Since "noticing" appears to be a thing, I'd like to say that I "notice" things as well....And I can't help but *notice* the obsession that certain people have with Israel, even though other nations (China, India, Russia, etc) impact the U.S. far more.... I also can't help but notice that those same sorts of people are obsessed the influence of wealth Jews, but have nothing to say about the influence of money from China, Qatar, Russia, India, and so on.

The Jews are, apparantly, an item of incredibly deep concern...

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Wokeness is the alloy of the political ideology and moral value framework from Critical Theory with the social constructivist worldview and epistemology of postmodernism.

As the political side of woke recedes culturally, it leaves behind the underlying postmodern worldview. 2/ The teleology of the woke project came from the moral commitments of intersectional social justice (Trans-rights, Race based activism, etc)

Those movements are being dissolved by their own incoherence and absurdity (Land acknowledgements, claiming men can become women, etc)

The left created an epitemic bubble which filters out everything that challenges their narrative while promoting anything that confirms their priors

It's socially enforced confirmation bias at scale which results in the left having no idea what anyone outside their bubble thinks

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1970873977313874335

The left has what @wesyang calls a "Vertically Integrated Messaging Apparatus." It's an apparatus of messaging distribution which is owned and operated by leftists top to bottom, and disseminates only the information which aligns with leftist moral norms and political priorities.

For decades it was the progressive leftist worldview from which the norms of public life and the values of the common culture were derived. The at-large culture was the home of leftists, and conservative evangelicals were treated like unwanted guests.

Those days are over. The culture is changing so quickly that people are about to get whiplash. It's no longer the case that the default values of public life are those of the social-justice left, (or of "progressives") and progressives no longer get to determine what is allowed in "polite company."

For years conservatives told people that leftists used violence and intimidation to silence dissent, and the media downplays and ignores it. Charlie Kirk's assassination proved the right was correct, and gave them the moral high ground in the culture for the first time in decades Kirks' assassination validated what the right had been saying about free speech, censorship, and political violence exactly because Charlie was a vigorous free speech advocate who was killed for his speech.

Free speech is therefore the root of the rights' moral highground...

Any leftist podcaster or celebrity can hold an event at any University in the United States with minimal security and be completely safe.

Conservative speakers can't hold events on campus without armed guards and a bullet proof vest.

Let's talk about why🧵 Universities have basically said there is no penalty for *trying* to do violence against conservatives; there's only a penalty if you actually manage to injure one of them.

You can try to do violence as much as you like, and there's no penalty until you actually hurt somone.

As I've said for years:

1. There is no such legal category as "hate speech"
2. You don't defeat ideas by banning them
3. Adopting a leftist frame ("hate speech" is leftist framing) is always a losing proposition.

https://twitter.com/TheRabbitHole84/status/1967779994601771145

The idea of "hate speech" was given academic backing by a group of Critical Race Theroists in the book "words that wound."

There is no way of picking up that term without legitimizing all of the leftist intellectual machinery that comes with it.

https://x.com/wokal_distance/status/1409783744886501380?t=d7GiGoi4YmDdhveVlGVgmQ&s=19

The reason the trans-movement is so nihilistic, violent, and unhinged is because it is postmodern, and the postmodern intellectual solvent it uses to dissolve the distinction between male and female also dissolves the distinction between good and evil. The postmodern ideology of the transgender activists believes all values of any kind (moral, social, scientific, and epistemic) are just social constructs that have been constructed in alignment with the interests of the dominant ideology or ruling class.

so...

Repeat after me:

People who celebrate the murder of their political opponents are not participating in the marketplace of ideas, they are encouraging deadly political violence by building a permission structure to legitimize and justify the murder of those they disagree with.

https://twitter.com/WadeMiller_USMC/status/1966704876194324619

My freedom of speech means I get to clearly and succintly explain to the whole world that if you call for the assassination of your rivals this is not free speech, it is a direct incitement to political violence.

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The Radical Left has used political violence to advance their cause for decades. What's new is the progressive left's professional class building a permission structure to justify the use of political violence

It's called Assassination Culture, and we need to talk about it
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https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1909391943802703899

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To understand what's happening, you need to understand that the line between progressive-left professional class and radical left has been blurred. The extremist radical left and the socially progressive "bluesky left" are increasingly intertwined both socially and politically

Look at the number of pro-athletes posting condolences about Charlie Kirk, and you'll see what a huge cultural figure he was.

He wasn't just famous in conservative circles, his clips debating college students were a loadbearing pillar of online political pop-culture His willingness to calmly and politely debate all comers on any issue (at the very moment when cancel culture was strongest and people were afraid to say what they think) made him a sort of lovable internet folkhero.

He was an indelible piece of the online landscape.

What he is describing here is the deconstruction of America as an ideal. The goal is to destroy America by subverting the conception of America as a force for good which sustains American confidence, and attacking the founding narrative from which America derives it's legitimacy.

https://twitter.com/thestustustudio/status/1961552710576095614

They will try to redefine America in a way which subverts the legitimacy of America as a national project. They want to erase the current American narrative, and replace it with a new one which grants them the right to inherit America's wealth, power, prestige, and influence.

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Afew thoughts on this

The article Doreen St Felix wrote for the New Yorker was as racist as the tweet @realchrisrufo dug up; it was just more subtle.

Had she repudiated those old views it would be a different story, but that New Yorker article was doubling down...

https://twitter.com/AThinksAloud/status/1956728495985283313

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on racist resentment against white people and racialist identity politics, complete with the racist stereotyping.

This shows a continuity of thinking over a period of a decade, and there has been no take back, or explanation for the disgustingly racist tweets she made.

The left gets away with violence because it has the capacity to memory hole and cover up all it's violent behavior.

For example, from 1971-1972 leftists carried out 5 bombings per day, every day. By the end they carried out more than 3000 bombings.

And nobody remembers...


And many people who did that would be welcomed into mainstream leftists politics.

IE: Susan Rosenberg helped a communist group bomb the Capitol building in 1983-for which she was convicted.

She went on to sit on the board of the parent organization for Black Lives Matter.

The game being played by the "sex is a spectrum" people is to engage in a sleight of hand between the ontological question (what makes this thing what it is), epistemological question (how do we know this thing when we see it), and linguistic question (how do we define the word)

https://twitter.com/hoovlet/status/1953168766319104465

The tactic is to attack the definition by blurring the lines between the primary features that make the object what it is and define its function and the secondary features we use as proxy's for identifying the object when we encounter it "in the wild".

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Leftist activism uses exactly this dynamic as a strategy. The goal is to create hot-takes that generate enormous outrage (IE: Syndey Sweeney ads are fascist) which bait people into reacting by writing response pieces or by dunking on it

This spreads the hot-take everywhere...

https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1950661444749709663

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By using the negative engagement and dunking as free advertising, the leftists is able to provoke more outrage.

They repeat this process until people have outrage fatigue, and the hot take no longer provokes strong reactions, and stating the hot-take no longer causes outrage.

If you hang around leftist circles enough you'll hear the "nazi bar" parable, and this explains how they think about everything.

They don't see themselves as part of being a social movement based on highly controversial and hotly disputed ideas... ...Leftists think their moral values, and social views are just uncontroversial expressions of what is morally right, and leftism is just what you get when everyone is "being kind" and "being a good person."

In their heads, they are the regular crowd at the bar.

The claim that it is an undue burder to ask women to put any effort at all into their relationships with men is a load bearing pillar of woke feminism.

This paper claims that asking women to interpret what men say is a form of "hermeneutic labor" which harms women. The paper argues that hermeneutic labor is the emotionally taxing requirement that women should interpreting what men say and how they feel. It also argues that women act as men's therapists by telling men how they feel, and that women do all the relationship maintenance.

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This "government teacher" doesn't know when America was founded, won't teach students the official curriculum, and teaches kids about activism, anti-racism, and Black Lives Matter.

Woke teachers took over K-12 education and the get funded by grants like these,

A Thread🧵

https://twitter.com/lisamurkowski/status/1945583935028957576

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The entire education system is full of activists, professors, and teachers who believe teaching is a political act, and Social Justice (AKA: woke ideology) should be the foundation of all learning and education.

Many of them are funded by the grants Murkowski wants to protect

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The U.S. Government Accountability Office was designed to be a non-partisan watchdog that Audits government for waste, fraud, and abuse.

However, the GAO has been captured by progressives who are using it to advance to advance their political ideology.

And I have receipts.🧵


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The job of the GAO is to hold government institutions accountable for the way they spend money and carry out their mission. That is, the GAO doesn't decide what policies get implemented, it makes sure the policies government passes get implemented, whatever those happen to be.

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In March this guy farmed 11 million views and 20K RT's by saying an "RFK blackmail story is breaking from multiple angles," while vaguely insinuating the CIA and Pfizer were involved and regurgitating widely available information.

And he hasn't tweeted about it since march...

https://twitter.com/IanCarrollShow/status/1944902659237978215

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His whole game is to take widely available information dug up by other people and use it as a pretext to suggest that various events are caused by powerful interests who "pull the strings," and then make vague and unfalsifiable insinuations regarding who the string pullers are