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We overly despair. We think fascism is rising because millions of people have deeply thought through it. In fact, lots of people are ambling into it because they are victims of disinformation, don’t spend a lot of time thinking about this, and have convictions all over the place. https://the.ink/p/for-more-people-than-we-realize-fascism
In New Zealand it’s the TPU (all their astro-turf-one-person-PR-pimping sock puppets)…
In forming the new Government, the National Party forged alliances with smaller, more extreme parties intent on amplifying their power, entering dangerous territory. With its immoderate attacks on the media, te reo, women and the environment, New Zealand First plays upon ethnic, gender and rural-urban polarities to increase its influence far beyond its 6 percent…
The world’s largest public relations firm has used insights from its lauded annual global survey of consumer trust and corporate credibility to help fossil fuel and petrostate clients to promote climate obstruction. According to a new briefing from the Clean Creatives, an advocacy group focused on cutting the public relations industry’s ties with fossil fuels,…
Unlike influencers in the so-called “wellness-to-fascism” pipeline, the Johnsons do not exploit skepticism toward mainstream health expertise to prime their audiences for right-wing talking points. Instead, they start with a fascist aesthetic tradition that prizes hard young bodies and fuse it with the language of self-help culture, promising potential followers eternal life among a cadre…
War: Propaganda with violence. Purposefully conflating anti-zionism with antisemitism will go down in history as one of the greatest errors ever. It’s a disastrous slippery slop that will only build the ranks of Nazis and Fascists. Those ranks will only ever be filled with low information people… the hardest to de-program and the most likely…
These are twenty lessons from the twentieth century I published seven years ago, first as a kind of online declaration, and then, with historical examples, in a pamphlet called On Tyranny. They were written in advance of the first Trump presidency, and have been used since in the U.S. and around the world. For those who…
It brings to mind Marinetti. “We stand on the last promontory of the centuries!” he wrote in 1919. “Why should we look back, when what we want is to break down the mysterious doors of the Impossible?” Tech billionaires are radicalizing because they won’t accept any challenge to their power. Andreessen wants to force people…
The other day, I was invited to speak at a conference called The Wall Street Journal CEO Council. When I got there, I felt compelled to acknowledge the obvious: this esteemed American newspaper has no business belonging to one of the most destructive men on earth, Rupert Murdoch. https://the.ink/p/telling-the-truth-about-the-murdochs
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