#NarrativeWarWWI #ToponymEmpireOttoman #ToponymEastMiddleTurkey #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler #PoliticsFascismNaziThirdReich #IdentityMuslim #OrgIntlWEF #OtheringElitesGlobal #TheoryDeterminismHistoricalPresentism
Context: "Riots erupted in the heart of Brussels and several other Belgian cities on Sunday after Belgium was upset by Morocco, 2-0, at the World Cup." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/sports/soccer/belgium-riots-world-cup-morocco.html (27 November 2022 ) #2022_FIFAWorldCupQatar #ToponymEuropeBelgiumVlaamsGewestBrussels #PleaLawAndOrder
Addendum: clearly, this #AphorismALeopardDoesntChangeItsSpots is meant as a #PhenomnCautionaryTale, which evokes a #TheoryFatalism.istic, #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim worldview.
#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump = #MetaphorBuilder versus #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyBernieSanders = #PoliticsCommunism and #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSJoeBiden = #CharacterisationWeaknessOldAndSenile / #CharacterisationWeaknessFeeble
Supplementary: #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesChrisCameron "Former President Donald J. Trump posted a video on Monday afternoon that features images of hypothetical newspaper articles celebrating a 2024 victory for him and referring to 'the creation of a unified Reich' under the headline 'What's next for America?'
The 30-second video, which Mr. Trump posted on his social media site, Truth Social, features several articles styled like newspapers from the early 1900s -- and apparently recycling text from reports on World War I, including references to 'German industrial strength' and 'peace through strength.' One article in the video asserts that Mr. Trump would deport 15 million migrants in a second term, while text onscreen lists the start and end days of World War I.
Another headline in the video suggests that Mr. Trump in a second term would reject 'globalists,' using a term that has been widely adopted on the far right and that scholars say can be used as a signal of antisemitism" (20 May 2024). https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/us/donald-trump-reich-video.html #PlatformSMAltTechTruthSocial https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112474710503667357 https://metro.co.uk/video/donald-trump-posts-ad-twice-referencing-creating-unified-reich-echoing-nazi-germany-3193835/ #OtheringElitesGlobal #OtheringHateAntisemitism #NarativeAmericanDream #2024_USPresidentialElection #NarrativeWarWWI #PhenomnImmigrationRefugee
#WebsiteHuffPostAmandaTerkel "In his 10-minute speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington on Thursday, Scott kept saying the word 'woke' in that same cringeworthy way some people are still using 'da bomb.' (You know who you are.) 'Americans in flyover country have had absolutely enough of this woke elitist nonsense.' 'The woke left wants all of that gone. They want to end the American experiment. They want to replace freedom with control.' 'Democrats know they can't win with their crazy woke ideas.' 'They're going to say I'm not woke enough, and I'm not serious.' For what it's worth, no one is going to say Scott is not woke enough, because anyone who could be considered woke - i.e., someone who cares about injustice and inequality - likely isn't using that word anymore. But indeed, Scott might face some questions about how serious he is." https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/senator-rick-scott-woke-progressives-left_n_6245e32fe4b068157f74946b #AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundation #MetaphorWarfareUnderAttack #NarrativeWarOf1812USUK i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812 #NarrativeWarWWI #NarrativeWarWWII #NarrativeWarKorean #NarrativeWarAmericaVietnam #PoliticsCommunismColdWar
Context: "That's Flyover Country, also known as 'the Heartland' or 'Middle America' --American slang for the states which trendy liberal coast-dwellers see only from the window of an airplane." https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlyoverCountry
Supplementary: #AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundationProject2025 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 #ToponymAmericaNorthUSWashingtonDC #ConspiracyTheoryDeepState #AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundationKevinRoberts #CharacterisationMaximalist
#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 i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_the_Liberal_Class
#TheorySociologyIntersectionality
#TauntBigBusinessCorporateCorporations
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticParty
#MetaphorVersusConservativesLiberals
#MetaphorVersusSocialismCapitalism
#PoliticsSocialism
#BeliefChristianityChurch
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSWoodrowWilson
#NarrativeWarWWI
#PhenomnPropaganda
#OrgUSCommitteeOnPublicInformationCPICreelCommittee i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Information
#IRLJournalistGeorgeCreel
#IRLScholarEdwardBernays
#IRLPhysicianSigmundFreud
#IRLPhysicianGustaveLeBon i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Le_Bon
#IRLPhysicianWilfredTrotter i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Trotter
#1995_PeoplesCenturyS1E21914KillingFields i.e. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1158557/#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 i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act #IdentityClassBlueCollar #LegislationUS1994NorthAmericanFreeTradeAgreementNAFTA #PoliticsCapitalism #PoliticsDemocracy #PoliticsDemocracyCapitalist #PoliticsStatusQuo #PhenomnSkepticismRadical #NarrativeWarAmericaVietnam #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSRonaldReagan #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSBillClinton #LegislationUS1996CongressPersonalResponsibilityAndWorkOpportunityReconciliationActPRWORA i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Responsibility_and_Work_Opportunity_Act #LegislationUS1999CongressGrammLeachBlileyActGLBA AKA #LegislationUS1999CongressFinancialServicesModernizationAct i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93Bliley_Act #CauseCivilLiberties #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyDennisKucinich i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Kucinich #IRLActivistRalphNader #IRLHistoricalFigureFyodorDostoevsky #1864_NotesFromUnderground #TheoryNihilism #IRLDogmatistGlennBeck #TheoryMaterialismChristian #PoliticsNationalismChristian #BeliefChristianityGospel #2007_AmericanFascistsTheChristianRightAndTheWarOnAmerica #IRLPoetYusefKomunyakaa #TheoryInvertedTotalitarianism i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism #PoliticsCapitalismCommodification #ToponymEastMiddleIraq #ToponymAfghanistan #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSBarackObama
Context: https://www.mediasanctuary.org/about/
#ToponymAmericaNorthUSOklahomaGeary #NarrativeWarWWI #NarrativeWarWWII #NarrativeWarSpanishAmerican #NarrativeWarAmericanCivil
Supplementary: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/veterans-of-four-different-wars-from-the-same-town-geary-oklahoma-1940s/ With colourised version: https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/kvw5vp/us_veterans_of_four_different_wars_that_lived_in/
#SymbolWarWhiteFeather #NarrativeWarWWI
Context: Image from 'The White Feather: A Sketch of English Recruiting' by Arnold Bennett, Collier's Weekly #1914_. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/white-feather-girls-womens-militarism-in-uk/
#WebsiteInfoWarsAlexJones #OrgClassifPPRUSUnitedRussiaVladimirPutin #WebsiteInfoWarsAlexJones #ToponymBolsheviks #PoliticsCommunism
Context: #BrandHowToAcademy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzRn2-R0GiE&t=90s #IRLPhilosopherSlavojZizek #IRLScholarJordanPeterson
Supplementary: "Yet the most important thing extremists on either side of the political spectrum have in common is a sense of deep self-pity. In their minds, they are always being 'marginalized,' or dominated or threatened by a seemingly omnipotent establishment. In the U.S., inevitably, race plays a large role in such feelings, though for opposite reasons on the left and right. Left-wing activists are obsessed, not entirely without cause, with 'white supremacy.' On the right, [Tucker] Carlson asks with a straight face: 'Is [Putin] teaching my children to embrace racial discrimination?'
Both [Vladimir] Putin and [Donald] Trump like to portray themselves as victims -- or, at least, as leaders who speak for the victims of liberal elites, arrogant internationalists, critical race theorists or people who fail to respect Russian or American 'greatness.' It is this idea of victimhood that people, especially on the far right, identify with. Remember the degree to which Nazi propaganda was soaked in grievance: the treatment of Germany by the allied nations after World War I, the dominance of Jews who supposedly pulled all the strings of power. The first official heroes of the Nazi movement were 'martyrs' who had died in street brawls with leftists.
Real victims exist, of course. But when powerful men exploit a fear of impotence to stoke popular anger, it becomes a dangerous force, for it is always bent on vengeance. When there is vengeance, there will always be blood." https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/why-putin-unites-extremists-on-left-and-right/2022/04/02/ffde9248-b25a-11ec-9dbd-0d4609d44c1c_story.html #TheoryMarginalisation #PoliticsStatusQuoTheEstablishment #SlurWhiteSupremacy #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #OrgClassifPPRUSUnitedRussiaVladimirPutin #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #NMUSFOXFNCTuckerCarlson #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation #PoliticsFascismNaziPropaganda #NarrativeWarWWI #IdentityJewish #OtheringHateAntisemitismCaricaturePuppetMaster #MetaphorMartyr #TauntLeftist #TheoryCulturalImperialismWesternHedonism
#OrgUKBAF #NarrativeWarWWI
"'Don't be Alarmed, the Bulford Boys are on guard'.
A Patriotic postcard depicting a Britsih infantryman (from Bulford Camp, an army base near Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire) charging forward with fixed bayonet, whilst a large Union Flag billows out behind him. - Year: circa 1916" https://www.alamy.com/bayonet-charge-british-soldier-world-war-one-image66156493.html #TauntFlagWaving #PoliticsPatriotism identity
#OrgClassifGrpMusicUSFiveFingerDeathPunch5FDP #2020_LivingTheDream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOkkWIOkWl8 #IRLHistoricalFigureRalphWaldoEmerson #MetaphorZombie #ConspiracyTheoryStolenElectionStopTheSteal #BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUCaptainAmerica #LiteralSubstanceDrugCocaine #PhenomnTrendTidePodChallenge #PhenomnVirusCOVID19 #NarrativeAntiMasker #OrgRUSovietUnionOfSovietSocialistRepublicsUSSR #PoliticsCommunism #MetaphorConformitySheep ? #ConspiracyTheoryTheGreatAwakening #2020_CapitolSiege ? #SymbolEmblemFlagUS #CatchcryWeThePeople #1787_SigningOfTheUnitedStatesConstitution
Supplementary: #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesJochenBittner "One hundred years ago, amid the implosions of Imperial Germany, powerful conservatives who led the country into war refused to accept that they had lost. Their denial gave birth to arguably the most potent and disastrous political lie of the 20th century -- the Dolchstosslegende, or stab-in-the-back myth.
Its core claim was that Imperial Germany never lost World War I. Defeat, its proponents said, was declared but not warranted. It was a conspiracy, a con, a capitulation -- a grave betrayal that forever stained the nation. That the claim was palpably false didn't matter. Among a sizable number of Germans, it stirred resentment, humiliation and anger. And the one figure who knew best how to exploit their frustration was Adolf Hitler." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/opinion/trump-conspiracy-germany-1918.html #PleaBetrayalStabbedInTheBackDolchstosslegende #NarrativeWarWWI #ToponymEuropeGermany #CharacterisationInjuryFeelingAggrievedResentmentGrudge #PowerControlHumiliation #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler
#WebsiteBylineTimes #NarrativeTruthImmutableHistorical
Context: #WebsiteBylineTimesHardeepMatharu "India's contribution to Britain's fight was not a merely philosophical one, but deeply practical - with more than one million Indian soldiers serving overseas to defend the British Empire during World War One, 74,000 of whom were killed.
While soldiers from all across the Empire fought for the British, the Indian Army provided the largest number of troops. Indian soldiers started arriving on the Western Front from September 1914 and played a crucial role in the first battle of Ypres. ...
Despite hopes that Britain would set India on the path to autonomy after the war, the opposite happened. A year later, in 1919, more than a thousand peaceful Indians were killed in the Jllianawala Bagh Massacre at the hands of General Dyer. India would not gain independence until 1947 - after serving and dying for the British in another world war." https://bylinetimes.com/2020/01/21/history-isnt-woke-its-the-best-defence-we-have-against-tyranny-and-hate/ #NarrativeWarWWI #BeliefSikhism #IRLActorLaurenceFox #IRLFilmmakerSamMendes #2019_1917 #ToponymEuropeBelgiumVlaamsGewestYpres #1919_JallianwalaBaghMassacre #IRLHistoricalFigureReginaldDyer
Supplementary: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/13/opinion/1919-amrtisar-british-empire-india.html