IndieAgora

Mostly Americans seem to go around attacking and accusing people of various things, a constant campaign of shaming and silencing others, and one of the way one hapf of such accusative troupes functions is by making accusations of cultural appropriation or racism, yet in doing so they gatekeep and restrict the transmission, growth, and popularity of certain near-extinct and at risk collections of cultural information from being further popularized, while insidious things considered Western like political ideologies with a European history or historical groups considered Western or "White" and European are allowed to be the property for royalty free and stigma free use by anyone and everyone, making the transmission of those things exclusively more free to transmit and influence and continue to survive. Having to explain this repeatedly to accusing barking dogs also puts those trying to promote or spread anything else a more difficult and obstructed process that has extra steps involved or else the shame brigades, who are ultimately working in favor of the cause of evil and ignorance whether they know it or not and have good intentions or not, are doing far more damage to every minority group and keeping in place Western Ideological Domination which is ultimately only a recent thing anyway.


Another way that certain people damage and stifle cultural groups from gaining much attention or being of any use to people so that they might be more appreciated and promoted is by claiming a respectful accuracy and creating systems with insane learning curves required for transmission, extremely limiting how far any of these things eould ever be able to spread among the populace, and again it is destructive and evil, and most sides are working in the cause of such things which only strengthen the status quo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamish_language

https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/leas ... s-on-earth

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_ ... _languages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_ ... _languages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_shift

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_attrition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_death

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_revitalization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_assimilation

There is aldo "culture death", like how in a pretty short period of time certain cultural norms can become obsolete, like a lamguage or certain words:

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During language loss—sometimes referred to as obsolescence in the linguistic literature—the language that is being lost generally undergoes changes as speakers make their language more similar to the language to which they are shifting. This process of change has been described by Appel (1983) in two categories, though they are not mutually exclusive. Often speakers replace elements of their own language with something from the language they are shifting toward. Also, if their heritage language has an element that the new language does not, speakers may drop it.
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https://www.theculturecrypt.com/posts/t ... st-century

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Subcultures are increasingly distilled into mere aesthetics, stripped of their deeper cultural and ideological significance. Reductionism has meant that these rich, vibrant communities are transformed into easily consumable Pinterest boards focused solely on appearance. The essence of subcultures historically represented profound social and political statements but now are often overshadowed by the superficial need to fit the part visually. This trend is evident in how people curate their Instagram feeds, emphasising the look over the lifestyle and values these subcultures once embodied.

This superficiality breeds constant debates about what truly constitutes membership in these communities. For example, the punk scene and emo subcultures were originally rooted in a rejection of mainstream norms and a commitment to authenticity.

However, in today's current social media-driven landscape, these movements are frequently reduced to mere fashion choices devoid of their original rebellious spirit. The commodification of subcultures diminishes their historical and cultural significance and fosters a sense of inauthenticity among participants. What was once a profound expression of identity and values is now a checklist of visual markers to be displayed online.

An "aesthetic" is what happens when capitalism gets to a subculture. Take Goth or Punk, for example, prolific subcultures with a deep, rich history of countercultural movements that are about DIY and thrifting and being anti-capitalist and anti-consumerism. It wasn’t simply dressing in punk or goth; you had to be punk or goth through and through.

This meant immersing yourself in the music, actively participating in the community, and genuinely believing in the ideology. However, with the rise of fast fashion companies like Shein, which fundamentally oppose the anti-consumerist values of these subcultures, they are now selling "punk" and "goth" clothes. This creates a disconnect where people justify their purchases by claiming that Shein is the only place to find punk clothes that are completely detached from what the subculture truly represents. They see it merely as an aesthetic.

“Young people today don’t identify with music in the same way teenagers from the 1940s to the 1990s did. Their main influence used to come from art and musical movements because those were the teenage forms of expression, but not anymore. Teenagers still listen to music—they go clubbing more than ever—but the music doesn’t play the same role in their lives as it used to in ours [the late 1980s]. That role has been filled be video games, social media, film franchises.”

— Jon Lilley

The reason aesthetics exist is simply to sell you things, stripping subcultures down to their shallowest, most basic elements and repackaging them, making it easier to sell trendy items.

Aesthetics have expanded beyond fashion into how we decorate our homes, live our lives, and even the foods and drinks we consume. This is how fast fashion brands sell a lifestyle. Shein models adorned in Coquette outfits in Coquette-themed rooms, selling the idea that buying a Coquette skirt will transform you into the idealised version of yourself. However, upon purchase, you find that you haven't transformed; you're still the same person with just another skirt in your closet. This is the essence of marketing: convincing you that an aesthetic will change your life, even though it's just another way to sell you more products.

When TikTok first began significantly influencing fashion in 2020, publications were quick to label the app's niche aesthetic trends as subcultures. This might be because early TikTok aesthetics like “Cottagecore” and “Earthy” which seemed to offer a more encompassing lifestyle and community beyond just fashion. Trends such as these spoke more to the historical definition of subculture, rooted in elements deeper than aesthetics—such as shared values, social and political ideas, community, and artistic practices like music.
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog ... atekeepers

https://themedium.ca/cultural-gatekeepi ... opriation/

It certainly is more dangerous and destructive, favoring whatever gets the international pass and isn't shamed the way people would be cslled names if they tried to adopt or promote something from China or Japan, then the people start insulting and trying to condemn the people while anyone can talk about Plato or Marx without getting slapped around as much for it. This is keeping lots of information from reaching lots of people who are shy to promote it even further if they ever even hear about it or see a translation, and the difficulties in translating things is another way in which people from one very large culture can't get the news of another, because of the learning curve involved and things not fjnding translators or attention and all the "specialization", making materials very expendive for certain topics and limiting thrir range and very prevalent and easy to access and afford for other topics. It is a war in many ways to keep a tiny group of people proven to be pretty vile and wicked on top of all kinds of ancient cultures and keeping away knowledge and any sense of pride too, so that "white people" in general can associate themselves with made up vikings, but no one can be Indian or Chinese. Islam is the biggest cultural threat when it, like Christianity, is opened to all to imagine themselves as one, so that image then is sullied with oropaganda, dullness, and every effort to say "you don't want to be like that or those people, look how silly they look or ugly they are compared to these cool fantasy things that are much more specifically Western European".

This has totally afflicted the people even if they don't realize or think themselves sympathetic to "others", and it has reached one of the most extreme points in modern history, though there were other times where people were condemned for certain associations and badically threatened into only speaking approvingly of whatever the dominant authorities wanted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumptuary_law

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-25127293

One last test

[quote]atreestump wrote:
One last test[/quote]

I got an email.

Congratulations! Is there a way to make the automatic setting for me not to receive emails since I post so much? I don't want my Artis inbox totally filled up with an email for each of my numerous posts.

Even though I thought I had turned off any kind of targeted advertising and videos coming up based on prior views or searches, YouTube seems to be sending me things they must think I want to see anyway, and I was very disturbed and irritated by the various modern people applying modern approaches based on Catholicism really and Wicca or whatever to Greek stuff and talking about understanding various deities, educating people on that, in many cases being made to look pretty extreme by what I'd imagine were pretty conservative Greek standards, like I don't think that these people really understand what those people were probably like, and have instead created a fantasy version of them and their religion and the deities that are all like these modern people and modern sentiments. It seemed disrespectful and wrong. It is also weird that all that came up eithout my looking for anything like that at all, but I had been thinking about it, and most specifically how the people don't understand now or care, and how they make anything I may be particular to, like Hera, out to be a depressed drunk and a villain, and would not understand or want to accept the association between Hera and abiding by reciprocal rules of respect, fairness, obligation, duty, all these things that they really seem to scoff at in modern times with the promotion of extreme, even callous and brutal selfishness and irresponsibility, often called narcissism in popular speech. I perceive what they say to be blasphemous, like if they were to try to take Islam and defy everything about Islam as described from the Qur'an but insist that some insulting version of God is what it is all about and that their extreme appearances and modern ideas and sentiments are actually the correct ones, based on nothing, and they are going to educate people and lecture on the matter. The religions I like and take seriously, I consider personal and treat as real in my own ways, but what I sense is especially lacking as a foundation with such people as I'm describing is any sort of respect, like these people seem to not even like their own immediate family and recent ancestors or the way things were even just a few years ago, and domehow they think that going way back the people were even more disrespectful about such things? It was totally opposite. There is so much emphasis, perhaps missed by modern readers, about respect, the whole culture, and just about sll old cultures, were about respect. The modern "State" seems to benefit from separating people from the familial hierarchies and instead like to make people feel that the only thing to be respected are often insane seeming modern rules of constantly changing laws enforced by strangers and non-kin through their inflicting various forms of suffering on people. The "State" virus had tried to creep into various societies in the past and like how some viruses replicate and replace or re-encode DNA and RNA or whatever it does, it tries to replace the Natural Laws of who comes first, respect, all those things built into us from early on, pretty much automatically.

Another thing I wanted to discuss briefly is all the conflicts going on currently in the world with one and another "versus":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_o ... _conflicts

https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker

Generally none of the "sides" are ever really "good guys" truly for the people, since they are all just struggling to be in control and to impose things on ordinary and naturally free people, the general public being the "good guys" as compared to various power hungry organizations which are typically in the minority made up of a small elite group of people who want to exclusively bother people who could really care less overall and just want to live good, peaceful, safe lives with smooth transactions and easy survival.

Though, I tend to be against any of the "Great Powers" or people with close or supportive ties to mass m*rdering and genek*ller groups, which makes it easy for me to see which groups I'd lean towards over others, though ideally I'd abolish them all along with their control freak leaders and their weaponry used against innocent unarmed civilians in maybe most cases now. I'm not against weaponry and training for people yo defend themselves when others are using the same for harm, but I am definitely against groups having advanced means and training to inflict harm on people who scarcely stand a chance, even if they too are armed, snd modern weaponry is more terrifying than ever before and leaves people horrifically mutilated or dead and is instantaneous and so brutal, so I really hate weapons but I think psychopaths being the only ones wielding thrm against a detoothed public and shooting ducks in a barrel and stealing candy from babies is all far eorse and that is exactly how things are and are moving further in that direction.

They have recently passed things in places where they are monitoring what people say on the streets, and uding face recognition technologies, and no doubt they are listening fot anyone saying certain words related to the current mass murderers who are the freaks getting all these dystopian control measures passed through as quickly and often quietly as possible, so as not to be obstructed, so that just like saying Voldemort would trigger a response in Harry Potter, saying one of the trigger words in earshot of one of the devices on the streets will send an alert flag, as they are using A.I. also to parse the different voices and to pick up on words. It is vile and I would hope the public does everything that thry can to render such things incapable of invading their privacy, freedom, and rights.

Why I am mentioning all this here, is that each one of these things that I've mentioned above has to do with identity and profiles and profiling, the things that make up some version of who at least another may think we are specifically and based on differences. That is contrasted by how I was jumbling up populations of most people from the past and most ordinary people, as I think that similarities are likely more common than differences, but people who are knowingly or unknowingly working to propagate the "State" virus may actually work to heighten differences and separation to isolate themselves but more importantly others from any sort of solidarity, kinship, and association, so that the isolated individuals are more likely to need to rely on other organizations, especially a Super-Organization like "The State". It isn't so simple always as people may think, since it comes in at least two directions, of trying to swallow everything up, and to break things apart into such particulate that it is unable to achieve anything against it in an atomized condition of total individuality and in actuality alienation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cay

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Taylor took only three weeks to write The Cay, having contemplated the story for over a decade after reading about an 11-year-old who was aboard the Dutch ship “Hato” when it was torpedoed in 1942, and who was last seen by other stranded survivors as he drifted away on a life raft.[1] The novel was published in 1969 and was dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr.



In the novel, the theme of racial prejudice is explored through the character of Grace, Phillip's mother. She expresses a longing for her home in Virginia and discomfort living in Curaçao due to her prejudices against the predominantly Black bay workers in the area.[3] Grace's discomfort and biases lead her to instruct her son, Phillip, and his friend Henrik to avoid the bay area,[4] a directive that Henrik finds puzzling and unusual.

As the story progresses, Phillip, influenced by his mother's attitudes, begins to adopt similar prejudices, initially directed towards Timothy, the elderly Black man with whom Phillip becomes stranded. However, Phillip's views begin to change as he spends more time with Timothy and recognizes their shared humanity. A pivotal moment occurs when Timothy reveals his origins from Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas. Phillip, surprised, responds by noting that this makes Timothy an American, referencing the American purchase of the Virgin Islands from Denmark as a result of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies. Timothy's casual indifference[5] to this fact contrasts with Phillip's initial curiosity about Timothy's background, highlighting Phillip's growing awareness and questioning of his preconceived notions.

Phillip's transformation accelerates when he becomes blind and must rely on Timothy for survival. This dependency shifts the dynamic between them. Timothy's extensive knowledge of the Caribbean islands and survival skills, including building shelter, gathering food, and sourcing water, astonishes Phillip. Through Timothy's patient teaching, Phillip learns to be self-sufficient, fostering mutual respect and a deep bond between them. The culmination of this bond is evident in Phillip's profound grief at Timothy's death. After a hurricane devastates their shelter, Timothy succumbs to exposure, and Phillip, devastated, digs a grave for him and mourns deeply. This emotional response signifies the profound impact Timothy had on Phillip's life and perspective.[6]

Upon returning to Curaçao, Phillip spends significant time with the workers at St. Anna Bay, many of whom knew and remembered Timothy fondly. Phillip's interactions with these individuals further underscore his transformation. He no longer harbors the prejudices he once did and feels a deep connection to the community that Timothy was a part of. This evolution marks a complete departure from his earlier, biased views, demonstrating the powerful impact of his experiences on the cay and his relationship with Timothy.[7]

The Cay was both widely acclaimed and criticized for its impact on promoting racial harmony, and it received the Jane Addams Children's Book Award in 1970. In 1974, when NBC-TV adapted the story for a television drama, the Council on Interracial Books for Children held a press conference urging viewers to call their local stations if they felt the story contained an insidiously "racist" message.[8] During this conference, the current chair of the Addams Award Committee, who was not in that role when the award was given, stated that she believed it was a mistake to have named The Cay an award winner due to its perceived racist theme.[9] In response, the author, Theodore Taylor, who viewed the work as a subtle plea for better race relations and understanding,[10] returned the award "by choice, not in anger, but with troubling questions."[9][10] Taylor later reported that the award had been rescinded.[9][11] Although The Cay remains listed as an Addams Award winner, Taylor's claim of rescission is widely accepted and has become a part of the discussion surrounding the book, which is required reading in many schools in the United States and internationally.[11]

In 2020, the Burbank Unified School District banned the book from the curriculum on the back of complaints from four parents who allege the material in the book could lead to potential harm to the district's Black students.[12][13] The ban was opposed by organizations such as PEN America and the National Coalition Against Censorship on the basis that the book helped support discussions about contemporary racism.[14]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_of_the_Cay

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This book was named "one of the greatest books for children" by Students Across America (SAA) in 2011. They said of it: "This novel is about the life of Timothy and Philip before their ordeal on the cay. In order to make sense of this story you must first read The Cay."
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https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/Bantam_Books

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Bantam_Spectra

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Heart_of_the_Jedi

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In 1991, Lucasfilm asked the publisher Spectra for a series of paperbacks that would take place immediately after the destruction of the second Death Star. As an author working for Spectra, Flint was commissioned to write the first book, which would be preceded by the comic book miniseries Exiles of the Force and followed by Legacy of Doom by Margaret Weis. Heart of the Jedi was to be published in 1993.[3]

According to Flint, he stopped writing his original novels while working on Heart of the Jedi. He sent his first draft to his Spectra editor by the end of 1992, along with subsequent revisions. However, his editor became unresponsive for several months, and Flint did not have direct communications with Lucasfilm. Eventually, Flint contacted an agent who, in turn, contacted Spectra. The agent told Flint that Spectra had determined Heart of the Jedi could not be published because it "no longer fit into the sequence for the new series." Flint's editor had allegedly promised another author of the group that her book would be placed in position one instead of his book. Consequently, Heart of the Jedi was never published. Flint was allowed to keep his ten thousand dollar advance and given the opportunity to write two Star Wars short stories, "Doctor Death: The Tale of Dr. Evazan and Ponda Baba" and "Old Friends: Ephant Mon's Tale." However, Flint said the events regarding the novel destroyed both his relationship with Spectra and his career as a writer.[3]

Bantam promotional brochures continued to list "Heart of the Jedi" as "coming in 1996..." to paperback, as late as 1995.[2]



Years later, Flint allowed the unpublished manuscript to be edited by author and editor Joe Bongiorno for his website, the Star Wars Expanded Universe Timeline. Bongiorno describes his revisions as matching the established continuity of the Expanded Universe however, he has admitted to making significant changes to the original manuscript without the oversight of Lucasfilm. The original manuscript submitted to Lucasfilm included the planet, Gathol but this was omitted by Bongiorno. In May 2015, an unofficial, and modified version of the manuscript was posted on Bongiorno's website as a "lostworlds" unpublished novel. The posting included Flint's account of the novel's development and cancellation. Bongiorno created a mockup cover from artwork by Paul Shipper.[3]

On March 4, 2021, the revised novel, under the fanon title Star Wars: The Heart of the Jedi was unofficially sold as a paperback via Amazon.com's self-publishing services, without the permission of Lucasfilm. The seller stated they were not making any profit and asked The Walt Disney Company not to sue them. Sometime in May 2021, the listing was removed from Amazon.[4] This edition was published under the imprint "Gallina Books" which also later appeared in an unauthorized release of Lightsider.[3]

On September 8, 2025, the novel was again published through Amazon.com's self-publishing services using the same name[5]. The seller, in similar fashion to the 2021 listing, stated "This printing is being sold ONLY for the COST of PRODUCTION, and not a cent more. Absolutely NO PROFIT is being made." Upon inspection, the book was discovered to have been published under the imprint "Wraith Flight Publishing" and had a notable difference in cover design and layout than that of previous editions[6]. As of November 25, 2025, the book is listed on Amazon as being out of print.
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https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Legacy_of_Doom

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Legacy of Doom was a proposed novel to be written by Margaret Weis. It was apparently supposed to be a sequel to Exiles of the Force and Heart of the Jedi. It was canceled in 1995 due to a difference of opinion.

In 2016, Joseph Bongiorno intended to publish Legacy of Doom on his website, the Star Wars Expanded Universe Timeline. He managed to contact Margaret Weis, who let him know what the fate of the story was, and how it ended up not getting published: "I no longer have the book. I saw no reason to keep it and it was on a computer that I have long since retired. My story is that I had only a limited window of time in which to write that book, as I had other book commitments at the time. I handed in the book, but the people at Lucasfilm kept changing their minds about what they wanted and having me do rewrite after rewrite. At last I told them time was up, this was getting too frustrating and I moved on."[1]
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https://www.starwarstimeline.net/

I believe in two Star Wars, maybe three.

I believe in the Original Trilogy, Part Of The Original Expanded Universe, and even more than the Expanded Universe my own Alternative Star Wars Inspired fabtasy and corrections or further worldbuilding where I think both the Prequels, Original Trilogy, and the Expanded Universe all go astray or miss the mark or could have been better or more sensible in my opinion. I may like a few things from the Clone Wars but it becomes much more abstract and piecemeal as to what I would cherrypick from there, if anything, and I don't even recognize it as the Clone Wars, since I had long inagined something else, and so did just about everyone before those films came out and disappointed many.

It is interesting to me since this is all about fiction, and the sense of thinking some fiction is more acceptable or at least likable than some which becomes so irritating that it helps to reject it and deny it, like "it isn't true, it didn't happen", like how hateful the latest film series was to me and some longtime fans, and I haven't seen the films of the name new sequel trilogy after The Force Awakens, and I feel almost compelled to deny it and reject it. Yet there are people who supposedly fight for the prequels and the sequels, and these various groups of media have been bery divisive for people, and to a lesser degree so have the Indiana Jones films and Expanded Lore, which basically seemed fine and acceptable to most anyone familiar with it until the fourth film, and then again various things seemed to creep in which seemed like the whole thing had to be denied as it was somehow seeming to taint and sully the enjoyment of the original films and expanded lore of the series. The Young Indiana Jones series seemed to be more easy to deny if necessary and less believable or enjoyable than the book adventures where Indiana Jones was an adult, plus people probably didn't like that he appeared yo have lost or damaged an eye at some point based on his appearance as an elderly person in the Young Indiana Jones series, as the narrator or host.

https://archive.org/details/396241694-k ... c/mode/1up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4nnerbund

https://disabilityaccesscollective.blog ... mythology/

https://thetroth.org/resource/disability-heathenry/

https://files.libcom.org/files/2024-07/ ... 20DARK.pdf



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Sight is associated with knowledge and Sight without eyes is associated with supernatural knowledge. If you want to see the unseen, you need to see without Eyes, you need to see beyond the immediate and superficial. I am reminded of a quote from... something, I am not sure if it is a book, movie or mythology or what. But the speaker was telling a story of a man who had taken a blow or something to the head and "his eye turned inward into himself and he died of what he saw there."

With an empty eye socket, his deepest-self becomes visible. By giving up an eye, he gives up ego and self-delusion. It's not just about losing the vision of an eye, it's about sacrificing the comfort and value of one's illusions about themselves and other 'hard truths' that others choose not to see. Through this did Odin gain wisdom.
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I'm still thinking about how to switch up my posting style very soon, thank you for being patient with my weening, as I have some back log of things I'm working through that are still ready to go in the older fashion.

I am thinking about how to switch over to using Agoras like thread with mini threads or topic chains inside of them that are more focused rather than encompassing a lot more, which the Agora can then act as the super thread the way I've been using threads up until now on the forum site. So it might not be that much of a change overall, just using Agoras as threads and posts that are better together under that thread in their own sub-threads in the Agora, which might actually not end up increasing navigation difficulties for me as that was my major concern and what was causing me some reluctance in trying to make an Agora.

The Agoras are infinite right? I can make them as freely as I can make threads? So I now probably won't make "One Big Agora To Rule Them All", but will make lots of Agoras like threads, then put all the themes connected to the Agora in different topics. That might even be neater. I almost wish I could organize my posts currently that way, in which case I'd enter the threads and group related themes under sub-topic headers.

Nice post no longer here.

https://www.stopspying.org/latest-news/ ... rveillance

They want people to put themselves in neat little boxes that get them turned into prey one way or another.

There are maybe 6 major factions in play at once, while most normal people, I assume, possess no radical views are do not participate in any activism and just want this nightmare to stop.

The groups are:

Anti-Ethnic/Weird Right
Neo-Liberal Left
LGBTQIA+
Communistic/Anti-Capitalist (but not Anti-Government)
Pro-Human Rights
Pro-Z

They variously overlap and most are connecting to issues being pushed out of the U.S.A.

Total Anarchists and Shut-the-f*ck-upists are not really a group, but most people would probably feel like some kind of total anhillatory purge with no one coming out on top except average nobodies, with no agenda, might be in order.

Most people also agree with something from each group, except the last, but only maybe just not going too far with that one, even though expulsion and permanent blocking from the region may be necessary for such a vehemently racist and violent group of colonists, but some or most just want them to live on the stolen land, but much more quietly like they were occasionally. Most people just want to stop hearing or seeing any of it, even if it is still going on, they just don't want it shoved in their face constantly if absolutely nothing is going to be done about all the crimes that have occurred and are occurring.

I also believe most people probably wish J and Z never existed in all human history, as they have been connected to constant trouble, and any group with a tiny population linked to tons of trouble and complaints likely would get that response from the average human being, but similar ideas were harder to swallow regarding massive populations overall, because there were so many cases and people to show and say something else for whatever block they are imagined to represent.

There are many more people who wouldn't want Christianity or Islam to not exist.

They also represent two major factions besides the Hindutva and Hindutva sympathizing people.

The Chinese are acting largely cut off from all this, but they too seem to sort of fall into these various camps, but far less than those in Europe, the Middle East, and India, who are totally participating. Africa may be more cut off too, but are being used by multiple powers interfering in numerous African nations, and most hopefully belong to a mixture similar to the Muslims, who are a conservative, pro-human rights mixture that hates Western totalitarianism and racism towards them.

If any group besides true and balanced pro-human rights and anti-police state wins out, it means disaster for everyone.

There are also the pro A.I. people and Anti-A.I., and the pro ones might not realize that in the hands of really evil people, all technology just puts ordinary humans and even all organic life and the environment in grave danger and at risk of irreversible harm, so there seems to be no option there so long as evil predatory forces keep h*jacking things to destroy all pleasure, peace, and safety from exploitation for the ordinary majority. Their class feels immune, and they have no empathy for any of us, so can never be trusted and all power must be kept from any of them, and really anyone at all, since no one can be trusted.

So that adds 6 more factions:

Anarchists/Shut-it
Christians
Muslims
Hindutva
Pro-Tech/A.I. Enthusiasts/Transhumanism
Anti-Tech/Pro-Human

So:

Anti-Ethnic/Weird Right
Neo-Liberal Left
LGBTQIA+
Communistic
Pro-Human Rights
Pro-Z

Regular People

Anarchists/Shut-it
Christians
Muslims
Hindutva
Pro-Tech/A.I. Enthusiasts/Transhumanism
Anti-Tech/Pro-Human

They each overlap with others and sometimes pull other issues towards people or increase their likelihood to choose one or another impotent opinion that ultimately amounts to nothing but yelling at a screen like it is a sports game which one has no impact on whatsoever as far as we can tell. Pretty much no one can authentically be all, as many are mutually exclusive according to their mainstream versions with the most influence and people upholding such ideas or their central doctrines.

So a common mix might be:

Anti-Ethnic/Weird Right
Christians
Pro-Z
Anti-Tech/Pro-Human

This last bit as well as everything else should push them towards:

Pro-Human Rights, which often overlaps with a number of other groups.

Another one is:

Anti-Ethnic/Weird Right
Hindutva
Pro-Z
Pro-Tech/A.I. Enthusiasts/Transhumanism

There is a Pro-A.I. Right type too.

Most people are part of at least 3 and sometimes 4 groups and allying with those positions and tendencies to varingy degrees.

Since there are 12, the signs of the Zodiac and months might be appropriate for them.