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The creationists or the dinosaurs?

I did. I said "dinosaurs and pterosaurs", not plesiosaurs. :p I actually meant more like Mkole Mbembe and Ropen. And that time Matt "If African-Americans Evolved Into Other Americans, Why Are There Still African-Americans?" Powell said that Civil War soldiers killed a pterodactyl...

Mammals didn't evolve from birds. Or even from reptiles, by modern definitions. (Some extinct animals more closely related to mammals than to extant reptiles used to be considered reptiles, but it's those, not mammals, that have been reclassified.) But not even close to from birds; in fact...

Meanwhile, the people who actually have promoting creationism as their primary grift claim that the dinosaurs were on the ark, that behemoth was a sauropod dinosaur, and that all dragon myths were inspired by people seeing live dinosaurs. The dumbest ones even claim dinosaurs and pterosaurs...

That had more to do with a change in how classification itself works than a discovery about birds specifically. Modern taxonomy prefers monophyletic groups; groups defined as including all descendants of a common ancestor. And birds are well within dinosaurs; Velociraptor is more related to...

Who had dinosaur denial on conspiracy bingo?

I also think that, despite also having a once-useful/now-detrimental natural instinct toward seeing patterns that aren't there, humans do have a natural instinct toward skepticism. An instinct that many forms of indoctrination actively suppress.

Just like the ******* morons who claim that the ozone hole, acid rain, and Y2K weren't real problems. They literally use the fact that scrambling to find solutions in time worked as denialism so they can argue against trying to solve current problems.

I don't know, there are so many threads this is relevant to, it mentions enough Republicans that I'm picking this one: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-apostolic-reformation-splc-hate-report-christian-nationalism_n_665f6fdae4b08e32183f25a8

Surprising no one: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-supporters-try-doxx-jurors-violent-threats-conviction-rcna154882

Alito may in fact still be the worst:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/panicked-russia-is-now-telling-reluctant-soldiers-they-will-be-resurrected?ref=home?ref=home

Seems too early to make an election thread so I guess I'll put this here: https://defeatproject2025.org/

They also didn't make any of the mercenaries despite all of them (except Trypticon) being recolors of characters who had toys, so I'm not even sure Hasbro was paying attention to what the show was doing near the end.

Surely you mean "Takr@pa"?