Virtue Signaling is a societal disease, and its a precursor illness to its more flagrant and deadly mental illness: Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Here is their medicine, I aim to see they take it:
Posted on 08/25/2022 4:46:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Founded in 2006, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue is a London-based nonprofit with a stated purpose of “safeguarding human rights and reversing the rising tide of polarisation [sic], extremism, and disinformation worldwide.” The group previously worked with the Obama administration, combating “violent extremism”, and their website lists critical topics most vulnerable to fake news and hate speech, which include:
1. Electoral, climate, and public health disinformation
2. Conspiracy networks
3. Far-right extremism
4. LGBTQ
5. Islamophobia
A recent blog posted to the ISD website discussed a “hate-riddled public health disinformation campaign” where social media users identified monkeypox was almost exclusively (if not entirely) spread by homosexual male relations, and questioned how children were getting the disease. The author said this truth was used to spread “dangerous rhetoric against the queer community”, despite the legitimacy of the concerns: less than two weeks ago, Georgia law enforcement arrested a gay couple who stand accused of using their adopted sons in the creation of child pornography, so it's not as though adults abusing children is a rightwing boogeyman story.
So which Republicans help fund this nightmarish leftist enterprise? If you guessed Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, or Mitt Romney, you’d be correct. However, a few more are flying under the radar, and they are Tom Cotton, Joni Ernst, Dan Sullivan, and Kay Granger.
Those seven members of Congress sit on the board of the International Republican Institute, which is listed as a donor to ISD. Additionally, ISD lists partnerships with the McCain Institute — John McCain was a former chairman for 25 years — as well as a tentacle of the United Nations. On top of receiving funding from the IRI and those seven prominent Republicans, other benefactors to the ISD include George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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I can’t say that I am surprised.
I like how “violent extremism” has been redefined to mean questioning the official narrative, or poking holes in it. Or even asking to see the data behind their assertions.
Originated by France, Germany, and the UK in 2006...
And yet there are loads of freepers who say we need to vote for creeps like this in the general because they have an “R” beside their name.
Sorry if we have to have traitors in our midst, it’s better not to have them at our backs.
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2020/08/inv018474
Guess who.
Figures, doesn’t it.
The letter after the name means jack anymore.
The only reason political parties still exist is to give voters the illusion of choice.
A pol is either loyal to our former republic or to Deep State.
Too many of our pols are Deep State.
And we’re not the only country with that issue.
As the existence of this so-called think tank shows.
The world of NGO’s non-profits, Grants, money laundering, Foundations and a whole lot more involved in supporting such “interesting” ideas deserves public exposure just as any criminal activity is deserving of exposure.
It should be clear to anyone with half a brain tied behind their back just to make it fair, how we have reached our present point in time when “things” appear a bit upside down when compared with just a few years ago.
It’s taken me a long time to come to the conclusion that you are right. There is no “lesser of two evils” when it comes to these people.
Virtue Signaling is a societal disease, and its a precursor illness to its more flagrant and deadly mental illness: Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Here is their medicine, I aim to see they take it:
Another reason why we need term limits...ONE TERM per elected office. They ALL become corrupt in short order. No skipping a term and then coming back.
Has anyone asked any of these senators why they are on the board of an organization like this? I would love to hear their answers.
Like Mitch giving money to Liz. What’s the difference?
I didn’t know who Kay Granger was so I looked her up, another Texas Bush League Republican.
Looks like I need to add Cotton to my list of Bush League Senators.
Come September and into November, the daily flogging to vote for Bush League Republicans will commence.
RINOs OUT!
Founded in 2006,
( long before the issues appeared in media propaganda )
“safeguarding human rights and reversing the rising tide of polarisation [sic], extremism, and
disinformation
worldwide.”
combating “violent extremism”,
( like antifa ?)
and their website lists critical topics most vulnerable to
fake news
(they knew about
“ fake news”
in 2006 ?)
and hate speech, which include:
1. Electoral,
climate,
and public
health disinformation
2. Conspiracy networks
3. Far-right extremism
.
Mighty prescient weren’t they ?
Sitting on the board may just mean approving where the administrators want to make donations — until enough outsiders complain. I’d suppose that the funded organizations present themselves to foundations in the best light, and senators and representatives are so busy that they just write blank checks for the people who run the foundation.
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