Let's talk about Taylor Swift and the sportsbowl....
#News #Trump #Conspiracies #SuperBowl #TaylorSwift #TheFarRightNeedsToBeSedated
#conspiracies
It's really sad to see that Neil Oliver is a liar. His history documentaries really were very good indeed.
On the other hand, it's interesting to see how the BBC's impartiality rules, flawed though they are, actually do work... e.g. also Andrew Neil is an outstanding interviewer even if he is an arch-Brexiteer. When you force people to shut up about their own stupid opinions and get on with their damn job, it turns out they can be very good at it. And frustrating though it might be to be muzzled like this, the end result is incomparably better for everyone (though Andrew Marr's anti-Boris poem was a thing to behold).
#Climate
#Conspiracies
#PleaseNeilOliverBeAHistorianAgainYouWereActuallyGoodAtThat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kooPJ1bo_w
good points about #conspiracies #psyops #disclosureproject #authority
but seems to me they succumb to the folly they just pointed out, of #misinformation mixing in red herrings with truth, a misdirect, into #aliens.
#humaninnovation could very well have created these interstellar vessels, following on the tech arc from Michael Faraday through to Nikola Tesla (and countless others less well known, less showy).
#interesting light exploration of #officialdom, #reason, #expert, #narrative etc around #covid, as well as around the #ufo / #uap stuff.
nice assertion advocating better toolkit for #epistemology half way through. hurrah for #science and #awareness.
and then it steps up to the next level, speaking about the group that have gone "really rogue". #rogue #beyondblack
and then the usual old stuff about jfk assasination and watergate etc.
#rabbitholes #connections #quiteremarkable
#freespeechsaveslives #censorshipcostslives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgth5ljlEhA
"it's hard to believe other people didn't see it."
"it's so blatantly out there."
#whywegaveupourfreedoms #gooddoctors #DrKatLindley #nursing #nursingcare #criticalcare #urgentcare #administrativemeddling #medical #freedommedicalmovement #nursespeaksout #anotherdoctorspeaksout #anothernursespeaksout #nurses #nursesarethebest #totalitarian #totalitarianism #didntmakesense #storyunfolding #littlelies #logic #hardtobelieveotherpeopledidntseeit #myopia #SoBlatantlyOutThere #ifyoucantreatthereisnoneedforthevaccines #establishedbestpractice #somuchfear #turnOFFtheTV #crisismanagementtraining #fearuncertaintydoubt #followingorders #justfollowingorders #justdoingyourjob #criticalthinking #linearthinking #latteralthinking #challengingstatusquo #hierarchy #autonomy #NHS #USA #privatisationofNHS #backdoorprivatisation #worstoutcomes #changingdefinitions #orwellian #conspiracies #wakeup #bodilyautonomy #doctorautonomy #anxiety #tyrantssayifyouspeakoutagainsttheirtyrannyyouareaterrorist #democracysaysitisyourdemocraticdutytospeakouttopreventtyrants #flashbacks #freedomtradedforelusivesafety #westerncountriesarenaive #fear #allnazishadtodowasmakeyoufearandyougavefreedomaway #pandorasbox #obsoletion #medicineisnotexpensive #forprofithealthcare #apatientcuredisacustomerlost #middlemen #independentdoctors #isolation #bargaining #threats #fakecines #tactics #totalitariantactics #educateyourselvessoyoumayeducateothers #decentralise
her words early in this, remind me of conversations i heard nurses having with each other, when i was in hospital in 2002, where they seemed quite astute to the mask issue, aware of studies, and their own experiences, and the logic, prominently revealing how masks not only dont work to prevent (or even reduce) the spread of disease, but worsen outcomes, and how they were up against it with stupid harmful orders coming from administration, contrary to evidence. this was a long time coming in the crooks' pipeline.
#WeCanStillMendThis
When we have massive corporations owning big corporations, owning medium corporations, owning small corporations, it doesn't take as many conspiritors as a person might imagine to control vast numbers of people and affect significant influence in the world. This is true for many human oganisational structures that rely on a pyramidal hierarchy for order.
#blackrock #vanguard #statestreet #environmentalsocialgovernance #uk #esg #usa #woke #wokeideology #eu #corporatism #conspiracy #schwab #builderberg #worldeconomicforum #wef #bigcorp #biggov #bigtech #usa #elitism #nietzscheanism #control #conspiracies #bigpharma #CCP #un #statecapitalism #collusion #crime #cronycapitalism #globalism #elites #corruption #cfr #harvard #oxford #lse #cityoflondon #manhattan #nyc
How to fix social media
What we need is this one simple trick:
A site that scrapes, collates, and de-dups your friends' posts on every social media site, and then shows you the union of all of those posts as one feed.
This is the only way to break Facebook's back: to allow your friends' transition from one social network's data silo to another to be so gradual and effortless that you don't even notice it happening.
The thing that makes this difficult, of course, is not the coding, but the fact that if you succeed at it in any meaningful way, the sky will blacken with lawyers, and the data silos' spending on technical countermeasures will absolutely smother you.
It is hard, intentionally so, for people to quit a social network because that's where all their friends are and you can't get them all to move at once. But if it were possible for someone to move to a new service in such a way that neither they nor you lose that connection, then the barrier to switching would much lower. The services would have to compete on their merits rather than on your sunk cost.
But by facilitating this, not only would you be in violation of the terms of service of every site, you'd also be posing an existential threat to almost every aspect of their business model. They live for the lock-in. Touch that in a way that actually turns the Eye of Sauron upon you, and it won't go well.
Many of you are already bouncing up and down in your eagerness to go into the weeds with designs of how this could work at a technical level, but -- stop. It's a Small Matter of Programming, and that part doesn't matter at all. Unless you have a plan that solves "lawyers and countermeasures" problem, there's no point. You're looking for your keys where the light is good instead of where you dropped them.
So yeah, I said that step 2 is "and then a miracle occurs". This project is absolutely impossible. It will never happen, and social media cannot be fixed. Surprise!
But that step 2 miracle does have a name, and it is "antitrust legislation". It needs to be illegal for these companies to monopolize and lock in your data. It needs to be illegal for their TOS to prevent entry into the market of the kind of inventions that I'm talking about here. Interoperability and federation would need to be a legal mandate.
Anyway, good luck with that.
Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
#bigbrother #computers #conspiracies #corporations #doomed #firstperson #security #www
Cheese Heist
No, not that one. A new one.A sophisticated heist in the Netherlands has dairy farmers there on high alert.
Gerda van Dorp, a Dutch cheese farmer in the town of Fijnaart, in the south of the country, woke up on March 29 to a mostly empty cheese storage room. Overnight, unknown thieves had taken from her shelves 161 wheels of cheese, weighing 3,500 pounds, that had taken months to make and mature. [...]
The thieves also stole her trailer and two wheelbarrows from the farm, the police said, presumably to transport the cheese to a bus or a truck.
So the "sophisticated heist" is... they broke in and stole her trailer, wheelbarrows, and cheese. Sophisticated, indeed! Advanced Persistent Threat! Probably a State Actor!
Selling the cheese inside the Netherlands might be difficult. Every wheel of cheese has its own serial number, and farms add their logos to it as well to indicate where it was made -- and to make the products easily traced. [...]
Italy's precious Parmesan cheese is a frequent target, including a daring nighttime heist of 25,000 pounds in 2018. [...] Wisconsin has its own issues with what one cheese seller dubbed "cheese pirates." In 2016, someone made off with more than 20,000 pounds of cheese, valued at more than $46,000, when an unmarked trailer was stolen from a parking lot in Oak Creek.
Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
Following the money
One thing that has long baffled me about our ongoing global clusterfuck has been the push to just pretend that it's not happening. Who benefits financially from that?
I think the answer is, commercial landlords and hotel financiers.
Backing up:
I don't think that the dropping of all mitigation measures happened just because "people" are "over it". I don't think it's some spontaneous groundswell. People have been given permission to say they're "over it", by misinformation campaigns that have been inflicted upon them.
Random individuals may be driven by infantile short-sightedness, but they are being encouraged in this by businesses, governments and state actors; they are being given cover to just pretend that it's not happening. Businesses are legendarily short-sighted, rarely able to see past the end of the quarter, but more than two years into this, shouldn't they have seen some patterns emerge? Even from the point of view of Capitalism Red in Tooth and Claw, how is it in their interest to have their employees dying by the thousands? To have them become saddled with life-long disabilities that will impact work and jack up the companies' own insurance costs for decades to come?
We've got stunts like this, where Maskless Mayor Breed gathers together a Rogue's Gallery of the world's worst businesses and pressures them into forcing their employees back into their cars and cubicles:
By committing to San Francisco, these businesses and many more are investing in this city and the people who live and work here. We are excited to welcome people back to downtown to work, dine, and experience our arts and culture. March is a new chapter for SF!
Which, due to character limits, she followed up with a second twit containing nothing but a list of the various companies' twitter handles. Ideally she'd be forced to wear their logos on her blazer like a NASCAR jacket, but she probably wouldn't even be embarrassed by that. Scarlet letter my ass.
tbreisacher: If the @SFPride parade was a tweet:
London Breed:
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>> @BankofAmerica @BlackRock @sffed @FibroGenInc @GapInc @warriors @Google @HOKNetwork @Invitae @jpmorganchase @Meta @salesforce @united @Kilroyrealty @Mastercard @Microsoft @Orrick @SFGiants @SFSymphony @SPUR_Urbanist @Uber @usfca @Visa @WellsFargo
If a CEO wanted their employees back in the office for whatever reason (they think they're more productive, more controllable, whatever) they would just DO it. they don't need permission. They don't need the mayor campaigning for it. It's literally their call, and theirs alone. So why is the mayor campaigning for this? On whose behalf? We know it's not the CEOs, those are the targets of the campaign.
Part of the party line on this has been about the financial pain suffered by other downtown businesses, so is this on behalf of the hot dog cart on the corner? The food truck, the pizzeria, the upscale lunchtime businessman steakhouse?
No. Those businesses have no lobbying muscle at all. And more to the point, the various mayors and governors gave zero fucks about those businesses during the decades when the tech companies were building their own "free" cafeterias and restaurants directly into their office towers. Those companies did the math and figured out that if they served their employee a $6 meal in-house, they'd get an extra 2 hours work out of them every day. And all they had to do was shank that hot dog cart, that food truck, that pizzeria. The mayor gave zero fucks while that was happening.
So who's left?
Commercial landlords. They see the spectre of the Googles of the world deciding that they need half as much floor space, and strong-arming their way into smaller leases, or just defaulting on it and daring them to fight it out in court. "We're Google, what are you gonna do?"
I think that those are the donors on whose behalf Breed is lobbying. That's why she wants us to believe the pandemic is over. So that when the CEOs tell everyone to get back to work, to justify those downtown tower leases, that the drones don't just quit. She, and the landlords, require the consent of the abused.
Notably, it will not be the employees of the commercial real-estate holding companies whose lives will be put at risk by these back-to-the-cubicle policies.
Who else, though? Here's another clue:
Breed is currently on a corporate-funded tour of the Great Houses of Europe, glad-handing movers and shakers in the capital cities, putting on her dog-and-pony show about how San Francisco is still a great tourist destination. Hitting all the talking points countering the Fox News stories about blood in the streets, telling everyone the Tenderloin is still a safe and welcoming place for High End Retail.
So who benefits from that? Which lobbyists will be pulling those strings? Airlines, obviously, but more importantly, hotel financiers, and the money-laundering oligarchs who love them.
As we learned from Scooby Doo, Donald Trump and Lex Luthor, it's always a real estate scam.
Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
#uncategorized #bigbrother #conspiracies #corporations #doomed #firstperson #plague #sf
Cheese Caves
This cheese is not a cheese of honor.
No highly esteemed cheese is commemorated here.
No valued cheese is here.
What cheese is here is dangerous and repulsive to us.
Cheese Caves and Food Surpluses: Why the U.S. Government currently stores 1.4 billion lbs of cheese:
Hundreds of feet below the ground in Missouri, there are hundreds of thousands of pounds of American cheese. Deep in converted limestone mines, caves kept perfectly at 36 degrees Fahrenheit store stockpiles of government-owned cheese comprising the country's 1.4 billion pounds of surplus cheese. [...]
The government set a new policy to subsidize dairy, providing two billion dollars to the industry over the next four years. While this plan was welcome to dairy farmers, it also primed them for overproduction.
Farmers who had been struggling were motivated to produce as much dairy as they could, knowing that whatever was not sold on the market could likely be purchased by the government, and it was. By the early 1980s, the government owned over 500 million pounds of cheese. The reason the dairy product was converted to cheese was because it has a longer shelf life than other dairy products as the government searched for solutions to the problem it had created. [...]
Though demand is declining, production is not. It has risen 13% since 2010. In 2016, the American dairy industry dumped a whopping 43 million gallons of milk into fields, animal feed, and anaerobic lagoons. Though this waste is staggering, it is also not representative of the size of the surpluses being run by dairy farms. The dairy industry received 43 billion and 36.3 billion dollars in 2016 and 2017, respectively, from the federal government. In 2018, 42% of revenue for U.S. dairy producers came from some kind of government support.
Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
Hacker Takes Over Numbers Station For Rickrolls And Memes
Buzzer is a Russian military station currently haunted by radio pirates:
Mysterious Russian shortwave radio station UVB-76, known as The Buzzer, normally broadcasts nothing but indecipherable beeps and numbers. But recently it has started to take music requests and post memes, after hackers seemingly took control of the channel for their own purposes. "Aboba" a voice repeatedly said over the station earlier today, before proceeding to blast Russian rave music.
The Buzzer, a Russian numbers station in use since the Cold War, became a sensation on the internet in the late 2000s thanks to 4Chan, and ever since people have wondered about the channel's origins and purpose. It's been especially good fodder for online creepypasta and paranormal enthusiasts because of the mysterious voices that occasionally read out nonsensical chains of numbers and words.
This week, however, it was home to Guy Fawkes masks, Discord pings, and Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up," as listeners gathered around YouTube streams for The Buzzer to witness the ghostly mashup.
Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
#uncategorized #bigbrother #computers #conspiracies #glitch #madscience #mpegs #music #pranks #retrocomputing #space #zalgo
Scoundrel of the Year
It doesn't matter.
This is the taunt implicit in everything Zuckerberg does at this point in his reign. Here is a man who got unconscionably rich off the worst website that has ever existed, a website that has broken brains on a scale previously unimaginable in human history, and here is his stupendously wack vision for the future -- and everyone is just going to have to deal with it. There are many things to abhor about Mark Zuckerberg and his works, but the fundamental mediocrity of it all -- the lack of vision, the absence of any moral sense or shame, the inability and unwillingness not just to fix but even reckon with the dangerous and ungovernable thing he's made -- is what feels both most egregious and most of this moment. It is embarrassing and not a little enraging to realize that you are subject to the whims of an amoral and incurious capitalist posing as a visionary optimist. It is especially humiliating when the all-bestriding and inevitable figure in question is such a dim, dull nullity.
Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
#uncategorized #bigbrother #computers #conspiracies #corporations #doomed
Let's check in on Sealand, shall we?
Hackers plant card-stealing malware on website that sells baron and duke titles:
> Hackers have taken control of the government site of Sealand, the North Sea micronation, since Oct 12th. People buying Baron or Duke titles have likely been skimmed. Sorry, sirs!
While it declared its independence and sovereignty in the '60s, the principality was never recognized as a formal state by any other UN nation and is considered a media stunt. The principality is primarily known these days for selling nobility titles through its website, a practice used by many other small countries or local governments to raise funds for their local budgets.
Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
#uncategorized #computers #conspiracies #corporations #doomed #pranks #security
When shit hits the fan: QAnon Hero Michael Flynn Secretly Said QAnon Is ‘Total Nonsense’
“I think it’s a disinformation campaign that the CIA created. That’s what I believe. Now, I don’t know that for a fact, but that’s what I think it is. I think it’s a disinformation campaign.”
That Innsmouth Look
One used mass media to promote his barely-disguised virulent racism and horrific visions of humanity subjugated by incomprehensible, formless entities. The other was H. P. Lovecraft.
I wonder what Zuckerberg named his cat, though?
Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
#uncategorized #ab #conspiracies #corporations #doomed #firstperson #tentacles
Fact vs. fake - why don’t we trust science any more?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frCIYEyURV0
' #Overwhelmed by an #excess of #information, how can we, as citizens, sort out #fact from #fiction?'
#dw #documentary #factvsfake #trust #science #sociology #history #historical #deception #knowledge #strategic #ignorance #manufacturing #agnotology #economy #facts #toxicology #plastic #bees #tobacco #climate #conspiracies #truth
Conspiracy theories and mythologies, and the grey areas in between them
lecture notes for Impakt.TV, 5-2021
We need to distinguish conspiracy theories from conspiracy mythologies. Conspiracy theories are speculations backed up by evidence and probability. Conspiracy mythologies are belief systems that construct an alternative reality. However, there is no binary distinction but many grey areas in between the two, as my four examples should demonstrate:
NSA Internet surveillance
The picture shows the poster of the 2009 Hollywood action movie The Echelon Conspiracy. "Echelon" was the name under which the telecommunications surveillance program of the NSA was known since the 1970s. Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the NSA's Internet surveillance four years after the film came out, in 2013.
Before 2013, the near-total surveillance of the Internet through the NSA and befriended agencies was a common conspiracy theory among hackers (such as members of Chaos Computer Club), media activists and artists (among others, heath bunting). Pre-Snowden, they were often dismissed as being paranoid.
Through Snowden, it became known that the reality of NSA/Five Eyes Internet surveillance was rather worse than in the pre-2013 conspiracy theories. This is a striking example for the fact that conspiracy theories should not be categorically dismissed and declared invalid on the sole grounds of being conspiracy theories (as Karl Popper and contemporary followers of his philosophy of critical rationalism do).
Abstract Expressionism
The conspiracy theory is: abstract expressionism was supported and financed by the CIA. This is true. Globally traveling exhibitions of American abstract expressionist painting were financed by the CIA in collaboration with private sponsors. The vehicle for this were the CIA front organizations Congress of Cultural Freedom and American Committee for Cultural Freedom. They also published intellectual journals in a whole variety of countries and languages. Abstract expressionism's main evangelist, the art critic Clement Greenberg, was an official member of the American Committee for Cultural Freedom as was the painter Jackson Pollock.
Abstract painting was used as an ideological weapon in the Cold War against Soviet communism and its doctrine of socialist realist arts, to promote the liberalism of the West.
There have been scholarly articles on the CIA's respective activities since the 1970s, but the first comprehensive research effort into the CIA financing of abstract expressionism was Frances Stonor Saunders' 1999 book The Cultural Cold War.
It should be noted that some of the former CIA front organizations were continued by the George Soros Foundation in Eastern Europe after 1990. This brings us to the contemporary conspiracy theories and myths about Soros that are being cultivated and spread by the extreme right, very often mixed with antisemitism.
This is a perfect example for the grey zone between fact and fiction in conspiracy narratives.
Back to proven facts: anyone who would have claimed in the 1950s and 1960s that abstract expressionism was co-financed by the CIA, or in the 1990s and 2000s that the Internet was under total NSA surveillance, would likely have been declared a conspiracy nut. Both are, however, true and factual conspiracies.
Let's look at two conspiracy narratives where fact and mythology are harder to differentiate:
Neoliberalism
"Neoliberalism" can be characterized as both a factual conspiracy and a left-wing conspiracy narrative.
Let me try to untangle this: Originally, neoliberalism was a term coined in the late 1930s by European liberal politicians and strategists after the economic crash of 1929 had brought classical liberalism into an existential crisis.
Unlike today's common understanding of the term, neoliberalism was actually the concept of state-regulated capitalism with social security systems, as opposed to laissez-faire capitalism. Neoliberalism, in this original meaning, also was the economic system of many continental European postwar democracies including Germany and the Netherlands.
There was a factual neoliberal conspiracy, since the main thinkers, politicians and proponents of economic, political and philosophical neoliberalism were, and still are, organized in the Mont Pèlerin Society which got its name from its first meeting on Mont Pèlerin in the Swiss Alps in 1947. The Mont Pèlerin Society included among others the inventor of the word "conspiracy theory", the liberal philosopher Karl Popper, the original coiners of neoliberalism including the German Alexander von Rüstow and the main thinkers of what is nowadays identified with deregulated, globalized capitalism: the economists Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman.
The problem, however, is that Hayek and Friedman initially didn't call themselves neoliberals while the original neoliberals - such as Rüstow and representatives of the German economic school of ordoliberalism - eventually left the Mont Pelerin society because they disagreed with the Hayek school.
Today's left-wing notion of "neoliberalism" as deregulated laissez-faire capitalism factually identifies Hayek's school with neoliberalism. Likely - and this is my own conspiracy theory - this historical misunderstanding comes from a misreading of Michel Foucault's late lectures on neoliberalism. In his lectures, Foucault had correctly, being the historian he was, referred to West German neoliberalism of the post-war period and its ordoliberal concept of "social market economy". Outside Europe, his analysis was related to the radical capitalist reforms fostered by Hayek's school first in Chile under the Pinochet regime, then in British Thatcherism and U.S. Reagonomics of the 1980s. Perhaps, this misreading is also due to the fact that "liberal" in America is generally being (mis)identified with "left-wing politics", so "neoliberal" was chosen to clarify the difference. Eventually, this (mis)understanding of neoliberalism was re-imported by political activists in Europe during the anti-globalization protests of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Cultural Marxism
"Cultural Marxism" as it is being used today goes back to an US American extreme right, antisemitic conspiracy narrative, whose popular contemporary versions are perpetuated by among others Jordan Peterson and Thierry Baudet. It typically blames "Cultural Marxism" for corrupting cultural norms and traces its origins to the Frankfurt School while extending it to contemporary left-wing academic cultural theory, including feminism and postcolonialism. Often, such as in the case of Peterson, it lumps it together with postmodernism, such as in his term of "postmodern neomarxism".
The sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit antisemitism of the original "Cultural Marxism" narrative is related to the fact that the founders of the Frankfurt school were of Jewish origin and went into U.S. American exile during the Third Reich. Blaming the Frankfurt School for "Cultural Marxism" seems to be a particularly American misreading, grounded on the fact that the Frankfurt School called its sociological research "critical theory". In continental Europe, "critical theory" is understood as referring only to the Frankfurt School, while in Anglo-Saxon countries, "critical theory" has become an umbrella term for poststructuralism, cultural studies, feminist studies, postcolonial studies - many or most of which do not refer to the Frankfurt School at all, or only to very minor degrees.
But even more hilariously, the contemporary right-wing rejection of poststructuralism has actually been shared by the Frankfurt School. Its late representative Jürgen Habermas accused the French poststructuralist philosophers Foucault and Derrida of being "neoconservatives" as early as in the 1980s. One could go even farther and rightfully claim that the contemporary political right and the Frankfurt School have more common ground than both would acknowledge, since they share such ideas and tropes as cultural pessimism, rejection of mass and popular culture, critique of alienation and destruction of values in contemporary capitalism. Adorno even appreciated the right-wing thinker Oswald Spengler, sharing his cultural pessimism and occidentalism. Adorno's rejection of black American music, and the language in which he did that, could perfectly resonate with today's white suprematists.
However, there is a kernel of truth in the conspiracy narrative of Cultural Marxism for several reasons:
(1) the Frankfurt School's Marxist sociology focused on culture rather than economy, so it might be called a culturalist school of Marxism;
(2) aside from the Frankfurt School, there actually has been "Cultural Marxism" as a proper school or movement, but just not where today's right-wing conspiracy mythologists think it is: namely in British post-war Marxist cultural studies, of (among others) Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall, and its 1980s follow-up in a school that called itself Cultural Materialism ("materialism" in the sense of Marxist dialectical materialism). But likely, this (literal) school of Cultural Marxism is too little known outside the academic humanities to serve as a scapegoat and grand conspiracy narrative.
(3) lastly, one could argue that the Italian Marxism of Antonio Gramsci and his successors was a "cultural" Marxism since it abandoned the revolution paradigm in favor of obtaining discursive hegemony in society. Gramsci, however, is another unfit scapegoat for today's extreme right, since the so-called "Nouvelle Droite" of Alain de Benoist and Guillaume Faye, its equivalents in the European New Right (such as Armin Mohler and Götz Kubitschek in Germany), and its American equivalent, the "Alt-Right" (of Richard Spencer, Jared Taylor and others), actually adopted Gramsci's hegemony strategy for themselves and could therefore be said to be cultural fascists who use neo-Marxist - respectively: "cultural Marxist" - tactics.
Michael Parenti ~ Democracy for the Few
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