Regions where voters have more neurotic personality traits were more likely to vote for Donald Trump in the United States or for the Brexit campaign in the United Kingdom, revealing a new trend that could help explain the rise
of fearmongering populist political campaigns across the world, accord
It's a transfixing, mournful and tragic love story, a cautionary tale against the scope
of fearmongering propaganda and an aching parable of resignation we all tend to feel as we age.
Most
of the fearmongering is sponsored by those with something to sell.
In recent times, there is a lot
of fearmongering over carbohydrate as a food source.
«Assemblymember Malliotakis can use the Trump playbook
of fearmongering and distortion, but no one is buying it.»
There are many reasons to shift away from fossil fuels, and we will do so in the next century without legislation, financial incentives, carbon - conservation programs, or the interminable yammering
of fearmongers.
Not exact matches
The Mars analogy is a thinly veiled jab at Elon Musk, who in addition to being obsessed with the prospect
of colonizing Mars is also one
of the tech world's biggest A.I.
fearmongers.
It helped an anti-immigrant group learn the best way to target its
fearmongering ads, and then used those ads as a case study to test the effectiveness
of a new ad format.
Instead
of listening, Edison launched a
fearmongering campaign to make people fear alternating current.
And those who deflected political
fearmongering with a healthy dose
of hope and optimism... Continue reading →
And those who deflected political
fearmongering with a healthy dose
of hope and optimism found themselves facing a more insidious attack —
fearmongering dressed up in a three - piece suit and renamed «economic risk and uncertainty».
If more
of my fellow «evangelicals» would do the same and stop using the label as an excuse for hatemongering and
fearmongering, maybe this country would be a better place.
was thinking the other day that it would be amazing if the rapture still happened for those who still believe in it — can you imagine the world we could build without all
of that naysaying and
fearmongering?
I would hope that many, many more Americans can see past the
fearmongering of the unknown and embrace the diversity
of all peace loving religions.
Russell Moore (familiar to FT readers), president - elect
of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
of the Southern Baptist Convention, and Kevin Ezell, president
of the SBC's North American Mission Board (which endorses all Southern Baptist military chaplains), engage in no
fearmongering.
larry5, go die in a fire you hatemongering,
fearmongering piece
of human trash!
It is the
fearmongering trumpet
of the conservative king - maker — Rupert Murdoch.
Despite her persistence, her parenting via
fearmongering was one
of the reasons turmeric didn't originally gain much traction in our household; was it really turmeric milk that prevented me from getting the flu for over a decade, or a hypochondriac's adherence to an annual flu shot schedule?
How can you
fearmonger about the extremely rare possibility
of bacterial contamination in formula, and at the same time promote informal milk sharing with strangers?!
Editor's Note: I have had a few visitors email to say that I should include homemade formula recipe (s) and not «
fearmonger» about the negatives
of homemade infant formula.
There's nothing to gain for Russia by starting a war in Europe, and any
fearmongering of them planning to do so is always, inevitable, by someone who profits from higher military spending.
Stymied on his top immigration initiatives, Trump is making good on one plan that critics denounce as
fearmongering and misleading: opening an office for victims
of crimes committed by immigrants, although studies show immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native - born citizens.
You are clearly singling out a side
of the referendum that you disagree with while you would never dare to criticize the Europhiles for their lies, demagogy,
fearmongering, threats, and downright blackmailing.
«Jack Martins is resorting to lying, race - baiting, and
fearmongering because he's desperately trying to distract from his lifetime in Nassau's culture
of corruption,» Curran said Wednesday in a statement.
Not exactly a vision
of hope and promise for a better tomorrow, but upstate
fearmongering is a necessary element
of any New York campaign.
The administration responded by accusing the two lawmakers
of «reckless
fearmongering» about a program that has enrolled some 900,000 people under the scrutiny
of the NYPD.
Airbnb plans to oppose the legislation, which the company's head
of Northeast policy Josh Meltzer described as a
fearmongering tactic.
Do they revert to the populist
fearmongering of the Blair years?
There's a lot
of talk about what you should and shouldn't use on your skin, and some
of it stems from marketing,
fearmongering, and poorly researched journalism.
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When talk turns to climate change, no amount
of hysterical
fearmongering is too much.
Either they haven't learned from experience, or they simply aren't old enough to have any past experience upon which to judge these
fearmongers, or they lack critical thinking skills, or they're naive, or they're ignorant about history and / or science, or they're hopelessly ideological — or perhaps a combination
of all
of the above.
Not to mention there are boatloads
of assumptions crammed into every «climate change»
fearmongering argument.
As for the alleged irrefutable evidence that people caused the last century's CO2 increase, the «smoking gun» invoked by one
of my critics, Dr. Michael Mann, and his fellow
fearmongers at realclimate.com, the claim is based on the idea that the normal ratio
of heavy to light carbon — that is, the carbon - 13 isotope to the lighter carbon - 12 isotope, is roughly 1 to 90 in the atmosphere, but in plants there's a 2 percent lower C13 / C12 ratio.
Fourth, saying that «waiting another decade for transformative policy and full commitments to fossil - free economies» would be a «catastrophic failure
of policy» with «irreversible and deleterious repercussions for humanity's remaining time on Earth» is sheer
fearmongering without a shred
of scientific evidence.
Skeptics
of Western global warming are really aware
of obvious mistakes that fall within their particular areas
of expertise and most skeptics take issue with the picture
of impending calamity that global warming
fearmongers always try to paint.
Trying to extend it to «the building blocks
of all life» because that dovetails into a paranoid fantasy about government taxing your body is
fearmongering.
And governments
of the world ought to take a good, sober, hard look at this issue and come up with sensible policy... not
fearmongered doomsdayism.
Such fears most often are born
of deception and the end is always the same: the
fearmongers lead their followers down the path
of misery, poverty, destruction and death.
Moreover, the government climate change
fearmongers finally discovered that the Earth has been the site
of previous warming periods, all without any help from humanity.
The people
of Earth need fresh water and we all need to be more concerned about having more
of it, even it takes more energy to make it or having to listen to the
fearmongering of Leftist opinion - makers like Obama and Kerry who claim respectively that, «no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,» and, that global warming is, «perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon
of mass destruction.»
JC had a thread on that not too long ago — i.e., Leftists global warming
fearmongers are on the level
of «meta - ignorance»
of all unconscious incompetents who refuse to even consider the possibility
of error, as follows:
There is a limit to breadth and width
of society - wide derangement, corruption, superstition and ignorance until the baseless
fearmongering, inhumanity and social pathology finally brings the Tower
of Babel down around our ears: Bush derangement syndrome, Palin derangement, McCain derangment, Romney derangement Ryan derangment, Tea Party derangment, skepticism derangement, Hot World derangement, capitalism derangement, Judeo / Christian derangement, disastrous climate change derangement, CO2 is a pollutant derangement, its Ozone Hole derangement, Melting Glaciers derangement, its Seas Will Swallow us derangement, Man is causing earthquakes derangement, Death
of polar bears derangement, GlacierGate, AmazonGate, PachauriGate, UN-IPCCGate, ChinaGate, CRUGate, HimalyaGate, SeaLevelGate, RainForestGate, HurricaneGate, GreenpeaceGate, SternGate, KiwiGate, HockeyStickGate, WeatherStationGate, HansenGate, NASAGate, GISSGate and NOAAGate, NobelGate...
Fearmongering about an imminent climate doomsday also hogs news coverage and important environmental issues like GM food, mad scientist chimera cloning and the usurpation and abuse
of corporations like Monsanto flies under the radar.
And «catastrophic» is a key point, because if there is no looming catastrophy, no change
of policy is needed, and if no change
of policy is needed, then everyone debating, propagandizing,
fearmongering, etc, can pack up and go home, and leave the scientists to do their science.
But
fearmongering is a standard practice
of at least some
of the religious — without religion, everybody will just do whatever they want!
The suite
of climate models that Western academia provide to us have been made de facto fortunetellers depicting what many
of us believe to be a failed forecast
of disastrous climate change calamity caused by industrial man in general and America in particular and I think such global warming
fearmongers, really require a willing suspension
of disbelief.»
The emphasized option
of the e-mail is obviously a clarion call for more ammunition for alarmist
fearmongering.
«Environmentalists who oppose the development
of shale gas and fracking,» Muller said
of the greenhouse gas
fearmongers, «are making a tragic mistake... [and] concerns are either largely false or can be addressed by appropriate regulation... [S] hale gas is a wonderful gift that has arrived just in time.
Actually, there has been remarkable increase in the number
of public addresses against global warming
fearmongering in the past 2 months, both in the UK and in the US.