Category: irony alert

Social Autopsy founder Candace Owens channels GamerGate in bizarre attack on Zoe Quinn

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date April 20, 2016
149 Comments on Social Autopsy founder Candace Owens channels GamerGate in bizarre attack on Zoe Quinn

It’s always Zoe Quinn’s fault, apparently

So this Social Autopsy debacle is one of the saddest, most surreal spectacles I’ve seen in a long time.

Social Autopsy is, as you may have heard, a spectacularly wrongheaded attempt to fight cyberbullying by posting the personal information of alleged bullies online — that is, in internet lingo, by doxxing them, thus exposing them to the sort of vigilante “justice” that the Internet handles so very, very badly. Social Autopsy planned to assemble a database of 150,000 alleged bullies; how they were to be selected wasn’t altogether clear.

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Is Rey from Star Wars an affront to God and a terrible role model for women?

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date April 18, 2016
171 Comments on Is Rey from Star Wars an affront to God and a terrible role model for women?

Beating up dudes with a stick is not very ladylike, young missy!

So the question on the table for today is: Are asskicking women in action films an affront to “godly, awesome, beautiful, feminine women” and, well, now that you come to mention it, our heavenly Father too?

According to Christian cultural critic Nathan Alberson, the answer is “yes.”

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Memeday: Flat Earthers channel GamerGate in their attacks on Neil deGrasse Tyson

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date April 15, 2016
124 Comments on Memeday: Flat Earthers channel GamerGate in their attacks on Neil deGrasse Tyson

Flat Earthers: Not big fans of Neil deGrasse Tyson

Like a lot of people, I was a bit gobsmacked a couple of months ago when rapper B.O.B. came out as a literal Flat Earther, as in, someone who literally believes that the earth is a disk, not a sphere.

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You’ve heard of “Cuckservatives?” Make way for “Cucknadians”

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date April 13, 2016
96 Comments on You’ve heard of “Cuckservatives?” Make way for “Cucknadians”

Oh, Cucknada!

Language is a living thing. New words are invented every day. Most never make it into the dictionary and fade out once their novelty wears off; a few are embraced by the public and become part of the language. Meanwhile, archaic words drop out of usage and are forgotten by everyone but those who read dictionaries for fun.

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Seems legit: Men’s Rights Redditors outraged by obviously fake Tumblr screenshot

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date April 5, 2016
102 Comments on Seems legit: Men’s Rights Redditors outraged by obviously fake Tumblr screenshot

Men’s Rights Activists spend a remarkable amount of their time getting worked up about things that aren’t real.

They rail against having to register for a draft that doesn’t exist. They complain about the injustice of “women and children first” even though that’s not now, and has never been, standard procedure for evacuating ships, planes or anything else that needs evacuating.

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Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos rejected by internet Nazis, who really do hate gay Jews

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date April 1, 2016
90 Comments on Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos rejected by internet Nazis, who really do hate gay Jews

Breitbart: Whitewashing white supremacists?

The revelation that Breitbart’s star, er, journalist Milo Yiannopoulos apparently relies on dozens of unpaid “interns” to write most of his garbage is rather delicious.

Unfortunately, that bit of news — which doesn’t seem to be an April Fools gag — is drawing attention away from another huge embarrassment for Breitbart, and for Milo himself.

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Anime Nazis turn on Christina Hoff Sommers after she stands up for assaulted reporter

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date March 31, 2016
136 Comments on Anime Nazis turn on Christina Hoff Sommers after she stands up for assaulted reporter

Based mom no more?

You may recall how Christina Hoff Sommers, right-wing think tanker and longtime pseudofeminist, was transformed into the idolized “Based Mom” after she cannily jumped aboard the #GamerGate train and started going to events with noted ethical journalist Milo Yiannopoulos?

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Terrible Trump fans agree: Heidi Cruz is an ugly, crazy, globalist traitor whore

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date March 24, 2016
78 Comments on Terrible Trump fans agree: Heidi Cruz is an ugly, crazy, globalist traitor whore

Beauty and The Donald

So last night the eminently classy Donald J Trump — the “J” stands for “Jesus H Christ what the hell is wrong with you, dude?” — reposted this lovely meme below contrasting his SUPER HOTTTT wife Melania with Heidi Cruz, wife of Ted, a woman who once committed the terrible crime of making a weird face in public.

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Jew-hating Trump-lovers surprisingly OK with Trump’s AIPAC speech

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date March 22, 2016
32 Comments on Jew-hating Trump-lovers surprisingly OK with Trump’s AIPAC speech

Trump, not at AIPAC

So yesterday the Great Orange Hope of the Internet’s Jew-hating white supremacist crowd gave a speech in the belly of the beast — the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, a fiercely pro-Israel lobbying group.

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Gamergaters claim credit for Hulk Hogan’s victory over Gawker, recommend suicide to Gawkerites

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date March 19, 2016
106 Comments on Gamergaters claim credit for Hulk Hogan’s victory over Gawker, recommend suicide to Gawkerites

Hulk Hogan (Gamergate not pictured)

Gawker Media has long been one of Gamergate’s favorite villains, and so it’s hardly surprising to see Gamergaters celebrating Gawker’s legal defeat at the hands of former wrestler and very large human Hulk Hogan.