The game being played by the "sex is a spectrum" people is to engage in a sleight of hand between the ontological question (what makes this thing what it is), epistemological question (how do we know this thing when we see it), and linguistic question (how do we define the word)

https://twitter.com/hoovlet/status/1953168766319104465

The tactic is to attack the definition by blurring the lines between the primary features that make the object what it is and define its function and the secondary features we use as proxy's for identifying the object when we encounter it "in the wild".

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Leftist activism uses exactly this dynamic as a strategy. The goal is to create hot-takes that generate enormous outrage (IE: Syndey Sweeney ads are fascist) which bait people into reacting by writing response pieces or by dunking on it

This spreads the hot-take everywhere...

https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1950661444749709663

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By using the negative engagement and dunking as free advertising, the leftists is able to provoke more outrage.

They repeat this process until people have outrage fatigue, and the hot take no longer provokes strong reactions, and stating the hot-take no longer causes outrage.

If you hang around leftist circles enough you'll hear the "nazi bar" parable, and this explains how they think about everything.

They don't see themselves as part of being a social movement based on highly controversial and hotly disputed ideas... ...Leftists think their moral values, and social views are just uncontroversial expressions of what is morally right, and leftism is just what you get when everyone is "being kind" and "being a good person."

In their heads, they are the regular crowd at the bar.

The claim that it is an undue burder to ask women to put any effort at all into their relationships with men is a load bearing pillar of woke feminism.

This paper claims that asking women to interpret what men say is a form of "hermeneutic labor" which harms women. The paper argues that hermeneutic labor is the emotionally taxing requirement that women should interpreting what men say and how they feel. It also argues that women act as men's therapists by telling men how they feel, and that women do all the relationship maintenance.

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This "government teacher" doesn't know when America was founded, won't teach students the official curriculum, and teaches kids about activism, anti-racism, and Black Lives Matter.

Woke teachers took over K-12 education and the get funded by grants like these,

A Thread🧵

https://twitter.com/lisamurkowski/status/1945583935028957576

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The entire education system is full of activists, professors, and teachers who believe teaching is a political act, and Social Justice (AKA: woke ideology) should be the foundation of all learning and education.

Many of them are funded by the grants Murkowski wants to protect

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The U.S. Government Accountability Office was designed to be a non-partisan watchdog that Audits government for waste, fraud, and abuse.

However, the GAO has been captured by progressives who are using it to advance to advance their political ideology.

And I have receipts.🧵


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The job of the GAO is to hold government institutions accountable for the way they spend money and carry out their mission. That is, the GAO doesn't decide what policies get implemented, it makes sure the policies government passes get implemented, whatever those happen to be.

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In March this guy farmed 11 million views and 20K RT's by saying an "RFK blackmail story is breaking from multiple angles," while vaguely insinuating the CIA and Pfizer were involved and regurgitating widely available information.

And he hasn't tweeted about it since march...

https://twitter.com/IanCarrollShow/status/1944902659237978215

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His whole game is to take widely available information dug up by other people and use it as a pretext to suggest that various events are caused by powerful interests who "pull the strings," and then make vague and unfalsifiable insinuations regarding who the string pullers are

I don't think the left realizes the degree to which giving puberty blockers and sex-changes to kids who wanted to change genders was a test of moral and intellectual integrity, and that test utterly destroyed the moral and intellectual credibility of everyone who failed it. The people who went along with gender ideology didn't just end up on the wrong side of public opinion, they demonstrated for the whole world that they had no intellectual integrity, moral fortitude, and no ability to stand up for the truth or think for themselves.

Woke leftists think people's conscious beliefs are determined by their cultural environment, so whoever controls the content of the culture controls the consciousness of the masses.

They want to control culture so they can control thought, which is basically the game they're in. They think everyones views are socially/culturally determined; programmed into them by social forces of which they are unaware. Of course, the leftists never think their own views are just culturally determined, or that they have been programmed to be leftists.

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This quote from Chase Strangio (ACLU's transgender lawyer) is a nice example of how the woke left fully adopted the views of the 60's counterculture.
They really believe things like "being trans" are a threat to "the system," and cultural rebellion will lead to revolution. 2/
The woke left and the 1960's counterculture had the same underlying worldview that said the entire culture is a system of ideology that maintains power by brainwashing the masses and socially conditioning people to accept the legitimacy of "the system" and their place in it.

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There is no split on the right.

Almost all of the MAGA base is with Trump and they support Israel over Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iranian Mullah's.

The Israel obsessed crowd and their anti-Semitic fellow travelers are a tiny minority and their influence is a mirage. 2/
MAGA is 77 million Trump voters, almost none of them care about the ideas of the dissident right (alt-right, woke-right,) online influencers. Trumps base is not turning on him and siding with Iranian Islamic terrorists just so online influencers can own the Israeli's...

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The riots happening in LA are not organic or spontaneous.

They're designed to look chaotic to cover up the fact that they're well funded, exceptionally organized, and carried out by well trained activists using intelligent, highly developed tactics.

Here's a primer:


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First, notice the protestors have shields (pic 1)

These types of shields were used by the 2024 pro-Hamas rioters (pic 2), and 2020 BLM rioters (pic 3)

Each shield takes 3 hours to make, and activists spend all day making them (pic 4) That's not spontaneous, it takes planning

In the Trump/Elon dispute Elon represents fiscal reality, Trump represents Political reality.

Elon knows the Unite States is headed toward financial collapse caused by its debt, Trump knows voters will never accept the spending cuts and tax hikes needed to solve the debt crisis. Elon is correct that the United States 36 TRILLION dollar debt will eventually crush the American economy and eat it's budget.

Trump is correct that voters will never accept the tax hikes or spending cuts (especially social security and medicare cuts) needed to pay off the debt.

I think society is returning to the desert of the real.

The social narratives which animated people's lives have lost their power and are dying, and the counter-movements they spawned will (eventually) die alongside them.

We are now living in a decaying hyper-reality... Baudrillard said we're so saturated in representations and images from mass media (T.V., Movies, books, social media, etc) that images become more salient to us and matter more then the real world, so artificial representations become more "real" to us then actual reality itself.

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Woke activists bully people by using social pressure. They publicly shame and attack people to make them feel like all of society is rejecting them.

See the photo below? They want people feel like all of society is doing that to them.

So, Call-outs

A Thread🧵

https://twitter.com/prideukorg/status/1929603104711860550

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Call-Outs and Cancel Culture are related but different. Cancel culture tries to get people fired or de-platformed as a way to punish them economically and professionally in order to silence them.

It uses economic and professional punishment to make people fall in line.

The woke left thinks what is true depends who says it and which side they are on. Only claims made by "COUNTER-HEGEMONIC" people are believed

The woke right thinks what is true depends on who says it and which side they are on. Only claims made by "DISSIDENT" people are believed People keep saying the right can't be woke because wokeness denies objective reality, and the right doesn't deny science and biology the way the left does.

That's wrong.

Once the right adopts the belief that truth is matter of who says it and which side they are on....

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Leftists took over the culture so they could own and control the production and interpretation of *meaning*

They wanted to control culture in order to control meaning, and they wanted to control meaning in order to control thought...and that's the real goal: thought control. 2/
The idea is a pretty simple one, people interpret the world using the concepts, ideas, and frameworks of their culture, so whoever owns the apparatus which produces a societies culture decides which ideas, concepts and frameworks people use to understand the world.

Gen Z women leave the church for the same reason they polarize left.

Intersectional feminism says every belief is socially constructed, and anything claiming to be an absolute universal truth, including Christianity, must be exposed as a social construct through deconstruction,

https://twitter.com/CRInstitute/status/1924812353503219779

The Critical Social Justice (AKA: "woke") worldview (ubiquitous among Gen Z college educated women) adopts the postmodern contention that all beliefs and truth claims are "socially constructed," and are thus contaminated by the interests and biases of those who constructed them.

The woke demoralized minorities and turned them against America by telling them "you can't succeed cause you're black and society hates you"

Derrick Bell (father of Critical Race Theory) told black people that white people get their self-esteem by looking down on black people They fed women and minorities endless blackpills to demoralize them by making them feel like they were trapped in a society that hated them

The woke wanted women and minorities to feel so hopeless and desperate that they could be convinced the only way out was destorying America

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NASA is supposed to be a very serious organization studying space, and it is spending money on:

-DEI programs
-LGBTQ+ employee groups
-"Allyship" training
-Entire departments dedicated to DEI

The corruption of government science agencies by activists:

A Thread 🧵


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NASA is another example of a government science institutions being hijacked by activists who want to use it as a vehicle for advancing their political and social Agenda.

The big push came from "Mission Equity" which was an attempt to embed Critical Social Justice across NASA.

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The United States National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration is funding research about:

-How capitalism is oppressive
-Environmental racism
-Latinx Allyship in Atmospheric sciences
-Latinx community recognition

The corruption of government science agencies,

A Thread 🧵


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The NOAA is supposed to:

-forecast weather
-monitor ocean and atmospheric conditions
-conduct deep-sea exploration
-manage fishing and protection of marine mammals

However, the NOAA now uses it's resources to spread and advance woke politics and ideology