{"id":145,"date":"2022-01-04T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2022-01-04T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T08:01:00","slug":"the-devil-is-in-the-details-fact-checking-the-satanic-temples-2021-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"The Devil is in the Details: Fact-Checking The Satanic Temple\u2019s 2021 \u201cYear-In-Review\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This week, TST released an \u201cannual report\u201d supposedly reflecting what TST achieved in its past year; much was demonstrably not true.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In this article, let\u2019s take a look at how the Temple describes itself to its own supporters. We\u2019ll spend some time going into the details about what TST claims it has done versus what has actually happened in the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, those end up being two very different things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click image for link to browser version of TST email<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now, because the Temple says<\/em> it\u2019s showing people where their money is going, you can expect to see some TST sycophants to repeat this as if it\u2019s actually true and is an answer to criticism of their lack of transparency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you guess what The Satanic Temple really did though?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They lied. They lied a lot. They lied about very big and important things, they lied about the absolutely tiniest and most pissant of things, and they lied in ways that had to be intentional\u2014but sometimes simultaneously in such a haphazard way that it makes absolutely no sense for them to have lied at all.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cTST knew eventually someone would double-check what year their lawsuits happened or that they actually lost the one they claimed to win, you know what I mean? It was just like.. a power play.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

You want to give them the benefit of the doubt that it was just mere incompetence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, an important thing to realize about the Temple once you\u2019ve been studying their work for a while is that \u201cmalice\u201d and \u201cincompetence\u201d are not actually in tension with one another; The Satanic Temple also gets dates wrong and mischaracterizes their accomplishments in official documents like court filings<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is just who they are, not some Machiavellian masterstroke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So let\u2019s go through this so-called annual report and examine how much demonstrably untrue, misleading, and otherwise unverifiable information The Satanic Temple tries to push onto their \u201cfive hundred thousand members\u201d (by which, as always, they really mean their email-newsletter subscribers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n