@johnrobb 'Government authoritarians'? A quaint signifier, at this point. TikTok? It loudly, notably, identified the emergence of Authoritarian World government, in effect. Hence the transnational crackdown. It's World War III, not as we anticipated it, but exactly as McLuhan prophesized.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Iyad el-Baghdadi Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1881025411632800109 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Israel didn’t just normalize relations with these dictators, it sold them hacking software that they used against pro-democracy activists: Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Bottom Arabic tweet after ‘سمو’", "reason": "Remaining sentence physically cropped below first line in full original. Visible line recovered; no exact Arabic source in supplied saved text."}, {"passage": "Iyad news URL suffix", "reason": "Image truncates timesofisrael.com/report-israel-…; exact suffix unavailable in saved software-tweet source. Neighbouring Haaretz link belongs to different tweet."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: إسرائيل بالعربية @IsraelArabic Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1881025411632800109 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. كبير حاخامات الجالية اليهودية في دول الخليج يعقوب إسرائيل يصلي لأجل شفاء سمو Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Bottom Arabic tweet after ‘سمو’", "reason": "Remaining sentence physically cropped below first line in full original. Visible line recovered; no exact Arabic source in supplied saved text."}, {"passage": "Iyad news URL suffix", "reason": "Image truncates timesofisrael.com/report-israel-…; exact suffix unavailable in saved software-tweet source. Neighbouring Haaretz link belongs to different tweet."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1867971070181114128 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @TanaGaneva It continues, of course - the diabolical concresence of a unified, transcultural, transnational militarist matrix, transcending religious and political identities; the Country Club gang and their 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' scheme of planetary authoritarianism. t.co/ip1AkA5RxA Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Bottom @IsraelArabic tweet after ‘سمو’", "reason": "Original image ends immediately beneath its first Arabic line; remaining sentence and any following lines are physically cropped. No matching Arabic text in saved sources; visible line recovered separately."}, {"passage": "Iyad linked news URL", "reason": "Displayed as timesofisrael.com/report-israel-…; omitted URL suffix cannot be recovered from this image or saved neighbouring tweet."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Iyad Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1598423402523811840 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @DrHananAshrawi Country Club authoritarianism, making Gazans of us all. “There is a clear sense among Arab dictators that all of their sins can be forgiven if they ally with Israel." - @iyad_elbaghdadi Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Bottom Arabic tweet after ‘سمو’", "reason": "Remaining sentence physically cropped below first line in full original. Visible line recovered; no exact Arabic source in supplied saved text."}, {"passage": "Iyad news URL suffix", "reason": "Image truncates timesofisrael.com/report-israel-…; exact suffix unavailable in saved software-tweet source. Neighbouring Haaretz link belongs to different tweet."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1394324235892314116 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @citizenlab @ShakiraSecurity The control complex of Crusader, Jihadist and Zionist, in cahoots. The Country Club cabal, making Gazans of the rest of us. t.co/UXeHtC3Er7 Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Bottom @IsraelArabic tweet after ‘سمو’", "reason": "Original image ends immediately beneath its first Arabic line; remaining sentence and any following lines are physically cropped. No matching Arabic text in saved sources; visible line recovered separately."}, {"passage": "Iyad linked news URL", "reason": "Displayed as timesofisrael.com/report-israel-…; omitted URL suffix cannot be recovered from this image or saved neighbouring tweet."}]
Open original document@DoubleDownNews Pete Berkman: "When the environment is invisible, the path of least resistance is determined by the medium itself. Our plans plan us. In order to recover human agency over technique, the invisible environment has to be made visible. “Apocalypse,” McLuhan says, “is our salvation.”
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Copy of tweet here: @nick_routledge Exactly. The functional totalitarianism of an interlocking, global, techno-industrial control-complex serving the weaponized exceptionalism of elite structures of power profitably and militantly vested in a form of Final Solution to unmanageable social tensions and inequalities. @nick_routledge · Nov 9, 2023 Replying to @nick_routledge and @washingtonpost 2/ It's now endemic, of course, the devastating obscenity of a global militarist-media complex wedded through pen and sword to a universalized form of psychotic exceptionalism and its diabolical consecration of a terror war endlessly targeting internal scapegoat and foreign foe. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? “Ultimately there is only one factor upon which the shape of history depends: the moral conduct of the nations." - Abraham Joshua Heschel