Archived Tweets / Research Data
Codes & Themes w/wo Theoretical Memos
(derived through a process of inductive, qualitative, data analysis)
@CierraMeynard [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : « Ils se sont faits dévots de peur de n’être rien.» Voltaire/Correspondance avec d’Alembert
De nos jours le danger vient des dévots de la religion #Woke #Wokisme #Racialisme #Indigénisme [URL redacted]
"'They made themselves devotees for fear of being nothing.' Voltaire/Correspondence with d'Alembert
Nowadays the danger comes from the devotees of the religion Woke Wokism Racialism Indigenism"
#IRLHistoricalFigureFrancoisMarieArouetAKAVoltaire
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@LewisMarkiewicz [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [03]: Updated version of the insidious “Jewish blood libel”, fused with the ‘Protocols of Zion. How can #Americans negotiate with these broken people. #MAGA has decided any opposition to their cause is satanic, #Woke, #marxist unpatriotic and godless. Dark times indeed. [URL redacted] [URL redacted]
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@BridgetStich [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : #FreeSpeech #Wokeness #wokementality #karens #WEF #GreatReset #woke [URL redacted]
#IRLWriterEvelynBeatriceHall versus #MemeFickiFiona
Supplementary "In The Friends of Voltaire, Hall wrote the phrase: 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it' as an illustration of Voltaire's beliefs. This quotation - which is sometimes misattributed to Voltaire himself - is often cited to describe the principle of freedom of speech". Hall, E. B. (1906). 'The Friends of Voltaire'. London, Smith Elder & Co. #IRLHistoricalFigureFrancoisMarieArouetAKAVoltaire #BrandTechSocialMediaXFKATwitter #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseMainstreamMediaMSM
Supplementary "In The Friends of Voltaire, Hall wrote the phrase: 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it' as an illustration of Voltaire's beliefs. This quotation - which is sometimes misattributed to Voltaire himself - is often cited to describe the principle of freedom of speech". Hall, E. B. (1906). 'The Friends of Voltaire'. London, Smith Elder & Co. #IRLHistoricalFigureFrancoisMarieArouetAKAVoltaire #BrandTechSocialMediaXFKATwitter #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseMainstreamMediaMSM
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@PriscillaJervis [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: #Woke:
Rosa Parks
Arthur Ashe
Jesus Christ
Albert Einstein
The Dalai Lama
Nelson Mandela
Mahatma Gandhi
Frederick Douglass
Martin Luther King Jr
Anti-woke:
Priti Patel
Paul Dacre
Adolf Hitler
Nigel Farage
Steve Bannon
Boris Johnson
Donald Trump
Jacob Rees-Mogg
#JustSaying [URL redacted]
#IRLHistoricalFigureRosaParks
#IRLSportspersonArthurAshe
#BeliefTheismDeityGodAllahYHWHJesusChristMessiah
#IRLHistoricalFigureAlbertEinstein
#IRLReligiousLeaderDalaiLama
#IRLHistoricalFigureNelsonMandela
#IRLHistoricalFigureMahatmaGandhi
#IRLHistoricalFigureFrederickDouglass
#IRLActivistMartinLutherKingMLK
versus
#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyPritiPatel #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMailDMGTPaulDacre #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKNigelFarage #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyBorisJohnson #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyJacobReesMogg
versus
#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyPritiPatel #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMailDMGTPaulDacre #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKNigelFarage #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyBorisJohnson #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyJacobReesMogg
#IRLPhilosopherFriedrichNietzsche
Context "This sounds like a loose paraphrase of the sense of Daybreak aph. 329 (see also the first half of aph. 542, and the parallel passage in Genealogy of Morals). The necessity of illusions is also the major theme of 'Truth and Lie'. I agree with the earlier comment that, if it has any relation to a particular passage at all, it is a bad paraphrase! It's hard to explain exactly but if you even just skim the relevant passages in Morgenröthe or 'Truth and Lie' you'll see that when he's discussing the sturdiness of illusions he is often discussing the important functions they serve and when he is discussing the pursuit of truth he is often treating it as the product of illusions! So both halves of this quotation sound like something Nietzsche would say (except not in his style...) but not when combined." https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/56290 #1896_OnTruthAndLiesInAnExtraMoralSense #MetaphorVersusTruthIllusion
Context "This sounds like a loose paraphrase of the sense of Daybreak aph. 329 (see also the first half of aph. 542, and the parallel passage in Genealogy of Morals). The necessity of illusions is also the major theme of 'Truth and Lie'. I agree with the earlier comment that, if it has any relation to a particular passage at all, it is a bad paraphrase! It's hard to explain exactly but if you even just skim the relevant passages in Morgenröthe or 'Truth and Lie' you'll see that when he's discussing the sturdiness of illusions he is often discussing the important functions they serve and when he is discussing the pursuit of truth he is often treating it as the product of illusions! So both halves of this quotation sound like something Nietzsche would say (except not in his style...) but not when combined." https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/56290 #1896_OnTruthAndLiesInAnExtraMoralSense #MetaphorVersusTruthIllusion
#IRLHistoricalFigureFrederickDouglass
#1857_
Context #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesDavidBlight "But in the same way that Abraham Lincoln has become 'everybody's grandfather,' in the words of the historian David Donald, the one American figure who could be adopted by every part of the political spectrum, Douglass is also appropriated broadly, especially by the American right. ... On the surface Douglass does appear to be self-made -- he was the escaped slave who willed his own freedom, stole the master's language and wrote masterpieces of antislavery literature. But without many people, especially women (his grandmother, two wives, a daughter and countless abolitionist women who supported his career) as well as male mentors, both white and black, he would not have survived and become Douglass. In private, he easily admitted his reliance on friends and associates, and he believed in a theory of history rooted in the Old Testament, in the Exodus story, in collective liberation by God and by events. In 'Self-Made Man,' a new book published by the Cato Institute, the lawyer Timothy Sandefur argues that Douglass's essential legacy lies in his advocacy of liberty, individualism and private property and free enterprise. The radical abolitionist who risked all to use words and politics to free an entire people from slavery was, to Mr. Sandefur, only 'a radical for individualism' and never concerned with 'the interests of the collective.' To believe that, one has to ignore most of Douglass's career, especially his life as an abolitionist, his ferocious attacks on the poison of racism and his brilliant analysis of how lynching emerged from the evils of white supremacy. Douglass believed that freedom was safe only within the state and under law. Douglass did preach self-reliance for his fellow blacks: He argued that the freed slaves should be given their rights, protected and then 'let alone.' But he never employed that 'let alone' dictum without also demanding 'fair play,' and security against terror and discrimination. Conservatives have cherry-picked his words to advance their narrow visions of libertarianism." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/opinion/right-coopts-frederick-douglass.html #OrgClassifPPUSPOTUSAbrahamLincoln #IRLHistorianDavidDonald [Wikipedia] #TheoryIndividualismCompetitiveSelfMadeManArchetype #PowerControlChattelSlaveryAbolitionism #BeliefTheismChristianityBibleOTBookOfExodus #PoliticsCollectivism #AdvocacyUSCatoInstitute [Wikipedia] #AdvocacyUSGoldwaterInstituteTimothySandefur https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/our-team/timothy-sandefur/ #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #PowerControlViolencePhysicalBrutalityLynching #SlurWhiteSupremacy #CatchcryFreedomLiberty #ReasoningFallacyOfIncompleteEvidenceCherryPicking #PoliticsLibertarianism
Supplementary #IRLHistoricalFigureBarryGoldwater [Wikipedia] #1960_TheConscienceOfAConservative "In 1960, with publication of The Conscience of a Conservative, Barry Goldwater became the leader of a national movement. Written with speechwriter Brent Bozell, the book was a statement of Goldwater's political creed. In chapters that focused on issues such as civil rights, labor relations, and the welfare state, Goldwater called for the 'utmost vigilance and care...to keep political power within its proper bounds.' The national media largely dismissed the book, but Goldwater's vision quickly gained an audience and the book became a best-seller. Today, it is considered a landmark in the development of modern conservatism." [Government] #AdvocacyUSMediaResearchCenterMRCLeoBrentBozellIII [Wikipedia] [Wikipedia] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/09/january-6-capitol-attack-son-conservative-activist-convicted #IRLPrivateCitizenLeoBrentBozellIV #2020_CapitolSiege #MagazineTheNewRepublicTNRTimothyNoah "Brent ghostwrote Barry Goldwater's book, The Conscience of a Conservative, giving wide play to his Cold War pessimism when the book became a surprise bestseller in 1960. By now, Brent had blossomed into a full-fledged reactionary. He moved to Spain and became an apologist for Franco's fascist regime. Then he moved back and lost a Maryland congressional primary race to the liberal Republican Charles Mathias. After that, he moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains and devoted most of the rest of his life to attacking Vatican II." https://newrepublic.com/article/161431/brent-bozell-trump-capitol-riot #IRLDictatorFranciscoFranco #PoliticsCommunismColdWar #ToponymAmericaNorthUSMaryland #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPCharlesMathias #BeliefTheismChristianityDenomCatholicismSecondVaticanCouncilVaticanII
Context #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesDavidBlight "But in the same way that Abraham Lincoln has become 'everybody's grandfather,' in the words of the historian David Donald, the one American figure who could be adopted by every part of the political spectrum, Douglass is also appropriated broadly, especially by the American right. ... On the surface Douglass does appear to be self-made -- he was the escaped slave who willed his own freedom, stole the master's language and wrote masterpieces of antislavery literature. But without many people, especially women (his grandmother, two wives, a daughter and countless abolitionist women who supported his career) as well as male mentors, both white and black, he would not have survived and become Douglass. In private, he easily admitted his reliance on friends and associates, and he believed in a theory of history rooted in the Old Testament, in the Exodus story, in collective liberation by God and by events. In 'Self-Made Man,' a new book published by the Cato Institute, the lawyer Timothy Sandefur argues that Douglass's essential legacy lies in his advocacy of liberty, individualism and private property and free enterprise. The radical abolitionist who risked all to use words and politics to free an entire people from slavery was, to Mr. Sandefur, only 'a radical for individualism' and never concerned with 'the interests of the collective.' To believe that, one has to ignore most of Douglass's career, especially his life as an abolitionist, his ferocious attacks on the poison of racism and his brilliant analysis of how lynching emerged from the evils of white supremacy. Douglass believed that freedom was safe only within the state and under law. Douglass did preach self-reliance for his fellow blacks: He argued that the freed slaves should be given their rights, protected and then 'let alone.' But he never employed that 'let alone' dictum without also demanding 'fair play,' and security against terror and discrimination. Conservatives have cherry-picked his words to advance their narrow visions of libertarianism." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/opinion/right-coopts-frederick-douglass.html #OrgClassifPPUSPOTUSAbrahamLincoln #IRLHistorianDavidDonald [Wikipedia] #TheoryIndividualismCompetitiveSelfMadeManArchetype #PowerControlChattelSlaveryAbolitionism #BeliefTheismChristianityBibleOTBookOfExodus #PoliticsCollectivism #AdvocacyUSCatoInstitute [Wikipedia] #AdvocacyUSGoldwaterInstituteTimothySandefur https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/our-team/timothy-sandefur/ #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #PowerControlViolencePhysicalBrutalityLynching #SlurWhiteSupremacy #CatchcryFreedomLiberty #ReasoningFallacyOfIncompleteEvidenceCherryPicking #PoliticsLibertarianism
Supplementary #IRLHistoricalFigureBarryGoldwater [Wikipedia] #1960_TheConscienceOfAConservative "In 1960, with publication of The Conscience of a Conservative, Barry Goldwater became the leader of a national movement. Written with speechwriter Brent Bozell, the book was a statement of Goldwater's political creed. In chapters that focused on issues such as civil rights, labor relations, and the welfare state, Goldwater called for the 'utmost vigilance and care...to keep political power within its proper bounds.' The national media largely dismissed the book, but Goldwater's vision quickly gained an audience and the book became a best-seller. Today, it is considered a landmark in the development of modern conservatism." [Government] #AdvocacyUSMediaResearchCenterMRCLeoBrentBozellIII [Wikipedia] [Wikipedia] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/09/january-6-capitol-attack-son-conservative-activist-convicted #IRLPrivateCitizenLeoBrentBozellIV #2020_CapitolSiege #MagazineTheNewRepublicTNRTimothyNoah "Brent ghostwrote Barry Goldwater's book, The Conscience of a Conservative, giving wide play to his Cold War pessimism when the book became a surprise bestseller in 1960. By now, Brent had blossomed into a full-fledged reactionary. He moved to Spain and became an apologist for Franco's fascist regime. Then he moved back and lost a Maryland congressional primary race to the liberal Republican Charles Mathias. After that, he moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains and devoted most of the rest of his life to attacking Vatican II." https://newrepublic.com/article/161431/brent-bozell-trump-capitol-riot #IRLDictatorFranciscoFranco #PoliticsCommunismColdWar #ToponymAmericaNorthUSMaryland #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPCharlesMathias #BeliefTheismChristianityDenomCatholicismSecondVaticanCouncilVaticanII
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@DionneSumser [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : #America #wokeism #woke #stophate #FreedomOfSpeech #freedom [URL redacted]
#PleaAuthenticity
#NarrativeTruthVerisimilitudeChurchillianDrift [Wikipedia]
#IRLWhiteNationalistKevinStrom: "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - misattributed to
#IRLHistoricalFigureFrancoisMarieArouetAKAVoltaire.
Context "This is a paraphrased version of a quote from a neo-Nazi named Kevin Strom. Voltaire did not write this sentence." [fact-checked] #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight
Context "This is a paraphrased version of a quote from a neo-Nazi named Kevin Strom. Voltaire did not write this sentence." [fact-checked] #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight
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@QuentinDellea [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : We are living in the lost generation.
#woke #QArmy #WWG1WGA [URL redacted]
#NarrativeTruthVerisimilitudeChurchillianDrift [Wikipedia]
#IRLWhiteNationalistKevinStrom: "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - misattributed to
#IRLHistoricalFigureFrancoisMarieArouetAKAVoltaire.
Context "This is a paraphrased version of a quote from a neo-Nazi named Kevin Strom. Voltaire did not write this sentence." [fact-checked] #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight
Addendum paradoxically, the image/quote evokes a position of powerlessness / disenfranchisement - presumably, this is its appeal for those sharing it...
Context "This is a paraphrased version of a quote from a neo-Nazi named Kevin Strom. Voltaire did not write this sentence." [fact-checked] #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight
Addendum paradoxically, the image/quote evokes a position of powerlessness / disenfranchisement - presumably, this is its appeal for those sharing it...
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