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Feb 21 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Manipulative charismatic gurus target emotionally insecure social outcasts, prone to believing conspiracy theories, telling them they are 'special'. Their dangerous cobbled together ideologies invariably include unverifiable psychological theories. Joe Rogan interviews them.
We don't know why Joe Rogan’s podcast has vanished from @Spotify.

What we DO know is that paying $200MILLION to a bloke to chat with people who have controversial OPINIONS tells us more about why capitalism is fucked up than any of his guests ever have.

independent.co.uk/tech/joe-rogan…
And for anyone that believes the likes of Jordan Peterson are in any way going to help working class people, or help save us from a cabal of manipulative & exploitative elites, well, maybe you need open your eyes & ears wider, & dig a little deeper. 👍

We need more (& more nuanced) debate in the media. Currently, THE most controversial/contrarian voices dominate. They're not being "silenced", quite the opposite. We need a much wider range of expert/more representative voices. Capitalism attracts & amplifies THE most polarising.

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Feb 23
#THREAD Putin, Corbyn & Russian money...

In Parliament on March 13th, 2018, after the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, Corbyn drew attention to the Govt “resisting Labour’s amendments to the Sanctions & Anti-Money Laundering Bill that could introduce the so-called Magnitsky powers”.
The @Conservatives responded with cries of “shame” & “disgrace”, which were loudest when Corbyn attacked them for having so many extremely wealthy Russian donors giving them huge amounts of cash.

But ignore the backbenchers, & listen instead to Putin's actual opponents.
What do those brave men & women around the world risking their lives to fight Putin have to say? A cursory look will tell you that what they have to say sounds rather more like Jeremy Corbyn than anything then PM Theresa May or any other Tory at the time had to say on the matter.
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In 'After neoliberalism: analysing the present', Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey & Michael Rustin, the founding editors of Soundings, set out their framing analysis for their 2013 online 'Kilburn Manifesto'. Image
Stuart Hall diagnosed the conjuncture: "The breakdown of old forms of social solidarity is accompanied by the dramatic growth of inequality & a widening gap between those who run the system or are well paid as its agents, & the working poor, unemployed, under-employed or unwell."
In 2013, The Sunday Times Rich List was topped by two Russian oligarchs and an Indian billionaire.

Stuart Hall said "They live a life totally divorced from and almost unimaginable by ordinary people, fuelled by an apparently unstoppable appetite for profit."

Since then, well... Image
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Feb 22
"It’s not just the economy, stupid."

Surveys show that Americans are paying attention to what’s going on with political tensions in Ukraine — more than they would have about past foreign affairs issues.

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The current crisis dovetails with the issue of inflation, but it is also a reminder that we are now in a post-American world, where the US no longer calls all the shots and there are new regional powers including China that are shaping global economics and markets in new ways.
It’s important to start to grapple with all this honestly. Take supply-chain disruptions: many experts predict they’ll abate by the end of the year, and that may be true in the short term. But in reality, supply chains are only at the beginning of a long-term, fundamental change.
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The 'Fed put': if stock markets fall by 20-25%, central banks will ride to the rescue by cutting interest rates & increasing money supply via QE. The logic is that the world has so much debt that failing to act would incinerate the financial system. But...
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Feb 22
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One of the biggest & most urgent problems that Britain faces - which politicians, the press, and the national broadcast media rarely, if ever, discuss - is the constant amplification of extreme and divisive voices, in an increasingly polarising national media. Image
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The source for Jordan Peterson’s claim on the Joe Rogan podcast that 'climate change cannot be modelled' was Fred Singer, a climate science denier who received money from the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank funded by oil companies.

desmog.com/2022/01/28/jor…
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Singer spoke at a 2012 Heartland conference where sponsors received $67MILLION from Exxon, Koch & the Scaife Family Foundations. Image
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