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.
I know what will help! I’ll sow even MOAR division! Yes! People haven’t been divided enough by the billionaires and media owners on corpo social media, so I’m gonna bring division to the fediverse!
I know what will help! I’ll sow even MOAR division! Yes! People haven’t been divided enough by the billionaires and media owners on corpo social media, so I’m gonna bring division to the fediverse!
It sounds to me like you think this (the White House being “owned” by Putin) is all hilarious and funny. That surreal comedy and absurd Twitter-speak on social media machines is all LOL and hilarious for you to consume and react-comment to. At least that’s my initial take on how you (your electric media message) are treating extremely serious Russian information warfare against NATO and especially the United States of America. You can take people off of Twitter, but you can’t get them to stop the Tweet-style mockery and sarcasm to extremely important and serious matters.
Your reply serves to banalize that USA is attacking Canada and doing other absurd and hyper-real surreal comedy actions in service to the Kremlin.
“In the twenty-first century the techniques of the political technologists have become centralized and systematized, coordinated out of the office of the presidential administration, where Surkov would sit behind a desk on which were phones bearing the names of all the “independent” party leaders, calling and directing them at any moment, day or night. The brilliance of this new type of authoritarianism is that instead of simply oppressing opposition, as had been the case with twentieth-century strains, it climbs inside all ideologies and movements, exploiting and rendering them absurd. One moment Surkov would fund civic forums and human rights NGOs, the next he would quietly support nationalist movements that accuse the NGOs of being tools of the West. With a flourish he sponsored lavish arts festivals for the most provocative modern artists in Moscow, then supported Orthodox fundamentalists, dressed all in black and carrying crosses, who in turn attacked the modern art exhibitions. The Kremlin’s idea is to own all forms of political discourse, to not let any independent movements develop outside of its walls. Its Moscow can feel like an oligarchy in the morning and a democracy in the afternoon, a monarchy for dinner and a totalitarian state by bedtime.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, year 2014
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“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.” - BanksyYour read is way way way fucking off base. Might be my fault, I thought I was clear but I suppose I understand how one might not think so.
I do not find anything about this administration or their actions to be funny or amusing. I find the people and policies that makeup MAGA to be abhorrent. To be honest, I think you and I can probably agree politically on a lot of topics.
What I was commenting on, through sarcasm (my bad for not including the /s I guess), was your sweeping generalization. Those only serve to divide, further pushing members of the working class to splinter off into smaller groups to be more easily exploited and controlled by the ownership class.
Maybe its hyperbole and I missed it? Maybe not, perhaps you truly believe everyone in the US deserves, wanted, and supports what our government is doing. Perhaps you think we aren’t doing enough to resist? I can agree to that, all the protests I’ve been to have been smaller than I had hoped. I’m also getting in touch with other orgs in my area to get more started, hopefully we can get something happening.
Idk what to tell you. Your post came off as very crass to me, and I responded with heavy sarcasm.
What I was commenting on, through sarcasm (my bad for not including the /s I guess), was your sweeping generalization
Perhaps you suffer from a media literacy problem of light-speed social machines. I suggest you study over on [email protected] …
You react-comment instead of try to understand someone. I also suggest [email protected] - it is a MASSIVE crisis all across the World Wide Web in year 2025 that people react-comment and don’t seek understanding. James Joyce, Irish Writer, was dealing with the same crisis of Dublin life over 100 years ago. The metaphor of the “Tower of Babel” and how humans get in conflicts over language and jumping to conclusions and at each other’s throat.
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“Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man.” - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine, p.56, February 28, 1966 — www.LazyWake.comInteresting suggestion, I’ll have to check it out when I get some time.
So if my post was a “react-comment,” the implication being my lacking of media literacy has caused me to misunderstand you, can you at least do me the favor of clarifying your meaning? I asked some questions, answering those might help.
I’m trying to discuss this in good faith with you, but I truly do not think that’s being reciprocated.
I’m trying to discuss this in good faith with you, but I truly do not think that’s being reciprocated.
That’s entirely my point. You may notice that I frequently cite books, magazines, professionally edited writings from professors, teachers, etc. I suggest you escape your fixation on my personal language and demonstrate some comprehension of the “Forest for Trees” topics being discussed using someone’s words entirely not your own or mine. As I’m not here for pissing contest of [email protected] social machine comment section conflicts.
“I truly do not think that’s being reciprocated” <<< I witness that. Community description of this Lemmy community: “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.”
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“For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in ‘Brave New World’ was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985You’ve sited a single article and an anemic forum. I’m here to discuss things with other people, I don’t have a fixation on your or anyone’s personal language. Suggesting otherwise is absurd.
Suggesting otherwise is absurd.
Sounds like you are under the influence of Kremlin simulacras. Seeing things as absurd and surreal via media machines.
You’ve sited a single article and an anemic forum.
What does “anemic forum” mean? Sounds like diss-talk, shit-tallk against something?
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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995 … /\ //\ /\ … “Stand Up For the BIG GUY”, “Stand up for Elon Musk”, “Stand up for Putin and Russia”, “Stand up for the Powerful”, “Stand up for Donald Trump”.Absent is: “stand up for the Little Guy”, the rural Americans who have had their mind fucked by Russia, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, etc. Stand up for cult deprogramming of your fellow “small guy” is sure popular on social machine systems in 2024 and year 2025!
Bruh are you okay?
I looked through their posts and it’s like the digital counterpart of the person ranting on the bus, now in mobile form.
I looked through their posts and it’s like the digital counterpart of the person ranting on the bus, now in mobile form.
Hi “billbaggins”. My name is Stephen Alfred Gutknecht, I was raised in Fort Wayne Indiana. What’s your name? Do you shit-talk about people all over the Internet or only here? Or only those standing up to Putin and Kremlin information warfare over on [email protected] ?
Bros cooked, he’s got America brain. There is no cure
Hm, I thought you guys were one of the few that sdf de-feded from
One more thing to be on the lookout for, I guess.
Fuck you. I am a disabled person who voted against this and I’ll be put in a concentration camp some day soon if this escalates. The entire population? Asshole.
I thought this meme was good then read your comment, then I reach your description, and wrote Jesus Christ that is by far the stupidest take on anything I’ve ever fucking read. The people who actually like and/or want any of this are a VERY small minority lol
