#OrgSyndicateTerrorismUSKuKluxKlanKKK #OrgUSFedGovImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcementICE #PoliticsSocialism #CauseFeminism #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #SymbolPeace #IRLJournalistChrisHedges, #CaricaturistDwayneBoothAKAMrFish #WebsitePopularResistance "The militarists, corporatists, oligarchs, politicians, academics and media conglomerates champion identity politics and diversity because it does nothing to address the systemic injustices or the scourge of permanent war that plague the U.S. It is an advertising gimmick, a brand, used to mask mounting social inequality and imperial folly. It busies liberals and the educated with a boutique activism, which is not only ineffectual but exacerbates the divide between the privileged and a working class in deep economic distress. The haves scold the have-nots for their bad manners, racism, linguistic insensitivity and garishness, while ignoring the root causes of their economic distress. The oligarchs could not be happier." https://popularresistance.org/woke-imperialism/ #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #MetaphorVersusConservativesLiberals #IdentityClassBlueCollar

"The militarists, corporatists, oligarchs, politicians, academics and media conglomerates champion identity politics and diversity because it does nothing to address the systemic injustices or the scourge of permanent war that plague the U.S. It is an advertising gimmick, a brand, used to mask mounting social inequality and imperial folly. It busies liberals and the educated with a boutique activism, which is not only ineffectual but exacerbates the divide between the privileged and a working class in deep economic distress. The haves"

#PhenomnMiningMiner i.e. #IdentityClassBlueCollar versus #IRLComedianEddieIzzard #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianOwenJones

#AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSA #MetaphorTransformationEvolution #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle / #CharacterisationWeaknessFragility / #BehaviourEmotionalDysregulationHistrionics versus #PleaNostalgia #IdentityClassBlueCollar #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour #NarrativeWarWWII #MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #MetaphorVersusHardSoft #TheoryDeclinism #Meme1800s1900s2000s 

#IdentityClassBlueCollar #CharacterisationOldAgePensionerOAP #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyBorisJohnson #IRLJournalistMaxHastings ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyKennethClarke ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyDominicGrieve ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyJohnMajor #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #OtheringHateXenophobia #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM

"BORIS JOHNSON'S FORMER EMPLOYER MAX HASTINGS ON HIS CHARACTER... 'Most politicians are ambitious and ruthless, but Boris is a gold medal egomaniac. I would not trust him with my wife nor - from painful experience - my wallet.' 'His chaotic public persona is not an act - he is, indeed, manically disorganised about everything except his own image management. He is also a far more ruthless, and frankly nastier, figure than the public appreciates.' '[Johnson] would make a wretched prime minister. He is not a man to believe in, to trust or respect, save as a superlative exhibitionist. He is bereft of judgment, loyalty and discretion. Only in the star-crazed, frivolous Britain of the 21st century could such a man have risen so high, and he is utterly unfit to go higher still.'"

"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 https://folksonomy.simonperkins.co.uk/?permalink=4006 #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 #ReasoningFallacyConfirmationBiasIToldYouSo. 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

#OrgClassifPPCALiberalPartyJustinTrudeau #MetaphorWarfareBattleFight #IdentityFarmer

#IRLActivistGretaThunberg #IRLHistoricalFigureLeonTrotsky #OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianLaborPartyALPAnthonyAlbanese #TheoryMarxism #OrgClassifPPAUSTealIndependents #MetaphorPeriodizationBackInTheDay

#PhenomnEnergyFuelFossilCoal #IdentityClassBlueCollar #MetaphorVersusSocialismCapitalism

#OtheringHateMisandry #PleaManosphereMenGoingTheirOwnWayMGTOW #MetaphorPillRed

#CauseFeminism #CauseEqualityGender #IdentityClassBlueCollar #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #LogoTwoPeaks

#CharacterisationBogan #CharacterisationDeplorables #IdentityClassBlueCollar #IRLHistoricalFigureKarlMarx #PoliticsCommunism #MetaphorWarfareCulture #ToponymOceaniaAustralia

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Addendum presumably, 'deplorables' in this context, is a reference to #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyHillaryClinton's infamous speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCHJVE9trSM as its corollary #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated Also, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/08/31/deplorables-basket-hillary-clinton/ #CharacterisationBasketOfDeplorables

#AdvocacyUKNewCultureForumNCF #OrgClassifPPUKIndependencePartyUKIPPeterWhittle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvAphpNCkZY&t=22s #2020_DespisedWhyTheModernLeftLoathesTheWorkingClass #TauntLeftThe #PhenomnBrexit #OtheringCaricatureBrexitBrexiteer #LiteralRedWallSeats

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Context #NewspaperUKOnlineTheLondonEconomicTJColes https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/how-do-you-get-working-people-to-vote-against-their-own-economic-interests-start-a-culture-war-212080/ #WebsiteUnHerdPaulEmbery #VlogTRIGGERnometry

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Supplementary #AdvocacyEUSocialEuropeJustusSeuferle "Two competing ideas about the worker dominate contemporary discourse. The first--predominantly found in the United States--is cultural; the second, once prevalent in Europe, is material. The cultural definition, often reflected in self-identification surveys, hinges on the colour of one's collar. It distinguishes between blue-collar and white-collar workers--those who work with their hands versus those in bureaucratic or intellectual roles. Under this framework, even a small business owner can be considered a worker. The only criterion is a sense of cultural belonging tied to one's type of work. This vague and malleable definition leads to absurd outcomes: a brash, orange-hued billionaire with a neoliberal agenda can be hailed as the champion of the working class. In contrast, the European tradition has historically adhered to a materialist, Marxist perspective. A worker, in this view, is someone who owns nothing but their labour power and is therefore compelled into what Marx termed 'relations of production' with those who control the means of production. Marx described the worker as doubly free--free from external coercion to labour, yet also free from ownership of the resources necessary for survival. This condition creates structural dependency and limits individual freedom. By this definition, liberal democracy has yet to fulfil its promise of liberty for the working class. This framework does not rely on cultural identity or habits but on economic position. It sees the term 'worker' as a measure of dependence." https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-the-right-hijacked-the-working-class-for-culture-wars #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionEverydayPeopleEveryman #TheoryMarxism #CatchcryIdentityPolitics #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #TauntOrangeManBad #IdentityClassBlueCollar #IdentityClassWhiteCollarMiddle #PoliticsCapitalismNeoliberalism #IRLSociologistPierreBourdieu

#MetaphorTransformationEvolution #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle / #CharacterisationWeaknessFragility / #BehaviourEmotionalDysregulationHistrionics versus #PleaNostalgia #IdentityClassBlueCollar #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour #NarrativeWarWWII #MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #MetaphorVersusHardSoft #TheoryDeclinism #Meme1800s1900s2000s

#MetaphorTransformationEvolution (framed as the descent rather than ascent of culture over time) #TauntLeftThe #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #TheoryDeclinism #IdentityClassBlueCollar #IdentityLGBTQIA

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Addendum converse to the intended negative trend, the figures are shown as becoming progressively taller from left-to-right. Presumably this isn't meant to have symbolic purpose and in only used as a way of foregrounding the directionality of the trend i.e. that the negative trend is becoming more pronounced/overt.

#AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSA #MetaphorTransformationEvolution #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle / #CharacterisationWeaknessFragility / #BehaviourEmotionalDysregulationHistrionics versus #PleaNostalgia #IdentityClassBlueCollar #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour #NarrativeWarWWII #MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #MetaphorVersusHardSoft #TheoryDeclinism #Meme1800s1900s2000s

#PowerControlExclusionWhitewashing #PhenomnGenderNorms

#MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych #MetaphorVersusEverydayPeopleLiberals #PhenomnMiningMiner i.e. #IdentityClassBlueCollar #IRLComedianEddieIzzard #OrgClassifPPUKLabour #1967_ #2021_

#PleaMAGA + #SymbolHairColourPurple i.e. #IdentityClassBlueCollar / #IdentityClassWhiteCollarMiddle versus #IdentityClassRuling / #OtheringElitesGlobal i.e. #MetaphorWarfareCulture Addensum: the man with top hat looks a lot like #IRLFinancierGeorgeSoros (albeit a bald version).

#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

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Context https://www.mediasanctuary.org/about/

"Why do Females seem so happy, confident, and Jovial? It's because females are constantly being validated everywhere they go in Public and Online. Females get the best customer service, more friends & dating prospects, and people say 'hi' to them or even smile at them. Meanwhile, the Average Man doesn't get validation. Most Single Men get the worst customer service, are ignored, Hated, despised, and alone. Women & Men hate Single Men; However, Everyone loves women. I see why we have a rise in Trans-gender Men, It's HARD being a Working-class Heterosexual Man in todays society and they make up 80% of suicides." #IdentityClassBlueCollar #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation #PleaManosphereMenGoingTheirOwnWayMGTOW ^[Wikipedia] #IRLIllustratorYaoyaoMaVanAs #2017_LastBiteOfDessertOnACoolSummerNight https://www.yaoyaomavanas.com/#/personalartwork/ #CaricaturistPeterWelleman ^{[stock image]}

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Supplementary #OtheringHateGynophobia i.e. "morbid fear of women, a type of specific social phobia" ^[Wikipedia]

"DISCO DEMOLITION NIGHT - 1979 For those who think the American anti-woke alt-right only dates back to Donald Trump or QAnon..." #1979_DiscoDemolitionNight ^[Wikipedia] #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #ConspiracyTheory_CabalQAnon

"[Latent Homophobia and Racism In the early 1970s, when it appeared in New York nightclubs, disco was a niche genre, rooted in gay, Black, and Latino culture. Enough to send a horde of puritans running for the hills. But that night in 1979, at the stadium, it was primarily white men aged 18 to 34 who gathered to ignite the disco revolution. Peter Shapiro, author of the cult book on disco, *Turn the Beat Around* (published by Allia), explains the importance of context : 'The disco demolition party took place in the Midwest, which was then called the 'Rust Belt' because it was the industrial heartland of America. But the factories were dying. Disco, born from the gay and Black underground, represented a challenge to the image that John Wayne's America had of itself.' When the American government faced a crisis, disaffected white men laid off from manufacturing jobs felt alienated by disco. 1970s America also saw the rise of the culture wars (which we still experience today), and anti-gay activists like country singer Anita Bryant focused their attacks on disco. This music also brought a significant Black presence to the pop charts, which unsettled the predominantly white rock audience.]" #OtheringHateHomophobia #OtheringOutGroupRedneck #PhenomnDisco #ToponymAmericaNorthUSRustBelt ^[Wikipedia] #IRLJournalistPeterShapiro ^[Wikipedia] #2005_TurnTheBeatAroundTheSecretHistoryOfDisco #ToponymAmericaNorthUSMidwest ^[Wikipedia] #IRLActorJohnWayne #PhenomnAgencyHumanDisaffected #IdentityClassBlueCollar #IRLSingerAnitaBryant ^[Wikipedia] #MetaphorPeriodization1970s #IdentityLGBTQIA

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Context #NMUSESPN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqbPSKCwdnw #NMUSAssociatedPress https://apnews.com/article/c76ce459bb904f7a9188c34f03241390 #OrgUSMajorLeagueBaseballMLB #ToponymAmericaNorthUSIllinoisChicagoComiskeyPark #PhenomnProtestBacklash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x32SeP2dep0 #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation #PhenomnImmigration #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyTories #ToponymEuropeUKWales_ Frames #PoliticsNationalismWelsh in terms of #IdentityFirstNations + #PoliticsNationalismConservative + #IdentityClassBlueCollar Critical of #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #OtheringOutGroup including seemingly #OtheringHateAntisemitism statement about #ToponymEastMiddleIsrael #EpistemologyAmateurExegeteGooglingStuffAsResearch #OrgClassifPPUKLabourKeirStarmer #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyBorisJohnson #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyPritiPatel

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Context the two rant about about their frustrations - with some instances bordering on #PowerControlSegregationEthnopluralism (although, without naming it as such)

#OrgClassifPPUKLabourGillFurniss #IdentityClassBlueCollar #IRLComedianRoyChubbyBrown #IRLComedianBernardManning #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandManchester

response to tweet by #MagazineNewsweekBatyaUngarSargon ^[tweet] criticising #NMUSCNN for being #TauntPatronisingWoke. In doing so, including a clip of #NMUSCNNDonLemon and #NMUSCNNChrisCuomo discussing parents' criticism of #LiteralSchoolCurriculum including #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT and the inappropriateness of supposed #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated lecturing supposed #IdentityClassBlueCollar about issues which don't concern them (as if they are somehow divorced from society and therefore immune to its effects) i.e. that they are in no way impacted by #PhenomnCulturalHegemony or #EpistemologySociallyConstructed

#MetaphorTransformationEvolution (framed as the descent rather than ascent of culture over time) #TauntLeftThe #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #TheoryDeclinism #IdentityClassBlueCollar #IdentityLGBTQIA #SymbolTakeAKneeGenuflectionKneeling

#AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSA #MetaphorTransformationEvolution #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle / #CharacterisationWeaknessFragility / #BehaviourEmotionalDysregulationHistrionics versus #PleaNostalgia #IdentityClassBlueCollar #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour #NarrativeWarWWII #MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #MetaphorVersusHardSoft #Meme1800s1900s2000s

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Supplementary Robert Ralston. (2022). 'Make Us Great Again: The Causes of Declinism in Major Powers.' Security Studies 31(4): 667-702. ^{[academic source]} #TheoryDeclinism

#MetaphorTransformationEvolution (framed as the descent rather than ascent of culture over time) #TauntLeftThe #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #TheoryDeclinism #IdentityClassBlueCollar #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #IdentityLGBTQIA #SymbolTakeAKneeGenuflectionKneeling

#MetaphorTransformationEvolution (framed as the descent rather than ascent of culture over time) #TauntLeftThe #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #TheoryDeclinism #IdentityClassBlueCollar #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #IdentityLGBTQIA #SymbolTakeAKneeGenuflectionKneeling #FictionalCharacterFrankensteinsCreature

#OtheringElitesLiberalChampagneSocialist #OrgClassifPPUKLabour

#MetaphorTransformationEvolution (framed as the descent rather than ascent of culture over time) #TauntLeftThe #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #TheoryDeclinism #IdentityClassBlueCollar #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #IdentityLGBTQIA #OtheringOutGroup

#TheoryDragonsOfInactionDiscredenceDenial #IdentityClassBlueCollar

#WebsiteGuidoFawkes https://order-order.com/2021/05/18/working-classes-most-worried-about-day-to-day-issues-not-climate-crisis/

#IdentityClassBlueCollar versus #OtheringElitesGlobal

#PhenomnClimateChange #2021_UNClimateChangeConferenceCOP26 citing #WebsiteGuidoFawkes site https://order-order.com/2021/05/18/working-classes-most-worried-about-day-to-day-issues-not-climate-crisis/

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Addendum the tweeter seems to really value the graphics posted on this site - almost like the user is simply a #BrandTechSocialMediaXFKATwitterBot

#PhenomnBrexit #IdentityClassBlueCollar #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation #CatchcryCancelCulture #PhenomnImmigration #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #IdentityLGBTQIA #MetaphorCardRace #NMUKITVChannel4NewsMattFrei #TalkbackRadioLBC

#IRLMusicianKixBrooks and #IRLMusicianRonnieDunn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN1iI-DaJNw rousing pop country song #2001_OnlyInAmerica projecting #PoliticsNationalismConservative, #PoliticsPatriotism identity, fetishisation of #IdentityClassBlueCollar, #NarativeAmericanDream - esentially, #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity The tweet is antithetical to what they characterise as #TauntLeftist The music video includes a shot of a #CauseUSNationalLeagueOfFamiliesPOWMIAflag ^[Wikipedia]

#IdentityClassBlueCollar - presumably, versus #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated i.e. #MetaphorVersusUsThem The meme was created by #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUK of #IRLSingerJohnLydonAKAJohnnyRotten (who personifies) #MetaphorOutsiderDissenterRebel / #PhenomnCounterCulture i.e. "if you identify as being antiestablishment then you should be anti-woke (because supposedly 'woke' represents the 'establishment')".

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Supplementary #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUK is a UK chapter of #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSA https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/04/tory-mps-back-rightwing-youth-group-turning-point-uk #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyJacobReesMogg #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyPritiPatel #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartySteveBaker #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyBernardJenkin #OrgClassifPPUKForBritainAnneMarieWaters #IRLIdeologuePaulJosephWatson #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUKGeorgeFarmer #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyMichaelFarmer #WebsiteProfessorWatchlist ^[Wikipedia] Also https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2019/02/04/tory-mps-give-sickening-support-to-a-white-supremacist-group/ | https://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-an-army-of-fakes-took-on-rightwing-organisation-turning-point-uk | https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/turning-point-uk-memes/

#OrgClassifPPUKLabourJeremyCorbyn #OrgClassifPPUKLabourKeirStarmer #OrgClassifPPUKLabour #IdentityWhite #IdentityClassBlueCollar

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Addendum #NarrativeTruthVerisimilitudePhotoshopped ^{[png] [fact-checked]} #2017_ image of Corbyn canvassing in #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandLancashireSouthRibbleLeyland ^{[Wikipedia] [stock image]} #NMUSBuzzFeedVictoriaSanusi, #NMUSBuzzFeedIkranDahir ^[Wikipedia] https://www.buzzfeed.com/victoriasanusi/heres-all-the-misinformation-spreading-about-the-general

#TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #IdentityClassBlueCollar #NarrativeWarWWII #PleaAuthenticity #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #Meme1800s1900s2000s

#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 #PhenomnCulturalFormGraffiti #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]

#ToponymEuropeNetherlands #PhenomnWhitePrivilege http://www.veltmaete.nl/white/ Historical images of #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour seemingly being used as #ReasoningFallacyStrawman that exploitation is not directly correlated with race (racial discrimination) - presumably offering up the explanation that such situations are solely the consequence of a lack-of-opportunity, and certainly not discrimination. The argument seeks to shift focus back onto the issue of #IdentityClassBlueCollar #IdentityWhite. This type of argument follows the logic that #OtheringDiscriminationRacism isn't an issue because people of all races are able to be discriminated against (and so discrimination against black people is simply one example of many, rather than a category of itself - and so deserves no special treatment). This image (from the above collection) seems to typify this thesis: ^[jpg] (which strongly implies that #IdentityIndigenousBlackPeopleOfColourBIPOC are being exploited by white people) which is contrasted with this image: ^[jpg] (which because it includes a white boy shining shoes - that was cropped out of the first image - strongly implies that race isn't the determining issue).

#IdentityWhite #IdentityClassBlueCollar #SlurWhiteSupremacy

#IdentityNorthernLiverpoolScouser #IdentityWhite #IdentityClassBlueCollar

#IdentityClassBlueCollar + #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverRugged #TheoryDeclinism (wistfulness yearning) #MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength #CharacterisationWeaknessCupcake ^{[slang] [Wiktionary]} such as #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake, #CharacterisationWeaknessCuck #PleaNostalgiaRetrospection

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Supplementary Maynard, Steven. (1989). 'Rough Work and Rugged Men: The Social Construction of Masculinity in Working-Class History.' Labour / Le Travail 23: 159-169. ^{[academic source]}

#MetaphorSpatialWokeyleaks #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitParty hat-wearing #BehaviourInjuryFeelingAggrievedResentmentGrudge #CharacterisationYouTuber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvjxePsmYqg #TauntWokerati #MetaphorWarfareSocialJusticeWarriorSJW #IdentityWhite #IdentityClassBlueCollar #OtheringElitesGlobal #TechICTSocialMedia #CharacterisationCelebrity

#IRLSingerSongwriterTomMacDonald #2021_TomMacDonaldFakeWoke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l6JUNFAJ9o #IRLSingerSongwriterEminem #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #PoliticsNationalismAmerican #CatchcryCancelCulture #OtheringDiscriminationRacismStructuralSystemicInstitutional #CauseMeToo #MetaphorWarfareRace #OtheringHateSpeech #PowerControlSubjugation #PhenomnAgencyHumanPowerlessness #IdentityWhite #IdentityClassBlueCollar #PhenomnCulturalHegemony #IRLSingerCardiB #BehaviourInjuryFeelings #PhenomnCensorship #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #NarrativeValuesFamily #TheorySociologyCriticalPostcolonialism #BeliefTheismReligion #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation #CauseFeminism #OtheringElitesGlobal #TheoryAffectiveResponseOutrage https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tommacdonald/fakewoke.html

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Supplementary #NMUSFOXFNCMarthaMacCallum / #NMUSFOXFNCCarleyShimkus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUcAsVm6_wA #TheoryPerformativity

#IdentityClassBlueCollar #IdentityClassBlueCollarWhite #OrgClassifPPSGPeoplesActionPartyPAPAmrinAmin ^[Wikipedia] #ToponymAsiaSouthEastSingapore #2020_SGGeneralElection ^[Wikipedia] #MetaphorGenerationGenZ #MetaphorGenerationMillennials

#OrgClassifPPSGPeoplesActionPartyPAPCarrieTan ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSBarackObama

#PhenomnBrexit #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #MetaphorVersusEverydayPeopleLiberals #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake

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Addendum this comment reminds me of the classic sketch performed by #OrgUKMontyPythonJohnCleese, #IRLComedianRonnieBarker & #IRLComedianRonnieCorbett about the British class system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W34CsPPw5uM&t=27s where in this case, those most critical of Brexit i.e. the "liberals with their Spanish Villas" / #IdentityClassWhiteCollarMiddle are framed as enemies of those who are (supposedly, unanimously) most in favour i.e. #IdentityClassBlueCollar + #IdentityClassRuling. One wonders though, who actually benefits most?

#IRLActivistSteveBray #SymbolEmblemFlagUKUnionJack #ReasoningFallacyOfIncompleteEvidenceCherryPicking

#TauntWoke use to denote #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated (or some other confused description). #IdentityWhite #IdentityClassBlueCollar #IdentityLGBTQIA #TheoryDeclinism #PhenomnAccountSuspension

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Supplementary #PleaNostalgia, #TheoryRevisionismHistorical, which #IRLScholarBasilBernstein understands: retrospective "identities use as resources narratives of the past which provide exemplars, criteria, belonging and . ... This provides for an unambiguous, stable, intellectually impervious, collective identity. This consumes the self in all its manifestations and gives it a site outside of current and future instabilities, beyond current ambiguities of judgement, relation and conduct" (Basil Bernstein 2000, p.74). http://folksonomy.simonperkins.co.uk/?permalink=535 #TheoryRetrospectiveIdentities Bernstein, Basil. (2000). 'Pedagogy Symbolic Control and Identity, Theory Research Critique'. Oxford, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

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Addendum #PoliticsFascismUltraPalingenetic  ^[Wikipedia] ?

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Context using the Roman #SymbolFasces ^[Wikipedia] i.e. a bound bundle of wooden rods surrounding an axe. The symbol appears on the US Mercury dime, which was struck between 1916 to 1945. It's worth noting that the symbol was the inspiration for #PoliticsFascism. #SymbolEmblemFlagUSOldGloryBetsyRoss 

"white working people" invokes retrospective and #PleaNostalgia narrative... see: http://trigg.gr/t/15976 #IdentityLGBTQIA #PleaAuthenticity #TheoryDeclinism

image taken out of context and used to support #TheoryRevisionismHistorical narrative. #IdentityWhite #IdentityClassBlueCollar #PhenomnMiningMiner

poster's attempt to incite #TheoryAffectiveResponsePanic in fellow conservatives. #OtheringHateTransphobia #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianOwenJones #IRLEntertainerAmrouAlKadhi #IdentityDragQueen ^[tweet] #OtheringOutGroup

#IdentityClassBlueCollar #OtheringElitesBourgeois #OtheringElitesLiberalChampagneSocialist #CharacterisationWeaknessTwat #IdentityLGBTQIA

#IdentityWhite #PhenomnMiningMiner

#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianOwenJones #IRLEntertainerAmrouAlKadhi #IdentityDragQueen ^[tweet] #OtheringOutGroup