Okay, seriously.
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Okay, seriously. You should watch The Alt-Right Playbook. If you care at all about understanding what's happening as fascists are getting elected around the world, at least go watch the first video in the playlist, and then decide.
If you're going to watch it, just ignore me and go do it right now.
But if you're not convinced, I am going to tell you why I think you should be.
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To give you an idea where I'm coming from, I did politics full-time for several years. I've been on national radio talking about how news media hijacked opinion research to influence elections, I've written texts that got talked about in national newspapers, I've vetted people for parliament, I've been in charge of statistical election analyses, created several campaign plans, been involved in developing countless political and rhetorical strategies, and more.
But my "thing", the thing which brought me over from philosophy to politics just as the Swedish Nazi party got into parliament in 2010, was my preoccupation and success with creating "ear worms" (to borrow a musical term since I'm actually a composer). I constructed little ideas that stayed in people's minds and changed how they think.
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I am not saying all that to look big—I actually don't like mentioning it since it makes me look bad. And I'm not trying to say that I'm some super talented natural-born sublimation witch of the deep greens.
What I am telling you is that I worked hard for several years and learned a lot and accomplished things and got some recognition for it. I have experience.
Yet, and this is the point, this video series completely changed how I think about how to do the things I did. It changed how I talk about politics with my own family—with people who already agree with me! It's really insightful. I think everyone who can learn from it should, because stopping fascism is too important for anyone to feel like they're too insignificant to make a difference. Nobody is too insignificant.
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Jasmine running last edited by [email protected]
@jasmine That's because this series describes abnormal political process. This stuff is outside the normal process. It's not supposed to have an effect. Unfortunately, its effect never goes to zero, but most of the time, that effect is relatively close to zero.
But once every century or so, the pre-spice mass pre-fascist nihilism gets popular, and that's when everything Innuendo speaks about becomes very relevant until the fascists get defeated again at the end of the next world war.
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