#Truth #Democracy, #justice & #respect vs. #TrumpVirus / #GQP #cult #Tribalism + #media & #Musk/Vlad #Disinformation Op$
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#tribalism
What If We're ALL Partially Right? (w/Stephanie Lepp)
https://piped.video/watch?v=H-pM4TseCjI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-pM4TseCjI
"No comment at this time"... beyond, "but of course this is the #cult #TrumpVirus narrative:
MAGA Narratives about the Trump Assassination Attempt
Blaming the terrible violence on "fascists" who call Trump an authoritarian
#GQP #disinformation #narrative #DoubleSpeak #tribalism #evil #mythology #truth #MAGAts #delusion #cognitive
Nicole Wallace delivers some Truth in the shadow of continuing TrumpVirus challenges, on this IndependenceDay 2024
BREAKING: The media is finally acknowledging how dangerous Donald Trump and Project 2025 really are. Nicole Wallace just provided the clearest explanation and warning. "Retweet so all Americans see this." _
Happy #IndependenceDay! Don't squander it! Fight the #disinformation with #truth
A clear statement on the looming danger of #TrumpVirus / #GQP #tribalism.
And a sober assessment of how #media has been mostly mute about the magnitude ofthe known dangers and disasters, guaranteed by Lord Stable Genius of #AllTheBestWords - & #GQP #cult of MAGA / Q / Fox & Fiends grifting & profiteering "like never before."
A quotation from Russell, Bertrand
Well, it is part of our emotional apparatus that we are liable to both love and hate, and we like to exercise them. We love our compatriots and we hate foreigners. Of course, we love our compatriots only when we’re thinking of foreigners. When we’ve forgotten foreigners, we don’t love them so much.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Interview by Woodrow Wyatt, BBC TV (1959)
#quote #quotes #quotation #foreigners #hate #humannature #love #othering #tribalism #UsVersusThem
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/65824/
Social Media Capitalism is DESTROYING Your Mind
“We are not medieval peasants begging at the court of King Zuckerberg. We are the free citizens of democracy"
#capitalism #tribalism #social #socialmedia #diaspora #facebook #twitter #ddn
You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Malcolm X (1925-1965) American revolutionary, religious leader [b. Malcolm Little]
“Prospects for Freedom in 1965,” speech, New York (7 Jan 1965)
#quote #quotes #quotation #blindness #facereality #hypocrisy #ideology #integrity #meme #patriotism #tribalism #willfulignorance #wrong
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/malcolm-x/31545/
Sounds a bit like some we know who reference the #TrumpVirus (hate-lies-division-anti-truth-voting-education) - and #tribalism -
I sure hope Lincoln Project (ex-Republicans, strong anti-fascists) call to action & the optimistic comments ring true, and happen.
There are more of us than there are of them. We will win.
IF we unite against the true "enemy" of democracy, the entire package: disinformation, cult messaging, tribalism, & criminality...
#accountability #truth #midterms2022 #vote #democracy #MakeAmericaSaneAgain #sedition #disinformation
What happens when conspiracy theories become the coin of politics, and mainstream media and educational institutions are discredited, is that citizens no longer have a common reality that can serve as background for democratic deliberation. In such a situation, citizens have no choice but to look for markers to follow other than truth or reliability. What happens in such cases, as we see across the world, is that citizens look to politics for tribal identifications, for addressing personal grievances, and for entertainment. When news becomes sports, the strongman achieves a certain measure of popularity. Fascist politics transforms the news from a conduit of information and reasoned debate into a spectacle with the strongman as the star.
Jason Stanley (b. 1969) American philosopher, epistemologist, academic
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, ch. 4 (2018)
#quote #quotation #conspiracy-theory #fascism #identity #information #journalism-fourth-estate #politics #spectacle #stardom #tribalism #truth
More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/stanley-jason/54559/
Another day of surreal shock in Russia as well as Ukraine. And another illustration by my very talented friend in Moscow.
I can't say I can 100% interpret the meaning/symbolism, but for sure it reflects the division/tribalism which is the fuel for hate, war, etc. And the spoon-feeding of it via "the media". They, they, they... "those people"... "Why can't we just get along?"
#Ukraine #Russia #invasion #reflections #cartoon #war #tribalism
Quit Calling #BillGates a Liberal • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2020/06/13/bill-gates-not-a-liberal/ ䷉ #Techrights #tribalism #oligarchy #robbery | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2020/06/13/bill-gates-not-a-liberal/
A glimpse of Catalan supremacism. Quim Torra, former president of Catalonia, was a Catalan supremacist who regarded non-Catalan Spaniards as racially inferior beasts.
#España #Spain #Catalonia #Cataluña #tribalism #supremacism
A quotation by Gordon, Peter E.
[Fascism] imagines the masses not as a pluralistic citizenry but as a primal horde whose power can be awakened by playing upon atavistic feelings of hatred and belonging. Its chosen leader must exhibit strength: his refusal to compromise and readiness to attack are seen as signs of tough-mindedness, while any concern for constitutionality or the rule of law are disdained as signs of weakness. The most powerful myth, however, is that of the embattled collective. Critics are branded as traitors, while those who do not fit the criteria for inclusion are vilified as outsiders, terrorists, and criminals.
Peter E, Gordon (b. 1966) American intellectual historian
“Why Historical Analogy Matters,” New York Review of Books (7 Jan 2020)
#quotation #quote #aggression #belonging #collective #criticism #determination #fascism #hatred #leader #rule-of-law #tribalism
More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/gordon-peter-e/48799/
An observation:
As with the Net at large, there seems to be forms of #tribalism within #diaspora society. For some individuals, the pod from which one posts is a measure of veracity. Does it make any difference to my message if I post through #pluspora or naturalnews.com?