Media On The Couch

🧵Thanks, we need more widespread education on propaganda. Just as importantly, we need to explore *why* we are vulnerable to it, and the psychological mechanism at play. Normal, empathic people are vulnerable because they project their own goodness onto others and naively presume no-one would ever try to manipulate/harm them. Normal, empathic people are disadvantaged because they simply cannot get their heads around the cold machinations of psychopathic, sociopathic peoples and systems… and the way they use the victim card to (a) play on emotions and (b) camouflage perpetrator goals. This needs to change. We need to catch up, do research on dark triad abusive behaviours and learn to identify the primary tool: gaslighting. Gaslighting is far worse than lying: it inverts and denies others’ reality and induces (measurable) confusion and helplessness. The gaslighters gain power and control (via framing and narrative creation) over the hapless, who are ignorant of the psychological mechanism at play. We need to understand this control dynamic far better. Become resistant to gaslighting by studying its mechanisms better. Read; watch youtube lectures. Once more of us can identify what’s at play - the gaslighting tactic of Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender (DARVO) - the more the red flags can be called out. Education is key. @fivefilters @ColdType1 @MaryKostakidis @anyaparampil @PanData19 @FiorellaIsabelM

😂 cc @21WIRE @Consortiumnews @SkyNewsBreak @RnaudBertrand @usatodayDC

Trump announcing the opening of the Strait of Hormuz:

If only more restaurants would do this

Turkey suffered its worst-ever school shooting this week as a 14-year-old boy murdered ten people. It's now being reported in Turkish media that the boy had recently started identifying as a 'girl' and had been videoing himself cross-dressing haberhergun.com/haber/okul-kat…

Now imagine you’re that daughter… whose “dads” purchased a woman’s womb and commissioned her birth… only to be abandoned when she turned out not to be what they ordered. Parents should never act like designers and children should never be treated like products. Our technology is making us less human(e).

This was the best piece produced by those guys

@rob_zuma @AshrafGarda DA minded in part by Israel-adjacent people? 💰 Hence the panic and loud deflections?

@AshrafGarda I fully agree with you

The biggest takeout from this video is not the own up to genocide question to Helen Zille , it’s not even her stock answer that what happens in Gaza Palestine has no direct impact on the people of South Arica, the biggest takeout is the panic and paranoia by the DA minders in the room. #GazaGenocide‌

@nxt888 Great thread comparing individual violence to *structural* violence

The hardest thing to explain to someone inside the imperial consensus is the concept of structural violence. They understand individual violence. One person harms another person. There is a perpetrator and a victim and a clear causal chain. What they cannot see, what the entire educational and media apparatus has been carefully designed to prevent them from seeing, is the violence that happens when a system is arranged so that certain people predictably die, predictably suffer, predictably lose, not because any individual decided to harm them specifically but because the overall arrangement of power requires their subordination. The people of the Global South do not die of poverty because individual Americans wish them dead. They die because the international economic architecture, the terms of trade, the debt structures, the conditions attached to IMF loans, the intellectual property regimes that prevent technology transfer, the agricultural subsidies that undercut developing world farmers, is arranged, in aggregate, in a way that concentrates wealth in already wealthy countries and extracts it from already poor ones. And that architecture was designed. It was negotiated. It was implemented by specific people in specific rooms making specific decisions about who would benefit and who would not. This is violence. It does not look like violence because no one is pulling a trigger. But the deaths it produces are just as dead. And when you try to explain this to someone whose entire identity rests on the belief that what they have they earned, and what others lack they failed to achieve, you are not making a political argument. You are dismantling the story that makes their life make sense. They will not thank you for it. They will defend against it with everything they have. Because the alternative, accepting that their comfort is downstream of other people's dispossession, is not a policy position. It is an identity catastrophe.

Cc @CapeTown @capepressclub @capetownmag

Israel is a depraved society far surpassing the racist brutality of the South African apartheid state. It is a criminal entity the likes of which I have never seen before … & I grew up in apartheid South Africa

Indeed the tagged are part of the project 😅 but should they never be disabused? One of the tagged persons embarrasses themselves via cognitive dissonance on an almost daily basis. Dissonance indicates inner tension, occasionally resolved via new awareness… Calling out the systemic ploys as they emerge (in this case the sanctions threat) highlights the high predictability of the Economic Hitman playbook. Calling these techniques out in real time is valuable education, maybe even from a suspect account? The more attention/daylight drawn to these ploys - the less effective they become.

@Factsmatter2 It's a diversion from the fact that they already have leverage over Ramaphosa and he effectively does their bidding anyway. Ironically, all the other people/orgs you tagged appear to be part of the broader project 😅 That Twitter account is also suspect.

The bullying begins cc @politicaleconZA @MaxduPreez @nickhedley @ForGoodZA @NelsonMandela

DA movers and shakers cc @Radio702 @CapeTalk @SAfmRadio @SABCNews @WitnessKZN @RediTlhabi @NoedineM

Hoping to cancel Christianity? Cc @LeMonde_EN @LMdiplo @CatholicHerald @Eglisecatho @ThuliMadonsela3 @RediTlhabi @rtenews @irishcatholic @LPOBryan

“The Messiah will return only once Edom, Europe , Christianity will be totally destroyed.” —Jewish rabbi

How is this even legal?? Did @jk_rowling get any payment for her contributions to ai?

Dubai has no gold mines by the way the gold you see here is made with the blood of Sudanese children

The final wave of feminism is when women submit to men pretending to be women.

Five types of politicians in the United States: 1. Bought by Israel 2. Blackmailed by Israel 3. Dual citizen of Israel 4. Scared of Israel 5. Killed by Israel

Pope Leo XIV says the world is 'being ravaged by a handful of tyrants'.