#political
If you're confused about the #global #political situation [it's #leftism. it's #fascism, etc, etc] to a point at which "blue Marxism" is a thing, I've been trying to explain for some time now..................
The situation is accelerating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
#Accelerationism is a range of revolutionary and reactionary ideas in left-wing and right-wing ideologies that call for the drastic intensification of capitalist growth, technological change, infrastructure sabotage and other processes of social change to destabilize existing systems and create radical social transformations, otherwise referred to as "acceleration".[1][2][3][4] It has been regarded as an ideological spectrum divided into mutually contradictory left-wing and right-wing variants, both of which support the indefinite intensification of capitalism and its structures as well as the conditions for a technological singularity, a hypothetical point in time where technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible.[
This is a #spectacular shift.
Materialized ideology has no name, just as it has no formulatable historical agenda. Which is another way of saying that the history of different ideologies is over.
[Debord]
From my point of view, there can't be "Left Accelerationsim" One can't "push" capitalism to its final phase. That phase can only be reached by firstly, the workers having control of the MOP.
One thing I hadn't noticed until recently was the association of #Marxism with #Gnosticism among some on the Right. This seems contradictory considering that the heretical nature of #Gnostic sects was determined by the Roman Church. The Roman Church doesn't believe in the individual knowledge of God. God can only be arrived at by incantations and through earthly intermediaries. A position which contradicts the teachings of Jesus. As I made case of in recent discussion with one #Trump supporter, #Jesus and his followers were a Theosophist cult, in effect. Therefore levelling such an accusation at #Marxism, might be viewed as incongruous.
https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/112026279928099587 ZhiZhu@newsie.social - @protecttruth
The #NYTimes once published an article saying that #Hitler wasn’t really that bad. He was just using #antisemitism as a way to attract followers & keep them excited about his #political campaign.
The NYTimes more recently published an article saying that #Trump isn’t really that bad. He is just using threats of #violence & #authoritarianism as a way to attract followers & keep them excited about his political campaign.
CBS News analysis: Most Republicans agree with "poisoning the blood" language
That's the headline CBS led with, sort of a buzzy lead...
But I'd say this polling and results presentation is actually quite decent, in attributing the participant pools (all registered voters, and likely Republican voters), and in the effort to get a representative sampling. Nothing much to quibble with though I'm left wondering a bit about the demographics of the respondents (by age, geography, SES, a few other details). Overall, I'd say this is impressive for a news organization, both in the efforts at decent social science and in the clarity of presentation, without over-concluding big 'shockers' or under-considering some of the key determinants. So I applaud it's effort at 'neutrality' or grand conclusions.
Thin-sliced: This seems to mirror other polling and the general observation of how key beliefs are distributed between likely voters.
Beyond that; 1) Things are very close, split nearly in half by party; and 2) That is... Very Interesting
#GQP #TrumpVirus #disinformation #elections #voters #opinions #political #belief
#America vs itself: #Political scientist Francis #Fukuyama on the state of #democracy
January 13, 2024GZERO Staff
"Listen: In this edition of the #GZERO World #podcast, #IanBremmer speaks with Stanford’s Francis Fukuyama about the state of democracy worldwide and here in the US. 2024 will be a pivotal year for democracy, and nowhere more so than here at home. A quarter of Americans believe that the FBI was behind January 6. But as the late New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, “You’re entitled to your own opinions, but you’re not entitled to your own facts.” But today, in America, we cannot agree on basic facts. On this note, Fukuyama joins Bremmer to discuss the global and domestic threats to democracy."
https://www.gzeromedia.com/gzero-world-podcast/america-vs-itself-political-scientist-francis-fukuyama-on-the-state-of-democracy
https://the.ink/p/want-to-save-democracy-watch-less
Want to save democracy? Watch less #cable $news; attend more #town meetings
A conversation with Harvard #political scientist Daniel Ziblatt about how #democracies die — and how a pro-democracy movement could keep ours alive
#ANANDGIRIDHARADAS
JAN 11, 2024
..."you have to get involved with real #organizations, where people are coming together face to face. This can mean #volunteering at your local precinct office of the Democratic Party. It turns out it's a really low bar to get involved. You could very quickly become the leader of the #local precinct office. And then you notice that nobody can meet regularly because they all have kids. So you work to set up a thing where people are sharing childcare duties, and next everyone is thinking about who should be the candidate in the next election.
...
they're voting on whether or not to introduce ranked order voting. And some of the defenders of the status quo said, "Well, I understand the national symbolism of this, but what's wrong in Lexington that really needs this reform?" Which I thought was a very good question to ask. And so people tried to make the case, "Well, if you look at who's running for office, it's all the same people over and over. Maybe if we did this, we'd have different people." So, people are engaged at the local level. And they're downloading white papers from Protect Democracy, and understanding the importance of these institutional reforms, and they can then become engaged on that level too.
That's my best answer: being engaged through real organizations, whether in local electoral politics, unions, church and religious institutions, that are addressing the real concerns of people's everyday lives.
...
There are overwhelming majorities of Americans who do value these institutions and value liberal principles, and value principles of racial equality. I was looking at some survey data on whether or not you think there should be rules, restrictions on where people can live on the basis of race. In the mid-1970s, very high percentages of Americans agreed that there should be. Today, overwhelming percentages of Americans think the opposite, conservative and liberal alike."...
..."If #conservatives put all of our #political eggs in the coming months, blaming most of our country’s problems on Joe #Biden, including #inflation, out-of-control spending, an invasion of illegal aliens through our southern border, war on police leading to more crime and murder in big cities, war on fossil fuel, war on Catholics, war on Evangelicals, etc., etc.— we’ll be at a loss on August 19th when the #Democrat National Convention opens in Chicago and President Biden goes to the camera and microphones and announces he is not running again.
However, he’s going to endorse his dear friend #MichelleObama to be the Democrat #nominee for #President of the United States. The convention hall will go wild applauding, screaming, and yelling for Michelle, and all of our attacks against President Biden will be worth little in the next 77 days."...
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South Korean opposition leader stabbed in the neck | AJ #shorts
This is the moment South Korea's political opposition, Lee Jae-myung, was stabbed in the neck while speaking to reporters. He has been airlifted to hospital ...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #LeeJae-myung #airlifted #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #condition #custody #doctors #hospital #latestnews #leader #neck #newsheadlines #opposition #perpetrator #political #reporters #stabbed #stable #taken
South Korean opposition leader stabbed in the neck | AJ #shorts
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Rami Younis on life in war-time Israel | The Listening Post
Hundreds of Palestinian citizens of Israel have been arrested for social media posts criticising Israel’s assault on Gaza. Rami Younis talks about the clampd...#gaza #warongaza #palestine #palestinian #warzone #surveillance #apartheid #repression #genocide #AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #arabisraeliwar #conflict #documentary #israel #latestnews #middleeast #newsheadlines #Nakba #news #breakingnews #westbank #ramallah #history #politics #political #biden
Rami Younis on life in war-time Israel | The Listening Post
FADING LIGHT
Promoters of the end times.
No conspiracy for mundane power,
but intricately weaving out
underpinnings to prophecies.
Let violence and despair ravage planet Earth,
that those who cynically twist evil and good
may transport to their Heaven,
miraculously escaping payment for
horror and destruction
they have wrought.
Annihilation for their own elevation.
*
*
Sorrow, numbing ice, inconsolable
pain too profound to acknowledge.
Vultures circle, maggots feast.
Jovial parasites
imbibe sacrificial delight,
leer, sneer, snarl, slavering.
Whores so eager for noble
favor
fatten themselves for slaughter.
THE PRINCE
This land is mine.
My own little bailiwick,
my power supreme.
None dare to defy me.
I choose life
or death
or some demeaning inbetween
for any who dwell here.
In love with my own majesty,
beating young virgins
into bloody sacrifice,
gorging on sweet aromas
of burning flesh.
Nothing too grand, too opulent
to venerate my presence,
lofty beneficence
of my rule.
Who has temerity to call me cruel?
Every tragedy I oversee
can be assured of
profound value.
Torment as tribute
to self-acclaimed All Powerful
has its own recompense
and pride.
PRIDES
#poem #political #story
Titania rises on her heels
claps her hands with glee
to see royal rangers clear the field
for her jamboree.
Her noble guests arrive at last.
Grand table’s set to break their fast.
Lavish feast for this ravenous class
to exalt their victory.
The royal band breaks out in waltz
for revelers’ employ.
Nary a note may ring out false.
We’re all here to enjoy
a raucous tribute to our fleet.
So raise your voices, stamp your feet,
privileged as renowned elite
to treat our vanquished as a toy.
To those who watch beyond closed gates
silly revelers at play
feeding the fire of long held hates
this is a different day.
“Fiddle dee dee” partiers bray with scorn,
mocking the starving and care worn.
But soon they’ll rue the day they’ve borne
as their world turns dank and grey.
As a new star ascends over fields and trails,
sparks audacious fete of change.
CONSPIRACY THEORY?
#conspiracy #Israel #war, #political distraction
So, Benjamin Netanyahu was having trouble with his electorate. He'd been redoing the Israeli constitution to support himself, rather than the Israeli people, and people complained, big time. He was unpopular, people were angry with him. Very, very angry.
Suddenly, Hamas managed to do the impossible, they got through the Iron Dome, an impregnable force that had not been successfully protecting Israel for years. They killed people, they took hostages. Suddenly, all of Israel had forgotten Netanyahu's anti-democratic destruction of the constitution and was focused on Gaza and Hamas.
Neat trick, eh?
Well, not really, it's what all the unpopular leaders do. Blame the problem on immigrants, on Gays, on Blacks, on foreigners, or, best case, Hamas.
So, did Netanyahu open the Iron Dome to let Hamas in? And thereby have 1,400 people killed & 200+ taken hostage. I have no idea, but it wouldn't surprise me if he did. The USA started the American Vietnamese War by planting a bomb on one of their own ships and blaming it on the Vietnamese. They started Iraq by lying about 'weapons of mass destruction', a complete fiction. I didn't bother to check what they did to start the war in Afghanistan, but you know how that went, and how it was, ultimately pointless.
So, it wouldn't surprise me if Netanyahu allowed 1,400 Israelis to die so he could once more both become popular and also free up lots more land for Israeli settlers.
Keep an eye out for this one, it will be used to distract you, too.
The President and the Press ~ The Day JFK Warned Us About the Globalists’ “Monolithic and Ruthless Conspiracy” and Their Censorship Regime
https://www.globalresearch.ca/day-jfk-warned-us-about-globalist-monolithic-ruthless-conspiracy-their-censorship-regime/5818226
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfknewspaperpublishers.htm
The US is at a crossroads with its waning #political and #economic #power in this new #geopolitical landscape. #JulianAssange and #EdwardSnowden were targeted by Washington for exposing Western foreign and domestic crimes, they themselves were #censored and charged for various crimes. The #Pulitzer-prize-winning-journalist, #SeymourHersh is also being censored for his reporting on the #US-Norway terrorist attack on #Russia’s #Nord-Stream-gas-pipelines
#president #jfk #johnfkennedy #speech #the-president-and-the-press #27april1961 #press #globalists #monolithic-and-ruthless-conspiracy #censorship #us #cia #secrecy #journalism #truth #freepress #freespeech #freeassange #address-to-the-american-newspaper-publishers-association
Almost 10,000 Finns signed a petition against closing the border with #Russia
A significant part of the signatures were from families who live on both sides of the border. Citizens believe that the authorities’ decision violates the constitution and it is not their fault that they need to #travel to Russia and care for elderly relatives and the graves of their ancestors.
In #Finland
Finnish business also does not see the point in closing borders: Russia had a positive impact on economic growth and tourism.
🇫🇲 But the voice of the common people in NATO is not important - #Helsinki will dutifully carry out the #political course of the “ #master”.
OstashkoNews
The West's governments have access to excellent #intel, #demography, national #statistics, #anthropology & other #info describing the people-groups, cultures & #societies of the #people they have imported into #Western nations.
The West's #governments used #NATO, #UN, #paramilitary & intel agencies to kick proverbial wasp nests in the Middle East, #Africa & South-West #Asia & then opened the West's borders to hostile peoples from antithetical #cultures.
None of the #political, #corporate, #academic, #plutocratic or #aristocratic #elites have been harmed. The #victims have been the peoples of the #West who had little to no say in #geopolitical affairs. The West’s elites are at #war with Western peoples.
#theelite #westerncivilization #thewest #middleeast #islam #uk
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Pushing, always about pushing.
Pushing his weight off me too late,
exhausted, spent, his rage into me,
breaking, bruising, pain and shame
and devastation.
Him, a sudden force, pushing me into that
alley, so near my home I had no thought
of danger. So routine, my walk from the
subway after my work day, even though, late
Fall, well past twilight. I expected just another
evening of my uneventful life since I came to
this city to pursue my career.
I didn’t know the attacker who pushed me
from behind, covered my face with a huge,
hard hand so I wouldn’t scream, or see him,
too close to count on darkness. After,
released to drag myself home, I drank
sloppy mugs of red wine and cried, on my
way to blessed unconsciousness.
The morning alarm brought me back, to
understand my desperate need for
normalcy to push this whole melodramatic
mess out, out, out! Keep moving, one foot
at a time, eyes forward, focused on each
next chore. Somehow my face, my body,
lied for me, kept to my habitual script.
I very much didn’t want to talk about it,
to seek comforting or support. I wanted it
to go away — to never be.
I found a new route home, discovered
along it that I had become hypervigilant
while walking alone through city streets.
This city of strangers that I had hoped
would be my home had become a hostile
place to push away in self defense.
Pushed into an unwanted future where
the test comes up “Pregnant” after those
ugly symptoms could no longer be ignored.
Pushed now to find a way to take care
of my needs, to confront politics, that
whole divisive headache I had believed
not part of my life.
Suddenly I’ve become a victim of
multiple powerful men — the power
of physical force and the power of
unjust law pushed through by cynical,
deceitful misogynists using pumped
up hate to get ahead.
Much as I desperately try to normalize
these agonizing days, weeks, this
nightmare escalates. Those nonignorable
symptoms keep getting more and worse.
Pushed to accept, take in, this unacceptable
situation because these symptoms
seem serious. I have heard of high risk
pregnancies that require constant
monitoring, even sometimes termination
to save the vessel for future use. Surely I
would not be forced to continue having
this thing growing in me if it would kill me.
Barely holding my multiply suffering
body and mind together, I push myself
to take control and get to the closest ER.
Look! I yell into me, trying to center,
to find refuge in rationality. I am a
normal person, leading a narrow,
normal life. These health crisis
professionals will know what to do,
will make everything alright!
I have made it to what I have built up
in my anxious imagination as the blessed
temple of healing. Unfortunately, it is
more like Purgatory — the endless
waiting. I do understand the many more
needy of immediate care. I submerge
my fear and pain in silent singing, measured
breathing, hearing again my father’s wrath
when he had been drinking or sometimes
when he hadn’t but was feeling bitter honestly.
Family, memories, never consoling.
Certainly no one I can call for help or advice
or anything but judgement of an unkind kin.
I had been so happy to get so far away, to
reframe my life to be mine, hopeful with possibilities.
Yes, possibilities unanticipated. So many
sick days out, fallen (failing) performance,
there goes my once so bright, golden
promising job and its perks, like health insurance.
Pushed to realize my life is meaningless
beyond my private sphere. Pushed to understand
that my fragile forming friendships here are
far from strong enough to be burdened with
what has become my Truth.
At long last it is my turn to be seen. I have
become so weak, barely aware of being
lifted onto a gurney, hooked up to a fetal
monitor and IV, prodded, needle poked to
take my blood. The hands and voices are
concerned that the baby is in distress.
“Take it out of me!” I scream, crying snot
and tears and fear and rage. They inject a
fluid to induce labor, ready me to push
at their command.
Finally! It’s out, my nemesis expelled,
pushed from its unwelcome lodging.
I feel only pure exhaustion, running blood.
Fading, I hear from above:
“Yay! We saved the baby.”
Apparently too far gone for further
ministration, I am left with
the agony of life falling out of me. Faintly,
plaintively, I hear a sober retort:
“Yes, we saved this child to live, while it
does, with severe health issues requiring
extensive expensive care. It enters this
tragic life alone, parentless. Who will take
on this responsibility?
Letting the mother choose, to have the
chance to live, maybe have future healthy
children, would have been responsible, and humane.”