Categories For later read
NOTE: Some exSpecial Forces twitter #Boogaloo bros who call themselves #GoldCorp PMC took part in the reconnaissance tour of Capitol Hill on Jan 5th. They\u2019re scrambling now saying it was for a MoH award ... but they took & distributed these pictures ... https://t.co/tSozlgWs7S pic.twitter.com/l9hI69E8nx
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) January 14, 2021
The current attack on CRT is based on a caricature virtually unrecognizable by actual race scholars. B. Mason @alsoacarpenter gives a careful, detailed rebuttal of the main arguments interacting w/ Carl Trueman\u2019s recent article on the subject. Part 1: https://t.co/bjhz27AUed
— Todd Benkert (@toddbenkert) January 19, 2021
I have screenshots of some choice material, but I have to admit that I stopped taking them because it's virtually all of the book that's transparently bad and ridiculous. Maybe I need to start sharing them anyway.
You can read the whole book for yourself in about four or five hours. It's neither long nor difficult. It's transparently awful and stupid, and it makes a person wonder what people like Bradley Mason are on about trying to bullshit you away from recognizing that.
Here, they say they're skeptical of rights.
This is after saying in the first paragraph that they diverge from the Civil Rights Movement and oppose the liberal order, equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law.
Look at how stupid the questions for deeper exploration are. It's literally making the case for propaganda over truth and then accusing white people of being the only people who confuse the two.
This "thinking" traces back to Critical Theory, The Frankfurt School, Theodor Adorno & ultimately Antonio Gramsci.
parents are tyrants. "parent" is an oppressive class, like rich people or white people.
— Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat) December 14, 2020
The Frankfurt School employed a technique called Critical Theory – a social theory oriented toward critiquing and changing society as a whole.
The point of the theory is to criticize every traditional social institution – and to specifically avoid offering any alternatives – as a means to breaking down Western Culture.
Theodor Adorno wrote the influential book The Authoritarian Personality which argued that anyone who defended traditional culture was a Fascist.
Sound familiar?
Antonio Gramsci was a Marxist theorist and a founding member of the Communist Party of Italy who created the Theory of Cultural Hegemony. And Counter Hegemony.
Gramsci felt that in order to change society, the entire value systems of Societal Institutions must be overturned.
Had PanQuake been in the mix, what could it have done?
The answer is *a LOT*.
I'm going to explain below.
qq that\u2019s a bit of a tangent - i\u2019m sure you\u2019d be interested in these sort of ideas!
— brew (@DrewDiezel) January 28, 2021
we can wage class war on wall st w collective knowledge like that subreddit , so how can we use a platform like @Pan_Quake to further leverage that power? https://t.co/wAAr1NEa4c
Nevermind corporate PR campaigns, digital marketing companies or advertising - NOTHING spreads information faster or more effectively than word of mouth
PanQuake has designed a brand new first-time-ever set of amplification tools that takes word of mouth and puts it on steroids
Example #1: PanQuakes
PanQuakes would have let #wallstreetbets fans, in a series of swift clicks, select the best commentary/info about WSB (either their own messages or others or a combination thereof) & in one click convert them into a single link shareable anywhere on the net
Anyone who clicks on the link (called a PanQuake, the function for which we named the platform) would be taken to a web page with a custom timeline populated with the messages the user had selected to be displayed
ie. no more big tech choosing what we see - now we get to choose!
Example #2: ThunderQuakes
Ppl who were really excited about what #wallstreetbets was doing could choose to expend ThunderQuakes on it. Either by gifting ThunderQuakes points to key WSB accounts, to help them better amplify their messages, or by crafting TQ messages of their own