TST has lost those arguments embarrassingly, repeatedly
@satanic_temple_ In addition to doomed, embarrassing legal failures with a legal team who's been sanctioned by courts more often than achieved victories, The Satanic Temple uses money you donate to it to harass and silence critics socialactuality.com/post/schism-th…
@satanic_temple_ TST owners Doug "@LucienGreaves" Misicko and @CevinSoling ("Malcolm Jarry") claim to care SO DEEPLY about free speech they'll devote your resources to protect all of it—even Nazis!
But criticize these two Wikipedia article-having men for what they've said and done? Unforgivable
@satanic_temple_@LucienGreaves@cevinsoling At least the fucks cared enough spell "Dobbs" right this time around, even if The Satanic Temple's lawyer Matt Kezhaya can't be bothered to in his actual court filings
In short, The Satanic Temple is:
- ineffective at what it promises to do
- opaque in regards to its finances
- structured to be internally authoritarian with unaccountable leadership; and
- its two owners have troubling interests that show up in TST's work repeatedly
Usually—and this is not a joke—when people learn more about The Satanic Temple's owners Doug Misicko ("Lucien Greaves") and Cevin Soling ("Malcolm Jarry"), and their business practices, the unprompted comparison folks make is "Scientology"
watch later tonite when Doug Misicko gets off of (on?) Snapchat, a new reply guy with 0 followers will show up but COINCIDENTALLY have all of the same concerns as @LucienGreaves fussing at us or some Church of Satan people or whatever
there is an awful lot to object to about The Satanic Temple, sure
but you'd be right to bet the good people of Fort Dodge, Iowa, did not care about any of those things
to be clear, since it wasn't in the tweet last nite, the local government isn't doing anything untoward here by appointing a former council member to fill a recent vacancy
if Andy Fritz is still Catholic, maybe no one even shows up to this meeting
You know, one of these days, a fucking journalist is gonna have to go one level deeper than "do they actually worship the devil tho?" or "but how do their press releases describe them?"
Tim Brinkhof, the next time you're name searching, consider doing less "wondering" and a but more minimal follow-up to answer these answerable fucking musings in your article the.satanic.wiki/index.php?titl…