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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 6h

The point of disinformation in an authoritarian moment isn't to convince people of alternative facts as much as it is to sow mistrust in every source of information or truth outside of "the leader"

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Daniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social · 2d

Next week! It’s not too late to register. Manitobans: note the free lunch on the Oct 23 option 👀

Daniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social · Sep 2

Manitobans: join me Oct 22 in Winnipeg or Oct 23 in Otterburne for my public lecture “Lives Worth Living: What Disability Can Teach Us About Life & Death.” Zoom is available for the Oct 23 lecture, and the lecture will be uploaded after.

Register at the link below: my.prov.ca/forms/semina...

my.prov.ca: Seminary Symposium Registration

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 2d

“It is disturbing…that a ‘faith movement’ can acquire character and weight simply by the use of violence in the manner of the political mass-meeting and the political demonstration for propaganda purposes”

Karl Barth, 1933

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 3d

3) Slow down and de-escalate (hyper-reactivity is the highway for disinformation, lies travel faster than truth. Learn to ask questions that serve as “brakes”)

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 3d

Practices to counter disreality:

1) Get local, physical, and material (resist “algorithmic reality” by scaling down into your own community)

2) Cultivate good suspicion (relentlessly question content before sharing—consider images and text, A.I. renders, etc)

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 3d

I keep saying it: conspiracy theory is mainstream. We aren’t dealing with one narrative here or there, we’re living through a default on “reality” — with terrible consequences.

Here is some advice:

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 7d

Fascist theater: staged provocation in the political that codes/targets undesirables. It provides content for propaganda to normalize the previously unthinkable.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 11d

I mostly avoid reposting propaganda. But if I do, it’s to name it as antichrist. This is the power to crucify and it belongs to hell. Churches that bless it are Babylonian shrines. Do not confuse the power to crucify with the power of the Crucified One, who is peace.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 19d

Our elected leaders in the US executive branch are not departing from reality as much as they are creating one— a totality where their word is absolute and dissent is subversion.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 20d

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Reality in Ruins

For anyone who has ever said, “It feels like we’re living in different realities,” an unforgettable read and definitive explainer of the strange history of ...

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 20d

Proofs are here. Feeling the weight of this book; what it stands for—naming the authoritarian nexus of falsehood & violence at work in white evangelicalism— and what it hopes in—truth for a common world.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 22d

“The hardest work is contending against the disorienting and malformed Christianities which bring themselves to bear against the vulnerable, often in the name of freedom and faith. This is the necessary work, the one the demands the church be exactly what it is.”

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 22d

On the Kirk memorial from the intersection of brutality and disreality…

Everyone Marveled And Followed The Beast

Devoured By America First

open.substack.com

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 28d

So glad to hear. Thank you.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 28d

The last week has only pressed me deeper into the message that led to this book—we are dealing not just with a war of facts, but the apocalypse (unveiling) of primal stories, of myths and their corruption. Here’s how we got here, and a way forward…

Preorder + share here:

Reality in Ruins

For anyone who has ever said, “It feels like we’re living in different realities,” an unforgettable read and definitive explainer of the strange history of ...

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 28d

A lot of talk about “authoritarianism” — and I’m here for it. But we need specificity: the contagion of authoritarian movements today spreads by a vision of capitalism without democracy.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 28d

When I was doing my PhD research on January 6, I began to feel the weight of documenting words and preserving actions that might one day be erased, revised, or mythologized.

I felt that weight all over again today reading how the DOJ is erasing studies on right wing political violence.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 29d

Source:

US justice department removes study finding far-right extremists commit ‘far more’ violence

Report finding rightwing extremists have killed more Americans than other domestic terrorist groups vanished from DoJ website

www.theguardian.com

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 29d

The Department of Justice has erased a study from its website; the study from the National Institute of Justice found far-right political violence & extremism outpaced all other ideological violence.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 29d

Absolutely 🎯

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 29d

In the US, an information diet of conservative algorithms likely means rage at the nameless “left” has been nursed in no small part by Russian troll farms.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · Aug 29

“The one who is beyond creation enters creation in order to change it, not to abandon it. Jesus broke the laws of this sinful age not by simple negation but by offering a new life to creatures in the middle of the lives they are already living. …

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · Aug 29

The authoritarian playbook is being run with precision across the United States. Much of our reliance on media obscures this pattern by reporting each play on its own without attention to the whole.

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Aberdeen Divinity @abdndivinity.bsky.social · Aug 28

As Prof. Brock's new book has appeared recently, join him as he discusses things with @jaredstacy.bsky.social. Click through for more!

jaredstacy.substack.com/p/living-as-...

Living As Creatures

A Conversation with Brian Brock

jaredstacy.substack.com

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · Aug 27

Mercy on the children in Minnesota today. I believe their generation will grow up to condemn ours; we who collectively enable the terror and tyranny of gun violence in the name of “freedom”

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