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i started the thread because i happened to find an article that referenced the greenpeace report, which i then read and found to be interesting. so i made the thread as a way to start a conversation, figuring that the article was a kind of plot summary and the report itself the actual data. and there is actual data in it. it's not a real important thing to me whether conservative x or y does or does not like greenpeace as an organization--in this particular case, look at the report; if you've a problem, take apart the report.
what interested me in particular about the information was the extent to which it conformed to pretty established patterns of funding and information manipulation based on funding inside the conservative ideological machine. which is an effective and very well-funded machine, even today when its traction outside the ultra-right has largely been snapped.
if you want to understand contemporary conservative politics as a social movement--and it is one like it or not--you have to understand how its ideas are produced, circulated, reinforced. it's an interesting system.
that's why i made the thread.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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