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Mean World Syndrome
The theory describes a cognitive bias that arises from heavy exposure to violent mass media, including that which overemphasizes crime. The worst of it — local TV news, Fox News, and Nextdoor — cultivates support for mass incarceration and authoritarianism.
Instead, we should trust our instincts and not let liberals browbeat us into conformity and passivity. It's time to forgo usual dinner party etiquette and act in line with our sense of looming danger.
Btw, #TheInvitation is free to stream on #Kanopy right now (at least in #Oakland).
Have you seen The Invitation?
I feel like, as a society, we are living through a similar scenario. Everyone is being polite, afraid of offending anyone or breaking decorum, despite clear signs that we're in the presence of a dangerous cult about to run amok.
Here's video of the last two actual arrestees at this gate being marched to a police bus, a delay, then the very last occupier brought through this gate being released.
Perhaps there's an innocuous reason, but this person, the last "arrestee" brought out of #HamiltonHall through the gate at the bottom of stairs last night, was released on the spot.
Everyone else seen on this TV news live shot being brought out of the building by police was marched straight down the stairs and up the sidewalk to the police bus, but this person had her zip ties cut off and was released just before the nearby bus full of arrestees drove away.
Why was this person released and the others not?
I'd forgotten that it was #OJSimpson prosecutor #ChrisDarden who coined the euphemism "n-word" during the trial in 1995.
https://garrisonhayes.substack.com/p/from-ner-to-n-word-and-exciting-news
US ‘quietly’ approved military sales to Israel since Oct 7: Report
The Washington Post reports that the United States has “quietly approved and delivered more than 100 separate foreign military sales to Israel since the Gaza war began on October 7, US officials told members of Congress in a recent classified briefing”.
All but a couple of weapons transfers were processed without public debate “because each fell under a specific dollar amount that requires the executive branch to individually notify Congress, according to US officials and lawmakers”, reported the newspaper.
Gaza famine massacre...
More than 100 Palestinians were killed and 700 others wounded when Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City
Commanders in the Israeli military have in recent weeks begun instructing soldiers to set fire to residential homes in Gaza without the necessary legal approval, reports the Haaretz newspaper.
Soldiers have destroyed several hundred buildings this way, according to Haaretz, citing information provided by unnamed sources.
