The US Department of Education (USDOE) was established in 1979, bringing unprecedented federal oversight to American schools. This shift centralized control of education and created The One Ring to rule them all.

A 🧵 The story starts with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965. This act aimed to reduce educational disparities by directing federal funds to low-income schools, effectively increasing the federal government’s leverage in K-12 education.

We need to talk about this.

The biggest issue in helping people realize how corrupt our institutions have become is language. Unless an organization comes out and says, "We're practicing Critical Race Theory," people struggle to identify the rot.

DEI is the tip of the 🧊

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https://twitter.com/LeadingReport/status/1852170424475431161

It was a tremendous amount of work to help people understand that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is something that breaks institutions; something that eliminates color-blind meritocracy in favor of identity-based redistribution and endless Woke accommodation.

Ten Stages of Woke "Social" Genocide.

We're in the "denial" stage now. This could have (and still could) turn material in a heartbeat.

https://twitter.com/Ne_pas_couvrir/status/1851606171066446028

1. Classification
Society is divided into groups based on identity politics. People are categorized by race, gender, sexuality, or perceived privilege, creating a rigid hierarchy of oppression.

Most people don't realize they're in the middle of a war. They don't realize it because they're victims of 5th-Generation Political Warfare.

The election is one week away, so let's understand 5GPW:

🧵 5GW focuses on psychological manipulation, targeting perceptions and altering reality for the targeted population. It's not about defeating the enemy on some physical battlefield but controlling their understanding of the conflict itself.

Yuri Bezmenov, a former KGB informant, warned about ideological subversion as a long-term strategy to destabilize a target society. Subversion includes psychological warfare and cultural takeover. Yuri described four stages of the subversion process: Demoralization, Destabilization, Crisis, and Normalization. Each stage gradually weakens a nation's ideological and institutional foundations.

In psychological warfare, the goal is to manipulate public perception through targeted psychological operations (PSYOPs) to achieve strategic outcomes. @RobertMSterling just had a great post about this.

Operation Heil Mary is in full effect. This is what it's looking like: Trump is linked to Hitler through repeated messaging. Repetition is a well-known propaganda technique that ingrains an idea in the public's mind.

They've done this to him forever, but the goal is to have this message be the last thing in the voter's mind at the booth.

Tonight, for no reason at all, it makes sense to explain desperation.

For fun, and for no particular reason, let's look at what desperation might look like for a politician losing a race.

🧵 They'll make erratic decisions.

Desperate people often make hasty or impulsive choices, abandoning long-term strategies for immediate relief.

Yesterday we covered Rules for Radicals. Today we cover Beautiful Trouble, an updated set principles for a new generation.

Here's 18 principles you should be aware of.

The election is two weeks away. Understand the playbook and keep your wits about you!

🧵 1. "Brand or be branded"—If you don’t control your narrative, others will. “If you decline to brand yourself, you leave an opening for other people — including enemies — to brand you instead”

As we enter the final weeks before the election, it's a good time to remind everyone of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.

There is potential for a lot of radicalism with either election outcome. Have your wits about you by understanding the playbook.

🧵 "Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have." Perception is crucial; make your opponent overestimate your resources.

Fun fact, btw: The book is dedicated to Lucifer.

Critical Constructivism argues that knowledge is constructed by those in power. In this frame, if Jews are seen as the dominant power group, a critical constructivist epistemology would argue that modern knowledge and cultural narratives are constructed to serve their interests. Through this lens, one might question the liberal values of secularism, human rights, and democracy as constructs designed by those in power to maintain control. Liberalism, under *critical* scrutiny, is revealed as a system that ultimately steers society toward communism.

In 1966, Richard Cloward & Frances Fox Piven published an article in The Nation magazine outlining a strategy to force the US government to create a basic universal income by overwhelming the welfare system.

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https://twitter.com/LoganLancing/status/1848009259692314856

They argued that forcing more people onto the welfare rolls would create such massive bureaucratic disruption and strain on local & state budgets that a national solution would be inevitable.

This was well received, which makes me wish I would have included "Mclaren's masterpiece" in the thread:

Pedagogy of Insurrection: From Resurrection to Revolution

I first read this a few years back, and it floored me. Here are some notes:

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https://twitter.com/LoganLancing/status/1847649459401843059

Revolutionary critical pedagogy seeks to create critically minded (marxist) citizens who can challenge (disrupt) and change (dismantle) capitalist societies. It pushes back against neoliberal education that prioritizes the market and consumerism.

I want to discuss a paper this morning, one that helped me understand the merger of Critical Theory with Postmodernism.

Peter McLaren's "Critical Pedagogy and the Postmodern Challenge" (89')

🧵 The paper's central argument was this:

We live in the wake of Postmodernism. PoMo argues that grand narratives (big stories about progress/history) are broken. Meaning is slippery, identity fluid, and everything fragmented. This creates unique challenges for fighting oppression.

This is a great question that others may find helpful.

Firstly, if you're going to adopt this approach, you should consider whether the facilitator is a person who is just vomiting info from some whack certification they earned or a person who does DEI professionally.

https://twitter.com/misterposts/status/1847091436136640985

This approach only works on the professional grifters. The poor people facilitating something mandatory because they're forced to won't have answers to these questions, and, for many reasons, the approach likely won't work.

People often stumble when trying to wrap their heads around what a cult is. Cults are defined more by what they DO than what they BELIEVE.

Understanding this distinction is crucial.

🧵 Cults are fundamentally more about their actions and the methods they use to enforce their beliefs than the beliefs themselves. It's the practices, the strict adherence to doctrine, and the enforcement mechanisms that set them apart from weird or whacky groups and communities.

Imagine you’re in a room filled with windows, each offering a view of the landscape outside. One person looks through a window and says, "The landscape is exactly what it appears to be—mountains, trees, rivers, just as I see them." They believe that anyone who looks through the same window will see the same view. With careful observation and clear reasoning, they are confident that they can fully discern and understand the landscape.

Yesterday's thread was well received, so here's Joe Kincheloe's 10 central tenets of Critical Constructivism, i.e. "Woke." 1. "The world is socially constructed—what we know about the world always involves a knower and that which is to be known. How the knower constructs the known constitutes what we think of as reality."

Critical Constructivism is a Marxist education theory claiming knowledge is socially constructed through power, not discovered as truth. Its roots trace back to Kant and Hegel, who first argued that what we perceive is shaped by our minds, not an objective reality. Kant argued that the mind imposes structures—like space and time—on reality, meaning humans can never perceive the world as it truly is. This idea—that truth is subjective—was taken further by Hegel, who claimed truth evolves through historical contradictions.

Feeling frisky, so let's flesh this out; 🧵

Kant’s “Copernican revolution” in philosophy argues that we don’t discover the world as it is; we construct it. Kant leads directly to the principles of critical constructivism, i.e. "Woke"

https://twitter.com/LoganLancing/status/1841850732154155031

2/ Kant says our knowledge doesn’t conform to external objects; instead, the objects of our experience conform to our knowledge. This subjective turn means we can't access "things in themselves"—only the appearances shaped by our own cognitive frameworks​.

Many atill think Rousseau was an enlightenment thinker, but his legacy lives through Kant, Hegel, and Marx. Why? Because at its core, Rousseau’s philosophy promotes the idea of unlimited Man and unlimited government—a radical departure from Enlightenment liberalism. 2. Enlightenment liberalism focused on limiting government to protect individual rights. Rousseau flipped this: he saw government as the instrument to bring about a moral transformation, where individual freedom is subsumed into the “general will.” Sound familiar?

The 7 Hermetic Principles of Critical Constructivism [Woke]

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