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Yama

@wolfyama.bsky.social

*The Mystery Squad rips off the mask of my game*
Velma: "This wasn't a 3D Action Game..."
Scooby: "Rit Rwas a Bullet Hell rall along!"

February 19, 2026 at 2:08 AM

Seekora

@seekorachain.bsky.social

One of the reasons Im all in on jupiter(solana)

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RWAs Boom: Layer-1 Blockchains Ignite $18.9T Tokenization

Tokenized RWAs have reshaped finance as Ethereum, Stellar, Avalanche, and Injective draw billions on-chain, cutting costs for institutions.

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May 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM

Andrew Hickey

@andrewhickey.500songs.com

This, but it also *is* good political strategy. If you read any of Altermeyer's work on Right-Wing Authoritarianism, the single biggest motivator for RWAs is the desire to be "normal".
They won't be changed by rational argument, but *will* be changed by "Ugh! What's wrong with you, you freak?!"

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Jul 26

I did not know how badly I just needed a campaign that was " look at these fuckin freaks". Not as political strategy, just for me. Because just look at those fuckin freaks

July 26, 2024 at 2:11 PM

PRRI

@prri.org

- 43% of all Americans score high on the Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale (RWAS)
- 67% of Republicans score high on the RWAS
- 75% of Republicans w/ favorable views of Trump score high on the RWAS

August 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM

Andrew Hickey

@andrewhickey.500songs.com

Fundamentally, in other words, reactionary centrism is right-wing authoritarian personality types (in the Altermeyer sense) who've been socialised to think of themselves as liberal, in the same way Stalinism is the RWAs of the left.

Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · Nov 27

specifically, its roots are conformism, implicit difference to informal social hierarchies, & a gendered assigning of moral responsibility & blame

November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM

🌈 Chien 🏖️

@lovemao.bsky.social

this pikachu brings back so much memories bcoz when iwas 8 my sister rwas swinging it around by its tail, then it snapped and slammed me into the wall

February 14, 2026 at 6:41 AM

Blockchain Report

@blockchainreport.bsky.social

Multicoin Capital predicts tokenized Real World Assets (RWAs) will drive DeFi 2.0. Expect a shift beyond crypto natives to sophisticated instruments like CLOBs, RFQ systems, and derivatives. Value will accrue to blockchains, core protocols, aggregators, and application layers. #DeFi #RWAs #Crypto

September 25, 2026 at 3:48 AM

play by post

@playbypost.bsky.social

In 1987, Bob Altemeyer found a large pool of students to do a series of model NATO sessions, an experiment he replicated frequently thereafter. He gave attendees tests to find out who was a Right Wing Authoritarian (RWA).

When the team was all RWAs they frequently caused the end of the world.

High RWAs tend to feel more endangered in a potentially threatening situation than most people do, and often respond aggressively. In 1987 my colleague Gerry Sande and I had five-man teams of male introductory psychology students role-play NATO in an “international simulation” involving (they thought) another team of students playing as the Warsaw Pact. Some of the NATO teams were composed entirely of low RWA students, and other NATO teams were stocked entirely with highs. (We experimenters secretly played the Warsaw Pact.) The simulation began with a couple of ambiguous moves by the Warsaw Pact, such as holding military exercises earlier than anticipated, and withdrawing divisions to rear areas (possibly for rest, or--as Dr. Strangelove might argue--possibly for redeployment for an attack). The NATO teams could respond with nonthreatening or threatening moves of varying magnitudes. But if they made threats, the Warsaw pact responded with twice as much threat in return, and the NATO team would reap what it had sown as an escalation of aggressive moves would likely result.

The low RWA teams did not interpret the ambiguous moves at the beginning of the game as serious threats and thus seldom made threatening moves. The high RWAs on the other hand usually reacted to the opening Warsaw Pact moves aggressively, and sowed a whirlwind. Over the course of the simulation, the high RWA teams made ten times as much threat as the low teams did, and usually brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.19

September 17, 2026 at 1:03 AM

zoey

@aliengirl100.bsky.social

my understanding when i rwas little and saw it

December 27, 2025 at 3:03 AM

justin.algo

@handle.invalid

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November 22, 2024 at 10:46 PM

M.A. Zavala 💖💜💙

@megzavala.bsky.social

(I’m gonna be annoying about this book until I’m done absorbing it)

There’s a passage for everything. Here’s a bit about high authoritarian inclined people, or high RWAs, and their abilities with critical thinking

You can appreciate their short-fall in critical thinking by how easily authoritarian followers get alarmed by things. When I asked a group of students if the most serious problem in our country today was the drug problem and the crime it causes, a solid majority of the high RWAs said yes.' When I asked another group if the destruction of the family was our most serious problem, the great majority of authoritarians in that group said it was. When I asked a third group if our most serious problem was the loss of religion and commitment to God, a solid majority of those authoritarians said yes. And a solid majority of the high RWAs in a fourth group agreed the destruction of the environment was our biggest problem. We've apparently got a truck load of "biggest" problems.

It's much harder to catch low RWAs doing this sort of thing. When someone says one of their favorite issues is our biggest problem (e.g. the destruction of individual freedom, or poverty), they seem to ask themselves, "Is it?"--whereas authoritarian followers usually respond, "It is!" So what happens when a demagogue asserts "The Jews are our biggest problem" (or feminists or the liberal press or the United Nations or Iraq--you name it)? Are high R WAs likely to make an independent, thoughtful evaluation of that statement? Or are they going to get riled up and demand repression or censorship or a war? "Yes sir, we've got trouble, right here in River City, Trouble, with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for pool!"?

January 16, 2026 at 4:21 PM

play by post

@playbypost.bsky.social

Later, they got the bright idea of trying to introduce missile defense systems to both sides of the conflict, again, with groups of all RWAs, proportional representation, and none, and the presence of missile defense systems made them EVER MORE AGGRESIVE regardless of WHICH SIDE had it.

[15] Remember the 1987 NATO-Warsaw Pact experiment from chapter 1, in which five-man teams of high RWAs reacted aggressively to ambiguous moves by the Warsaw Pact and precipitated a crisis? Gerry Sande and I followed up that experiment with a version in which NATO had developed a perfect “Star Wars” defense against nuclear attack. When low RWA teams thought they were unbeatable, they made virtually no

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threats against the Warsaw Pact--just as they had made no threats in the first run of the experiment. But when the high RWA teams knew they had the upper hand, they did one of two things. Some of the high RWA NATO teams became quite non-belligerent. But just as many became enormously aggressive. Believing that another group of students in the next room was playing the Warsaw Pact part of the simulation, they felt, as one of their members said, “We wanted them to realize we could wipe them out at any time.” A member of another very aggressive high RWA group put it more graphically: “We had all the power, and we wanted them to kiss our asses.”

We were puzzled at the time, because we thought having ultimate power would relax the high RWAs and make them less aggressive--which it did in half the groups, but not the other half. What caused the difference among the high RWA groups? I’ll bet you my chance of getting to heaven--which may be slim anyway after Chapter 4-- that the aggressive groups had some Double Highs in them. But this was some years before the Social Dominance Orientation scale was developed, so there’s no way of knowing.

We also ran a condition in which the enemy, the Warsaw Pact, had perfected a defense against nuclear attack while NATO had none. Incredibly, this produced an increase in aggressiveness among the low RWA teams, and an even bigger, record-breaking level of hostility in the high RWA groups. This produced counter-aggressiveness in their superior enemy. Why were the NATO players such idiots?

September 17, 2026 at 1:08 AM

Takara

@takara-orca.bsky.social

#RWAS

April 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM

MIMovieMan_91

@tim1991.bsky.social

The nun is the Cat!

#SundayScares
#TheLegacy

a cat sits on a table with the words well tokenizing rwas is this easy written below it

ALT: a cat sits on a table with the words well tokenizing rwas is this easy written below it

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March 30, 2026 at 1:14 AM

Griais

@griais.bsky.social

📉 How will tokenized RWAs fare in a low-interest-rate environment? 🌐 Despite doubts, their utility as collateral tools and opportunities for yield generation may cement their role in shaping the future of finance. #Tokenization #RWAs #FinancialInnovation

April 1, 2024 at 2:45 PM

play by post

@playbypost.bsky.social

A direct question that's been on this test since the beginning:

God's laws about abortion, pornography and marriage must be strictly followed before it is too late, and those who break them must be strongly punished.

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