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The right has weird ideas about their ideological enemies: we're "groomers," we're secretly on a billionaire's payroll, we hijacked education to promulgate revisionist histories, we steal elections, and, of course, w're plotting to take over America and subjugate them. 1/ A page from the Jack Chick tract 'Dark Dungeons,' depicting
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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The weirdest thing about this is that it's the right that engages in revisionist race-history:

teenvogue.com/story/the-myth…

And it's the right who stole a presidency:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Br…

Election-rigging is a right-wing specialty:

pluralistic.net/2023/02/23/sta… 3/
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An opportunity was lost with the collapse of the #IntellectualDarkWeb. Logic only travels so far in the absence of social trust, and building trust rich social networks across tribes is extremely hard to do.

This is part of what I argued to #SamHarris
We live in an era of echo chambers. I won't listen to your information because I don't trust your sources, because I see them as being ill-motivated and not just potentially wrong.

Wherever you stand on voter fraud, the Covid vaccine (both of which Sam and I get in to...)
...there is a need to sustain the attention of vastly different thinking people on a singular topic where information is being discussed that conflicts with their biases.

Most of us can listen to such information if it is coming from someone whose intentions we trust. If not...
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So I wrote a 100+ tweet 🧵on the great many & ever-growing failings rendering "Conservative" leader Poilievre unelectable as Prime Minister but it got mangled at the end. Given the 3x weekly proto-fascistic bozo eruptions of this man & his enablers, this 2nd 🧵was needed. Mahalo!
[You can access #TheUnelectablePoilievre 🧵Part One here. I suggest you bring whiskey]
Let's jump right back into your regularly scheduled broadcast:
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