"“but what about separating the #art from the #artist” buddy. listen to me. joanne kathleen #rowling is relevant for one reason and one reason only—she wrote harry potter. that’s why she’s famous. that is the bedrock of her fucking platform. jk rowling is the harry potter lady and harry potter is the jk rowling guy. this is not the same thing as listening to a song on repeat even though the keyboardist was an asshole, or reading a novel by some dude who sucked #ideological shit in the 1800s. jk rowling has a hate platform right now, today, and she sustains it off of harry potter bucks. u will forgive me if i am unwilling to advertise for her"

#terfs #swerfs #radfems #classwar #boycott #antiterf #antiswerf #antiradfems #farright #rightwing #bigots #hypocrites #altright

https://www.tumblr.com/nando161mando/727102970536329216?source=share

Divisions in long-held systems & institutions ... cross-border sympathies & movements ... International alliances not defined by national or social boundaries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6OKVAngLAY

#splintering #divisions #world #ideological #political #belief #government #movement #global

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade7138 #ideological exposure #FB

"It may seem positive that Islam is being discussed by former detractors beyond the prisms of #extremism and #terrorism, but this exchange is part of a growing trend of something more ominous that involves #ideological borrowing in both directions.

The language of the #incel “red pill” #movement has been translated into Arabic, and its #terminology can be found in Arabic #chat rooms and on other #websites.

Conversely, conservative #male pundits in the West are hosting #Muslim voices on their #podcasts and #shows.

And while these #groups have historically been at loggerheads, the overlaps in their values are also clear in their opposition to #feminism and the #antisemitism that is rife in both #communities."

https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-red-pillers-of-islam/

'It’s not just the rulings the #RobertsCourt is making. They created out of [w]hole cloth a bogus, major questions doctrine. They made a mockery of standing. They rewrite laws to fit their #radical #ideological preferences. They have unilaterally blown up the legitimacy of the Court.” -Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute
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"Understanding and combatting #misinformation across 16 countries on six continents" out today in Nature Human Behavior! There have been a huge number of msinfo-related studies in the past 5 or so years, but almost all of them have been US/Western populations. So here we examined the #psychology of #misinformation, and the effectiveness of various #interventions, across 16 countries (total N=34k).

We find:
➤Consistent #cognitive, #social & #ideological predictors of misinfo belief across countries
➤Interventions (accuracy prompts, digital literacy tips, using crowdsourcing to identify misinfo) are all broadly effective across countries

Give it a read and let me know what you think! https://rdcu.be/dfGtT

Wow. This is like a #publisher of #nazi #ideological books being awarded the Nobel Peace prize. #Gita #Press was the publisher of Hindu fundamentalists sympathetic to assassins of Gandhi.

Wow. This is like a #publisher of #nazi #ideological books being awarded the Nobel Peace prize. #Gita #Press was the publisher of Hindu fundamentalists sympathetic to assassins of Gandhi.

While I'm tempted to say let's #nationalize #VIA rail (it kind of already is), the freight operators and the network operators, it's going to be difficult to convince a part of the population for #ideological reasons. Our neighbours to the south have had some success with private ventures in #Florida, #Texas, and other places, maybe there is something to learn?

https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/der-andere-blick/messerattacken-deutschlands-unverantwortliche-#migrationspolitik-ld.1724340
" Innocent people #die because of irresponsible migration policy
#german migration policy can only be sold as a success if one #closes one's #eyes to its consequences: it regularly destroys lives. A change of course fails because of #ideological #stubbornness."
#knifeattacks #germany #fail #Ampel #AmpelDesGrauens #illegalmigration

tnx, @Kurt for drawing attention to Reid Blackman’s guest essay on ‘#privacy at all costs” in #NYT.

What to make of this?
"Small groups of #technologists are developing and deploying applications of their technologies for explicitly #ideological reasons, with those ideologies baked into the technologies. To use those technologies is to use a tool that comes with an #ethical or #political bent."

Can someone inform Blackman that rent seeking is ideological too?

https://linkshortner.net/ojEA

We will never change any #politicians #corevalues when they are #entrenched in office. They feed us lines of BS that we want to hear then do whatever their #contributors and #lobbyists demand. Our focus must be on #candidates that have demonstrated #ourvalues over time.

“It's harder than people think to get really important, meaningful shifts in #ideological #representation. Obviously politicians #lie. Obviously they take positions #opportunistically when they can,”

https://effectivegov.uchicago.edu/podcast/why-arent-there-more-moderate-politicians

The #ParaSocial sector of society is comprised of all the famous people who direct the thoughts of non-famous people, and the #workingclass in particular.

#Celebrity #culture is particularly problematic, but included in the definition is any famous people who influence the thoughts of the masses.

Do we need that structure of famous people to direct us?

Presently our para-social sector is a bunch of frauds propped-up by self-aggrandizing #capitalist media who exploitatively direct the thoughts of the working-class. These are people who oversee all the persistent structural violence of the system with a big smile.

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We don't need that particularly corrupt form of para-social paradigm, but we do need some structure for imparting ideas that maintain #unity.

#Indigenous cultures have their elders, while in modern culture the para-social structure of famous celebrities, politicians, artists, philosophers, and scientists, etc., represents our form of elders... who we never meet in real life.

It's a disconnected connection. It's a type of leadership that precludes a physical presence.

Strangers direct our thinking in modern culture, which often seems irrational to indigenous people, because it is. We don't know who those people personally, but because they direct the ideas of the masses, we must follow as well, willingly or not.

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Do we need a para-social sector? Due to the nature of modern culture being highly specialized and needing robust #democratic processes, unfortunately a modern society needs some form of para-social sector. Even in an ideal workers-controlled world there would be need to convey #ideological #information to the masses.

Presently our para-social sector equates to #psychological coercion of the masses, but that is not inevitable.

In the same way we learn to differentiate between reality and imagination , we can and must learn to differentiate between the para-social and the personal.

We have a limit to how many personal relationships we can remember. #Anthropologists say that number is about 150. ...... OK.... If I can only remember 150 relationships, I want them to be real people, not people I will never know.

If you have a #Kanye or someone you don't really know influencing your perceptions of the world, replace them with real people.

#Postcolonialism #postcolonialist #classwar #politics #antropology #psychology #sociology #philosophy

#Free your #mind from #mental #slavery

In an essay titled “The Crisis Of Man” #AlbertCamus writes “What counts is no longer respecting or sparing a mother’s suffering; what counts is securing the victory of a doctrine”.

Camus *could* be speaking to the overturning of #Roe vs Wade by the Supreme Court in the #UnitedStates or the feverish #culturewar over gender/sex where the very notion of woman is under attack in a bizarre #ideological bloodsport.

Are we seeing a renewed crisis of man?

https://deanmayesauthor.wordpress.com/2022/07/22/a-renewed-crisis-of-man/

Friends, please be careful out there. From #DHS: “Targets of potential violence include #public gatherings, #faith-based institutions, the #LGBTQI+ community, #schools, #racial and #religious #minorities, #government facilities and personnel, U.S. #critical #infrastructure, the #media, and perceived #ideological opponents.”
https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-november-30-2022?fbclid=IwAR35SugBlY7PYl2Zx3qGRLUwwEOHtg785EGAjBuLCRmAd96jpgnXiOjtDpA&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Why bother with the #conditionality procedure if one can solve everything with a simple resolution of the @europarl_en - This is the #ideological #opiniocracy so typical for the liberal left - they want to freeze all #funds for #Hungary although HUN full-filled all criteria

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/AndorDeli/status/1594733329911259140

Give me a #boost to connect with all like-minded #Leftist #comrades. Let's create a space we can share and defeat the meme of #Leftist infighting.

Because *it is* a meme. And it serves an #ideological purpose. The purpose is to keep us isolated and unable to coordinate with each other. We have to mainstream our ideas to raise #class consciousness.

People know there are problems with the system and that it isn't working for them. We need to do the work to create a real alternative.

1/ ?? Reflection presented this week:

Fisher has stated elsewhere that Capitalist Realism is not easy to define but is easy to identify. Fisher's argument is that, while a majority of people believe that #capitalism is bad, they believe it is also an inevitability. In reference to Zizek’s observation that anticapitalism is disseminated within capitalism - i.e. the “evil corporation captured in film plots - Fisher states, “Far from undermining capitalist realism, this gestural anti-capitalism actually reinforces it.” This is an effect of #neoliberalist politics: that capitalism is the “modern” way of doing things and we must take part in it, even if we recognize it as an oppressive system. Thanks to the neoliberalist narrative, any vision of a system other than a capitalist one is considered an #ideological fantasy and is quickly swept aside.

Legos and the 4 I's of #Oppression: #ideological, #institutional, #interpersonal, and #internalized https://youtu.be/3WWyVRo4Uas
Easily worth 4 minutes of your time. if you are interested in #diversity, #equity, #inclusion and #belonging #dei

Legos and the 4 I's of #Oppression: #ideological, #institutional, #interpersonal, and #internalized https://youtu.be/3WWyVRo4Uas
Easily worth 4 minutes of your time. if you are interested in #diversity, #equity, #inclusion and #belonging #dei