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Yarvin serves exactly one purpose, and that is to spread the idea that this country would be better served by a dictatorship of capital, spearheaded by tech elites and their allies in government.

Donald Trump’s election is a morale booster for far-right politicians like Viktor Orbán, Javier Milei, and Giorgia Meloni. Having pioneered many of the destructive, reactionary ideas associated with Trumpism, they’re now aspiring to global hegemony.

The changes by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp, could have far-reaching and dire effects.

Social Self-Defense Has Begun

Amazon Closes Its Operations in Quebec, Laying Off 1,700 Workers

I’m a propagandist, I’ll twist the truth, I’ll put forward only my version of it if I think that’s going to propagandise people to believe what I need them to believe.

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If America is going to survive this, communicating strategically isn’t just a job for politicians and professional commentators. Defeating Trump’s fire-hose strategy must be on your to-do list, too.

“This executive order is essentially a Trojan horse for embryonic and fetal personhood,” says Kulsoom Ijaz, senior staff attorney at Pregnancy Justice. “They are smuggling this ideology into federal policy.”

Sometimes “all natural” is far better, but other times nature tries to kill us. We need health policy guided by data that recognizes the harms of both sugary drinks and infectious threats. Americans shouldn’t have to choose.