If only you could get people to believe that Chicken Little is running around like a chicken with its head cut off because the sky really is falling. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
more exploration of the manipulation of perception
do you ever wonder where headlines like this come from or how so many suddenly seem to be in such lockstep around them?
well let’s have a look, shall we?
i recently discussed the playbook of the oxford climate journalism network. one such play was this:
in fact, the news story at the top is what you get if you click on their “UN heat officer” link so the association is theirs, not mine.
but what got me really interested was the UCL climate action unit and i thought to myself, “gato, that sounds a lot like a behavioral economics nudge unit but maybe a bit scarier and less ethical!” but of course, that could just be me, “mr cynical paws” engaging in my own biases and predilections so i thought, “well, let’s go see what they have to say about themselves!”
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People who read that without LMFAO or thinking what is the ulterior motive is the problem, like the great Czech letter to the editor that said…Obama (the ONE!) isn’t the problem, the problem is a society stupid enough to elect him.
If I hear any Gaia climate cult horseshit or Brandon is doing a great job, it is get up and walk out time, even it is just trolling for a reaction.
A box wine Auntie said this over at Bro’s and her son-in-law got up and left! (h/t-To Him)
Too many demographics, too many Lo-Fo voter boat anchors, too much gibsmedat.
Whew! What a Gordian Knot.
This just in from Goodie Mob:
Soul Food (Instrumental)