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27 Oct

Democrats are trapped in a world of norms and labels, when the opposition, which includes Republicans, foreign adversaries, double agents, and spies, has abandoned every norm in favor of all-out war across multiple fields of battle: social, cultural, financial, political.

Two such double agents rhyme with cinema and mansion.

Sooo… mysterious. 👻 🎃 🛸 What could possibly be going on here? This dude is pulling a Cassandra Fairbanks but is in the Senate, basically.

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27 Oct

1/Regarding the coordinated attack on the dollar being perpetrated by a swath of domestic and foreign actors, some argue “they cannot be successful, so why be concerned?”

January 6th wasn’t successful, but it was still incredibly damaging and costly…

2/…and we are still dealing with the fallout of that. Also, what “makes sense” and “what they think they’re doing” are two different things. I’m telling you, loudly, what they think they’re doing:

They think they are going to take down the dollar and replace it with crypto.

3/As with Jan6, it is the *attempt* that will be damaging, regardless of whether it is “successful.”

We also don’t know where the cult has allies in positions of power. Nancy MacLean went as far as to suggest a “fifth column” intent on taking down the gov’t, and that seems real.

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27 Oct

Countries don’t function like households or small businesses. Inflation does not function the way popular imagination thinks it does. This talk offers good insights into why 99% of what’s thrown around as “obvious” is both facile and wrong.

ted.com/talks/stephani…

Likewise, while taxing billionaires more is probably a good idea, it is a tangential problem to creating the public goods we actually need, and promotes the idea that all wealth is a zero-sum endeavor—which it is not.

In fact, that’s a pillar of Nazism and the alt-right.

When people on the center-left succumb to zero-sum ideas about wealth, they are subscribing to a hierarchical model of society, with winners and losers: the same model behind “replacement theory” and xenophobic fears about immigration.

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25 Oct

1/Adding to my thread from yesterday, the loss of social ties is our primary ongoing challenge with respect to disinformation.

Any other approaches that we might pursue depend on us addressing social division meaningfully. So for example, people talk about "education"...

2/And point to countries like Finland, which teaches kids about disinformation. But it is a very different country that has been dealing with Russian disinfo, well, forever. It is also much more culturally homogenous, and much smaller. Its social divisions are quite different.

3/Frankly, I have listened to MAGA people with masters degrees and PhD's explain in full cultish glory about the cabal. And I have heard people with bizarre political beliefs give very educated, nuanced treatises on complicated topics. "Education" isn't specifically the problem.

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24 Oct

1/Disinformation is the operational end of a process designed to break down society and radicalize it into cultish forms. This process leads people away from truth.

We can’t address this process by distributing truth; the cure for disinfo is not simply truth.

2/Instead, we need to counter the “lytic” process of breakdown with a different process that pulls people into common cause. That’s very hard to do but we know that just “distributing truth” won’t work. Truth is, rather, a goal we must arrive at.

3/This is why “Cambridge Analytica, but for truth” is so wrongheaded, and why the breakdown process is so diabolical.

We can’t fix society any easier than we can un-stir coffee, or un-burn a fire.

Fixing this requires different thinking than that which got us here.

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15 Oct

Someone asked me for more background on the “Third Rome” situation and Bannon’s connection to it. Here are several articles that can give more background. It’s a big part of Bannon’s pal Dugin’s philosophy.

washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/0…

This piece in the “National Interest” (a US right wing publication) outlines more of the Greek/Russia Orthodox alignment.

nationalinterest.org/feature/third-…

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And in this interview I did with @HeidiCuda back in March, I explain how US religious activists connected with Russian counterparts and began to see Russia as a bulwark of “western values.”

bylinetimes.com/2021/03/02/the…

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