Clown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a "basket case of clowning around" on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.
People like to play a game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It's the entire population of Untied States of America.
Eye for an eye philosophy. Taking the high road did nothing, so some are willing to walk the lower one instead.
Things already got worse and stability is no longer an option for certain parts of the population. Do you really expect respect from those who aren't afforded any?
Dehumanization brought us to this point. But I guess it's no longer fun when the dehumanized level down the playing field...
Taking the high road did nothing, so some are willing to walk the lower one instead.
What high-road is that? I have seen absolutely no people doing cult deprogramming of Fox News audience, cult deprogramming of MAGA. I see people just doing "LOL MAGA dumb" counter-cult. That is only showing faith in dehumanization and mockery itself, which MAGA already had those faiths, Fox News audience was already manipulated.
Taking the high road did nothing
Calling avoiding cult deprogramming the "high road", calling avoiding defending against Russian media invasion that started in 2013 the "high road" is not funny to me. It's a gross and sick misunderstanding of how Russia defeated the USA by winning "hearts and minds" since year 2013. !HybridWarLost@lemm.ee
Taking the high road did nothing
There is a serious USA morality education crisis that people have such a "low bar" of measure that they can't even identify what "High Road" means in year 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.
"The trouble isn't so much that we don't know enough, but it's as if we aren't good enough. The trouble isn't so much that our scientific genius lags behind, but our moral genius lags behind. The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live. So we find ourselves caught in a messed-up world. The problem is with man himself and man's soul. We haven't learned how to be just and honest and kind and true and loving. And that is the basis of our problem. The real problem is that through our scientific genius we've made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we've failed to make of it a brotherhood." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
You should widen your horizons on the fediverse then because those who believe in a better way never stopped trying. Didn't work because we ended up where we are, but their efforts keep going even now.
There are still many who believe in a better world, only that some are tired of feeling like they're the only ones shouldering the responsibility of getting there. And I'd say they have a right to take break from that without being guilted into maintaining an otherwise state of tension and unease.
Why ask for more from the sufferers when we should ask it from those who cause the suffering? It ain't right.
You should widen your horizons on the fediverse then because those who believe in a better way never stopped trying. Didn’t work because we ended up where we are
Citations? References? Show me they are teaching cult-deprogramming against the 5,000 meme patterns Russia unleashed on social media in March 2013. Go ahead, show me!
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/24/a-trumprussia-confession-in-plain-sight/
Константин Рыков
November 14, 2016
Часть вторая.
В чем заключалась наша идея с Дональдом Трампом? За четыре года и два дня.. необходимо было пробраться ко всем в мозг и захватить все возможные средства массового восприятия действительности. Обеспечить победу Дональда на выборах президента США. После чего создать политический союз между Соединенными Штатами, Францией, Россией (и ещё рядом других государств) и установить новый мировой порядок.
Четыре года и два дня - это с одной стороны очень большой срок, а с другой очень маленький. Наша идея была безумна, но реализуема. Для того, чтобы в этом во всем разобраться для начала нужно было "оцифровать" все возможные виды современного человека. Дональд решил пригласить для этой задачи - специальный научный отдел "Кембриджского университета".
Британские учёные из Cambridge Analytica предложили сделать из 5 тысяч существующих человеческих психотипов - "идеальный образ" возможного сторонника Трампа. Затем.. положить этот образ обратно на всё психотипы и таким образом подобрать универсальный ключик к любому и каждому.
Разработка в итоге обошлась Дональду Фредовичу в 5 миллионов долларов. Но! Он получил в свои руки - секретное супер-оружие. Кто занимался таргетированной рекламой.. поймёт, что это значит. Помните, сколько всего денег потратили фонды Клинтон и "их сторонники" на кампанию по всему миру? В 5 раз больше, чем Трамп.
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Russia-watcher Catherine Fitzpatrick, who documents Kremlin disinformation for InterpreterMag . com, says just as Moscow uses vague Internet laws to encourage self-censorship, trolls inhibit informed debate by using crude dialogue to change "the climate of discussion." "If you show up at The Washington Post or New Republic sites, where there's an article that's critical of Russia, and you see that there are 200 comments that sound like they were written by 12-year-olds, then you just don't bother to comment," she says. "You don't participate. It's a way of just driving discussion away completely," she adds. "Those kinds of tactics are meant to stop democratic debate, and they work." - year 2014
Wow, this looks like one of those kind of comments. I can see why it would be working...
lath@lemmy.world : Wow, this looks like one of those kind of comments. I can see why it would be working…
Can you please quote and be specific what "this" means? What exactly you mean by "can see" and "would be working"? Are you citing the linked story about Facebook postings from Константин Рыков ? I need help on context of your reply, there are at least 3 different media platforms and authors being referenced in the Lemmy comment you replied to. Thank you.
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, 1980
"The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance." ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995
Might be time to take your meds brother
Might be time to take your meds brother
These 8-words Twitter-length / Bluesky-length responses to what is gong on in USA / North America in April 2025 Is "baby talk". As defined by Neil Postman back in 1985:
Like how people talk about Donald Trump wearing diapers and how he is 7 years old and how Elon Musk is a dumb idiot. That's Twitter style shit-bird ways of Tweeting debate, and it works. That's how Donald Trump and Elon Musk got to the top of the free world in year 2024, by baby-talk and dumb shit. Anti-intellectualism in favor of drugs.
“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985 !BackTo1985@lemm.ee
Might be time to take your meds brother
Twitter-length Elon Musk does drugs kind of mocking. "Elon Musk on ketamine" thought-terminating cliche thinking. Don't take serious anything going on in USA and media systems, just drug talk.
That's your response to me quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: "The trouble isn't so much that we don't know enough, but it's as if we aren't good enough. The trouble isn't so much that our scientific genius lags behind, but our moral genius lags behind. The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live. So we find ourselves caught in a messed-up world. The problem is with man himself and man's soul. We haven't learned how to be just and honest and kind and true and loving. And that is the basis of our problem. The real problem is that through our scientific genius we've made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we've failed to make of it a brotherhood." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Lemmy is full of people who dehumanize and promote drugs. People who love machines and hate human beings for calling out that USA society in year 2025 is insane, that in April 2025 - USA entire behavior is out of control and wild crazy.