This is what’s driving the increase in popularity of far right politics in Australia.
The strategy used by the parties & politicians owned by the wealthiest few is to deflect attention from the plunder that’s feeding their obscene profits & entice those who are being royally screwed to blame others like themselves. It’s working.
Because Labor has spent decades playing ‘business as usual is fine, please Gina / Rupert don’t attack us’, they have zero credibility in countering this.
Our familiar two party system is over. Mainstream media’s fatuous team sport reporting is animating a spectre.
What do we need? Policy, clarity, integrity, leadership. One Nation has a story but their actions are all about support the wealthy, screw the oppressed.
Time to support independent media & think critically about everything we read.
#inequality #plunder #exploitation #misinformation #polarisation #AusPol #governance #integrity #leadership
#Denkangebot Podcast: Annika Brockschmidt über Codes der extremen US-Rechten
Im Gespräch analysieren wir vermeintlich harmlose #Memes, angeblich unpolitische #Tattoos und die wichtigsten Wordings der extremen #US-#Rechten, die in Debatten der letzten Monate und Jahre immer wieder eine Rolle gespielt haben.
Dabei schlagen wir immer wieder den Bogen zur extremen Rechten in #Europa
#AfD / #CDU
Annika Brockschmidt hat Geschichte, Germanistik und War and Conflict Studies in Heidelberg, Durham und Potsdam studiert.
Sie ist freie #Journalistin eine der Hosts des Podcasts Feminist Shelf Control und Autorin. Ihr Buch "Amerikas #Gotteskrieger" über die Macht der Religiösen Rechten in den USA war 2021 ein Bestseller. 2024 folgte „Die Brandstifter: Wie #Extremisten die Republikanische #Partei übernahmen“.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJp0VZP7dRg
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#Rechte
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This is not a drill.
On the collapse of unipolar power relations, forming of new alliances & paths for a way forward.
My take? White colonial hegemony is over. Religious nationalism & patriarchal supremacy are flourishing. As successive iterations of climate catastrophe bite, borders will harden further. Any social licence to do this rests on normalising the ‘othering’ of people who are ‘not like (the men who rule) us’. Cultivating hate IS, & will continue to be, the strategy.
What role does Australia choose to play here? Whose interests does our (two party roundabout, media enthralled, policy avoidant, team-sport-distraction running 🎪🤡🎡) government exist to serve? (Hint is in the brackets ⛏️ ⛏️ ⛏️ 😎)
What role do we choose to play, as people? For me, refusing to get sucked into black & white narratives & the demonisation of others, is the start.
Your take may be different from mine & that’s fine - but we’re all in this together. Let’s pay attention, friends.
Who do we want to be?
#NewGlobalOrder #AusPol #ManOfFeathers #FollowTheMoney #ClimateCatastrophe #immigration #FossilFuels #StateCapture #misinformation #polarisation
The thread through all this? A feeling of aggrieved entitlement.
When we don’t have the critical thinking skills needed to listen to claims, identify who is making them, assess the evidence they’re based on & notice whose interests are served by the arguments presented, we are Very Vulnerable to manipulation through this feeling.
No wonder political parties of the white patriarchal supremacist right have been systematically defunding the institutions & disciplines that teach these skills.
People are not our enemy. Ignorance is.
#education #history #sociology #philosopy #ethics #CriticalThinking #schools #universities #NeoLiberalism #strategy #manipulation #polarisation #plunder #profit
The CfP for our DN34 International Conference on #Discourse, #Identity and #Polarisation is now open. It will be held 10–12 November 2026 at #Vilnius University and online. The call for papers and panel proposals is open until 15 May 2026. This conference provides an interdisciplinary space for examining how individual and group identities are discursively constructed in today’s increasingly polarised societies, and how discourse both reflects and shapes emerging social divisions.
For more information visit: https://discourseanalysis.net/DN34
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