This is going to use politicized terms - especially with antisemitism lately - so, again, you've got to exercise a basic, basic skill of disinformation: holding an idea in your head without believing it
What you're seeing here is a sus #nafofella profile tying us to al-Qassam🧵
What just happened was a parliamentary shake-up - I'm not going to pretend to understand the details - that resulted in a very, very far-right government in Israel.
So it shouldn't be a surprise how Ben-Gvir feels about HAMAS or for that matter al-Qassam. m.facebook.com/ibengvir/photo…
Understanding the strategy he's using requires, again, suspending some level of whether or not you agree with Ben-Gvir or the US & Israel's treatment of HAMAS.
A direct juxtaposition makes it somewhat clearer.
The upshot here is that for some reason NAFO is becoming somewhat of a football - for at least one rather sus account - in Israeli right-wing politics' strategies of enemy-creation and "other"-ing.
By way of context here, Ben-Gvir saying Ha'aretz is a HAMAS rag is roughly equivalent to....
I don't know, Farage maybe?
...saying The Guardian is, like, a pinko commie rag
One, what this says about right-wing politics in general and Israeli right-wing politics,
Two, what this suggests about how the Israeli right feels about NAFO and, by extension, NATO and supporting Ukraine in Russia's war against it
Three, the way that NAFO is becoming - as other #nafoFellas have noted - like antifa or BlackLivesMatter, kind of a catch-all term for any digital grassroots anti-propaganda you don't like.
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There are three parts of an argumentative act in Platonic theory:
- logos, its logical grist
- ethos, the manner in which it's delivered
- pathos, its emotional appeal component
Harris' primary task in her DNC speech was ethos: she had to show she can be Presidential.
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So the really interesting thing that's happening here is the "solution" that Harris finds to a frankly ferociously unenviable problem to me, portraying a 'plausible', believable President that you could vote for, while avoiding two very common tropes applied to female speakers.
I've seen female debaters come up with a lot of different solutions for this, in college and in high school; my sister was one of them, so were the kids I worked with in my debate app company.
Kamala Harris is doing something different here than other solutions I've seen.
Used to run a debate startup before I did this political thing for money. The reason why I switched was this advice I got that I'll share with you:
It's all about the community
This is sort of opaque without context so let me provide that -
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Back in December of '17 I knew a couple of things the rest of the world didn't know about the special election in Alabama for a U.S. Senate seat that had just happened.
In March of '18 the rest of the world found out one of them. archive.is/SXaBD
I also knew the people who did this, though I didn't know what they were doing; just that they were part of a loose network of political operatives working Alabama because it was a flashpoint.
Nearly a year later I found out along with the rest of the world.
The question is, where do we run @ResponsibleFP advertisements using the Make America Joyful Again cat (or just "joy cat") if we're looking to maximize our impact?
Start from paths to victory; there are three paths to victory to look at, two for Harris and one for Trump.
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Path 1 is "blue wall states" plus one part of Nebraska.
Path 2 is, flip a Sun Belt state. If Harris loses one or even multiple Blue Wall states but carries a state like AZ, NC or Nevada (where Sen. Rosen (D, NV) is up by two-digit numbers in polls), she can win.
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Trump has somewhat less "optionality" compared to Harris.
His "critical path" looks like he has to carry win two states, Pennsylvania and Georgia, to make 270, while holding every state he has a lead in, and losing the states that are going Harris' way.
It's interesting maybe even useful to go into why MAGAs are so obsessed with that one photo of a crowd in Michigan that they think is photoshopped or AI-generated.
In summary, it's because of the fundamental lie of MAGA's popularity that they have to keep up.
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There are recurrent lies that entities like MAGA, Russia, or Boeing have to keep up - indeed, telling these lies is how they sustain themselves and survive, it's how they exploit the audiences they lie to.
These lies are repeated, basic violations of 'felicity conditions'
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When we talk, so the theory goes, we agree tacitly to conditions, one of which is "do not state that which you know to be untrue or is unsupported by evidence". If I keep breaking that rule, then... why would you listen to me?
I asked a volunteer, someone I only know on the Internet, to make a looping GIF from the components of the image I gave them and go "dealer's choice" on the result
We were sort of debating whether animating the arms was worth it; it turns out, it was.