#OrgUSLucasfilm #OtheringHateSpeech #BrandDisney #BrandDisneyPlusStreaming #TVObiWanKenobi #OrgUSLucasfilmStarWars #MetaphorDeceitFakeReality #TauntMediaManipulationDistraction

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Context tweet in response to the following "A personal message from Ewan McGregor":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49MgXjTLQ6c
of #IRLActorEwanMcGregor defending #IRLActorMosesIngram (who plays #TVObiWanKenobiRevaSevander) from #PowerControlMicrofascismBullyingCyberTrolling For example, with responses such as this one by Hambley (of TheQuartering) to #IRLFilmmakerProducerLaurenHissrich about the #OtheringHateMisogyny.istic tone of his posts: ^[tweet]

#IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #WebsiteVDAREPeterBrimelow ^{[The Southern Poverty Law Center] [Wikipedia]} #WebsiteVDARE ^[Wikipedia] #IRLIdeologueMiloYiannopoulosAKAMiloAndreasWagner #BrandTheDailyWirePolemicistBenShapiro #WebsiteVDAREMichaelJThompsonAKAPaulKersey ^[Muckrack] according to #AdvocacyUSPeopleForTheAmericanWayPFAWRightWingWatch ^[Wikipedia] "Thompson is just one of many members of the white nationalist movement in the United States that attempted to reinvent its public image with the 'alt-right' moniker and rose to a flash of influence in Republican politics amid the 2016 presidential campaign of​ Donald J. Trump. Leading up to that political moment, a clique of the movement's believers had situated themselves inside GOP-aligned institutions and media outlets in and around Washington, where they used the resources at their disposal to advance their cause. Thompson's career took him inside the Leadership Institute, a pillar of the conservative movement for more than 40 years, and ultimately to the right-wing tabloid-style website, WorldNetDaily. " https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/hiding-in-plain-sight-the-white-nationalist-who-toiled-inside-a-right-wing-media-powerhouse #PoliticsNationalismWhite #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #WebsiteWorldNetDailyWND ^[Muckrack] #AdvocacyUSNationalPolicyInstituteNPIRichardSpencer #IRLCommentatorDaveRubin #IRLCommentatorMikeCernovich ^{[The Southern Poverty Law Center]} #NMUSOneAmericaNewsNetworkOANNJackPosobiec #IRLPsychologistJordanPeterson #IRLShockJockAlexJonesInfoWars #IRLIdeologuePaulJosephWatson #VlogComicArtistProSecretsEthanVanSciver #BrandTimcastMediaGroupTimPool #VlogGeeksPlusGamersJeremyGriggs #VlogTheQuarteringJeremyHambley

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Supplementary #WebsiteRewritingRipley.com "We need to talk about the fact that almost 40% of negative YouTube videos mentioning The Last Jedi are from radical right wing or alt right accounts. These accounts have also dedicated their channels to hate campaigns against Captain Marvel star Brie Larson, former SNL cast member Leslie Jones, and feminist YouTuber Anita Sarkeesian. ...
Christopher Wylie, a data scientist for Cambridge Analytica, states that Bannon was interested in the firm 'because [Bannon] follows this idea of the Breitbart doctrine, which is that if you want to change politics, you first have to change culture.' He stated that Bannon wanted 'weapons to fight a culture war.'" https://rewritingripley.medium.com/in-plain-sight-how-white-supremacy-misogyny-and-hate-targeted-the-star-wars-sequel-trilogy-and-2fd0be4b242 #2017_StarWarsTheLastJediEpisodeVIII #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #IRLActorBrieLarson #IRLComedianLeslieJones #VlogFeministFrequencyAnitaSarkeesian #IRLActorJohnBoyega #MetaphorWarfareCulture #CampaignHashtagGamerGate #SlurWhiteSupremacy #MagazineVanityFair #BrandCambridgeAnalytica #IRLWhistleblowerChristopherWylie #Website4chan8chan8kun #IRLActorOscarIsaac #IRLActorLupitaNyongO #PoliticsFascismUltraPalingenetic  #_Focal

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#2025_ #OrgUSTEDTalks #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheObserverCaroleCadwalladr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE #CharacterisationTechBro #PoliticsAuthoritarianismAutocracyBroligarchy https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump #TauntBigTech #PoliticsFascismTechno #IRLBusinesspersonArronBanks #PoliticsGovernanceOligarchy #IRLScholarTimothySnyder #TauntCatLady #PowerControlStrategicLawsuitsAgainstPublicParticipationSLAPPs #PhenomnCoupDEtatPutsch #TechArtificialIntelligenceAIGenerative #ToponymEuropeGermanyDeutscheDemokratischeRepublikDDR #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump47thPresident #CatchcryEnemiesOfThePeople ^[Wikipedia] #MetaphorPlaybook #OrgUSFedGovDepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiencyDOGE

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#NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesJillLepore "Mr. Musk has long presented himself to the world as a futurist. Yet, notwithstanding the gadgets -- the rockets and the robots and the Department of Government Efficiency Musketeers, carrying backpacks crammed with laptops, dreaming of replacing federal employees with large language models -- few figures in public life are more shackled to the past.
On the day of Donald Trump's inauguration, Mr. Musk told a roaring, jubilant crowd that the election marked 'a fork in the road of human civilization.' He promised to 'take DOGE to Mars' and pledged to give Americans reasons to look 'forward to the future.'
In 1932, when civilization stood at another fork in the road, the United States chose liberal democracy, and Franklin Roosevelt, who promised 'a new deal for the American people.' In his first 100 days, Mr. Roosevelt. signed 99 executive orders, and Congress passed more than 75 laws, beginning the work of rebuilding the country by establishing a series of government agencies to regulate the economy, provide jobs, aid the poor and construct public works.
Mr. Musk is attempting to go back to that fork and choose a different path. Much of what he has sought to dismantle, from antipoverty programs to national parks, have their origins in the New Deal. Mr. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration provided 8.5 million Americans with jobs; Mr. Musk has measured his achievement by the number of jobs he has eliminated." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/opinion/elon-musk-doge-technocracy.html #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #CharacterisationVisionaryFuturist #MetaphorWarfareHeroMusketeer #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSFranklinDRooseveltFDR #IRLHistoricalFigureJoshuaHaldeman #PoliticsGovernanceTechnocracy #MetaphorDiseaseMindVirus #ToponymAmericaNorthUSCaliforniaNorthernSiliconValley #TauntPresumptionHubris #IRLEntrepreneurMarcAndreessen #TheoryFuturismFilippoTommasoMarinetti #PoliticsAuthoritarianismAutocracy https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/opinion/elon-musk-capitalism.html #NarrativeUtopiaPlacelessness #IRLAuthorDouglasAdams #IRLAuthorHGWells #IRLAuthorIainBanks #WorksSeriesTheCulture #ToponymAfricaSouthernSouthAfrica #BrandAmazonJeffBezos #PowerControlSegregationApartheid #IRLAuthorNovelistUrsulaLeGuin #IRLAuthorVirginiaWoolf

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#EpistemologyAmateurExegetePatternSeeking ? #WebsiteSubstackThisWillHold https://substack.com/inbox/post/165658733 #AdvocacyUSFederalistSocietyFedSocLeonardLeo #BrandTrippLite #BrandEatonCorporation #BrandPalantirTechnologies #IRLEntrepreneurPeterThiel #BrandDominionVotingSystems #BrandTechBallotProofEthanShaotran #TechSatelliteTelecommunicationsStarlink #IRLPrivateCitizenCurtisYarvinAKAMenciusMoldbug #PhenomnPolicyMedicaid #OrgClassifPPRUSUnitedRussiaVladimirPutin

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#EDUCAUniversityOfOttawaRitaAbrahamsen, #EDUCAUniversityOfOttawaMichaelWilliams "Ahmari's essay on dystopia begins by observing that 'Those of us who inhabit the Very Online Right like to point out how this or that new social phenomenon resembles this or that dystopian fiction. ... these resemblances to fictional dystopias should arrest us' (Ahmari 2021). Then he asks, 'What if dystopia is already here? What if our territory already conforms to maps drawn long ago by science-fiction authors? Could it be that we have crossed the invisible frontier that divides an ordinary place, an ordinary topos, from a dystopian realm?' Indeed, Ahmari is effusive in lauding the ability of dystopian fiction to place issues of the day (such as 'cancel culture, woke-ism and gender ideology') within wider frameworks that 'uncover the deeper currents shaping our age.' He sees these contemporary phenomena as 'merely the acceleration of older and deeper processes of ideological transformation' that dystopian fiction can help expose."
Abrahamsen, R. and M. C. Williams (2025). 'Radical Right Dystopias in the Global Culture Wars.' Global Studies Quarterly 5(1). ^{[academic source]} #AdvocacyUSTheAmericanIdeasInstituteTheAmericanConservativeTACSohrabAhmari ^[Wikipedia] #MetaphorDissenterVeryOnlineRight #NarrativeUtopiaDystopia #CatchcryCancelCulture #PhenomnDogmaAntiGenderIdeologyGenderismGenderTheory

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"Owens, Crowder and Shapiro have all been of great import to the Trump movement. Other figures include - but not limited to - Charlie Kirk, Jesse Kelly, Dan Bongino, Jack Posobiec, Dave Rubin, and even Trump himself. Other figures, such as Joe Rogan, Elon Musk and Tulsi Gabbard, though not of the Right ideologically, can be counted as fellow travelers. Just as how AM radio have been the medium of choice for tech-savvy conservatives during the years of Reagan and Bush, the Internet have been the broadcasting tool for the online Trump supporters. Conservatives' favorite punching bag have been the well-to-do elites from the coasts, who are seen as unattached to a locality. However, by using the Internet, the Very Online Right can broadcast their views from anywhere in the world." https://musicallyspeaking.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-the-very-online-right #IRLCommentatorCandaceOwens #VlogLouderWithCrowderLWCStevenCrowder #TalkbackRadioTheClayTravisAndBuckSextonShow #TalkbackRadioTheJesseKellyShow ^[Wikipedia] #NMUSFOXFNCDanBongino #NMUSOneAmericaNewsNetworkOANNJackPosobiec #VlogJoeRoganExperienceJRE #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyTulsiGabbard

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#AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSACharlieKirk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqU7D_ONJQs&t=1s #CatchcryFreedomOfSpeechFreeSpeech #CatchcryAltRightCounterCulture #CatchcryIdeologicalDiversity #ConspiracyTheoryCulturalMarxism #TheoryMarxism #IdentityConservative #CauseActivismConservative #MetaphorVersusUsThemPatriotismIsLoveCriticismIsHate #EpistemologyAmateurExegeteAutodidact

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#IRLAuthorPeterJukes "Viewed against that history, Musk's line about 'abolishing' the EU ^{[tweet] [jpeg]} is more than a libertarian thought experiment. It condenses the political slogans of Trumpism and Brexit into one sentence: the nation-state as the only legitimate unit of sovereignty; supranational institutions as inherently undemocratic; the EU as something done to people, not by them.
Medvedev's one-word response - 'Exactly' - makes plain how neatly this dovetails with Moscow's long-term ambitions. As former president and now deputy chair of Russia's Security Council, he has become one of the regime's most aggressive public voices, regularly threatening Europe with escalation and calling for a remade world order. When he endorses the abolition of the EU, he is not being rhetorical; he is restating a core Kremlin objective that has underpinned years of covert finance, disinformation and interference.
The screenshot collapses those agendas into a single image: a leading Russian official cheerleading the destruction of the EU, and a tech mogul with his hand on the levers of global speech amplifying the same idea." https://pdjukes.substack.com/p/musk-medvedev-and-the-long-war-on #OrgEU #OrgClassifPPRUSUnitedRussiaDmitryMedvedev ^[tweet] #PhenomnBrexit

#IRLCommentatorDaveRubin ^[Wikipedia]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMJQhVosLRA&t=49s #AdvocacyUSTheCiceroInstituteJoeLonsdale ^[Wikipedia] #BrandPalantirTechnologies ^[Wikipedia]

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Context #AdvocacyUSTakeBackTheCourtFoundationSupremeTransparency "Founded by Joe Lonsdale, a venture capitalist who co-founded Palantir with billionaire Peter Thiel, the Cicero Institute is one of the main right-wing think tanks promoting state-level bans on 'unauthorized street camping,' otherwise known as sleeping in public while unhoused. Lonsdale and one of Cicero's senior advisors suggested on Lonsdale's podcast that the public should return to calling homeless people as 'vagrants,' 'bums,' and 'tramps.'" ^{[networks of influence]} #PhenomnVentureCapitalVC #PhenomnPolicymakingPoliticalAdvocacyLobbyingThinkTankPressureGroup #PhenomnDeprivationUnhoused #PhenomnResponsibilityBlamingVictim #BrandKochIndustries

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#AdvocacyUSCapitalResearchCenterCRCInfluenceWatch "Take Back the Court Foundation) is a left-of-center advocacy group which aims to add seats to the United States Supreme Court once Democrats gain control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in order to effectively nullify Republican Supreme Court appointments." ^{[networks of influence]} #AdvocacyUSTakeBackTheCourtFoundation #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUS #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticParty #OrgUSFedGovCongressHouseOfRepresentatives ^[Wikipedia] #OrgUSFedGovCongressSenate ^[Wikipedia] #NMUKBBC #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSNeilGorsuch #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSBrettKavanaugh #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSAmyBarrett #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSClarenceThomas #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSNeilGorsuch #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSJohnRoberts #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSSamuelAlito https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33103973

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#WebsiteDeSmog "As part of the conservative campaign to 'Defund the left' the Capital Research Center produces a range of publications targeting foundations, unions and activist groups that it views as supporting liberal causes." #AdvocacyUSCapitalResearchCenterCRC ^[Wikipedia] #AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundationWillaJohnson ^[DeSmog]
#AdvocacyUSCenterForMediaAndDemocracyCMDSourceWatch "Defund the left is a term used in America to describe efforts by conservative activists to eliminate government financial support for non-profit groups deemed to be 'liberal'.
While initially coined in response to Reagan government proposals to curtail funding of non-profits, it has subsequently been more loosely used to describe a range of other administrative measures aimed at silencing advocacy groups." ^{[SourceWatch]} #PleaDefundTheLeft

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Supplementary #IRLComedianStewartLee "Good Law Project recently announced it is launching legal action regarding NHS England's use of patient data. But on 22 December, Good Law Project claimed it received leaked emails showing that a PR company called Topham Guerin was planning to discredit them, on behalf of Palantir, which wants that NHS data.
Good Law Project believes social media influencers have been asked by Topham Guerin what their 'fee expectation' would be for sending two tweets criticising Good Law Project, while taking care not to mention Topham Guerin or link to Palantir. But if I was Topham Geurin, and I wanted to make Jolyon Maugham mad, I would try to get him to believe Palantir was paying for social media influencers to attack him. Is this deep-vein psyops stuff, or me overthinking everything?
Topham Guerin's speciality is 'shitty memes'. 'Sometimes shitty memes are effective,' declared co-founder Sean Topham of content so deliberately unsophisticated it appears, in contrast to the slick memes of 'the elite', trustworthy. Those experts! With their lighting!! And their fonts!!!" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/31/topple-tory-dark-lords-palantir-nhs-data-good-law-project-topham-guerin #IRLEntrepreneurPeterThiel #IRLEntrepreneurNathanGettings #BrandPalantirTechnologiesStephenCohen ^[Wikipedia] #BrandPalantirTechnologiesAlexanderKarp #BrandTophamGuerinTGSeanTopham & #BrandTophamGuerinTGBenGuerin #AdvocacyUKGoodLawProjectJolyonMaugham #MetaphorWarfarePsychologicalOperationsPSYOP #PhenomnMarketingInfluencer #OrgUKNtlHealthServiceNHS
And https://goodlawproject.org/pr-firm-topham-guerin-tories-and-palantir-offers-to-pay-influencers-attacks-twitter-x/

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#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianDanMilmo "Palantir, which draws its name from the powerful crystal balls deployed in JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, is the favourite to win a £360m contract for the NHS's Federated Data Platform (FDP). Covering everything from individual patients' data to vaccination programmes, waiting lists and medical trials, the FDP will aggregate data from multiple sources and different formats on to a single platform. ...
The ambitious scope of the platform has alarmed campaign groups, who fear for patient confidentiality, privacy and data security, but the identity of the frontrunner has also caused concern.
US-based Palantir was co-founded by Peter Thiel, one of Silicon Valley's few high-profile Donald Trump supporters. The $15.6bn (£12.7bn) company has been criticised for its work with the US immigration agency, as well as its intelligence service and defence contracts. It already works closely with NHS England by providing software that processes data for a variety of purposes including take-up of Covid-19 vaccines and managing the post-pandemic bounce back in elective care (surgery or treatment booked in advance).
But the prospect of it setting up an overarching data platform for NHS England has alarmed Foxglove, a UK legal campaign group that focuses on accountability in the technology industry. Foxglove's concerns, and those of similar organisations, centre on two aspects: the safety of patient data, and the nature of the company that will set up the data framework and seek to exploit it. ...
The head of Palantir's London office is Louis Mosley, grandson of Oswald Mosley and nephew of the late former president of Formula One's governing body, Max Mosley, who became a privacy campaigner later in life. Speaking to the Sunday Times in 2020, Louis Mosley said Palantir's origins were as a defender of personal privacy. 'Palantir was actually started to guard against government overreach into personal privacy. Much of the software we've built is to prove those kinds of protections.'" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/21/palantir-concerns-over-data-firm-poised-to-be-operating-system-of-nhs #IRLAuthorJRRTolkien #1954_TheLordOfTheRings #BrandTechNHSFederatedDataPlatformNHSFDP ^[Wikipedia] #LiteralHealthcare #ToponymAmericaNorthUSCaliforniaNorthernSiliconValley #PhenomnPrivacyConfidentiality #PhenomnVirusCOVID19 #AdvocacyUKFoxgloveLegal https://www.foxglove.org.uk/who-we-are/ ^[pdf] #JournalBritishMedicalJournalBMJ 'A controversial new federated data platform for the NHS in England', BMJ 2023; 383 (Published 29 November 2023). ^{[academic source]} #PhenomnAccountability #TauntBigTech #BrandPalantirTechnologiesLouisMosley #OrgFRFederationInternationaleDeLAutomobileFIAFormulaOneF1MaxMosley ^[Wikipedia] #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianJimWaterson https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/may/24/max-mosley-f1-racing-driver-fia-president-privacy-campaigner-dies-aged-81 #PhenomnPrivacyCampaigner #2020_ #PowerControlOverreach #PhenomnPersonal #IRLHistoricalFigureOswaldMosley ^[Wikipedia]

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Addendum #CharacterisationTechBroTechRight

#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #CatchcryGodAndGuns ^[tweet]

#SlurAntiWhite #MetaphorPillRed #PoliticsFascismNazi anti #CauseFeminism #PhenomnMulticulturalism #BeliefTheismChristianity #CatchcryLivesMatterAllALM #TauntEdgelord ^[Wikipedia]

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Supplementary #EDUNLWillemDeKooningAcademieFlorianCramer https://evening-class.org/2016/12/13/alt-right-a-lecture-by-florian-cramer And http://www.tacticalmediafiles.net/videos/45022/Meme-Wars_-Internet-culture-and-the-_alt_right_- #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #SlurWhiteSupremacy #IRLIdeologueMiloYiannopoulosAKAMiloAndreasWagner ^{[Muckrack] [Wikipedia]} #CampaignHashtagGamerGate #AdvocacyUSNationalPolicyInstituteNPIRichardSpencer e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/us/alt-right-national-socialist-movement-white-supremacy.html #OrgFRNouvelleDroite ^[Wikipedia] #WebsiteAmericanRenaissanceJaredTaylor https://www.amren.com/ And ^[Wikipedia] #PowerControlSegregationEthnopluralism #PowerControlSegregationIdentitarianism #PleaManosphere ^[Wikipedia] #BeliefPseudoscience #IRLSoftwareDeveloperNickLand https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/accelerationism-how-a-fringe-philosophy-predicted-the-future-we-live-in #IRLPrivateCitizenCurtisYarvinAKAMenciusMoldbug #TheoryDarkEnlightenmentNRx #Symbol1488RS #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight ^{[The Southern Poverty Law Center]} #OrgIntlAnonymous
Gabriel Emile Hine, Jeremiah Onaolapo, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis, Riginos Samaras, Gianluca Stringhini and Jeremy Blackburn (2017). 'Kek, Cucks, and God Emperor Trump: A Measurement Study of 4chan's Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on the Web'. https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03452v1 #CharacterisationWeaknessCuck #IRLDeceasedTrayvonMartin https://www.mic.com/articles/147969/what-is-8chans-pol-forum-where-trump-star-of-david-meme-first-spread #Website4chan8chan8kun #BeliefTheismJudaismStarOfDavid #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyHillaryClinton #OtheringHateAntisemitism #MassShooting2016OrlandoPulseNightclub ^[Wikipedia] #2006_BoysClub1 #PhenomnBetaUprising ^{[pop culture wiki]} #GameVideoWorldOfWarcraft #WebsiteTheRightStuff ^[Wikipedia] #SymbolHairstyleFashyUndercut https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/patriciasuarez/before-it-was-the-fascist-haircut-it-was-so-much-more #MetaphorWarfareSocialJusticeWarriorSJW #BrandTechSocialMediaTumblr #ConspiracyTheoryWhiteGenocide / #PowerControlPopulationEugenicsRaceSuicide

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#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianJasonWilson
"Curtis Yarvin is hardly a household name in US politics. But the 'neoreactionary' thinker and far-right blogger is emerging as a serious intellectual influence on key figures in Donald Trump's coming administration in particular over potential threats to US democracy.
Yarvin, who considers liberal democracy as a decadent enemy to be dismantled, is intellectually influential on vice president-elect JD Vance and close to several proposed Trump appointees. The aftermath of Trump's election victory has seen actions and rhetoric from Trump and his lieutenants that closely resemble Yarvin's public proposals for taking autocratic power in America." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump #2024_

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#WebsiteTheNerdReichGilDuran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC629l-wZBQ https://www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-valleys-playbook-and-the-ai-coup/ #PleaRetireAllGovernmentEmployeesRAGE #MetaphorPlaybook #ToponymAmericaNorthUSCaliforniaNorthernSiliconValley #IRLEntrepreneurPeterThiel #OrgUSFedGovDepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiencyDOGE #PoliticsAuthoritarianismDictatorship #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #PhenomnRevolutionButterfly #MetaphorPurge #PhenomnOrderChaos

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#MagazineUSTheAtlanticAliBreland "The current moment looks a lot like fusionism 2.0: The uniting through line of opposing communism has been replaced by an opposition to 'wokeness,' as the University of Virginia historian David Austin Walsh has observed. The similarities between the political moments provide a rough model for how the new MAGA coalition might persist. In the original fusionism, communism was almost always a bigger deal than whatever libertarians and social conservatives didn't see eye to eye on. This worked because 'communism' never just meant one thing. It could be invoked to oppose the Soviet Union and the literal ideology of communism, to thwart the supposedly communist-infilitrated civil-rights and anti-war movements, or to refer to anything related to left-wing politics.
Wokeness now serves that function on the right. It's no coincidence that wokeness is a rebranded version of the right's previous bogeyman: 'cultural Marxism.' As Musk has ripped up federal agencies in a supposed effort to reduce government waste, a lot of what DOGE has actually focused on is rooting out perceived wokeness." ^{[digital archives]} #PleaMAGA #CharacterisationTechBro #PoliticsNationalismWhite #PoliticsNationalismXenophobicNativism #PoliticsGovernanceOligarchy #CharacterisationTechBroTechRight #TauntWokeness #EDUUSUniversityOfVirginiaUVADavidAustinWalsh #PoliticsConservatismFusionism #OrgUSFedGovDepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiencyDOGE #2025_