@Codeberg @hexaheximal
Well done!

It looks like the #dotCons are going down the partisan path, with #DogCoinPusher doing the Fox side and BlueSky, the CNN side. Togather they'll continue the old #divideAndRule, bi-partisan model. Toxic. Time to move to federated.

If interested, here's a fediverse icon (and repo) anyone may use (and/or mirror) on Codeberg :) Its more accurate to say Fediverse over Mastodon.

https://git.disroot.org/fediOrigami/fediOrigami

@Codeberg
Well done!

It looks like the #dotCons are going down the partisan path. So DogCoinPusher will do the Fox side and BlueSky will do the CNN side and togather they will continue the old #divideAndRule, bi-partisan model. Toxic. Time to move to federated.

If interested, here's a fediverse icon (and repo) anyone may use (and/or mirror) on Codeberg :) Its more accurate to say Fediverse over Mastodon.

https://git.disroot.org/fediOrigami/fediOrigami

@CyclingJourno@toot.bike @Sc0tty Let's be clear - the Tories like to blame someone else as a way of distracting the public from the dynamics of capitalist inequality and extractivism. 1970s/80s - blame the Unions and flog off pulbic assets, 2010s blame Gordon Brown and impose austerity, 2015 blame Europe, 2021 blame the pandemic, 2022 blame Truss, 2023 - blame the public sector unions & migrants. #DivideAndRule

Normal Island News

Mizzy has taken Meghan Markle's place as gammon enemy no. 1
Mizzy is now to blame for everything bad that happens over the next 12 months

Meghan Markle is understood to be hugely relieved that the media have found a new villain to blame for every problem in society in the form of Mizzy.

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/mizzy-has-taken-meghan-markles-place?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#NormalIslandNews #journalism #RightWingMedia #fascism #DivideAndRule

"Divide and Rule"...a gothic AI diptych, provoked by recent and somewhat unpleasant dreams. 2 May 2023. #Diptych #AIArt #Gothic #Nightmare #DivideAndRule
https://www.instagram.com/p/CrwbFBiIRsx/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

"Divide and Rule"...a gothic AI diptych, provoked by recent and somewhat unpleasant dreams. 2 May 2023. #Diptych #AIArt #Gothic #Nightmare #DivideAndRule
https://www.instagram.com/p/CrwbFBiIRsx/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

We have a Tory Crisis in the UK! https://doubledownnews.squarespace.com/watch/2023/march/17/zarah-sultana-mp-tory-crisis #ToryCrisis #DivideAndRule #TheyreLyingToUs #TheyreLaughingAtUs #FuckTheTories #RefugeesWelcome #AsylumSeekersWelcome

@workingclasshistory
#DivideAndRule:
🇬🇧 export
used everywhere,
used because it works
consistently

The real proponents of any #war are the one's who play both sides.

#Jacobin = CloudFlare.
#HeGetsUs = CloudFlare

Fight!

#divideAndRule #panemetcircenses #cloudFlare #cheatingHumanity

Last post on The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes is about this racist anti-gay divide-and-rule propaganda from page 333: "Thomas Beckford was the richest man in Europe as a direct result of the African people his father enslaved. To the binary judgement of the fence, he was a villain. But lift that definition from his life and you can see a more complex picture: in the gay community, he is celebrated as a hero, an icon."

1. Which "gay community"? Because "the" gay community includes Black descendants of enslaved people who don't "celebrate" Beckford either at all or as a man who inherited his extreme riches from racist enslavement.

2. The reason Beckford might be "celebrated" by "the gay community" is that he was gay, not that he was rich through racist enslavement.

3. Why is Hayes trying to conflate a celebration of gayness with a celebration of riches/racism/enslavement? This is vile racist propaganda on behalf of racist enslavement and the rich inheritors of enslavers, falsely conflated with "gay" "celebration".

4. Hayes is a Cambridge educated communications professional. I find it difficult to believe his repeated propaganda against multiple disprivileged and oppressed social groups in this book isn't as deliberate as it is consistent.

Conclusion: I've posted my reservations about this book. If you want to read The Book of Nick Hayes then this is it, with his personal experiences and opinions of trespass in England, and he expands on these at length, but don't be fooled by that length into believing this is a serious piece of social history or a comprehensive work of any type. That said, populist nature writing is often framed as memoir and this is in the genre, but it also fits into the mould of nature memoir being written by and for posh white men who exclude other perspectives. There are other options available. I'm just saying.

#trespass #TheBookOfTrespass #reading #books #racism #BlackHistory #LGBTHistory #SocialHistory #UK #DivideAndRule

@ijatz_La_Hojita
Yes. More #divideAndRule. They condition the population to react to this sort of banal #identityPolitics so we don't focus on the important stuff — them and their abuses of power.

One thing that has cropped up is that people are claiming that the safety interests of black people and #Queer and #trans people are not aligned.

This is untrue. A request for additional comms functionality is not a safety tool. Black people have also requested Block Party. #missedQuotePost

This is a classic attempt to set minorities against each other promoted by fash using #DivideAndRule

I'm busy right now. Don't @ me.

#DontSpreadHate #AntiRacism

#HonoursSystem
#InstitutionalCorruption
#BritishClassSystem
#CronyCapitalism
#Rewards
#DivideAndRule

#DivideAndRule works, sadly:

"...but it was not until war time that it became the fashion to pat the disfranchised poor white man on the back and tell him after all he was white and that he and the planters had a common object in keeping the white man superior. This virus increased bitterness and relentless hatred, and after the war it became a chief ingredient in the division of the working class"

W. E. B. #DuBois, Black Reconstruction 1860 to 1880

https://www.goodreads.com/user_status/show/568042820

#DivideAndRule works, sadly:

"...but it was not until war time that it became the fashion to pat the disfranchised poor white man on the back and tell him after all he was white and that he and the planters had a common object in keeping the white man superior. This virus increased bitterness and relentless hatred, and after the war it became a chief ingredient in the division of the working class"

W. E. B. #DuBois, Black Reconstruction 1860 to 1880

https://www.goodreads.com/user_status/show/568042820

Just so we’re clear. The government WANT these strikes to happen. #DivideAndRule #r4today #RailStrikes

RT @garyyounge@twitter.com

Just so we're clear about who's responsible: from the people who brought you Liz Truss and COVID parties. "Employers had planned to offer a 10 per cent pay rise over two years to the RMT union, but were blocked by the government." https://www.ft.com/content/f181e88b-777e-4285-902c-55f925213fd8

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/garyyounge/status/1601178616544776194

RT @LuxJude352@twitter.com

Just so we’re clear. The government WANT these strikes to happen. #DivideAndRule #r4today #RailStrikes https://twitter.com/garyyounge/status/1601178616544776194

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LuxJude352/status/1602211118767906817

Oh wow, they are really going with the idea we suggested to split the USA down the middle.

Though we were saying divide east from west, not #theocratic vs #secular.

#roeVsWade #divideAndRule

@Yop
You do realise that fascism is the melding of govt and #bigBusiness, right?

Do please show us a #libertarian on fedi that is trying to gain lucrative billion dollar govt #rents.

Consider looking up #divideAndRule.

@rysiek @s0

#claudiajones #imperialism #divideandrule