Mark Dice

Early life Shouldice grew up in Union Grove, Wisconsin. His parents were mechanical engineer Charles K. Shouldice and high school teacher Sharon M. Green. Shouldice attended Union Grove High School, and graduated in 1997. During his senior year of high school, Shouldice wrote and published his first book called "Magic Memory" which serves as a manual providing "theories and training techniques... that can significantly improve just about anyone's memory". Shouldice initially attended the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. In 1999, Shouldice moved to Oceanside, California. Shouldice then attended and graduated from California State University, San Marcos with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication in 2004.

Career The Resistance Dice is the founder of a San Diego-based Christian activist group called "The Resistance", described as being "known for its hardline stance on morality". A year later, Dice self-published his web-based writings as The Resistance Manifesto under his John Conner pen name; a 2008 version of the book credited Mark Dice as the author.

In 2007, the San Diego Reader reported that Dice had his own one-hour radio talk show, "Resistance Radio", produced by Genesis Communications Network, broadcasting on Sunday nights. He said he was living in Vista, California, and that he had started a website at www.markdice.com.

In 2008, in response to Starbucks' reintroduction of its original logo (featuring a topless siren), Dice led his group and its 3,000 members in boycotting the coffee chain: "The Starbucks logo has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute […] It's extremely poor taste, and the company might as well call themselves Slutbucks." Starbucks had more than 6,000 locations in 2008.

In June 2008, Dice launched "Operation Inform the Soldiers", an effort to send DVDs, letters, and declassified government documents to U.S. servicemembers in Iraq. Dice hoped these would prove 9/11 conspiracy theories and cause the recipients to "rethink why they’re fighting."

Dice promoted the Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theories, claiming that the 2015 military exercises were preparation for a declaration of martial law in the United States.

2016 Regarding the unrest after the September 2016 killing of Keith Lamont Scott, Dice decried the "black thugs who are rioting over this black thug." Dice called the video from Salads "shameful" and posted a response video in which he showed behind-the-scenes footage from Salads that proved the video was staged.

2017–2019 After the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in February 2018, Dice tweeted a distortion of the events: "Someone tell Generation Z kids that in the event of a school shooting, they should call 911 instead of posting video of it on Snapchat." Student survivors, including Sarah Chadwick, pushed back against Dice's claims; Dice deleted the post and did not respond to media inquiries thereabout.

In May 2018, Dice defended controversial tweets made by American actor Roseanne Barr that have been perceived as being racist, saying "Time to ban monkey bars from all school playgrounds, because they’re 'racist' too, I guess."

In August 2018, after racist tweets by Sarah Jeong were published, Dice called her continued employment at The New York Times an "example […] of liberal hypocrisy".

In September 2019, Dice claimed in a tweet that "Liberals are now celebrating getting AIDS" in response to American hairstylist and television personality Jonathan Van Ness speaking about his HIV diagnosis in The Guardian and The New York Times. Dice's tweet received backlash from Twitter users, including American actress Patricia Arquette, who called Dice a "soulless skin husk" and added that "I will use this stupid and heartless tweet of yours which is devoid of any humanity and use it as a honey trap to see all the fake religious mindless people I can mute and block. Thanks for sweeping them up like trash for me into one pile."

2020–2022 Dice spread false claims of election fraud related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election, resulting in his content on YouTube and Facebook being placed behind content warnings.

In mid-January 2021, Dice equated the storming of the United States Capitol to the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, saying that "By BLM standards, it would be what you call a 'mostly peaceful' protest".

In early March 2021, in response to Burger King UK tweeting "Women belong in the kitchen", Dice replied "Isn't 'Burger King' inherently sexist? Why not 'Burger Royal' for more inclusiveness?" On March 24, 2021, Dice responded to a tweet made by American filmmaker and author Michael Moore referencing the perpetrator of the Boulder shooting by telling him to "Turn off CNN." In late March 2021, Dice alleged that American podcaster Joe Rogan had "lied" about Spotify censoring Rogan's content. Dice also misattributed a quote to Rogan that was actually made by American radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in September 2020 when the Spotify censorship controversy started.

Publishing Books Dice has self-published a number of books. After having written The Resistance Manifesto in 2005,