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The reason so many white supremacists have adopted Crusader symbols for their tattoos and flags is that they view the Crusades as a victory of white European Christians over brown non-Christians. This is just straight-up wrong. This week on Skeptoid:
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The incoherence of the genderqueers finds sublime expression in Masha Gessen’s new piece in the NYT.
Take this total non sequitur passed off as profundity:
“In his Inaugural Address and one of his first executive orders, President Trump asserted that only two sexes exist: male and female, established at conception…
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Jihadist ideology is sweeping the world
While just 5% of civil wars worldwide in 1990 involved jihadist groups, by 2017 it had risen to over 40%.
Never had there been more evidence that the plan is to asset strip America at any cost. This is the dismantling of all environmental protections. They’re creating a permissive environment to rape the environmental landscape.
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