Psyops, especially professionally managed and government backed psyops, are very, very tricky business.
We have few existing examples of their orders, but one order we do have is the order to destroy queer solidarity by pitting us against ourselves, so that we would not participate in elections and political processes.
For that order to have been made, and then this political sinkhole to open up within months, is simply too obvious a connection to ignore. Some major social media pages focuses on queer rights have since been confirmed as Russian plants{1,2}.
The distaste for {subgroup} pride has always been prevalent in queer spaces. We try to fight it, but everyone in a queer group has issues. There is no way to avoid it. And sometimes, the attempts to keep things calm end up looking like favoring some groups in particular. In 2013, it was bis. 2014, nonbinaries. 2015, aces. 2016, nonbinaries and intersex. 2017, kink and polyamory. In 2018 it seems to be queers and pans.
All of these tensions and targets are always at risk, but until summer of 2015, when Russian operations launched, they had always been fairly subdued.
However, if you know what you’re doing (and farmed operatives do know what they’re doing) it only takes the lightest touch to set mild tensions into abject wildfire. {3}
Much like racial tensions were stoked to achieve the alt-right not by creating the movement whole cloth, but just slightly heating things until the movement coalesced on its own, I believe a similar slow boil took place in this context.
Remember, the goal of the psyop was to destabilize the US political process by electing Trump.
That means that people on the fence needed to be frightened into conservatism, and people who could not be frightened into it needed to be discouraged from voting or outright suppressed.
Empowering radical feminists gives more Trump votes- albeit not many more- and encouraging everyone else to be at each other’s throats takes away any counter votes against Trump.
Given that Russian operatives are known to have targeted queer groups, known to have targeted radical feminist groups, and known to have shifted as many people rightward as possible while setting the rest to in fighting, it is a completely reasonable conclusion that, although Russian operatives didn’t invent ace exclusion, they helped to popularize it very quickly.
This does not mean all ace hate is from Russia or all aphobe blogs are Russian plants. They don’t need to be. With two dozen blogs and six months of salary, even I could completely reshape the tumblr political environment. All you have to do is use your multiple identities to post positive content the implicitly supports the aggressive content from your other blogs, and have one blog in your network Get Big- have a fight with a popular blogger for example. Eventually, through the blog that got exposure, your other blogs, which are all incestuously interacting with themselves, will be found by and appeal to various different groups.
Within 2 months, you’ve now got 4 or 5 different groups of people saying either (x) is bad, or (x) doesn’t matter leave me alone. At that point actual people in the (x) group will start defending themselves, and you’re basically done.
You disappear, delete all those blogs, and don’t have to worry because the change was already made, and yeah, it will probably settle down in a few years, but that’s a few years my opponent isn’t operating at full capacity.
Or, if you’re lucky, you’ve artificially created a controversy on a long scale, the kind of thing you used to only be able to do if you owned one of the 3 major news companies and had a couple of friendly looking government agents on your show spouting your lines.
In any case, two months going 60-80 hours a week, anyone can at least start a fan war. 6 months with an entire trained team and a government budget? That’s enough to start a real war, maybe two.
3 years and multiple government agencies working multiple separate ops? Well, at that point, it’s a miracle there’s even a ghost of the US left at all.
So, the resurgence of radfems and the dissolution of queer coalition could, certainly, have been a coincidence that was always going to occur. But, in the full context of what was happening at the time?
There probably wasn’t an op targeting ace people or anything that dramatic. Just targeting lesbians and encouraging them to “return to their roots” and become radical separatists was more than enough to achieve the shitshow we see today.
Note: The correct response is not to write off all intracommunity problems as Russian interference, or your enemies as Russian agents. The correct respose is to reject their message and embrace solidarity.
Solidarity is the nly counterweapon that has any effect on their actual goals.
i thought you guys would find this thread i wrote interesting
this is a very real problem! and unfortunately, something similar happens to people of color and adults as well. always try and tie it down to something else when, in fact, the disorder has been clearly present the whole time. it’s so damaging.
newsflash: adhd is real and everyone can have it!
please boost this, whoa.
This is a bit of a tangent, but is this person saying that hyperactivity, “chatterboxing,” and emotional volatility are the same basic trait manifested in different ways? Has that been demonstrated? Is that true for men as well as women (but with men more likely to be hyperactive)?
I’m curious about the research behind this, in part because if true, it means I actually have combined type ADHD, not the inattentive type I was diagnosed with.
That would make a lot of sense. Though I’m not aware of any research.
I also need to add again that even if two people of different assigned genders are showing exactly the same behaviors? Those are likely to get interpreted very differently, viewed through the lens of cultural gender expectations.
It’s not always even variations in presentation leading to the different diagnosis rates with ADHD, autism, or other labels. Classically hyperactive girls do exist–and they’re too often seen as having other (andfrequentlyscarier) problems, as evidenced by just how badly their behavior matches certain gendered expectations.
It also might be a socialization thing? Like girls and boys having different behavior is usually socialization based but that doesn’t actually work as a clear cut line, most people technically are probably getting both just at a really skewed ratio. Like the girl/boy typing follows stereotypes enough some of it might be because it is a brain construction thing and by the time you are old enough for them to actually notice you have probably absorbed a bunch of stereotypes about what gender you are treated as.
And that is not even getting into the fact the symptoms being gendered means you might get mixed socialization for having mixed presentation of symptoms and then that makes more symptoms which makes more mixed socialization until you get some fucked up ouroboros of gender stereotyping.
One better than buying cases of good pasta off Amazon, like I was doing. I finally caved and ordered an assortment from Italy!
Ouch on the shipping, and that was the cheapest option 😨
All BiAglut, which should be the same as what they were selling branded as Heinz here, after Heinz bought out that manufacturer. And a much better variety available! This should be the first linguine (and ditalini, and bucatini, and…) I’ve had since 2005 at the latest.
First it got hard to find the few types of Heinz-branded pastas in stores here, then they totally discontinued it on the UK market so ordering wasn’t even an option anymore. No clue why. (Though it is apparently still available in the US, as BiAglut, BTW. With closer to their full range of shapes.)
But, that is by far the best GF pasta I’ve found, with the lupine flour helping it behave a decent quality wheat pasta. It doesn’t even turn to mush sitting with a sauce!
Felt silly enough to pay that much to order some that I resisted doing it for months after finding that source. After all, it’s not like there is no GF pasta available in stores here, however variable the quality and how badly some of it interacts with the sensory issues.
But, I finally gave in tonight after making some macaroni and cheese I’d been craving, with my last hoarded-back Heinz–and experiencing the non-disgusting texture again. Yes please, send me more pasta I actually want to eat! 🙄
That order ought to last a while, at least. 8 kg of pasta all together? Something like that. With two people in the house.
That autistic / ADHD feel when you want to do… something.
I call this “activity cravings” because it’s like when you want a certain food but you aren’t sure which food. But for activities.
Do I want to go for a walk? Play a game? If so, what kind of game? DO I want to make things? Read? Watch tv? A movie?
then when that executive dysfunction comes into play and since you could do literally anything in the world, you end up trapped and unable to choose anything to do at all, and do nothing instead but live in that restlessness
One of the best additions to this post yet. This is one of those nuances of choice paralysis that people fail to understand – sometimes it is because we lack the executive function to choose, sometimes we want to do all the things and can’t choose.
I love living in the future with advanced technology. It’s so great how I can just press a button on a machine and it will splutter hot, fresh coffee outwards at a horizontal angle onto my uniform, completely missing my cup. It saves me the convenience of spilling it on myself through human error.
listen up, goyim, because i’m gonna say this once and once only.
antisemitism is a form of oppression, but it relies on a different mindset. it is a different ballgame than ANY sort of prejudice you know. yknow why? because to antisemities, jews aren’t lesser (well, we are, but that’s not the important thing). we’re successful.
that’s the kicker.
antisemities WANT you to believe that jews are doing well, because if we’re doing well, we’re not REALLY being persecuted. it all goes back to the protocols of the elders of zion: the jews are taking over. the jews are a threat. therefore, if they’re a threat, it’s only right to kill them. it’s only right to ghettoize them. it’s only right to have exterminated 40% of the world’s jewish population in the 40s.
nevermind the fact that antisemitism makes up nearly 50% of all religious hate crimes in the us. nevermind the fact that jews make up less than 2% of the world’s population. nevermind the fact that jews, historically, have been scapegoated and killed and othered for literal millenia. i mean, who cares, because jews are rich and powerful, right?
don’t fall for it. don’t fall for the centuries-old claim that jews are just faking it. listen to us. support us.
and the next time you brush off antisemitism because ”oh, it’s not a big deal, jews are successful”, take a good hard look at yourself and realize that you’re spouting the same nazi propaganda that killed six million people.
Also because we aren’t successful…time for some fun data:
yeah the police are rounding up homeless folks belongings until monday including SLEEPING BAGS AND BEDDING. literally homeless people have been afraid to be away from their stuff bc the police will rush in and grab it all. theyv also been trying to remove the people themselves from the surrounding area bc theyr an eyesore i guess!!!!!!!! its vile. instead of spending money to put these folks in housing theyr just sweeping them under the rug bc theyr ugly and will ruin their precious fucking wedding!!!!
i promise you no effort will be made to actually return any belongings to their owners it will be down to these poor homeless folks to have to recover their stuff or it’ll just get thrown in the garbage
I honestly can’t believe the naivete of so many people in these comments, as though this shit doesn’t happen to homeless people around the world during the build up to major events.
People don’t “volunteer” to turn over their belongings when the alternative is having them stolen.
People who avoid homeless shelters have reasons for doing so, and when shelter is “offered” at the risk of something worse happening then it isn’t an offer – it’s a threat.
We are hearing official claims that the homeless aren’t being forced to move, but that really tells us absolutely nothing about what is actually going on. Talking heads lie, and cops generally get away with doing whatever they feel like doing to homeless people.
Further, insofar as they are not being officially moved out, that’s because public attention has been on this particular event for months now, and officials don’t want to have to deal with public outrage.
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