A philosophical "phantasm" is the projection of one's views onto facts, rather than allowing facts to inform one's views. This mechanism facilitates cognitive dissonance.
Interviewer to republicans: “What was the cause of the civil war?”
Watch, Cognitive Dissonance cause sheer ignorance here.👇
@skykiss Years ago, when I was a plant supervisor responsible for hiring with a crew of ~60 people, I came to realize ~10% of the population was unable to perform moderately complex assembly tasks. They just weren't smart enough. Fast forward & I now know why scams, such as the Nigerian prince email scam, are so successful & long lived. The people in that video, apparently ~30% of us, are the people who fall for such scams. I don't know if it's willful stupidity, but it's exasperating.
Shoot a Black Lives Matter protester?
-- Forgiven.
Be a Nazi and walk downtown waving a Nazi flag?
-- Police escort to do so.
Attempt to overthrow the government?
-- Freely run for re-election.
Peacefully protest for Black Lives Matter, or Israel's treatment of the people in Gaza, or against Nazis, or Trump? A beating, jail time, possibly death, and those who do this to you, forgiven.
You may be privy to or unfamiliar with how the ultra-wealthy are taking advantage of the system. Either way, you’ll find this report by @ProPublica to be staggering. The facts are clear: there is a class war, and we’re losing.
“…it demolishes the cornerstone myth of the American tax system: that everyone pays their fair share and the richest Americans pay the most.”
Autocrats in China, Russia are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world. 🚨
These dictatorships around the world have coalesced to promote autocracy - and how some Americans (we see you, Republicans) and Europeans help them.
Lawsuits, threats, and smear tactics have chilled government, academic, & tech-company responses to disinformation.
One could call this a secret authoritarian “plot” to preserve the ability to spread Antidemocratic conspiracy theories, except that it’s not a secret. It’s all visible, right on the surface. Russia, China, & other state actors—Venezuela, Iran, Hungary—work with Republicans to discredit democracy, to undermine the credibility of democratic leaders, to mock the rule of law. They do so with the goal of electing criminal Trump, whose second presidency would damage the image of democracy around the world, as well as the stability of #democracy in #America, even further.
It’s one of the most important resolutions on the docket. Without our voting rights fascism is all but a sure thing. Voter suppression is rooted in racism.
A #constitutionalamendment may seem impossible in this era of hyperpartisanship but ultimately it will benefit everyone. If it isn’t possible to enact it nationally, we should begin the process at the state level.
Does your state constitution guarantee voting rights?
Here’s my take.
I hate what Israel has done to innocent Palestinians.
That we are supplying them the weapons to continue to.
In no way do I support the current policy towards Israel.
I will #VoteBlue because I want to save #America.
Israel is a sovereign nation. It can go fuck itself if it wants to.
I will #VoteBlue for #America.
A protest vote plays to #Trump and fascism.
What emerged in 2 interviews w/ #Trump, & conversations w/more than a dozen of his closest advisers & confidants,were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape #America & its role in the world. To carry out a #deportation operation designed to remove >11M people from the country…he would be willing to build migrant detention camps [#ConcentrationCamps] & deploy the #US#military…
#Trump would let red states monitor #women’s #pregnancies & prosecute those who violate #AbortionBans. He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by #Congress, acc/to top advisers. He would be willing to fire a US Attorney who doesn’t carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking w/a tradition of independent #law enforcement that dates from America’s founding.
Welcome to #America 🇺🇸 where ALL of the major wireless carriers sell customer data to…who are they selling our data to‽ #FCC needs to find out who is buying this data, as it is alarming!
#ATT, #Verizon, #Sprint / #Tmobile (I believe they merged already) are selling our data as if they were #Google. I would not be surprised if various government agencies were buying the info.
'Today, Ancestry announced the free availability of the first comprehensive list of over 125,000 persons of Japanese descent who were unjustly imprisoned between December 1942 and January 1948.'
So is #america doesn't like idea that Chinese govt gets #tiktok data. Presumably this is a jealously thing and that #usa wants it to be American owned so that its government can have access to all that juicy data - as its laws allow, which is why I can't trust American companies with sensitive data.
@artfulrobot
The whole thing is about geopolitics, not data privacy. They don't care about you, your data or your privacy.
They just care about who is the master of the universe....
