NoFact #2 Neo-Nazi Intimidates Immigrants in Progress City

Last Monday, a man identified as Sun W Hitguy was spotted in downtown Progress City marching on the side walk. Sun, a white male, was wearing the latest in Nazi fashion the Make America Great Again hat along with a t-shirt with an image of the American flag on it. According to a witness, Libby S. Noflic, the man completely ignored a homeless person asking for change and would nod his head at people of color while smiling at them, causing many of them to be afraid. Another witness, Il E Gal, who the man smiled at in a gross display of white privilege said he felt as if the Neo Nazi was smiling at him as if to say, “Be afraid, you don’t belong here.” He goes on to report that the man even said “Heil O” as he walked past clearly a Neo-Nazi chant.

Citizens in Progress are upset and outraged and many have called the mayor to voice their understandable outrage. NoFact News called the mayor’s office which initially refused to make a statement. Earlier today Mayor Virt U Signal held a press conference where he stated that this kind of hate is not acceptable and “will not be tolerated and does not reflect the community of Progress City. It's not who we are.” Mayor Signal also said he will require the police force to undergo training in how to spot Neo-Nazi’s and work on ways to stem the rising tide of hate that is becoming so normalized in this country.

 

Cod E Benson

NoFact News

NoFact News #1 A Day Without a Gun

A local teenager was suspended for four weeks at Sen C Tiv High School today for threatening gun violence. The student’s name has not been released but the school closed early today and parents were called to come pick up their children several hours after the incident happened. One teacher who wished to remain anonymous told a NoFact reporter that the student was showing a picture on his phone of a photo he had taken of him holding a photo of his grandfather from WWII. In the photo, the student in the picture on his phone is holding, is a soldier in the background with an assault weapon. As a precaution several police officers were called off of important patrols to respond and sit in the parking lot until their shift was over. Governor Oppor T Nistic’s office released a statement saying he applauds the principle’s decision to shut down the school and that citizens should use this incident to start a dialog about how we need to raise awareness of the growing gun problem in schools. He proposes a new tax to fund a program he calls Cash for Crooks where he will take the money to do with as he wants and he hopes that will be a start on solving this crisis. NoFact also spoke with city commissioner Don T Treadonme. Don said “Gov. Nistic’s plan is a clear overreach, I propose a new plan to bring spanking back to schools, giving the teachers the ability to bring the classroom back in line.” Treadonme’s plan would call for a cut to all social services in order to pay for the new training and paddles. Patsy Buck a concerned parent of a student at Sen C Tiv was interviewed while picking up her child from the high school. She said “I blame all the violence on video games, movies, rap music, rock music, Satan, no religion in schools, GMO’s, illegal immigrants, the internet, Facebook, Corporations, Unions, greedy politicians, welfare, gangs, drugs, TV shows, global warming, the war, too much discipline in schools, too much pressure on our kids to succeed, lack of discipline in schools, lack of funding for schools, and of course Bill Cosby.” The local community can breathe a sigh of relief today having narrowly escaped a situation where someone may have had the possibility to be offended or afraid, and is given a chance to address these important issues that we will promptly forget about in the coming days.

 

Cod E Benson

NoFact News reporter

The Church of Social Justice

 

I am going to attempt to explain the Church of Social Justice from an outsider perspective. I am not one of the anointed or even a lay member, instead I am just a fascinated observer.

First off to understand the Church of Social Justice you must understand some of the language they use. Microaggressions are “the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership.”

Trigger Warning “A statement at the start of a piece of writing, video, etc., alerting the reader or viewer to the fact that it contains potentially destressing material (often used to introduce a description of such content).

Safe space “a term for an area or forum where either a marginalized group are not supposed to face standard mainstream stereotypes and marginalization, or in which a shared political or social viewpoint is required to participate in the space.”

Now that the language has been defined we can take a look into the core doctrine of the Church of Social Justice. The core belief of Social Justice is in the Trinity of Equality of Outcome, Identity Politics, and Post Modern Socialism.

This Trinity is the highest belief in the Church and describes member’s world view. Equality of Outcome is something to strive for, the ultimate divine perfection of the world. It means that regardless of anything else the outcome for any endeavor should mirror a society’s population.

For example if a population has 50% men and 50% women any endeavor should be made up of 50% men and 50% women regardless of the talents of the individual. If a specific endeavor does not meet this requirement it falls short of this divine standard and is seen as profane.

Identity Politics is the hierarchy of which the Church is built. It is a ridged structure that separates people into groups based on identity. In this hierarchy certain identities are valued more than others. The people at the top of this hierarchy are viewed as closer to the divine then other members. They are the ones that get to speak directly to the divine Lived Experiences and as such can preach to the lower members of the Church.

It is their duty to educate the people who believe but cannot understand due to their identity as well as perform missionary works. This missionary work include going into places where people are ignorant of Social Justice such as companies, political structures, or any group/organization as well as preaching on the street.

Once they have entered these areas it is the missionary’s job to explain to the heathens how they are in danger from the seven deadly sins of Racism, Sexism, Misogyny, Bigotry, Transphobia, Islamophobia, and Homophobia. They seek to educate these heathens and convert them to the Church of Social Justice through a couple different methods.

First they try to educate people with their claims, which are to be accepted on faith as truth. If that does not work then they try to guilt people into following what they believe by accusing people of perpetuating one or more of the sins. If the person still does not convert then more drastic measure can be taken such as public shaming, forcing people out of an office/position, or lawsuits and mob justice.

Post Modern Socialism is the final piece in the Churches Trinity. This belief within the Church is that your reality is the true reality. That is to say that social constructs such as gender, sexual identity and biological gender are evils built by the Devil (more on the Church of Social Justice Devil later).

This means that everything is in your mind and if you believe it then it is true. This allows people within the Church to break away from the profane ideas of biology and science in favor of the truth of emotions and opinions/Lived Experiences as interpreted by the church.

At times parts of this Trinity clashes with one another and causes a split in the Church. This splitting causes smaller groups to identify as part of a broader Church of Social Justice, much the same way there are different sects of Christianity.

A few of these sects include, Black Lives Matter, Feminism, and the LBGTQIA+. Currently these sects exist together under the broader Church of Social Justice but there may be a time in the future where an ecumenical council is held and a reformation may occur. Although this typically happens once a Church or religious group has gained enough power, the Church of Social Justice prides itself on being the oppressed group, it remains to be seen if this will actually come to pass.

Identity Politics and Post Modernism clash when someone identifies as something else and the Church does not know where in the hierarchy they now belong. This question has not been answered fully by the Church of Social Justice but it will need to be addressed in the future.

The faith of the Church of Social Justice has a Devil included. This Devil comes in the form of White Straight Cis-gendered Male Capitalist Patriarchy. This Devil can be found corrupting every part of the world and unless you adhere to the tenets of the Church of Social Justice then you are corrupted by this Devil.

White Straight Cis-gendered Males are seen as having been created in this Devils image and are inherently evil as well as indoctrinated in believing He isn’t real. The faithful know that the White Straight Cis-gendered Male Capitalist Patriarchy is real and have a real fear and hatred of it.

Reactions to heathens range from an attempt to reeducate and indoctrinate to violently purging them. This can be seen in the University which are the earthly locations of the Church of Social Justice. It is here where the Church elders preach sermons on African-American Studies, Gender Studies, and Feminist studies.

I had the chance to attend one of these sermons while I was in college. It was fascinating how as a white straight cis-gendered male in a women’s literature class that the one time I contributed to the conversation, everyone even the preacher, listened, ignored and moved on as if I did not exist. It was a marvelous example of no platforming, a tactic used to protect the faithful from outsiders by limiting the speech of outsiders as hate speech and thus unholy.

Microaggressions are seen as attacks on members, as bad as the Roman Emperors feeding Christians to lions in the great circus maximus. Like any struggling religion it has picked up a few saints and martyrs along the way.

Michael Brown the Martyr and patron Saint of Hands up Don’t Shoot is believed to be the first person to put his hands in the air against the White Straight Cis-gendered Male Capitalist Patriarchy and was killed for doing so. This started the tradition of adherents raising their hands in the air.

Colin Kaepernick is the Kneeling Saint who refused to accept the empire built by the White Straight Cis-gendered Male Capitalist Patriarchy. Caitlyn Jenner the patron Saint of Transition. These are just a few of the saints and martyrs associated with the Church.

The Church also blesses events and scared texts by performing the blessing of a Trigger Warning. These blessing let the faithful know that despite how bad the following is the Church will be there for them. Members of the Church also consecrate holy ground and call it a Safe Space. People not of the faith or members not holy enough are denied access to these Safe Spaces.

These spaces are used for the Church leaders to escape from the profane world and discus matters concerning the faithful as well as commune with the divine Lived Experiences. The Church has no recognized leader yet but it is ripe for a charismatic passionate faithful leader to come along and guide the Church in the direction it needs to go to achieve the divine order of Equality of Outcome.

This Church, while not a new movement, has certainly gained traction over the past couple years. It grows in popularity and strength and has made headway into the mainstream. From its core belief in the Trinity of Equality of Outcome, Identity Politics, and Post Modernism it seeks to stand as a bulwark against the evil of the White Straight Cis-gendered Male Capitalist Patriarchy.

Its followers bravely stand against the uneducated heathens in massive mobs of righteousness and are converting college students in astounding numbers. Is this Church the next mainstream religion or will it fall to the dust bin of history as many cults before it have? Only time will tell. 

 
 
 
 

 

War for the West

There is a war going on in the west and we are losing. This year has seen a rise in mass protests and a belief in social justice. Students on college campus’ calling for the end of freedom of speech. As well as a rise in totalitarianism. This has not sprung up overnight and is not spontaneous despite what the media would have us think. These movement are deliberately planned and carried out with the full knowledge of those leading these movements.

            I live near Portland Oregon, a city known for being weird, where it is acceptable to be different. That is unless you disagree with the group or the narrative that is being pushed. I see this mentality on the rise in other place in the country. People will take to the street over a lie they were told that is being pushed by the media. “Hands up don’t shoot” or the Mizzou Protests are just two large examples of this happening. The ideas behind these movements is not based in fact but instead works on emotion. They act like a mother bear protecting her cubs, anyone or anything that tries to get close is to be seen as a threat and to be destroyed. If you disagree with Black Lives Matter then you’re a racist. You don’t believe in the wage gap, then you’re a sexist.

            This is nothing new, there have always been people who get offended at anything, and the difference now is that the movement is gaining traction. If you listen to these people, on the surface, they seem compassionate and seem to care for others. In fact they actually view themselves that way. But anything taken to an extreme is going to be bad. Too much compassion for an issue blinds you to the facts. The repeated calls for social justice and the actions taken by those making those calls are alarming. They are alarming because of what is being asked and the fact that people are giving in to those demands. You don’t like the president of the university, just say he hit you with his car and go on a hunger strike, and he will be forced out/resign. You don’t like that an organization has too many white or male employees, start a protest about how they do not care about diversity. There are even calls for ‘safe spaces’ for black people, meaning the same people who will tell you Jim Crowe and segregation was bad, is now acceptable as long as they are in charge.

            That is the point to all of this. They use people’s emotions and empathy to gain power, and if that does not work they switch to shaming. Then if you still refuse, mob social justice. They want to control the conversation and police your life because they, in their wisdom as degree holders who have seen the light, know what is best. If something is too offensive to someone then it should be illegal, if you make too much it should be taken away and given to those who ‘need it more’. If you are part of the wrong group then you are an oppressor, regardless of any actions you may or may not have taken. Instead of personal responsibility they see everything as a group. If people in your group ever did anything wrong in the past then you are responsible for it and reap the benefits of it now. That is why you are successful, not because you worked hard but because you stole it from someone else. This is socialism and totalitarianism. And people are giving in to it. Nowhere is this more evident than on university campuses where the faculty give in, promote, participate, and even celebrate this sort of behavior. The university is where our next generation of leaders are supposed to come from and if this is what the leadership is promoting, than the west is in trouble.

            As a millennial myself, I find that my ideas of free speech and a right to a trial are quickly becoming outdated. Free speech will be censored in the name of stopping hate speech, innocent until proven guilty will be replaced by social justice. Not because of an appeal to facts but because it feels good to do it. Yet with Brexit and the election of Trump I can see a hope that maybe I’m not the only one who is outraged by those who fight for social justice. Maybe I’m not the only one who waits for the facts before making a decision. The very values of western society are under attack and we are losing that battle, but we have not lost yet.

Healthcare for all, and for all a good night

The end of the year is fast approaching and it brings to mind images of Christmas with the family, warm hot cocoa, wrapping up in your favorite blanket, and healthcare. Yes healthcare. With the deadline fast approaching people are not only frantically shopping for presents for their family but are frantically shopping for healthcare. The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) has had a rocky start to say the least, with the website crashing or failing to work properly and personal information being sent to the wrong people. Yet despite all these set backs people have finally been able to get healthcare they need.

One such individual from the Northwest is finally able to get health insurance despite his pre existing condition. He has a rare condition known as Anthropophobia Magnapede, a condition that causes him to be antisocial and very self conscience about his unusually large feet. Yes this person is Bigfoot. Bigfoot, or Sasquatch as he prefers to be called, has been approved for Healthcare. We tried to reach Sasquatch for comments on this but as we got close to him he bounded off into a fog.

This news may come as a surprise to many but we interviewed a few locals who have met with Mr. Sasquatch and one of them had this to say “I think it is great that he can get health insurance, I mean the president did say it was available to everyone.”

Another local said “I can’t believe he got approved, I know he makes a lot of money from the documentaries and the tourist attractions.”

Despite his income and local celebrity it would still be hard for someone with a pre existing condition like his to attain affordable healthcare prior to Obamacare. Now Sasquatch will be able to see a doctor whenever he needs to. He will be able to get care for his feet, which will help him find a full time job. He will be able to get help with his antisocial behavior so he can live a full and healthy life. This story is just one of a vast number of stories in which the Affordable Health Care Act has giving new hope and a second chance for someone who thought they would never get one.

Healthcare should be available to everyone, from the child who has the flu to someone battling cancer, to a lonely figure too embarrassed about his large feet to function in the rest of society. So while we are counting our blessing this years let us all be thankful that we can get the care we all need.

Motivational Monday

Some days it is hard to get out of bed, but Monday always seems like the worst. You have had the last couple days of waking up when you want and doing what you want, and the rest of the week you fall back into your routine of getting up and getting ready for work. We all have a bunch of reasons why we get out of bed on Monday but sometimes none of them seem good enough. Yet week after week we get up and go on with our lives. What are some of the things that make you get out of bed on Monday? The thought of a nice cup of coffee, the sight of a loved one, the smell of a good breakfast.

Most of us get up because we have to go to work. While some of us love our jobs (of which I would not count myself among those lucky few, unless I am getting paid to write then I would) most of us can think of a million other things we would rather do then go to work. I would love to stay home with a hot cup of coffee, a dog snuggled up next to me and write all day, or complete one of the hundred projects I need to get done on or around the house. Yet every Monday I get up 30 minutes before I have to be to work and grab a quick cup of coffee, throw on some clothes and it’s off to work. I have my reasons to work too, one of which is that I like to eat, another is I love a warm, dry place to sleep every night. But we all go to work for money so we can buy the things we need or want.

If you take a step back and really look at why we get out of bed on Monday it boils down to the fact that we want to. We might not want to go into work (though some people love what they do) but we are working toward a goal. We want to provide for ourselves through our labor and skills and be able to reach those goals we set for ourselves. It can be different for everyone, for me I go to work to provide a place for myself, my wife and our two dogs. I get up so I can try to better my life and theirs. These are things I want, this is what pulls my mind out of that warm comfortable unconscious state known as sleep and thrusts my body into action. This is what drives me to put my feet on the cold floor and get ready to go work in a hot factory for 10 hours. This is what I think of every Monday. This is what motivates me each week to punch that clock.

I am not saying I want to punch that clock every Monday, far from it. To be honest my ideal work would be at home writing, and I am working on that (hence what you are reading). Yet right now I need to punch the clock so I can survive until I can thrive. So while I am at work, surviving, I set my mind to other things. What do you want to do? How can I make this story I am working on better? What comes next in the story? How would this character react to this situation? These are questions that are going to help me thrive so I never stop asking them, and I ask them louder on Monday then any other day. So while I loath getting out of the dog pile that is my bed on Monday morning, I do it knowing that I will reach my goals and I will get the life I want and I will thrive.

So what are the questions that you ask yourself while you are surviving that are going to help you thrive? They will come through loudest on Monday so be sure to listen and remember why you get out of bed on Monday morning.

“I need to catch my breath,” Razim said leaning against a wall in an alley. “Do we even know where we are going?” Luna stood in front of Razim her hands on her knees her light green eyes looking between both entryways to the alley. After a moment passed she stood up and straightened her hair, smoothed out her clothes and knocked the dust off her boots. Razim looked at her questioningly trying to figure out what she was doing. Finally he just asked his sister.

“I am trying to look presentable,” Luna said running her fingers through her black hair, “Miekal likes it when I look good and I think he can help us out.”

“No way!” Razim growled, “that scoundrel I don’t know what you see in him. He is such a womanizer and thief. Besides once he finds out we are wanted for killing a member of the council of eight then he’d probably turn us in for the reward they are likely putting on our heads right now.”

Luna shot Razim an angry look and stalked away. Razim shrugged and walked after her slowly. They walked in silence, shifting in and out of the crowd, keeping their hoods up. After a few blocks they entered an alley next to a bar called the Tarnished Spoon. They quickly made their way to the back and took up a position behind some discarded boxes, making sure they weren’t followed.

“Luna can I asks you something?” Razim said not taking his eyes off the street.

“I suppose so.” Luna said shortly, still a little angry at Razim.

“Why did you do it?”

“Do what?”

“You know… Why did you kill him?”

All the color drained from her face as she slowly looked at the ground. A million things flashed through her head in the that instant, the way he smelled, the cold sweaty touch of his palms, and the whizzing way he breathed. It was so vivid to her that she reached her hand up as if she could touch him. She shook her head and closed her eyes, though that did not shut out the image of him, and drew in a deep breath to steady herself.

“Well, Razim,” she said her voice barely above a whisper and tears started forming around her eyes, “I killed him because…” Her voice trailed off as the back door to the Tarnished Spoon slammed open and out stepped a man with light sandy brown hair and a crooked smile on his face. He brown eyes scanned the alley and finally settled on the boxes Razim and Luna were behind.

“Luna dear is that you? No need to be shy, Miekal is here for you.” He stepped down out of the door way into the alley and put his hands on his hips. “Now, lets see that pretty smile of yours!” Miekal said with a slight chuckle as Luna hurried over and threw her arms around his neck. Miekal stood a good foot taller then Luna and moved his arms around her slender waist. Razim stood back by the boxes and glared at the man hugging his sister.