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Officials in Maricopa County this week released a detailed rebuttal of the claims the Cyber Ninjas made casting doubt on the validity of ballots. After assessing the Cyber Ninjas' findings, county officials concluded that 76 of their 77 claims were false or misleading.

Meantime, a judge in Arizona's Maricopa County Thursday held the company in contempt and ordered it to pay $50,000 per day in sanctions for failing to provide records related to the so-called audit to the Arizona Republic, according to a report in the Republic.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/07/politics/cyber-ninjas-shutting-down-arizona/index.html

So glad the judge is doing this.

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Nice to get the rest of the story about Auntie Patheos- sounds like they wanted to turn the Atheist channel into Stepford, enforced toothy smile policy and all.

Then again, between the channel getting renamed and the rise of the Nannybot, I guess the writing was on the wall. Glad you guys walked out instead of letting your blogs get co-opted to stroke the goddies egos. Hopefully the rest of the network follows suit; it'd be pretty funny if the whole mess just collapsed because a bunch of puritans couldn't handle a little criticism.

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Everyone bows to Christian outrage, but what we all should be doing is countering with decent people outrage. Why are we always tip toeing around bigots’ feelings. They don’t get to have a seat at the table, not when they don’t recognize the other people at the table are people. Fuck them.

PUT THE STATUE BACK UP!!!!!

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"Apparently, so many people are speaking in tongues in the United States that the devil can’t murder them all."

Why would Lucifer murder any of them? They will arrive on his doorstep soon enough anyway.

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Jan 8, 2022·edited Jan 8, 2022

Wait, didn't they claim that it was actually OBAMA who launched the war on Iraq?

Dammit, if I can have a spreadsheet, please? It's so hard to keep all their lies straight.

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Fuck SubStack.

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Regarding the Girl Defined strawman attack on feminism I wrote a bit on Facebook about the idea that Christians need to be taught to love their husbands and children whereas feminists have abortions.

My husband is my husband because I love him, I didn’t need anyone to teach me to do it. The reason I had children is because I had more love to give. Both husband and children were purposely chosen by this feminist because I already loved them. If you have a husband and children because someone else (God) commanded it, then I could see a need to be taught to love them.

In addition to that I also want to point out that not every feminist has had an abortion and I would argue that the majority of them have children they love. However, feminists see the need for safe, accessible abortions and do not, or ought not to, judge the reasons for them.

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I see more humanity and empathy in Aria's eyes when I don't feel well than in christine boudin's (catholic bigot).

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Jan 8, 2022·edited Jan 8, 2022

Back in FA/Patheos times, I used to read Hemant's posts about Robin Bollocks, but never bothered to watch the accompanying videos. The screenshots kinda told me all I wanted to know about that guy. Although life has taught me no to judge people too quick, life has also taught me to trust my guts. So, today, TA DA!, I watched for the first time “real life” Robin Bollocks on video, and what can I say – I love my guts!

<this is for you, Robin, maybe sb. tells you> I used to think that you looked ridiculous and fake in that “whatever-you-think-that-look-is”. Now, after seeing you on video, I just pity you. And, I can't help it, I pity the people who fall for your unethical act. What a waste.

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