Archived Tweets / Research Data
Codes & Themes w/wo Theoretical Memos
(derived through a process of inductive, qualitative, data analysis)
"EVERYONE NEEDS TO BUY AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE
I'LL BE ABLE TO CHARGE IT, RIGHT?
...RIGHT?"
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyGavinNewsom [Wikipedia] i.e. Democratic Party Governor of
#ToponymAmericaNorthUSCalifornia
#FictionalCharacterStarWarsPadmeAmidala [Wikipedia]
#LiteralVehicleCarPluginHybridElectricVehiclePHEV
Addendum Newsom's characterisation here is that of 'California progressivism', which is seemingly, out-of-touch with 'everyday people'; he (and his ilk) are weak while 'everyday people' are strong. #OtheringElitesOutOfTouchLatteSipping #CharacterisationWeaknessEffete #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionEverydayPeopleEveryman #MetaphorVersusEverydayPeopleLiberals
The above meme appears to be a repurposed version of #FictionalCharacterStarWarsAnakinSkywalker talking to Padmé Amidala e.g. https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/322841258/Anakin-Padme-4-Panel
Addendum Newsom's characterisation here is that of 'California progressivism', which is seemingly, out-of-touch with 'everyday people'; he (and his ilk) are weak while 'everyday people' are strong. #OtheringElitesOutOfTouchLatteSipping #CharacterisationWeaknessEffete #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionEverydayPeopleEveryman #MetaphorVersusEverydayPeopleLiberals
The above meme appears to be a repurposed version of #FictionalCharacterStarWarsAnakinSkywalker talking to Padmé Amidala e.g. https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/322841258/Anakin-Padme-4-Panel
"NOW HERE'S A TARGET WE CAN SUPPORT
ZERO GREENS BY 2025"
#SymbolEmblemFlagAustralia (with
#SymbolEmblemFlagUKUnionJack upper hoist quarter of the flag overtly visible).
#OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianGreensSarahHansonYoung
#OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianGreensAdamBandt
#OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianGreensLidiaThorpe [Instagram] [forum] The post is from 18 August 2020 - three months after George Floyd's murder on 25 May 2020. And so, presumably, the alteration/wearing of the
#SymbolEmblemFlagAustralianAboriginal [Government] is about showing solidarity with
#CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM
#SloganZeroGreensBy2025
#HandleFacebookAussieStuffForAussiesChrisoAken [tweet] [forum] [forum] [Instagram] [channel] [channel] [blog]
Context the meme includes a logo, which points to the 'Aussie Stuff for Aussies' Facebook Page. The page purports to be "Aussie satire with a splash of profanity" but, which includes multiple examples of #PoliticsNationalismWhite + #ConspiracyTheory_GreatReplacement, [forum] [forum] recycling memes such as #MemeHowToRuinACity as well as ads for #PoliticsNationalismAustralia (such as this image, which imagines Hanson as an Australian #IRLHistoricalFigureJoanOfArc - perhaps, acting under some sort of 'divine guidance' #PhenomnAgencyDivineRight - while casting her voters - through inference - as 'defenders' of the country's 'sanctity' #MetaphorWarfareHeroResistance) [forum] + #OrgClassifPPAUSOneNationPartyPaulineHanson and #PoliticsNationalismBritish supposed #MetaphorDogWhistleTakeBack marches [forum] [forum] [forum] including one of #IRLIdeologueStephenYaxleyLennonAKATommyRobinson's promoting his 'March For England' #MetaphorDeceitDisingenuousGrift scheduled for 13 September 2025 [forum] The clip is captioned with the: "WILL YOU BE SILENT OR WILL YOU ROAR 13th SEPTEMBER" call-to-action. And is seemingly, being organised by #OrgSyndicateHateGroupUKMarchForEnglandMFEDaveSmeeton [RationalWiki] [networks of influence] #AdvocacyUKHopeNotHateMatthewCollins "March For England, a kind of 'EDL lite' for aging football hooligans predates the EDL by several years, emerging from the now defunct United British Alliance. They are a separate entity to the younger EDL, however have co-operated closely when it has come to marches and demonstrations, taking part in each others events with activists overlapping both of the organisations." [HOPE not hate] #PoliticsNationalismBritish #OrgSyndicateHateGroupUKEnglishDefenceLeagueEDL #OrgSyndicateHateGroupUKUnitedBritishAllianceUBA [pdf] #OrgSyndicateHateGroupUKCasualsUnited [Wikipedia]
#NewspaperUKOnlineDorsetEye "[Stephen Yaxley-Lennon AKA Tommy Robinson] has a long history of misleading supporters, portraying himself as a persecuted patriot while using public donations to fund his personal life and legal problems. His so-called fight for 'freedom' is a lucrative business model built on fear and outrage. Supporters deserve honesty. When someone claims to be standing for truth but hides the truth about their own affairs, that is not leadership. It is deceit. The bankruptcy filings and public records make it clear that the problem was not persecution but mismanagement and dishonesty." https://dorseteye.com/ever-wondered-what-stephen-yaxley-lennon-spends-his-donations-on/ [jpg]
#NMAUSBSNewsElfyScott "Australia has also seen a number of anti-immigration marches in recent weeks. On Saturday, protesters marched in capital cities calling for an end to 'mass migration'. The lead organisers of that event posted a notice on their website distancing themselves from any connection with Tommy Robinson or his views. Two weeks earlier, there were the nationwide 'March for Australia' rallies, which were attended by members of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network and allowed neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell to address crowds in Melbourne. The March for Australia rallies also received notable support from far-right figures, including Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk. ... Callum Jones, a political extremism researcher from Monash University, told SBS News grievances such as economic and social uncertainty play a role in political mobilisation for the far right and these groups capitalise on issues such as housing and the high cost of living to gain momentum. 'In the same way, we saw large-scale political mobilisation around the COVID-19 period where you had a lot of people turn out [to protests] because of perceived infringements on civil liberties and they were turning to protest things like mask mandates and vaccine mandates,' he said. Jones said far-right politics focus on grievances and perceptions around 'entitlements or privileges or access to resources that are being taken away' and 'certain groups are scapegoated as being the people who have taken away those previously accessible resources or privileges'." https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/far-right-movements-australia-uk/qg4lpzb6n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byb0Xl0SpIA #CatchcryAussieAussieAussieOiOiOi [Wikipedia] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DikLFodkmY8 #EDUAUMonashUniversityCallumJones #EDUAUDeakinUniversityGregBarton #2025_MarchForAustralia #OrgSyndicateHateGroupAUNationalSocialistNetworkNSNThomasSewell [Wikipedia] [Wikipedia] #ToponymOceaniaAustraliaVICMelbourne #TheoryGrievancePolitics #PhenomnUncertainty #PhenomnVirusCOVID19Pandemic #CauseCivilLiberties #PhenomnMaskWearing #LiteralVaccineMandate #PhenomnMisdirectionScapegoating https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast/party-time
#NewspaperAUBrdshtTheAgeSherrynGroch and #NewspaperAUBrdshtTheAgeRachaelDexter "Footage analysed by this masthead as well as research group The White Rose Society shows neo-Nazi leadership played a key role at every major march held in capital cities on August 31, including Sydney, Hobart, Perth and Brisbane. The man who handed federal MP Bob Katter a rune-covered megaphone during the Townsville march can be revealed as the head of the NSN's north Queensland chapter, for example. Meanwhile, a March for Australia planning chat for Melbourne leaked to this masthead is stacked with known NSN members. Some have bragged of turning a crowd with just a handful of men. Others are calling for more violence - lionising the scenes that played out at the end of the Melbourne rally when Sewell and some of his followers allegedly stormed a nearby Indigenous camp and assaulted counter-protesters." [digital archives] #ToponymOceaniaAustraliaNSWSydney, #ToponymOceaniaAustraliaTasmaniaHobart, #ToponymOceaniaAustraliaWAPerth and #ToponymOceaniaAustraliaQLDBrisbane #IdentityFirstNationsAboriginalAndTorresStraitIslanderPeoples #IRLPersonalityInfluencerHugoLennonAKAAuspill #OrgSyndicateHateGroupUKCombat18AKAC18AKA318 [Wikipedia] #AdvocacyUSTheWhiteRoseSociety https://thewhiterosesociety.com/about/ #TVAUABCNews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYF3xnxxotQ
#NMUKITVChannel4News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-AtqNKmVj8 #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #BeliefTheismChristianityTheLordsPrayer [Wikipedia] #PhenomnRevolutionCultural #NarrativeValuesBritish #NarrativeValuesNormativeStatementTraditionalValues #2025_MarchForEnglandAKAUniteTheKingdom (including this meme, which uses the infantile 'rent boy' i.e. #IdentityLGBTQIA attack against #OrgClassifPPUKLabourKeirStarmer [forum]. #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyTonyGillias #AdvocacyUKStandUpToRacism https://standuptoracism.org.uk/whitehall-far-right-riot-is-a-wake-up-call-for-us-all/ #PhenomnPolarisationPoliticalTheBigSort #PhenomnImmigration #NMUKSkyNewsTomCheshire [Muckrack] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV92B4oR6FM #PoliticsNationalismChristian #IRLIdeologueKatieHopkins #IRLActorLaurenceFox #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #CatchcryFreeSpeechFreedomOfSpeech This post is followed by an image stating: "Vale Charlie" #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSACharlieKirk
#NMEUEuronewsGavinBlackburn [Muckrack] "But those remarks did not seem to cut much ice with Musk, who branded Farage 'weak' and threw his support behind the new Advance UK party, an offshoot of Reform founded by former deputy leader Ben Habib and backed by far-right activist Tommy Robinson. 'Advance UK will actually drive change,' Musk claimed in his X post. Musk was replying to a post by Robinson in which he urged former Reform MP Rupert Lowe to join Advance after an earlier split with Farage. 'Unfortunately, the reality is that Farage will do almost nothing to protect Britain. That is obvious,' Musk said of Farage in an earlier post. Habib founded Advance UK in June of this year, following disagreements with Farage that led to his departure from Reform UK in December. Situated at the same end of the political spectrum as right-wing Reform, Advance advocates for the UK's 'Christian constitution,' freedom of speech and adherence to UK law. Attention from Musk has boosted the influence of members of far-right fringe parties in the UK." https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/27/musk-brands-reform-uk-leader-farage-weak-sauce-after-illegal-immigration-crackdown-pledge #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyNigelFarage #LegislationEUEuropeanConventionOnHumanECHR #BrandTechSocialMediaXFKATwitter #OrgClassifPPUKRestoreBritainRupertLowe [Wikipedia] [Wikipedia] #PoliticsNationalismChristian #OrgClassifPPUKAdvanceUKPartyLtdBenyaminHabib [Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPUKIntegrityParty #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKZiaYusuf [Wikipedia]
Supplementary #MagazineNewStatesmanJuliaRampen [Muckrack] "By the time Robinson was released from prison in November 2014, a refugee crisis was engulfing Europe. Instead of returning to the streets of Britain, he travelled to Germany and sought to expand the country's anti-Islam movement, Pegida (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West). Next came Brexit, Donald Trump and a new term for a slippery, extremist ideology now dominating corners of the internet: the alt-right. Robinson spied an opportunity. He became a columnist for Canadian far-right website Rebel Media and cultivated a YouTube channel. Until being banned by Twitter earlier this year, he had 413,000 followers. ... But this was not the story the world heard. 'Reason *1776 for the original *Brexit. Don't let America follow in those footsteps,' tweeted Donald Trump Jr, the US president's eldest son, about the case. Conservative US radio host Rush Limbaugh acknowledged that Robinson had 'technically violated a judge's order', but told listeners that 'the real thing to take away from this story is that they categorise this guy as 'far right', which then permits them to spirit him away'. Australian supporters held rallies. In the UK, petitions to 'free Tommy Robinson' have attracted hundreds of thousands of signatures. 'I'm sick of being the silenced majority in my own country and I need people like Tommy to fight my corner,' one supporter wrote. On 9 June 2018, as many as 15,000 protesters gathered in central London under the *FreeTommy banner. To his supporters, Robinson is the victim of an oppressive state. Those watching the latest march felt differently; one described the mood to me as 'creepy and uncomfortable'. There is no doubt that, for many, it is Robinson the street fighter who most appeals. 'It is a class culture war,' Jonathan Rutherford, an academic and one of the leading Blue Labour thinkers, told me. Robinson the man, it seems, is less important than what he represents. 'Robinson is a tribune of that working-class white identity - although he'd probably not like the white identity bit,' said Rutherford. 'He's for them, and of them, and who else is?'" https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2018/06/how-tommy-robinson-became-folk-hero-global-alt-right #2014_ #2015_EuropeanMigrantCrisis #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim #OrgSyndicateHateGroupDEPatriotischeEuropaerGegenDieIslamisierungDesAbendlandesPEGIDA [Wikipedia] https://www.dw.com/en/german-issues-in-a-nutshell-pegida/a-39124630 #PhenomnBrexit #IRLBusinesspersonDonaldTrumpJr #IRLShockJockRushLimbaugh #ToponymOceaniaAustralia #CatchcrySilentMajority #MetaphorWarfareHeroFolk #MetaphorMartyrFreeSpeech #CampaignHashtagFreeTommy #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianMarkTownsend https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/29/tommy-robinson-far-right-resurgence-steve-bannon-us-support #IdentityClass #TheoryAffectiveResponseSecondClassCitizen #IRLScholarJonathanRutherford [Wikipedia] #AdvocacyUKBlueLabour [Wikipedia] #IdentityClassBlueCollarWhite
#OrgUKTheOxfordUnionSociety https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YQ94jFg_4A&t=56s #2015_ #AdvocacyUKUniteAgainstFascismUAF [Wikipedia] #AdvocacyUKNationalAssemblyAgainstRacismNAAR [Wikipedia] #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandBedfordshireLuton #OrgSyndicateTerrorismSAAlMuhajirounTheMagnificent19 [Wikipedia] #BeliefTheismIslamismMosque #TheoryPsychologyPsychosocialSocialChangeCoping [academic source]
#NMUKSkyNewsKaterinaVittozzi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO3d_oSIezQ&t=5s https://news.sky.com/story/flatplan-13433370 #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandYorkshireWestWakefield [Wikipedia] #PhenomnImmigrationRefugeeAsylumSeeker #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandYorkshireWestLeeds #PhenomnImmigrationRefugeeAsylumAccommodation #SloganProtectOurKids #MetaphorWarfareHeroGuardianOfChildhoodInnocence #AdvocacyUKStandUpToRacism [Wikipedia]
#VlogLotusEatersCarlBenjaminAKASargonOfAkkad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh6u8zmbtOo #IRLYouTuberGaryStevenson [Wikipedia] #PhenomnMulticulturalism #TauntLeftRadical #NarrativeUtopiaHomeland #MetaphorWarfareUnderAttack #PhenomnDemographyPieChart #TheoryDeclinismWhatHappened #ReasoningFallacyZeroSumThinking #TheoryAffectiveResponseSecondClassCitizen #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKVoter
#WebsiteTheConversationEdHarrison, #WebsiteTheConversationOliviaBrown "Last September, Reform leader Nigel Farage dismissed a policy of mass deportations as a 'political impossibility'. Now, a year on, the party has pledged to deport up to 600,000 illegal migrants and retrospectively strip indefinite leave to remain from people already settled in the UK. This is a drastic lurch to the right, even for Reform. Only last year the party was saying it seeks to represent the 'silent majority' and keep out 'extremists'. In explaining this shift, Reform politicians would probably claim this is what the silent majority wants. They would point to a hardening of public opinion on illegal migration." https://theconversation.com/inside-the-far-right-social-media-ecosystem-normalising-extremist-ideas-in-uk-politics-266948 #CharacterisationBoriswave #IRLDogmatistConnorTomlinson [Wikipedia] #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphStevenEdginton #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUK #MagazineUKTheSpectatorGusCarter "One of the striking aspects of the AfD's success in the German elections was the party's popularity among the young, especially men under 25: one in four voted for the hard-right movement. Support for bracingly conservative positions among Gen-Z men isn't just a German phenomenon, however. In Westminster and beyond, a new breed of young right-wing influencers is seeking to shift our politics. Meet the Zoomer Doomers." https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/meet-the-zoomer-doomers-britains-secret-right-wing-movement/ #OrgClassifPPDEAfDAlternativeFurDeutschland #MetaphorGenerationGenZ #PowerControlMicrofascismBullyingCyberTrolling #CharacterisationZoomerDoomer #PhenomnTacticFromPostingToPolicy
Addendum although, none of the above mentions the #SymbolEmblemFlagAustraliaEureka [Wikipedia] I am reminded of this symbol and its historical use within similar contexts in Australia. #ToponymOceaniaAustraliaVICBallarat [Wikipedia]
Context the meme includes a logo, which points to the 'Aussie Stuff for Aussies' Facebook Page. The page purports to be "Aussie satire with a splash of profanity" but, which includes multiple examples of #PoliticsNationalismWhite + #ConspiracyTheory_GreatReplacement, [forum] [forum] recycling memes such as #MemeHowToRuinACity as well as ads for #PoliticsNationalismAustralia (such as this image, which imagines Hanson as an Australian #IRLHistoricalFigureJoanOfArc - perhaps, acting under some sort of 'divine guidance' #PhenomnAgencyDivineRight - while casting her voters - through inference - as 'defenders' of the country's 'sanctity' #MetaphorWarfareHeroResistance) [forum] + #OrgClassifPPAUSOneNationPartyPaulineHanson and #PoliticsNationalismBritish supposed #MetaphorDogWhistleTakeBack marches [forum] [forum] [forum] including one of #IRLIdeologueStephenYaxleyLennonAKATommyRobinson's promoting his 'March For England' #MetaphorDeceitDisingenuousGrift scheduled for 13 September 2025 [forum] The clip is captioned with the: "WILL YOU BE SILENT OR WILL YOU ROAR 13th SEPTEMBER" call-to-action. And is seemingly, being organised by #OrgSyndicateHateGroupUKMarchForEnglandMFEDaveSmeeton [RationalWiki] [networks of influence] #AdvocacyUKHopeNotHateMatthewCollins "March For England, a kind of 'EDL lite' for aging football hooligans predates the EDL by several years, emerging from the now defunct United British Alliance. They are a separate entity to the younger EDL, however have co-operated closely when it has come to marches and demonstrations, taking part in each others events with activists overlapping both of the organisations." [HOPE not hate] #PoliticsNationalismBritish #OrgSyndicateHateGroupUKEnglishDefenceLeagueEDL #OrgSyndicateHateGroupUKUnitedBritishAllianceUBA [pdf] #OrgSyndicateHateGroupUKCasualsUnited [Wikipedia]
#NewspaperUKOnlineDorsetEye "[Stephen Yaxley-Lennon AKA Tommy Robinson] has a long history of misleading supporters, portraying himself as a persecuted patriot while using public donations to fund his personal life and legal problems. His so-called fight for 'freedom' is a lucrative business model built on fear and outrage. Supporters deserve honesty. When someone claims to be standing for truth but hides the truth about their own affairs, that is not leadership. It is deceit. The bankruptcy filings and public records make it clear that the problem was not persecution but mismanagement and dishonesty." https://dorseteye.com/ever-wondered-what-stephen-yaxley-lennon-spends-his-donations-on/ [jpg]
#NMAUSBSNewsElfyScott "Australia has also seen a number of anti-immigration marches in recent weeks. On Saturday, protesters marched in capital cities calling for an end to 'mass migration'. The lead organisers of that event posted a notice on their website distancing themselves from any connection with Tommy Robinson or his views. Two weeks earlier, there were the nationwide 'March for Australia' rallies, which were attended by members of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network and allowed neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell to address crowds in Melbourne. The March for Australia rallies also received notable support from far-right figures, including Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk. ... Callum Jones, a political extremism researcher from Monash University, told SBS News grievances such as economic and social uncertainty play a role in political mobilisation for the far right and these groups capitalise on issues such as housing and the high cost of living to gain momentum. 'In the same way, we saw large-scale political mobilisation around the COVID-19 period where you had a lot of people turn out [to protests] because of perceived infringements on civil liberties and they were turning to protest things like mask mandates and vaccine mandates,' he said. Jones said far-right politics focus on grievances and perceptions around 'entitlements or privileges or access to resources that are being taken away' and 'certain groups are scapegoated as being the people who have taken away those previously accessible resources or privileges'." https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/far-right-movements-australia-uk/qg4lpzb6n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byb0Xl0SpIA #CatchcryAussieAussieAussieOiOiOi [Wikipedia] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DikLFodkmY8 #EDUAUMonashUniversityCallumJones #EDUAUDeakinUniversityGregBarton #2025_MarchForAustralia #OrgSyndicateHateGroupAUNationalSocialistNetworkNSNThomasSewell [Wikipedia] [Wikipedia] #ToponymOceaniaAustraliaVICMelbourne #TheoryGrievancePolitics #PhenomnUncertainty #PhenomnVirusCOVID19Pandemic #CauseCivilLiberties #PhenomnMaskWearing #LiteralVaccineMandate #PhenomnMisdirectionScapegoating https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast/party-time
#NewspaperAUBrdshtTheAgeSherrynGroch and #NewspaperAUBrdshtTheAgeRachaelDexter "Footage analysed by this masthead as well as research group The White Rose Society shows neo-Nazi leadership played a key role at every major march held in capital cities on August 31, including Sydney, Hobart, Perth and Brisbane. The man who handed federal MP Bob Katter a rune-covered megaphone during the Townsville march can be revealed as the head of the NSN's north Queensland chapter, for example. Meanwhile, a March for Australia planning chat for Melbourne leaked to this masthead is stacked with known NSN members. Some have bragged of turning a crowd with just a handful of men. Others are calling for more violence - lionising the scenes that played out at the end of the Melbourne rally when Sewell and some of his followers allegedly stormed a nearby Indigenous camp and assaulted counter-protesters." [digital archives] #ToponymOceaniaAustraliaNSWSydney, #ToponymOceaniaAustraliaTasmaniaHobart, #ToponymOceaniaAustraliaWAPerth and #ToponymOceaniaAustraliaQLDBrisbane #IdentityFirstNationsAboriginalAndTorresStraitIslanderPeoples #IRLPersonalityInfluencerHugoLennonAKAAuspill #OrgSyndicateHateGroupUKCombat18AKAC18AKA318 [Wikipedia] #AdvocacyUSTheWhiteRoseSociety https://thewhiterosesociety.com/about/ #TVAUABCNews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYF3xnxxotQ
#NMUKITVChannel4News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-AtqNKmVj8 #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #BeliefTheismChristianityTheLordsPrayer [Wikipedia] #PhenomnRevolutionCultural #NarrativeValuesBritish #NarrativeValuesNormativeStatementTraditionalValues #2025_MarchForEnglandAKAUniteTheKingdom (including this meme, which uses the infantile 'rent boy' i.e. #IdentityLGBTQIA attack against #OrgClassifPPUKLabourKeirStarmer [forum]. #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyTonyGillias #AdvocacyUKStandUpToRacism https://standuptoracism.org.uk/whitehall-far-right-riot-is-a-wake-up-call-for-us-all/ #PhenomnPolarisationPoliticalTheBigSort #PhenomnImmigration #NMUKSkyNewsTomCheshire [Muckrack] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV92B4oR6FM #PoliticsNationalismChristian #IRLIdeologueKatieHopkins #IRLActorLaurenceFox #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #CatchcryFreeSpeechFreedomOfSpeech This post is followed by an image stating: "Vale Charlie" #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSACharlieKirk
#NMEUEuronewsGavinBlackburn [Muckrack] "But those remarks did not seem to cut much ice with Musk, who branded Farage 'weak' and threw his support behind the new Advance UK party, an offshoot of Reform founded by former deputy leader Ben Habib and backed by far-right activist Tommy Robinson. 'Advance UK will actually drive change,' Musk claimed in his X post. Musk was replying to a post by Robinson in which he urged former Reform MP Rupert Lowe to join Advance after an earlier split with Farage. 'Unfortunately, the reality is that Farage will do almost nothing to protect Britain. That is obvious,' Musk said of Farage in an earlier post. Habib founded Advance UK in June of this year, following disagreements with Farage that led to his departure from Reform UK in December. Situated at the same end of the political spectrum as right-wing Reform, Advance advocates for the UK's 'Christian constitution,' freedom of speech and adherence to UK law. Attention from Musk has boosted the influence of members of far-right fringe parties in the UK." https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/27/musk-brands-reform-uk-leader-farage-weak-sauce-after-illegal-immigration-crackdown-pledge #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyNigelFarage #LegislationEUEuropeanConventionOnHumanECHR #BrandTechSocialMediaXFKATwitter #OrgClassifPPUKRestoreBritainRupertLowe [Wikipedia] [Wikipedia] #PoliticsNationalismChristian #OrgClassifPPUKAdvanceUKPartyLtdBenyaminHabib [Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPUKIntegrityParty #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKZiaYusuf [Wikipedia]
Supplementary #MagazineNewStatesmanJuliaRampen [Muckrack] "By the time Robinson was released from prison in November 2014, a refugee crisis was engulfing Europe. Instead of returning to the streets of Britain, he travelled to Germany and sought to expand the country's anti-Islam movement, Pegida (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West). Next came Brexit, Donald Trump and a new term for a slippery, extremist ideology now dominating corners of the internet: the alt-right. Robinson spied an opportunity. He became a columnist for Canadian far-right website Rebel Media and cultivated a YouTube channel. Until being banned by Twitter earlier this year, he had 413,000 followers. ... But this was not the story the world heard. 'Reason *1776 for the original *Brexit. Don't let America follow in those footsteps,' tweeted Donald Trump Jr, the US president's eldest son, about the case. Conservative US radio host Rush Limbaugh acknowledged that Robinson had 'technically violated a judge's order', but told listeners that 'the real thing to take away from this story is that they categorise this guy as 'far right', which then permits them to spirit him away'. Australian supporters held rallies. In the UK, petitions to 'free Tommy Robinson' have attracted hundreds of thousands of signatures. 'I'm sick of being the silenced majority in my own country and I need people like Tommy to fight my corner,' one supporter wrote. On 9 June 2018, as many as 15,000 protesters gathered in central London under the *FreeTommy banner. To his supporters, Robinson is the victim of an oppressive state. Those watching the latest march felt differently; one described the mood to me as 'creepy and uncomfortable'. There is no doubt that, for many, it is Robinson the street fighter who most appeals. 'It is a class culture war,' Jonathan Rutherford, an academic and one of the leading Blue Labour thinkers, told me. Robinson the man, it seems, is less important than what he represents. 'Robinson is a tribune of that working-class white identity - although he'd probably not like the white identity bit,' said Rutherford. 'He's for them, and of them, and who else is?'" https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2018/06/how-tommy-robinson-became-folk-hero-global-alt-right #2014_ #2015_EuropeanMigrantCrisis #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim #OrgSyndicateHateGroupDEPatriotischeEuropaerGegenDieIslamisierungDesAbendlandesPEGIDA [Wikipedia] https://www.dw.com/en/german-issues-in-a-nutshell-pegida/a-39124630 #PhenomnBrexit #IRLBusinesspersonDonaldTrumpJr #IRLShockJockRushLimbaugh #ToponymOceaniaAustralia #CatchcrySilentMajority #MetaphorWarfareHeroFolk #MetaphorMartyrFreeSpeech #CampaignHashtagFreeTommy #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianMarkTownsend https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/29/tommy-robinson-far-right-resurgence-steve-bannon-us-support #IdentityClass #TheoryAffectiveResponseSecondClassCitizen #IRLScholarJonathanRutherford [Wikipedia] #AdvocacyUKBlueLabour [Wikipedia] #IdentityClassBlueCollarWhite
#OrgUKTheOxfordUnionSociety https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YQ94jFg_4A&t=56s #2015_ #AdvocacyUKUniteAgainstFascismUAF [Wikipedia] #AdvocacyUKNationalAssemblyAgainstRacismNAAR [Wikipedia] #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandBedfordshireLuton #OrgSyndicateTerrorismSAAlMuhajirounTheMagnificent19 [Wikipedia] #BeliefTheismIslamismMosque #TheoryPsychologyPsychosocialSocialChangeCoping [academic source]
#NMUKSkyNewsKaterinaVittozzi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO3d_oSIezQ&t=5s https://news.sky.com/story/flatplan-13433370 #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandYorkshireWestWakefield [Wikipedia] #PhenomnImmigrationRefugeeAsylumSeeker #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandYorkshireWestLeeds #PhenomnImmigrationRefugeeAsylumAccommodation #SloganProtectOurKids #MetaphorWarfareHeroGuardianOfChildhoodInnocence #AdvocacyUKStandUpToRacism [Wikipedia]
#VlogLotusEatersCarlBenjaminAKASargonOfAkkad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh6u8zmbtOo #IRLYouTuberGaryStevenson [Wikipedia] #PhenomnMulticulturalism #TauntLeftRadical #NarrativeUtopiaHomeland #MetaphorWarfareUnderAttack #PhenomnDemographyPieChart #TheoryDeclinismWhatHappened #ReasoningFallacyZeroSumThinking #TheoryAffectiveResponseSecondClassCitizen #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKVoter
#WebsiteTheConversationEdHarrison, #WebsiteTheConversationOliviaBrown "Last September, Reform leader Nigel Farage dismissed a policy of mass deportations as a 'political impossibility'. Now, a year on, the party has pledged to deport up to 600,000 illegal migrants and retrospectively strip indefinite leave to remain from people already settled in the UK. This is a drastic lurch to the right, even for Reform. Only last year the party was saying it seeks to represent the 'silent majority' and keep out 'extremists'. In explaining this shift, Reform politicians would probably claim this is what the silent majority wants. They would point to a hardening of public opinion on illegal migration." https://theconversation.com/inside-the-far-right-social-media-ecosystem-normalising-extremist-ideas-in-uk-politics-266948 #CharacterisationBoriswave #IRLDogmatistConnorTomlinson [Wikipedia] #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphStevenEdginton #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUK #MagazineUKTheSpectatorGusCarter "One of the striking aspects of the AfD's success in the German elections was the party's popularity among the young, especially men under 25: one in four voted for the hard-right movement. Support for bracingly conservative positions among Gen-Z men isn't just a German phenomenon, however. In Westminster and beyond, a new breed of young right-wing influencers is seeking to shift our politics. Meet the Zoomer Doomers." https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/meet-the-zoomer-doomers-britains-secret-right-wing-movement/ #OrgClassifPPDEAfDAlternativeFurDeutschland #MetaphorGenerationGenZ #PowerControlMicrofascismBullyingCyberTrolling #CharacterisationZoomerDoomer #PhenomnTacticFromPostingToPolicy
Addendum although, none of the above mentions the #SymbolEmblemFlagAustraliaEureka [Wikipedia] I am reminded of this symbol and its historical use within similar contexts in Australia. #ToponymOceaniaAustraliaVICBallarat [Wikipedia]
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@JoannPearse [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [15]: "Why is the actual working class overwhelmingly not on the Left?"
The "radical" "Left" sold them out in favor of #woke #intersectionality.
As for the liberal left, Chris Hedges lays it all out:
[URL redacted] [URL redacted]
#TauntLeftRadical
#AdvocacyUSMediaAllianceIncTheSanctuaryForIndependentMedia #IRLJournalistChrisHedges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYCvSntOI5s
"...and we have to recover that we have to remember that it is not our job to take power that's not our job our job is to remain fast around moral imperatives that we do not compromise on it is our job to defend a dispossessed working class it is our job to defend sick children it is our job to defend those uh who are being uh tortured abused and killed in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan because of our rapacious and out of control War economy and we have to beginning be willing to get up and make personal sacrifices on behalf of these moral imperatives even if at first we become parias that is the only hope left anybody who's foolish enough to think that going to a ballot box at this point and voting for a Democratic candidate is going to change anything um I think is as is is living in a universe that is as non-reality based as the Christian right and if we can recover that ethic if we can understand that Rebellion or resistance is a way to safeguard our own Integrity our own individuality if we can look down the long term and say maybe not in our lifetime but we will carry this for the generations that come after then I think we can speak about Hope but if we refuse to do this if we remain passive and complacent then I think both our nation and finally the ecosystem that sustains human life is doomed" (17 October 2010).
#PoliticsPacifism
#2010_DeathOfTheLiberalClass [Wikipedia]
#TheorySociologyIntersectionality
#TauntBigBusinessCorporateCorporations
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticParty
#MetaphorVersusConservativesLiberals
#MetaphorVersusSocialismCapitalism
#PoliticsSocialism
#BeliefTheismChristianityChurch
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSWoodrowWilson
#NarrativeWarWWI
#PhenomnPropaganda
#OrgUSCommitteeOnPublicInformationCPICreelCommittee [Wikipedia]
#IRLJournalistGeorgeCreel
#IRLScholarEdwardBernays
#IRLPhysicianSigmundFreud
#IRLPhysicianGustaveLeBon [Wikipedia]
#IRLPhysicianWilfredTrotter [Wikipedia]
#1995_PeoplesCenturyS1E21914KillingFields [imdb]
#1918_TheKaiserTheBeastOfBerlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtZL7RzBKEs&t=1591s
https://lostmediawiki.com/The_Kaiser,_the_Beast_of_Berlin_(lost_propaganda_melodrama_film;_1918)
#TheoryAffectiveEconomies
#PoliticsCommunism
#TheoryPoliticsOfFear
#MetaphorWarfareEnemyWithin
#IRLActivistEmmaGoldman
#IRLHistoricalFigureKarlMarx
#MetaphorWarfarePermanent
#BehaviourVigilance
#MetaphorWitchHunt
#PoliticsProgressivismSocialLiberalism
#LegislationUS1947LaborManagementRelationsActTaftHartleyAct [Wikipedia]
#IdentityClassBlueCollar
#LegislationUS1994NorthAmericanFreeTradeAgreementNAFTA
#PoliticsCapitalism
#PoliticsDemocracy
#PoliticsDemocracyCapitalist
#PoliticsStatusQuo
#PhenomnSkepticismRadical
#NarrativeWarAmericaVietnam
#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSRonaldReagan
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSBillClinton
#LegislationUS1996CongressPersonalResponsibilityAndWorkOpportunityReconciliationActPRWORA [Wikipedia]
#LegislationUS1999CongressGrammLeachBlileyActGLBA AKA #LegislationUS1999CongressFinancialServicesModernizationAct [Wikipedia]
#CauseCivilLiberties
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyDennisKucinich [Wikipedia]
#IRLActivistRalphNader
#IRLHistoricalFigureFyodorDostoevsky
#1864_NotesFromUnderground
#TheoryNihilism
#IRLDogmatistGlennBeck
#TheoryMaterialismChristian
#PoliticsNationalismChristian
#BeliefTheismChristianityGospel
#2007_AmericanFascistsTheChristianRightAndTheWarOnAmerica
#IRLPoetYusefKomunyakaa
#TheoryInvertedTotalitarianism [Wikipedia]
#PoliticsCapitalismCommodification
#ToponymEastMiddleIraq
#ToponymAfghanistan
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSBarackObama
Context https://www.mediasanctuary.org/about/
Context https://www.mediasanctuary.org/about/
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@MackenzieCarbonari [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [28]: In #England, the tyranny of political correctness is amazing. Those rank and file policemen are left unprotected from the #woke mob by a servile government. On the Continent, like in #France, thanks to a different law system, individual liberties are for now more preserved. [URL redacted]
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@CyrilGeorge [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [164]: @JohnnyTYKE Delusions of grandeur, the #woke #comics, #comedians_last_jobs of the loony left or timid right are a short term phenomenon. I am looking to re-emergence of #spittingimage with great hope for a non-PC free speech alternative not afraid of “Trumping†the #trots of the #Leftwaffe [URL redacted]
"Problem is Kung-flu is a masterful piece of lampooning, that lost art which saw Victorians cartooning farting Kings and politicians in Punch magazine. The PC world, the hijackers of words like ISLAMOPHOBE (of sound provenance dating back to Greek in use 1300 years before Mohammed in a New Testament reference to FEAR of the Jews, of all things), the Woke, the BAME (who know not Wilberforce) the genderfluids, the misandrists, the feminista- shortlista's have destroyed the kind of satirical comedy of TWTWTW, Monty Python, Spitting Image (even Dad's Army, 'Allo,'Allo and Hi-de- hi)."
#PoliticallyCorrectPC
#IdentityBlackAsianAndMinorityEthnicBAME [Government]
#IRLHistoricalFigureWilliamWilberforce ?
#OtheringHateMisandry
#CauseFeminism "feminista-shortlista" ?
#TVThatWasTheWeekThatWasTWTWTW ? [Wikipedia]
#OrgUKMontyPython
#TVDadsArmy
#TVAlloAllo
#TVHiDeHi
Context "President Trump's first use of the phrase 'kung flu' -- during a campaign rally in Tulsa last weekend -- drew broad political backlash as a racist slur against Asian Americans. Within three days, however, it was also something else: a rallying cry for his supporters." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-kung-flu-trump-sparks-backlash-over-racist-language--and-a-rallying-cry-for-supporters/2020/06/24/485d151e-b620-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #SlurKungFlu #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSAAction #ToponymAmericaNorthUSOklahomaTulsa #IdentityAmericanAsian "Donald Trump used racist language to describe the coronavirus pandemic at a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by terming the virus as the 'kung flu'. ... Trump has repeatedly tried to term Covid-19 as the 'Chinese virus' or the 'Wuhan virus' which has prompted outrage from many civil liberties groups, who have warned that such language can inspire racism and violence against Asian Americans. But in Tulsa Trump appeared to go even further in his use of racist language. 'It has more names than any disease in history. I can name kung flu. I can name 19 different versions of names,' he said to cheers from the crowd. Trump has previously defended his language around linking the virus to China. Speaking at a daily coronavirus task force briefing in March, he said it was 'not racist at all. It comes from China. I want to be accurate.'" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/20/trump-covid-19-kung-flu-racist-language #PhenomnVirusCOVID19 #SlurChinaWuhanVirus #CauseCivilLiberties
Supplementary "Using the concept of displaced abjection, this chapter discusses how the Trump carnival, populist as it is, is not focused on ridiculing or challenging elites, but instead punching down, by targeting marginalized groups. Through displaced abjection, we see how the Trump carnival is centered on licensing and encouraging transgressions against specific democratic norms that affirm human dignity and equality. Trump, by humiliating and insulting age-old enemies, translates what is broadly considered unacceptable and undemocratic behavior into a transgressive, carnivalesque politics of violating fundamental democratic norms of equality, dignity, and pluralism" (Gaufman, E. & Ganesh, B., 2024, p.51,52). [academic source] Gaufman, E. & Ganesh, B. (2024). 'Chapter 5: Displaced Abjection. In The Trump Carnival: Populism, Transgression and the Far Right' (pp. 51-64). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. #EDUNLRijksuniversiteitGroningenRUGElizavetaGaufman [Wikipedia] #IRLScholarBharathGanesh #TheoryDisplacedAbjection #CharacterisationMonsterDemonisation #IRLPhilosopherMikhailBakhtin [encyclopædia] [Wikipedia] #TheoryCarnivalesque [Wikipedia]
Addendum this justification has multiple problems. It seeks to conflate genuine satire (related to the criticism of imbalances of power) with Trump's ham-fisted racial slur. And then, it attempts to justify the bullying by using #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTradition (as if the process of repeating a slur transforms it into critique). It then uses a #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism to justify #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim through conflating it with #OtheringHateAntisemitism (as if the forms of discrimination are somehow opposed to each other - rather than simply being two different forms - and so, are able to cancel each other out). It then attempts to pass off a generalised attack on various issues, which have received significant profile contemporarily i.e. #_CondemnationGender followed up with a plug for some dated #LiteralClassicBritishTV (whose humour is the product of the time when they were produced).
Context "President Trump's first use of the phrase 'kung flu' -- during a campaign rally in Tulsa last weekend -- drew broad political backlash as a racist slur against Asian Americans. Within three days, however, it was also something else: a rallying cry for his supporters." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-kung-flu-trump-sparks-backlash-over-racist-language--and-a-rallying-cry-for-supporters/2020/06/24/485d151e-b620-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #SlurKungFlu #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSAAction #ToponymAmericaNorthUSOklahomaTulsa #IdentityAmericanAsian "Donald Trump used racist language to describe the coronavirus pandemic at a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by terming the virus as the 'kung flu'. ... Trump has repeatedly tried to term Covid-19 as the 'Chinese virus' or the 'Wuhan virus' which has prompted outrage from many civil liberties groups, who have warned that such language can inspire racism and violence against Asian Americans. But in Tulsa Trump appeared to go even further in his use of racist language. 'It has more names than any disease in history. I can name kung flu. I can name 19 different versions of names,' he said to cheers from the crowd. Trump has previously defended his language around linking the virus to China. Speaking at a daily coronavirus task force briefing in March, he said it was 'not racist at all. It comes from China. I want to be accurate.'" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/20/trump-covid-19-kung-flu-racist-language #PhenomnVirusCOVID19 #SlurChinaWuhanVirus #CauseCivilLiberties
Supplementary "Using the concept of displaced abjection, this chapter discusses how the Trump carnival, populist as it is, is not focused on ridiculing or challenging elites, but instead punching down, by targeting marginalized groups. Through displaced abjection, we see how the Trump carnival is centered on licensing and encouraging transgressions against specific democratic norms that affirm human dignity and equality. Trump, by humiliating and insulting age-old enemies, translates what is broadly considered unacceptable and undemocratic behavior into a transgressive, carnivalesque politics of violating fundamental democratic norms of equality, dignity, and pluralism" (Gaufman, E. & Ganesh, B., 2024, p.51,52). [academic source] Gaufman, E. & Ganesh, B. (2024). 'Chapter 5: Displaced Abjection. In The Trump Carnival: Populism, Transgression and the Far Right' (pp. 51-64). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. #EDUNLRijksuniversiteitGroningenRUGElizavetaGaufman [Wikipedia] #IRLScholarBharathGanesh #TheoryDisplacedAbjection #CharacterisationMonsterDemonisation #IRLPhilosopherMikhailBakhtin [encyclopædia] [Wikipedia] #TheoryCarnivalesque [Wikipedia]
Addendum this justification has multiple problems. It seeks to conflate genuine satire (related to the criticism of imbalances of power) with Trump's ham-fisted racial slur. And then, it attempts to justify the bullying by using #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTradition (as if the process of repeating a slur transforms it into critique). It then uses a #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism to justify #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim through conflating it with #OtheringHateAntisemitism (as if the forms of discrimination are somehow opposed to each other - rather than simply being two different forms - and so, are able to cancel each other out). It then attempts to pass off a generalised attack on various issues, which have received significant profile contemporarily i.e. #_CondemnationGender followed up with a plug for some dated #LiteralClassicBritishTV (whose humour is the product of the time when they were produced).
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