Eric Darnley SmallThis season of "South Park" has unexpectedly become a powerful voice of resistance against Trump-era politics, driven by creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s keen awareness of how politics has permeated pop culture. Their sharp, satirical attacks on Trump and his advisers have sparked a surge in viewership—more than doubling ratings from the previous year—highlighting the show's enduring relevance despite its nearly three-decade run. Interestingly, this heightened critique has emerged amid shakeups at Paramount and Disney, with the network's ownership changes and recent cancellations of shows like Stephen Colbert’s and Jimmy Kimmel’s, possibly reflecting broader tensions within the entertainment industry over the political climate. Will "South Park's" bold stance influence public discourse or provoke new censorship debates? More: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/business/media/south-park-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zk8.byy0.L2tBveO8I6ZW&smid=ny #SouthPark #Satire #Politics #Trump #Media #Censorship #Entertainment #CultureWars tcore-android-share
The rise of Nick Fuentes, a radical white nationalist, has exposed divisions within the "America First" and "national conservatism" movements, with some seeing his extremist views as a natural evolution and others condemning his racial and antisemitic rhetoric. Recent interviews, like Tucker Carlson’s with Fuentes, have intensified debates, revealing a tension between mainstream Republican leaders—who publicly criticize Fuentes—and some in the movement who share his beliefs about race, religion, and national identity. This ideological drift threatens to blur the lines between overt bigotry and broader conservative themes like nationalism and traditional values. Will this factional struggle reshape the future of American conservatism? More: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/nick-fuentes-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zE8.ijl_.UQtzi_J9c0md&smid=url-share #NationalConservatism #WhiteNationalism #AmericaFirst #PoliticalDivision #Extremism #GOP #CultureWars
Miguel Afonso Caetano"In pretty much all of tonight’s elections, voters spoke with one voice: they don’t feel like they can afford the good life. And the reason Democrats were able to capitalize on that message is because they ran campaigns about it — emphasizing things like power bill hikes in Georgia and health care and housing costs in places like New York City and Virginia.
The Republicans, on the other hand, were stuck with the unenviable task of defending the Trump administration, which has presided over a decidedly mediocre economy. But some Republicans tried to deflect from the issue altogether.
(...)
We’ve heard for years that we are entering an era of post-economic voting. The culture war is all that matters now. People are voting expressively to affirm their identities or put down someone else’s.
While you can’t deny that this is a real factor in politics, it’s simply not true that people don’t care about whether they can put food on the table or afford a roof over their head. In the end, it’s still the economy, stupid."
https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/the-2025-election-proves-that-the
#USA #Democrats #DemocraticParty #CultureWars #ClassWarfare #ClassStruggle #Inequality
Steven HeywoodYour occasional reminder that the pathetic culture warriors complaining about "them" taking Christmas out of Christmas have no issue with taking the vast swathe of the year between "The wokerati has stopped them being called Easter eggs" and the end of December out of "Not Christmas."
‘It doesn’t say Christmas on the mince pie box’ season gets earlier every year – 19 satisfyingly festive takedowns of the latest culture warrior
It seems that the date for people complaining about the lack of the word ‘Christmas’ on festive products comes earlier every year. We’re barely past Halloween, and already the usual suspects are getting in a right old flap and shouting at coffee cups and mince pies. Here’s the latest snowflake to pop up on Twitter […]
Miro CollasThe Culture Wars Have Come for Wikipedia | The Interview - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJezMMCogXw
The Culture Wars Have Come for Wikipedia | The Interview
J. R. DePriest 
:EA DATA. SF:I'm sharing this mainly for this exchange.
“I believe her judgment is now placed in serious question,” Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wrote. “She has a totally different view of how the history of the Alamo should be told.”
Which led to this:
In San Antonio, Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai, the county’s elected top administrator, decried Patrick’s “gross political interference.”
“We need to get politics out of our teaching of history. Period,” he said in a statement Friday.
Take the politics out of history? That's impossible. That's all history is: politics and their exercise.
What are they so mad about?
[Kate] Rogers [now former CEO of the nonprofit managing the Alamo] noted that the book argues that a central cause of the war was Anglo settlers’ determination to keep slaves in bondage after Mexico largely abolished it. Texas won the war and was an independent republic until the U.S. annexed it in 1845.
Rogers also wrote that a city advisory council wanted to tell the site’s “full story,” including its history as a home to Indigenous people — something the state’s Republican leaders oppose. She said she would love the Alamo to be “a place that brings people together versus tearing them apart.”
Oh, so she's telling the truth. Politicians don't like that very much.
#TheWarOfNorthernAggressionNeverEnded #ThatsIronic #TheAlamo #Texas #CultureWars
VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶRewilding Earth Podcast: Episode 158: Europe’s Big Three – Wolves, Bears, Lynx. Part 1: The Wolf’s Uneasy Return to Germany
Mp3: https://media.blubrry.com/rewildingearth/content.blubrry.com/rewildingearth/Part_1_WOLF.mp3
#rewilding #wolf #domination #carnism #human #supremacism #pastoralism #culturewars #rightwing
Richard HullYou would think that journalists and commentators realised how much #LanguageMatters, after 40 years of #CultureWars and 10 years of social-media inflamed #hate-speech.
Check out J L Austin's 1955 book 'How To Do Things With Words' where he coined the term 'performative utterance'.
Paul Houle🥨 Germany’s anti-diversity backlash isn’t fatigue – it’s strategy masquerading as neutrality | Fatma Aydemir
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/30/germany-anti-diversity-backlash-trump-afd
Brewminate🎭 Culture wars are political theater.
Elites light the match, we argue about the smoke — and the real fire burns out of sight.
#Politics #CultureWars #Democracy #Brewminate
https://brewminate.com/manufactured-outrage-how-political-elites-use-culture-wars-to-distract/
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