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If you don't feel like watching a two hour video about The Satanic Temple but still want info, I'd recommend this Newsweek article.

If you've already watched it, here are some additional comments regarding this video as provided by QueerSatanic on Reddit (slightly edited for formatting):

On lawsuits

The chilling effect of The Satanic Temple suing Newsweek (and its reporter as an individual) for defamation over the magazine's story in October 2021 can't be overstated.

Everything has been dismissed except for the question of whether TST is a public or private figure (it's almost definitionally a public figure) and whether they were defamed by the article quoting someone about sexual abuse in the Temple; all the other ~20 claims got tossed by the judge.

But as Dead Domain's video showed, it's not like there is a paucity of evidence for the remaining claim, either.

If you want to dig into the court docket for the Newsweek SLAPP, this is the magazine's last filing (1)(2), which TST handwaves away as "Internet hearsay" in their reply.

On bigotry

Dead Domain may have been required to use that “I think it’s OK to hate Jews” clip because it’s the most infamous one and the one that has been addressed publicly at all.

However, the beliefs on eugenics are so much worse, plus the casual racism and the praise of literal fascism. (Examples).

“I went to Italy and got a fascist shirt, and I loved how clean that part of town was” is something that made it into the video, but people still willing to give TST’s owner the benefit of doubt are basically saying they don’t care to learn how bad he actually was at the “young” age of 28, and they don’t need any proof of change other than not hearing those clips anymore.

Fifteen years later at age 43, TST’s owner was still running his website called “Dysgenics . com”

This is part of a trilogy about X-Men by an unapologetically (but slightly covertly) leftist creator.

Cassie Blanton

Red Pen

Second Thought

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l8V4Zm3KCg

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Wt_Pl0jFBHk

Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! announces the winners of the 2024 Izzy Award.

The Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) at Ithaca College has announced that this year’s Izzy Award “for outstanding achievement in independent media” will be shared by nonprofit news outlet In These Times for economic justice stories that centered workers; journalist Mohammed El-Kurd for powerful reporting from Palestine; Lynzy Billing for chronicling the American military’s environmental devastation in Afghanistan; and Trina Reynolds-Tyler and Sarah Conway for their joint investigative series “Missing In Chicago,” which exposed police malpractice.

The Izzy Award is named for I. F. “Izzy” Stone, the dissident journalist who launched I. F. Stone’s Weekly in 1953 and questioned McCarthyism, the Vietnam War, racial injustice, and government deceit. An award ceremony will be scheduled for late April 2024.

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=br3kR4MECnY

Solo Monk

my desperate plea for scientists to give a shit about imperialism

M* Birkholz

Sisyphus 55 (Palestine Children’s Relief Fundraiser)

"Sneako was programmed [to be a bigot]. And the same people who programmed him want to program you."

Featuring the systematic deconstruction of a single horrible social media star with pit stops along the way featuring a ton of other scumbags.

GDF

Red Pen