#populism — Public Fediverse posts
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'worldview, including beliefs and opinions, starts to form during childhood as you’re socialized within a particular cultural context. It gets reinforced over time by the social groups you keep, the media you consume, even how your brain functions...For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity and can cause them to harden their position. Here’s some of the research that explains why it’s natural to resist changing your mind – and how you can get better at making these shifts'
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'worldview, including beliefs and opinions, starts to form during childhood as you’re socialized within a particular cultural context. It gets reinforced over time by the social groups you keep, the media you consume, even how your brain functions...For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity and can cause them to harden their position. Here’s some of the research that explains why it’s natural to resist changing your mind – and how you can get better at making these shifts'
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'worldview, including beliefs and opinions, starts to form during childhood as you’re socialized within a particular cultural context. It gets reinforced over time by the social groups you keep, the media you consume, even how your brain functions...For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity and can cause them to harden their position. Here’s some of the research that explains why it’s natural to resist changing your mind – and how you can get better at making these shifts'
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'worldview, including beliefs and opinions, starts to form during childhood as you’re socialized within a particular cultural context. It gets reinforced over time by the social groups you keep, the media you consume, even how your brain functions...For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity and can cause them to harden their position. Here’s some of the research that explains why it’s natural to resist changing your mind – and how you can get better at making these shifts'
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'worldview, including beliefs and opinions, starts to form during childhood as you’re socialized within a particular cultural context. It gets reinforced over time by the social groups you keep, the media you consume, even how your brain functions...For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity and can cause them to harden their position. Here’s some of the research that explains why it’s natural to resist changing your mind – and how you can get better at making these shifts'
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/89539/ Saxony-Anhalt poll: ‘A huge blow for the CDU, but also a huge win for the AfD’ • FRANCE 24 English #Brexit #DonaldTrump #elections #Europe #FarRight #France #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FRANCE24Guest #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FriedrichMerz #Germany #Germany'sAfDParty #populism
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/89444/ ‘We’re all in crisis’: Populist far-right ‘trend’ sweeping across Europe • FRANCE 24 English #Brexit #DonaldTrump #elections #Europe #FarRight #France #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FRANCE24Guest #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FriedrichMerz #Germany #Germany'sAfDParty #populism
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AfD’s historic win splits European opinion.
Alternative for Germany won 43.8% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, more than double its showing five years ago in the region of 2.1 million people west of Berlin.
AfD’s landslide victory has drawn celebration from Europe’s populist right and a sharp condemnation from Poland’s prime minister.
#Germany #Elections #AfD #Politics #Poland #FarRight #Populism
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https://www.europesays.com/be/36430/ Boss of Orbán-backed MCC Brussels quits, saying staff have not been paid – POLITICO #Brussels #elections #Finance #HungarianPolitics #Hungary #Migration #PéterMagyar #populism #Rights #Tanks #Transparency #ViktorOrban
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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
-- H. L. Mencken⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HLMencken #Politics #Populism #Stupidity
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico
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The Bizarre Debate Over Europe’s Air Conditioning (/Prof Gio | Giordano Scarciotti)
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The Bizarre Debate Over Europe’s Air Conditioning (/Prof Gio | Giordano Scarciotti)
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🤦🏻♀️ In Denmark, the Center Did Not Hold
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/denmark-social-democrats-centrism-elections/
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I recently read a couple of Elmore Leonard crime novels -- "Riding the Rap" and "Out of Sight".
I don't read that much contemporary fiction, nor do I have a deep background in crime fiction as a genre, so you'll have to make do with the remarks of a relatively ill informed reader.
I can see why Leonard is a both popular and respected writer. He knows how to structure a gripping narrative, and his dialogue rings true.
On a more critical note, I can imagine these two novels providing future students of US culture with material for a study of the anxieties and aspirations of middle class white men in an America seemingly riven with disorder.
In "Riding the Rap", Leonard's background as a writer of westerns comes across; the US marshal protagonist brings order to a lawless frontier by acting on his own initiative rather than a mere agent of a federal bureaucracy. Here though, the frontier is no longer in the west, but in Florida, and the threatening nonwhite others are no longer American Indians but a Puerto Rican hitman and a Black Bahamian immigrant who, as part of his assimilation to Black America, adopted an Islamic name.
Leonard's depiction of racial attitudes intersects with his representation of socioeconomic class distinctions. The two nonwhite criminals act for a while as henchmen to a drink and drug addled wealthy white playboy, whose kidnapping plan drives the plot forward. His exploitation of his senile mother's wealth and the revelation of her ugly racist attitudes point to the class and status tensions that exist between a decadent white upper class and the Appalachian coalmining heritage of the US marshal protagonist.
These racial and white populist themes recur in "Out of Sight", where middle aged, middle class, white bank robbers are contrasted with African American home invaders, the latter being characterized by their cruelty, treachery, idleness, lust, and greed.
In both novels the middle aged male protagonist beds a much younger female character; some readers might find these glimpses of the fantasy life of ageing men unintentionally ludicrous.
I think I'll reserve final judgment on Leonard until I've read another of his books. "Swag" is supposed to be good, but neither my local second bookstore nor my libraries have it available at the moment, and I don't want to pay full price for it.
#Books #ElmoreLeonard #USLiterature #CrimeFiction #RidingTheRap #OutOfSight #Race #Racism #Populism #USCulture
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Pierre Poilievre already limits journalists to one question with no follow up so as to control rhe narrative and record clickbait for his fascist “X” followers.
His vitriol for left wing “radical woke” media now has him banning all press but his loyalist partisan groups.
Make no mistake, this is straight out of Trump’s playbook. Pierre will defund the #CBC while boosting right wing #RebelNews and other partisan media as our only “acceptable” Canadian news sources.
#PierrePoilievre has fully embraced the populist division of Canadians as his key winning strategy.
Those of us who continue to question his motives or intentions are soon to be ignored and banished from his palace if he is given power.
Under Poilievre’s Canada, those deemed “woke” will be targeted and discriminated against as part of Conservative policy, with no questions allowed.
This is not my Canada. This is not my Prime Minister.
#JustLikeTrump #JustLikeADictator #NeverVoteConservative #JustLikeFascists #HateCampaign #discrimination #populism #waronwoke #waronpublicmedia #NoQuestions #NoTransparency #NoSecurityClearance #cdnpoli #canpoli
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Croatia populist president re-elected in landslide https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/croatia-populist-president-re-elected-in-landslide/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AndrejPlenković #Croatia #Croatiaelections #populism #Russia
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The modern politician is less interested in being a hero than a superstar. Heroes walk alone; stars derive their status from approbation. Heroes are defined by inner values, stars by consensus. When a candidate's views are forged in focus groups and ratified by television anchorpersons, insecurity and superficiality become congenital. Radicalism replaces liberalism, and populism masquerades as conservatism.
-- Henry Kissinger⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HenryKissinger #Heros #Politics #Populism
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico
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#BangkokPost #editorial
" #Thaksin's proposal sounds good on a pamphlet, but it #needsmorework to ensure #fairness for all. The use of #publicfunds to fulfil an #unreasonable #populist #policy where only certain groups will benefit is #inappropriate. The era of #populism, in which #politicians just make big #promises without showing clear plans & a source of funding, should be over. Populist policies must come with thorough #explanations of where the money will come from"
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A Populist Got Shot
German Vice Chancellor Habeck asks the #fckAfD for verbal disarmament...
https://medium.com/@silkester/a-populist-got-shot-74a2476805c3#RobertFico #Habeck #VerbalDisarmament #Populism #RightWingExtremism #PoliticalViolence #AssassinationAttempt #StochasticTerror #Politics #PoliticalClimate #Democracy #Fascism