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DrBob, 🧠 Mechanic Sep 16, 2025

Israel, Charlie Kirk, and the Weaponization of Murder?

“#CharlieKirk’s assassination will likely serve as the crux of a new era of political violence and repression in the United States

In the days since Kirk was shot..right-wing groups and figures have demanded mass censorship of all critical online speech directed at #Kirk.

#Trump has effectively attributed the attack to the “radical left”…Mass doxing campaigns targeting people who contextualized #Kirk’s politics or celebrated his killing has led to firings across the country.

#MaxBlumenthal #ChrisHedges #netanyahu #israel #gaza #billackerman #mimetics
https://scheerpost.com/2025/09/15/israel-charlie-kirk-and-the-weaponization-of-murder-w-max-blumenthal-the-chris-hedges-report/

DrBob, 🧠 Mechanic Sep 16, 2025

Charlie Kirk is the spark this tinder box has been waiting for

This perfectly-timed tragedy of modern ‘biblical’ proportions is right out of the Rene Girard mimetic playbook (Peter Thiel) with Trump, JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and a host of characters scapegoating anyone who is not lock-stock in sync with the politics of Mr Kirk 😳

#ReneGirard #mimetics #PeterThiel #Trump #JDVance #MarcoRubio #fascism #authoritarianism #CharlieKirk #Kirk #collapse
https://sarahwilson.substack.com/p/charlie-kirk-is-the-spark-this-tinder

DrBob, 🧠 Mechanic Sep 15, 2025

Scapegoating in real time🤔

The right wing voices fueling political violence blame only “the left.”

Hosting ‘The Charlie Kirk Show,’ VP Vance vows crackdown on ‘left-wing’ groups

Trump has been the target of two attempts, Democratic politicians have been attacked and killed, and violent rioters beat police officers and stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 (and given full pardons)

Now Trump, Steven Miller, and others in his administration are using Kirk’s killing to call for a crackdown on specifically left-wing political violence.”

https://time.com/7317371/charlie-kirk-show-jd-vance/
#authoritarianism #fascism #mimetics #scapegoat #Kirk

DrBob, 🧠 Mechanic Aug 3, 2024

Nike forgot Rene Gerard‘s philosophical theory of mimetics which suggests that we all want to mimic (or at least buy what they’re wearing) our celebrities and sports heroes 🤔

PS: the Substack post also addresses Olympic air pistols in much detail, which also has a mimetic aspect to consider.

#Nike #ReneGerard #mimetics #KimKardashian #Olympics #AirPistols #Korea
https://www.readtrung.com/p/how-olympic-air-pistols-took-over

How Olympic Air Pistols Took Over The Timeline

PLUS: WTF happened to Nike?

SatPost by Trung Phan

Mark Dingemanse Nov 15, 2023

‘Pachi pachi’ or ‘kachi kachi’? Japan launches foreigners’ guide to tricky world of onomatopoeia https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/15/mie-prefecture-guide-pachi-pachi-or-kachi-kachi-a-foreigners-guide-to-the-tricky-world-of-japans-onomatopoeia
#linguistics #ideophones #mimetics

‘Pachi pachi’ or ‘kachi kachi’? Japan launches foreigners’ guide to tricky world of onomatopoeia

As foreign population reaches record levels, the western prefecture of Mie has compiled a guide for those who need it

The Guardian

SPQR Oct 21, 2023

We're going to have to get a bigger boat: "According to this perspective, in order to grasp the fundamental rationales of political processes, we need to concentrate on the distinctive propensity of either individuals or groups to engage in mimetic contests resulting from their unreflective disposition to imitate each other’s desire." #psychology #meme #mimetics #sociology #anthropology #violence #war https://christianscholars.com/mimetic-theory-a-new-paradigm-for-understanding-the-psychology-of-conflict

Mimetic Theory: A New Paradigm for Understanding the Psychology of Conflict - Christian Scholar’s Review

Though tribalism and conflict have long been a focus of social psychological research, psychology as a discipline has few meta-theories able to serve as organizing principles or prisms for new...

Christian Scholar’s Review

CellBioNews Sep 16, 2023

Researchers enhance the function of natural #proteins using 'protein Legos'.

#IL_4 #mimetics

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-function-natural-proteins-protein-legos.html

Researchers enhance the function of natural proteins using 'protein Legos'

Johns Hopkins engineers have helped develop and characterize an artificial protein that triggers the same response in the human body as its natural counterpart—a breakthrough that not only has the potential to facilitate the design of drugs to accelerate healing but also sheds light on the mechanisms behind various diseases.

Phys.org

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DrBob, 🧠 Mechanic Jul 13, 2023

@si_irini #Threads is benefiting from the #Instagram and the Lemmings that are flocking to the next ‘big thing’
#mimetics #mimetictheory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_theory