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Could you please be more vague?

What “specific family of ideologies”?

What “specific narrative”?

If it is so specific, surely you could say what it is…



He's talking about the frankfurt school, and its use of the Critical theory (aka the ouija board of social theories that you can analyze any minor difference with as long as you want the outcome to be there's an oppressor/oppressed situation here and it requires a bloody revolution) to foment radicalism and revolutionary violence in any group it can get its hooks into. The schools influences include the greatest hits of 18th and 19th century quackery, including marxism and Freudian psycho analysis, along with special guest, a blast from the past Idealism! Notable members of the Frankfurt school include Herbert Marcuse who is most known for being one of the three authors of Repressive Tolerance, a 123 page exercise in how to say we need to kill a whole bunch of people until the repression free utopia emerges from the pools of blood, without actually saying we need to kill people outright.


This doesn't make any sense. Not once have I ever heard "Massive advertising companies" say any of that. What are you talking about?


Reminds me a lot of the Let's Go Brandon crowd. The explicit and literal point of the First Amendment is that you're allowed to say "Fuck Joe Biden" loud and proud with no repercussions. Ditto for any other politician. Self-censorship to prove a non-existent point is totally backwards and self-defeating and demonstrates the level of civic understanding at play there.


Let’s Go Brandon became a meme because a news anchor censored the crowd obviously chanting “fuck Joe Biden!” on air.

People were mocking actual censorship in the media, by repeating the phrase — often accompanied by “fuck Joe Biden”, as in the numerous tracks about the meme. Which were also censored at first (eg, on iTunes).

How you got from that to “self-censorship to prove a non-existent point” is mystifying.


> It started at an Oct. 2 NASCAR race at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. Brandon Brown, a 28-year-old driver, had won his first Xfinity Series and was being interviewed by an NBC Sports reporter. The crowd behind him was chanting something at first difficult to make out. The reporter suggested they were chanting “Let’s go, Brandon” to cheer the driver. But it became increasingly clear they were saying: “F—- Joe Biden.”

https://apnews.com/article/lets-go-brandon-what-does-it-mean...

So, no, the crowd was not "censored" by a news anchor.

The adoption of "Let's Go Brandon" as a euphimism for "Fuck Joe Biden" may well have been tongue in cheek, but it wasn't mocking media censorship.


Its like the Danny-Wah event in that show Veep.


> The reporter suggested they were chanting “Let’s go, Brandon” to cheer the driver. But it became increasingly clear they were saying: “F—- Joe Biden.”

They were mocking the news anchor censoring the truth by lying about what the crowd could clearly be heard saying.

Just like I said.




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