That's why they're rightfully called Twitiots

Dr. Fauci clears up the hype and lies

He still walks a tightrope between outright calling out lies while trying to debunk them diplomatically. Topics addressed: The Presidunce respects his input despite the rhetoric (I had to LOL at that one); he debunks the Q-Anon conspiracy theory Twit re-tweeted and affirms the CDC stats on covid deaths; he clarifies that the CDC was NOT saying that asymptomatic patients should not get tested (a misunderstanding, uh huh); he reiterates schools should not re-open in red zones, that instead they should focus on getting the pandemic under control first; vaccines should NOT be released until they are proven safe and effective in clinical trials. I can see a Twit shitstorm coming after this interview.

Hartmann quotes Biden's Twit takedown on violence

Quite the contrast from Twit inciting violence so he can push his fake law and order spin. Biden calls it out and condemns violence of any kind from anyone.

Joe knows he's in a street fight

 And responds accordingly. Talbot:

"Biden is getting in touch with his inner Irish brawler. He knows that he's in an ugly street fight for the next nine weeks -- and the only way for him to win is to prevent Trump from controlling the debate. When Trump waves the bloody flag of American 'carnage,' Biden need to keep sticking it to his fat ass."

Twit's latest Q-Anon conspiracy theory

According to this story:

"On Monday, from behind the lectern in the White House briefing room, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany doubled down on a weekend retweet from President Donald Trump on CDC COVID-19 data that was so dangerously misleading that Twitter has removed it from the platform. [...] What he actually did was retweet the patently untrue assertion of a QAnon supporter that new CDC data contained a bombshell: only six percent of people died from COVID-19 alone, meaning that the death count and fear of the pandemic has been falsely inflated. On Sunday 'only 6%' was trending on Twitter."

"That interpretation of the data is simply wrong, and disregards the fact that in almost all cases, COVID-19 was the underlying cause of death. Epidemiologist Gideon Meyerowitz Katz gave a helpful analogy in a Medium article. If someone had lung cancer, underwent surgery to have part of the lung removed, then died of infection while in the hospital, the immediate cause of death would be the infection — but the underlying cause would be the cancer. So too with COVID-19."

Rising looks at the People's Party Convention

I appreciate Krystal's breaking it down to the various factions on the left. One of which is a segment that fights for progressive policies and thereby forces change within a Party. We saw it with the Tea Party movement on the right and we see it with Bernie, The Squad and the Progressive Caucus on the left. On the right we've seen how it has taken over a lot of their agenda. On the left we see how much influence they've had on both Biden's agenda and the Party Platform. They are, in a sense, the People's Party within the Dem Party and are gaining ground with each election.

Now Williamson said something interesting: 

 

"The Democratic Party sees all the suffering created by the corporate agenda and does in ways that it can try to ameliorate the suffering on the periphery. [... but they] will not challenge the underlying forces that make all that suffering inevitable."

 

At least she sees that even the establishment Dem Party tries to ameliorate that suffering. There is a real difference between them, Twit and the Repugnantans. So in this election they are far from equivalent and one must defeat the other.

 

Also, while the Party continues to support the corporate agenda that sustains it, the progressives in the Party most definitely challenge that corporate agenda and are making inroads in changing it. The Progressive Caucus is already about 45% of the Democratic Party in the House and will soon, in the next couple of elections, control it. To me that seems a better strategy than starting from scratch, dividing the progressive vote and continuing to lose for the foreseeable future.

 

Hartmann: Twit and the fascist playbook

From Thom's Facecrook post. See it for the rest.

"Trump is actively trying to provoke riots so he can claim, like Nixon, that he’s the law and order guy who can fix things."

The stark contrast in Party platforms

Plain as can be.

Progressives want to help

 And Twitiots desperately need it.

Relational developmental systems paradigm

From this paper by Bjorgaard in the recently released Integral Review, which seems akin to my notion of hier(an)archical synplexity.

"While there has been continued refinement of methods and theories particular to stage traditions, there has been a paradigm shift within the broader field of developmental psychology that few stage models have grappled with [...] a paradigm shift termed the Relational Developmental Systems Paradigm. This paradigm is characterized only very briefly and partially here. It is predicated upon a process-relational philosophical perspective thought to transcend Cartesian dualism, atomism, and positivist reductionism. It rejects 'all splits between components of the ecology of human development (e.g., between nature- and nurture-based variables, between continuity and discontinuity, and between stability and instability)' (p. xviii.). It replaces these dichotomies with holistic syntheses using an integration of three relational moments of analysis: the identity of opposites, the opposites of identity, and the syntheses of wholes' (p. xviii), which can have a profound impact on the methodology and interpretation of research traditions – in part by processually integrating dichotomies that the field of developmental psychology has struggled with at large. It emphasizes that 'all levels of organization with the ecology of human development are integrated or fused' (p. xviii), that basic units of analysis are individual-context relations and co-actions of these, and that organisms are 'inherently active, self-creating, self-organizing, and self-regulating nonlinear complex adaptive systems,' which develop through embodied activities (p. xviii). Development is inherently context-sensitive, plastic, subject-specific, and stochastic (probabilistic or random) (p. 3). [...] Furthermore, human development – the subject of developmental science – is now thought to be predominantly nonergodic. Ergodicity describes mathematical and statistical qualities of systems that must apply for standard statistical analyses to be accurate: 'In developmental research, almost all functions of natural development and intervention processes are nonergodic. Therefore, standard statistical analysis of aggregate-level data is bound to result in descriptions of developmental structures that fail to describe the individual'" (89- 91).