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Jun 11, 2023Liked by Caroline Orr Bueno

Excellent reporting as usual.

Seems to me this is all part of the same conflict in Ukraine. Its fascism vs democracy. These goons have been aligning behind the scenes for nearly a decade now.

Welp, we’ve reached a critical moment again - will our democracy and rule of law succeed or will it break down, and the world order with it?

https://radmod.substack.com/p/clearly-defining-putins-hybrid-wwiii

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Thank you for reading, and yes, I think you are right that we are facing many of the challenges as Ukraine -- they're just manifesting differently. I think is a global challenge, and probably the greatest of our era.

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Jun 11, 2023Liked by Caroline Orr Bueno

Long view: we’re in it. Short view: I think we’re winning. Love will out.

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Ugh. We need to start anti-cult training in schools or something (then again, one more thing for them to ban). Waiting for them to put down the KoolAid and wake TF up. xo

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We do have anti-cult training in schools. Its called critical thinking. That’s why they have begun dismantling public education. Ugh is right.

We’ll win though. Love will out.

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Can I remind everyone of Texas GOP deciding to deliberately not teach HOTS, higher order thinking skills, because they might cause kids to argue back.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/texas-gop-rejects-critical-thinking-skills-really/2012/07/08/gJQAHNpFXW_blog.html

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...and you don't see this "These goons have been aligning behind the scenes for nearly a decade now" as conspiracy paranoia ? corrosion of reality by manufactured narratives? How is your tribalism gloss "his is all part of the same conflict in Ukraine. Its fascism vs democracy" any more objective ? The author writes about informational voids being filled with manufactured content, isn't that what you're doing here now? --> https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/kate-middleton-and-the-fracturing

Tribalism and mythmaking, consensus manufacture, sloganeering happens in every tribe/community. Sometimes it does not even need an informational void. We've all met people who were plainly deranged on some particular POV. Millenarian christians praying for the end days, and telling tales about Israeli red heifer breeding program, for instance. Antivax, anti fluoridation, antiglobalist, antifascist, tyhey all do this. Now you.

Of course absence of evidence is no evidence of absence, but your all-inclusive gloss? just like theirs.

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