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posted by Fnord666 on Monday January 15 2018, @03:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the my-house-my-rules dept.

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

The Satanic Temple, an activist group based in Salem, Massachusetts, is threatening to sue Twitter for religious discrimination after one of its co-founders had his Twitter account permanently suspended.

Lucien Greaves, the Satanic Temple's co-founder and spokesman, said his Twitter account was permanently suspended without any notice after he asked his followers to report a tweet that called for the Satanic Temple to be burned down.

"We're talking to lawyers today," Greaves said Friday about whether he planned to take legal action.

Source: http://www.newsweek.com/satanic-temple-threatens-sue-twitter-over-religious-discrimination-780148


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday January 15 2018, @06:38PM (7 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday January 15 2018, @06:38PM (#622658)

    > BTW, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOD! Sky fairy, underground fairy, or otherwise.

    Shhhh !
    It's cheaper to let people go to some big building to assuage their fears, and perpetuate their peaceful delusions of talking to some omnipotent being, than to deal with the damage the worst ones do cause when they don't.
    As long as people are not coerced or robbed, and the brainwashing is towards peaceful self-slavery, let them be. Except for drug companies and mental health doctors, who would benefit from proper logical cynicism replacing our traditional coping mecanism?

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @06:48PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @06:48PM (#622661)

    I'd say we're reaching diminishing returns on that strategy of "if one fourth of Americans are Retarded, let them be!" The retards have learned politics and it's not pretty one effing bit. One fourth of the populace is no insignificant amount. Gee that's about where the current presidential approval polls sit at. hmm...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @09:18PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @09:18PM (#622740)

      I'd say we're reaching diminishing returns on that strategy of "if one fourth of Americans are Retarded, let them be!"

      Concur.

      I've got my rifle and spool of razor wire... when does the roundup begin? </sarcasm>

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Bot on Monday January 15 2018, @07:33PM (4 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Monday January 15 2018, @07:33PM (#622678) Journal

    > religious people are so because fear of death or loneliness

    let us examine a dual sentence

    > atheists are so because it enables them to act in immoral ways

    Do you spot the fallacy?

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    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday January 15 2018, @07:40PM (3 children)

      by bob_super (1357) on Monday January 15 2018, @07:40PM (#622681)

      I spotted a strawman.

      • (Score: 2) by Bot on Monday January 15 2018, @09:27PM (2 children)

        by Bot (3902) on Monday January 15 2018, @09:27PM (#622747) Journal

        well done, you should have spotted two.

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        • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday January 15 2018, @10:53PM (1 child)

          by aristarchus (2645) on Monday January 15 2018, @10:53PM (#622821) Journal

          If you put spots on your strawman, that just signals that is is not real, and therefore ineffective as a scarecrow. I think we are dealing more with a fallacy of ambiguity here, or possibly an argumentum ad ignoratiam advocatus diaboli.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @12:11AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @12:11AM (#622865)

            I know you'd rather speak Greek but it's spelled "ignorantiam".

            Anyway if we don't want no strawman around I vote for post hoc ergo propter hoc.