YouTube video by Media Matters
How billionaires created the DEI panic
Watch this GREAT summary of how *one* major slice of The Bullshit has been circulating (in slightly rebranded form) since the 1980s.
Iβd go farther & say that the core grievance (βminorities are taking overβ) goes back AT LEAST to anti-Civil Rights rhetoric of the 50s, btw.
youtu.be/nD1nJ7g8j94
06.05.2025 05:25 β π 19 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
We talk a lot about social media radicalizing the population but it's been far more efficient at radicalizing public figures.
28.04.2025 11:26 β π 6291 π 1060 π¬ 63 π 43
Itβs true! Seth VERY good.
25.02.2025 20:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Rumble podcaster Graham Allen, newly hired by the Department of Defense under Pete Hegseth, has previously claimed that Taylor Swift is βa witch & a devil" who uses "straight witchcraft" & has had "some kind of satanic music." www.mediamatters.org/rumble/rumbl...
25.02.2025 18:21 β π 383 π 133 π¬ 17 π 21
Seth is back!
Heβs EXTREMELY perceptive in matters great and small β Iβve found him very, very sharp on prrrretty much every single occasion Iβve interacted with him.
17.02.2025 08:21 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
A busy but accurate diagram.
17.02.2025 08:19 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Trumpβs account quoting Napoleon in this context goes against so many conservative critiques of the French revolution. But considering the far right isnβt Burkean conservative, and has instead long invoked patriotism and freedom against tyranny as justifications for authoritarianism, it fits.
15.02.2025 19:12 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Thank you very much! Could you follow me so I can DM, please?
Or just drop me a line if you have the option now that Iβm following you, of course.
17.02.2025 04:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Buncha stuff that boils down to βwhat does this bit of metadata mean? Can you tell what sort of device an image was created on or posted from based on the following stuff weβve noticed that SEEMS potentially useful to us, but we donβt know squat?β
17.02.2025 04:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Hey, gang.
If you know the nitty-gritty of how image files work and are willing to donate your expertise for $0.00, we have MANY questions and could really use your help!
If thatβs you, please give a holler in the replies; Iβll follow and shoot you a DM.
P.S. We promise youβll have a good time!
17.02.2025 03:29 β π 9 π 6 π¬ 3 π 0
my 2 books put together are a relatively, dreadfully relevant summary of who exactly is running the government right now. i hate it but its true
14.02.2025 11:10 β π 325 π 49 π¬ 4 π 3
Rβreputable and accredited institutions?
15.02.2025 23:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain
15.02.2025 20:25 β π 20539 π 2542 π¬ 251 π 67
HOW CAN I SUPPORT YOUR MINISTRY?? Tell me where to send my next paycheck, I beg you!
15.02.2025 23:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Oh, sorry, an HONORARY doctorate.
That makes perfect sense, then, because NO IT DOESNβT
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15.02.2025 21:49 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The last sentence, Iβ excuse me, what, heβs claiming he got a PhD *from a person* and not an institution????? WHAT???
Can I β can I just write βDoctor of Philosophyβ on a napkin and tuck it into my dogβs collar and itβs true???? Is that how it works???????????
15.02.2025 21:48 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 3 π 1
HIS AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY ALONE β
15.02.2025 21:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0
It has! I got a new phone in mid-October and went βwhat if I DIDNβT gaze into the void all the time? How would that affect my life?β
and it turned out my life was better without it, so π€·ββοΈ
15.02.2025 21:45 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Mmmmmm-hmm.
15.02.2025 21:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
AN OBAMA BIDEN MYSTERY????
Are they the fucking Hardy Boys???!!???
IS IT ALWAYS SMUGGLERS, EVERY SINGLE TIME?????
15.02.2025 21:36 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0
This is amazing. I fast-forwarded to a random moment in it and he was rasping,
βSuicide bombers ready to depositββ
15.02.2025 21:33 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
And QAnon is PERFECT for that, because it can recast any suffering or inconvenience as: βoh, this is all part of smashing the Cabal and destroying the bad guys who literally eat babies for Satan, after which weβll have a golden age. Small price to pay! We should REJOICE in this sacrifice of ours!β
15.02.2025 21:32 β π 12 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
One of the things Trumpβs second term will require, and *urgently so*, too, is a narrative that sort ofβ¦
soothes his supporterβs emotions about the negative impacts theyβll see in their own lives from what Trump is doing.
15.02.2025 21:32 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1
I would say βno it isnβt,β but there are people I respect who think it *is*.
Had a really good conversation recently, where I was like βany Q-equivalent thing in Trumpβs second term would have to be an entirely new movement suited to the conditions of the times.β
And the counterpoint was:
15.02.2025 21:32 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
SAY MORE.
β¦ uh, please and thank you.
15.02.2025 21:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Namely: itβs one of MANY different reasons you can select to go βsee? Trump is the chosen one.β
Obviously itβs not a MAINSTREAM reason, but itβs part of the buffet of choices you have available to justify (and personalize!) your Trump worship.
15.02.2025 21:14 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I would agree.
I think in general, a fascist movement has to straddle the line between hero worship and deification of The Leader because *if heβs just some guy who has a bunch of good ideas*, then why would you follow him *fanatically*?
So weird shit like this plays an important ideological role.
15.02.2025 21:13 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
because theirs is a very political, very conspiracy theory-oriented worldview to begin with (and it ALSO embraces the idea that everything we see on earth is the result of an invisible shadow war, in this case between spiritual powers of good and evil).
But this is β whoof. Like I said: DEEP lore.
15.02.2025 21:03 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
And itβs notable because this kind of thing β βTrump time travelβ stuff, Deep Lore about the Trump familyβs connection to Tesla, all of it β
used to be *only* seen in the online fever swamps and, specifically, the Q-flavored ones.
There were always a LOT of neo-Charismatic anonsβ¦
15.02.2025 21:03 β π 15 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
An ad for a book called βThe Trump Code: Exploring Time Travel, Nikola Tesla, the Trump Lineage, and Americaβs Future.β
The price has been reduced from $19.99 to $14.99 β MIGHTY SAVINGS INDEED, WORTHY OF A CHAMPION!!!!!
By Grabtharβs hammer! What a savings!
Anyway, this ad was on CharismaNews.com, which is the leading news organ of neo-Charismatics (think βJesus Campβ types who want πΊπΈ to be a theocracy β heck, I saw the ad on an article about a North Dakota legislatorβs attempt to pass a law saying Jesus is King).
15.02.2025 20:56 β π 27 π 4 π¬ 3 π 5
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