Virtue-signalling has come in for a lot of criticism in recent years. Rightly so.
But there is something worse, and we are seeing more and more of it:
>Viciousness-signalling<.
When Trump speaks, what he is usually doing is exactly that. He is saying: We are going to treat those we don’t like viciously.
When the hard and far Right, including Musk - and quite often even people who should know much better, such as PM Starmer - speak about migrants, or about media who don’t kowtow to their lies and viciousness, or about minorities, or non-human animals, or eco-protesters/Greta Thunberg, or academics/intllectuals, or political opponents, what they are often doing is viciousness-signalling. They are saying: you can trust us to scapegoat. We are powerful enough. We will legitimise hatred; if you want to be permitted to hate, then support us.
We will bully and pursue you unless you cave in to us.
We are signalling clearly, by the way we talk (and act), that we honestly are vicious and that being vicious is ‘cool’ again.
I abhor virtue-signalling. But vicious-signalling is of another order of magnitude of danger and outright evil.
Watch for it. Call it out. Explain it. Organise for something so much better than it.
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Extinction Rebellion Scotland and Scientist Rebellion Denmark protesting at Inverness Airport, Scotland & Billund Airport in Denmark.
They are highlighting contradictions between Blackbird Air’s CEO Anders Povlsen private jets enterprise and his Wildland commitment to nature.
At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years.
Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.
Only 78% of children are concerned about the #ClimateCrisis [not even the full #ClimateAndEcologicalEmergency ].
If they were taught how irrational, cruel and deadly people are, when it comes to voting, they would completely snap.
78% of kids under 12 are worried about climate change – can you blame them? They’re growing up in a world of wildfires, floods, and hurricanes while adults fumble solutions. Ignoring their fears won’t help. We owe them real action, not just reassurances. https://t.co/DvT8855tQv
Get it - the first time you go hungry will be when the European crop totally fails - combined with a bad year for wheat and rice (staples).
The presents odds for this are, not unreasonably, within 10 years.
Get it - climate is not an "issue" - it is a matter of life or death - your life or death. You decide to resist or the people in power will continue to organise the death of yourself and your family. It's happened before - it's happening again.
This is the most crucial moment in history, and it requires money to build solid organisations, which we are doing. We have raised 50K - help us get the next 50K please. Thank you.
I am running this fundraiser to support vital work while locked up. I will take none of your money for myself. My team will use it for the costs involved in continuing my work—building a campaign team and the platforms for those ideas to spread—and the dozens of activists in prison.
https://t.co/RaX3ehszfU
This speech is full of half-truths, distortions, misleading claims and outright lies.
Basically living up to every meme, trope and unfair stereotype, of Americans being ignorant morons.
I'll go through each of the claims he made in this segment and what the actual facts are. /1
@MarinaPurkiss The hallmark of modern conservatism in the west is the belief that there are super easy solutions to really big problems. Believing Elon could sort out the NHS is no different than thinking ivermectin is a secret cure of everything.
@DeborahMeaden He has to be compromised somehow, I mean somehow other than his compromised morality, intellect and judgment.
I would say Blackmail, but I really think #Orangemail, has a better ring to it for a hashtag…
There is a lot of misinformation out there on the internet
DS Yurak Hunt advises “Please do your research, look at bios/profiles, verify information & don’t just blindly think what you’re reading is true”
Together we can beat the scammers & those intent on misleading others!
Don’t fall for their tricks, no matter how convincing they may seem
This is your 10 minute warning to be outside and ready to Clap for Keir from 2000-2015
Your participation is mandatory
Compliance will be checked and those deciding not to take part will be dealt with robustly
MAGA/Q folks, sincere question for you:
When X Æ A-Xii Musk says, “You’re not the President and you need to go away”, where do you think he got that idea?
WHO confirmed today that CDC has stopped sharing flu surveillance data through WHO platforms.
The U.S. is facing its most intense flu season in 15 years and is grappling with bird flu.
Trump’s recklessness is already risking the health of Americans and people worldwide.
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Yet more performative cruelty. This means someone who fled for their life 25 yrs ago, got refugee status in UK, and has been part of their community here ever since - maybe married, had kids, started a business - can never be a citizen. That’s not right.
https://t.co/YfrdtIbayS
Welp, America is about to be a leper colony. Probably literally. If I were in charge of a civilized country, I'd bar Americans from entering it until Bobby Smackaquiddick is removed from HHS.
I guess every Hitler needs a Mengele though, huh?