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How the media would describe this in another country: "This is designed to cripple their universities, seen as a center of resistance to the regime"
by davidw 1y ago
How the media would describe this in another country: "This is designed to cripple their universities, seen as a center of resistance to the regime"
- trealira 1y agoIt wouldn't be wrong in this case, either.
- z2 1y agoStarting recipe for a revolution of a more cultural nature, from a half-dozen historical cases: - Target schools as centers of dissent and either co-opt or failing that, dismantle them. - Portray 'intellectuals' as enemies of the people or agents of foreign/cosmopolitan influence. Use the state apparatus is to punish, exile, or eliminate intellectuals to make examples of them and enforce ideological conformity. - Elevate the the "common man" or "true proletariat" as the ideal citizen embodying folk wisdom, in opposition to educated elites. - Frame any opposition as existential threats to the nation's values or vitality; invoke religious or nationalist themes.
- xk_id 1y agoWould you say this comment needed major changes, in order for a MAGA supporter to feel that it is applicable against his own political adversaries?
- tremon 1y agoThe choice of words doesn't affect how a MAGA supporter "feels" about anything. It matters much more who says them and in what tone.
- archagon 1y ago> Later in the recording, Yarvin said that after a hypothetical authoritarian president was inaugurated in January, “you can’t continue to have a Harvard or a New York Times past since perhaps the start of April”. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvi...