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Against Cryptofascists, Entryists and Red-Browns In Canada.

Antifascist researcher, insufferable nerd and bitter old lefty. He/Him.
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annamerlan.bsky.social
NEW: When Propecy Fails is one of the most famous social psychology books of all time, a look at a small group of UFO believers when the “spacemen” failed to land. I wrote about a new study from an independent researcher who says the book is not what it seems. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It’s one of the most influential social psychology studies ever. Was it all a lie?
A classic book on UFO believers and their "cognitive dissonance" after aliens failed to land is called into question.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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uzzamodea.bsky.social
It is unacceptable that this dude was allowed in leftist spaces. Some people are really twisting the concept of "popular front" & "big tent" if they're gonna allow the fascists into the bar. And not just a fascist, a fucking accelerationist genocidal tankie.
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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rechelon.bsky.social
Okay, so news cycle finally seems (relatively) slow, so I'm going to finally do some promotion for my book.

I read many hundreds of books and articles in drafting Did The Science Wars Take Place? and a lot of delicious quotes or examples didn't make it in...
www.amazon.com/Did-Science-...
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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jennefer.bsky.social
Antisemite John Paul Cupp, 45, is charged w/ "Threats Made Against a Federal Law Enforcement Officer," according to a US Dept. of Justice press release. According to the complaint, Cupp threatened to kill law enforcement officers and sexually assault their wives.
www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/p...
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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castanetkamloops.net
Four arrested as police enforce injunction at Upper Walbran blockade #Vancouver
Four arrested as police enforce injunction at Upper Walbran blockade - BC News
Dozens of police descended Tuesday morning on a blockade set up by old-growth activists in late August to prevent logging in the Upper Walbran Valley on Vancouver Island.
www.castanetkamloops.net
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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chrispps.bsky.social
the parts of our evolved cognitive architecture -- and some individuals' personalities in particular -- that contribute to classical forms of magical thinking do not simply evaporate when religious identity does, even if norms associated with some religious identities do facilitate magical thinking
chrispps.bsky.social [C][M][F] @chrispps.bsky.social · 1d
a good bit of the pathology attributed to 'religion' in the abstract is basically pathology associated with the psychology of social identity processes and the evolved psychology of coalitions; religion is a social identity & a basis for coalitions but it is hardly the only one
brendannyhan.bsky.social Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d
The decline of religion as a source of meaning in people's lives remains underrated as a factor shaping society. The need doesn't go away - they just seek it out elsewhere in (often false) health/wellness beliefs, (often highly polarized/conflictual) politics, etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
LMAO, Yves really said this and it's goin' down like a lead balloon on Jupiter.
Facebook post from Yves Engler: "Time to confront NDP's racist foreign policy problem. Would it be racist for the NDP to exclude a white cis male who played Junior A hockey from its leadership Race? Maybe so, if one considers it from a Haitian or Palestinian perspective. On November 10, I formally submitted to NDP vetting. Its now up to the three-person vetting committee to decide if party members will be allowed to vote for me in the leadership race. It would undoubtedly be undemocratic for the backroom committee to deny the participation of a campaign with a thousand volunteers, but would it be racist? Or to ask slightly differently is it racist to exclude someone who has led the charge against Canadian policy towards Palestine, Haiti, Africa and the Global South? If one concludes that Canadian foreign policy is fundamentally racist then it probably would be racist to exclude a leading critic of those ideas"
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
Understandable, tbh.
November 25, 2025 at 5:59 AM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
You know it's a bubble when...
"World Socialist Web Site to launch Socialism AI Our reporter 23 November 2025 At two major public meetings over the past week—in Berlin on November 18 and London on November 22—David North, chairperson of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, delivered lectures analyzing the deepening crisis of American capitalism and the Trump administration’s drive toward dictatorship. Both meetings drew over 100 attendees, demonstrating the widespread concern over the threat of fascism under Trump and his counterparts internationally. Most significantly, North used both occasions to announce the imminent launch of Socialism AI, a revolutionary tool that will harness artificial intelligence for the development of socialist consciousness in the international working class."
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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rechelon.bsky.social
What it's strange that everyone commenting on this seems to miss is that this obsession of Thiel is a direct response to Bostrom's argument that we should stop technology (AI) by building a global totalitarian state.

Thiel is viewing the entire world through the lens of the rationalist civil war.
etvpod.bsky.social Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 2d
He claims the default political solution people have for existential risks is one world governance. Isn't that weird, how when we have global issues we think hey maybe some global cooperation would be the best way to address global issues. You want nuclear nonproliferation? Antichrist.
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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transform6789.bsky.social
This can only end well

www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/p...
Trump administration formally designates Venezuela’s Maduro as member of a foreign terrorist organization | CNN Politics
The Trump administration could have expanded authority to take action in Venezuela starting Monday, as the US designates Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his government allies as members of a f...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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4ksh4tr4.bsky.social
My god, why are these people still taken seriously by anyone?
Screenshot of a tweet where Codepink's Medea Benjamin asks Marjorie Taylor Greene to not resign
November 24, 2025 at 5:11 AM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
ACP now doing "Marxism is not woke" tabling at Ontario universities. *cringe*
Tweet from ACP Ontario: "Members of ACP Ontario visited the University of Toronto’s St. George campus to host a tabling event featuring a sign with a provocative message: "MARXISM IS NOT WOKE". For years, the liberal-left has abandoned class struggle in favour of identity politics and has outright rejected working-class populist movements such as MAGA and the Canadian Trucker Convoy. These were movements that had working-class demands, such as bringing back industrial jobs, purging corruption, and ending foreign aid. Yet, the liberal-left refused to reach out to these working-class movements due to their "reactionary" views on issues like LGBT rights and gender equality. Self-proclaimed "Marxists" taking this stance distorts the reality of what Marxism actually represents. Students stopped by our table curious to learn more about our program, and many of them agreed with our message; Marxism is not about identity politics, it's about the understanding that class struggle is the driving force of history. That the proletariat is a revolutionary class precisely because its emancipation means the emancipation of all humanity." Tweet from ACP Ontario: "Members of ACP Ontario are again asking the public and local liberal intellectuals to change their minds on this pivotal question: Is Marxism Woke? Following a total victory over the forces of liberal reaction on the University of Toronto campus last weekend, our cadre members have launched a similar effort in Hamilton, with similar results. After meeting with many members of the local public, our cadre have reported "No Change" to the immortal truth of class struggle. The Ontario Chapter of the ACP remains committed to the principled line that no matter how you personally identify, the proletariat working class is the class of progress. We remain committed to pursuing a politics rooted in the broad working class. On the mutual understanding that no matter how you personally identify, we need a party that unites, not divides."
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
Pink-brown alliance!
Tweet from Medea Benjamin: "Love her or hate her, Marjorie Taylor Greene has been one of the only Republicans willing to defy Trump on war, Epstein files and healthcare. Now she is stepping down and AIPAC is celebrating. Call her office: Tell her to stay."
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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daphnelawless.com
I look forward when we have better alternatives than this braindead slopulism ("if ignorant, mean people like it then we must do it") and neo-elitism ("Bring Back Gatekeeping, you must get this much on a standardized test to have an opinion")
acerbicnerd.bsky.social The A.C.E.R.B.I.C. Nerd @acerbicnerd.bsky.social · 2d
There's a particularly noxious strain of implicit populism running through these discussions, left and centre (tho in slightly different ways), which simply cannot conceive of bad ideas emerging from or thriving in an authentic, grassroots, democratic and/or radical space.
November 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
Me, reading this article: "Ugghhhh, this sounds like kids I used to know"

Me, after 5min of research: "Okay, this woman was a TERF in Vancouver? Ugh, she might actually know those same kids..."

YES, THERE ARE SOME DANGEROUSLY BAD TAKES FLOATING AROUND YOUR SCENES
November 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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rechelon.bsky.social
For the life of me, I will never understand those on social media who hear "[some bad take] is common in the left" and immediately leap to "that's not true; this person is making it up; they're just tilting at some irrelevant single tweet"

Who doesn't understand how common bad takes are?
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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purplechrain.bsky.social
A supposedly reputable journalist monetizing his mortifying diary entries about his fiancée cucking him with the worst Kennedy behind a paywall is truly the most 2025 thing possible.
leahmcelrath.bsky.social Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4d
The bamboo metaphor is back: Ryan Lizza has dropped Part 2.

Below are the opening paragraphs, but most of it is behind a paywall.

(My apologies in advance.)
RYAN LIZZA NOV 21, 2025 • PAID If you are new to this series, start here. She did it again. It was four years later. Another presidential campaign. Another book project. Another candidate whom she had profiled. Another note —a poem, according to Olivia-though this time from the candidate to her. "Yr open mouth awaiting my harvest," Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is now the Secretary of Health and Human Services, had written to my then-fiancé. "Drink from me Love." He continued, "I mean to squeeze your cheeks to force open your mouth. I'll hold your nose as you look up at me to encourage you to swallow. 'Dont spill a drop'. I am a river You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you. I mean to subdue and tame you. My Love." I can't say there weren't any signs. I did find it odd that Olivia was simultaneously reading Robert Greene's The Art of Seduction and Maureen Callahan's Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed. But the poem—let's call it "American Canyon" —and many others, too explicit to print, changed everything. Thanks to Bobby, I am now aware of something called felching.) Remember the bamboo from Part 1? Well, bamboo is actually a type of grass, and underground, it's all connected in a sprawling network, just like the parts of this story I never wanted to tell. I wish I hadn't been put in this position, that I didn't have to write about any of this, that I didn't have to subject myself or my loved ones to embarrassment and further loss of privacy. But Olivia has reignited a campaign of misinformation about what really happened, and Bobby, who has denied everything, is one of the most consequential policymakers in America. Unfortunately, I'm the only other person who knows everything. And while sometimes I wish I could unknow it, the least I can do is share the parts I believe you should know too.
November 22, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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diplomatofnight.com
Benjamin Netanyahu - n'an jacobin.com/2025/11/epstei...
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
Turns out years of fashy viking muscle-porn has left the West's staunchest defenders totally vulnerable to Islam's greatest weapon: beards.
roninmacbeth.bsky.social RoninMacbeth 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 4d
Is...is Trump just really into bearded Arab men in suits who have defeated political dynasties? Is that his type?
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
WHAT IS HAPPENING!?!
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?

MAMDANI: I've spoken about--

TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
Really depressing to see how this logic is now just taken as a given by large swaths of "left" media.

(Taken from Jacobin's new piece on the NDP leadership race)
"David Moscrop: By now it may appear that Ashton is my preferred candidate — and he is. When I talked to him about the perceived split between class and identitarian politics, he cited an old union organizing mantra: division is a tool of the boss. Many will recall the old line that “they” want you fighting a culture war so you don’t fight a class war. The fact is the Left fights plenty of its own culture wars without prompting from anyone else. And yet, a left movement has to be a unified movement, even as it recognizes that performative politics is a dead end. When McPherson talks about ending “purity tests,” a rather benign statement when read in good faith, she is touching on the same sentiment. And when Lewis emphasizes, say, public ownership of grocery stores to compete with the oligopolists, he, too, is trying to shift the terms and focus of debate. So far, it seems that the candidates aren’t taking the culture war bait, which is a testament to their commitment to doing politics successfully rather than treating the leadership contest like a graduate school seminar."
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
Hooray we got a $70 billion investment deal!

Sorry about the dead kids?
No pressure from Carney on the UAE for Sudanese war
PM Mark Carney's trip to the UAE proved to be one focused on strengthening diplomatic ties and potential foreign investments.
ottawa.citynews.ca
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
acerbicnerd.bsky.social
Even by the standards of crypto, Tether is a next-level scam. It was literally created as fake dollars to make the exchange seem solvent. The whole thing has been one of the biggest ongoing scandals in the crypto world for many years (and that's saying something!)
November 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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harshawalia.bsky.social
I know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery?

Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!!

Here are 5 other things to know:
November 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM