#CharacterisationDeplorables #PoliticsCommunismColdWar

#MetaphorReptilianBrain ^[Wikipedia] ? #TheoryPsychology #FictionalCharacterGlandMonster by #IRLIllustratorEdwardKinsella https://www.nucleusportland.com/products/edward-kinsella-iii-gland-monster for #MagazineUSNautilus

https://skunkbear.tumblr.com/post/117525265069/another-departure-from-pure-science-but-some #ReasoningFallacyBiasPartisanship

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Context Andris, C., Lee, D., Hamilton, M. J., Martino, M., Gunning, C. E., & Selden, J. A. (2015). 'The Rise of Partisanship and Super-Cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives'. PLoS One, 10(4), e0123507. ^{[academic source] [Government]}

#ReasoningFallacyBiasPartisanship

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Context 'ThePoliticalGame' by #IRLIllustratorCarlosCenoz https://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/The-political-Game-by-CenozBermejo/51121407.LVTDI ?? #TauntBigBusinessCorporateCorporations #GameBoardMonopoly (the original illustration has the Monopoly Banker character where the volcano is in this version).

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Supplementary #AdvocacyILFightingOnlineAntisemitismFOA ^[pdf] #OtheringHateAntisemitismCaricaturePuppetMaster ? #OtheringCaricatureSlaveryMonkey ?

"@DrZemouri And THAT is how KOZP, Volt, Wilders, WOKE, and 'great replacement' are being financed by Jews. Rutte has a Jewish father; Baudet and Wilders are Zionists. Left-wing = socialism = 100% Jewish ideology. You can only understand the world when you understand WWII." #TauntLeftThe #OrgNLKickOutZwartePietKOZP #OrgClassifPPNLVoltNederland #OrgClassifPPNLPartijVoorDeVrijheidPVVGeertWilders #ConspiracyTheory_GreatReplacement #IdentityJewish #OrgClassifPPNLVolkspartijVoorVrijheidEnDemocratieVVDMarkRutte #OrgClassifPPNLForumVoorDemocratieFvDThierryBaudet #PoliticsNationalismJewishZionism #PoliticsSocialism #NarrativeWarWWII

"Muslims in Europe are used by the JEWS to racially genocide the native Whites 'The homogeneity of European nations is fundamentally against the interests of the Jewish people. We are at a critical turning point in history. The West is becoming more and more racially diverse, and soon the White Race will be forced into submission. The future of the West is that of an ethnically diverse melting pot, where the evil divisions of race and white supremacy no longer reign. This is all thanks to the tremendous power of our social movements and institutions. This great change will be catalyzed by Moslem settlement. From the land of Israel, Jews will forever be a light unto the new mono-racial world as guaranteed by God.' ~ Rabbi Abarron Haviv at the world Jewish Congress S2011" #IdentityMuslim #BeliefTheismJudaismStarOfDavid #MetaphorPurityRace #ConspiracyTheory_WhiteGenocide #PoliticsNationalismXenophobicNativism #IdentityPanEuropean #PhenomnMulticulturalism #TheoryVictimhoodWhiteDispossession #PhenomnMonoculturalismMeltingPot #CharacterisationWeaknessSubmission #SlurWhiteSupremacy #ToponymEastMiddleIsrael #AdvocacyCHTheWorldJewishCongressWJC #2011_

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Addendum this appears to be a a made up quote ^[commentary] attributed to the fictional entity #NarrativeTruthFabricationPersonaRabbiAbarronHaviv through appropriating the following photo: https://www.salom.com.tr/arsiv/haber/101143/ortodoks-milletvekili-muezzin-yasa-tasarisinda-frene-basti of #OrgClassifPPILAgudatYisraelYaakovLitzman ^[Wikipedia] #NarrativeTruthFalsehood #ReasoningFallacyBiasPartisanship #NarrativeTruthFabricationSpeechOurRaceWillRuleUndisputedOverTheWorld ^[Wikipedia] #IRLWhiteSupremacistEustaceClarenceMullinsJr ^[Wikipedia] #1903_TheProtocolsOfTheEldersOfZion

"You cannot attach ethics to subjectivism!" #OrgClassifPPNLDemocratenD66 #OrgClassifPPNLPartijVanDeArbeidPvdA #OrgClassifPPNLDemocratenD66SigridKaag #PhenomnClimateChange

#ReasoningFallacyBiasPartisanship #CatchcryDifferingOpinionsAsNeutralPerspectives ?

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Context #TheoryHostileMediaEffect Feldman, Lauren, 'The Hostile Media Effect', in Kate Kenski, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication, Oxford Handbooks (2017; online edn, Oxford Academic, 11 Jan. 2018), ^{[academic source]}, accessed 17 Jan. 2026.

#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPNewtGingrich #BrandDisney #PowerControlExploitationHumanTrafficking #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #OrgUSFedAFMArmyMichaelFlynn

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Context response to tweet: #NMUSFOXFNCSeanHannity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvxmYRNcZ9c #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPRickScott #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyJohnFetterman

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Supplementary #VlogThroughConversations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqT_5C0H23E&t=55s #IRLScholarNoamChomsky #AdvocacyUSBrookingsInstitutionThomasMann and #AdvocacyUSTheAmericanEnterpriseInstituteNormanOrnstein "The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. ... What happened? Of course, there were larger forces at work beyond the realignment of the South. They included the mobilization of social conservatives after the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the anti-tax movement launched in 1978 by California's Proposition 13, the rise of conservative talk radio after a congressional pay raise in 1989, and the emergence of Fox News and right-wing blogs. But the real move to the bedrock right starts with two names: Newt Gingrich and Grover Norquist. From the day he entered Congress in 1979, Gingrich had a strategy to create a Republican majority in the House: convincing voters that the institution was so corrupt that anyone would be better than the incumbents, especially those in the Democratic majority. It took him 16 years, but by bringing ethics charges against Democratic leaders; provoking them into overreactions that enraged Republicans and united them to vote against Democratic initiatives; exploiting scandals to create even more public disgust with politicians; and then recruiting GOP candidates around the country to run against Washington, Democrats and Congress, Gingrich accomplished his goal. ... The GOP's evolution has become too much for some longtime Republicans. Former senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska called his party 'irresponsible' in an interview with the Financial Times in August, at the height of the debt-ceiling battle. 'I think the Republican Party is captive to political movements that are very ideological, that are very narrow,' he said. 'I've never seen so much intolerance as I see today in American politics.' And Mike Lofgren, a veteran Republican congressional staffer, wrote an anguished diatribe last year about why he was ending his career on the Hill after nearly three decades. 'The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe,' he wrote on the Truthout Web site. Shortly before Rep. West went off the rails with his accusations of communism in the Democratic Party, political scientists Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal, who have long tracked historical trends in political polarization, said their studies of congressional votes found that Republicans are now more conservative than they have been in more than a century. Their data show a dramatic uptick in polarization, mostly caused by the sharp rightward move of the GOP." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lets-just-say-it-the-republicans-are-the-problem/2012/04/27/gIQAxCVUlT_story.html And ^{[digital archives]} And https://www.aei.org/articles/ive-witnessed-the-decline-of-the-republican-party/ #AdvocacyUSAmericansForTaxReformATRGroverNorquist #1973_RoeVersusWade

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#VlogLionsOfLibertyMarcClair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzlUSTg3Cjs&t=534s #IRLAuthorMikeLofgren ^[Wikipedia] #ConspiracyTheory_DeepState #EDUUSPrincetonUniversityMartinGilens #EDUUSNorthwesternUniversityBenjaminPage https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746 #PhenomnPolicymakingPoliticalAdvocacyLobbyingThinkTankPressureGroup #PoliticsGovernanceOligarchy #PoliticsGovernmentShadow #OrgClassifPPUSPOTUSThomasJefferson #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyBernieSanders

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Addendum #WebsiteHuffPostLeeMoran "Longtime political scientist Norman Ornstein on Wednesday explained why he believes the 2024 election is likely to go down as 'the most significant and most destructive' in America's history. The United States has previously chosen 'bad' and 'incompetent' presidents, Ornstein acknowledged to Zeteo's Mehdi Hasan. But, reflecting on Donald Trump's victory, Ornstein pointed out that 'we have not elected a president who has made clear during the campaign that he will be a dictator on day one and will destroy or shred the Constitution to whatever degree he feels it is necessary.' 'Even worse,' continued the emeritus scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank, are Trump's 'enablers around him from the Supreme Court through the other institutions.' 'My fear is not just Donald Trump, it is that the guardrails we have built up over two and a half centuries are not going to hold,' he added. Later, Ornstein expressed his concerns that normal restraints on Trump just don't exist. 'Maybe the worst won't happen, but it's going to be damn close,' he warned." https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/norman-ornstein-2024-election-donald-trump-win_n_672c87e5e4b01cfbdad3d9b4 #VlogZeteoUnfilteredMehdiHasan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aWc43M6q8E&t=56s #IRLSecurityAdvisorOliviaTroye #PoliticsAuthoritarianismDictatorship #2024_USPresidentialElection #OrgUSFedAFMArmyMichaelFlynn #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #BrandAmazonJeffBezos #BrandTechMetaMarkZuckerberg #BrandFDRLSTMediaTheFederalistSteveMiller #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #PowerControlRegulationDeportation #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyKamalaHarris #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #AdvocacyUSChildrensHealthDefenseRobertFKennedyRFKJr #OrgUSFedCentersForDiseaseControlAndPreventionCDC #OrgUSFedFoodAndDrugAdministrationFDA #OrgUSNtlInstitutesOfHealthNIH #OrgUSFedNationalWeatherService #BehaviourSchadenfreude #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPLizCheney #ReasoningFallacyBiasPartisanship

#BrandTechSocialMediaWikipedia #OrgUKNtlHealthServiceNHS #IdentityClassWhiteCollarMiddle #PhenomnMedicalPractitionerDoctorNurse #PowerControlExploitation

#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphAndrewOrlowski ^[Muckrack] "The Left is using Wikipedia in its fight to control truth Is the United States economy now in a recession? It all depends on how you define a recession. And, in turn, that depends on who gets to write the definition of a recession. When Joe Biden's administration began to quibble with the widely accepted technical definition of the term recently, after two quarters of declining GDP, that was quickly reflected in the world's most popular source of information, Wikipedia. However, the 'encyclopedia that anyone can edit' then decided that anyone couldn't just edit it. The Wikipedia entry for 'recession' was put out of reach. A statement declared the page 'protected to prevent vandalism'. That provoked a rapid response from billionaire culture warrior Elon Musk, who tweeted: 'Wikipedia is losing its objectivity.' In an era when the dictionary definitions of words-such as woman are on the front lines of the battle between Left and Right, we shouldn't be surprised that an open access website reflects those disagreements. But Wikipedia's role goes curiously unscrutinised. The website has become the most powerful media organisation on the planet but the attention we pay to it is in inverse proportion to its influence. No one in history has had the same power to reach billions of people, With its 'facts' sprayed out via Siri and Alexa home speakers and smart televisions a scenario George Orwell envisaged in his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four-it's more influential than ever. The world, in effect, has a single source of knowledge, and that source is Wikipedia. You may think that with such immense power might come some responsibility but that is where things get complicated. Wikipedia is really made up of two separate groups, and neither is keen to step forward when things go wrong. On one side is the informal collective of hard working and unpaid maintainers, which self-organises loosely on a national basis and is no more of an institution than the hacking group QAnon. The other entity is the US-registered fundraising non-governmental organisation, the Wikimedia Foundation, which exists largely to bring in funds which are then spent mostly on itself. Imagine an NHS where the white collar managers enrich themselves while the nurses work free of charge. The foundation employs hundreds of office staff with average salaries higher than comparable tech NGOs and can call on some $400m-plus (£331m) of cash. The foundation can't effectively tell Wikipedia's editors - or 'administrators' in the jargon-what to do. For their part, the Wikipedians resent attempts by the newly minted NGOcrats to boss them about. This is a dysfunctional marriage, held together only by the incredible amounts of money raised each year by guilt-tripping and misleading fundraising drives. Misleading because the costs of the site are a fraction of the nine-figure dollar sums raised by the NGO each year, and it is financially secure for several decades. Wikipedia's co-founder, Larry Sanger, agrees with Musk, and argues that bias is now entrenched in both camps. The site has changed character over recent years, he says. The NGO has been happy to accept cash from 'dark money' groups aligned to the Left and the Democratic Party, such as The Tides Foundation. With the encouragement of Jimmy Wales, another co-founder, it's thrown itself hard on to one side of political campaigns too, going 'dark' to highlight changes to copyright law. Wikipedia led such protests in 2019, even after it had succeeded in carving out an exemption for itself, with statements that European MEPs described as highly misleading. It's a fools' errand to try to prove bias - and I don't think the link between dark money and the site's slant is quite as straightforward as it may appear. But what is perhaps more disquieting is just how much the world has come to consult a single source of truth, one that is both unaccountable and unreliable. In the first study of its kind, five academics decided to test if Wikipedia had an influence on judicial decisions. Law students created more than 150 articles summarising Irish Supreme Court judgments, with half kept offline and half uploaded to Wikipedia. The number of cases on Wikipedia that were cited as precedents in subsequent Irish cases rose 22pc. 'The information and legal analysis offered on Wikipedia led judges to cite A the relevant legal cases more often and to talk about them in ways comparable to how the Wikipedia authors had framed them,' the study found. In other words, judges were reaching for the most easily available precedents, not necessarily the most legally appropriate. Wikipedia has begun to shape the law-and nobody even noticed. 'Because such content is not authoritative, our analysis reveals a policy-gap,' the study concludes. As for reliability, this has not been a year to boast about. Large chunks of Sino-Russian history, added to Chinese Wikipedia over a decade and replicated in the Russian and Arabic versions, disappeared overnight last month. Totalling over a million words, these historical entries appeared to be detailed and exhaustive, but were the invention of one bored Chinese housewife, who was dubbed the 'Chinese Borges', after the Argentinian Nobel Prize winning writer who created elaborate fantasy worlds. Inventing facts became the vocation for the user known as Zhemao, because she was bored: 'My husband has been away for a long time, I am empty and lonely,' she finally confessed. In another world, some of the staggering fortune that the powerful tin-rattling NGO has amassed would be diverted to fact-checking, removing bias, or even ensuring editors are paid and accountable. But power without responsibility is the NGO credo. When that power means information dominance, we should all be worried." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/08/08/wikipedia-has-become-tool-left-battle-control-truth/ #LiteralFieldEconomicsRecession #PhenomnEconomyGrossDomesticProductGDP #PleaVandalism #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #MetaphorVersusRightWingLeftWing #BrandAppleSiri #BrandAmazonAlexa #IRLAuthorGeorgeOrwell #1949_NineteenEightyFour1984 #ConspiracyTheory_CabalQAnon #OrgSyndicateAccordOrganisationNGO #OrgUSWikimediaFoundationLarrySanger #OrgUSTidesFoundation ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticParty #OrgUSWikimediaFoundationJimmyWales #LiteralIntellectualPropertyRightsIPRCopyrightFairUse #OrgEU #NarrativeTruthImmutableUniversalIncontrovertibleAbsolute #OrgIESupremeCourt #PhenomnInternationalRelationsSinoRussian ^[Wikipedia] #ToponymRussia #ToponymAsiaChina #IdentityArab #NarrativeTruthFabricationZhemaoHoaxes ^[Wikipedia] #IRLHoaxerZhemaoAKAChineseBorges #NarrativeTruthVerisimilitudeHoax #1942_CelestialEmporiumOfBenevolentKnowledge ^[Wikipedia] #IRLWriterJorgeLuisBorges ^[Wikipedia] #PhenomnDeprivationBeggarPanhandler

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Supplementary #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesTiffanyHsu ^[Muckrack] "In a world where trust in truth is crumbling, the grande dame of collective online fact-gathering is under threat on every front. The MAGA right, with Elon Musk at the fore, is slinging accusations of political bias and antisemitism and has even questioned the site's nonprofit status. Artificial intelligence is raiding the encyclopedia's resources and draining attention. Repressive governments have hauled its volunteer editors into penal colonies. ... The organization that supports the site, the Wikimedia Foundation, is increasing its lobbying budget and advertising in Times Square. It is charging companies like Google and Meta that gobble up the encyclopedia's 65 million articles, and throttling access for certain scrapers. And it is expanding its human rights team to better protect volunteers against rising harassment, surveillance and retaliation." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/business/media/wikipedia-ai-elon-musk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wVA.VcTW.-OPHLbNLWLzK #2026_ #PleaMAGA #ReasoningFallacyBiasPartisanship #OtheringHateAntisemitism #OrgSyndicateAccordOrganisationNonProfitNPO #TechArtificialIntelligenceAIGenerative #OrgUSWikimediaFoundation #OrgUSWikimediaFoundationBernadetteMeehan ^[Wikipedia] #ToponymAmericaNorthUSNewYorkNYCManhattanTimesSquare ^[Wikipedia] #BrandTechGoogle #BrandTechMeta #PhenomnWebScraper ^[Wikipedia]

#MemeFickiFiona i.e. #TauntLeftThe versus #CharacterisationRightWing + #SymbolEmblemFlagUSOldGloryConfederate #CatchcryDifferingOpinionsAsNeutralPerspectives #ReasoningFallacyBiasPartisanship #PloyManufacturingDoubtApathy

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Addendum this music video: #2024_TomMacDonaldMeVsYou https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=najeyO0CuXw reminds me of the same sort of argument, centring the belief that political difference (in this case between #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticParty.s and #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOP.s) is opposite but equal - cancelling each other out i.e. a #ReasoningFallacyZeroSumThinking. ^[Wikipedia] The point that 'politicians are all the same' also feels very #BehaviourDefeatism.ist (saying something about the lack of #PhenomnAgencyEmpowerment that is presumably, felt by those who are making the statement). The obvious question to ask is about who benefits from this position i.e. who's interests does disengaging from politics serve? I'm thinking here of #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump's misjudgement where be infamously told the #OrgSyndicateMilitiaUSProudBoys to #PleaStandBackAndStandBy and then followed on by condemning #CauseAntifa in relation to #PoliticsNationalismWhite violence at the #2017_UniteTheRightRally in #ToponymAmericaNorthUSVirginiaCharlottesville, where he sought to #BehaviourNormalisation.e (and therefore, #BehaviourTrivialisation.e) the violence with his statement: "you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides" ^{[fact-checked]}