Bubba Hightower

propaganda targets cognitive biases. "amour propre": a concept in the philosophy of Rousseau, that personal esteem depends on the opinion of others #peace #love

[Fidel Corbyn🇺🇦 @EL_CORBYNDANTE]

@s_m_marandi Maybe - but your use of that apostrophe indicates possesive (ie belonging to) rather than a plural (of the offensive term you use to describe Ukrainians) and it makes you seem like an illiterate cretin

[Anti-Bannon 🇺🇦 @Alt_Pontifex]

@hamasinpitta3 @EL_CORBYNDANTE @s_m_marandi i think the point made by @EL_CORBYNDANTE was about the use of an apostrophe rather than anything political. whatever was being said, the confusion of possesive and plural undermined it - and the intellect of the author. kid's stuff really, an unfortunate communications faux pas

[Bubba Hightower @hightower_bubba]

@hamasinpitta3 @Alt_Pontifex @EL_CORBYNDANTE @s_m_marandi Don't see him supporting any war or killing but certainly do agree with @EL_CORBYNDANTE that Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi PROF OF ENGLISH (&Oriental) LITERATURE at Tehran Uni should know where to put an apostrophe. You are / Your / You're getting the message? Reason's

[@[email protected] @rizikaoikonomik]

Greeks & Romans were not white. Moreover, they had no concept of "whiteness" & they could not have any. Greek myths recount various African & Middle Eastern ancestors: Phoenician (Lebanese) Europe, Ethiopian Andromeda, Egyptian Lynceus, Phoenician Kadmos.

[Anti-Bannon 🇺🇦 @Alt_Pontifex]

@JYSexton @russtofferson Your description of 'white-identity Christianity...supplying a religious myth' might be better with some historical context ie the (white) Roman empire hijacking the (afro-semetic) Jesus myth in the first place - if you're interested in being specific about causes & effects.

[Anti-Bannon 🇺🇦 @Alt_Pontifex]

@AngeloFreda2 Who's the scandinavian-looking chap in the pic? Hope you don't take this personally, but the historically eroneous idea of white Jesus is, after all, one of the bulwarks of white supremacism.

[Anti-Bannon 🇺🇦 @Alt_Pontifex]

@ChrisPolPsych QAnon approach specifically targets peoples lack of knowledge and cognitive biases. Agnotology used for ill ends ie to exploit rather than inform

[Anti-Bannon 🇺🇦 @Alt_Pontifex]

@tdwilliamsrome @BreitbartNews it's that classic thing of American exceptionalism needing to evangelise the world - God's chosen nation etc; modelled on the Israel of the Bible

[Bubba Hightower @hightower_bubba]

@nikkimwalls "principality"?

[Trinh @Trinhnomics]

Racial essentialism is very reductive and actually oppressive,” Valdary told me. “Ironically, it reduces us as individuals to our immutable characteristics, which is precisely what we were supposed to be fighting against.”

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Si es Trump, tiene que ser corrupto 💸

[Mike Walker @New_Narrative]

Biden Outlines $2 Trillion Climate Plan

https://t.co/Q7ujbkAw10

[@thedancinggrad.bsky.social @DLibatique10]

K.: a place that portrays certain values that are at odds with lived reality. Athens had a struggle within itself between actions and ideals with no sense of resolution, a similar struggle that we work with today. Classics can help us find a mooring in this struggle, to give us..

[@thedancinggrad.bsky.social @DLibatique10]

K.: you don't pass legislation that emphasizes "pure citizens" if you don't already have ideas about foreigners being dangerous. Not only modern white supremacists who worried about being "replaced", but while on topic ... rise of white crisis literature in the 1920s on

[@thedancinggrad.bsky.social @DLibatique10]

K.: Aeschylus Suppliants ca. 463 BCE, 12 years before citizenship law (but laws don't spring up in a vacuum) -- what's in the air? Suppliants present themselves as from north Africa. Geography, cultural practice, and physiology as racial / ethnic markers. Suppliants try to...

[Mike Walker @New_Narrative]

Army handout suggests Trump's MAGA slogan is considered "covert white supremacy"

https://t.co/UgQwaegiFF

[emilia lanier poet / wandering minstrel @bassano_black]

@MaazaMengiste Yes please & similarly for any other Aeschylus plays, such as The Supplients, which explores themes of cultural interchange between Africa (Egypt) and Europe & alienation / refugee status, or Prometheus Bound and it's relevance to the African origins of Greek myths (Hercules etc)

[George K Fahnbulleh @gkfahnbulleh]

@LeonardPittsJr1 Mike Pompeo is an End-Times Eschatologist who believes his purpose in life is to hasten the Battle of Armageddon and the return of Jesus. He is a dangerous fanatic!

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

"The purpose of the Trump administration and Barr���s Justice Department is not to defend genuine religious liberties from real-world threats. It is to stoke cultural resentment for political purposes," @davidfrum writes: https://t.co/utuBThHIeo

[Tomthunkit™ @TomthunkitsMind]

Turns out Trump did nothing for 4 months, not 3:
US intelligence informed the Trump regime, “which did not deem it of interest,” but the report said the Americans also decided to update two allies with the classified document: NATO & Israel in Nov. https://t.co/GE9mAyfSKi 02