@tomwatson The pandemic, and its exacerbation, have been harnessed by far right politicians to inflict trauma for precisely that reason. To produce widespread ongoing mental anguish.

Our senses are overwhelmed. We’re isolated, longing for human contact, like our DNA wiring demands.
@tomwatson This is the intended outcome.

They seek to destroy the future. And distract us from the present. Lost in longing for the past.

psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/intens…
@tomwatson As described by Timothy Snyder, the aim is to discombobulate, drive home governments can’t help you, and infliction of violence on others is your only choice to feel any sense of free agency. While the powers that be take control.

Sado-populism.

@tomwatson Everything you need to know about neo-fascism supporting the transition to corporatism is in that Snyder video.

The point is truly cruelty. Which elicits more cruelty, an abandonment of the future progress and a deep desire to recreate past states of existence.
@tomwatson Opening individuals to easy manipulation through social media because of their prolonged distress, by presenting a mythical past and targets for them to destroy to achieve that past state again.

Make America Great Again.
@tomwatson This has been relatively easy to elicit in the US because of a generations of prolonged financial distress created by libertarian austerity policies. Combined with covid, many people have been permanently altered on a neurological level.
@tomwatson Removing the reinforcement of far right’s ability to enact thought reform is crucial to restoring any sense of normal human relations.

But the US has embraced an open ended definition of free speech. Considering hate speech and indoctrination using prolonged trauma acceptable.
@tomwatson At least in Canada, hate speech and indoctrination using extended traumatic exposure to violence and existential threat is not the norm. Though many are attempting to make it so. But US will need to rethink the first amendment to escape the genocide libertarians are planning.
@tomwatson I’m pretty sure Biden is aware of this. Garland and DOJ work feverishly to investigate January 6, 2021 insurrection.

But so are the far right working feverishly to build that body politic mob mentality to attempt another coup d’état. The next one will include more deadly force.
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8 May
@ObamaLeaf @Strandjunker @alicemaried2 Again, not the point.

Is the point to punish, or to protect? To reform or to restrain?

A need to seek “justice” outweighs the commons’ safety & security?

That’s what radical individualism has produced. Failure to take true threats to existence seriously.
@ObamaLeaf @Strandjunker @alicemaried2 The problem isn’t the justice system, which is corrupt.

The problem is the premise American individualism rests on. That every human individual must be given precedence over the commons in the eyes of justice.
@ObamaLeaf @Strandjunker @alicemaried2 In the past, those making relevant decisions could claim ignorance of the inflexibility of magnanimous malignant narcissists. That’s no longer an available excuse.

Faith, not science, brought us the belief that ALL lives are sacred and capital punishment must be abolished.
Read 15 tweets
7 May
I’m retweeting this thread.

Written a few days before the April 2019 Alberta provincial election, it’s just as relevant today as it was back then.

It’s long, and convoluted.

There are 4 parts and each part has copious supporting documentation attached.
My narrative hasn’t changed in two years. Because UCP and other Canadian Dominionist Christians haven’t changed.

The conservative parties in Canada have been overtaken by Christian Nationalists.

Please read in totality.
Information about complex complicated problems doesn’t come in memes or short tweets.

I’ve known what has been happening for a long time. This mega thread demonstrates how accurate my research is. I’m not a crank or a conspiracy theorist.
Read 4 tweets
7 May
Please read and circulate.

Understanding this dynamic is crucial to understanding the far right’s methods of choice and our current extended trauma.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1390668…
Far right politicians are not just cruel and sadistic for the fun of it.

There is a “method to their madness.”

Mental manipulation is occurring on a global scale.

Covid has been harnessed as a convenient bio weapon.
Continued exacerbation of covid is intentional. It’s not “natural” herd immunity they’re after. It’s also not ignorance or ineptitude driving their policy choices.

They know the outcomes those policies are intended to produce.

Denial of truth is killing us.
Read 8 tweets
7 May
I seriously wonder what motivates people with academic reputations to promote disinformation?

Is it money? Notoriety? In group acceptance? Funding? Access to inner circles?

What causes those who build expertise over decades to push propaganda?
Sometimes I wonder if it’s conservative’s way to discredit academia and expertise all in one shot. Convince academics to sell out every ounce (grams of your metric) of integrity to push disinformation for political gain of far right political parties.
Many will read Michael Geist’s opinion and not read the actual bill being proposed.

They’ll trust his assessment without checking themselves. Believing he’s non partisan and has years of expertise and experience.
Read 26 tweets
6 May
@SenSchumer

How about you arrest and incarcerate the insurrectionists before you ask Canada to reopen the border. We don’t need any more extremists than we already have thank you very much.

cbc.ca/news/world/sch…
It’s not you, it’s your domestic extremism problem that is clearly out of hand. It’s your Pentagon, Senate and Congress that’s harbouring seditionists and traitors. Your out of control social media and penchant to allow hate speech as free.
It’s already influenced enough of the Canadian citizenry for my liking. And most of the Canadian electorate agrees.

How about you tone down the toxic rhetoric coming from far right conspiracy theorists and over zealous progressive left libertarians?
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6 May
I’d like people to understand that imperialism and colonialism are current, not a distant memory.

Canadians rarely recognize it.

The rage it produces in indigenous communities makes it difficult to be heard by the rest of Canada. Whites only perceive irrational anger.
But it’s not irrational. It’s fuelled by fear of being theon back into abject poverty and another 150-200 years of suffering for their children and all future generations.

And that’s if there are future generations.

CPC and Canadian conservatives are committed to imperialism.
That’s the central narrative of Canada.

Canadians are perceived to be willfully ignorant and providing tacit approval to continue the elimination of any hope for indigenous people, the transfer of wealth to white wealthy conservatives and/or corporations and cultural divisions.
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