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GATHER ROUND!Time for me to explain why I LOATHE @NoradSanta and the fuzzy myth (in anthropological sense) of its founding and how it is mobilized to peddle US the US Nuclear Doomsday Machine and military apparatus to kids.
1/n https://twitter.com/NoradSanta/status/1341888844178845700
2/n
First and foremost:
as history of @NoradSanta & contemporary USAF policy documents ( https://osf.io/2jcf9/ ) and my analysis of them make clear...
... @NoradSanta is propaganda aimed at increasing US mass & elite support for USAF nuclear & other missions. https://twitter.com/nuclearanthro/status/1083900958088646657
First and foremost:
as history of @NoradSanta & contemporary USAF policy documents ( https://osf.io/2jcf9/ ) and my analysis of them make clear...
... @NoradSanta is propaganda aimed at increasing US mass & elite support for USAF nuclear & other missions. https://twitter.com/nuclearanthro/status/1083900958088646657
3/n
Before y’all yell at me about how great it is that kids can track Santa with @NoradSanta , 2 responses:
1) Let NOAA do it, less nuclear horror and propaganda
2) Trump was telling kids santa was fake so go yell at him instead. https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1077375011600678912
Before y’all yell at me about how great it is that kids can track Santa with @NoradSanta , 2 responses:
1) Let NOAA do it, less nuclear horror and propaganda
2) Trump was telling kids santa was fake so go yell at him instead. https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1077375011600678912
4/n
I am a PhD candidate studying heritage: official government heritage is power and politics.
That said:
@NoradSanta is PARTICULARLY & egregiously cynical in its articulations of nuclear omniscience propaganda, threat, & doom to childhood & Santa. https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/how-the-u-s-military-turned-santa-claus-into-a-cold-wa-1664149776/amp
I am a PhD candidate studying heritage: official government heritage is power and politics.
That said:
@NoradSanta is PARTICULARLY & egregiously cynical in its articulations of nuclear omniscience propaganda, threat, & doom to childhood & Santa. https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/how-the-u-s-military-turned-santa-claus-into-a-cold-wa-1664149776/amp
4/n
experience of “nuclear deterrence” for kids has been heavy on trauma, fear, & insecurity.
Their future, like ours, is radically uncertain past flight times of our nuclear armed missiles.
It’s not lighthearted & cheeky when millions can die in hours.
dump @NoradSanta
experience of “nuclear deterrence” for kids has been heavy on trauma, fear, & insecurity.
Their future, like ours, is radically uncertain past flight times of our nuclear armed missiles.
It’s not lighthearted & cheeky when millions can die in hours.
dump @NoradSanta
5/n
When I think of @NORADCommand tracking imaginary things...
...isn’t Santa in a sleigh w/RCS of Empire State Building @NoradSanta...
...it’s NORAD’s multiple false alarms of Soviet attack in 1979-1980 including 1 Brzhenski almost woke Carter for.
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//nukevault/ebb371/index.htm
When I think of @NORADCommand tracking imaginary things...
...isn’t Santa in a sleigh w/RCS of Empire State Building @NoradSanta...
...it’s NORAD’s multiple false alarms of Soviet attack in 1979-1980 including 1 Brzhenski almost woke Carter for.
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//nukevault/ebb371/index.htm
6/7 (maybe)
On a related note, you can watch me discuss nuclear armed twitter accounts—particularly @US_Stratcom—since the resonances with @NoradSanta are obvious: https://twitter.com/nuclearanthro/status/1335037490525130752
On a related note, you can watch me discuss nuclear armed twitter accounts—particularly @US_Stratcom—since the resonances with @NoradSanta are obvious: https://twitter.com/nuclearanthro/status/1335037490525130752
7/8
more work & research needed as this resonates w/Green Reaper, exhibs in NV schools, etc.
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#NuclearWarOnChristmas
more work & research needed as this resonates w/Green Reaper, exhibs in NV schools, etc.
If you laugh, learn from, think about, enjoy, use, pass on my research & work...
...then please enable it:
http://patreon.com/nuclearanthro
http://paypal.me/nuclearanthro
#NuclearWarOnChristmas
A nice Christmas moment!
9/n
As said, @NoradSanta is bad partly b/c
most kids’ experiences of Cold War & nuclear weapons has & will be traumatic/ bad.
In 1961, Michelle Rochon writes JFK worried that Soviet nuclear test fallout would kill Santa Claus.
3 days later the Soviets Detonated “Tsar Bomba”
As said, @NoradSanta is bad partly b/c
most kids’ experiences of Cold War & nuclear weapons has & will be traumatic/ bad.
In 1961, Michelle Rochon writes JFK worried that Soviet nuclear test fallout would kill Santa Claus.
3 days later the Soviets Detonated “Tsar Bomba”
10/n
Again, when I think of NORAD tracking imaginary things, it isn’t @NoradSanta that I think of first...
...it’s the multiple times in the 1980s when NORAD gave false alarms of incoming Soviet attack that produced US force responses:
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb371
Again, when I think of NORAD tracking imaginary things, it isn’t @NoradSanta that I think of first...
...it’s the multiple times in the 1980s when NORAD gave false alarms of incoming Soviet attack that produced US force responses:
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb371
11/n
You should drop everything...
...and go read @AthertonKD’s discussion of Christmas trees, nuclear war, my morbid “humor”, and the Dream of Nuclear Civil Defense. https://athertonkd.substack.com/p/christmasandgroundzero
You should drop everything...
...and go read @AthertonKD’s discussion of Christmas trees, nuclear war, my morbid “humor”, and the Dream of Nuclear Civil Defense. https://athertonkd.substack.com/p/christmasandgroundzero
Another reason to hate military & NATSEC articulations with Santa Claus (like @NoradSanta).
This shit costs money.
Some orgs (cough @US_Stratcom) need to shut the fuck & focus on their core missions.
No cheeky memes if your organization kills people seems a good start point. https://twitter.com/FOIANate/status/1342281254809591808
This shit costs money.
Some orgs (cough @US_Stratcom) need to shut the fuck & focus on their core missions.
No cheeky memes if your organization kills people seems a good start point. https://twitter.com/FOIANate/status/1342281254809591808
13/n
@noradsanta blocked me for convincingly arguing they’re evil propaganda.
TRUTH: IT HURTS
can they do that? hinge on if official government account?
I don’t know!
But blocks call for a #FOIA of decisions & org & SOP in social media of this child-aimed propaganda.
@noradsanta blocked me for convincingly arguing they’re evil propaganda.
TRUTH: IT HURTScan they do that? hinge on if official government account?
I don’t know!
But blocks call for a #FOIA of decisions & org & SOP in social media of this child-aimed propaganda.
Thanks to @Casillic it looks like DoD owns Norad Tracks Santa trademark...
...so now:
A) that suggests paths for #FOIAs including on how DoD sees Norad Santa as part of PR
B) Still surreal @noradsanta blocked me.
NASA should do a competing tracker next year. https://twitter.com/casillic/status/1343055948177416192
...so now:
A) that suggests paths for #FOIAs including on how DoD sees Norad Santa as part of PR
B) Still surreal @noradsanta blocked me.
NASA should do a competing tracker next year. https://twitter.com/casillic/status/1343055948177416192
