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Social justice advocacy

Re: Trump2

Dear human rights, social justice, environmental rights advocates:

Do not despair!

Educate yourselves re: root causes
* wealth: capitalism
* power: politics, government, judiciary
* influence: conservatism; social media; memetic communication

Advocate, collaborate, associate, organize, inform

Solutions:
* reconciliation
* sustainability
* participate: direct democracy
* truth networks
* workers rights

Research: readings \1 below

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Social justice advocacy

Re: Trump2

Dear human rights, social justice, environmental rights advocates:

Do not despair!

Educate yourselves re: root causes
* wealth: capitalism
* power: politics, government, judiciary
* influence: conservatism; social media; memetic communication

Advocate, collaborate, associate, organize, inform

Solutions:
* reconciliation
* sustainability
* participate: direct democracy
* truth networks
* workers rights

Research: readings \1 below

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Social justice advocacy

2024-Nov-06

Dear human rights, social justice, environmental rights advocates:

* do not despair
* educate yourselves re: root causes
   * wealth: capitalism
   * power: politics, judiciary
   * influence: conservatism
* advocate, collaborate, inform
* solutions:
   * sustainability
    * direct democracy: citizens' assemblies
    * social democracy: platform costing
    * truth networks
    * workers rights

Readings: \1 below

Image source: https://www.dreamstime.com/illustration/environmental-rights.html

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[thread] post-truthism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-tru th

* "alternative facts"

"Science is more than body of knowledge; it's a way of thinking.
I have a foreboding of an America ...
when people lost ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority ...
unable to distinguish between what feels good & what's true, we slide ...
back into superstition & darkness"
-- Carl Sagan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-tru th#Contemporary_evaluation

#SocialMedia #DigitalMedia #disinformation #misinformation #PostTruthism #memes

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[thread] post-truthism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-tru th

* "alternative facts"

"Science is more than body of knowledge; it's a way of thinking.
I have a foreboding of an America ...
when people lost ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority ...
unable to distinguish between what feels good & what's true, we slide ...
back into superstition & darkness"
-- Carl Sagan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-tru th#Contemporary_evaluation

#SocialMedia #DigitalMedia #disinformation #misinformation #PostTruthism #memes

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[thread] post-truthism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth

* "alternative facts"

"Science is more than body of knowledge; it's a way of thinking.
I have a foreboding of an America ...
when people lost ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority ...
unable to distinguish between what feels good & what's true, we slide ...
back into superstition & darkness"
-- Carl Sagan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth#Contemporary_evaluation

#SocialMedia #DigitalMedia #disinformation #misinformation #PostTruthism #memes

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[thread 2/x] Existential threat of billionaires
parent: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/1128 10230899017402
[thread 3/x] https://mastodon.social/@persagen/1134 82871306325984

conservative advocacy/lobbying
political/legal state capture
deregulation: anti-union/taxation libertarianism
eradication of social programs/public education/benefits

Dark Money (2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Mon ey_(book)

Democracy in Chains (2019)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrac y_in_Chains

None Dare Call It Conspiracy (1970)
https://archive.org/details/none-dare-call-it-conspiracy_202101

Dark money: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/1109 53607664918460

#billionaires

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[thread 2/x] Existential threat of billionaires
parent: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/1128 10230899017402
[thread 3/x] https://mastodon.social/@persagen/1134 82871306325984

conservative advocacy/lobbying
political/legal state capture
deregulation: anti-union/taxation libertarianism
eradication of social programs/public education/benefits

Dark Money (2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Mon ey_(book)

Democracy in Chains (2019)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrac y_in_Chains

None Dare Call It Conspiracy (1970)
https://archive.org/details/none-dare-call-it-conspiracy_202101

Dark money: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/1109 53607664918460

#billionaires