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Liberal Currents"As hierarchy broke down and the individual became elevated, the idea of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slavery</a> became more problematic. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Race</a> as a justification for slavery hardened over time. By the 19th century, when the invention of the cotton gin gave slavery new economic life, racism was a full-fledged, virulent, highly defensive <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a>. That's when slavery and racism acquired a fleshed out <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/theology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theology</a>, too." <a href="https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-red-state-religious-narrative/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-red-state-religious-narrative/</a>

The Open Buddhist University🗣️ The End of the World as We Know It (A free, 65-minute podcast from 2021)Tags: <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Activism</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Feeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Feeling</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Relationships" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Relationships</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewMexico</a> <a href="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/end-of-the-world_tal" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/end-of-the-world_tal</a>

The Open Buddhist University📰 How Reputation Does (And Does Not) Drive People to Punish Without Looking (A free, 11-page article from 2023)Tags: <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Relationships" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Relationships</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/how-reputation-does-and-does-not-drive-punishment_jordan-jillian-et-al" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/how-reputation-does-and-does-not-drive-punishment_jordan-jillian-et-al</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Regulation that impedes the operation of US digital behemoths – anything short of blanket permission to do as they please – will apparently be treated as a hostile act and an affront to human liberty.This is an imperial demand for market access cynically camouflaged in the language of universal rights. The equivalent trick is not available in other sectors of the economy. US farmers hate trade barriers that stop their products flooding European markets, but they don’t argue that their chlorine-washed chickens are being censored. (Not yet.)That isn’t to say digital communications can be subject to toxicity tests just like agricultural exports. There is wide scope for reasonable disagreement on what counts as intolerable content, and how it should be controlled. The boundaries are not easily defined. But it is also beyond doubt that thresholds exist. There is no free-speech case for child sexual abuse images. The most liberal jurisdictions recognise that the state has a duty to proscribe some material even if there is a market for it.The question of how online space should be policed is complex in principle and fiendishly difficult in practice, not least because the infrastructure we treat as a public arena is run by private commercial interests. Britain cannot let the terms of debate be dictated by a US administration that is locked in corrupting political intimacy with those interests.It is impossible to separate the commercial and ideological strands of Trump’s relationship with Silicon Valley oligarchs. They used their power and wealth to boost his candidacy and they want payback from his incumbency. There is not much coherence to the doctrine. “Free” speech is the kind that amplifies the president’s personal prejudices. Correcting his lies with verifiable facts is censorship."<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/16/trump-defending-free-speech-submission-usa-president" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/16/trump-defending-free-speech-submission-usa-president</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeech</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Censorship</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Imperialism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ContentModeration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContentModeration</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SiliconValley</a>

The Open Buddhist University🗣️ The Technofascist Vision of the Future (A ✨NEW✨, free, 101-minute talk)Tags: <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Transhumanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transhumanism</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SiliconValley</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Future" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Future</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ai</a> <a href="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/not-my-tomorrow_sujato" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/not-my-tomorrow_sujato</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"I think that my assumption was a triumphalism and a sense of victory after the fall of the Soviet Union. But the fact that the week of the Berlin Wall falling, they were already talking about new enemies —enemies that had gone underground in certain ways or transformed in ways that were elusive — was the beginning of the rabbit hole. Because once you accept the idea that Marxism and socialism have survived and yet have changed their face, then anything can be Marxism and socialism.I think this is how we can understand the fixation of the right wing on things like what they call “cultural Marxism” or “gender ideology” as essentially the new enemy of humanity. Because the adversary continuously changes shape, it makes them open to endless reinterpretation. There is a paranoid quality to the term. And the paranoia doesn’t really have any bounds, as I show in the book.So I think the narrative arc comes from a feeling on the part of the libertarians, and often the racist libertarians, that they can contain their enemy in new ways by pinning it down on hierarchies of intelligence or deploying the latest findings from genetics. But by the end of the book, with a chapter on “gold bugs” and the far-right obsession with gold, there’s almost a sense of desperation or surrender to the inevitable, a failure to contain their enemies and the idea of an impending collapse and inevitable apocalypse. (...) What I recognize is a sort of desperation and a kind of ungoverned willingness to reach for radical remedies in a time of great peril. And as I described in the last chapter, often the rhetorical technique of the gold bug is to predict a coming apocalypse and then immediately sell you the only means there is to protect you from the worst.I think there’s that accelerationism visible right now on the far right, certainly in the United States."<a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/04/race-science-neoliberalism-hayek-slobodian/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jacobin.com/2025/04/race-science-neoliberalism-hayek-slobodian/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Hayek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hayek</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PseudoScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PseudoScience</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Accelerationism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Accelerationism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Libertarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Libertarianism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/RaceScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RaceScience</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PseudoScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PseudoScience</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a>

Julé Cunningham"Creativity and cognitive flexibility are really powerful resilience factors against thinking in ideologically closed and authoritarian ways."From a really fascinating interview with Leor Zmigrod, neuroscientist and author of 'The Ideological Brain'. <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neuroscience</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/cognitive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cognitive</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/creativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#creativity</a><a href="https://nautil.us/why-our-brains-crave-ideology-1203194/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nautil.us/why-our-brains-crave-ideology-1203194/</a>

Andy TsengFascinating look at how our brains influence ideology and political beliefs, insightful work by <a class="mention" href="https://bsky.app/profile/leorzmigrod.bsky.social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@leorzmigrod.bsky.social</a>. Just added her new book, “The Ideological Brain”, to my reading list! <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Neuroscience" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neuroscience</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Ideology" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Politics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ResearchSky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ResearchSky</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/science/ideology-neuroscience-politics-zmigord.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ideology May Not Be What You T...</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"The Trump administration is quietly drafting a bold new strategy for combating terrorism that targets a wide range of perceived foes, from Tesla vandals to everyday protesters, intelligence sources say.White House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka is leading the effort, which covers both foreign and domestic strategies. Gorka recently boasted that the president has “done a 180 on our counterterrorism policy.” He’s also been quite candid in comparing his political opponents to terrorists, as I’ve written about.Farewell episode of “The Gorka Reality Check” show in January The domestic focus derives from the view that foreign control, antisemitism and a conspiracy against Donald Trump are behind everything from Gaza protests to Planned Parenthood. White House insiders firmly believe that protestors are being “paid” to disrupt the Trump agenda, the same sources say. "<a href="https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-team-prepping-new-strategy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-team-prepping-new-strategy</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Terrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Terrorism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/CounterTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CounterTerrorism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Censorship</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceState</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a>

Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️When they want to take ideology out of all decision making remember <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CARING" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CARING</a> is an <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a>.

rival"This <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#community</a> that we have, that we're building, that does so much, has to grow. We can't compete with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apple</a>, we can't compete with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a>, directly, in the field of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/resources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resources</a>. What we can eventually do is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/head" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#head</a> count and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/heart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heart</a> count. We can compete on the ground of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a> because ours is better." -- Edward <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Snowden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Snowden</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NSA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/whisteblower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whisteblower</a>, speaking at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LibrePlanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LibrePlanet</a> 2016. <a href="https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/libreplanet-2016-the-last-lighthouse-3d51/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/libreplanet-2016-the-last-lighthouse-3d51/</a> Via: <a href="https://hostux.social/@fsf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@fsf</a>

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦1 “In <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23fascist" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascist</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ideology" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a>, the <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23nation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nation</a> becomes an idol to be worshipped, rather than (as in a <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23democracy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a>) an unfinished project to be improved. Key to keeping the population compliant and loyal in such a context is the imposition of an ‘ <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23exceptionalist" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#exceptionalist</a> mythology’ …” 🧵 <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JasonStanley" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JasonStanley</a>

Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦Why is Trump mad at the zoo? <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a> <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/04/national-zoo-ideology-trump/682307/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/04/national-zoo-ideology-trump/682307/</a>

Pekka KallioniemiThis trend was started in Apr 2024 by everyone’s favorite <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/vatnik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vatnik</a> <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/propagandist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#propagandist</a> and “<a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> expert”, Tucker Carlson. He gave <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Dugin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dugin</a> an uncritical platform. By doing so, he mainstreamed his <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a> to millions already primed to distrust their own democratic institutions.11/17

Der WahlberlinerTrumps Tünkram über die Welt der Automobile <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tariffs</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Germany</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Industry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Industry</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Automotive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Automotive</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Nonsense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nonsense</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FakeNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FakeNews</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGAMorons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGAMorons</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Missmanagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Missmanagement</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Modellpolitik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Modellpolitik</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ford</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GM</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Opel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Opel</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Stellantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stellantis</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HeritageFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeritageFoundation</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Rechtsextremismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rechtsextremismus</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ideologie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideologie</a><a href="https://derwahlberliner.com/2025/04/04/trumps-tunkram-uber-die-welt-der-automobile/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://derwahlberliner.com/2025/04/04/trumps-tunkram-uber-die-welt-der-automobile/</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Today, it’s increasingly clear that it’s the tech oligarchs — not their algorithmically-steered platforms—who present the greater danger. Their arsenal combines three deadly implements: plutocratic gravity (fortunes so vast they distort reality’s basic physics), oracular authority (their technological visions treated as inevitable prophecy), and platform sovereignty (ownership of the digital intersections where society’s conversation unfolds). Musk’s takeover of Twitter (now X), Andreessen’s strategic investments into Substack, Peter Thiel’s courting of Rumble, the conservative YouTube: they’ve colonized both the medium and the message, the system and the lifeworld. We must update our taxonomies to account for this new species of oligarch-intellectuals. If yesterday’s public intellectual resembled a careful archaeologist methodically excavating cultural artifacts for display in rarefied literary journals, today’s model is the demolition expert, wiring entire societal structures with ideological explosives and detonating them from the safe distance of offshore accounts. They don’t write about the future; they install it, beta-testing theories on unwitting populations in history’s largest unreviewed experiment. What distinguishes them from previous wealth-encrusted elites isn’t avarice but verbosity—a torrential output that would exhaust even Balzac. Where industrial barons funded think tanks to launder interests into policy papers, our oligarch-intellectuals cut out the middleman. Forget steering the algorithms: oligarch-intellectuals steer the conversation itself – and they do it with philosophical meme-grenades. Dropped at 3 AM on X, they invariably become international headlines by breakfast."<a href="https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/silicon-valleys-new-legislators/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/silicon-valleys-new-legislators/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SiliconValley</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Oligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oligarchs</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OIigarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OIigarchy</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"President Donald Trump’s latest executive order titled “RESTORING TRUTH AND SANITY TO AMERICAN HISTORY” replicates a tactic used by all authoritarian regimes. In the name of countering bias, they distort the nation’s history into self-serving mythology.History will be used to justify the power of the ruling elites in the present by deifying the ruling elites of the past. It will disappear the suffering of the victims of genocide, enslavement, discrimination and institutional racism. The repression and violence during our labor wars — hundreds of workers were killed by gun thugs, company goons, police and soldiers from National Guard units in the struggle to unionize — will be untold. Historical figures, such as Woodrow Wilson, will be social archetypes whose darker actions, including the decision to re-segregate the federal government and oversee one of the most aggressive campaigns of political repression in U.S. history, will be ignored.In the America of our Trump-approved history books — I have read the textbooks used in “Christian” schools so this is not conjecture — equal opportunity for all exists and has always existed. America exemplifies human progress. It has constantly improved and perfected itself under the tutelage of its enlightened and almost exclusively white male rulers. It is the vanguard of “Western civilization.”<a href="https://x.com/ChrisLynnHedges/status/1907499697373327403" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://x.com/ChrisLynnHedges/status/1907499697373327403</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Schools</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/WhiteSupremacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteSupremacism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a>

Different ThanPunch <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nazis</a>? Sure. Talk about all the Nazis dying? OK, whatever. Angry at racists? Me, too. Angry at bigots of all kinds? Hell, yes.But don't get it twisted. The people must be resisted, sometimes even fought, but they are not the root enemy, and if you find yourself just wanting to hurt bad people, you might become a worse person.The enemies are the ideas. The <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a>. The cultural patterns. Nazism is worse than <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nazis</a>. Bigotry is worse than bigots. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Racism</a> is worse than racists. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Autoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autoritarianism</a> is worse than authoritarians.We fight the ideas. We fight them with better ideas.Also sometimes with punching

CBC Nova ScotiaMaxime Bernier decries 'woke ideology' at campaign stop in Dartmouth People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier made a campaign stop Monday in Dartmouth, N.S., where he condemned “woke ideology” and said Canada is on the precipice of going “down the drain.” <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/campaign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#campaign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Dartmouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dartmouth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/NS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/maxime-bernier-people-s-party-dartmouth-nova-scotia-1.7498371?cmp=rss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/maxime-bernier-people-s-party-dartmouth-nova-scotia-1.7498371?cmp=rss</a>

doboprobodyne<a href="https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@hanse_mina</a> Good article on how Russian subthreshold warfare activity works. Thank you for sharing it!I think it's important to quote this bit of the article:> The company’s founders allegedly knew the company was backed by Russian money, but Pool and the other influencers—who included Benny Johnson and Dave Rubin—were “unwitting” figures, according to officials. Tenet shut down soon after the indictment was released.Sure, we have no idea if that's true, but I'd say it's an important feature.<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#russia</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#propaganda</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/sowDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sowDissent</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/warfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#warfare</a>

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