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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 49m

Dave Troy's a real person. Here he is, giving a TED talk back in 2022: www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Ul...

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How to fight back against information warfare | David Troy | TEDxBoston

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 8h

Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 1h

That said, that doesn't mean they'd scrap the idea altogether. I won't speculate particulars, but what might change might only be the method, not the event, especially if Trump feels he'd lose face by calling the whole thing off. Friends, we're in really dark times.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 1h

This shows that Trump's advisers actually understand the value of propaganda. The execution was to be a propaganda piece that invigorated MAGA's bloodlust. The whole point would be thwarted by the optics here: MAGAs would feel ashamed & disgusted. It's actually not worth the spectacle.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 4h

I need someone to give me room to write about this moment in anti Muslim hate because there’s a reason Nidal Hassan is who is being killed by live firing squad. And it’s the same reason Ilhans house was raided.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 1h

"OMG, he let us look so ridiculous! How dare he!"

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 2h

This is where I first heard of Mazzig, back in 2024: the comedic antics of Matt Lieb & Daniel Maté on Bad Hasbara: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwph... Upper left is a still of a panel where Owen Jones and Mazzig debated Israel's strike on the World Central Kitchen convoy.

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Bad Hasbara 22: Hen Pecked

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 2h

Then, Mazzig's final sentence inverts reality, in that he's the one pitching propaganda to the audience. Yet he assures that his ideological opponents are really the ones propagandizing. Scores of genocide scholars & other experts have deemed Israel's actions as genocide. That's not propaganda.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 2h

Of course "genocide is not a benchmark Palestinians have to prove to earn goodwill." This statement is pure gaslighting, as advocates for Palestinians are the ones who'd be saying this to genocidaires. As Palestinians are people, they deserve goodwill. They certainly don't deserve mass murder.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 2h

As genocide scholars pointed out long before Oct 7, genocide often occurs under the color of war. Then Mazzig talks about "proofs," which when examined are nonsensical. Indeed, observing the reality on the ground in Gaza is not, as he puts it, "ignor[ing] reality." He's transforming up into down.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 2h

I've posted about double binds before. bsky.app/profile/nova... There are key phrases here that leap out, but mainly the issue stems from his defining the conflict as a "horrific war" right off the bat. For Israel apologists, it's a war, therefore not a genocide. These are not mutually exclusive.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 2h

This is an incredible amount of bullsht & out-and-out gaslighting. Hen Mazzig, if you didn't know, is a propagandist for Israel. He goes on shows like Piers Morgan & spouts hasbara (Israeli propaganda) all the time. What he's attempting to do here is create a double bind in his opponents.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 3h

Exposure to bigotry causes moral injury, whether you're the target or simply within earshot. Closeness to cruelty creates callousness.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 6h

"Now it is true that one of the crew members is ill. SLIGHTLY ill. The other two pilots are just fine" www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvuI...

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Airplane! (1980) long nose

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 7h

The book is better than the movie, believe it or not. Anthony Burgess. You might give it a whirl.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 7h

I guess another way to take it is that he means to retire the moniker 'Republican' after he leaves office, but that's unexciting and rather unenforceable. Some future person could rechristen a party as the Republicans. Anyway, it's a weird thing for Trump to say.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 7h

Just hazarding guesses here. I see two ways of interpreting this claim. 1. He intends to change the type of government the US has. Instead of a presidency, there'd be some other highest office. (Monarch? God-Emperor? 🤷🏽‍♀️) 2. He plans to revamp the country outright, making what we know today v1.0.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 8h

You might find this interesting, Will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUa9... Also, do you do a lot of reading of neuroscience journals? If you're interested in this topic overall, you should.

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How Brain Waves and Electric Fields Really Create Consciousness

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 21h

Again, you have missed key moments from the timeline if you think the criticisms against Longwell primarily (but also the Bulwark by extension) are unwarranted. They are very much warranted, because of the role that Longwell played in extending the depth & life of the smears launched by Third way.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 22h

This is the closed loop of the cult. Trump is the epistemic value that gives their world consistency. Trump himself is inconstant, yet his words in toto form the only constant marker (even if they're a moving target). Having discredited all other sources of info, Trump is the arbiter of what's real.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 22h

To expand on this window into Trump's world, you have on the one hand indulgence in magical thinking (i.e., making a result "manifest" simply by speaking it into being). OTOH, he's saying that you — the broader public — believe the two sides agree because Trump said so. His word dictates reality.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

You say this as though Harris was going to significantly deviate from Biden's position. She was not. Your "gotcha" doesn't work in this instance. How do we know? Her team told us. bsky.app/profile/nova...

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is the second time in a week that someone has assaulted a protester at a Trump rally (why is he doing rallies?), which I noted then that the incident recalled a similar one last month in the UK, at a Reform UK event. This is fascism in action, at the grassroots level.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"there are two genocidal parties to that conflict. Hamas is every bit as bad." Genocide includes means as well as intent. Only one party has had requisite means. Hint: it's not the one you named.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Standpoint epistemology also says that Black Americans have privilege. What's important is the context in which this claim is spoken.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

You are incorrect, Chait's apparent summation notwithstanding. Piker has repeatedly stated that he's enthusiastically in favor of pluralist democracy. It's plain.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Anything at all to make the Muslim Other as predator. Incredible.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Incorrect. He's very much for pluralistic democracy. You are reading a slanted piece.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026

The Atlantic publishing their Hasan Piker deep dive the day the President raids Ilhan Omar's home is also one hell of a contrast.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

That bus driver should have ejected that unruly passenger. That's fully within the driver's purview.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think the raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar's D.C. home has really brought this reality back directly in sight: we're not "approaching" fascism or "backsliding" from democracy. We are fully in authoritarianism, and we are in real danger of that newly minted authoritarianism becoming totalitarianism.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The more we argue about 2024 and its outcome, it's as though we (collectively speaking) never have to face where we are today. There's something masturbatory about churning through the ill-fated Harris candidacy, esp. if one isn't looking for what could have been improved, what lessons we can glean.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

As we near the midterms, many folks are re-litigating the outcome of the 2024 election. While some of these discussions are interesting as thought exercises and, hopefully, cautionary tales, it seems some entrench themselves here to avoid observing one salient fact: we're immersed in fascism.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Even Gov. Walz now openly admits that Harris and her team chased the wrong voters. They were seeking moderate Repubs, either out of ideological parity or because they wanted to effectively sub them in for the Gaza-first voters (whose vote they did not even seek). That's where the culpability lies.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Which came first, Biden contributing to an active genocide or voters sitting out the 2024 election? Seems like actions have consequences. I say this as someone who voted for Harris.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Biden demoralized a great deal of voters who otherwise would have been in the Democratic coalition. When he stepped aside, there was an opportunity to recapture those voters. This was squandered, first by allowing Biden to handpick his successor; then by Harris refusing to repudiate his ME policy.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

You are misguided if you believe that people are forced to vote, especially if you think they're forced to vote the way you want. There is no penalty in this country for not voting. Thus, it is incumbent upon the candidate and the party/org supporting him/her to turn out the vote.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Robert P Jones recently noted, re: Christian nationalism, that "all you really have to do is keep out any critique....You don’t have to overtly teach [it]; you just keep it from being critiqued.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o... Neolib Dems similarly seem to want no critique (thus, no Piker).

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The demoralization that occurred in the Democratic party is a direct result of a failure on the part of Harris and her team. Stop trying to parcel out blame to individual voters when the principal (the candidate) has the lion's share of influence on stimulating turnout.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There aren't enough Muslim voters, on their own, to have affected the 2024 vote results. Stop scapegoating. In terms of the Uncommitted mvmt, I did some preliminary digging into the numbers a couple of years ago. This is very granular (but not crunched) data. novapsyche.substack.com/p/biden-is-d...

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Biden is determined to miss Uncommitted's message

Jonathan Capehart recently snagged an interview with President Biden, which aired on MSNBC over the weekend.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Dave Troy is a respected voice in governmental information sciences. If he says be skeptical, well, I'm inclined toward skepticism anyway.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

FEDERAL AGENTS FINALLY LEAVE REP. ILHAN OMAR'S HOME AFTER MORE THAN FIVE HOURS

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Do not trust Marjorie Taylor Greene, despite these words.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I suspect reactions will trickle in, as representatives are not in session and so are not out in front of cameras where reporters can ask for comment. Jeffries, of course, should release a statement, if he hasn't already. Senators might weigh in, and I would hope they will. Gov. Walz has done so.

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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Then you agree that Harris should have done more to attract votes so as to make sure this reality never happened. You have already, or are in real danger, of losing the plot.

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