PhD Candidate @Concordia (CompSci, Engineering, Theology) | @ICSR_Centre | @GNET_research | @TheARConsortium | WRITING DISSERTATION 
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1/ Rather than posting caps of content of extremist content or unintentionally directing people towards that content, I put together this infographic to cover some of the key themes regarding Boogaloo, Oath Keepers, III% and preppers.pic.twitter.com/qpL8ybi48Q
2/ Content in this section is obviously more extreme than what was observed in the QAnon ecosystems but I broke it down into 5 categories: A) conversations about being white in America B) anti-Semitism, C) there is no political solution, D) The police, and E) prepare yourself
3/ The narratives showed a heightened level of extremism and and increase in signals of wanting to commit acts of violence against individuals or the state. Though most of this is probably keyboard bravado, if 2020-21 taught us anything they still should be taken seriously.
Look at Red & Amber below. This is well-understood by developmental psychologists. Their fear is real, and internally valid (ie they’re being Habermasian truthful), yet the problem remains they need to “grow up”, which is a broader sociosystemic problem.https://integrallife.com/tag/stages-of-development/ …
Ken Wilber is an astonishment of genius. Every time I hear him speak I am agog. Thank you for this link.
Also isn't some of this amplified foreign agitprop/disinfo by bots and trolls along with the genuine American fringe dwellers?
Seen more than a few calls / hints for vigilantism as a theme as well (I suspected they were foreign agitprop due to English usage), but some may be domestic as well. Have you seen that theme repeated / broadcast as well?
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