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An explanation and warning from #MatthewCooke https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMYUWBoSbms/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Apartheid Is The Existential Threat
#MatthewCooke
#US #Politics #Economics #Academia #Fahrenheit451 #Project2025 #Despotism #WhiteSupremacy #ChristianNationalism #Trump #TrumpRegime #AmericanApartheid #IsraeliApartheid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6T35wyKQyM

@debacle @thevril @pluralistic

#XMPP #Messenger #SocialMedia ownership

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...described, would, strategically speaking, be an excellent solution for society to re-own its #DigitalMarketSquare, or as US film maker and storyteller #MatthewCooke, phrased it:

👉 "Should Society Own its Social Media"?

IMHO: OFC!!!👈

IMO, it is the chief requisite of maintaining its individual freedom!

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110281325520572275

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@willbunch @GottaLaff

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...today is rigged, 👈..."

And you, know what, the #AmericanRight is right: absolutely everything of the #AmericanExperiment *has been rigged...but in their favor!*

As #MatthewCooke explains:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110165312256815112

So, by having tried to slowly "un-rig" the system through the #NewDeal (e.g. #Italians were originally not seen as #Whites) and such...

@ryanschultz

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Relying on the overview @stefan prepared on #JoinTheFediverse.net and strongly believing like #matthewcooke
that society, not #billionaires or #corporations should own their #SocialMedia and their content, yes, it is the only remaining #Fediverse alternative, then, to my knowledge.

I have not tried it myself, though. This is purely from a strategic point of view.

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110516910432138371

*There is a short thread of mine here that...

@feditips

@philip_cardella@historians.social @GottaLaff

I did not know about this, but it pinpoints the learned statement by #MatthewCooke that the #US are a #SlaverNation where this adverse legacy permeats almost all institutions of the #US government:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110290887658140612

@Npars01 @rbreich

...and the #GreatDepression.

Listening to #MatthewCooke's American Origin Stories finally convinced me that all #US institutions were set up chiefly to protect the "landed gentry." #Billionaires are the new #aristocracy, and they are not benign. In a #feudal society, #fealty was rewarded by the feudal lord. Today, everyone is just a disposable "input factor."
We live in a virtually global #plutocracy.
This must be remedied.
Back to 70-90% income-tax...

@CStamp

#History #US #Europe
*On #Racism*

Very true.
Also, as #MatthewCooke in his #podcast series #AmericanOriginStories puts it,👉"the #US are a #SlaverNation." 👈All its institutions were built defending the landed gentry. (I learned a lot of new details of US history from it.)

https://i.sonnet.fm/qLiqAW2LBYG87ay57

#Europe, on the other hand, did have a history of #slavery and #racism (e.g. against #Jews and #Muslims), but its institutions...
@victoriadecapua @ricardoharvin @MelodyCooper @BlackAzizAnansi

@atomicpoet
Film maker and storyteller #MatthewCooke has two excellent episodes in his #podcast series on the impact of #SocialMedia on society.
This is no easy listening, but chilling and enlightening.

S1E4 talks exactly about this issue: Should Society Own its Social Media

https://getpodcast.com/podcast/survivors-guide-to-earth/should-society-own-its-social-media_f7060ec883

The follow-up is in S1E6:
Mastering the Media Matrix

https://getpodcast.com/podcast/survivors-guide-to-earth/mastering-the-media-matrix_3127839c39

Everybody wondering about #SM's impact on society should've heard about Marshal #McCluhan

👉American Origin Stories👈

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Are the #US on a road to a #NewCivilWar or to a resolution of #SystemicRacism?

Truthful history education in the #US would be quintessential, yes, but very hard, because the US are built as a #SlaverNation right from the start, as film maker #MatthewCooke brilliantly argues in the episode "Slaver Nation" of his #podcast, #AmericanOriginStories:

#Slavery' s been an integral part since its founding, woven into the very fabric of all #US nation-building for centuries, not just the, say..

Book cover in black and white, devided by a vertical rupture in the middle, the left being black on white, the right being white on black.

Caption:
"The Next Civil War

Dispatches from the American Future

By Stephen Marche

About The Book

“Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Well researched and eloquently presented.” —The Atlantic * “Delivers Cormac McCarthy-worthy drama; while the nonfictional asides imbue that drama with the authority of documentary.” —The New York Times Book Review

A celebrated journalist takes a fiercely divided America and imagines five chilling scenarios that lead to its collapse, based on in-depth interviews with experts of all kinds.

The United States is coming to an end. The only question is how."

Source:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Next-Civil-War/Stephen-Marche/9781982123222

@noondlyt
@dannotdaniel
You are absolutely right.
And the extremely negative impact of privately controlled, (tweaked) #algorithm fueled #SocialMedia platforms like #Twitter and #Facebook, as well as its mind- and reality-changing impact on humanity are scientifically proven.