The 'It wasn't real communism' argument is getting old. The Russian experiment showed that even the best theories turn into bureaucratic nightmares when human nature gets involved. The bosses changed, but the hierarchy remained. 🚩
#PoliticalTheory #Politics #Ideology #Economics #Totalitarianism
Konrad Hinsen
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In my articles about logic and thinking many people respond that "this is bullshit, logic is just a formal science, it isn't related at all e.g. with ideology" which is hard to disprove, but very wrong: In thinking, things are related in ways that are very subtle and hard to explain. And absolutely everything is related to ideology! e.g. art is related to ideology, religion is related to ideology (it can prompt you both to your stuff out and to being a nazi (two very different kind of beliefs)).
This is very important to understand, because many people already know it.
Why was the nazi propaganda so successful? Because they understood that just straight up telling people what to think, is not the only way to influence their opinion. So they didn't only create nazi politics, they created nazi art, nazi architecture, nazi science, nazi philosophy etc.
In my articles about logic and thinking many people respond that "this is bullshit, logic is just a formal science, it isn't related at all e.g. with ideology" which is hard to disprove, but very wrong: In thinking, things are related in ways that are very subtle and hard to explain. And absolutely everything is related to ideology! e.g. art is related to ideology, religion is related to ideology (it can prompt you both to your stuff out and to being a nazi (two very different kind of beliefs)).
This is very important to understand, because many people already know it.
Why was the nazi propaganda so successful? Because they understood that just straight up telling people what to think, is not the only way to influence their opinion. So they didn't only create nazi politics, they created nazi art, nazi architecture, nazi science, nazi philosophy etc.
RFK Jr.’s loathesome edits: CDC website now falsely links vaccines and autism
The site previously correctly noted that studies have repeatedly found no link.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/rfk-jr-s-loathesome-edits-cdc-website-now-falsely-links-vaccines-and-autism/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica
What is the "truth" depends on who is in control of the information. Different admins, different "truths." That is why we need educators, people who empower other people form their OWN reasoned opinions, not just indoctrinate them with dogma. We should always remember that the powers that be silenced even Galileo and that claims of mis/dis-information (heresy) can also be used to silence dissent and good science.
#misinformation #disinformation #dogma #ideology #control #science #reason #truth #biology #chemistry #immunology #psychology
Ulrike Hahn
and 2 others
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"The Pipeline Made Visible
Unlike old #authoritarianism built on fear and force, this new system rules through code, capital, and infrastructure — making resistance feel architecturally impossible.
It’s a self-reinforcing loop: #Ideology fuels venture capital → #capital captures the state → #thestate feeds the same private systems that built it. A new model of power — #privatizedsovereignty."
https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/
"The Pipeline Made Visible
Unlike old #authoritarianism built on fear and force, this new system rules through code, capital, and infrastructure — making resistance feel architecturally impossible.
It’s a self-reinforcing loop: #Ideology fuels venture capital → #capital captures the state → #thestate feeds the same private systems that built it. A new model of power — #privatizedsovereignty."
https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/
#Trump signed an EO targeting the #antifascist movement, known as #antifa, threatening “investigatory & prosecutorial action” against those who financially support it.
But Trump’s order said that he was declaring antifa a “domestic #terrorist organization”—a designation that DOES NOT EXIST under US #law. Anti-fascism, like fascism itself, is a broad political #ideology rather than a specific organization, & the US does not have a domestic terrorism #law.
