🧵 Reactionaries need conservatives to support them to gain power. And they do this principally by lying that the left "are the real extremists."

Below is a chart you might see often. It's worth considering. Besides the study's problematic questions, it's not measuring politicians. It should be.

This is a great analysis of why conservatives feel persecuted for others simply existing or being acknowledged.

It’s fear their identity and choices will stop being mainstream or normal. That’s why they get upset at Happy Holidays (acknowledging other religious celebrations exist) versus Merry Christmas.

Forgot to cross-post this a few days ago:

Following up on the "dining while Black" thing, and how Black people know and have always known, how many white folk in the US would have supported this Trump admin, while white Dems greatly underestimated it.

Imagine these 4 men are servers at a restaurant.

White diners don't notice a difference🤷🏿‍♂️

I broke down the “Antifa Roundtable”—which amounted to an immersive horror experience to entertain one person: Donald Trump.

All dictators need conspiracy theories and “invisible enemies.”
If this one takes hold, the results will be no different.
https://www.mind-war.com/p/the-antifa-experience-millers-immersive

The much-hyped SIM farm the Secret Service seized uses readily available off the shelf tech that, very interestingly, has also become critical to ticket scalping. I, like others, am extremely not buying the idea that this was intended to take down the cell network

https://www.404media.co/the-sim-farm-hardware-seized-by-the-secret-service-is-also-popular-with-ticket-scalpers/

https://bsky.app/profile/iceblock.app/post/3lmzykc7rb42d

Apple stores which devices/users install which apps. They have the device IDs. US government could obtain a list of people who installed the app if a court authorized it. Not clear what they mean by having to store device IDs. Those IDs aren't accessible to Android apps.