#diagonalism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #diagonalism, aggregated by home.social.
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Remember the term ”diagonalist” from Naomi Klein?
My thesis is that it’s not really the populist right’s diagonalism that’s a problem. The problem is ALL mainstream left parties are now diagonalists.
Diagonalism is defined as using the talking points of the other side of politics while doing the other. That’s exactly what ”social democrats” are doing all over Europe.
There’s only conservative politics to choose from in the mainstream.
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Remember the term ”diagonalist” from Naomi Klein?
My thesis is that it’s not really the populist right’s diagonalism that’s a problem. The problem is ALL mainstream left parties are now diagonalists.
Diagonalism is defined as using the talking points of the other side of politics while doing the other. That’s exactly what ”social democrats” are doing all over Europe.
There’s only conservative politics to choose from in the mainstream.
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That’s pretty damning; Here are some excerpts of the leaders from the community worst hit by floods from a few years ago.
They rejected ”Biden’s money” which was supposed to go into a flood warning system and funneled most of it into law enforcement instead.
They called also the money ”communist” and coming from a ”tyrannical government” 🤔
https://www.tiktok.com/@nowthisimpact/video/7525901027653078286
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That’s pretty damning; Here are some excerpts of the leaders from the community worst hit by floods from a few years ago.
They rejected ”Biden’s money” which was supposed to go into a flood warning system and funneled most of it into law enforcement instead.
They called also the money ”communist” and coming from a ”tyrannical government” 🤔
https://www.tiktok.com/@nowthisimpact/video/7525901027653078286
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Finally, I am a real blogger because I quoted a dramatic popular movie monologue in a timely post! Find out what it is and learn about fascism in the meantime by following the link belowwwwww. Also, read Doppelganger!
https://kostyn.ca/do-not-engage-ur-fascism-and-naomi-kleins-doppelganger/
You can follow the blog on the Fedi by following @kostyn.ca
#Activism #AntiFascism #Books #diagonalism #Liberation #NaomiKlein #rhetoric #UmbertoEco #UrFascism #blog
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Finally, I am a real blogger because I quoted a dramatic popular movie monologue in a timely post! Find out what it is and learn about fascism in the meantime by following the link belowwwwww. Also, read Doppelganger!
https://kostyn.ca/do-not-engage-ur-fascism-and-naomi-kleins-doppelganger/
You can follow the blog on the Fedi by following @kostyn.ca
#Activism #AntiFascism #Books #diagonalism #Liberation #NaomiKlein #rhetoric #UmbertoEco #UrFascism #blog
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Do not engage: Ur-Fascism and Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger
After the explosion of “Canada’s meat-poisoned eccentric,” in the mid-20 teens, I found myself on the floor of my studio apartment in Aarhus with a pen, spiral-bound notebook, and a pair headphones, determined to figure out what Jordan B(althazar) Peterson was arguing. I desperately wanted to know what was valuable in his argument and above all else, why people who typically looked just like me (white dudes) were so in love with him. So, for hours, I listened to all of his appearances […]https://kostyn.ca/do-not-engage-ur-fascism-and-naomi-kleins-doppelganger-2/
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Writing spree continues!
In this second blog post, I explore how the populist right deals in trafficking ideas from the critical left and reinterpreting them in a different framework.
I end on a positive note that perhaps we should at least recognise the need for solutions on the problem of multinational corporations wielding too much power as unifying the left & right here.
#politics #diagonalism #populism #naomiklein #criticism #amwriting
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Writing spree continues!
In this second blog post, I explore how the populist right deals in trafficking ideas from the critical left and reinterpreting them in a different framework.
I end on a positive note that perhaps we should at least recognise the need for solutions on the problem of multinational corporations wielding too much power as unifying the left & right here.
#politics #diagonalism #populism #naomiklein #criticism #amwriting
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"#Doppelganger is decidedly more personal, more vulnerable, more inward-looking than her previous books. [..] And the new political terms she is engaging with, from sacrifice zones to shadowlands, are deeply relevant to the choices we make as writers and art-makers as well."
#NaomiKlein | #Doppelganger Pt 1
https://tinhouse.com/podcast/naomi-klein-doppelganger/
#conspiracism #diagonalism #disinformation #antivaxx #covid19 #FarRight #NewRight #books
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"The book culminates in an extended discussion of #IsraelPalestine, which Klein reveals to be a potent site of such '#Doppelganger politics,' as the scholar Caroline Rooney has put it, in which #Israel has created its own 'double' of the European nationalism that has oppressed so many Jews, and which allows it to project everything it cannot bear to see about itself onto the Palestinian Other."
https://jewishcurrents.org/naomi-klein-on-israels-doppelganger-politics
#NaomiKlein #books #conspiracism #diagonalism #FarRight #Palestine
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"Klein looks at how '#FarRight movements feign solidarity with the working class, AI-generated content blurs the line between genuine and spurious, and new-age wellness entrepreneurs turned #antivaxxers further scramble our familiar political alliances.' #Doppelganger explores 'what it feels like to watch one’s identity slip away in the digital ether, an experience many more of us will have in the age of AI.' "
https://www.wgbh.org/forum-network/lectures/doppelganger-with-naomi-klein
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"In her new book #Doppelganger Klein uses the fact that she is commonly confused online for a very different writer, #NaomiWolf, who has called #Covid19 vaccine programmes ‘mass murder’, as a device to explore modern themes including online identity, #ConspiracyTheories and the 21st Century supremacy of the ‘personal brand.' "
#NaomiKlein on conspiracies, climate and the 'personal brand'
https://pod.link/794389685/episode/a51008ce1615bc9d814ad06033b5a1f9
#conspiracism #antiscience #disinformation #antivaxxers #diagonalism #books
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"It’s a huge mistake, Klein thinks, to see Wolf in recent years as having ‘lost it’. The New York Times no longer calls her, so she took her followers with her ‘over the edge’, where she found the new and even bigger audience of #VirusDenialists and #AntiVaxxers, wellness gurus and religious fundamentalists.."
Jenny Turner reviews #NaomiKlein's "#Doppelganger"
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n19/jenny-turner/short-cuts
#NaomiWolf #conspiracism #diagonalism #disinformation #Antivaxx #Covid19 #CovidDisinfo #AntiScience #books
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"It’s a huge mistake, Klein thinks, to see Wolf in recent years as having ‘lost it’. The New York Times no longer calls her, so she took her followers with her ‘over the edge’, where she found the new and even bigger audience of #VirusDenialists and #AntiVaxxers, wellness gurus and religious fundamentalists.."
Jenny Turner reviews #NaomiKlein's "#Doppelganger"
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n19/jenny-turner/short-cuts
#NaomiWolf #conspiracism #diagonalism #disinformation #Antivaxx #Covid19 #CovidDisinfo #AntiScience #books