"Every day when reading the timeline, I realize how right Vince Ebert is with his assessment. Supposedly intelligent people live in their comfortable moral acidic world and think they are with the good woke - no media literacy" #IRLComedianVinceEbert

"The evolutionary psychologist William von Hippel discovered that humans use a large part of their intellectual capacity to find their way in their complicated social world. Why is my boss looking so weird today? What does my neighbor's innuendo mean about my new car? Is the waitress flirting with me or is she just being friendly? Our 'social' brain also checks facts from time to time. However, the question that is much more important to it is: what are the social consequences if I do or say this or that? So we have a mechanism in our heads that, when in doubt, even tells us prevents us from thinking what is right when in return it endangers our social status. This phenomenon becomes more prevalent the higher a person's social and economic status. Educated and/or wealthy people are more concerned about what others might think of their opinions. Because they have an academic reputation or a good professional position to lose. What's more, the more educated and smarter a person is, the more adept his brain is at selling him the biggest piece of nonsense as a reasonable idea, as long as it raises his social status. As a result, the upper educated middle class tends more to hang behind any intellectual crazy ideas than ordinary people. The American data scientist David Shor found in extensive studies that educated people hold more ideologically coherent and more extreme views than working-class people. Taxi drivers, cleaning ladies, craftsmen or warehouse workers often have much more connection to reality and common sense than professors, teachers and higher officials. The ideological follower sits less at the regulars' table and more in the lecture hall." #IRLPsychologistWilliamVonHippel #TheorySocialWorlds ^[Folksonomy] #IRLScientistDavidShor #IdentityClassBlueCollar

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Supplementary "populating one's field of vision with imaginary threats might offer a sense of purpose, which life in suburban America does not always provide." https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/two-days-talking-to-people-looking-for-jobs-at-ice/ #OrgUSFedGovImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcementICE #PhenomnBanality #1963_EichmannInJerusalem #BehaviourWanderlust ^[Wikipedia] #MetaphorThreatGeneralisedNonSpecific #NarrativeSenseOfPurpose

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Addendum Ebert's explanation above is presumably comforting for those who aren't (according to his characterisation) 'educated and/or wealthy' or who have 'high social and economic status' - people, who as he characterises, are: 'taxi drivers, cleaning ladies, craftsmen or warehouse workers' i.e. that such explanations are used by those who have no hope of achieving success (financial and/or social) to bolster their confidence. And in doing so, presumably such a reaction is part of a broader strategy to dismiss criticism in an effort to reconcile a sense of personal failure becoming become manifest through retorts such as #ReasoningFallacyBiasCognitiveConfirmationIToldYouSo. In this sense, the phenomenon seems to function as a type of #PhenomnCautionaryTale or perhaps, a version of #TheoryPsychologyPsychologicalPurgationCatharsisHamartia ^[Wikipedia] where the threat of succumbing to "intellectual crazy ideas" provides a desired relief. #TheoryPsychologyInferiorityComplex #TheoryPsychologyDefenceMechanism ^[Wikipedia] #BehaviourInjuryFeelingRessentiment_ ^[Wikipedia] #TheoryAffectiveResponseIndignation ^[Wikipedia] #ReasoningFallacyPostHocErgoPropterHocPostHocRationalisation ^[Wikipedia] #ReasoningFallacyOversimplificationCausalReductionism ^[Wikipedia] #_Focal

#BehaviourInjuryFeelingRessentiment_ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRkkqn19B0c

#BehaviourInjuryFeelingRessentiment_ https://www.tumblr.com/oviri7 ^[tweet]

#BehaviourInjuryFeelingRessentiment_ #CatchcryLivesMatterAllALM

#BehaviourInjuryFeelingRessentiment_ ^[Wikipedia]

#NewspaperFRBrdshtLeFigaro #AdvocacyFRFondationPourLInnovationPolitiqueChristopheDeVoogd: "to calculate it, the Observatory of Decolonialism, weighs no less than half of the items listed in the social science databases. Not that these themes should be rejected a priori: the question of gender, the history of slavery or the mental residues of colonization are important and legitimate objects of study; but it is another thing to make it the exclusive reading prism of The affectio societatis, that is to say the common desire to associate, a condition of society, is replaced by the denunciation of the fantasized mechanisms of 'domination' which seem to govern all human relationships. our societies. And it is yet another to decree the universal victimization of minorities by the 'domination' of the white Western male. In fact, the frequent breaches of the scientific approach are enough to make circular reasoning dizzy (the conclusion is already in the premise, as in the unstoppable 'racism being a white invention, there cannot be anti-white racism' ); denial of the facts (what about 'discrimination>>>> within and between minorities?); blatant contradiction (race and gender are, it is said, only social constructions>> but, if we can change gender, however impossible to change race); double discourse (purely <scientific>> display in public discourse, <<<<militant >>> claim in texts programmatic); research method based on interviews and feelings'; and when statistical data is used, concomitance, correlation and causality are blithely confused. This conceptual hodgepodge is actually at the very heart of this new paradigm, where we slide without shouting beware of differences against inequalities, and of inequalities against discrimination. So many breaches of the three rules of interpretation, laid down by the American Hayden by the epistemologist White, yet one of the beacons of intellectual postmodernity: conformity to facts, coherence there when will there be pure and simple censorship and professional bans, already practiced in the United States by the 'cancel culture', and which an apostle of this 'brave new world' calls for for France », the sociologist Geoffroy de Lagasnerie? But also among students, indoctrinated (a small minority) or intimidated (the most numerous) by the vulgate <woke». Students who think no less and discreetly make their disagreement known, but who repeat, since their success depends on it, from cover letters in memoirs, the essential elements of the expected speech: diversity, discrimination, deconstruction', the three 'D's » of the new dogma. Newspeak and forced dissimulation thus prosper, while certain establishments live in growing suspicion of all against all, an omnipresent threat of 'sexist and sexual violence obliges. Observers notice the increasing avoidance between the sexes, for fear of being the victim or the accused of harassment or inappropriate remarks. This is how the 'woke hell', paved with the best intentions of anti-racism and gender equality, risks transforming our university, as it is doing in the United States, in a doubly Orwellian place, by the triumph of misguided knowledge and by its desolate sadness. Normalien, associate professor and doctor in history, Christophe de Voogd is president of the Scientific Council of the Foundation for Political Innovation (think-tank)." https://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/societe/christophe-de-voogd-l-ideologie-woke-une-culture-du-ressentiment-qui-sape-la-possibilite-de-faire-societe-20210618 #IRLPoliticianFrederiqueVidal #TauntIslamoGauchismeIslamoLeftism #MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation ? #OrgCentreNationalDeLaRechercheScientifiqueCNRS #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #PowerControlChattelSlavery #CharacterisationWeaknessVictimismVictimMentality #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #TauntToxicWhiteness #IRLAuthorGeorgeOrwell #IRLPhilosopherGeoffroyDeLagasnerie

"It has already been four months since the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Frédérique Vidal, V announced an investigation into Islamo-leftism at universities. Since this date, no official communication on the announced report. As if the loud cries uttered, from petitions to press releases, by hundreds of academics, Conference of University Presidents (CPU) and CNRS in the lead, in the name of academic freedom and the non-existence of said Islamo-leftism arguments which, moreover, were contradictory - had immediately overcome the ministerial concern. Further: instead of being content with this discreet burial, some protesters have just filed an appeal before the Council of State against the initiative of Frédérique Vidal, wishing, it seems, to make him pay for his initial desire. Unless the very recent and discreet signal from the ministry (the work continues) has reignited their fear? Regardless, this excess of outraged virtue proves counterproductive. Courageous voices (Pascal Bruckner, Pierre-André Taguieff, Philippe d'Iribarne, Nathalie Heinich, Mathieu Bock-Côté, among others), are rising to denounce the ongoing intellectual and political drift. A report from the Observatory of Decolonialism and Identity Ideologies, composed of academics, has just, given the ministerial silence, drawn up an edifying inventory: themes of conferences, titles of works and articles, job profiles or calls for projects show the impressive penetration of the new progressive science into French research. Because this movement goes far beyond Islamo-leftism alone. In fact, it aims to be, according to its own words, 'intersectional', that is to say, pointing out the convergence of <discriminations>>>> based on race, gender, sexuality, religion, ability physical, etc. However, far from being in the minority as it readily presents itself, the intersectional paradigm, as the Observatory of Decolonialism has just calculated, weighs no less than half of the items listed in the databases. in social sciences. Not that these themes should be rejected a priori: the question of gender, the history of slavery or the mental remnants of colonization are important and legitimate objects of study; but it is another thing to make it the exclusive reading prism of 'The affectio societatis, that is to say the common desire to associate, a condition of society, is filled by the denunciation of the fantasized mechanisms of 'domination' which seem to govern all human relationships. our societies. And it is yet another thing to decree the universal victimization of minorities by the 'domination' of the Western white male. In fact, the frequent breaches of the scientific approach are enough to make circular reasoning dizzy (the conclusion is already in the premise, as in the unstoppable 'racism being a white invention, there cannot be anti-white racism' ); denial of the facts (what about discrimination >>> within and between minorities?); blatant contradiction (race and gender are, it is said, only social constructions but, if one can change gender, it is on the other hand impossible to change race); double discourse (purely scientific display in public discourse, 'militant' claim in programmatic texts); research method based on interviews and feelings'; and when statistical data is used, concomitance, correlation and causality are blithely confused. This conceptual hodgepodge is in fact at the very heart of this new paradigm, where we slip without warning from differences to inequalities, and from inequalities to discrimination. So many breaches of the three rules of interpretation, decreed by the American epistemologist Hayden White, nevertheless one of the beacons of intellectual postmodernity: conformity to the facts, coherence." #IRLScholarPascalBruckner #IRLScholarPierreAndreTaguieff #OrgCentreNationalDeLaRechercheScientifiqueCNRSPhilippeDIribarne #IRLScholarNathalieHeinich #IRLScholarMathieuBockCote #PhenomnColonialismDe #AdvocacyFRLObservatoireDuDecolonialisme https://www.arretsurimages.net/articles/lobservatoire-du-decolonialisme-faux-think-tank-vrai-media-dopinion #OtheringDiscrimination #IRLHistorianHaydenWhite ^[Wikipedia] #TheoryPostmodern

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Supplementary #EDUFRSciencesPoCentreForEuropeanStudiesAndComparativePoliticsNonnaMayer https://www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etudes-europeennes/en/researcher/nonna-mayer.html #OrgCentreNationalDeLaRechercheScientifiqueCNRS

#PhenomnBrexit #NMUKBBCBreakfast #EventStGeorgesDay ^[Wikipedia] #PhenomnBrexitReality #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandSouthWestEnglandBristol #LiteralKillTheBillProtest #LegislationUK2022PoliceCrimeSentencingAndCourtsAct ^[Wikipedia] #EDUUKSchoolBatleyGrammar

"LEFTIES ARE SAYING THAT THE UNION JACK IS OFFENSIVE TO MUSLIMS AND FOREIGN VISITORS TO GREAT BRITAIN SHARE IF YOU COULDN'T GIVE A FUCK WHAT THESE IDIOTS THINK....." #TauntLefties #SymbolEmblemFlagUKUnionJack #IdentityMuslim #TauntFlagWaving #TheoryAffectiveResponseIndignation #PoliticsNationalismBritish #InvectiveFitInOrFuckOff? #ReasoningFallacyAppealToAnonymousAuthorityAKAWeaselWord ^{[Wikipedia] [fallacy]}

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Supplementary #AdvocacyUKHopeNotHateJoeMulhall "Union Jacks and the crosses of St George have begun to appear on lampposts up and down the UK in recent days. Much of the right-wing media has celebrated, with the Daily Mail dubbing those behind it an 'army of patriots.' While there is nothing wrong with flying the nation's flags, HOPE not hate can reveal that the key organisers behind much of this activism are hardened and extreme far-right activists. While many instances of flags being raised, or crosses being painted on roundabouts or walls, are being carried out by ordinary people inspired by posts on social media, the main organising force behind the campaign is 'Operation Raise the Colours'. HOPE not hate can reveal that the co-founder and organiser of the group is longtime Stephen Lennon (AKA Tommy Robinson) ally Andrew Currien (AKA Andy Saxon). Formerly a key member of the English Defence League's leadership bodyguard team, and now running security for the far-right party Britain First, Currien has previously been jailed for his part in a racist death." ^{[HOPE not hate]} #CampaignIdeologicalOperationRaiseTheColours ^{[Wikipedia] [skeet feed] [tweet feed]} #OrgSyndicateVigilanteUKRaiseTheColours ^[Wikipedia] #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUK #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMail #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #IRLIdeologueStephenYaxleyLennonAKATommyRobinson #IRLPrivateCitizenAndrewCurrienAKAAndySaxon #OrgClassifPPUKBritainFirst

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#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheObserverWillJennings "It was not the first time Musk has sought to stir division in Britain. At the height of tensions during the 2024 riots he announced to his 200 million X followers: 'Civil war is inevitable.' Addressing the protest organised by far-right activist Robinson in September, Musk again used inflammatory language: 'Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die, that's the truth.' ... While it was never perfect, X has become a pay-for-play playground for conspiracy theorists, racists, grifters and anyone else willing to buy a blue tick or boosted by Musk's algorithms because their message aligns with his dystopian worldview. Most of all, buying X gave Musk a huge foghorn that enables him to insert himself as the main character in any political conflict he chooses." https://observer.co.uk/news/opinion-and-ideas/article/elon-musk-wont-stop-its-time-the-british-government-got-off-x-for-good #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #BrandTechSocialMediaXFKATwitter #2024_UKFarRightProtests #MetaphorWarfareCivil #MetaphorDeceitDisingenuousGrift #NarrativeUtopiaDystopia

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#IRLYouTuberPatienceXina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYy-w2BNQGs #CatchcryDifferingOpinionsAsNeutralPerspectives #SymbolEmblemFlagPalestine #PhenomnPolarisationDivisiveIssue #IdentityLGBTQIAPrideFlag #IRLScholarKehindeAndrews #NMAUSkyNewsAustraliaChrisKenny #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMailJackHardy ^[Muckrack] #HandleTikTokHumanDilemma #PhenomnCulturalExpressionGraffiti #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandLondonTowerHamlets #IRLPoliticianLutfurRahman ^[Wikipedia] #HandleTikTokAllCruising #MetaphorVersusUsThemPatriotismIsLoveCriticismIsHate

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#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheObserverAndrewAnthony "Robert Eden, a longtime resident, is adamant that there is absolutely no bigotry involved. 'If I thought they were racist,' he says, 'I would go up every lamppost, wherever they are, and rip them down. They just want them to be racist to have something to say. They just want to complain.' Who are 'they'? 'Basically,' he says, lowering his voice conspiratorially, 'the Muslims.' There are certainly no complaints from two local Muslim cab drivers I speak to. 'I can't see the problem,' one says. 'If people want to be patriotic, let them. Some think it's far-right, but I don't think it is.'" https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/run-it-up-a-flagpole-and-see-if-it-really-is-patriotic #PhenomnBigotry #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandBirminghamWeoleyCastle ^[Wikipedia] #2025_ #OrgSyndicateLoyalistUKWeoleyWarriors #SymbolEmblemFlagUKStGeorge #PoliticsPatriotism #PoliticsNationalismXenophobicNativism #BehaviourInjuryFeelingRessentiment_ ?

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#MagazineNewStatesmanHarryClarkeEzzidio "'I don't really have an emotional response to it, [though] I think a lot of people do,' one of the shop's white customers - who did not want to give his name - said of the national flags whilst getting a skin fade. 'Unpacking that is a very, very complicated thing to do... They mean different things to different people.' When a symbol is so widely recognised, but has a malleable meaning and definition, scepticism abounds. ... 'The social contract's broken,' Joseph Moulton, the boyish-looking organiser behind Flag Force UK, told GB News. Wearing a crisp white shirt and gold cross pendant, he highlighted the gulf between the 'people [who]... want a cause' and 'completely out of touch councils'. " https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/society/2025/08/flags-and-loathing-in-birmingham #OrgSyndicateLoyalistUKFlagForceUKJosephMoulton https://flagforceuk.com/ #NMUKGBNews #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyMiriamCates #NMUKGBNewsCharliePeters #SymbolHairstyleSkinFade #TheoryTheSocialContract #BeliefTheismChristianityCross #TheorySymbolization #PhenomnGovernanceLocalGovCityCouncil ^[Wikipedia]

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#NewspaperUKOnlineDorsetEye "A self-styled 'community patrol' in Bournemouth has been exposed as a far-right vigilante operation steeped in anti-migrant hatred, despite its claims of neutrality and public service. The group, calling itself Safeguard Force, boasts of 200 volunteers and thousands of pounds in donations, but beneath its fluorescent vests lies a toxic mixture of racism, intimidation, and fantasies of violence against asylum seekers." https://dorseteye.com/behind-the-hi-vis-far-right-militias-masquerading-as-community-safety-in-dorset/ #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandDorsetBournemouth #OrgSyndicateVigilanteUKSafeguardForce ^[commentary] #CharacterisationVigilanteAndOrMilitia #PhenomnImmigrationRefugeeAsylumSeeker #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim #PowerControlMicrofascismIntimidation #PowerControlMicrofascismProvocation

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#NewspaperUKBrdshtBylineTimesOllyHaynes "However, Byline Times can reveal that one of Safeguard Force's founders, Gary Bartlett, a Dorset-based small businessman, helped organise protests against asylum seeker hotels and moderates a Facebook group containing Islamophobic and anti-migrant posts in which he asked for support for Safeguard Force. And a key spokesperson for the group stood for Reform this February. Bartlett is the admin, alongside a handful of others, of 'Taking Back Our Country', a Facebook group which organises nationalist and anti-migrant protests in Dorset." https://bylinetimes.com/2025/08/14/founders-of-apolitical-patrol-group-in-bournemouth-include-asylum-hotel-activist-and-reform-candidate/ #PhenomnImmigrationRefugeeAsylumAccommodation #EDUUKUniversityOfOxfordCentreOnMigrationPolicyAndSocietyCOMPASTheMigrationObservatory https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/asylum-accommodation-in-the-uk/ #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUK #HandleFacebookTakingBackOurCountry #IRLBusinesspersonGaryBartlett

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#VlogAITrailerHome Part One (from the beginning): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1CsqNOjy3s #SymbolEmblemFlagUKStGeorge #MetaphorVersusUsThem #LiteralAnimalLion #ConspiracyTheory_GreatReplacement #PhenomnNotInMyBackyardNIMBY ^[Wikipedia] #CharacterisationWeaknessComplainer #OrgClassifPPUKLabourSadiqKhan ? #IdentityLGBTQIABearPride #IdentityLGBTQIAPrideFlag #SymbolHairColourBlue #SymbolHijabNiqabBurqa #ToponymAfghanistan #LiteralPolice #CharacterisationTaxPayer #OrgRUSovietUnionOfSovietSocialistRepublicsUSSR i.e. #PoliticsCommunism #CatchcryBigGovernment #CharacterisationWeaknessPussy #CharacterisationWeaknessHypersensitivity #CharacterisationWeaknessVictimismVictimMentality #ReasoningFallacyStrawman #TheoryAffectiveResponsePanic #CatchcryDifferingOpinionsAsNeutralPerspectives #TauntHypocrisy #PhenomnPolemic Part Two (from halfway through): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1CsqNOjy3s&t=162s #PoliticsPatriotism #PoliticsNationalismRomantic #IRLHistoricalFigureWinstonChurchill #ToponymEuropeUKEngland_ #PoliticsNationalismBritishLion #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandLondonBuckinghamPalace #FictionalCharacter007JamesBond #IRLActorDanielCraig #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandLondonTowerBridge ^[Wikipedia] #IRLActorRowanAtkinson #SymbolNationalAnthem #SymbolEmblemFlagUAUkraine #SymbolEmblemFlagPKPakistan #SymbolEmblemFlagPalestine #OrgEUFlag #FictionalCharacterPaddingtonBear ^[Wikipedia] #IRLFamilyRoyalUKHRHQueenElizabethII #OrgUKBAFRoyalAirForceAerobaticTeamAKARedArrows ^[Wikipedia] #MetaphorVersusUsThemPatriotismIsLoveCriticismIsHate #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity

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#Website404Media ^[Wikipedia] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs47jAwWJcI https://www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-niche-machine-is-here/ #TechArtificialIntelligenceAIGenerativeAISlop ^{[pop culture wiki]}

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#NMUKSkyNewsKaterinaVittozzi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t0KU9SktT4&t=212s #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKNigelFarage #ToponymAfricaEastSomalia #OtheringHateIslamophobiaUnvettedYoungMaleRefugees #TheoryAffectiveResponseNarrative #MetaphorSpatialIslandNation #IdentityClassBlueCollar #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandYorkshireWestWakefield ?

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#NewspaperUKBrdshtBylineTimesNicolaKelly and #NewspaperUKBrdshtBylineTimesOllyHaynes ^[Muckrack] "The 'Raise the Colours' flag-raising campaign, which claims to be a 'grassroots' campaign for 'unity' and has drawn the support of mainstream political parties and widespread coverage in the British media, has pivoted to stabbing through dinghies and harassing and racially abusing migrants and aid workers in the camps of Northern France ... UKIP leader Nick Tenconi has also been seen in the camps targeting migrants. In one video, Tenconi is seen proclaiming: 'Northern France is now British territory!' Approaching a group in Calais, he shouted: 'You are not welcome in Britain', and asked if they were 'planning to come to Britain illegally.' Individuals acting alone have also been seen in the camps and on the beaches of northern France, including activists with large followings such as 'Ross the Don'. Charity workers say that the number of British far right groups attempting to harass and intimidate migrants and aid workers has increased since the signing of the UK-France 'one in, one out' deal." https://bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/raise-the-colours-flags-campaign-nigel-farage-migrants-aid-workers-on-french-beaches/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJw0CuQc3Kg #OrgClassifPPUKIndependencePartyUKIPNickTenconi #OrgSyndicateAccordGrassrootsMovement #BeliefTheismChristianityForgivenessMercy #IRLPrivateCitizenRossChildsAKARossTheDon ^{[forum] [tweet]} #BeliefTheismChristianityCrucifix #MetaphorWarfareBattleCapitulateSurrender ^[tweet]