They fine-tuned their algorithm to make people angry. For money.
29:10 “-in some ways we live in a world- where truth is eroded- incredibly partisan ideological views of the way that the world works that claim to be representations of truth.”
“Contested narratives” aside, some things are harmful and some things are helpful. Rittenhouse is now saying he supports BLM, but he killed two people on that side of the street. So…what about language driving people to kill that Facebook is making billions off of?
“According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, VDARE, which received $70,000 last year and nearly $2 million in 2019, “regularly publishes articles by white supremacists.” YAL, which received $1.3 million through Donors Trust in 2020, has been affiliated with the white nationalist and the neo-Nazi organization Identity Evropa. The group removed its president after multiple women leveled allegations of sexual assault in January. And another $600,000 went to the New Century Foundation, which SPLC, the Anti-Defamation League, and academics consider a white supremacist group.”
It is all dragging us down into chaos…and that is not a ladder.
When the republican leader said no one elected Biden to be FDR, AOC yelled, “I DID!”
It is completely obvious by now that the republicans are going to try and overthrow democracy and replace it with autocracy. Sadly, the one percent have invested mountains of money in brainwashing the masses, and most Americans do not understand what is going to happen. It is going to happen and the left is not going to submit as the right expects them to.
When Trumpism meets McCarthyism. Capitalism is essentially self-predatory. It builds empires and then inevitably melts down. America is all about NOT self-destructing and that makes the neoliberal right the enemy of democracy. These republican elected officials and media influencers are responsible for tens of thousands of people dying needlessly and that is truth, that is fact. The right is blatantly pushing multiple big lies, shamelessly. America is headed for a civil war. Again, it is obvious to any critical thinker that the right is going to overthrow democracy and impose autocracy. It is happening.
The half of America living in their bubble hear nothing but what Bannon and the fascists want them to hear. The other half is wondering why so many trying to overthrow democracy and install a fascist autocracy are still sitting in the Capitol as elected officials.
The white homeland is being slowly but surely created by the neo-nazis.
All they have to do is not say what they are doing. Not saying anything “racist.”
But they all know exactly what they are doing. And so do we.
“-the FBI warning that domestic white supremacists are now the top threat to Americans.” Gosart consorted with white supremacists- no disputing that. And the entire Republican house except for two, who anti-Trump and will not tell the big lie, voted that it was fine for Gosart to present a video depicting AOC being murdered. We are coming to the end of a long road yet few seem to understand this. People like Steve Bannon, who openly boasts the “Biden regime” is going to be overthrown, understand.
Best news I have had in a long time. God bless Joe Biden. What all the Trumpists and conservatives simply do not understand is the autocrats do what they want to everyone else; they essentially own everyone not an autocrat. Democracies give everyone a voice and make those with power the servants. How can anyone want that one out of a hundred to have control of their life? It is crazy.
The infrastructure bill is not really the Green New Deal…but it is a start.
I keep trying to figure out the difference between those on the right who seem to worship themselves as the center of all things and those on the left who are portraying themselves as the opposite. The problem is I am attempting to stereotype humans as one or the other and of course they are not.
We are, each one of us, a collection of traits and behavior patterns and are driven by various psychological mechanisms turned on and off by different triggers. It is perhaps the gift of God that I began as a nihilist and slowly came out of it simply because I did not want to continue that living death.
The lesson of Christ is that life, consciousness, is an act of sacrifice in which time murders us slowly with each passing second- and we necessarily sacrifice reality and sanity by ignoring mortality. We are all broken on the cross. Terror Management Theory has already been operating for a couple thousand years in the Church. None of us are truly sane because to practice reason and look into the face of oblivion is far beyond what anyone can bear.
In extreme manifestations the right goes Nazi and the left Communist. World War two was the collective expression of these full tilt polar opposites made real.
And now it is America, which had elements of both fascism and socialism during that war, that is in a psychic battle with itself to decide the future of humankind.
7:40 Al thinks he is being funny but it is actually exactly how the Russian disinformation tactic known as “The Firehose Of Falsehood” actually works. Truth just dilutes the effect of the tactic. If people actually see some bits of truth it takes away from the completely false reality and the idea there is no such thing as truth.
36:35 “Thereby proving they ARE a bunch of political hacks.” The highest court in the land…is a red flag that a fascist takeover is likely.
55:30 “If you try and misuse the rules, distort the rules, do things for naked political advantage or damage the country because you think it will bring you advantage, then you’re not going to have an institution that works.” And that is exactly what Moscow Mitch has done to the Senate. The result is opposite of Salus populi suprema lex esto.
“Or… if he loses again, he’ll just try to steal it.”
“The country can’t survive torching the constitution.”
This is what is going to happen and nobody will do anything to stop it. We are headed toward a civil war.
7:00– Coded language. She nailed it. “Underlying all this is the party has been afraid for decades that it is essentially going to be cast as the black party-.”
Teaching the young is really the ultimate power base…and why they went after Socrates. The right seems to eternally play the vengeful Plato in this over two thousand year epic.
Masculinity and sociopathy have much in common. These borderline sociopath politicians are after the ultimate next level psychopath fantasy- Fascism.
“Violence has always been at the heart of patriarchy…we’ve got to deal with the fact that men typically don’t have deep friendships with other men.”
The original Ben-Hur had a very different meeting between the two antagonists at the end of the movie- and a half a century later we can now see a different path. The opposite path is being pushed also:
The kill AOC meme has been a constant for several years. It is one of those things that separates the crazy fascists from the rest of us. The storm is coming.
Sadly, the only possible way to provide a western standard of living to 8 billion people is to build the power stations carbon free on the Moon and then place them in Earth orbit to beam down the energy to run civilization.
If the space shuttle had been designed to continue to send payloads to the Moon with the expendable components replaced piece by piece with reusables in new iterations every few years then by now…
If 11 percent of democrats and 30 percent of republicans say violence will be necessary to “save our country”, let’s take a guess at what that means.
The U.S. male population between the ages of 25 and 64 numbers 84.85 million. We can add outliers or subtract those not likely to fight and come up with 80 to 85 million. In my view the lower number is more likely so let’s call it 80 million. Dividing this in half with democrats on one side and republicans on the other, and speculating only one in one hundred is seriously considering engaging in violence, that infers around 400,000 “true believers” on each side. Going by the poll’s eleven and thirty percent, about 44,000 democrats and 120,000 republicans could be expected to show up and fight. Going by the poll is very misleading concerning democrats though, as they are not the aggressors in this and will understate. It may balance out to roughly equal numbers on both sides. Or…the republicans will have a big advantage in numbers and weapons at the beginning but this will rapidly fade.
Concerning the first civil war, “In July 1861, the two armies were nearly equal in strength with less than 200,000 soldiers on each side-”
I will predict a civil conflict will end quickly with either a democracy still in place or a fascist take-over. Creature comforts drive the masses and profit drives the one percent and any protracted civil conflict puts a stop to both those drivers.
In the event of a civil war, before Martial Law is declared and the military restores order, the better armed republicans are likely to inflict some massive blood-letting in any large clashes. However, to engage in those large clashes they are going to have to go to population centers and this is going to lower republican numbers somewhat and greatly increase democrat numbers. It seems a weird replay of the blitzkrieg with everything depending on how much violence the fascists can generate to effect a quick victory.
Being one of those cursed “libs”, I believe it would end with a democracy. But history gives numerous examples of autocrats taking control and nations descending into squalor and eternal decline or self-destructing. We should all be very afraid of what is happening right now. We are living in what will be one of the most important moments in history for humankind- and most of us do not have a clue about what is actually taking place. This could signal the beginning of the end of our species or the beginning of a post-neoliberal age and a profound change in the human condition.
Ice on the Moon 