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  1. "How, the men of the #manosphere invariably ask, did we end up here?

    The answer, more often than not, is that #women are not imagined as acting alone. In the #conspiratorial imagination, #femaleautonomy cannot simply emerge from social change, economic independence or shifting norms. It must have been engineered. And once a movement begins searching for hidden engineers – those who corrupt tradition, weaken men, control #media, #finance institutions and dissolve natural hierarchies – it is only a short walk into older and darker territory. The manosphere frequently rediscovers, in updated slang and meme form, the classic architecture of #antisemitism. Women become marionettes, controlled by dark forces pulling the strings behind the scenes. #Jews provide an answer to the question: who designed this system? The manosphere sells wounded men a fantasy of restored power while antisemitism supplies the villain who stole it."

    fathomjournal.org/the-manosphe

  2. "How, the men of the #manosphere invariably ask, did we end up here?

    The answer, more often than not, is that #women are not imagined as acting alone. In the #conspiratorial imagination, #femaleautonomy cannot simply emerge from social change, economic independence or shifting norms. It must have been engineered. And once a movement begins searching for hidden engineers – those who corrupt tradition, weaken men, control #media, #finance institutions and dissolve natural hierarchies – it is only a short walk into older and darker territory. The manosphere frequently rediscovers, in updated slang and meme form, the classic architecture of #antisemitism. Women become marionettes, controlled by dark forces pulling the strings behind the scenes. #Jews provide an answer to the question: who designed this system? The manosphere sells wounded men a fantasy of restored power while antisemitism supplies the villain who stole it."

    fathomjournal.org/the-manosphe

  3. "How, the men of the #manosphere invariably ask, did we end up here?

    The answer, more often than not, is that #women are not imagined as acting alone. In the #conspiratorial imagination, #femaleautonomy cannot simply emerge from social change, economic independence or shifting norms. It must have been engineered. And once a movement begins searching for hidden engineers – those who corrupt tradition, weaken men, control #media, #finance institutions and dissolve natural hierarchies – it is only a short walk into older and darker territory. The manosphere frequently rediscovers, in updated slang and meme form, the classic architecture of #antisemitism. Women become marionettes, controlled by dark forces pulling the strings behind the scenes. #Jews provide an answer to the question: who designed this system? The manosphere sells wounded men a fantasy of restored power while antisemitism supplies the villain who stole it."

    fathomjournal.org/the-manosphe

  4. "How, the men of the #manosphere invariably ask, did we end up here?

    The answer, more often than not, is that #women are not imagined as acting alone. In the #conspiratorial imagination, #femaleautonomy cannot simply emerge from social change, economic independence or shifting norms. It must have been engineered. And once a movement begins searching for hidden engineers – those who corrupt tradition, weaken men, control #media, #finance institutions and dissolve natural hierarchies – it is only a short walk into older and darker territory. The manosphere frequently rediscovers, in updated slang and meme form, the classic architecture of #antisemitism. Women become marionettes, controlled by dark forces pulling the strings behind the scenes. #Jews provide an answer to the question: who designed this system? The manosphere sells wounded men a fantasy of restored power while antisemitism supplies the villain who stole it."

    fathomjournal.org/the-manosphe

  5. "How, the men of the #manosphere invariably ask, did we end up here?

    The answer, more often than not, is that #women are not imagined as acting alone. In the #conspiratorial imagination, #femaleautonomy cannot simply emerge from social change, economic independence or shifting norms. It must have been engineered. And once a movement begins searching for hidden engineers – those who corrupt tradition, weaken men, control #media, #finance institutions and dissolve natural hierarchies – it is only a short walk into older and darker territory. The manosphere frequently rediscovers, in updated slang and meme form, the classic architecture of #antisemitism. Women become marionettes, controlled by dark forces pulling the strings behind the scenes. #Jews provide an answer to the question: who designed this system? The manosphere sells wounded men a fantasy of restored power while antisemitism supplies the villain who stole it."

    fathomjournal.org/the-manosphe

  6. @bulwark A new House subcommittee has been established to finally, at long last, give the #January6th attack on #US #Capitol the investigation #DonaldTrump "thinks it deserves." The new subcommittee’s #Republican members, appointed by #HouseSpeaker #MikeJohnson, have all held #conspiratorial views about what transpired at Capitol that day...#pardons #trump #democracy #lies #history #insurrection #Facts not #lies #fascism #autocracy #trump #rewriting #history to align with his demands. #congress

  7. The #Paranoid Style in American #Politics ( Harper’s 1964)

    American politics has often been an arena for angry minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work mainly among extreme right-wingers who have now demonstrated in the #Goldwater movement how much political leverage can be got out of the animosities & passions of a small minority… I call it the paranoid style … heated #exaggeration, #suspiciousness , & #conspiratorial #fantasy that I have in mind
    #maga

    harpers.org/archive/1964/11/th

  8. [en] How political conspiracy theories start and spread, and why people believe them

    Some systematic background to #conspiracy theories or "#conspiracisms" (Prof. Tyson).

    "I think now we’re just well past the point of no return," says Tyson, who teaches an undergraduate class on conspiracy theories ...

    "Conspiracy theories thrive especially in environments where #uncertainty, ſfear, or #distrust are rampant ..."

    rochester.edu/newscenter/how-d

    #conspiratorial #disinformation #disillusionment #secrecy #suspicion #confirmationbias #illusorypatternperception #uor #universityofrochester

  9. [en] How political conspiracy theories start and spread, and why people believe them

    Some systematic background to #conspiracy theories or "#conspiracisms" (Prof. Tyson).

    "I think now we’re just well past the point of no return," says Tyson, who teaches an undergraduate class on conspiracy theories ...

    "Conspiracy theories thrive especially in environments where #uncertainty, ſfear, or #distrust are rampant ..."

    rochester.edu/newscenter/how-d

    #conspiratorial #disinformation #disillusionment #secrecy #suspicion #confirmationbias #illusorypatternperception #uor #universityofrochester

  10. [en] How political conspiracy theories start and spread, and why people believe them

    Some systematic background to #conspiracy theories or "#conspiracisms" (Prof. Tyson).

    "I think now we’re just well past the point of no return," says Tyson, who teaches an undergraduate class on conspiracy theories ...

    "Conspiracy theories thrive especially in environments where #uncertainty, ſfear, or #distrust are rampant ..."

    rochester.edu/newscenter/how-d

    #conspiratorial #disinformation #disillusionment #secrecy #suspicion #confirmationbias #illusorypatternperception #uor #universityofrochester

  11. [en] How political conspiracy theories start and spread, and why people believe them

    Some systematic background to #conspiracy theories or "#conspiracisms" (Prof. Tyson).

    "I think now we’re just well past the point of no return," says Tyson, who teaches an undergraduate class on conspiracy theories ...

    "Conspiracy theories thrive especially in environments where #uncertainty, ſfear, or #distrust are rampant ..."

    rochester.edu/newscenter/how-d

    #conspiratorial #disinformation #disillusionment #secrecy #suspicion #confirmationbias #illusorypatternperception #uor #universityofrochester

  12. [en] How political conspiracy theories start and spread, and why people believe them

    Some systematic background to #conspiracy theories or "#conspiracisms" (Prof. Tyson).

    "I think now we’re just well past the point of no return," says Tyson, who teaches an undergraduate class on conspiracy theories ...

    "Conspiracy theories thrive especially in environments where #uncertainty, ſfear, or #distrust are rampant ..."

    rochester.edu/newscenter/how-d

    #conspiratorial #disinformation #disillusionment #secrecy #suspicion #confirmationbias #illusorypatternperception #uor #universityofrochester

  13. They Asked #ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.

    #GenerativeAI #chatbots are going down #conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort #reality.
    #ai #conspiracy

    nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technol

  14. What Trump, Putin & Orbán Understand About Your Brain

    #Lying, #conspiratorial thinking might seem 2 different problems, but they're related

    I study political rhetoric & work to understand how populists use language to develop cult-like following, divide nations, create culture wars & instil hatred. This pattern goes back to antiquity

    politico.com/news/magazine/202

    #dictators #cults #authoritarian #HybredWar #disinformation #oppression

  15. Donald Trump's #mental #state appears to have further #deteriorated since last night’s news about a new grand jury’s #superseding #indictment of him on charges of trying to overthrow the 2020 presidential election.

    Over the course of about four hours this morning, Trump #posted #50 #times on his social media platform, mostly reposting material that was associated with #QAnon, #violent, #authoritarian, or #conspiratorial

    🔸He suggested he is “100% INNOCENT,” and that the indictment is a “Witch Hunt.”
    🔸He called for trials and jail for special counsel Jack #Smith, former president Barack #Obama, and the members of Congress who investigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
    🔸And he reposted a sexual insult about the political careers of both Vice President Kamala #Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary #Clinton.

    Meanwhile, Trump’s campaign has today escalated the fight about Trump’s photo op Monday at #Arlington #National #Cemetery, where campaign staff took photos and videos in Section 60, the burial ground of recent veterans, apparently over the strong objections of cemetery officials.

    Then the campaign released photos and a video from the visit attacking Harris. 

    A statement from the Arlington National Cemetery reiterated:
    ♦️“Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate's campaign. ♦️
    ⭐️Arlington National Cemetery reinforced and widely shared this law and its prohibitions with all participants.
    We can confirm there was an incident, and a report was filed.”

    Arlington National Cemetery was established on the former property of General Robert E. Lee in 1864,
    after the Lee family did not pay their property taxes.
    At the time, Lee was leading Confederate forces against the United States government, and those buried in the cemetery in its early years were those killed in the Civil War.
    The cemetery is one of two in the United States that is under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army, and it is widely considered hallowed ground.  

    heathercoxrichardson.substack.

  16. “An important dynamic of people falling into a #conspiratorial milieu is how such theories can help rationalize difficulties an individual may be experiencing by flattening complexity and providing answers that soothe and distract from uncomfortable realities. (2/4)

  17. #TIL #TodayILearned #Religiosity and #Conspiratorial #Beliefs were strongly linked in a Baylor University study

    news.web.baylor.edu/news/story

    - The intersection of religion and politics makes the discrete religion effect on conspiratorial thinking hard to concisely determine, and we must note that there are lots of different types and expressions of religiosity.

    1/3

  18. Donald Trump's attacks on prosecutors are increasingly conspiratorial and authoritarian in style and threaten the rule of law, say former justice department officials.

    Ex-officials and other experts say Trump’s campaign and social media bashing of the four sets of criminal charges – echoed in ways by his lawyers’ court briefs – are actually a hodgepodge of conspiracy theories and very tenuous legal claims, laced with Trump’s narcissism and authoritarian impulses aimed at delaying his trials or quashing the charges.

    Much of Trump’s animus is aimed at the special counsel Jack Smith, who has charged him with four felony counts for election subversion, and 40 felony counts for mishandling classified documents when his presidency ended.
    #conspiratorial #authoritarian #narcissism

    theguardian.com/us-news/2024/j

  19. 👀

    Inside #Trump's Plot To #Corrupt the 2024 #Election With #GarbageData

    OF ALL THE STRANGE, #conspiratorial, and potentially dangerous #theories Donald Trump and his allies came up with in the days after the #2020 election, this was the strangest, the most conspiratorial, the most potentially #dangerous.

    rollingstone.com/politics/poli

  20. 👀

    Inside #Trump's Plot To #Corrupt the 2024 #Election With #GarbageData

    OF ALL THE STRANGE, #conspiratorial, and potentially dangerous #theories Donald Trump and his allies came up with in the days after the #2020 election, this was the strangest, the most conspiratorial, the most potentially #dangerous.

    rollingstone.com/politics/poli

  21. 👀

    Inside #Trump's Plot To #Corrupt the 2024 #Election With #GarbageData

    OF ALL THE STRANGE, #conspiratorial, and potentially dangerous #theories Donald Trump and his allies came up with in the days after the #2020 election, this was the strangest, the most conspiratorial, the most potentially #dangerous.

    rollingstone.com/politics/poli

  22. 👀

    Inside #Trump's Plot To #Corrupt the 2024 #Election With #GarbageData

    OF ALL THE STRANGE, #conspiratorial, and potentially dangerous #theories Donald Trump and his allies came up with in the days after the #2020 election, this was the strangest, the most conspiratorial, the most potentially #dangerous.

    rollingstone.com/politics/poli

  23. 👀

    Inside #Trump's Plot To #Corrupt the 2024 #Election With #GarbageData

    OF ALL THE STRANGE, #conspiratorial, and potentially dangerous #theories Donald Trump and his allies came up with in the days after the #2020 election, this was the strangest, the most conspiratorial, the most potentially #dangerous.

    rollingstone.com/politics/poli

  24. Ngl #antisemitism is a skeleton key that opens up a lot of #conspiratorial #rightwing thinking, it is at least vacuous and at worst irresponsible to explore most #reactionary #conspiracy #theories without understanding how deep the Protocols of the Elders of Zion #brainrot truly goes

  25. People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Psychological Features - Scientific American (March 2019)

    Baseless theories threaten our safety and #democracy It turns out that specific emotions make people prone to such thinking

    The dangerous consequences of the #conspiratorial perspective—the idea that people or groups are colluding in hidden ways to produce a particular outcome—have become painfully clear.
    #ConspiracyTheories

    scientificamerican.com/article

  26. Okay, so in case people have not noticed, anti-science #activism is rearing its ugly head in the US.

    The current #conspiratorial & political #myth-making class (GOP, rightwing ideologues, grifting influencers, etc...) has identified #science as an obstacle to its ambitions for dominance.

    The main reason is that science plays an important social role in society, it disrupts the convenient stories we tell ourselves, and the narratives of the powerful who seek to #manipulate with fiction.

  27. " Nobody becomes a #billionaire by accident. You have to have wanted that level of power, control & wealth more than you wanted anything else in your life. They all sacrifice family, relationships, stability, community, connection, and belonging in service of keeping score on a scale that actually yields no additional real-world benefits on the path from that first $100 million to the tens of billions.

    This makes billionaires "a cohort that is, counterintutively, very easily manipulated." And they're all #manipulators
    and hang out together, which means that when a #conspiratorial belief takes root in one billionaire's brain, it spreads to the rest of them like wildfire.

    Then, billionaires "push each other further and further into extreme ideas because their entire careers have been predicated on the idea that they're genius outliers who can see things others can't, and that their wealth is a reward for that imagined merit."

    2/2
    anildash.com/2023/02/27/tycoon

    Summary: Corey Doctorow
    pluralistic.net/2023/07/15/in-

  28. @rbreich You'd think all the big #corporations would jump at raising the #minimumwage, so they can blame it for #inflation. I mean, sure, they have to look like they're against it, but behind the scenes, they'd do what they can to make it happen. Or am I being too #conspiratorial?

  29. My insight via an #altright friend is he really believes he's fighting for the right thing, can find reasonable justification and argument for every position, and is terrible with people. Highly rational, he sees things in black and white and absolutes. The grey, the fuzziness, uncertainty, the mess of human interaction, is not well understood. #Conspiratorial in thinking, it says a lot about his world view that all actions are seen through a #grifters mindset, as if all individuals exist only to enrich themselves at the expense of others. It can be a seductive way of thinking, as it offers a rubric through which to make sense of #chaos, but I know it doesn't make him happy or hopeful.

    I've stepped away, given him some distance, as I can feel it pulling me down when I engage. Anyone who tells you they have a grand unifying theory for #humanity is probably selling you something! (often pillows, it turns out!)

  30. @MusiqueNow
    PAUL MASON’S COVERT intelligence-linked plot to destroy #TheGrayzone exposed

    thegrayzone.com/2022/06/07/pau

    Their above headline is too reserved. Try 'TROVE OF EMAILS reveals inept #legacyMedia, stumbling in the #conspiratorial dark to engage their own sordid #conspiracy - doing harm to the global community and #journalism.

    Even #Bellingcat is exposed by the insider as "intel service input by proxy"!

    The #EmpireOfLies had a long run, folks.

    #amilKhan #ninaJankowicz #andyPrice #bBC