatant lies. As he put it: It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is…

  • Always follow the money

    This Twitter thread, by Gavin Sheridan, is worth reading. The YouTube account has 3 videos, with a combined 100k views in *one day*. No idea who is behind it. This channel: https://t.co/0PVJyI9YZS pic.twitter.com/tnaZcrSjEp — Gavin (@gavinsblog) April 29, 2018 Sheridan noticed some very odd YouTube and Facebook activity around the Irish campaign to repeal the…

  • On names and pronouns: don’t be an arse

    Following on from yesterday’s daft Sunday Times story, Owl Stefania writes in iNews in defence of using the correct pronouns. It’s just the compassionate and right thing to do. Because in the end, why would anyone deliberately go out of their way to harm another human being? There does appear to be a double standard…

  • Beware The Transgender Email!

    It’s Sunday, which means anti-trans pieces in The Mail on Sunday and in The Times. This week’s effort is pretty poor, even by The Times’ increasingly poor standards. Oh my god! The TRANSGENDER EMAIL! What horrors lie inside? Students and academics are being encouraged to sign their emails with their names, titles, telephone numbers and…

  • Parasites and the turkeys voting for Xmas

    This week the Conservative MP David Davies (not the successful one; that’s David Davis. This one’s the MP for Monmouth) held a meeting of anti-trans militants in the House of Commons. The speakers are well known for their extreme views. As Newsweek reports (the UK media hasn’t covered it beyond LGBT magazine Pink News; it…

  • I haven’t got lazyitis

    There’s a well known trick in the bullshit community: if you give something a scientific or medical sounding name, you can persuade some people that bullshit isn’t bullshit. It’s a technique used by quacks and scoundrels and rapacious corporations alike. Today’s example is “rapid onset gender dysphoria”, which is appearing in various right wing newspapers…