Originally from the Portuguese term for an object used as a focal point for religious veneration and as the material representation of a deity or spirit, usually in the context of indigenous forms of spirituality.
Looks like it got taken down. It's weird to me how everyone picks on Kabbalists, when most of them are avowed anti-Zionists. Kabbalah is a bit derpy, basically trying to use bastardised Hellenic numerology (Isopsephy) to backwards rationalise the BuyBull, but of all the Jews to get bent out of shape about, they're honestly among the least objectionable. Probably it's a Zionist psyop, because they know that Kabbalah is almost entirely associated with anti-Zionist Jews.
That newsweek article only mentions one company "Dominion" (based on Toronto Canada, aka: Diebold, Sequoia, Premier, ES&S, etc) whose machines are absolutely notorious for being as secure as a wet paper bag. The government usually tries to deflect by saying they're not connected to internet, or they're protected by physical security, but that's well known to be complete BS. The bureaucrats don't understand the tech and don't know what they're talking about, just whatever their PR people tell them to read off the teleprompter.
DEF Con has an annual voting machine hacking exhibit where random people including children as young as 6 years old successfully hack these machines, often in mere seconds, with and without physical access. The bureaucrats also don't account for how these machines are secured between elections where controls over physical and networked access (eg. to update firmware) are much more lax. You can also buy them used off ebay etc often for less than $100 each if you want to develop malware for them. Where I live in Canada the local government paid well above 6 figures for security consultants to audit a list of vendors before buying, and then proceeded to ignore their verdict and bought the absolute most vulnerable machines (made by Dominion) simply because they were produced locally. They were deployed right across the country and a large proportion of the machines malfunctioned (as expected) during subsequent elections, including by reporting bogus vote tabulations. Yet the government continues to do fuck all about it.
Hackers have been warning about this shit from day one, but bureaucrats dgaf.
That said, why go to the trouble of hacking the machines when you can just hack the opinions of gullible citizens using big data, AI and access to people's social media. That's why google and facebook etc were created with CIA VC (eg. In-Q-Tel) explicitly to do in the first place. Cambridge Analytica is a good case study, but it was just a sacrificial scapegoat, one of a dime a dozen still operating in full swing.
Anyway, I'd like to see your evidence that "They mercilessly went after states that had certain types of more secure voting machines", because frankly as far as I'm aware there's no such thing as a "more secure voting machine". They're all garbage, and this sounds like a massive cope to try and point the finger at orange Hitler because your party lost, when quite frankly it was entirely likely (based on the available evidence) they themselves hacked the vote in prior elections.
Huh. I never would have guessed. Must be some AI mashup. I also have no clue who Ariana Grande is nor why I should care. I really don't give a shit about celebrity thots.
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I think the earliest mention of her in text is from the story of Inanna and the Huluppu (ie. willow) tree. It prefigures some of the imagery of the garden of Eden, similar to the story of Enki and Ninhursag.
That's a legit etymology connection. Lilith is mainly a feature of Lurianic Kabbalah (Zohar), but was adopted much like Lucifer by Jewish feminists in the modern era.
I think the best foundation to conceptualise it is in the context of the Italian Futurist art movement, which valorized themes of violence, strength, speed, modernism, etc. Basically the "move fast and break things" of the political spectrum.
Since Mussolini (notwithstanding Margherita Sarfatti) was the original architect of the identity, there's definitely also nationalism, and romanticising of the golden era of said nation, as well as investing the national identity with all spiritual authority over and above any religion or individual, and of course corporatism. But once you look at all the historical implementations and interpretations of fascism, the definition starts to fall apart rapidly since they all emphasise or adopt and dispense with additional features (eg. ethnicity, religion, etc) in a rather ad hoc fashion to suit their particular aims.
The artists may not have bought into fascism, but I think fascism bought into the art. $0.02 Mind you, I'm not really a scholar in this area, just stating my arm-chair impression.
This is a bit of a tangent, but I had to watch this in public school and still think it's pretty good. It's a dramatisation of real life events which took place in a highschool in California in the late 60's. I like it because it shows some of the things to look out for when fascism comes along in the absence of a clearly evident swastika on the label.
Apart from the ideological framework of fascism, it's worth also looking at the tactics involved in this kind of nationalist populist movement, even if it risks blurring the line between fascism and other forms of authoritarianism. I don't think something needs to be a historically accurate implementation of "fascism" in order to qualify as a very bad idea. For instance communism and other forms of authoritarian socialism share a lot of the same features and tactics, but like to pretend their shit doesn't stink because they're not "fascists". It just ain't so.
I didn't call him a fascist. I was just citing some authors who did. Personally having looked into the varied definitions of fascism from Mussolini to Hitler to Orwell to Umberto Eco, etc, it seems to have a wide array of meanings depending on which fascist is talking and in what context. Even fascists don't have a coherent definition. It's just a list of bullet points that a given fascist group may or may not cherry pick from in their particular conception of the ideology. As Orwell said in 1944, the word is practically meaningless and has become synonymous with "bully".
Considering that Ukraine's government experienced two different CIA orchestrated coup's and ended up with a decade long ethnic cleansing at the hands of an unelected government run largely by NeoNazis, it's not really far from the truth.
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