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  Humor is a Danger to Our Democracy, Australian Political Scientists Claim Humor, Ridicule, and the Far Right: Mainstreaming Exclusion Through Online Animation IGOR CHUDOV Dear Readers: I am sorry for sprinkling  humor and sarcasm  throughout my Substack posts. My apologies! Had I known that social scientists Jordan McSwiney and Kurt Sengul  found   the use of humor and ridicule to be an insidious attack on our democracy , I would certainly avoid even a trace of sarcasm or humor in my articles! https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/15274764231213816 According to the authors, the evil far-right forces invented a novel, innovative, and subversive discursive technique called  humor . It is broadly accepted that contemporary far-right actors, be they parties, movements, or activists, are savvy media performers ( Wodak 2021 ) who employ a range of innovative communication strategies to exploit the highly mediatized and hybridized political landscape. A ...

Few people in the West realize there are Palestinian Christians in Gaza who are accepted by their Islamic neighbors, and yet we are told by Zionists that Muslims want to wipe out the "infidels".   Palestinian Christians, a history of oppression and displacement - The Stones Cry Out The history of the oppression of Palestinian Christians is often ignored VANESSA BEELEY Quinn Coffey  - A final, and particularly striking  comment  was made by Rev. Ateek’s in his 2010 address to the  Christ at the Checkpoint  conference, ‘Jesus was a Palestinian who was born under occupation. Jesus lived under occupation. Everything he taught, everything he said was done under occupation, exactly the way we live today.’ I am going to be writing about the Christian Palestinian oppression by Zionist Christians in Palestine over the next few days but I wanted to share this movie about the fate of Palestinian Christians from 1947 onwards: The Stones Cry Out Movie Website ...

  Impoverishing Everyone to Save Gaia Brandon J. Weichert  •  Welcome to your ecochondriacal future, Detroit. Detroit is a city that has been  wasted  by the ravages of globalization. Once the hub of the world's automotive industry, by the late twentieth century, much of America's manufacturing industry  had been shipped  overseas. By the time of the Great Recession of 2008, Detroit was on the front lines of economic devastation of that crisis. Today, Detroit is a shadow of its past glory. Yes, it has still  recovered  somewhat from the lows of a decade ago; after all, there was no way to go but up. That, however, won't stop the extreme environmentalist lobby of the Democratic Party-- the Ecochondriacs who believe we must sacrifice ourselves to save hallowed Mother Earth -- from trying to destroy whatever is left of the once great Motor City. Detroit's mayor, Mike Duggan,  believes  that now was the time for his ailing cit...