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silencegooddog.bsky.social @silencegooddog.bsky.social · 2d

@chenoweth.bsky.social This enhanced data collection goes both ways, right? Every protest participant carrying a digital device is presumably swept into bulk location tracking and likely ending up on some Palantir esque predictive analytics roster of potential regime challengers.

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silencegooddog.bsky.social @silencegooddog.bsky.social · 4d

Coughlin was getting funding from the Nazis/Ford at the time.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Sep 18

They claim autocracy isn’t their plan, but they sure are governing like there is never going to be a Democratic president again.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · Sep 18

We are point where … Karl Rove and … John “Torture Memo” Yoo feel compelled to loudly and publicly denounce MAGA overreach (louder, honestly, than many Dem leaders).

I don’t know what it means: things are abt to get really bad? Or proof of fatal overreach?

But either way, it’s just wild.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Sep 18

ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Sep 18

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

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wesin-🎃a spooky version of 🎃-japan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · Sep 15

"Elites and Panic"
From Clarke and Chess
Social Forces, 2008

In moral panic theory, indeed, elites sometimes
cynically create disproportionate fear - this is what moral panic theory
regards as panic - designed to further their interests in some way, usually
by deflecting attention from "...the real problems in the society, whose
solution would threaten or undermine the interests of the elite." (Goode
and Ben-Yehuda 1994:135)8

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Tim Gill @timgill924.bsky.social · May 5

Tariffs on video games…

Tariffs on anime…

Trump doesn’t know who he’s f’n with.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 29

the jobs of the future, where you will be a hereditary serf producing goods for your betters

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 29

Lutnick: "It's time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here. We let the auto plants go overseas."

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Tim Gill @timgill924.bsky.social · Apr 14

Look we sent the factory jobs to Communist China so they could completely discard the Marxist concepts of alienation and exploitation and make people work 18 hours/day, 7 days/week

Don’t you get it????

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silencegooddog.bsky.social @silencegooddog.bsky.social · Apr 3

Mearsheimer in the citations…?