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I write this as someone who DID NOT understand it prior to reading your comment. Mind blown.
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I think the problem we have is that most people do not understand :
'My preferred pronouns are for you, not for me'.
That is the a mindblowing piece of wisdom - thanks for sharing it.
All at once it is about
- knowing who you are
- needing no external affirmation
- helping others feel at ease
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Sorry, I know we are desperate for anti-Trump 'heroes', but seriously Boris Johnson!!???
He's a moron and as morally bankrupt as Trump.
He is part of the reason Ukraine is in the swamp.
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when he was bullying architects who did work on his golf courses, refusing to pay them and then forcing them to take only 30% of their invoice after they had done 100% of the work...America said he was a great at deals.
They got who they deserve. Question is what is the rest of the world gonna do.
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They want all the hostages and then the leverage is gone. They will then commence a wipe out.
They don't care how it looks, what pretext they claim. They have a reprobate in power in Israel and a matching reprobate in their surrogate in the US.
Netanyahu is a war criminal on par with the worst.
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Ok. Will donate what I can to help. Also have tech and ethical guerilla skills.
We do what we must.
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'Mirages sustain real mobs' is powerful.
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So they have assessed the financial and reputational risk in pursuing this deny/defend/discredit strategy AND , in their hubris, decided this is worth it?
I guess the arrogant always take the arrogant path.
How do we make it so obviously not worth it that they never follow this playbook again?
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Agreed the did, my main point really is that the mob is not always the dispenser of the violence.
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Our work must be to recognise those variations, find common patterns to how they form and prevent them from forming. Also to develop effective ways of destroying them and holding their instigators to account.
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I think a mob has multiple variations.
In Lagos, I saw one lynch a man, beat him to death and burn his body with a tyre because he was accused of stealing another man's penis with black magic.
That was not a mirage.
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Europe us neither resilient nor united.
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Nazi Germany was an interesting one though. The mob (citizenry) was formed to NOT intervene, because the it had designated structures for dispensing the violence.
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..and depending on scale and timing, has to sustain and control things.
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Mobs can be digital of course. The disinformation used to ferment them can range from the tragic truth to absolute lies, usually a sophisticated mix of both e.g Southport.
The glimmer of hope in challenging this is mobs are never self forming, someone with an agenda kicks things off...
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There are common patterns to all forms of extreme mass violence. The tools differ but aim still same. It is to create and weaponise the mob.
Mobs are faceless, often anonymous and devoid of conscience.
From lynchings to genocides, same patterns.
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Why do so many institutions always follow this playbook?
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The forces behind all this have billions of £ at there disposal.
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Once the tech is in place, then you needed labour. Cheap labour clicking buttons, pasting responses, parroting lines.
World is full of that.
That's not even needed today. I can run psyops and disinformation at scale for £100k a year with 2 people max.
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'Fallen from grace' - what?? Why?
Twitter impact plain to see. All social networks to the degrees in which sharing content is supported. Twitter was 100% and not as diluted by commercial content as others.
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100%.
Yet here we are.
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Sadly not.
Does the 'operator' even still exist?
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No, you fuck off. Dumbass.
You post on social and ask the stupidest of questions: 'was I talking to you?', you're talking to the whole world , you self obsessed, entitled twat and then think its OK to just launch into a tirade.
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We know them well.
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Reference, reflect and learn. Never forget.
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Preferably slow and painfully.
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Perhaps we should be data driven by this and find how many actually reach this threshold. I have *never* gotten anywhere near. Most years not even a pound!
So let's see what the average is.
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What is more annoying is you calling him 'Elon' like he is your best pal or you even know him.
When we adopt these familiarisations, we let lots of crap slide and we do not apply the necessary controls to our judgements.
Elon Musk is not your friend. Nor mine.
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If the US falls, the world WILL not fall.
It may stumble and falter BUT it will not fall.
The world existed quite happily for a very long time before America arrived and it has arguably been worse since then and if it at risk of falling is it partly because of the US' imperialist actions.
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I'm a teetoller but cocktails are a beautiful expression of human creativity and the need to relax and practice a little self-care (not too much though!)
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Instead of more houses in fewer hands - which is optimised for greed and inequality, we should have more people with 1 house, which is optimal for resilience and social cohesion.
No brainer. But I'm no economist/special adviser.
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It's beyond perverse, it's absolutely absolutely sickening
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But James, the Dems were always 'working so hard' at stuff...
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One must surely ask what they are doing on their knees and who they are doing it too.
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The Tory party will effectively merge with Reform before the next election.
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No, not possible.
She is a leap, not an iteration on Truss.
Badenoch is exponentially worse, if that was possible. (well it is possible, because she is).
There is so much going on in this package psychologically that you need to study up before you even start to explore it.
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It's not a problem if that is what the system is built to end up as. That nation didn't know is not evolution's concern.
Feature not bug.
Enjoyment of it not part of the brief.
Americans still on X, still buy Tesla and work there.
Trump businesses too.
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That is the logical outcome of an unconstrained capitalist state.
What's the problem?
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Small acts of disobedience and rebellion are what will combined to take this corrupt system and its foundations apart.
Well done.
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Services that enough people do not use need to be reviewed and made efficient.
Perhaps consider collecting real gathering data about actual usage and share that (2 weeks should do). Closing services that lots of people use is wrong.
Also, isn't Birmingham City Council running out of cash?