Companies like Mars that profit off things like child labor use rebrands like this M&M stuff to try and capture specific markets.
Companies like Fox News use it to frighten its viewers for profit.
It’s two corporations in a professional wrestling match. Mutually beneficial.
It’s a song and dance between corporations promising they’re tolerant or progressive enslaving people around the world and Right Wing corporate news.
It creates an unreal sense for people that things are changing, leading to profits and further radicalization.
A sense among viewers of Fox that things are changing derives from cultural depictions by corporations who use progressive ideas as a market tool but don’t care at all about progress. It cycles back and forth as demagogues use the feeling for authoritarian purposes.
It’s stupid and gross and I wish like hell people could get their rights and lives protected instead of being pandered to by a crummy chocolate company profiting off child labor and targeted by a 24hr New World Order-trumpeting propaganda arm.
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The “CRT” conspiracy theory is rebranded Nazi-style antisemitism that’s being used by wealthy donors and their think-tanks to weaponize history for their own purposes while radicalizing people to take over local governments and clear the way for the privatization of education.
Within the “CRT” conspiracy theory are QAnon principles without the label or even recognition by some of believers. These ideas and white supremacist paranoia are leveraged by the wealthy to further control of society and prepare public education to become a market for profit.
The wealthy, the GOP as their PR front, and Fox News as a propaganda arm, are using the entire “CRT” panic as a means of radicalizing believers of conspiracy theories into attacking public education and running for local office, where they’ll be useful in ongoing privatization
One story after another talking about Manchin and Sinema refusing to break the filibuster and dooming voting rights without mentioning they’re doing this on behalf of corporate donors.
It’s not a mystery. They’re *choosing* to ignore the obvious truth.
The fact that so many newspapers, magazines, websites, cable news segments, politicians, and pundits refuse to say out loud that they know Manchin and Sinema do this for corporations is damning.
They either can’t see it because they’re indicted or they’re actively complicit.
Reputable people and platforms would rather pathetically shrug their shoulders and say, “We’re just not sure what’s happening right now” than admit documented, indisputable reality.
Corporations and the wealthy own and direct our politics.
We need to talk about how our economy is intentionally programmed by the rich and powerful to help themselves and how they use conspiracy theories and racism to hide their tracks and attack their enemies.
It's important to start with this: our moment, with all of its ludicrousness and radicalism, is a result of a long, long process.
Donald Trump and his allies are symptoms of a much larger disease. We have to understand that disease if we're going to cure it.
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Beyond the conspiracy theories and radicalizing rhetoric of Trump and MAGA and this authoritarian movement is a system of wealth and power that continues to enrich and empower itself.
Our economy has been rigged for their benefit and these movements hide that fact.
A good day to remember MLK was one of the most despised men in the country, subject to constant surveillance and harassment by the government, and that the means by which his life’s work has been twisted and weaponized by those same people is what we’re fighting now.
King would be horrified but probably not surprised to see that the same people who attacked him have relentlessly used his legacy to launder their own white supremacy and weaponized it to curb grassroots movements for reform.
White supremacy has not been defeated and the Civil Rights Movement was not the end of the struggle, but a chapter in an ongoing book. This is a day to remember that and that the forces of racism, greed, and exploitation are shameless about their methods in maintaining control.
What we watched with the Senate and Supreme Court yesterday is part of a larger problem. These institutions were created intentionally to curb progress and reform so that the powerful could maintain control
They’re working as planned. Those benefiting want to pretend they aren’t
Our system has been coopted by billionaires, corporations, and special interests who have systematically dismantled anything resembling representative government.
As everything falls apart, we’re left to wonder why while conspiracy theories obscure the truth and radicalize.
A massive part of the problem is that so many people focus on the buffoonery and hypocrisy of Donald Trump and ignore the very real and very dangerous illiberal, authoritarian movement that has used him as a battering ram to forward their disciplined agenda.
Trump was able to expose the rotting foundations of our institutions through his shamelessness and recklessness, but behind him is an entire movement of people who don’t necessarily believe in him but see him as incredibly useful in pushing their ideas and plans.
The circus of Trumpism and MAGA is a front that obscures a gathering worldwide movement of illiberal authoritarianism. The ridiculousness manages to allow some people to just dismiss it all as grotesque absurdity instead of looking just behind the curtain at the operation.