Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Almost the defining mindset of the Right is the desire (or perhaps practice) of being both the oppressor/attacker & wanting to play the victim at the very same time.

Currently: US & Israeli attacks on Iran prompt self-defensive counter attacks that are then treated as an 'escalation'.

Or in the UK, after years of bad-mouthing Europe & finally engineering Brexit, claims the EU is being 'unreasonable' when failing to agree to the UK's desired 'reset' on the UK's terms!

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h/t The Bear

Apr 12 at 8:57amWeb
Show thread🟥 Eveline Sulman 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦2d ago
@ChrisMayLA6 indeed, also mentioned in the book How Fascism Works.
Show threadAlex P Roe 2d ago
@ChrisMayLA6 Typo?! You wrote ‘defining mindset’ whereas you obviously meant "declining mindset”! Joking aside, perhaps the time has come to drop the #FarRight label and use #LoonyRight which, nowadays, is far more appropriate and accurate 🙂
Show threadJames 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺2d ago
@ChrisMayLA6 Narcissitic abusers are often both bully and victim - victim of the response to their bullying. I see no difference here. I see no difference with the Right. It is an abuse fractal comprised of individual abusers. It's abusers all the way down.
Show threadBruce Simpson, Ph.D.2d ago
@ChrisMayLA6 I thought the late Glenda Jackson MP unpacked the meaning of the term "black propaganda" (which is what I think you're looking for here) rather well: https://politicsandinsights.org/2014/07/10/black-propaganda/
Black Propaganda

During a universal credit debate in the House of Commons, the Labour MP, Glenda Jackson, responded to the news that Sir Bob Kerslake had informed the Public Accounts Committee that the business cas…

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Show threadHerefordrob2d ago
@ChrisMayLA6
Old men acting like toddlers, whilst ru(ling)ining the world. My hope is the majority at some point claim back agency. And claim back the experiment of democracy.
Show threadPaul Healey2d ago
@ChrisMayLA6 When U.S. and U.K. activists warned the people that their governments had co-opted the science and tech of National Socialism, not enough listened. They are listening now. The shock wave of the criminal civilisation destroyer resulting from ‘wait and see’, is actually being felt. Too many are being blown up, shot to pieces, dying from disease, thirst and hunger. In or out of large scale endless chauvinist and racist wars is not a future that is sustainable, ethically or morally. The people also have to move beyond their sexism and ableism to rise up and take their power back. No alliance of Nations can end the absurdity of the few tax and benefit billionaires invested in the destroyers death cults! #TheAbsurdity #WW3 #WeakMen #CyberneticAssimilation #FascistTech