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nightdream
nightdream
@nightdream@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

For my fellow Cassandras.

The author talks about anti-alarmism in the mainstream media and among liberals (failure to recognize an actual emergency in progress - e.g. refusing to see MAGA as a real threat) as driven by men's gender insecurity and need to distance themselves from behavior that is female coded.

tl;dr

Cassandras are more likely to:
-be women
-belong to a minoritized group in some meaningful way
-have spent considerable amounts of time among conservative populations
-be clear, critical thinkers who can connect the dots between different types of bad behavior

https://newrepublic.com/article/204254/survey-2024-election-cassandras-trump-2025

#USPOL #MAGA #gender #media

The New Republic

The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned

Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
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Gnome Kat
Gnome Kat
@gnomekat@tech.lgbt replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@nightdream i feel this deeply.. ppl keep discounting what I accurately predict as literal clinical paranoia and then im proven correct over and over.. i have arguments about it with my brother and yeah this hits

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