ClaudiaB

[ClaudiaB @claLibre]

@RnaudBertrand The same thing is happening to Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and EU governments behave like little children when daddy US is angry.

[giorgio bianchi @Giorgioaki]

Le infermiere che ballavano non avevano mai lo scopo di migliorare il morale degli operatori sanitari o di alleviare lo stress. Erano un test, un meccanismo di selezione, che rivelava chi avrebbe accettato le contraddizioni e chi le avrebbe resistite. Questi video su TikTok, apparsi simultaneamente su tutti i continenti mentre i governi dichiaravano emergenze mediche, rappresentavano qualcosa di senza precedenti nella storia della propaganda: le autorità dimostravano di poter far accettare alle popolazioni due realtà mutuamente esclusive allo stesso tempo. [Gli ospedali erano "sovraccarichi" eppure medici e infermieri trascorrevano ore a provare coreografie di danza.]

Ciò a cui abbiamo assistito non era propaganda tradizionale mirata alla persuasione, ma qualcosa di più simile a ciò che gli esperti di abusi riconoscono come gaslighting su larga scala. Il meccanismo psicologico era elegante nella sua crudeltà: presentava ai cittadini una apparente contraddizione—ospedali sia sovraffollati che abbastanza vuoti per le routine coreografate—e poi li puniva socialmente per averla notata.

Questo saggio esplora come questa tecnica si inserisca nel contesto più ampio della guerra psicologica

Le infermiere danzanti erano un test per la distorsione della realtà. Una volta che le popolazioni accettavano questa contraddizione iniziale, erano preparate a ulteriori: ogni assurdità accettata indeboliva la capacità del pubblico di fidarsi delle proprie osservazioni.

Questa tecnica sembra trarre ispirazione da ciò che Michael Hoffman chiama “method disclosure“ — la pratica della criptocrazia di rivelare le proprie attività alla luce del sole, sapendo che l’inerzia pubblica di fronte a tale rivelazione produce un effetto scoraggiante. Il messaggio diventa: “Possiamo mostrarti la contraddizione tra le nostre parole e le nostre azioni, e tu non farai nulla. Accetterai sia la menzogna che la prova di essa.” È una forma di umiliazione rituale che funziona non attraverso la segretezza, ma attraverso una sfacciata esposizione. Quasi quattro anni dopo, possiamo vedere come questa impresa abbia creato precedenti che persistono.

https://t.co/UMePjiLfz4

Laura Ruggeri (Originale in inglese)

[ClaudiaB @claLibre]

@ElisaGarfagna Poverina.

[Dr Dave Cartland BMedSc MBChB Ex-MRCGP @CartlandDavid]

Superb work.

[ClaudiaB @claLibre]

@ChaponaBike123 @ChaponaBike123 You’re the type of cyclist who gives all cyclists a bad name, and I say that as someone who’s a cyclist, rider, and driver myself.

[ClaudiaB @claLibre]

@ChaponaBike123 I drove twice a day for 10 years on Priory Lane, no cyclist had ever used that cycle lane, as it was not smooth, apparently.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The European Commission has just made it clear that the rigid constraints they had placed on public finance were totally artificial. They have now lifted them to enable massive military production.

The EC could have done the same thing to achieve rapid decarbonization and ensure good housing, healthcare, and public transit for all. They could have abolished deprivation, unemployment and economic insecurity. But they did not.

This exposes an extraordinary betrayal. It reveals that the European working classes have been lied to, over and over.

The European Commission has suppressed production of public services, not because it has been fiscally necessary to do so, but because it ensures the conditions for capital accumulation.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The Russian invasion of Ukraine was indisputably provoked by western aggressions — that's why so many western experts and analysts spent years warning ahead of time that western aggressions were going to provoke an invasion of Ukraine.

Now, you may hear this and say "Okay but Russia still shouldn't have invaded even though our western leaders were aggressively provoking them to." But before you do that it might be a good idea to look inside yourself and ask where that impulse is arising from. Why are you so eager to skip past the part where you criticize your own rulers for their role in starting this war and focus solely on criticizing the leader of an eastern government who has no power over you? What is it inside of you that's flailing all over the place trying to avoid any forceful scrutiny of the reckless warmongering of your own government and its allies?

The last time a foreign rival placed a credible military threat near the border of the United States, the US responded so aggressively that the world almost ended (if you want to know just how close we came to nuclear annihilation during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look up the name Vasili Arkhipov). Western liberals have been conditioned to insist that Russia should have responded differently to the US empire amassing proxy forces on its border than the US would respond to the same kind of threat on its own borders. The frenetic mental contortions needed to justify this ridiculous double standard are only possible because the west is saturated in domestic propaganda manipulating the way they think about the world.

It makes sense for there to be criticism of Russia for its role in this war, and for people to be horrified by the nightmare that's been happening in Ukraine these last few years. What makes absolutely no sense whatsoever is for western liberals (or "progressives" or whatever they want to call themselves) to assign ZERO PERCENT RESPONSIBILITY to their own government and its allies for their extensively documented role in sparking this conflict and ONE HUNDRED PERCENT RESPONSIBILITY to a foreign government with no power over them. That's pathetic, bootlicking behavior that is utterly inexcusable.

Stop performing mental gymnastics to defend the abuses of your rulers. Have a little dignity for god's sake.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

This 'why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?' line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous.

Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. It's also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids.

Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree with it, yet it has been imposed, top down, by politicians, healthcare bodies, academia, sections of the media, celebrities and even the police. Its activists have threatened and enacted violence on those who've dared oppose it. People have been defamed and discriminated against for questioning it. Jobs have been lost and lives have been ruined, all for the crime of knowing that sex is real and matters.

When the smoke clears, it will be only too evident that this was never about a so-called vulnerable minority, notwithstanding the fact that some very vulnerable people have been harmed. The power dynamics underpinning our society have been reinforced, not dismantled. The loudest voices throughout this entire fiasco have been people insulated from consequences by their wealth and/or status. They aren't likely to find themselves locked in a prison cell with a 6'4" rapist who's decided his name's now Dolores. They don't need state-funded rape crisis centres, nor do they ever frequent high street changing rooms. They simper from talk show sofas about those nasty far-right bigots who don't want penises swinging around the girls' showers, secure in the knowledge that their private pool remains the safe place it always was.

Those who've benefited most from gender identity ideology are men, both trans-identified and not. Some have been rewarded for having a cross-dressing kink by access to all spaces previously reserved for women. Others have parlayed their delicious new victim status into an excuse to threaten, assault and harass women. Non-trans-identified leftybros have found a magnificent platform from which to display their own impeccably progressive credentials, by jeering and sneering at the needs of women and girls, all while patting themselves on the back for giving away rights that aren't theirs.

The actual victims in this mess have been women and children, especially the most vulnerable, gay people who've resisted the movement and paid a horrible price, and regular people working in environments where one misplaced pronoun could see you vilified or constructively dismissed. Do not tell me this is about a tiny minority. This movement has impacted society in disastrous ways, and if you had any sense, you'd be quietly deleting every trace of activist mantras, ad hominem attacks, false equivalence and circular arguments from your X feeds, because the day is fast approaching when you'll want to pretend you always saw through the craziness and never believed it for a second.

[ClaudiaB @claLibre]

@overtonsover Oppure Londra…

[ClaudiaB @claLibre]

@l_ape_rosa @M49liberorso Anche in UK le banche hanno le porte come tutti gli altri negozi, anche quelle di vetro a sensore che si spalancano quando sei di fronte.

[ClaudiaB @claLibre]

@jk_rowling Post a picture of your pet and their namesake.

[ClaudiaB @claLibre]

@IterIntellectus How many kids do you have Vittorio? Tell us about your family. I am a single mother of two, absent father. No cultural problem, as far as I’m concerned. Survival and social problems, instead, plenty.

[Lewis Brackpool @Lewis_Brackpool]

This is incredibly sad.

The historic meat and fish markets of Smithfield and Billingsgate in London, which have been in operation for over 850 years, are being permanently shut down.

The City of London Corporation voted to withdraw their support for these markets, choosing instead to use the land for housing development.

[Cornwall7000 ⛵️🐕 @cornwall70001]

This farm points out the hypocrisy. Good on them.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

There are whole books on psychology that don't get anywhere near this paragraph from Dostoevsky

[ClaudiaB @claLibre]

😂😂😂

[Aly^^ 🏖✈️🏘 @Aly07_US_EU]

Mia mamma ha quasi 80 anni,fa parte di un coro amatoriale e oggi tutta contenta mi fa:

"Sai che sto studiando l'inglese perché a Natale canteremo White Christmas"

Il testo in inglese ⬇️

[Ben Smith @bensmithlive]

The most dangerous modern diseases aren't:

Depression. Obesity. ADHD.

This one silent disease is the worst. And it causes the three above.

Here it is (and how to protect yourself): 🧵

[Aja ♀️🇬🇧 @AjaTheEmpress]

Sharing this for anyone who hasn't read it yet. It's a must.

Germaine Greer,
"On Why Sex-Change is a Lie," published in The Independent Magazine 1989

#ThisIsTrans