Just one. And some letterhead. And a catchy name.
We’ve seen this strategy before: remember Bill Donohue and the Catholic League? He’s got no clout at all with Catholics or anyone else, but he’s got his little office with his fax machine and maybe a secretary (at best), and a willingness to fire off angry press releases, and this translates into invitations to appear on Fox News and donations.
Here’s another one: One Million Moms and Monica Cole. She’s it. The other 999,999 moms don’t seem to do much except echo Monica in annoying emails to their nieces and grandchildren and other hapless relatives. She has a kind of power, though, since she bullied the Hallmark Channel into yanking an ad that featured a lesbian couple.
Hey! I want to be able to bully the Hallmark Channel, too!
So now I’m thinking I ought to falsely claim to be the head of a mighty swarm of angry fanatics. I’ll just need to reserve a domain name and design some stationery and start firing off demanding press releases. I only have to come up with that intimidating title.
Which do you think is scarier? “onemillionatheists.com” or “tentrillionspiders.com”? I can tweak the numbers freely, since they don’t actually mean anything real. Hmm, maybe the arachnidleague.com. Let me know what you think.
one_million_trillion_atheist_spiders.com
WorldsBiggest@one_million_trillion_atheist_spiders.com
Good luck on your mission.
A googolplex of atheist spiders riding dinosaurs.
What!? “Free thought” isn’t scary enough for you? With its trillions of freethinkers thinking freely, it should be enough to scare the bejesus out of ’em.
infinity plus one progressive spiders
“SJWSpiderArmy”!
one million silent majority of vocal spider atheists
Hundreds of ‘pink slime’ local news outlets are distributing algorithmic stories and conservative talking points
arachnidjusticeleague.web. It’ll take a bit to go live though, as all of the usual suspects have been trying to litigate the TLD, rather than follow the normal process in acquiring a TLD.
As for fax, why bother with that when, if you have a modem, it can send and receive fax?
Go with atheistarachnophiles.com, they won’t be sure what to make of it.
You don’t need a fax machine. You don’t even need a modem. All you need is an internet connection and e-mail account, and you can use internet-based fax services and save paper and toxic toner cartridges and all that stuff. Then you can add an “environmentally friendly” line to the Wix-generated, relatively generic webpage that’s loaded with marketing-speak and flywhistles* and links to crank websites like the NAACP, ACLU, FFRF, NARAL, and the Mord/o/r/ris Association for the Advancement of Arthropods (which is NOT A CRANK ORGANIZATION). And fails to disclose who any of the top ten donors are.
Dog whistles don’t matter much to spiders.
Per the Wikipffft:
(Bonus points for mentions of Pharyngula and the Battle of Crackergate at the link.)
Back in ’15, during a similar discussion, I found a pffft report that the CL had
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The present CL’s “about us” page has nothing about membership or budget, and mentions only one staff member (no points for guessing whom).
I thought One Million Moms was actually a very small number of men. So a woman actually is involved.
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Somebody’s gotta make the sammiches.
I would like to suggest ‘OurArachnidOverlords.com’, and I would also like to welcome our leggy arachnid overlords.
I vote for “Atheist Horde”, although “SJWSpiderArmy” would be a close second.
PZ
Alas, once upon a time it would not have been a false claim, we were a mighty horde, keeping our teeth sniny gnawing on trolls. For myself, while plenty angry, and a bit fanatic, I am somewhat less than a mighty swarm. —Sigh—
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Yeah, One Million Mums even if it wasn’t an exaggeration, would represent a whole 0.4% of the electorate.
deathaftersex is scary.
I don’t think that’s what you’re shooting for here, but I’m just spitballing.
Arachnidleague.com? Not arachnidleague.web?
A trillion spiders is plenty creepy…ten trillion might be overkill. :)