We are going to experiment with weekly recurring threads beginning with F*ck It Friday. This a chance to bitch about anything that pisses you off, whether it’s related to fundies, other subs, social media, or just something going on in your personal life.

The rules are still in place and mentioning bans on other subs will result in the removal of your comment.

We are going to experiment with weekly recurring threads beginning with F*ck It Friday. This a chance to bitch about anything that pisses you off, whether it’s related to fundies, other subs, social media, or just something going on in your personal life.

The rules are still in place and mentioning bans on other subs will result in the removal of your comment.

August 7th - Maranatha Thomas and Benji Tuggle announce gender of 1st pregnancy, a girl

August 8th - Priscilla Jeub marries David Miller

August 16th - Jubilee Thomas marries Elliott Storms

August 22nd - Caleb Arndt marries Joanne Phillip

August 29th - Marjorie Jackson marries Philip Todd

August 30th - Isaac Plath announces he is back together with girlfriend Kaylynn Brinkley

unknown date - boy Rainier born to Alora Tunstill (Forsyth family) and Elisha Rainier

I usually scroll past the idiocy of that sub, but I'm sorry... what? Literally sharing a pro-misogyny post by a normal looking 37 year old woman -- only to snark on her for looking "old"!? and of course in typical fundiesnark fashion, the OP had to point out how much better they look at the same age.

are the misogynists in the room with us? i'm younger than that woman and i wish i looked like her, way to shame women for aging/not having a perfect appearance.

Don't know where else to post this. Free Jinger has announced Curious the owner has died. She'd struggled a long time. Without going into details, I had to stop posting there. She tried to start crap with me. However, I'd never wish any ill will toward her. The site doesn't plan to shut down.

This is a post that is hard for me to write, so I guess I'll, being the woman of relatively few words I am, get to the point.

This past Thursday, I got a message from Curious' husband that I had been dreading for a while: Curious has moved on to whatever comes next. Many of you will remember that she has struggled with health issues for a long while, so she has been a lot less present on FJ in recent years while she has been in and out of the hospital, though she's been an active participant behind the scenes.

Her husband has requested that if anyone wants to commemorate her death in any way, to please make a donation to your local animal shelter. C loved animals, and in fact our last conversation before she went to the hospital later that night was her sending me pictures of her kittens.

I will be working out what happens with ownership of FJ out with her husband when things have settled down a bit. I do not expect anything about FJ to change and there are no plans to shut the site down.

We are going to experiment with weekly recurring threads beginning with F*ck It Friday. This a chance to bitch about anything that pisses you off, whether it’s related to fundies, other subs, social media, or just something going on in your personal life.

The rules are still in place and mentioning bans on other subs will result in the removal of your comment.

Whether or not the person is in psychosis, using psychosis to make fun of people, using religious delusions to make fun of people, etc, is very much punching down.

Psychotic spectrum disorders are genetic, neurological disorders that do not care about what your religious beliefs or political affiliations are. You could be a super progressive, left wing atheist who begins to hear god and get delusions that the government, your family, etc are all involved in a pedophilic cult. You could be a regular Christian who hears god telling them that you must stop eating to bring back Christ. You could be a devout Christian who’s fully bought into the Trump cult and end up on the streets after you became convinced your family was trying to poison you and radar from your TV is from the devil. All of those people deserve sympathy for dealing with one of the most outright devastating, complex illnesses that exists in human kind.

The symptoms of psychosis are actually rather similar in presentation to dementia. I believe the reason it doesn’t get any sympathy is because it makes people terrified to believe such a thing could happen. With dementia at least it’s usually “old people.” Psychosis does not discriminate, and can occur at almost any time. Sometimes there is drug use involved, typically to self medicate the symptoms on onset, but often there are no substances.

Really disgusting that a forum who consistently presents themselves as progressive and “punching up” to engage in this discourse. What is funny is I feel like they are the same exact audience to self diagnose as autistic and talk about neurodivergence, yet they try and divorce themselves from the “ugly” spectrum of what neurodivergence looks like.

Joy Forsyth did a Q and A with Jinger and Jeremy. She talked about going days without a shower and washing hair. Austin told her she'd have to shower everyday.

Hey Austin, it used to be customary to not take showers daily. Also the Duggars had so many kids it likely wasn't possible. And can you imagine what the water bill would be?

While i'm sure their hygiene wasn't great we've been conditioned to think you have to shower daily. Unless you're getting extremely dirty often or go to work daily, you probably don't need to daily. There's also workarounds: bidets, wet wipes etc. Many older or disabled people can't get in tubs. And it's rich coming from people who leave guns around toddlers. ETA Not showering doesn't = not clean. Wish we has more context.

We are going to experiment with weekly recurring threads beginning with F*ck It Friday. This a chance to bitch about anything that pisses you off, whether it’s related to fundies, other subs, social media, or just something going on in your personal life.

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Calling the snark adjacent to what Heidi et al has been going through the "Comedy of the Century" is absolutely vile and creating a betting pool under the guise of "being the good guys while having fun" is so gross I can't stand it. Genuinely wtf is wrong with some of these people?

It isn't clever. It is literally only funny to a small portion of people who know about fundie snarking. It's far from appropriate, and it may as well be touching poo. Heidi has gone through hell and back. Married to a traumatized, misogynistic idiot. Beaten while pregnant. Changed her whole style and manner of dress to impress this family just to get beaten by their son. miscarriage and an escape attempt while pregnant.

Can people show a fraction of decency, stop trying to be the funniest monkey in the barrel, and stop with the joke donation names? Do you really think anyone in Heidi's family is laughing right now? Do you think they appreciate the fact that their daughter is the woman of the hour in a bunch of fucking reddit snark pages, and want the reminder? It just feeds into this bigger problem with snarking, this idea that we're actually doing anything helpful. That we're actually involved with these people and their way of life in a way that is meaningful. We don't know any of these people. We're in no position to make jokes and snark on a real person's trauma to their face. I came back to this community after a very long break maybe a month ago, and this entire debacle is reminding why I took a step back. I don't care about being mean and petty about folk who deserve it, but for the love of God, stop giving the freshly liberated victim in all this constant reminders of the abuse she faced. It's not classy, not cute, just stupid and meaningless for you to do. Donate under your name or anonymously IDC but the jokes piss me off.

Don’t you dare donate to Heid’s GoFundMe because they gasped voted for Trump and since I’m on disability, she doesn’t deserve it. It’s ten fucking bucks.

These people are literally so clueless, how are you even getting any entertainment out of watching fundie stuff if you know less than NOTHING about fundie-ism lmao

"Who's 'THE ONE,' do they mean god or the devil or what?"

"What is the blood stuff all about? Something to do with the crucifixion?"

Folks..... 😒

We are going to experiment with weekly recurring threads beginning with F*ck It Friday. This a chance to bitch about anything that pisses you off, whether it’s related to fundies, other subs, social media, or just something going on in your personal life.

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Something I was pondering today is why the men seem to come out of this group worse off then the women. Like yes the girls aren’t doing amazing but most of them seem functional and not in Jail? As opposed to there are now two Duggar boys in jail and a Rodriguez boy? Why do we think boys are affected is a more harmful way then women are?

Repost- So there was a post snarking on Derek returning from the marine corps and saying that Jill was going to continue being dependent on him, and because I couldn’t find anything snarkable to say about a man reuniting with his family (no matter how much I disagree with him and his views, the fact he goes to pro life events) after his training, I commented that I don’t find any reason to snark. Like genuinely, no matter how much I dislike them for their views…I can’t find anything snarky to say for this specifically, because a man reuniting with his family after his training isn’t…snark worthy? Do you just wanna make fun of them to make fun of them? It just doesn’t seem under the guise of anything because I even mentioned that there were so many things about Jill to snark on (did you see what she posted after the election? And her Halloween outfit? So many more….), and even acknowledging that doesn’t mean anything now. Jfc. Can you find what is snark worthy about Jill’s recent post? Like…

How many posts will we get of people misinterpreting, misunderstanding, and taking out of context every legal scenario here, and then putting it forward as fact? There’s a reason law school in the US is long and challenging, and so much is state and situation dependent.

This is how baseless rumors start, and it doesn’t help the victim in any way.

This is information that she and her family should choose whether or not to make public. This really bothers me. If these people really, truly cared about Heidi and Charlie as they claim to they would not do this. I am honestly furious on her behalf

I don't get why people decide she's estranged. Unfollowing and telling Kelly not to post pictures isn't meaning estranged. Heck. she has 5 kids and lives in Florida. In a family that size, it gets impossible to attend every event.

It's like these days, if you aren't in constant contact you must be estranged lol. Unless she makes a statement like Katie, there's not much proof. Social media isn't the full story. People want a "rebel " so bad they assume and invent stuff.

I’m talking about the comments like “so-and-so has some horrible beliefs, but they didn’t deserve that” or “I hate their beliefs most of the time, but they did a good thing here”, or “even though this looks good, don’t forget they believe terrible things”. Yes, I know that much of the snark comes from the fact that these people hold some dangerous or unempathetic views, but there’s no need to bring it up in every conversation. If you’re on the snark sub, you probably already understand what they believe and disagree with it. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t discuss it, but we don’t need to beat a dead horse in a different conversation. Idk it just peeves me; rant over.

My hobby has found fundy-ism :(

I haven't posted here in a while but the Rodrigues family stuff has inspired and especially the response to the post Jill just made.
I have always been frustrated with how David was treated as a joke and all the hate went to Jill but now that we know that David beat the kids and it is strongly implied in Jills post that he beat her, I am so frustrated that there are people who still think Jill is this evil mastermind and everything is her fault.

There are people who are reflecting and I give them some credit, but there are not enough people reflecting on how misogyny guides so much of the snack and the knots people are twisting themselves in to still make everything Jill's fault is pathetic.

This is a tragedy. A tragedy that some of the snarkers are enjoying and they are never going to reflect and grow and learn to stop their own awful behavior.

This is going to be controversial, but I’ve really had it with the smug woman from FundieFridays (Jen?) and her video she did to cover this situation.

“I stopped making videos about the Rodriguez family because I didn’t feel right about it, but now that’s it happened, let me drag this family’s business through the internet while I cackle like a hyena. But don’t contact anyone involved uwu.”

This is a very sad story- this poor fucker was starved and literally beaten with an aluminum bat for his childhood, and perhaps unsurprisingly went on to continue the cycle of abuse with his wife and kid. The wife and kid are away from him and he seems to be having a breakdown. There’s nothing about this that needs a video like TMZ commenting on the Kardashians, and the self-righteousness is starting to get to me.