Fake Melania, meet Donald Trump’s fake charitable contributions: Today in Tweets

@ Diego Duarte

Absolutely could not say it better myself. It makes me absolutely furious.

Meliana was the top US trend on twitter for much of the day Wednesday which is hilarious because no one actually believes the CT, it was just too fun to ignore. Who doesn’t want to go all photoshop detective once?It’s certainly good clean fun compared to the racist, transphobic Michelle Obama CTs.

@Moggie
I’ve noticed things along that line.

I need to dig up the link but I have seen someone discuss the way some people seem to dislike Wikipedia articles about women and other female people. They feel the need to either include negative irrelavancies, or to remove positive and relevant information (and probably other things). Like Trump’s need to disparage what he feels threatened by, a text-based exists like the slander/libel contrast differentiating speech and text.

If a person felt group oriented animus that much it’s reasonable to think they might take such actions in a social dominance and conflict context when they can. Lewis’s Law seems to be about* challenges (real or percieved) to existing dominance and the knee-jerk reactions to that which often include the very thing being challenged reasserted by people feeling threatened. It’s got race, orientation and gender correlates (as this other behavior likely does).

*corrections happily accepted.

@ weirwoodtreehugger: chief manatee

Yep, that sold me on him being a woman-hating, MRA tool. I’m ‘Crazt Maist Waizy’ on there. I guessed he was an MRA, and then his video confirmed it. What a tool.

He just seems… nasty. Sick.

And the person claiming to be a ‘great feminist’ or something snidely attacking everyone but the person being the actual hateful one while proclaiming everyone else to be? I just…

God, how these nasty people can pervert something as innocent as a LEGO fan site I’ll never know.

@ Moggie

I replied to you too, but I think it got stuck in moderation. Sorry! Hope it turns up soon.

I have yet to see a person claiming to be an egalitarian or an equalist do anything but support the anti social justice viewpoint over the social justice viewpoint.

John Kelly goes on TV and tacitly confirms Trump said the “knew what he was signing up for” line, but attacks Rep Wilson for listening to the call (she was an invited friend of the family). He may be one of the adults in the room keeping Trump from starting WW3 but he’s scum too.

@Rhuu:
Of course, the girls side was ‘Girl Guides’ up here rather than ‘Girl Scouts’ as well… (my mother was leader of a Brownie pack, the Girl Guide version of Cub scouts, for several years, having taken it over from the previous woman, who used to refer to the title of the Brownie leader being ‘Brown Owl’ as being appropriate because she could shovel the most, the fastest).

That said, I’ve got the feeling that Scouting in Canada is significantly different from Scouting in the U.S. in some ways. Particularly in that a lot of Scout troops in the U.S. were actively supported by churches, including a lot of them by the Mormon church, which pretty much used the Boy Scouts as their own youth group. Which has led to years of active resistance to letting atheists into the Boy Scouts. There have been court cases about having an Oath to God as part of the Boy Scout initiation.

(Unsurprisingly, as a result of those years of resistance, there are now a lot of people who think that the Boy Scouts aren’t religious/anti-LGBT/fascist enough, and have been setting up their own explicitly religious youth groups modelled on the Scouts, such as ‘Trail Life USA’. Which has been in the news lately affirming that they still refuse to allow girls, or gay boys, or transgender boys… atheists are technically allowed, but only if they swear an oath and are willing to deal with constant conversion attempts.)

I’d feel sorry for John Kelly now that he’s destroyed his reputation and credibility, and publicly eaten Trump’s shit, but . . .

he knew what he was getting into.

“Women were sacred, looked upon with great honor.”

Seriously, dude, we know who you work for.

@Rhuu
We have a separate organization here called Girl Scouts of America. They’re way better because they’re not church affiliated, not homophobic, and allow trans girls. Also their cookies are nom. Except for the gluten free ones. 🙁

@Rhuu
Girls could join the related Venture Scouts, if I recall correctly, but couldn’t join the main organization. (Girl scouts are a completely different organization)

Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, envisioned the group as the first step in developing officers for the British Army. That is the source of many of the traditions which now seem outdated, to say the least. He believed, for example, that an atheist would be insufficiently willing to give his life for his country, because no reward in the afterlife. The Scouts have traditionally excluded gay people and females, because of course you can’t have them in the military.
From my point of view, the Boy Scouts are making changes mainly because the appeal of sex-segregated organizations for teenagers is declining — I hope that they don’t succeed in weakening the Girl Scouts, who seem to be doing many more things right — or at least without being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st Century.

I hope that they don’t succeed in weakening the Girl Scouts

Elam actually mentioned this issue in his article (that girls scouts recruits could now be “poached” by the boy scouts).Too bad his concern isn’t real and he just wanted to write another post about the ebil gynocracy.

@Axecalibur: Middle Name Danger
I’d welcome an Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I’m sure even those aliens wouldn’t be cruel enough to replace Trump with a worse version.