George Lakoff

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Professor Emeritus at UCBerkeley. Best-selling author of The ALL NEW Don’t Think of an Elephant.

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San Francisco's David Sacks -- champion of the Drug War, opponent of Harm Reduction, supporter of Trump and ... an investor in a massive online pill mill that just got busted for $100 million fraud and is responsible for multiple overdose deaths sfstandard.com/2024/06/13/t...

SF startup CEO and president arrested in $100M illegal drug schemesfstandard.com Prosecutors allege that Done Global execs Ruthia He and David Brody sold 40 million pills of stimulants like Adderall, Vyvanse and Ritalin through their platform with few guardrails, leading to the ov...

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Having spent the week deep in strategic disinformation, I have to say that the thing that made QAnon work is that there are conspiracies that exist to help adults rape children. But they're the institutions that have impunity built into their existence.

Exclusive: A Post investigation has found that over the past two decades, hundreds of law enforcement officers have sexually abused children while officials at every level of the criminal justice system have failed to protect kids, punish abusers and prevent additional crimes. wapo.st/3VEtNBo

Abused by the badgewapo.st Hundreds of police officers in the United States have sexually abused children, a Post investigation found. In many cases, the officers have avoided prison time.

Brain Change is Social Change

Some voters are confused about their moral identity and have trouble deciding. Much effort goes into persuading these swing voters to pick a side. The strategy often involves masking extreme GOP policies as "moderate." More at FrameLab w/ @gilduran.bsky.social www.theframelab.org/moderate-wea...

George Lakoff: 'Moderate' label masks authoritarian politicswww.theframelab.org The mythical 'middle' does not exist

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Words like "moderate" and "centrist" are weasel words with no clear meanings. In San Francisco, they mask the *extreme* politics of tech figures who increasingly align with authoritarian Donald Trump. Read my op-ed in the @sfchronicle.bsky.social Gift Link: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

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Tech billionaire who hasn't talked to a normal person in 25 years: Here's what today's consumers want

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HERE'S WHY TRUMP IS FLOATING NAZISM @gilduran.bsky.social and @georgelakoff.bsky.social remind us there are no accidents when it comes to Trump’s social media strategy. Wake up to what you can do to help save democracy every day at www.erlywrm.com

'Unified Reich': Trump campaign goes full Naziwww.theframelab.org Donald Trump's campaign adopts Nazi framing, again

Trump is telling us exactly what he plans to do if he gets another term. He is framing his return to power as an authoritarian effort, and he is overtly using Nazi language and symbolism to drive home the point. More at FrameLab with @gilduran.bsky.social www.theframelab.org/unified-reic...

'Unified Reich': Trump campaign goes full Naziwww.theframelab.org Donald Trump's campaign adopts Nazi framing, again

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Agree about hypocrisy. The other side has a different moral framework that is consistent even though it is wrong. @georgelakoff.bsky.social’s Conservative Moral Hierarchy:

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In response to Trump becoming a Bible salesman, I proposed a MAGA Moral Hierarchy. It slightly edits the @georgelakoff.bsky.social's Conservative Moral Hierarchy, with Trump either just below or above G-d. Now I'm wondering if Putin should be over Trump or G-d. www.theframelab.org/p/anti-chris...

"They want Russia to win so bad that they want to oust the Speaker over it."www.youtube.com

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Elon Musk picked a fight w/Brazil last week over its coup plotter investigation (and lost), so now he’s fighting w/🇦🇺 regulator who requested a video of a stabbing be removed. Chronicling the hero’s journey is loyal simp Michael Shellenberger, who smeared the Australian regulator as…a CIA asset. 😱

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"Most of your ideas, thoughts and opinions exist in your brain without you having any awareness of them." If you don't understand framing, politics is just rolling dice. That's why the Moral Warfare series from @georgelakoff.bsky.social & @gilduran.bsky.social is essential.

The power of unconscious thoughtwww.theframelab.org Moral Warfare 101: Understanding politics and the brain

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And as a contributor to @gilduran.bsky.social and @georgelakoff.bsky.social's essential FrameLab newsletter, I got to unpack why the right feels so exposed by Alabama's ban on IVF, which basically still exists, because it exposes their worldview for all to both mock and fear.

IVF ban exposes GOP extremismwww.theframelab.org No limit to Republican attacks on reproductive freedom in 2024

Ninety-eight percent. That’s an estimate of how much of human thought is unconscious. Most of your ideas, thoughts and opinions exist in your brain without you having any awareness of them. And these unconscious thoughts are POWERFUL. More at FrameLab: www.theframelab.org/p/the-power-...

The power of unconscious thoughtwww.theframelab.org Moral Warfare 101: Understanding politics and the brain

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You know you're gonna see some weird shit when you peer through the fences surrounding the Balaji Srinivasin Brain Worms Preserve, and yet somehow I'm still genuinely shocked every time

Cool Gray City of Tech Authoritarians: Balaji's dark vision for San Franciscowww.parallelmirror.com Maybe you can literally have like the sovereign city of San Francisco and secede effectively ... if you have total control of the city ... maybe it's possible. – B.S. The Point: Like some mustache-tw...

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Tech billionaires want to do to San Francisco what Elon did to Twitter, says @gilduran.bsky.social Poor people will be barred from parts of the city. Tech loyalists will don Gray shirts, carry Gray ID cards. They'll hold weekly banquets for Gray police. They'll march in "Gray Pride Parades."

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Just because accurately describing what Donald Trump has and is doing sounds like a vicious attack doesn't mean we can let the press get away with not serving us the truth.

You can’t serve a ‘truth sandwich’ without the truthwww.theframelab.org Media’s need to ‘both sides’ Biden and Trump leads to a pretzel of lies.

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A group of white male Republican religious zealots is openly planning a full takeover of U.S. government if Trump wins. Time to start paying closer attention to the rising threat of "Christian nationalism" - an all-out assault on American freedom. www.theframelab.org/p/radical-ch...

Radical 'Christian nationalists' plot takeover under Trumpwww.theframelab.org Understanding the Republican theat against freedom

The Republican Party has become an existential threat to American democracy. www.theframelab.org/p/putin-fail...

Putin failed to conquer Navalny or Ukraine. He's had better luck with Trump’s GOPwww.theframelab.org The Republican Party’s alignment with Putin’s Russia becomes clear

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THE GOP HAS BECOME A EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO THE USA It is now "impossible to deny the Republican Party’s obvious alignment with Putin," say @gilduran.bsky.social and @georgelakoff.bsky.social.

Putin failed to conquer Navalny or Ukraine. He's had better luck with Trump’s GOPwww.theframelab.org The Republican Party’s alignment with Putin’s Russia becomes clear

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One day I hope you find someone who falls for you the way the GOP has fallen for Putin.

THE GOP HAS BECOME A EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO THE USA It is now "impossible to deny the Republican Party’s obvious alignment with Putin," say @gilduran.bsky.social and @georgelakoff.bsky.social.

Putin failed to conquer Navalny or Ukraine. He's had better luck with Trump’s GOPwww.theframelab.org The Republican Party’s alignment with Putin’s Russia becomes clear

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Putin has not been successful in conquering Ukraine, but he’s clearly had more luck capturing the Republican Party. The alignment between Trump’s GOP and Putin’s Russia becomes clearer with every passing day. It's an existential threat to the USA. www.theframelab.org/p/putin-fail...

Putin failed to conquer Navalny or Ukraine. He's had better luck with Trump’s GOPwww.theframelab.org The Republican Party’s alignment with Putin’s Russia becomes clear

When you repeat a lie, you spread it. When you spread a lie, you strengthen it. When you strengthen a lie, you become an accomplice to it. In this disinformation age, we must do better. Avoid falling into simple propaganda traps.

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If you still have any queasiness about describing the GOP as fascist, read this from @gilduran.bsky.social and @georgelakoff.bsky.social's FrameLab and try to find a better word.

How Fascism Workswww.theframelab.org The 10 elements of a dangerous ideology

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter gives him direct access to tens of millions of brains. He is making a zealous effort to change and control those brains by flooding them with hate and misinformation www.theframelab.org/p/algorithm-...

Algorithm Warfare: How Elon Musk uses Twitter to control brainswww.theframelab.org Like Trump, Musk has weaponized tweets for the information war

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How to talk about ‘woke’…

'Redpilled," QAnon, Anti-Vaxx: Understanding Republican versions of 'woke' www.theframelab.org/p/redpilled-...

Redpilled, QAnon, Anti-Vaccine: Conservative versions of 'woke'www.theframelab.org Part 2 of a multipart analysis of newest Republican weapon word

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A rogue’s gallery of big tech edgelords and their reactionary hangers-on have a plan to remake the city by the bay in their own weirdo image. An essential look at the Tech Plutocrats plan to put the fash in San Francisco from @gilduran.bsky.social.

The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisconewrepublic.com A rogue’s gallery of big tech edgelords and their reactionary hangers-on have a plan to remake the city by the bay in their own weirdo image.

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NEW POD: We dig deep into Elon Musk's embrace of white genocide theory, his elevation of Tucker/Putin, and the worldview known as "tech authoritarianism." Guest: @gilduran.bsky.social, author of a great @tnr.bsky.social piece on right wing tech oligarchs. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/1789...

Elon Musk’s Unhinged Pro-MAGA Tweets Expose Tech Oligarchy’s Dark Sidenewrepublic.com A new class of tech barons hopes to create a flourishing information space for "red-pilled" far right ideologies, and the billionaire Musk is their model leader.

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I started drafting this last summer, but couldn't quite put my finger on it. Then a drunken Twitter death threat rampage tied it all together. 'Parallel': Elon Musk, Garry Tan, Y Combinator and the Dream of a Right-Wing San Francisco via @tnr.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1786...