"The responsibility of intellectuals is to speak the truth and expose lies."

–Noam Chomsky

#Chomsky emphasizes that those who have knowledge and influence must use their intellect to challenge falsehoods and reveal the truth. Intellectuals, whether scholars, journalists, or thinkers, have a duty to question power structures and educate the public. Silence in the face of deception allows misinformation to spread unchecked.

One of the lesser-known findings of the infamous Milgram Experiment was that if ONE person protested, it broke the logjam of apathy, and others were able to resist too.

You aren't alone. Question authority: you're only saying what everyone else is thinking.

Timothy Snyder - On Tyranny 20 things to do. #timothysnyder #ontyranny #america #resist #refuse #organize #record #publish #journalism #share #spreadawareness #questionauthority #trump #elon #gop #fascism #rightwing #standup #pushback

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vgoqwcb5lcn4z227mfntg5eb/post/3lgtmvju2nc2j

"Der Kampf gegen die Drogen ist ein Vorwand zur Verstärkung der gesellschaftlichen Repression: Streifzüge der Polizei - aber auch zur Verherrlichung des normalen, rationalen, bewußten und angepaßten Menschen"

M. Foucault, Subversion des Wissens

The fix is in. I hate our country ruled by the choices of Fox-brainwashed MAGAts and the money-grubbing Democrats too timid to lift a finger to stop them.

Words. Go-nowhere indictments. More words. Go-nowhere prosecutions. End the prosecutions. More words. No actions. Just more words. No progress. Just more words. Nope. Going to be a peaceful transfer of power. Democrats jail themselves with their own words. "Free and fair elections" is a bullshit scam. Gerrymandering, voter suppression, voter intimidation, poll worker intimidation, never-ending streams of threats and blackmail. That fair? When Democrats get one polling place for millions of voters but Republicans get many for far fewer? When it's illegal to even provide water to people in those lines?

Our elections are theft by the wealthy, as they've always been. The only thing that has changed is the passivity of the voters. Now they don't have to do backroom deals. They can arrest the patsies for sharing bottled water.

Trump did not win anything. He was handed it on a silver platter.

BTW, if Putin loses in Ukraine, the new Cold War ends, leaving trillions of dollars of blood money on the killing floor. Harris was scary. She might have helped Ukraine win, and she might have taxed billionaires a tiny bit more than the nothing they're taxed now.

YET SHE IS A CENTRIST DEMOCRAT!

Imagine the pants pissing if AOC were the candidate.

It was a scam. We were hoodwinked. We need to realize it and behave accordingly.

Sorry. The RNC-DNC money machine is nobody's friend.

If you thought 2016 was a debacle, wait for the reviews of 2024, 8 years on.

Putin and Trump divvy up Ukraine for the billionaires who own us all.

https://m.ai6yr.org/@headlines_bot/113561235025217939

The technique is to accuse your opponent of something they don't do, something you might have done yourself or would like to do, and then send your surrogates out to ask hypothetical questions of your opponent on friendly media outlets about that thing your opponent doesn't do. Questions like, "Why do they think they can win when they say they want to defund the police? That just doesn't go over where I live."

Also, it seems like it just takes one (1) Democrat to say something triggering, often when upset, to give Republican attack dogs food for media kennels barking propaganda to last for years.

It takes all (100%) of corporate media to not succeed in changing anyone's opinion about anything, because it's made up of siloed echo chambers, and homogeneity aside, all of the people they'd want to persuade are somewhere else, hearing completely different echoes.

All hail Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk. The media is the message.

The planetary war machine runs exclusively on fossil fuels. The first to abandon their use entirely gets the Ukraine treatment. They abandoned nuclear weapons because we, in the spirit of COP29, said we'd always protect them from attack.

May I remind y'all of a forgotten 60's meme:

#QuestionAuthority

I wish I had the clout of a real man, like Joe Rogan. He'd never sell America out to a traitor. Oops. Sorry. I digressed because it's all connected.

#COP29

https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/113452365303488196

Advancement, whether as individuals or as a collective, requires scepticism. But to #QuestionAuthority effectively, one needs theory and method -- a way to do so in a constructive way. Saying "nuh-uh" isn't enough. You need to know why.

Added a couple more stickers to my protest drum #QuestionAuthority #ACAB #HuntSaboteurs #Unify #Solidarity #ProtestDrum #Protest #NoisyProtest #Dissent #DirectAction

https://web.facebook.com/radiantdwebdesigns/posts/pfbid02HEUDN7z1r9a4M9rcczqZnvJqdgmDF8MnBuYZaShgyQSW2BXxrCfgnc4zbz3ap4nXl

No Chubby Checker, I'm not doing the Twist. No, Madonna, I WON'T come on and/or Vogue. I WILL NOT DO THE LOCOMOTION, KYLIE. #QuestionAuthority #BeUngovernable

May 4th, 1970 Do not forget them, we were all children then.
#QuestionAuthority
https://youtu.be/JCS-g3HwXdc

https://www.science.org/content/article/people-catch-omicron-are-less-likely-get-long-covid
Mmmm okay..but riddle me this, can we really call #xbb116 #xbb115 an #omicron & how’s about #deltacron ?

#minimizers making me question #reality when #PrecautionaryPrinciple should be guiding us PLUS unchecked #mutations & never-ending #variants but sure, #everythingIsJustFine
#nope

here’s the thing, DATA IS FROM MAY 2022…
even IF it were true (BIG HUGE IF) it’s<than relevant but most will take this as gospel b/c #authority a science journal said so#questionAuthority