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  1. Jul 2025
  2. May 2025
  3. Apr 2025
    1. It became clear to me that he truly loved Trump not just because he identified with Trump the politician but because he identified with Trump the person being considered “bad” by progressive standards.

      for - cosmopolitan magazine - liberal woman dated conservative MAGA men - insight

      insight - Interesting insight about how deeply he identified with Trump on a personal level, He projected all the criticism Trump receives as his own.

    1. for - colonialism - impacts - Americas - little ice age - cause - genocide of indigenous people in 17th century - abandoned fields - stats - colonialism - genocide - 55 million people - cooling of planet - MAGA - How to make the Americas great again - colonialism - justice - to - paper - Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492 - https://hyp.is/fHnyIBL3EfCpcmfnGW26DA/www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379118307261

      comment - The MAGA movement needs to deeply reflect on this - They claim national pride but do not go further back in history than the establishment of the United States - They need to recognize how the US was established on genocide in order to live in cultural truth - This reality creates a contradiction to their entire theme of white national power - It makes the elimination of DEI hypocritical as indigenous peoples have a far more legitimate claim than they do

  4. Feb 2025
    1. Summary - Great video illustrating - good communication in a polarized political environment - history of fake news - - how Reagan's elimination of the Fairness doctrine set in motion - conservative talk radio - Fox News, etc - normalized - rural propaganda, - fake news - alternative facts and - misinformation

  5. Nov 2024
    1. 's definitely a main reason when people receive love attention recognition they stop being fascist in fact there are a whole host of studies where people have consciously gone into far right spaces listen to people befriended them and then these people very often leave that space again why because they're getting attention and recognition

      for - love-based strategy for addressing fascism and polarization - listen and befriend - Roger Hallam - adjacency - Deep Humanity - Common Human Denominators - the intrinsic sacred - love-based strategy for addressing fascism and polarization - Roger Hallam - question - love-based strategy to address fascism - what about FAFO? - F around and Find Out - in which liberal women are separating from their Maga partners?

  6. Dec 2023
    1. In the neoliberal era, individuals are forced to assume sole responsibility for navigating “every hardship and every difficulty—from poverty to student debt to home eviction to drug addiction.” When the pandemic exacerbated these hardships, it was an uphill battle to build solidarity and convince people to support collective solutions. After a lifetime of being told they were on their own, “a subset of the population” doubled down on individualism. It does not, now, seem surprising to Klein that they essentially said, “Fuck you: we won’t mask or jab
      • for: key insight - anti-vaxxers, key insight - conspiracy theories, key insight - maga, key insight - neoliberalism and failure at collective action

      • key insight: neoliberalism and failure of collective action

        • neoliberalism's continuous assault on society has striped use off any support system, leaving us to fend for ourselves
        • when polycrisis events occur, it provokes a distrust of any attempt at government intervention
        • this is a sign of things to come when climate chaos will accelerate social breakdown
  7. Sep 2023
      • for: Christian nationalism, Christian national, far right politics, Christian right, political extremism, MAGA fuel
      • comment
        • the extreme right, MAGA Republican party is fueled by a movement composed of threatened Christian nationalists entering politics to assert power.
        • The extremism in the far right politics is in direct proportion to the high degree to which they perceive threat
        • Religious faith can inspire extremely powerful emotional responses and devotion. When combined with politics this can lead to extreme events, such as the Jan. 6 insurrection.
        • The mobilization of Christian nationals into local school boards has turned education into a political battleground.
  8. Jun 2022
    1. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/patrick-henry-virginia-ratifying-convention-va/

      While gerrymandering isn't brought up explicitly here, the underlying principles are railed against heavily.

      Some interesting things applicable to the rise of Donald J. Trump hiding in here.

      Interesting to read this in its historical context versus our present context. So much can be read into his words from our current context, while others can extract dramatically different views--particularly by Constitutional originalists.