“instead of answering MAGA’s extremism with a #culturewar of their own, the #Democrats should follow Mamdani’s example and concentrate on the #economy.” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d...
MAGA’s Self-Destructive Cultur...
#culture-war — Public Fediverse posts
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“instead of answering MAGA’s extremism with a #culturewar of their own, the #Democrats should follow Mamdani’s example and concentrate on the #economy.” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d...
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#Male–#female: Those are #bourgeois categories, after all. Less #culturewar more #classwar
Don’t let yourselves be fooled by the #EpsteinClass's attention hijackers.
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#Ana GOES OFF Over #Viral Lesbian #Bar Story #tyt #yt #CultureWar #FakeMediaOutrage
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While I was busy fighting myself, the field of battle moved from my insides to the external world.
I know this information isn’t new, but it isn’t fucking fair either. I have better things to do with my gender transition than more fighting. I was planning to learn to sew this year, or maybe get a dog.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/a-trans-woman-finds-the-enemy-outside-541a2442758d?sk=3051dd06ad289b74edf2c4412c0c8ca3 -
Democrats and progressives have gotta learn how to combat it (spoiler: Reason ain’t it) and defeat it, or learn how to do it better than the republicans and conservatives and the rest.
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#Feelings can be weaponized. Feelings are what move us. They’re a status report and interpretation of our internal, visceral state, and of our limbs and head. We don’t like things that cause us pain. We avoid things that cause pain. Someone tells you that something will cause you pain, you won’t like it, you’ll fight it. Can you say, #CultureWar? Racism, all the x-phobias, all the bugbears, are used to instill fear of pain caused by the Other.
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And once again we see
that money rules...🤮 😡‘A maelstrom of his own making’: how Ed Sheeran’s tour turned into a full-blown culture war
Nadia Khomami
Ed Sheeran performing at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Liverpool last year. Photograph: Andy Von Pip/Zuma/Shutterstock
Moment of reckoning for ‘Mr Nice Guy’ of music, who embraced Macklemore’s political cred only for pro-Palestine rapper to be dropped under pressure from billionaire
#FuckCapitalism #Billionaires #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #CultureWar
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(1/2) Fantastic Sunday [PODCAST] - Book launch for “American Caesar: How Theocrats and Tech Lords Are Turning America into a Monarchy” by Brad Onishi.
🎙️ "The Sunday Interview: The Tech-Fascist - Christian Supremacist Alliance"
https://podcasts.wesfryer.com/episode/cArFAnxtjeZz6TS9bbzy
#podcommons #ConCW #ChristianNationalism #extremism #CultureWar #ResistAndHeal #HealOurCulture
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/89424/ Inside the French feasts deemed ‘offensive to Muslims’ #Banquet #BanquetNews #culture #CultureWar #debate #Feast #FOOD #FoodNews #FoodPlatter #France #FranceCulture #FranceNews #FrenchCuisine #FrenchCulture #FrenchFood #Left #Meal #muslim #news #NewsPublisher #Newspaper #Paris #Platter #PoliticalDebate #politics #PorkDebate #Right #Telegraph #TheTelegraph #UKNews #WorldNews
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I don’t think it would be too controversial for me to say here that transphobia is a little bit silly. All the arguments transphobes make are, well, indefensible. They don’t hold up to even the most basic level of scrutiny. It’s all well and good to point this out, but certain other things need to be considered when it comes to discussing transphobia as a political force.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/poverty-transphobia-872f4bbe3056?sk=5f0668eaff814c7e1797739d0c518ebd -
"Hegseth’s culture war fixation disrupting Army progress, sources say
In submitting his resignation, a source familiar said Driscoll brought up 'concerns with the administration surrounding Army transformation and readiness and Hegseth’s blocking those efforts specifically by firing the generals who were responsible.'
(. . .)
Multiple sources agreed with the concerns Driscoll raised: that Hegseth is damaging the Army’s efforts to modernize and adapt to the 21st century battlefield environment – where drone warfare is becoming increasingly important – by firing or pushing out leaders who were spearheading those efforts.
'It’s critical that you have key leaders that understand technology and have the temperament to deal with industry and turn that into the formation,' a former senior Army official said. 'When you fire these guys for arbitrary reasons, it creates confusion and a void … the Army is enduring turbulence right now.'
Senior US military officials have privately acknowledged they have come under what could be characterized as political pressure during Hegseth’s tenure — particularly when he has prioritized culture war issues — and voiced concerns about the secretary’s recent efforts to fire or push out uniformed and civilian leaders.
A defense official in Europe told CNN that even though Hegseth has spoken about technology reform and even previously released guidance on unmanned systems, in practice they see a secretary and Pentagon leadership more focused on cultural issues than modernization."
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/02/politics/hegseths-army-leadership-void-culture-war
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#Pentagon secretly installs #military #influencers in #civilian roles
#Conservative veterans with large #socialmedia followings have been hired by the #Defense Department & are amplifying Pete #Hegseth’s #CultureWar fights.#Trump #propaganda #Trumpaganda #MediaLiteracy
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RE: https://mastox.eu/@mehdirhasan/117154834153380970
The Left lives in the real world, the Right wants to live in its make believe world of white supremacy and misogyny.
Centrists think sitting in the middle is healthy and wise, (but they'll always prefer the Far right over the Left)
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Former NBA players troll WNBA by demanding draft eligibility https://www.rawchili.com/nba/815533/ #AttentionSeeker #Basketball #BiologicalMan #comment #CultureWar #Cunningham #influencer #LastWeek #League #Sport #transgender #TransgenderPlayer #WNBA #WNBAGame #woman #YoungGirl
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Former NBA players troll WNBA by demanding draft eligibility https://www.rawchili.com/5075936/ ##Comment #AttentionSeeker #BiologicalMan #CultureWar #cunningham #influencer #LastWeek #league #NBA #sport #transgender #TransgenderPlayer #WNBA #WnbaGame #woman #YoungGirl
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Former NBA players troll WNBA by demanding draft eligibility
File under “stupid publicity stunt that I shouldn’t even be writing about, but here I am, writing about…
#NewsBeep #News #WNBA #attentionseeker #biologicalman #CA #Canada #comment #culturewar #Cunningham #influencer #lastweek #league #Sport #Sports #transgender #transgenderplayer #WNBAgame #woman #younggirl
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The Last Twelve Percent
Equality, hypocrisy, and the gender war I want equality between men and women. I do not want patriarchy repaired, matriarchy installed, or the whip preserved as a culturally significant artifact and handed to a more deserving sex. I want equal human dignity, equal freedom, equal authority, and equal responsibility. I do not believe equality requires men and women to become psychologically identical, erotically interchangeable, or ashamed of every preference that fails to resemble a […]https://joshua404c.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/the-last-twelve-percent/
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Blog: Here’s Why Conservatives Aren’t Winning the Culture War…
For the past few years, Hollywood has been in free fall, producing flop after flop in the name of appeasing the mythical “modern audience.” However, while some may mourn the drawn-out death of Tinseltown, independent filmmakers are thriving as Hollywood lies in hospice, with numerous indie films – such as Backrooms and Obsession – grossing over a quarter billion dollars. But despite the conditions being ripe to take back the culture by writing stories that actually resonate with people, conservatives have been missing the mark. While some have been able to create good stories worth telling, others have fallen into the same vice that has destroyed Hollywood: mediocrity instead of excellence.
Some of the worst offenders here are from the Dailywire, unfortunately. A few years back, they announced that they were going to fight against Hollywood by producing their own movies and T.V. shows, with the capstone of it all being The Pendragon Cycle (which you can read my initial review of here). A lot of people were excited for it, but when the movies and T.V. shows began coming out, they were either mediocre or were obviously made with Dailywire’s fans in mind.
To start with the mediocre, we should look at The Pendragon Cycle. Having read the books and being a total fantasy nerd, I was excited for this show and hoped for the best. Then, after seeing the behind the scenes of its production, my hopes dwindled, and, after watching it, I felt that several hours of my life had been wasted. It was ridiculously overhyped for what it was, with the pacing being atrocious. From looking at the comments, it seems that only the most loyal Dailywire fans enjoyed the show…and the rest agreed that it was terrible.
Then, there’s the stuff that’s bad because it focused too heavily on the message. The best example of this was the movie Lady Ballers, which, in many ways, was the worst movie Dailywire ever produced. Not only is it a comedy that gets less funny the more you watch it, but it trades several storylines that could have made the movie more interesting for low-hanging gags and jokes. Storylines that could have provided more conflict and tension for the characters were thrown out the window in exchange for the message.
That, of course, leads to the main crux of the issue. It’s not that conservatives are incapable of writing good stories – it’s that those with the money to put these movies and T.V. shows out seem content to pander to the pre-existing audience. They put movies out to a fanbase that already is loyal to them and don’t seem to consider the actual quality of it. They do this by either putting in an overt message or just releasing stuff that would be given a B-rating because they know that their customers will likely eat it up.
This inevitably leads to the ultimate problem: mediocrity over excellence. If you aren’t shooting straight into mediocrity by not caring enough to make a movie worth watching, then you’re going there by focusing on the message over everything else. This is the issue that Hollywood has run into time and time again and is part of why it’s struggling to get out of hospice. For too long, Hollywood focused on including some sort of woke message in its movies to appease critics. To this day, Hollywood still panders to those critics because they are its built-in audience. They are the ones who really decide if it gets an Oscar, after all. If they aren’t doing that, however, they’re often making movies that aren’t worth watching because the story itself is stupid.
Conservatives shouldn’t do that if we want to retake the culture.
Instead, conservatives need to focus on quality over quantity, excellence over the message. We should take note of movies that have that have been universally enjoyed, such as Project Hail Mary, which was successful not for any sort of pandering to critics by putting in a message, but was successful because it told a story that resonates with humanity.
Additionally, instead of solely putting movies out on streaming, conservatives should work to get them out in theaters or on other streaming platforms like Fandango. Part of why we’re not taking back the culture is because a lot of people either can’t afford to or don’t want to pay for yet another subscription to watch a movie. Most people would rather get the movie ticket and have the movie theater experience or watch at home for $5 than pay $10 for a movie, plus a bunch of other stuff they aren’t interested in.
Instead of focusing on pandering to an audience that’s already there, conservatives should consider the people outside of their platforms. They need to produce media that appeals to everyone because it’s objectively good. If we don’t do that, then our mission of taking back the culture is doomed before it even began.
Until next time,
M.J.
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https://youtu.be/xspjsEFFymw?si=HPi6sjocxDODDTiv
“Alles Ist Moglich” -- "Everything is possible".
Sadly, what is now possible is that extreme right politicians will use the language of Hitler and the NSDAP* to wage culture war in Germany.
Hans-Thomas Tillschneider** with his sounding off against the Bauhaus would have been dismissed as a crank twenty years ago. That such people are now coming to power is frightening.
Of course, here in the USA these people are already in power, and showing that their culture war, such as that being waged against the Smithsonian, is all of a piece with the lawless and lethal violence unleashed on the streets of the USA, in the waters of the Caribbean, and from the air over Iran.
Even though I recognize the deep roots of the extreme right in Europe, part of me still hoped that in the continent as a whole and in Germany in particular the memory of earlier horrors would squelch any re-emergence of these movements as serious contenders for power.
Obviously, that hope was misplaced; everything, alas, is possible.
* I write "NSDAP" rather than "Nazi" as I fear that in the English speaking world the latter term is losing its power to horrify .
** Tillschneider was once a member of the FDP. How common is the migration from the FDP to the AfD?
#Politics #Germany #SachsenAnhalt #AfD #Bauhaus #CultureWar #ExtremeRight #HansThomasTillschneider
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Elliot Page is once again under fire from transphobes for the crime of *checks notes* appearing in a major film. I wish I could say I was joking here, but that’s really all this recent wave of backlash to Page from transphobes comes down to.
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A boy had to give up his entire family because the system offered him no other way out of the harm.
The minor can — must — flee, because he cannot sue.
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Je regarde/écoute par morceaux une video (très très longue, plus de 5h, d'où les morceaux) sur le rapport de la droite aux produits animaux : l'économie, la culture, le #racisme, le #masculinisme, le lobbying, la désinformation... c'est une vidéo de type cerveau-cosmique-tout-est-lié, et c'est un travail très impressionnant.
Ça parle surtout des sphères anglo-saxonnes mais vu à quel point elles exportent leurs idées, c'est intéressant pour nous aussi. Sous-titrée (pas automatiques), en anglais.
The Leftist Cooks - Why don't fascists eat vegetables ? https://youtu.be/K35FtbuyTh4
#plantbased #veganism #MRA #climatechange #climateDenial #Meat #Protein #changementclimatique #Fascism #ComplémentsAlimentaire #Supplements #Conspirituality #ProduitsAnimaux #culturewar #ExtrêmeDroite #TheLeftistCooks -
https://www.europesays.com/news/57732/ ‘Odyssey’ translator Emily Wilson rips apart Nolan’s film adaptation #CultureWar #FilmAdaptation #Headlines #homer #MajorCritique #movie #News #Nolan #odysseus #Odyssey #OscarWinningActorLupitaNyongo #poem #script #TopStories #translation #TranslatorEmilyWilson #version #Wilson
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🟢 Cultural Policy Directive | 3/10
🇺🇸Trump orders Smithsonian to post warnings about 'inaccurate' US history
US President Donald Trump has ordered the Smithsonian Institution to post warnings about 'inaccurate' US history. Details of implementation are not yet known.#OSINT #NewsGroup #Trump #Smithsonian #USHistory #CultureWar
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67% of Americans fear political violence in the next year — higher than Russia, China, or Brazil. That's not pessimism bias. That's pattern recognition. by @daylightatheism
#Democracy #AmericanPolitics #CultureWar #Polarization #HumanRights
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https://www.europesays.com/news/55290/ The Odyssey’s Critical And Box Office Success Has Completely Broken Online Chuds Who Forgot Twitter Isn’t Real Life #ChristopherNolan #CultureWar #Headlines #News #TheOdyssey #TopStories #Twitter
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The Odyssey’s Critical And Box Office Success Has Completely Broken Online Chuds Who Forgot Twitter Isn’t Real Life
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The Odyssey’s Critical And Box Office Success Has Completely Broken Online Chuds Who Forgot Twitter Isn’t Real Life
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This kind of politics makes it nearly impossible to work across party lines. How do you find a shared purpose with people that just call you trash or who are busy in their spare time breaking the country apart?
If Findlay’s party forms government with this no sense at the hilt we’re in for a rough time.
Imagine them governing in a crisis? Culture wars are boring.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/07/17/BC-Conservatives-Hire-Alberta-Separatist/
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LGBTQIA+ pop-up club operating in former Sydney church ordered to ‘cease offensive trading’
A new LGBTQIA+ pop-up club at a former church in Sydney’s CBD has closed after being ordered to…
#NewsBeep #News #Australia #AU #catholicchurch #Culture #culturewar #DivinePlayhouse #Lease #LGTBQIA #nightlife #popupclub #popup #Religion #Sydney #sydneycbd
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The vast majority of US citizens are worried about climate change and want the federal government to do more, but at the same time they are not calling for the active phaseout of fossil fuels.
"So this is the moment to do some of the *cultural* work we need to do by making the association of Trump with coal, oil, and gas explicit and relentless, tying fossil fuels to everything voters loathe: Trump's selfishness, his incompetence, his corruption, his dishonesty, his criminality":Genevieve Guenther: https://mailchi.mp/endclimatesilence/the-end-climate-silence-newsletter-hello-again-19885079
#oilAndGas #midTerms #USPol #fossilFuels #cultureWar #climateChange
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That's right. We, the people, stood back & allowed this to happen while pointing fingers & laying blame.
We've all been duped by the Dems vs Reps #CultureWar which distracts us from the #ClassWar.
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Lefties love to try to open the eyes of normies by explaining that the elite have us fighting a culture war to avoid a class war.
I might blow your mind with this, but to a substantial portion of the population, the culture is way more important than class.
