Information Wars

The violence inside us projects into the world, and as we move further into the information age, the wars get recast.

Consider:

If you're going to the World Cup in Qatar, you have to download an app that tracks your every move, and can takeover your phone. (tweet)

Iran is angry that other countries are supporting the rebellion of women. (CNN)

There's a right wing candidate in NYC that got money sent from Colorado. (Daily News)

The dark money of the rich flows into the party that supports their agendas. (NPR)

Wikipedia is constantly re-edited to rewrite the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Gizmodo) (Study)

They're predicting social media chaos before the midterms. (Times of Israel)

With the upcoming midterm elections, we have a choice about democracy, versus a more authoritarian and anti-democratic route. Secular progressive or regressive traditional imprint of a Christian majority. We can support a historically good president, or spin things to destroy his universal goods. We can maintain the rights of women over their bodies, or we can allow for the control of women's bodies. It's really quite a stark and dire election.

I know every election plays the histrionic tunes of life versus death, black and white, but it's hard for me not to see it with this one.

I think the conservative and progressive dialectic is important in American and I want my conservative friends to vote, but I don't think conservatives should vote for some of these Republican candidates or anti-democratic policies.

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Manet and Degas

Brilliant video explaining the exhibit. Go to the Met and see the exhibit! It's really quite special. In the last gallery the painting this sketch is based off of, of the execution of a Mexican president. The painting has been cut into sections, and the surviving Degas has reassembled them. NY Times review

AOC

Dark Brandon meet Dark Alex. I see her advising the republicans to stick to their guns and never compromise. They don’t want to do anything, only obstruct. So they don’t actually need to be unified. Chaos isn’t organized. This is fine. Read all about it from Heather Cox Richardson , a historian who covers current events. "As their policies threatened to lose voters by concentrating wealth upward and hollowing out the middle class, Republicans increasingly warned that minority voters wanted socialism and were destroying the nation to get it. Trump rode that narrative to power, and now tearing down the current government is the idea that drives the Republican base." While we're at it, here's another funny photo from the Onion: And then: I listened to the Times podcast about George Santos . He basically lied about, I don't know, 80% of his resume, and has a mysterious $700k in his "corporation" which has no clients. So he's a Russian or Chinese plant, o...

6 month old podcast

Al Franken has a podcast , and he has my favorite Heather Cox Richardson , and they have an interesting discussion. He talks about the knife edge. She really explains the Republican strategy. Flood the zone with shit. Alternate facts, and fake news opens up the idea that there is no reality. It's basically reality versus false reality. The goal is to both get people to back away from politics, and to tell them how to specifically think. Developed in Russia, a system of overturning democracy. Running fake candidates, who switch parties, and running candidates with the same name. Blackmail is a technique. Create a fake reality that people come to believe. They're willing to vote for a narrative is not true, and they're willing to vote away their rights. You can flip it and use the same tools.You can weaponize social media by ignoring the shit, and fight back against all these techniques. People defend democracy. They're talking about community and caring for people and ...

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