"The basics of your iPhone, Samsung and Tesla... But nice and 'green' busy so you can sleep well again on your bio pillow and recycled bed.. hm? Would these children also be so concerned about the climate, or when they will have food again..." #BrandAppleiPhone #BrandSamsung #BrandTesla #PhenomnEnergyRenewableGreenEnergy #PhenomnClimateChange #MetaphorVersusCostEnvironment i.e. #ReasoningFallacyFalseDilemmaDichotomy

#PhenomnMiningCobalt #ToponymAfricaCentralDemocraticRepublicOfCongoKolwezi #HandleTikTokAncientCiv: ^{[video clip]} #VlogJoeRoganExperienceJRE

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Context #OrgFRAgenceFrancePresseAFP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmqf0L52rD8 "Five thousand diggers pack tightly together at the bottom of a crater in southeastern DR Congo, swinging hammers and picks to prise chunks of speckled blue-gold ore from the earth. The huge pit in Shabara, about 45 kilometres (30 miles) from Kolwezi, is home to cobalt - a strategic metal found in abundance in the impoverished central African nation. But it's also emblematic of a headache. The mining has been carrying on for years in flagrant violation of DRC laws and in defiance of the site's owner, a subsidiary of mining and commodities giant Glencore." #BrandGlencoreMutandaMineShabara https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/11/4/dr-congos-faltering-fight-against-illegal-cobalt-mines And https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893248/red-cobalt-congo-drc-mining-siddharth-kara #PhenomnMiningArtisanal

#BrandDisney #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSJoeBiden #CatchcryTrumpTrain #ConspiracyTheory_StolenElectionBigLie #IdentityLGBTQIA #PhenomnVirusCOVID19 #InvectiveFuckJoeBidenFJB #ConspiracyTheory_COVID19PlandemicScamdemic #CharacterisationWeaknessLaughingStock #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #BrandTechSocialMediaXFKATwitter #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyHillaryClinton #ConspiracyTheory_CabalPizzagate ^[Wikipedia] #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseFakeNews #CatchcryFreeSpeechFreedomOfSpeech #MetaphorWarfareSoldierFighter #LiteralFieldEconomicsInflationGasPrices

"Have you ever wondered who all of those people are who leave lies and hateful comments about President Trump on social media? Racks of mobile phones in China, controlled by a central computer, spreads propaganda for Democrats" ^[jpg] #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #ToponymAsiaChina #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseFakeNews #BrandTechSocialMediaXFKATwitterBotClickFarm #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticParty

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Context #WebsiteHuffPostMichaelRundle "the photo is completely unsourced, low-quality and unverified -- so while many have speculated this is evidence of ranking manipulation 'farms', that's not quite right. The presence of the iPhone 5C suggests it's a relatively recent picture" https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/02/05/china-app-store-manipulation-photo_n_6620376.html #BrandAppleiPhone

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Supplementary #NMUSCNNClarissaWard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbHI9lq0cTg https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/03/12/russian-trolls-ghana-ward-pkg-vpx.cnn #ToponymAfricaWestGhana #AdvocacyGHEliminatingBarriersForTheLiberationOfAfricaEBLA #AdvocacyUSGermanMarshallFundOfTheUnitedStatesGMF ^[Wikipedia] #AdvocacyUSAllianceForSecuringDemocracyASD "Eliminating Barriers for the Liberation of Africa (EBLA) is a small non-profit group renting a compound for near Accra, Ghana. It housed 16 Ghanaians pretending to be Americans stoking racial division on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. The trolls were hired in the second half of 2019, and late in the year EBLA expanded to Nigeria. In January 2020, EBLA advertised a position in Charleston, South Carolina. Ghanaian security services determined that all of EBLA's funding had secretly come from Russia. Facebook took down the accounts, which they determined were operating 'on behalf of individuals in Russia ... Although the people behind this activity attempted to conceal their purpose and coordination, our investigation found links to EBLA, an NGO in Ghana, and individuals associated with past activity by the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA).'" https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/incident/russia-funded-troll-farm-targeting-americans-runs-out-of-africa-as-a-non-profit-front-group/ #2019_ #PhenomnPolarisationDivisiveIssue #BrandTechMetaFacebook #BrandTechMetaInstagram #ToponymAfricaWestNigeria #ToponymAmericaNorthUSSouthCarolinaCharleston #AdvocacyRUInternetResearchAgencyIRA ^[Wikipedia] #ToponymRussia #PhenomnTrustworthinessMistrust #OrgUAPMCWagnerYevgenyPrigozhin ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPRUSUnitedRussiaVladimirPutin

#PhenomnMaskWearing #ToponymEuropeUkraine #DescriptionBirthingPeople #PhenomnClimateChange #OtheringCaricatureHipster #TauntVirtueSignalling #BrandAppleiPhone i.e. "iVirtue" #AdvocacyCADemocracyFund #LogoTwoPeaks #CaricaturistBobMoran

#PhenomnMaskWearing #ToponymEuropeUkraine #DescriptionBirthingPeople #PhenomnClimateChange #OtheringCaricatureHipster #TauntVirtueSignalling #BrandAppleiPhone i.e. "iVirtue" #AdvocacyCADemocracyFund #CaricaturistBobMoran

#MetaphorRosieTheRiveter #CauseFeminism #MetaphorTransformationEvolution #NMUSMSNBCRachelMaddow #IRLActorBrieLarson #IRLSportspersonLiaThomas

#PhenomnStudentLoanDebt

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Addendum i.e. an attack on #MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation

#BrandStarbucksCorporation #BrandAppleiPhone #PhenomnBodyAdornmentTattoo #BrandGucci #PhenomnCableTV #LiteralSubstanceDrugCocaine

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Context #MemeDrowningInShallowWater ^[commentary] "HELP! I can't afford my students loans! Starbucks, cable TV, useless major, new i-phone, Gucci, eating out, tattoos, cocaine"

#BrandAppleiPhone #IdentityLGBTQIATransmasculine #SymbolEmoji

#TheoryAffectiveResponseAnxiety #IRLSingerSongwriterTomMacDonald

#IRLSingerSongwriterTomMacDonald #2021_TomMacDonaldSnowflakes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCMwlorNEZk #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake #TheoryAffectiveResponseOutrage #OtheringCaricatureTriggered #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #PleaPronouns #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation #BeliefTheismChristianity #BehaviourToleranceIn #TauntWokeInsincerity #PleaRespect #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionValues #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseFakeNews #PoliticsNationalismConservative #CharacterisationOversimplification #PleaOrderStableSocial #NarrativeStableMorality #PoliticsCommunism #PoliticsDemocracy #PoliticsPatriotism #CatchcryIdentityPolitics #PoliticsFascismNazi #PhenomnWomensSport #IdentityLGBTQIATrans #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #BrandTechSocialMediaXFKATwitter #BrandStarbucksCorporation #BrandAppleiPhone #TauntBigPharma #NarrativeTruthAssaultOn

#EDUUSHillsdaleCollege / #IRLBusinesspersonVivekRamaswamy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5gwJ382dIw #OrgClassifPPCNChineseCommunistPartyCCP

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Context #TauntWokeCulture #OtheringDiscriminationRacismStructuralSystemicInstitutional #PoliticsGeoExceptionalismAmerican #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyAyannaPressley #SymbolTakeAKneeGenuflectionKneeling #2007_GlobalFinancialCrisisGFC #CatchcryFreeSpeechFreedomOfSpeech #AdvocacyUSCatoInstitute ^[Wikipedia] #PhenomnRevolutionCultural #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #TauntWokeism #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #IRLHistoricalFigureKarlMarx #PoliticsStatusQuo #TheoryPerformativeCorporateAllyship / #TauntBigBusinessCorporateCorporations #TauntLeftThe #2011_OccupyWallStreet #BrandGoldmanSachs #TauntBigTech #TauntWokeAgendaIdeologyIdeologue #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #BrandCokeCocaCola #BrandAmericanAirlines #OrgUSNFL #TauntBaizuo #IdentityUyghur #BrandAppleiPhone #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #BrandDisney #IRLSportspersonLeBronJames #OrgUSNBA #PhenomnVirusCOVID19 #SlurChinaWuhanVirus #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSRonaldReagan #PhenomnCensorshipOfSocialMedia #OtheringHateSpeech #LegislationUS1996CommunicationsDecencyActCDASection230 #LegislationUS1789ConstAmdt1AFirst #PoliticsLibertarianism #_Focal ?

#TVTheSimpsonsLisa #TauntEncyclopaediaOfOutrages #BrandAppleiPhone

#ToponymAsiaChina #WebsiteRealClearEnergyRCEJoelKotkin "Like the rest of the country, although far less than New York, California is suffering through the Covid-19 crisis. But in California, the pandemic seems likely to give the state's political and corporate elites a new license to increase their dominion while continuing to keep the middle and working classes down. Perhaps nothing spells the triumph of California's progressive oligarchy more than Governor Gavin Newsom's decision to off-load the state's recovery strategy to a task force co-chaired by hedge-fund billionaire Tom Steyer. A recently failed presidential candidate, Steyer stands as a progressive funder. He is as zealous as he is rich. Steyer sometimes even found the policies adopted by climate-obsessed former governor Jerry Brown not extreme enough for his tastes." https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2020/04/27/triumph_of_the_woke_oligarchs_490094.html #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyGavinNewsom #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyJerryBrown ^[Wikipedia] #TheoryDragonsOfInactionPerceivedRiskFinancial

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Supplementary #WebsiteTheDailyBeastKevinPoulsen and #WebsiteTheDailyBeastMaxwellTani "The company behind the non-partisan news site RealClearPolitics has been secretly running a Facebook page filled with far-right memes and Islamophobic smears, The Daily Beast has learned. ... It's a far cry from the usual fare on RealClearPolitics. Founded in 2000, the site was an early online aggregator of political news, curating links to widely read politics stories and opinion articles in other major outlets. ... The Daily Beast connected ConservativeCountry.net to RealClear through archives on the Wayback Machine, which show that the website had RealClear's Google Analytics tracker code and that some of the site's images were served from the WordPress account of RealClear's chief technology officer. Interviews with former editorial staff of ConservativeCountry.net confirmed that it was a stealth RealClear property. ... Conservative Country isn't the first ultra-partisan title that's been connected to RealClear. A 2017 SEC filing listed RealClear co-founder John McIntyre as a director at FDRLST Media and put both companies at the same Chicago address. FDRLST Media is the parent company of The Federalist... RealClear didn't respond to questions about the Facebook page but acknowledged that it created the website. 'The Conservative Country website was created as part of an effort to understand the flow of traffic from social media--particularly Facebook--to political websites,' said RealClear CTO Anand Ramanujan in an email to The Daily Beast. 'There are no other non-RealClear titles out there.'" https://redgreenandblue.org/2020/09/30/realclearenergy-really-clearly-invested-climate-change-denial/ #BrandTechMetaFacebook #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim #OrgUSInternetArchiveWaybackMachine #WebsiteRealClearPoliticsRCP #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyBetoORourke #WebsiteConservativeCountry #WebsiteRealClearMedia #IRLCampaignAdvisorSteveCortes #BrandFDRLSTMediaJohnMcIntyre #WebsiteRealClearAnandRamanujan #WebsiteAmericanThinkerThomasLifson

#MetaphorVersusCostEnvironment "The predictably pious Steyer and his fellow commissioners will no doubt claim devotion to the interests of average citizen. But, as a new lawsuit filed by some 300 civil rights leaders asserts, the policies being backed by Steyer and his fellow commissioners have already had produced disastrous results for millions of Californians. The real collective badge of shame is not California's GHG [Green House Gas] emissions but the prevalence of poverty amid enormous affluence. Critically, economic growth, at least outside asset- and iPhone-price inflation, is itself considered a threat to the planet within the environmental community, which largely hails the Covid lockdowns as a 'fire drill' for future actions to promote 'de-growth.' The open hope, as a Psychology Today writer puts it, would be to tame 'the human beast' by imposing low-consumption lifestyles on hoi polloi, including in developing countries. Such policies might not affect the prospects for social media, search, or import- dependent firms like Apple, but they have already been beastly for millions of Californians." #IRLBusinesspersonTomSteyer #CauseCivilRights #ToponymAmericaNorthUSCalifornia #LiteralSubstanceGasToxicAirEmissions #PhenomnDeprivationPoverty #BrandAppleiPhone #PhenomnVirusCOVID19PandemicMitigationLockdown #MagazineUSPsychologyTodayNigelBarber