Dan Brandt

He/Him Gamer living that Organized Play life since 2005. ⚅
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[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Just gonna leave this here...

[Dan Brandt @BigIrishGod]

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[Dan Brandt @BigIrishGod]

@IronStache Implement ranked choice voting.

Eliminate stock buybacks.

Prosecute Union busting.

Implement UBI.

Require jobs lost to automation/AI to be pensioned out.

(Effectively eliminate ways corporate interests keep populations afraid and divided.)

[Dan Brandt @BigIrishGod]

@mayaonstage @AshaRangappa_ "Brave New World Revisited" by Aldous Huxley

Can read it for free: https://t.co/j9ce1W13z7

[Dan Brandt @BigIrishGod]

@mayaonstage @AshaRangappa_ "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman

https://t.co/pQqso9hVQv

[Dan Brandt @BigIrishGod]

Current education was based on creating a literate labor force and it's barely doing that anymore based on literacy data. We need a system that is creating citizens capable of critical thinking and more inoculated against propaganda.
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[Dan Brandt @BigIrishGod]

Finally! I've been hoping to see this take. Maya nails it here.

Starting in about the 50's we realized that kids had no defense against the psychology being used to advertise to them. We passed laws to protect kids, arrogantly believing adults were not as vulnerable.
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[Maya May @mayaonstage]

As we work through the blame game let’s be sure to discuss the amygdala hijacking disinformation campaigns (tenet media, doppelgänger, etc) that should have gotten wall-to-wall news coverage.

Entire realities have been created for MAGA to comfortably reside in - a world where their grievances are directed at groups that had zero to do with their personal dissatisfaction, instead of at the corporate and billionaire entities that have lead to rising costs and stagnating wages.

People who voted for Trump voted in their perceived self-interest. When they realize Trump has no plans to improve their lives, he’ll shift the blame to a vulnerable population. This btw is why hate crimes increased under his administration.

If we don’t learn the science behind perception, we will continue to spiral into a world dominated by power-hungry autocrats who use our brains against us. And when I say “we” I mean us, the average folks, not just the academic class, not just the journalists.

It’s always f*cked me up that we have sex ed but we don’t have brain ed. People need to learn how their brains work, so they can’t be easily manipulated. Disinformation campaigns are never going to go away.

If we learn how our brains work we won’t be at the mercy of those who do know how they work (and weaponized them against us). It’s a foundational thing. Let’s start there. I'll drop my book suggestions in the comments, please drop yours.

[Dan Brandt @BigIrishGod]

Huxley wrote about this in Brave New World Revisited in '58. Since then we have seen political parties and the media use these principles to manipulate and misinform people in a strategy to get people to vote against their own best interests and fear their fellow citizens.
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[Dan Brandt @BigIrishGod]

@BenjaminNorton @Nikchick Biden, after counting on the Black vote post the George Floyd protests, advised cities to use COVID money to fund cops.

There were warning signs.

[Dan Brandt @BigIrishGod]

This plus never telling the truth about the cause of recent "inflation", crime, immigration stats, etc. Somehow these were all laid at Biden and Harris's feet? Please.

The current admin messed up lots, but the media was so complicit in the misinfo, it can't be understated.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

It cannot be understated how badly the media failed us in this election cycle: the constant sane-washing of trump's insanity, holding President Biden and then Kamala Harris to much higher standards, ignoring trump's age and Jeffrey Epstein-related shit.

Y'all deserve some blame too.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

This account is an impersonation of @ProjectLincoln.

Please report these assholes.

[Dan Brandt @BigIrishGod]

@Pooka311 It's a bittersweet choice but it's the only sane one IMO.

[Tiff4Mahogany_44 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 NATO MEMBER @tiff4mahogany]

This is so good.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

"Garbage"?! Fox News is OUTRAGED by this hateful rhetoric from the president

[Dan Brandt @BigIrishGod]

If I had a nickel for every time there has been a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

If you are a journalist, this moment in U.S. history is WHY YOU GOT INTO JOURNALISM.

For the Washington Post to bend the knee to fascism and REFUSE to oppose Trump removes it from the journalistic space.

It has abandoned America when America needed it, and I will NEVER forget.

[FlyWithKamala @flywithkamala]

Charlamagne Tha God really defended Kamala Harris well tonight on CNN, holding cable news networks and hosts to account, and called Anderson out to his face. Wow! 💥💥

[Dan Brandt @BigIrishGod]

@nefapkmn Happy birthday!

[Dan Brandt @BigIrishGod]

@MarkCoffin14 @morganisawizard From even before we were married we combined our money, paid bills, put money into savings, then split what was extra evenly. Allowed each of us to take turns paying for dates, buy things for ourselves with our own money etc. Celebrated 23 years marriage last month, no $ fights.