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#radicalizing — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #radicalizing, aggregated by home.social.

  1. There's a great article up by @cwarzel in The Atlantic about The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House X Account. It's a scary but thoughtful analysis of a grim societal trend, focusing specifically on how intensification is implemented via the ex-bird site, lately a cesspool of distilled toxicity from which many still regularly feed.

    ESPECIALLY the part in Warzel's article about ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) made me shudder. The article is worth reading for that part alone.

    (His post at BlueSky, which I've linked below, has what I think may be a gift link.)

    bsky.app/profile/cwarzel.bsky.

    #sociopathy #evil #fascism #escalation #asmr #radicalizing #StochasticTerror #StochasticTerrorism #weaponizing #USPolitics #politics

  2. the thing ppl are reluctant to admit about the young #boys #radicalizing into #hypermisogyny situation is the broad existence of a #culture that encourages young boys to "entirely differentiate themselves from #girls" where this differentiation relies on #dominating #women in general

    girl here literally becoming synonymous with weak, lesser, and with the expectations of particular forms of labour. it's not simply that it exists absent of the social...

    – @bloomfilters

    x.com/bloomfilters/status/1878

  3. > Soufan urged lawmakers to take the threat more seriously. The (next) month, 40 members of Congress signed a letter calling—unsuccessfully—for the US #StateDepartment to designate Azov a (…) #terrorist organization. "Azov has been recruiting, #radicalizing, and training American citizens for years," (it) said. #ChristopherWray, the director of the FBI, later confirmed in testimony to the U.S. Senate that American #whiteSupremacists are "actually traveling overseas to train."

    #USStateDept, lol