Interesting article on Toxoplasmosis affecting the behavior hyenas.

I've previously written about Toxo in the context human/political behavior: 1/

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Interesting article on Toxoplasmosis affecting the behavior hyenas.

I've previously written about Toxo in the context human/political behavior: 2/

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27 Jun
Trump's speech was another incitement for violence. The Right views the military as an impediment against another insurrection/potential coup. This is why Trump & the Echo Chamber have been coordinating an assault on the legitimacy/stability of the military. It's important...1/
....to remember that 53 of the 500 people arrested for the Jan. 6th insurrection were former/current military. The Right knows the military has a potential extremist problem, except that rather than attempt to understand and solve the problem,...2/
...Trump, and the Right Wing Media Echo Chamber are attempting to exacerbate and inflame the problem.

The Echo Chamber knows that FOX is on nearly every TV in and around military bases, so when Ted Cruz talks about the military being emasculated....3/
Read 23 tweets
25 Jun
"[We] want to live in a country full of many different kinds of people who actually like each other, are happy to work together...united ultimately by the core fact that we're all Americans".

Really? Isn't this the same guy that called Gen. Milley a pig/stupid...and isn't...1/
....isn't this the same echo chamber that divisively tells its viewers that THEY are the "Real Americans"?

This would seem to contradict Carlson's "core fact", statement. 2/

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This is also the same echo chamber that supported a nepotistic administration.....3/
Read 6 tweets
25 Jun
"....he knows who to suck up to, and he knows how to read a script...."

The projection never ends. This statement describes Carlson's sycophantic Trump cult pandering through premeditated gaslight-ridden "scripts". 1/
Read 4 tweets
24 Jun
"...QAnon people are see it as proof that mass executions are right around the corner...Lots of glee in the Q chat rooms, demands for how exactly their imagined executions will be carried out and complaints they had to wait too long."

This rhetoric...1/

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....combined with Trump, Lindell, Powell, etc., fueling the "reinstated" narrative, which 1/3 Republicans believe....is why January 6th is unlikely to be an anomaly. 2/
There is a lust of violence, coup, and civil war among some: 3/
Read 13 tweets
24 Jun
Wow. Great speech by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Milley:
"I want to understand white rage....I want to understand what caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the constitution of the United States." 1/
More Milley looking and speaking at Matt Gaetz:

"I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military, our general officers, our commissioned, non-commissioned officers of being 'woke' or something else." 2/
Here's a few explanations for the assault on the Capitol that General Milley speaks of: 3/
Read 9 tweets
21 Jun
Other than the "deprogramming" phrasing, I agree with @BandyXLee1's analysis below:
As long as the Right Wing media continues to validate the pathology, any progress made on an individual level immediately reverts to regression once they re-engage: 3/
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