Woher kommt eigentlich die Omnipräsenz der #winkekatze im #chaos-Umfeld? Ich konnte dazu bisher keine Quellen finden, aber für mich fühlt sich das ein wenig wie so ein Fall kultureller Aneignung an, den keiner hinterfragt, weil wir "schon immer" Winkekatzen auf allen Rednerpulten hatten.
David Kurtz on why Trump continues to be so appealing to so many Americans:
"It’s in moments like these that the overconfident diagnoses and simplistic solutions of someone like Donald Trump hold their greatest allure. ... He’s a chaos monster: the more of it he creates, the greater the need for the snake oil palliatives he offers. He’ll make you sick to sell you his bogus curatives."
As Timothy Burke notes, for the most part, those pressuring university administrators to crack down on student protesters "are going wholly undiscussed in the national news coverage." The media mantra is that the protests are causing "chaos." This ignores that the chaos is being created by administrators dragging in police to squelch peaceful protests.
"This has become the dominant theme of the right’s response not just to these protests but to the state of the country in general: America is in chaos. …
But nearly everything resembling 'chaos' has come in the crackdowns."
"These protests have been nothing short of a godsend for the GOP, which can use them to pretend to care about antisemitism, divert attention from the thing the students are actually protesting, continue their long war against higher education, and bitch about Kids Today, who supposedly lack the good sense and civility that characterized the youth of, well, whenever you were young."
This is what Republicans have done for virtually all the years I've been a voter, 1968 to the present:
They manufacture nonexistent chaos when Democrats are in control, to justify wresting control of the nation and handing itl to a minority fiercely resistant to discussions of human rights and democracy.
With Trump, economic elites have become brazen about their intent to dismantle democracy and establish iron rule.The chaos mantra serves their ends.
Liebes #Mannheim#Chaos, ich brauche Hilfe! Ich bin Gläubiger eines Unternehmens in Form einer Anzahlung über 3000 Euro. Den claim müsste ich morgen schriftlich beim #Insolvenz Anwalt anmelden damit es in die #Insolvenzmasse kommt! Faxen und EMail macht der nicht und das Verwaltungsportal ist nur lesend! Hat wer Zeit und Energie das Formular und die Rechnung zu drucken in Vollmacht zu unterschreiben und dem Anwalt morgen auf den Tisch zu legen? Vielleicht kommt was raus, dann gibt es Anteile!
By overwhelming people with the sheer volume and vulgarity of his antics, Trump and his team are trying to burn out the part of our brains that can discern truth from fiction, right from wrong, good from evil. His campaign’s goal is to turn voters into moral zombies who can no longer tell the difference between Stormy and Hunter or classified documents and personal laptops, who cannot parse what a “bloodbath” means, who no longer have the ability to be shocked when a political leader calls other human beings “animals” and “vermin.” Trump isn’t worried that all of this will cause voters to have a kind of mental meltdown: He’s counting on it. He needs ordinary citizens to become so mired in moral chaos and so cognitively paralyzed that they are unable to comprehend the disasters that would ensue if he returns to the White House — Tom Nichols #quotes#quote#Trump#chaos#Opportunist#Threats
The #SupremeCourt on Tues cleared the way for Texas to immediately begin enforcing one of the nation’s harshest immigration laws, which opponents say would disrupt more than a century of #federal control over #international borders.
The divided decision was preliminary & urged a lower court to quickly decide whether to allow the #law to remain in effect while appeals continue. That approach drew dissent from the 3 liberal justices, 2 of whom said the majority was inviting “further #chaos & #crisis in #immigration enforcement.”
“The Court gives a green light to a #law that will upend the longstanding #federal - #state balance of #power & sow #chaos,” wrote Justice SoniaSotomayor, joined by Justice ##KetanjiBrownJackson. They noted that a lower court judge had concluded “that it is likely #unconstitutional.”
The ice sheet is cascading/gushing at unheard of rates never dreamed possible at this stage of global warming, or at any stage for that matter. Greenlands ice sheets are cascading or merging with the sea. #climate#chaos#environmental#collapse
“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.”
@parismarx
Well that's fine.
We've made "machine that would go of itself" and we'll sit outside the windowless buildings and see what it does with all of our power, and water too #dystopia#chaos#future
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas
A provocative challenge to how we think our world works—and why small, chance events can divert our lives and change everything, by social scientist and Atlantic writer Brian Klaas.
While Wendy’s plans to price gouge you with Uber-style surge pricing, it’s simultaneously enriching wealthy shareholders with a $500 million stock buyback program.
That’s the thing about corporate greed: It’s shameless.
They’ll just keep pushing to see how far they can go.
@rbreich There is a soulless bunch of people running corporate America right now. These are people who just don’t care and would rather pressure hard working people into misery and despair. The future for many in this country is really bleak. Wages not keeping with cost of living, a rent and subscribe society #chaos
Derek Thompson quotes researcher Michael Bang Peterson et al.:
"These [need-for-chaos] individuals are not idealists seeking to tear down the established order so that they can build a better society for everyone. Rather, they indiscriminately share hostile political rumors as a way to unleash chaos and mobilize individuals against the established order that fails to accord them the respect that they feel they personally deserve.”
"To sum up their worldview, Petersen quoted a famous line from the film The Dark Knight: 'Some men just want to watch the world burn.'”
There are, in short, some voters, and perhaps a growing cadre of them in the US, who need chaos, who thrive on tearing things up. "Some men just want to watch the world burn," and they behave accordingly as they make political choices and promote their chosen chaos agents. Then this mentality is allowed to thrive and spread, danger follows.