Category: Baddies
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Conspiracism, Denialism & The “Danger of Incomplete Critique”
Conspiracy theorists erase the human aspect of history. My child — who lived, who was a real person — is basically going to be erased. Lenny Pozner, father of one of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims. As interesting as exploring the crazy and sometimes quirky world of the things and batshit alternative histories…
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The Project of a United “Europe”, from the Nazi New Order to Frontex Atrocities
As soon as WWII ended, Western Europe and the USA forged a renewed Western-dominated global order that not only didn’t break with the colonial-imperial structuring of humanity, but actually took up the Nazis’ project of unifying “Europe” where they’d left it, and went on to both globalize the profoundly destructive model of the nation-state (and…
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Notes on Media Ecology, Disinformation & Propaganda, Pt. III: Influencers, Religion/Cults, Quackery and Scams
Religious and cultic propaganda certainly cannot be overlooked, insofar as both religions and specific cults like Scientology or the Moonies, have developed and always rely on extensive systems of both internal and external propaganda. The internal front refers largely to relational and ideological indoctrination within the groups or institutions, while the external PR front slanders…
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Notes on Media Ecology, Disinformation & Propaganda, Pt. III: Copaganda
One of the most disgusting forms of propaganda is the ideological/cultural glorification and legitimization/rationalization of policing, often referred to as copaganda. This is something that E. P. Thompson already noted more than fourty years ago (and doubtless, many poor and oppressed people decades before that): Without using the term copaganda, historian E.P. Thompson in the…
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Notes on Media Ecology, Disinformation & Propaganda, Pt. III: Imperialist, Militarist and Genocidal/Settler Propaganda
Indeed, the anti-trans and anti-homeless propaganda cited above can and should be defined as a form of genocidal discourse, namely “a widely used and accepted language of negation, destruction and erasure targeted at a particular group or groups” (Townsend 2014 : 9). Trans and homeless people are not merely depicted pejoratively, their very existence is…
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Notes on Media Ecology, Disinformation & Propaganda, Pt. III: Dehumanizations, Reactionary Panics and Right Wing Propaganda
Structures of violence and oppression – as well as specific sociopolitical outbursts or projects that stand out in the scale and intensity of their brutality (from lynchings and pogroms to full systems of apartheid and/or genocide) – rely on the systematic dehumanization of certain groups (usually marginalized, but not necessarily). This process of ideological and…
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Documentation: European RedBrown Confusionism
Initial date (it’s an ongoing list/resource): 03.01.2023. By definition RedBrown politics, or confusionism (a similar term I know from/used in France), is an amorphous and creeping tendency rather than a clearly delimitated political current. There are therefore multiple things that can be said to constitute it, although I don’t think we need to care too…
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12 Rules for WHAT – Post-Internet Far Right [PDF]
Hi comrades, here’s a re-composed PDF version of Post-Internet Far Right: Fascism in the age of the internet, by the authors of the 12 Rules for WHAT podcast – Sam Moore and Alex Roberts. post-internet-far-right Note: illustrations and original formatting (e.g. italics or uppercase note numbers) aren’t included, but if someone find the original ebook…
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Punching the Left and the Flat-Earthers of Political Ideology; & Why We Can’t ‘Give Passes’ to Any and All Anti-Authoritarian Critics
Originally written: 01.02.2022. According to some people who spend a lot of time denouncing the pitfalls of certain parts of the contemporary left, politics is basically like a circle in which one “extreme” on one pole leads to the other(s), thereby making the circle’s center the only space of reasonable ideas, discussion and principles. Not…
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Chomsky’s Long Career of Bullshit: A Guide/Resource
Originally written: 09.01.2022. **note: I wrote this before the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the [at time of writing this note – september 2022 – ongoing] war. Chomsky – very unsurprisingly, if you look at what is documented on this page – has peddled some crappy pseudo-anti-imperialist talking points about the whole situation. I haven’t…