https://theconversation.com/music-video-controversy-in-nigeria-logos-olori-misreads-a-religious-time-bomb-210743

#CapitalismIsKillingYou #Gimmick: outbreaks of #conflict or even #violence are never far from the surface… hijacked by political #opportunists and #demagogues… unveiled as a tussle to establish “purer” standards… In the elevation of the risqué and the substituting of art with entertainment there is also a blurring of the distinction between the sacred and the profane.

#culturalappropriation

@stevesilberman Did you ever notice, that suspect figures like DeSantis love to play with aggressions/ emotions, lies, fantasies & prejudices, but are completely bare of any useful accomplishments benefitting the American electorate & all Americans?
Con artists ore of no benefit to society.

#TruthWins #TrustWins #HonestyMatters #Demagogues #ConArtists #Inciters #PathologicalLiars

@zazzoo Agree with you! It's a mental issue, fueled by manipulatively suggesting imaginary threats or boosting existing fears in people unable or unwilling to conceive available information through scientifically proven facts, when the information is out there for everyone, but perceived as being too uncomfortable to consume.
As the folie à deux definition already proposes: Groups of people hit with shared psychosis at the end of the day just need to be separated from the source fueling their psychosis.
Or even more simple: The source of their psychosis needs to be separated *from them*.

#Democracy #Misinformation #Disinformation #Demagogues #SharedPsychosis #MassPsychosis

@stworg says that skilled #demagogues lie and then increasingly demand that loyalists embrace the assertion as a show of political support. #Populist demagogues often reframe the world in binary terms, labeling lies and corruption traits of “The #Elites,” and truth and fairness traits of “The People,” so “their lies become a signal of authenticity” to the public and accepting the lies becomes a “signifier of tribal identity,” he said.

In this #culture, there is no room for an #elder, whether that be an elder #statesman, a #wise #sage, or honored elder. In this culture, you only have #value for your #productive life or #reproductive life. Before that and after that, you are a #burden and an unnecessary expense, a drain on #society. Since we have not cultivated a soil where #wisdom can flourish, we have instead a human desert, where the elders among us rise to #power as #ideologues, #demagogues, #fools, and #puerile #bullies.

It’s not that these voters couldn’t discern the obvious crowd size difference at Trump’s inauguration.
It’s that their choice was an act of “participatory propaganda,” Lewandowsky said, a way of expressing their support for their champion in the moment.

#Propaganda
#Demagogues

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/11/how-demagogues-wield-social-media/

There appears to be a #symbiotic relationship between #social #media and #demagogues,” said Stephan Lewandowsky, chair of the Department of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Bristol in England.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/11/how-demagogues-wield-social-media/

April 2022
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France votes: ,#Oligarchs, #demagogues and the #media | The #ListeningPost

Over the course of the French presidential election campaign, roughly one-third of voters have said they will back a candidate from the far right - either Ma...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDLC_evyE_4

#FUCKbosses

Keep classy, bloody #covidiots: A mob has forced its way into the editing house of local newspaper L'Est Républicain in #Belfort, Eastern #France.

This is not a coincidence - and yes: attacks on the #media are a strict no-go in a #democracy under the #ruleoflaw.

This is the consequence of #demagogues telling stupid people that #mainstreammedia are reporting #fakenews. This is what idiots stoked up by fascists do.

Keep your grubby fingers off the media, you utter muppets!
#Covid19

How far do #rightwing #demagogues go to deliver their message, damage their political opponents and increase their power?

Look no further than #Norway, where the wife of the minister of justice, #LailaBertheussen, faked attacks on her family and even went as fas as to torch one of her own cars to blame it all on a leftist theater group that dared to support #refugees and criticize rich fat cats for stoking hatred against the weak in need of protection.
#FightTheRight

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/15/partner-of-norwegian-ex-minister-jailed-over-faked-attacks-on-home

A study that has analyzed 35000 tweets shows that #Trump's #Twitter activity has gotten more #toxic and #divisive over the time. This does not come as a surprise: #demagogues and #populists have to increase the doses of their venom continuously to remain relevant for their fans. If they don't, more extreme loudmouth #horrorclowns will pass them, rendering them irrelevant. And what could be worse for the petulant orange manchild than irrelevance?