Damn I thought The Rock had finally entered politics but it turns out his name is Dwayne Johnson :(
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Damn I thought The Rock had finally entered politics but it turns out his name is Dwayne Johnson :(
I’m 5 paragraphs in and already I can tell this is something really special. It flows like water.
The headline had me hoping for things like “Xinjiang - how we incarcerated 1 million people for only $5k pp / year” or “Integrating vassel states - lessons from Hong Kong” or “The Tibet Journey” or “Propaganda for fun and profit Steve Bannon edition”.
Nope 😴
Yeah, I read the whole thing. It was a good story but I felt that when it came time to “deliver the goods” they fell a bit short. For example, this: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/final-image-global-south.png. That is under the heading “Clearly authoritarian”, which seems pretty strong for such a boring sounding course.
I stand by my earlier comment.
I wish they were able to find better examples of the courses and the content (not just the summary from marketing materials). The examples they provided were really tame.
in China, law enforcement is designed to protect the state and the Party rather than the people, journalism is prescribed to create national unity rather than act as a check against the system, and the law is intended to protect the regime rather than its citizenry.
Very succinctly put!
In the Constitution of China you’ll find a section where it explicitly states that the interests of the group outweigh those of the individual. It’s baked into the legal bedrock.
I enjoyed this book on sociopathy in society https://www.amazon.com/Sociopath-Next-Door-Martha-Stout/dp/0767915828
I’m not 100% sold on the contagious idea but certainly every latent socio and narc has had a masterclass in recent years which would tend to embolden them.
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Why the National Guard took so long is an interesting question but the more important one is why didn’t the FBI, etc notice the absolute state of the maga-verse in the weeks leading up to Jan 6th? All their plans were out in the open, even I knew what was going to go down and I’m just a random internet person on the other side of the world not the NSA or whatever.
They had weeks to prepare but instead got caught with their pants down. It was completely negligent. Heads should roll.
Yeah that’s pretty much it. Then that gets amplified by recommendation algorithms and toxic social media ecosystems, of course.
IMO getting a bit into the psychology of why people want to believe this crap is pretty key. Narcissism, cognitive bias…
Check this out https://github.com/rimu/no-qanon. Go into the ‘sources’ folder and start clicking around. A lot of the disinfo sites are in separate files but https://github.com/rimu/no-qanon/blob/master/sources/default.txt contains most of them in a big disorganized pile.
Also take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/ to understand the human cost at the individual & family level.
Google “Alt-right pipeline” to learn about how they’ve intentionally crafted a radicalization process. Also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g.
Both those guys are banned instance-wide on the instance I run.
Disinfo research was a hobby of mine for a few years so I have zero tolerance for it.
I couldn’t see it in the article so perhaps you can tell me what laws they’re being encouraged to break?
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You’re looking for meaning where there is none. Fascism does not want to make sense, it very intentionally rejects reason and logic. To fascists, force and power is the only real politics. Few people really grasp how deep the nihilism of it is.
The chaos is an end in itself.
You don’t. Their minds are closed.
There are a huge mass of people who don’t normally vote who are much easier to sway.
Fake Jehovah’s Witness
Then try harder. If the receptionist at his building is enough to stop them then they’re shit at their jobs.
I’ve seen a vanload of tourists happily taking pictures of sheep on more than one occasion. New Zealand.
LOCK HIM UP, LOCK HIM UP