In this model, the backlash to climate scientists was grassroots, spontaneous, and had literally nothing to do with the billions spent by fossil fuel companies and their lobbying arms to actively spread lies that they knew full well were lies.
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The same model can apply to any issue: women, people of color, immigrants, LGBT (esp. trans) people, homeless people, poor people, etc. All of these groups are presented as causing their own problems and creating their own opposition.
sep 1, 2025, 6:10 pm • 13 1 • view
Add in Jews. And if anyone thinks, “Well, but Jews really cause the hatred against them” then they’ve been brainwashed in the exact same way as what you mention here.
sep 1, 2025, 8:23 pm • 1 0 • view
But in each case, there's an opposing team trying to defeat them, to put them or keep them down. In reactionary politics, that opposition thrives by making itself invisible. We should surface it every chance we get.
sep 1, 2025, 6:10 pm • 20 5 • view
Doc Harvey, that's one of the clearest depictions of this issue I've seen. I'd add only that if I'm not actually a spectator "at the game," but just hearing bits and piece of it (for myriad reasons), I'm getting increasingly discouraged. Pretty soon I'm not going to listen to any more games.
sep 1, 2025, 6:32 pm • 4 0 • view
Agreed. And I think it's important to maintain that distinction between players and spectators (and, probably, vendors at the stadium).
sep 1, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view
The vendors 😆
sep 1, 2025, 6:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Plenty of grift to go around!
sep 1, 2025, 6:43 pm • 3 0 • view