Archived Tweets / Research Data
Codes & Themes w/wo Theoretical Memos
(derived through a process of inductive, qualitative, data analysis)
@LaneKeshavarz [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : I never was a #fan of #woke to begin with. Just people making up new rules when they don't like something. [URL redacted]
#FictionalCharacterBuzzLightyear #2022_Lightyear #NewspaperUSTabloidNewYorkPostKyleSmith "Hollywood was founded by, and for generations run by, pure showmen who were fanatically devoted to giving the audience what it wanted. Today Hollywood's message is, 'Let us entertain you! But first, a brief lecture on what's wrong with you, the audience ...'" (25 June 2022).
Addendum this follows the argument that entertainment is paradoxically intrinsic to, and simultaneously removed from culture i.e. that it is somehow possible to occupy a #PleaNeutrality position. This logic seems to echo a #PoliticsLiberalismClassical position, one where choosing *not* to intervene maintains a #PleaOrderNaturalEquilibrium. This can be understood additionally in terms of #PoliticsStatusQuoBias, which parallels #TheoryDragonsOfInactionSystemJustification, as applied in a climate change context.
Addendum this follows the argument that entertainment is paradoxically intrinsic to, and simultaneously removed from culture i.e. that it is somehow possible to occupy a #PleaNeutrality position. This logic seems to echo a #PoliticsLiberalismClassical position, one where choosing *not* to intervene maintains a #PleaOrderNaturalEquilibrium. This can be understood additionally in terms of #PoliticsStatusQuoBias, which parallels #TheoryDragonsOfInactionSystemJustification, as applied in a climate change context.
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@LincolnDumpson [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Few have courage of conviction of @elonmusk and fat cash to back it up. #Resonance that crazy diamond sees is the frustrated incredulity of
common folk fed up with #woke #CancelCulture deluge on #socialmedia. Now compare tailwagging Politicians, #capitalists of #sepoy India 1/2 [URL redacted]
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@HarperSperry [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [11]: Chris Rufo hits back at media attacking him for opposing critical race t... [URL redacted] via @TuckerCarlson @realchrisrufo #CRT #CriticalRaceTheory #woke #wokism #equity #equality
#NMUSFOXFNCTuckerCarlson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFAdKsOll2o
#TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT
#AdvocacyUSManhattanInstituteForPolicyResearchChristopherRufo [Wikipedia]
Supplementary #2025_ #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesRossDouthat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjLKRPJGGS0 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/opinion/chris-rufo-trump-anti-dei-education.html #TheoryVictimhoodWhiteThymos #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #PhenomnGenericTemplateBoilerplateText #OtheringHateAnimosity #OtheringDiscriminationRacismStructuralSystemicInstitutional #IRLAuthorRobinDiAngelo #ToponymAmericaNorthUSWashingtonStateSeattle #2020_CapitolHillAutonomousZoneCHAZ #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyJennyDurkan #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPRonDeSantisRDS #TauntLeftThe #AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundationProject2025 #MetaphorVersusRightWingLeftWing #MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation #PolicyAffirmativeActionDiscriminationPositive #1957_CivilRightsAct #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSLyndonBJohnson #IRLJournalistChristopherCaldwell #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSRichardNixon #PoliticsLibertarianism #TheoryRacialColourBlindness #PoliticsStatusQuoOrdinaryDeflectingPrivilege #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSAntoninScalia #LiteralSchoolCollegeUniversity #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSRonaldReagan #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSGeorgeWBush #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #PleaOrderNaturalEquilibrium #OrgUSFedUnitedStatesAgencyForInternationalDevelopmentUSAID #PolicyUSPresidentsEmergencyPlanForAIDSReliefPEPFAR #PhenomnMaximalism #OrgUSFedGovDepartmentOfEducationED #PoliticsLibertarianConservatismLimitedGovernment
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianJasonWilson "A rightwing non-profit group that has published a 'DEI Watch List' identifying federal employees allegedly 'driving radical Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives' is bankrolled by wealthy family foundations and rightwing groups whose origins are often cloaked in a web of financial arrangements that obscure the original donors. One recent list created by the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) includes the names of mostly Black people with roles in government health alleged to have some ties to diversity initiatives. Another targets education department employees, and another calls out the 'most subversive immigration bureaucrats'." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/09/american-accountability-foundation-project-2025 #AdvocacyUSAmericanAccountabilityFoundationAAF [Wikipedia] #TauntLeftRadical
Supplementary #2025_ #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesRossDouthat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjLKRPJGGS0 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/opinion/chris-rufo-trump-anti-dei-education.html #TheoryVictimhoodWhiteThymos #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #PhenomnGenericTemplateBoilerplateText #OtheringHateAnimosity #OtheringDiscriminationRacismStructuralSystemicInstitutional #IRLAuthorRobinDiAngelo #ToponymAmericaNorthUSWashingtonStateSeattle #2020_CapitolHillAutonomousZoneCHAZ #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyJennyDurkan #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPRonDeSantisRDS #TauntLeftThe #AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundationProject2025 #MetaphorVersusRightWingLeftWing #MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation #PolicyAffirmativeActionDiscriminationPositive #1957_CivilRightsAct #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSLyndonBJohnson #IRLJournalistChristopherCaldwell #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSRichardNixon #PoliticsLibertarianism #TheoryRacialColourBlindness #PoliticsStatusQuoOrdinaryDeflectingPrivilege #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSAntoninScalia #LiteralSchoolCollegeUniversity #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSRonaldReagan #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSGeorgeWBush #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #PleaOrderNaturalEquilibrium #OrgUSFedUnitedStatesAgencyForInternationalDevelopmentUSAID #PolicyUSPresidentsEmergencyPlanForAIDSReliefPEPFAR #PhenomnMaximalism #OrgUSFedGovDepartmentOfEducationED #PoliticsLibertarianConservatismLimitedGovernment
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianJasonWilson "A rightwing non-profit group that has published a 'DEI Watch List' identifying federal employees allegedly 'driving radical Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives' is bankrolled by wealthy family foundations and rightwing groups whose origins are often cloaked in a web of financial arrangements that obscure the original donors. One recent list created by the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) includes the names of mostly Black people with roles in government health alleged to have some ties to diversity initiatives. Another targets education department employees, and another calls out the 'most subversive immigration bureaucrats'." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/09/american-accountability-foundation-project-2025 #AdvocacyUSAmericanAccountabilityFoundationAAF [Wikipedia] #TauntLeftRadical
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#CauseActivismEnvironmental #CauseFeminism #PolicyRightsHuman anti #PoliticsCapitalism - perhaps more correctly, criticism of #PoliticsNeoliberalism #PoliticsSovereignty
Supplementary "Classical economics implicitly assumed the existence of a teleological natural order governed by natural laws. Therefore, it appeared to be necessary only to repeal the unjust man-made laws and other restrictions imposed upon man by man, in order that the infinitely just natural laws might impose upon man that perfect order which was ordained by nature and by nature's God. Liberty was thought to be the natural state of affairs which required no positive action. It was believed to be necessary only to remove the unnatural restraints from man in order to insure that liberty would naturally result. Classical liberalism was based upon a strong commitment to economic liberty and an overpowering fear that the government might impair or destroy this precious liberty" (Lewis E. Hill, 1964, p.394). #PoliticsLiberalismClassical #PleaOrderNaturalEquilibrium #TheoryTeleology Hill, L. E. (1964). 'On Laissez-Faire Capitalism and 'Liberalism'.' The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 23(4): 393-396. [academic source]
Supplementary "Classical economics implicitly assumed the existence of a teleological natural order governed by natural laws. Therefore, it appeared to be necessary only to repeal the unjust man-made laws and other restrictions imposed upon man by man, in order that the infinitely just natural laws might impose upon man that perfect order which was ordained by nature and by nature's God. Liberty was thought to be the natural state of affairs which required no positive action. It was believed to be necessary only to remove the unnatural restraints from man in order to insure that liberty would naturally result. Classical liberalism was based upon a strong commitment to economic liberty and an overpowering fear that the government might impair or destroy this precious liberty" (Lewis E. Hill, 1964, p.394). #PoliticsLiberalismClassical #PleaOrderNaturalEquilibrium #TheoryTeleology Hill, L. E. (1964). 'On Laissez-Faire Capitalism and 'Liberalism'.' The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 23(4): 393-396. [academic source]
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@ArmandoKasmar [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Back when kids were tough bastards. None of this snowflake business...
#kids #depressionera #fsa #farmersecurityadministration #poverty #rural #snowflakegeneration #woke #identitypolitics #culturewar #usa #uselection2020 #trump #virus #pandemic #art #photography #edgarmartins [URL redacted]
#PleaNostalgia
#TheoryDeclinism (golden age thinking / rosy retrospection / wistfulness yearning / reminiscence)
#CharacterisationWeaknessHypersensitivity
#CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake
#PolicyUSFarmSecurityAdministrationFSA [Wikipedia]
(versus
#PhenomnAgricultureFarmingIntensive?)
#PleaAuthenticity
#TheoryCodedMasculinityOverRugged
#PleaNostalgiaRetrospection
Context #IRLScholarTimothySnyder's #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eghl19elKk8&t=367s
Supplementary #WebsiteInternetEncyclopediaOfPhilosophyAshleyWoodward "For Lyotard change is life affirming, whereas the stable structures that inhibit change are nihilistic and life denying. However, Lyotard does not simply assert libidinal intensity as an affirmative 'other' to nihilism. For Lyotard, there is no affirmative region, no pure outside to nihilism. Lyotard does not propose that we champion affects, singularities, intensities and libidinal energy over systems, structures, theory, concepts and representation. This is because the only way libidinal energies can exist is within structures. Lyotard does not advocate a simple liberation of desire and does not attempt to set up a place beyond representation which would be immune to the effects of nihilism. Lyotard presents us, rather, with a metaphysical system in which intensities and structures are both essential elements of the libidinal economy." [encyclopædia]
Addendum #IRLPhilosopherJeanFrancoisLyotard's #TheoryPhilosophyLibidinal clearly contrasts with #PleaOrderNaturalEquilibrium as per a #PoliticsLiberalismClassical perspective (evoked above).
Context #IRLScholarTimothySnyder's #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eghl19elKk8&t=367s
Supplementary #WebsiteInternetEncyclopediaOfPhilosophyAshleyWoodward "For Lyotard change is life affirming, whereas the stable structures that inhibit change are nihilistic and life denying. However, Lyotard does not simply assert libidinal intensity as an affirmative 'other' to nihilism. For Lyotard, there is no affirmative region, no pure outside to nihilism. Lyotard does not propose that we champion affects, singularities, intensities and libidinal energy over systems, structures, theory, concepts and representation. This is because the only way libidinal energies can exist is within structures. Lyotard does not advocate a simple liberation of desire and does not attempt to set up a place beyond representation which would be immune to the effects of nihilism. Lyotard presents us, rather, with a metaphysical system in which intensities and structures are both essential elements of the libidinal economy." [encyclopædia]
Addendum #IRLPhilosopherJeanFrancoisLyotard's #TheoryPhilosophyLibidinal clearly contrasts with #PleaOrderNaturalEquilibrium as per a #PoliticsLiberalismClassical perspective (evoked above).
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@MoniqueOstheimer [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : @SpeechUnion What is #woke?
Is the #redpill an antidote ... if we keep taking the *blue pill*? [URL redacted]
#PoliticsLibertarianism #PhenomnRhetoricMetaphor of the #MetaphorPillRed, which reveals an unpleasant truth and the #MetaphorPillBlue, which allows you to remain blissfully ignorant. The metaphor is derived from #1999_TheMatrix film #MetaphorSpatialMatrix.
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