#ToponymAmericaNorthUSCalifornia #ReasoningFallacyOfIncompleteEvidenceCherryPicking #MetaphorVersusRightWingLeftWing #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSA

#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyGavinNewsom ^[Wikipedia] #PhenomnDeprivationUnhoused #MetaphorVersusSimpleComplexAnswers

#MetaphorPeriodization1980s #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength #MetaphorWarfareHeroAction #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverHyper #IRLActorSylvesterStallone #IRLActorArnoldSchwarzenegger #IRLActorJeanClaudeVanDamme #IRLActorDolphLundgren #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #IRLActorTomHolland #IRLActorBenedictCumberbatch #IRLActorEzraMiller e.g. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ezra-miller-on-the-power-of-makeup #IRLActorRobertPattinson e.g. #2008_Twilight #TheoryDeclinism #TheoryModelBinaryDualityManichean #MetaphorVersusImpotenceVirulence

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Supplementary #MagazineUKFilmStoriesAJBlack "Perhaps a reason why comic-book heroism took hold across the 2010s was not just about how Marvel married traditional comic-book movie structures with must-see episodic television, but also our own growing awareness that the structures said heroes have long protected are decaying in western society. Captain America learns that HYDRA has corrupted SHIELD, that bastions of American freedom have been infiltrated by fascist extremists. Thanos seeks ultimate population control as a means of balancing resources. So many of these films speak not just to disrupters with arch plans but how they expose the frailty of government or democratic systems in their disruption, sometimes even working within them. This also could explain the 'lone hero' trope that has taken hold in recent years to a more intense degree. McClane, John Matrix, John Rambo were all lone heroes, but as an audience, you never doubted they would prevail. They existed within a cathartic, controlled and safe geopolitical sandbox either during the end of the Cold War or the unipolar security of the United States. After 9/11, it all started to change. Jason Bourne realised his own government, with its mass surveillance, was an Orwellian nightmare. James Bond returned to a complex world where CIA agents worked with brokers to help dictators as part of a scheme to control the supply of a natural resource (as we saw in Quantum Of Solace as an example). And Ethan Hunt steadily became, even within his own storytelling, 'a living manifestation of destiny' as one character describes him" (28 November 2024). https://filmstories.co.uk/features/what-exactly-is-the-modern-cinematic-hero-fighting-for/ #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations #BrandMarvel #BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUCaptainAmerica #BrandMarvelHydra ^[Wikipedia] #BrandMarvelSHIELD ^[Wikipedia]. #BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUThanos #FictionalCharacterJohnMcClane of #1988_DieHard etc. #FictionalCharacterJohnRambo #FictionalCharacterJohnMatrix of #1985_Commando #TheoryPsychologyPsychologicalPurgationCatharsis ^[Wikipedia] #PhenomnIdeologicallyMotivatedViolentExtremismIMVE #PoliticsCommunismColdWar #2001_September11Attacks911 #2016_JasonBourne #IRLAuthorGeorgeOrwell #FictionalCharacter007JamesBond #OrgUSFedCIA #2008_QuantumOfSolace #FictionalCharacterEthanHunt

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Addendum #TheoryHauntology i.e. #IRLAuthorMarkFisher "the sense of yearning for a future that we feel cheated out of" (Fisher, 2012, p.16). Fisher, Mark. 'What Is Hauntology?' Film Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 1, 2012, pp. 16-24. JSTOR, ^{[academic source]}. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.

#IRLActorArnoldSchwarzenegger reference is presumably to his character in #1984_TheTerminator as well as #FictionalCharacterMartyMcFly in #1985_BackToTheFuture - where both were able to go backwards in time.

"Live Passionately BG" watermark #TheoryDeclinism #BrandPearlMillingAKAAuntJemima

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Supplementary bottom image appears to be from a protest about #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSBrettKavanaugh's #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUS nomination https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/right-wing-media-isnt-happy-that-women-are-out-there-protesting_n_5bbe026be4b0876edaa4504c; the top image is stock from 1950's America ^{[stock image]}

"Fascism is when you are successfully persuaded that your health is at stake." #ConspiracyTheory_COVID19PandemicDenialHoax #PoliticsFascism #OrgIntlWEFGreatReset #IRLActivistJulianAssange

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Context (translated from German) "The statement in this poster that disabled people are of no value, only cause high costs, but do not bring any benefit, bears witness to one of the most disgusting chapters of the Nazi era. It is the systematic killing of women, men and children with mental illnesses, mental or physical disabilities, who were considered 'unworthy of life' according to the National Socialist racial and ethnic community ideology. Between 1939 and 1941, around 70,000 patients from sanatoriums and nursing homes in the six killing centers in Bernburg, Brandenburg, Grafeneck, Hademar, Hartheim and Pirna-Sonnenschein were murdered by gas. #OtheringUnhealthy Public protests, e.g. by the Bishop of Münster, Count von Galen, then led to the end of the extermination program. The personnel from the killing centers, who were now specialized in killing people, were transferred to the Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps in order to participate in the 'final solution to the Jewish question'. " http://museen-sh.de/Objekt/DE-MUS-067310/lido/2015-26 #PoliticsFascismNaziUntermensch #OtheringDenialDehumanization

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Supplementary "The mass murder of helpless people begins in the Grafeneck killing center and other facilities. After the Second World War was unleashed, the Nazi regime ordered the murder of ' hereditary and mentally ill ' who had been classified as ' unworthy of life ' . Because this crime - euphemistically referred to by the Nazis as ' euthanasia ' - was organized from a villa in Berlin's Tiergartenstrasse 4, it is still referred to as ' Action T4 ' to this day . As early as autumn 1939, experts used registration forms from all German sanatoriums and nursing homes to determine which patients were considered ' unworthy of life ' according to the Nazi definition.have to apply. The number determined is around 70,000. The actual murder operation began in January 1940. The first killing center that was selected and converted for this purpose was Schloss Grafeneck in Württemberg - others soon followed. The people whose death sentences have been sealed are brought to the institution in buses and brutally murdered in gas chambers disguised as shower rooms. The bodies are cremated. The true cause of death is kept secret so as not to arouse public dislike. (al)" https://www.baden18-45.de/filter/1940-01-vernichtung-lebensunwerten-lebens-der-beginn-der-euthanasie-aktion-t4/

"The National Socialists referred to persons as 'antisocial elements', who 'refused to fit into the order of the national community' and considered them 'alien to the community'. This included beggars, homeless people, the 'work shy', prostitutes, non-conforming youths but also 'gypsies and vagabond itinerant people'. 'Antisocial' also became a general term for people from lower social strata that were considered inferior, who did not work or did not work sufficiently or lived a lifestyle deemed incompatible with the regime. Several large-scale raids were performed across the Reich, e.g. the beggar raids in September 1933 and the 'National Action against the Workshy' in April 1938. People who were considered 'antisocial' were frequently sterilised against their will, based on the explanation that they suffered from 'hereditary feeble-mindedness', as it was a general presumption that 'antisocial' characteristics were passed on among 'antisocial ethnic groups'. The Criminal Police compiled files on these individuals and labelled them as 'anti - social elements', these people could be systematically observed by the police and even taken in 'preventive custody' and interned in concentration camps. People considered 'antisocial elements' had low chances of survival in the concentration camps. They were marked with a black triangle and kept mostly isolated from the other prisoners." https://museenkoeln.de/ns-dokumentationszentrum/default.aspx?s=780#abs14956

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Supplementary #IRLActorArnoldSchwarzenegger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYn5t0tuuAk&t=315s #2017_UniteTheRightRally

#PoliticsFascismNaziBlutUndBoden ^[Wikipedia] #PowerControlPopulationEugenicsForcedAndCoercedSterilization https://wellcomecollection.org/works/vzzcqeyx/ And ^[pdf] #OtheringHateEliminationism ^[Wikipedia] #OtheringDenialPseudospeciation

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Supplementary #OrgILYadVashem "During the 1870s, the new political antisemitism was compounded with 'racial' antisemitism. Based on the new ideas on evolution, posited by the English naturalist Charles Darwin--who himself never meant them to leave the realm of science--Jew haters began declaring that Jews were an inferior 'race' on the evolutionary scale. Since their problem was physical or genetic, it could never be changed, despite assimilation. Included in this new form of antisemitism, was the idea that Jews were responsible for the world's troubles because of their race and genetic composition." ^[pdf] #IRLHistoricalFigureCharlesDarwin #MetaphorPurityRace #MetaphorSpatialLinearContinuumScaleEvolutionary #OtheringHateAntisemitismDeicide

"Propaganda slide produced by the Reich Propaganda Office #PoliticsFascismNazi showing the opportunity cost of feeding a person with a hereditary disease. The illustration shows that an entire family of healthy Germans can live for one day on the same 5.50 Reichsmarks it costs to support one ill person for the same amount of time. Dated #1936_. Nazis defined individuals with mental, physical, or social disabilities as "hereditarily ill" and claimed such individuals placed both a genetic and financial burden upon society and the state." ^{[encyclopædia]} #PowerControlPopulationEugenicsRaceSuicide ? ^[Wikipedia]

#1984_TheTerminator #IRLActorArnoldSchwarzenegger

#PhenomnWhitePrivilege #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #CauseAntifa

Transcript: "Privilege is wearing $200 sneakers when you've never had a job. Privilege is wearing $300 Beats headphones while living on public assistance. Privilege is having a Smartphone with a Data plan which you receive no bill for. Privilege is living in public subsidized housing where you don't have a water bill, where rising property taxes and rents and energy costs have absolutely no effect on the amount of food you can put on your table. Privilege is the ability to go march against, and protest against anything that triggers you, I without worrying about calling out of work and the consequences that accompany such behavior. Privilege is having as many children as you want, regardless of your employment status, and be able to send them off to daycare or school you don't pay for." i.e. 'blaming poverty on the poor' / #PhenomnMisdirectionScapegoating / #PhenomnResponsibilityBlamingVictim

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Context #IRLPoliticianBenjaminRozier (Bloomingdale City Council Mayor) https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/georgia-mayor-s-post-privilege-wearing-200-sneakers-slammed-racist-n1231417 #EDUNYCNewDorpHighSchoolDeborahMorseCunningham https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/n-y-c-officials-probe-staten-island-assistant-principal-s-n1231867

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Supplementary "At the heart of their arguments is a species of narcissism. I made it. I escaped poverty. Succeed by being like me. They are too personally invested in the myth of meritocracy to admit what the poor already know, which is that there's no such thing." https://newrepublic.com/article/145504/conservatives-blame-poverty-poor #TheoryIndividualismCompetitiveSelfMadeManArchetype #TheoryIndividualismUtilitarian #ReasoningFallacyBiasCognitiveSelfAttribution #TauntNarcissism

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#IRLActorArnoldSchwarzenegger's #2017_ #EDUUSUniversityOfHouston Commencement Address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJsvR_gSEjg&t=271s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHQVm9pTR0o #PleaManosphereMenGoingTheirOwnWayMGTOW #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #IRLActivistGretaThunberg #IRLActorArnoldSchwarzenegger

#IRLFilmmakerMichaelMoore #IRLFilmmakerJeffGibbs #2019_PlanetOfTheHumans ^[imdb] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE&t=21s ^[Wikipedia] #PhenomnEnergyRenewableGreenEnergy #PhenomnClimateChange #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyAlGore, #IRLEnvironmentalistBillMcKibben ^[Wikipedia], #BrandVirginGroupRichardBranson, #AdvocacyUSChildrensHealthDefenseRobertFKennedyRFKJr, #NMUSBloombergMichaelBloomberg, #IRLPoliticalAnalystVanJones, #IRLBusinesspersonVinodKhosla, #BrandKochIndustriesCharlesKoch and #BrandKochIndustriesDavidKoch, #IRLActivistVandanaShiva, #BrandGeneralMotorsGM, #OrgIntl350Org ^[Wikipedia], #IRLActorArnoldSchwarzenegger, #AdvocacyUSSierraClub ^[Wikipedia], #AdvocacyUSUnionOfConcernedScientists, #AdvocacyUSTheNatureConservancyTNC ^[Wikipedia], #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk, #BrandTesla.