https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sisVFkFXMv8 #TechArtificialIntelligenceAIGenerativeChatBotChatGPT #TechArtificialIntelligenceAIGenerativeMidJourney #BrandMarvelComicsMartinGoodman i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Goodman_(publisher) #BrandMarvelComicsJimStarlin i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Starlin
Supplementary: #2023_TheWizardOfAI video essay by #IRLAnimatorAlanWarburton i.e. https://alanwarburton.co.uk/ explains the phenomenon of AI framed according to an #MetaphorVersusUsThem #TheoryAffectiveResponseNarrativeTechnophobia
In doing so, he makes mention of the concept of #TheoryImaginarySociotechnical i.e. "the 'technological imaginary' refers us to the way that new technologies are taken up within a culture and are hooked into, or have projected onto them" Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, Kieran Kelly (2003). 'New Media: A Critical Introduction'. https://www.routledge.com/New-Media-A-Critical-Introduction/Lister-Dovey-Giddings-Grant-Kelly/p/book/9780415431613
Addendum: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-uncanny-failures-of-ai-generated-hands And https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/ai-generated-art-hands-fingers-messed-up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvAofni4PSM&t=75s #MetaphorVersusUsThem #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #OrgUKTheOxfordUnionSociety #VlogTRIGGERnometryKonstantinKisin #TauntWokeCulture #PhenomnClimateChange #IRLActivistGretaThunberg #TheoryDragonsOfInactionJudgmentalDiscounting: "environmental conditions are worse in places other than their own". #MetaphorVersusCostEnvironment #TheoryDragonsOfInactionTechnosalvation
#IRLUltracrepidarianJedediahBila
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA8zMh9-URI (1 January 2023) via https://www.tiktok.com/@wudanscorpion/video/7183050852083518721:
"Something odd is going on here, and I will tell you this, climate change, that is the new talking point that is going to fear monger society. That is what is being utilized by the matrix. They are coming out and climate change is their baby, they want their 15-minutes cities - 'oh, perfect little little cities created for quarantine just in case another pandemic comes' - Andrew Tate (?) is now going against that talking point. That is the means by which they get to control you. Climate change is the means by which they are going to try to get digital IDs, and electric cars, and all of these mechanisms by which they can control you with a button and here's this guy who's got a big following coming out and criticizing the face of that movement who's Greta Thunberg. And suddenly, everybody's at his house."
#PhenomnMongeringFear
#PhenomnClimateChange
#IRLActivistGretaThunberg
#MetaphorMatrix
#TheoryDragonsOfInactionDiscredenceDenialCCHoax
#MetaphorVersusUsThem
#PowerControlRegulation
#LiteralVehicleCarPluginHybridElectricVehiclePHEV
#BrandValuetainment
Supplementary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedediah_Bila
Addendum: the following are themes within the #PlatformSMTikTok comments to the clip (and which broadly tie into ideas contained within the clip). #ConspiracyTheoryCabalIlluminati ? #ConspiracyTheorySurveillanceState #IRLPersonalityInternetAndrewTateAKACobratate #OrgIntlWEF
#TheoryModelBinaryDualityManichean #IRLActorJohnWayne / #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverRugged versus #SymbolHairstyleTopknot #TheoryDeclinism #MetaphorVersusHardSoft #MetaphorVersusUsThem #TheoryModelBinary #PleaAuthenticity #PleaNostalgia #MetaphorTransformationRetrogression #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
#IRLSingerSongwriterTomMacDonald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK6Vij5NSJs
"My Generation got our driver's license at 14 had a job at 16 and moved out at 17.
Your generation is still trying to define what a woman is and living in your parents basement until you're 35.
My generation grew up on uncensored everything.
Your generation censors everything.
My generation shot guns, rode dirt bikes and went camping for fun.
Your generation stares at your phone all day and dances on the Internet in your sister's underwear.
My Generation knew how to make decisions important ones.
Your generation can't even decide which bathroom to use.
My generation wants the truth and the facts no matter how uncomfortable they are.
Your generation is so offended that the truth and the facts don't support whatever outlandish bull is floating around in your imagination that you've started labelling everything that you don't agree with as misinformation.
My generation has two genders.
Your generation has 89 347, and counting.
My generation judges people on whether or not they're arseholes.
Your generation judges people on race, weight, religion, sex, gender, financial standing, something that they tweeted 20 years ago in grade..."
#MetaphorVersusUsThem
#MetaphorGenerationWoke
#OtheringStereotypeGeneralisation
#TheoryDeclinismYoungPeopleToday
#IRLSingerSongwriterTomMacDonald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK6Vij5NSJs
"My Generation got our driver's license at 14 had a job at 16 and moved out at 17.
Your generation is still trying to define what a woman is and living in your parents basement until you're 35.
My generation grew up on uncensored everything.
Your generation censors everything.
My generation shot guns, rode dirt bikes and went camping for fun.
Your generation stares at your phone all day and dances on the Internet in your sister's underwear.
My Generation knew how to make decisions important ones.
Your generation can't even decide which bathroom to use.
My generation wants the truth and the facts no matter how uncomfortable they are.
Your generation is so offended that the truth and the facts don't support whatever outlandish bull is floating around in your imagination that you've started labelling everything that you don't agree with as misinformation.
My generation has two genders.
Your generation has 89 347, and counting.
My generation judges people on whether or not they're arseholes.
Your generation judges people on race, weight, religion, sex, gender, financial standing, something that they tweeted 20 years ago in grade..."
#MetaphorVersusUsThem
#MetaphorGenerationTheYounger
#MetaphorGenerationWoke
#OtheringStereotypeGeneralisation
#TheoryDeclinismYoungPeopleToday
#MetaphorVersusUsThem #PoliticsNationalismAmerican ? #MetaphorBorderThresholdBoundary #MetaphorWarfareInvasion #OtheringOutGroup
Context: this *could* be useful as a reference for related ideas: https://journals.openedition.org/acrh/12040
Supplementary: #EDUSELundsUniversitetMartinWolgast, #EDUSELundsUniversitetSimaWolgast: "it should also be noted that the term 'race' in the present study is understood as the result of socially embedded processes of racialization (Miles 1993). In Sweden, where the present study was conducted, the concept of 'race' however is very rarely used and often seen as controversial in Swedish public discourse. In fact, with reference to the history of racial biology and eugenics, the concept of race is officially avoided and discarded (SOU 2015: 103). Instead, concepts like 'migrants,' 'migrant background' or 'ethnicity' are used as proxies for race in Swedish public discourse (Bredström & Mulinari 2022; Mattsson 2005). Despite this, these proxy terms are closely tied to an implicit notion of 'race,' and 'Swedishness' is intimately tied to racialized 'whiteness' (Hübinette & Lundström 2014; Mattsson 2005; Neergaard & Mulinari 2017)." https://journal-njmr.org/articles/10.33134/njmr.572 #TheoryProxyDiscourses #MetaphorPurityRace #ToponymEuropeNordicScandinaviaSweden
Addendum: the general tenor of this follows a similar logic to the #MemeYouKnowFolks, where the perspective evokes a #BehaviourPassiveAggressive / #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation and #CatchcryDifferingOpinionsAsNeutralPerspectives, which presumably functions as a type of #MetaphorDogWhistle for those who this message is intended for.
Context: "Most people who come to live in the UK have 'no recourse to public funds', meaning they are not eligible for benefits" https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/immigration-bill-home-office-priti-patel-asylum-trafficking-a9358296.html
#NMAUSkyNewsAustraliaJamesMorrow #NMAUSkyNewsAustraliaRitaPanahi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGXwBwCh3IE #TauntHypocrisyLiberal #IRLSingerSongwriterTaylorSwift #LiteralVehicleAeroplanePrivateJet #PhenomnClimateChangeCarbonFootprint #NewspaperUSTabloidNewYorkPost #CharacterisationDerivativeWorkRegurgitatedNewsChurnalism #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism #MetaphorVersusUsThem #PleaGetGoWokeGoBroke #IRLSocialiteKylieJenner
#NewspaperNLBrdshtAlgemeenDagbladAD #PhenomnImmigrationRefugeeAsylumSeeker #ToponymEuropeUKShropshireTelford #ToponymAsiaSouthPakistan.i / #IdentityMuslim
Context: #CharacterisationDerivativeWorkRegurgitatedNewsChurnalism: #NewspaperUKTabloidDailyMirrorGeraldineMcKelvie, #NewspaperUKTabloidDailyMirrorNickSommerlad, #NewspaperUKTabloidDailyMirrorGraceMacaskill i.e. "Child victims of the 'worst ever' sex gang in Telford..."
Supplementary: #MetaphorVersusUsThem #MetaphorPurityRacialWhiteWomenAndBlackMen #ConspiracyTheoryCabalGroomingGang
Addendum: Dutch appropriation of US #OtheringCaricatureSlaveryBrute ?
#PhenomnCulturalFormPhotographyMugshot
Supplementary: #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianEleniCourea "A group of victims of gender-based violence has criticised Elon Musk for his remarks attacking Jess Phillips, saying the safeguarding minister had 'devoted her life to fighting for women and girls'.
In a letter shared with the Guardian the seven women, including three survivors of the Telford sexual abuse scandal, came to the Labour MP's defence and said that there was 'no one in public life who has done more to support victims and survivors and to advocate for their interests'.
Their intervention came after Musk, the billionaire Tesla boss who is in line for a senior role in Donald Trump's administration, posted on his platform, X, that Phillips should be jailed and called her a 'rape genocide apologist'." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/07/jess-phillips-telford-survivors-musk-attack-letter-women-girls #OrgClassifPPUKLabourJessPhillips #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #BrandTesla #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #PlatformSMTwitterTWTR #PowerControlViolationRape #ConspiracyTheoryRapeGenocide #OtheringDenialApologist
#CatchcryBigGovernment #PhenomnImmigration #PoliticsSocialism #PhenomnClimateChange ? #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesBorisJohnson #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesPritiPatel #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesKitMalthouse #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesSajidJavid #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesNadhimZahawi #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesDominicRaab #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesBrandonLewis #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesGrantShapps #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesMichaelGove #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesOliverDowden
#MetaphorVersusUsThem #TheoryModelBinary #BeliefDeityGodAllahYHWHJesusChristMessiah #IRLActivistLilMissHotMess i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_Miss_Hot_Mess i.e. #PhenomnDragQueenStoryHourDQSH #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
Context: "In this Saturday, May 13, 2017 photo, Lil Miss Hot Mess reads to children during the Feminist Press' presentation of Drag Queen Story Hour! at the Park Slope Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, in New York." https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/drag-queen-story-hour-at-nyc-library/3/ #2017_
#TheoryModelBinaryDualityManichean i.e. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/manichean #MetaphorVersusUsThem / #MetaphorVersusPurityAdulteration #IRLPersonalityInternetEmilyYoucisAKAPistachioGirl #TauntLiberalCauses #TheoryPoliticsOfInnocence #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
Context: https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/a46tgi/which_way_white_woman_a_very_subtle_political/
Supplementary: https://www.phillyvoice.com/pistachio-girl-confronts-anti-fascism-protesters-earns-praise-white-nationalists/
#PhenomnImmigration #PoliticsSocialism #PhenomnClimateChange ? #ToponymEuropeUKLondonWestminster10DowningSt #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesBorisJohnson #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesPritiPatel #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesKitMalthouse #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesSajidJavid #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesRishiSunak #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesNadhimZahawi #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesDominicRaab #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesBrandonLewis #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesGrantShapps #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesMichaelGove #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesOliverDowden
#MemeSmallBrainYellingAtBigBrain #OrgUAAzovBattalion #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #IdentityLGBTQIAPrideFlag #ToponymEuropeUkraine #LiteralVaccine #PhenomnSkepticismScience i.e. #TauntBrainwashed #BehaviourEmotionalDysregulationHistrionics
Context: #MetaphorVersusUsThem #MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength
Note that the meme's originator @ScottVsTyranny's #PhenomnAccountSuspension
#ToponymRussia #ToponymEuropeUkraine #MetaphorVersusUsThem i.e. (good) #ToponymEuropeUKNorthernIreland versus (bad) #OrgEU; (good) #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesBorisJohnson versus (bad) #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseMainstreamMediaMSM; (good) #OrgUKBAF versus (bad) #NarrativeUtopiaWokeLiberal
#CauseFeminism #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionValues #CharacterisationOversimplification / #ReasoningFallacyReductioAdAbsurdum #PleaOrderStableSocial #OtheringOutGroup #MetaphorVersusPurityAdulteration #MetaphorVersusUsThem via #WebsiteFactFuss #CharacterisationEmasculationIndeterminacyEpicene #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
Addendum: presumably the comment "migrants clearly migrant children are having a severe affect on children social care bleeding public services dry" is derived through #EpistemologyAmateurExegeteAnecdotalEvidence (not actual fact). And so, the point about #PhenomnImmigration points to an #MetaphorVersusUsThem of #OtheringOutGroupForeigner #PhenomnResponsibilityBlamingVictim #ReasoningFallacyConfirmationBias
#MetaphorVersusUsThem #PhenomnMaskWearing versus #CharacterisationConspiracist
Addendum: this contrast strongly implies #MetaphorVersusConservativesLiberals i.e. #PleaNostalgia, #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionValues and logically, #NarrativeValuesFamily #TheoryModelBinary #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
#OrgClassifPPUKConservativesLizTruss #MetaphorWarfareCulture #CatchcryIdentityPolitics #NewspaperUKTabloidTheSunHarryCole "WAKE UP WOKIES Foreign Secretary Liz Truss says culture wars and woke attacks on Britain are a gift to our enemies" https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16969126/liz-truss-culture-wars-wokeness/ i.e. #MetaphorVersusUsThem #MetaphorWarfareTraitorOwnGoal
framed as: #MetaphorVersusUsThem
#TheoryLiberalSocialJustice
>Encourages debate, allows disagreement, and allows for the right to offend.
>Views us as individuals with autonomy.
>Values scientific enquiry, rigorous empiricism, and feedback that highlights possible errors i.e. #PhenomnScientificMethod / #EpistemologyPositivism
#TheorySocialJusticeCritical i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_social_justice
>See's opposing views as dangerous and accepts nothing less than idealogical conformity.
>Views us as a collection of group identities.
>Mistrusts science, credits certain identity groups with unequivocal access to truths, and places subjective experience over objectivity.
evoking: #PoliticsCollectivism #MetaphorConformitySheepSheeple
Context: feels like classic #PhenomnAccordProtectionismDisciplinary to me.
#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDwightDEisenhower versus #OrgUSFedAFMMarkMilley i.e. #MetaphorVersusUsThem #MetaphorVersusFailureSuccess
Addendum: what seems implicit in this contrast, is the idea that Eisenhower is #PleaAuthenticity.ic whereas Milley is seemingly, #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated, and therefore inauthentic. #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
#ReasoningFallacyReductioAdAbsurdum
Context: #MemeTheyBrainwashedYou: #MetaphorVersusUsThem #TauntBrainwashed #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #IdentityLGBTQIAPrideFlag #BeliefIslamism #PhenomnMaskWearing #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #OrgUSPlannedParenthood #OrgRUSovietUnionOfSovietSocialistRepublicsUSSR #CauseFeminism #NMUSCNN #NMUSFOXFNC #BeliefMysticismCartomancyTarotCards #TauntBigTech #TechServiceGoogle #PlatformSMYouTube #BrandMetaFacebook #PlatformSMTwitterTWTR #PlatformSMTumblr #BeliefDaoism i.e. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/daoism/ #BeliefDeitySatanLuciferDevilBeelzebubAntichristDajjal ? #PoliticsNationalismConservative #SymbolEmblemFlagUS #BeliefChristianity #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump
#PleaMAGA #PoliticsPatriotism identity #BeliefChristianity #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOP #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #PoliticsSocialism #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseFakeNews #ConspiracyTheoryStolenElectionBigLie #NarrativeValuesFamily #CatchcryGodAndGuns ? #2024_USPresidentialElection
#IRLFinancierGeorgeSoros #IRLPhilanthropistBillGates
and Klaus Schwab ?
Context: http://dean-w-arnold.com/articles-blogs/bill-gates-gathers-billionaires (health policy intentionally misinterpreted as #PowerControlPopulation instead of what it is). #OtheringElitesGlobal
Related: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52833706
#NMAUSkyNewsAustraliaAndrewBolt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D43nwtc2vmk #TauntRacismWhite #TheoryCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #MetaphorWarfareSocialJusticeWarriorSJW #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation #MetaphorVersusUsThem #PowerControlSegregationDiscrimination
SUPPLEMENTARY: #TauntClownWorld ? https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Clown%20World And #2021_TomMacDonaldClownWorld
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koO35JqBQMI
#TauntRacismReverse: "the other two authors of the study, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, have co-opted and decontextualized the words of Martin Luther King Jr. to argue that King would have stood squarely against "identity politics," a common tactic of those who worry about "reverse racism" against white people." i.e. https://areomagazine.com/2018/09/25/identity-politics-does-not-continue-the-work-of-the-civil-rights-movements/
Citation: https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/10/30/sokal-squared-hoax-was-put-down-scholars-concerned-racial-issues-opinion Also: "'Reverse Racism' Is A Giant Lie - Here's Why"
#IdentityLGBTQIA #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardian #NMUKBBC #OrgUKNtlHealthServiceNHS #OrgUKPolice
Context: repurposed and re-inscribed version of: #1941_WomenOfBritainComeIntoTheFactories i.e. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/38928 #NarrativeWarWWII
#MemeTheyBrainwashedYou: #MetaphorVersusUsThem #TauntBrainwashed
#OtheringElitesHollywoodHollyweird
#PlatformSMYouTube
#IdentityLGBTQIA
#OrgUSPlannedParenthood
#OrgClassifPPARGFrenteDeTodos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frente_de_Todos
#OrgRUSovietUnionOfSovietSocialistRepublicsUSSR
#CauseFeminism
#OrgClassifPPARGJuntosPorElCambio i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juntos_por_el_Cambio
#BeliefDaoism i.e. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/daoism/
#BeliefDeitySatanLuciferDevilBeelzebubAntichristDajjal ?
#BeliefChristianity
#TheoryDeclinism i.e. the display of aggression of #IRLSportspersonStuartPearce and #IRLSportspersonTerryButcher
versus
#IRLSportspersonJesseLingard, #OrgUKFootballAssociationFAGarethSouthgate
#MetaphorVersusUsThem / #MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength / #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverRugged
#MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
#IdentityClassBlueCollar - presumably, versus #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated i.e. #MetaphorVersusUsThem The meme was created by #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUK of #IRLSingerJohnLydonAKAJohnnyRotten (who personifies) #MetaphorDissenterRebelOutsider / #PhenomnCounterCulture i.e. "if you identify as being antiestablishment then you should be anti-woke (because supposedly 'woke' represents the 'establishment')".
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 #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesJacobReesMogg #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesPritiPatel #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesSteveBaker #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesBernardJenkin #OrgClassifPPUKForBritainAnneMarieWaters #IRLIdeologuePaulJosephWatson #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUKGeorgeFarmer #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesMichaelFarmer #WebsiteProfessorWatchlist i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Watchlist
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/
#NMAUSkyNewsAustraliaPetaCredlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsVAcke12uc #EDUAUSCatholicUniversityKevinDonnelly
#MetaphorVersusUsThem used to demarcate threats from:
#TauntCultureCancel #TauntLeftThe #MetaphorWarfareCulture #ConspiracyTheoryCulturalMarxism #PoliticallyCorrectPC #TauntLeftCultural
#OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianLaborPartyALPJoanKirner #PhenomnFrankfurtSchool #TVAUABC #BrandFairfaxMediaNineEntertainmentCo
Framed as: #MetaphorTransmissionContagionWoke
Cited examples:
#OrgClassifPPUKConservativesMichaelGove
#OrgClassifPPAUSLiberalPartyOfAustraliaJohnHoward #OrgClassifPPAUSLiberalPartyOfAustraliaTonyAbbott #IRLBroadcasterPiersMorgan #BrandDrSeuss
In doing so, #PoliticsConservatismSocialSoCon.s were urged to be #PleaBraveryCourage, to embrace their values as #MetaphorDissenterRebelOutsider
The logic of this tweet seems to go along the lines of: "it's OK to have some non white people on #NMUKITVGMB - in a tokenistic kind of way (because after all, it's not like they're essential of anything) - as a type of 'decoration' / evidence used to stave off criticism of being racist, but of course, because they're not fulfilling an essential role - the more of 'them' i.e. #MetaphorVersusUsThem that you have the fewer 'legitimate' i.e. white people that you have to do the actual job". The 'give away' is the characterisation of a "British white person" i.e. a 'legitimate British person' (pointing to the idea that #IdentityWhite is an essential attribute of Britishness). The tweet is an overt example of deep-seated #OtheringDiscriminationRacism and strongly implies that the author feels under attack i.e. #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation as they struggle (resist) to engaged with contemporary society i.e. a #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity if ever there was one.
Interestingly, the image used to illustrate the tweet is taken from a video, which shows #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesBorisJohnson, moments before being infamously stuck on a zip-wire while intending to celebrate/raise awareness for the UK winning its first Olympic gold medal in the #2012_LondonOlympicGames i.e. an image that has become synonymous with #TauntSnatchingDefeatFromTheJawsOfVictory i.e. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/aug/01/boris-johnson-zip-wire Presumably, the image is meant to signify a sense of #PoliticsNationalismConservative re #TauntFlagWaving etc.
Supplementary: #2006_Borat version of infamous image: https://www.toonpool.com/cartoons/BORIS%20BORAT%20JOHNSON_343996
Supplementary: #IRLScholarGeorgeLakoff "Consider Brexit, which used the metaphor of 'entering' and 'leaving' the EU. There is a universal metaphor that states are locations in space: you can enter a state, be deep in some state, and come out that state. If you enter a café and then leave the café , you will be in the same location as before you entered. But that need not be true of states of being. But that was the metaphor used with Brexit; Britons believed that after leaving the EU, things would be as before when the entered the EU. They were wrong. Things changed radically while they were in the EU." https://george-lakoff.com/2016/07/23/understanding-trump-2/ #TheoryLinguisticsConceptualMetaphorCMT
Addendum: Additionally, much of the pro-Brexit campaigning employed a #MetaphorClosedSystem, where mythology around the #ToponymEuropeUK being an island (and therefore separate and discrete) was leveraged. The "£350 million per week" savings claim is a ket example of this:
#OrgEU versus #IdentityBritish #MetaphorVersusUsThem #MetaphorInterdependencePlank
Supplementary: http://www.progressivepulse.org/brexit/a-disastrous-referendum-design-and-a-fatal-flaw #OtheringCaricatureBrexitFrauderendum #BrandAggregateIQDataServicesAIQ i.e. https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/a-b-c-company-with-ties-to-cambridge-analytica-broke-canadian-law-here-s-why/article_62497cbf-2017-5a66-8c08-30c94bb38fc3.html
#TheoryDeclinism #MetaphorVersusHardSoft #MetaphorVersusUsThem #TheoryModelBinaryDualityManichean #PleaAuthenticity #PleaNostalgia #SymbolHairstyleTopknot #TheoryModelBinary #MetaphorTransformationRetrogression #IRLActorCaryGrant e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/bmvl3c/cary_grant_looking_dapper_1950s/ #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych #TheoryHauntology
Context: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/something-went-terribly-wrong
Supplementary: "Declinism is the tendency to see the past in an overly positive light and to view the present or future in an overly negative light, leading us to believe that things are worse than they used to be. Declinism is often a feeling harbored about the overall state of a country, society, or institution, with the view that it is in decline or getting worse." https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/declinism
Addendum: https://bsky.app/profile/navin5u.bsky.social/post/3kl33heyuo22m
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca2DSsuE7jI
#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump
#MetaphorVersusUsThem
#ConspiracyTheoryCabalQAnon
#ConspiracyTheory5G
#PhenomnVirusCOVID19
#BeliefConspiracy
#ConspiracyTheoryCOVID19Vaccine
#TheoryAffectiveResponsePanic
#BeliefDeitySatanLuciferDevilBeelzebubAntichristDajjal #BeliefMysticismMagicalThinkers
#ConspiracyTheoryCabalElitesReptilianLizardPeople
#ConspiracyTheoryCabalPizzagate e.g. "Four minutes into a video that was posted on Instagram last month, #IRLSingerJustinBieber leaned into the camera and adjusted the front of his black knit beanie. For some of his 130 million followers, it was a signal.
In the video, someone had posted a comment asking Mr. Bieber to touch his hat if he had been a victim of a child-trafficking ring known as PizzaGate. Thousands of comments were flooding in, and there was no evidence that Mr. Bieber had seen that message. But the pop star's innocuous gesture set off a flurry of online activity, which highlighted the resurgence of one of social media's early conspiracy theories." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/technology/pizzagate-justin-bieber-qanon-tiktok.html
#IRLArtistMarinaAbramovic
#EpistemologyAmateurExegetePatternSeeking
#2009_BlackDynamite
#PoliticsFascismCyber
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/55101238
Context: https://www.everythingisaremix.info/about
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSBarackObama #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #MetaphorVersusUsThem #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
Addendum: comparison made between Barack Obama and Trump's greeting Japanese emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko upon arrival at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo - Obama bowing in 2009 i.e. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/6580190/Barack-Obama-criticised-for-treasonous-bow-to-Japanese-emperor.html and Trump with a handshake and nod in 2017 i.e. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-asia-japan-emperor/trump-greets-japanese-emperor-with-a-handshake-and-nod-but-no-bow-idUSKBN1D60CG While the first gesture assumes mutual respect (through being gracious) the second symbolically positions both within a world-view framed in terms of business (and fails to recognise the symbolic importance/grandeur of the Japanese emperor).
Selective photographic evidence of Obama and Trump's interaction with military personnel. There appears to be an important subtext to these images. Whereas the first shows a white soldier holding an umbrella for Obama i.e. African American (which he does so as an act of duty/service) the second shows a white president (Trump) dignifying an African American soldier through replacing a soldier's hat (logically interpreted as an act of humility).
#TauntWoke is intended as a negative characterisation meaning something like, "uppity" or "you think you're too good for us" (which suggests that the poster's motivation is that they feel challenged/insecure - and so need to go on the offensive). #OtheringElitesHollywoodHollyweird #MetaphorConformitySheepSheeple #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyNancyPelosi
#MetaphorVersusUsThem #CatchcryShovedDownYourThroat #BeliefConspiracy
Supplementary: "Propaganda is a type of communication built for warfare. It is communication as a kind of force, a weapon in itself. War propaganda typically focuses on us versus them, emotional appeals, conspiracy and other tactics designed to erode the confidence of the enemy or build the confidence of one's own side." https://www.justsecurity.org/77078/the-propaganda-playbook-a-section-by-section-dissection-of-tucker-carlsons-communication-strategy/ #PhenomnPropaganda #NMUSFOXFNCTuckerCarlson #TheoryAffectiveResponseAmygdalaHijack
Addendum: The repeated reference to 'they' implies that the author has no agency of their own - an admission that someone else holds all the power. The statement symbolically represents a parent-child relationship, where the author is the 'child' and the 'they' is the parent. Such appeals set up a false dichotomy between 'us' and 'them' - where 'we' are right and 'they' are wrong. It's a simply binary designed to appeal to your emotions rather than your sense (and because of its clichéd nature, is most likely intended to appeal to someone who isn't particularly well educated).
"BREXITERS are NOT xenophobes or racists but have constantly to fend off assertions by bitter Remainers. Our raison d'être is to be able to rule ourselves, our fishing grounds and our democracy with representatives who can easily be booted out. The EU project is staffed by unelecteds, is unaudited and is a bureaucratic nightmare of 28 nations with almost as many languages, controlled from within the Twin Towers of Brussels and Strasbourg. We reject open immigration and the influx of a culture so alien and destructive to our own." #OtheringCaricatureBrexitBrexiteer #OtheringHateXenophobia #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #OtheringCaricatureBrexitRemainer #CatchcryFreedomAutonomy #MetaphorVersusUsThem #OrgEU #MetaphorDemocracySovereign #PoliticsBureaucracy #PoliticsTechnocracy #ToponymEuropeBelgiumVlaamsGewestBrussels #ToponymEuropeFranceStrasbourg #PhenomnImmigration #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim ? #ConspiracyTheoryCabalGroomingGang #ToponymEuropeUKYorkshireWestHalifax #PoliticsNationalismBritish
Supplementary: i.e. British appropriation of US #OtheringCaricatureSlaveryBrute ?
Addendum: presumably intended to create outrage through evoking a #MetaphorPurityRacialWhiteWomenAndBlackMen narrative. #PhenomnCulturalFormPhotographyMugshot
#TauntWoke used positively to mean "celebration".
The meme seeks to have its readers empathise with the poster's lack of agency. #MetaphorVersusUsThem