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I can’t let this go unchallenged. An emotional reaction to personal insult should not overrule critical thinking skills.

But it does and it is being used to elicit an expected response from those whose sensibilities and identity is being insulted.

salon.com/2021/05/18/now…
As a mother of a child on the spectrum, I can’t let this go unchallenged.

There is ample evidence that those with emotional vulnerabilities are more susceptible to SM propaganda.

That includes autism and ASD.
@MatthewRozsa
I for one would appreciate if the “shaman’s” defence lawyer was able to prove a targeted campaign to manipulate his thinking was the cause of his apparent break with reality.

It would create widespread public acknowledgement of how the far right is using military grade PSYOPS.
Organizations using highly personal data scraped or stolen from social media are aggregating and analyzing that data to locate, target, compromise and manipulate vulnerable individuals.

Why the media and public continues to ignore this is beyond me.
That doesn’t remove the “shaman’s” criminal responsibility or his culpability.

Charles Manson’s murder cult members didn’t escape responsibility, but the trial certainly exposed the dangers of cult leaders & unhinged megalomaniacs who live among us. Squeaky Fromm did 34 years.
An awareness of the use of aggregated and analyzed deeply personal data by several data analytics companies for political objectives should be widely exposed. How else will the public in democracies know how to fight the stealthy information warfare that’s killing democracy?
Additionally, exposing the cult tactics and strategic micro targeted disinformation and propaganda campaigns being used to create alternate realities would be a good idea. People might actually take internet and Social Media regulation seriously.
People like the Q Shaman haven’t just arbitrarily lost their marbles. Half the North American population didn’t turn fascist, or radically left and abandon reality by chance. They’ve been coerced.

Why are people normalizing the abandonment of reality by friends & family members?
Because it’s insidious. Incremental. Covert.

The changes happening in friends and family members happen slowly. Then all of a sudden, they’re like someone you don’t know. Spouting off conspiracy theories and propaganda relentlessly.

It’s shocking. And not NORMAL!
No, I’m not a conspiracy theorist. I’m quite grounded in reality. I’ve had to be for years to appropriately parent my kid with ASD. Ask any parent with a kid who has ASD.

You meet them where they are at, not where you want them to be, or where their chronological age is.
You learn quickly to put aside what you want your child to be (dreams and delusions) and deal with him as he is. Whatever that may be.

Sometimes he’s more mature than his age, others far less developed than expected.

You learn to assess reality as it presents, in real time.
Parents with kids who are on the spectrum put what they thought parenting would be, on a shelf. Because those are not the skills your child requires to be parented.

If you persist in using “normal” parenting techniques, you stand to lose your mind and your child.
Maybe that’s why I can observe and analyze politics so clearly. I’ve had plenty of practice successfully raising to adulthood a child with ASD.

I can almost instantly assess his mood, beliefs and opinions. Yes I check, but I’ve had about 18 years practice.
My point is, what I wanted parenting to be, what I expected, what all the parenting books and classes taught, I had to throw out the window.

My child regularly defied logic & made parenting more difficult than I ever thought it could be. So I adapted to be the parent he needed.
And that’s what each citizen has to do regarding contemporary geopolitics.

Political norms are long ago abandoned. We’re in uncharted waters.

Except they aren’t actually uncharted. We’ve been on this precipice before. So we aren’t operating blindly.

WW2 is well documented.
But most are still using the old norms.

I have 2 children. One with ASD & one who is “normal.” Whatever that means.

So I’ve had an instantaneous comparison of the norm and ASD on a daily basis since the second one was born.

Democratic politics doesn’t have a daily reminder.
Changes within democracy have been happening for 40 years or more. To anyone younger than 35, the changes have been imperceptible. To those of us who are older, the change is perceptible, but requires a good memory for comparison to what is being offered as the norm now.
This article details the Canadian version of the 40 year effort to alter the norm.

Unless you were paying close attention, you probably missed it. A small group of far right libertarians bordering on fascism have been moving politics further right.

harpercrusade.blogspot.com/2010/05/ernest…
Polarizing the population from both ends of the political spectrum. Introducing left libertarianism, identity politics and ideological purity.

Paralleling the American transformation of democratic politics as described by Nancy McLean in her book “Democracy In Chains.”
This is a book that came out in 2005. It’s a blueprint on how to dismantle democracy incrementally. I’m certain there is an American original on which it was based.

Pay particular attention to parts 2 and 3. Those are the blueprints. ImageImage
The plan is the gradual disassembly of institutions that protect democracy.

•recruiting wealthy donors
•controlling media
•lawyers and judges attack Constitutional rights
•shape young minds through academia in pre & post secondary education
•engage Quebec’s cooperation Image
•attract & recruit conservative immigrants with traditional religious values
•train leaders to obstruct, manipulate and gaslight: train Generals and ground troops.

It’s all there in a dictator’s playbook.

This is the same method every autocratic govt uses, including Hitler.
But dismantling democracy isn’t enough. Imposing policies that exacerbate poverty, remove social mobility, firmly establish a patriarchal hierarchy and remove human rights is the objective.

Only then will conservatives have power & control in perpetuity. Image
Using the autism spectrum as a defence is not blaming people with mental illness and developmental issues.

The far right is counting on people to reject this as a reason.

They’re using reflexive control to trigger your emotions and trick you into reacting without analyzing.
This is reflexive control.

By using inflammatory language, the defence lawyer triggers a predictable reaction. A gut reaction of yours & countless others, is to reject this rationale. And you maintain the stealth manipulation of Q hidden from scrutiny.

ted.com/talks/laura_ga… ImageImageImageImage

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Jul 1
It’s interesting that so many switch allegiances with every utterance.

If you’re observant you can see who among your follows is unable to trust what’s happening is in their best interests.

“There is nothing to fear but fear itself” is good advice about now.
FDR was judged harshly when he shut down banks immediately after being elected.

In fact most of the sentiments being expressed now are not new. Similar sentiments were echoed across the US and Canada against FDR and Hoover & R.J. Bennett and Mackenzie King.
History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes and right now it’s rhyming.

Past fascists didn’t have modern technology, but they did have memes and political cartoons.

Most are the very same rhetoric we hear today.

So I’m going to do a cartoon essay to prove it. Image
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Jun 22
It amazes me how easily people respond to radical left & right propaganda.

The radical left declares PMMC to be worse than Harper and people believe it without question.

Why?

These radicalized extremist assholes are no different than the far right. They play on your fears.
However, this incident does indicate PMMC may require the assistance of professional comms team to emphasize what he is saying. I’m not a professional comms expert, but I can read bureaucratic speak. And that’s what this post is; clear concise bureaucratic language. Image
PMMC probably believes it is difficult to misinterpret. But there is a major discrediting campaign being conducted against him. And I don’t believe he has much experience with this level of disinformation.

So he requires an experienced professional counter propagandist’s help.
Read 11 tweets
Jun 21
As an unrecognized Métis indigenous person, it has been my burden to endure discrimination and oppression by the mainstream white community as well as First Nations.

This is a burden of which most Canadians remain ignorant. But I’m going to set that straight, now!
I’m Métis. I’m not white and I’m not First Nations. I’m something in between. Métis have their own culture. It is not exactly like First Nations and is made up of elements of both sides of our ancestors. Not just the FN side.
In Canada, it’s FN and the Inuit who have suffered the most oppression. Their way of life was targeted for elimination. But so too were the Métis. Just in different ways.

Inuit & FN were oppressed thru apartheid type communities that treated people like second class citizens.
Read 29 tweets
Jun 18
A very difficult question to answer. Not because it’s complicated. It’s not. It’s rather simple.

But most people aren’t aware of these issues because the far right and radical left work so hard to distract from actual issues and agreed upon solutions. @Vanessa_Sarges
With that caveat now in place, the answer is as follows:

During Trump’s first term, he arranged for Mike Pompeo, former DCI, to meet with Russia to develop “cooperation” for cyber crime investigations.

That’s probably what people remember and immediately think of irt the 2AP. Image
But that is not what the Second Additional Protocol is about.

The 2AP is an international agreement that enables signatory nations to access information while conducting investigations involving cybercrime.

It was discussed in 2022, when Biden was president. Not Trump.
Read 26 tweets
Jun 1
Anyone notice the First Nation Chief interviewed is negotiating in public, right out in the open?

aptnnews.ca/national-news/…
He indicates some First Nations actually support secession from Canada.

The plan for Treaty 6 chiefs was to get assurance that Treaty would be recognized & honoured. Not block the referendum.

The article acknowledges language changes, but it serves secessionists interests. Image
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It does not serve Treaty 6 chiefs’ interests of preserving the established legal treaty status and rights.

But treaties don’t transfer from one state to another when secession or annexation occurs.

Just like passports and pensions. They are not automatically transferred.
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May 27
@sqirlgirly I don’t care how devastated Americans are feeling right now.

I’m enraged that so many are sorry now that the evil has been unleashed. But they had a viable alternative that 90 million chose to stay home and not elect.

They weren’t bothered to help themselves.
@sqirlgirly Now that Canada is under threat of losing sovereignty from a madman and a large number of American Nazis and white supremacists who were cited into power by masquerading as Christians, they want absolution.

Fuck that.
@sqirlgirly They couldn’t be bothered to think of anyone but themselves and their “cost of living” worries when it mattered.

Why should Canadians forgive those who recognize now what has been unleashed? No.

Fight to regain control of their own govt.

Then I might have some empathy.
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