Some teenagers caught a #nazi and gave it bream. There is such an #ideology - to get punched in the face.😂

:antifa_100:

https://t.me/AntifascistSolidarity/15460

How #austerity (and #ideology) broke #Britain

This endless week of #CrumblingSchools, #PrisonCuts and collapsing #CouncilFinances has been 13 years in the making – and even loyal #Tories now know the game is up
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/10/how-austerity-and-ideology-broke-britain
#ToryPoliciesInAction

Here's your daily reminder that #Trump's labeling of his #Democratic opponents as "#fascists" is utter nonsense for many reasons, the most significant being that #fascism is an inherently #rightwing #ideology. Left-wingers, by definition, cannot be fascists. If Trump wasn't "the dumbest goddamned student" his professors ever taught in college, he might have known this basic, objective fact. Unfortunately, he's a moron who is literally making it up as he goes.

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-tees-off-on-fascist-monsters-for-convicting-peter-navarro-blasts-january-6-committee-for-not-targeting-nancy-pelosi/

"Wars based on ideological competition end only when an ideology is ended (as in never). This incongruity led to the Cold War practice in the US of anti-authoritarian authoritarianism, of using the techniques of authoritarianism to crush authoritarianism abroad, only done ‘at home’... The same is true in the present when politicians use propaganda and censorship to crush views that they find politically inconvenient."

#RobUrie

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/04/fascism-is-the-western-answer-to-class-struggle/

#ideology #ColdWar

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

#AndersPuckNielsen

#YevgenyPrigozhin plane "crash" and the arrest of #IgorGirkin paint a picture of a new reality in #Russia politics, where #ideology is forbidden, and only fear remains. It is a next step on the ladder of repression.

#Wagner #DmitryUtkin #VladimirPutin

This bunch of #Mafia Gangsters are supposed to be the last defenders of #WesternValues?

#CornelWest is another narcissistic, "I'm in it for me" rabble rouser who believes that going against the grain is a political #ideology. His so-called #candidacy is a joke without a punchline. All he's doing is feeding his #ego at the expense of the best interests of the nation. And for what? At the end of the day, he'll just be another quirky also-ran in the footnote of #history.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/cornel-west-calls-the-democratic-party-beyond-redemption-labels-bernie-sanders-and-aoc-window-dressing/

Nobody embraces #whiteSupremacist #ideology more than a black #Republican.

#FloridaFascism #slavery #slaverywasnotabenefit

https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-rep-backed-new-slavery-curriculum-black-history-museum-2023-8

For the love of #Jeebus, will someone please explain to #Trump that #fascism is an inherently #rightwing #ideology, and that #JoeBiden, no matter what you think of him, cannot, by definition, engage in #fascism? Please?? #Words have specific, established meaning, and you can't just arbitrarily invent your own definitions to suit your ignorant and idiotic grievances.

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-accuses-jack-smiths-political-sleazebags-of-colluding-with-bidens-fascist-thugs-to-indict-him-its-all-a-big-lie/

#nationalism #ideology criticism #fckafd #afd #Nazis #Stalinism
Ideology creates evil itself.
Like Stalinism and National Socialism or Paul Pott in Cambodia.
Either way, you have an ideology that misleads people into monopolizing the truth.
This destroys thinking, the process of thinking and judging.
And the human ability to speak and act.

-Ramin Jahanbegloo Philosophy

#SupremeCourt #Justice Clarence Thomas’ leisure has been paid by #donors "who share the #ideology that drives his #jurisprudence. Their #gifts include: At least 38 destination #vacations, including...on a yacht around the Bahamas; 26 private jet flights, plus...eight by helicopter; a dozen #VIP passes to...sporting events, typically perched in the skybox; two stays at #luxury resorts in #Florida and Jamaica; and one standing invitation to an uber-exclusive #golf club..."

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court

"Left-wing #authoritarianism" positively predicted by
- perceived grievance
- identity-based #ideology
- #prejudice towards groups perceived as privileged
- #socialJustice attitudes

"large effect sizes"

N = 1684 Spanish-speaking #socialMedia users (e.g., from the bird and book sites)

https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2023.2246914

#politics #leftWing #liberal #identity #feminism #sexism #racism #criticalRaceTheory

Ron #DeSantis would love to see every #library in #Florida shut down because it would further his ultimate goal of having an #ignorant and #misguided #population that he can #control. And control is really what these fascistic #bookBans are all about. Keep them #stupid, keep them in the dark, keep them enmeshed in an #ideology that ensures his political #power.

#GOPfascists #GOPLies #RepublicansAreTheProblem #FloridaFascism

https://theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/19/clay-county-florida-book-bans-moms-for-liberty

#AI #GenerativeAI #Chatbots #AIBias #ChatGPT #Ideology #Politics: "Another important difference is the prompt. If you directly ask ChatGPT for its political opinions, it refuses most of the time, as we found. But if you force it to pick a multiple-choice option, it opines much more often — both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 give a direct response to the question about 80% of the time.

But chatbots expressing opinions on multiple choice questions isn’t that practically significant, because this is not how users interact with them. To the extent that the political bias of chatbots is worth worrying about, it’s because they might nudge users in one or the other direction during open-ended conversation.

Besides, even the 80% response rate is quite different from what the paper found, which is that the model never refused to opine. That’s because the authors used an even more artificially constrained prompt, which is even further from real usage. This is similar to the genre of viral tweet where someone jailbreaks a chatbot to say something offensive and then pretends to be shocked."

www.aisnakeoil.com /p/does-chatgpt-have-a-liberal-bias

What a terrific book…

The Big Myth - How American Business Taught Us To Loathe Government And Love The Free Market by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway

Everyone should read this.

#propaganda #Economy #ideology #manufacturedconsent #oligarchs #oligarchy #medialiteracy #manipulation #media

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/big-myth-9781635573572/

@Skembear He has his own spin on the meaning of Left and Right. He says Nazis hated Christians for example, so in that sense they were radical rather than conservative. #left #right #ideology #peterhitchens #Nazi #socialist

Beliefs, ideas, and movements in the world are more powerful than any leader or nation. ... #change is coming in the form of movements, ideologies, and ideas …”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfF3xXKEGWs

#book #beliefs #idea #ideas #movement #movements #ideologies #ideology #ideas #belief #book

A lot of people use the term #neoliberalism as a catch-all term of abuse, without necessary appreciating the more nuanced detail(s) of what the #ideology might entail.

This is not to say we should (or could) find an acceptable neoliberalism, but we do need to understand what it is (and what it is not).

So if you have the time this morning & are interested in a more complex account of neoliberalism, I would recommend sitting down & reading @sjwrenlewis latest post

https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2023/08/economics-and-neoliberalism.html

#Fascism and viewpoint #discrimination are official state sports in #Florida. By virtually eliminating access to subjects the #Republicans #hate, #DeSantis and his co-conspirators are effectively establishing state-sponsored #indoctrination into #rightwing political #ideology. And that's exactly the point.

#GOPfascists #floridafascism #FirstAmendment #bookBans #bookbansareunconstitutional

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/08/florida-schools-banned-this-sweet-childrens-book-for-alleged-adult-content-it-has-none/

The Faux Ideologies of Late-Stage Putinism

The Kremlin has come up with a faux ideology designed to rally support for President Vladimir Putin. […] people are being asked to believe in a series of dogmas such as “Russia is a young civilization that cannot be defeated by an aging West,” “the authorities and society at large share a common goal,” and “Russians are inclined toward collectivism, sacrifice, and state service.” 

https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/90292

#russia #putin #putinism #ideology

"The #grifters that make up the #troll-industrial complex are not okay.

"One can see the sheen of #desperation in the #world of self-identified #conservatives who make a living by "triggering" the #liberals. The usual dose of outrage bait isn't working as well any longer, so the #rightwingers are escalating the provocations. Tucker #Carlson, for example, gave a glow-up interview with manosphere "influencer" Andrew #Tate, who is being held in #Romania on charges of sex #trafficking and #rape. #DailyWire anti-trans provocateur Matt #Walsh is selling plushies of himself clad only in a diaper, which he encourages #people to give to #children. Daily Wire founder Ben #Shapiro, on the other hand, made a nearly hour-long video #tantrum about "#Barbie," complete with setting the dolls on fire. The clawing need to get attention from #progressives seems to be driving these engagement farmers a little nuts, as they up the weird-and-evil ante, hoping to get those precious clicks and plays.

[...]

"The escalation of shock value tactics, on both the right and the pretending-not-to-be-right political classes, are likely rooted in the same cause: The slow motion collapse of #Twitter, now rebranded "#X," under the leadership of #Tesla CEO Elon #Musk. While these folks have various outlets, both in the #media and #socialmedia, ultimately their #business model of #trolling depends heavily on Twitter.

"Grifters need people to harass and a mainstream discourse to counter. As traffic takes a nosedive and Twitter becomes less a part of the conversation, it's going to be harder for these folks to make #money," Melissa #Ryan, a strategist who helps counter online #disinformation, told #Salon.

"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters #desperate"

https://www.salon.com/2023/08/01/they-need-us-we-dont-need-them-the-fall-of-twitter-is-making-the-and-grifters-desperate/

The clawing need to get attention from progressives seems to be driving these engagement farmers a little nuts, as they up the weird-and-evil ante, hoping to get those precious clicks and plays.

"What Musk has proven through his actions and his statements is that he's committed to serving the trolls and the #fraudsters first and the ordinary good faith users second," explained Brian Hughes of American #University, who is the co-founder of the Polarization and #Extremism #Research and Innovation Lab (#PERIL). But, he noted, Musk is "blinded by his own #ideology" and can't see how this is backfiring. "As normal people, for lack of a better term, continue to leave Twitter, that's actually going to cause probably a reduction in the use of the platform by these trolls and these fraudsters. They don't have their audience of targets that they need," he continued.

https://www.american.edu/spa/faculty/bhughes.cfm

HAHAHAHAHAHA die mad about it, trolls. Full offense."

https://www.tumblr.com/wilwheaton/724472830135353344/the-grifters-that-make-up-the-troll-industrial?source=share