People in general aren't all that bright and are easily distracted by wedge issues. Trans rights conveniently distract everyone on both sides from our leaders' overall corruption and failure to address larger existential crises like climate change and massive wealth inequality.
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People in general aren’t all that bright and are easily distracted by wedge issues.
I find it's become incredibly popular on social machine systems to say: every other person is dumb and stupid, I'm inside my artificial reality and everyone else is not very bright. This all started in March 2013 that this pattern of egoism began to surge and increase on social media populations. [email protected]
Obviously I didn't mean you. You're too smart to be caught up in the "I'm smarter than you" fads.
Obviously I didn’t mean you. You’re too smart to be caught up in the “I’m smarter than you” fads.
I think you are insincere and here doing active measures to promote ignorance and self-centered values of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Vlad Putin / Kremlin's December 2013 "Conservative International Party" values, etc.
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"As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism." ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985 [email protected]
I have been told that this is part of the fascist playbook.
Find a marginalized community and destroy them under any pretext you can generate.
Start with something else, find one that'll put up the least amount of resistance, the one that will generate the least amount of sympathy, one that everyone who has the smallest calcium-deposit of decency in their body will hate.
Start with pedophiles, because you know and everyone knows pedophiles deserve to get murdered, right?
Then associate your marginalized community with the community that you destroyed. Start screaming from every media outlet that trans people are pedophiles. That they will invade bathrooms to rape children.
Then branch out to your next target. Go after the gays. Keep ramping up the intensity.
Go after people who have had an abortion or who provide abortions.
Go after people who have married other races.
Make all of these actions a crime so that you can arrest and disenfranchise the people using the legal platforms of the country.
Good, upstanding people don't want to be criminals, so they will do their best to not participate in the actions that you have disenfranchised.
As long as civil war does not break out and cause your regime to be overthrown, you are guaranteed success.
If a civil war does break out, all you have to do is use the overwhelming power of your military to defeat them, and then claim every single person that rebelled against your tyranny were actually the tyrannists.
Use previous instances of civil war as evidence that you were in the right and they are in the wrong just like it was 150 years ago.
Ignore the fact that the first civil war was about ending slavery even though the second civil war will be about reinstituting slavery.
Rinse and repeat, continuously increasing the pressure until eventually you achieve your goal of picking your own race and economic political class as the supreme race and everyone else is disadvantaged.
The best part is, is that by and large, the people who are close to your ideal group of people will support you all the way up until you turn the thumbscrews on them.
And then they will say, "How did this happen? I don't understand why you would turn on me."
But nobody will be there to save them.
Blue MAGA brain rot.
Your fascists have been fascists all on their own, long before the big scary Putler was in charge of Russia.
Blue MAGA brain rot.
Short shit-length Twitter-reply brain rot, media ecology literacy. People who have never studied Neil Postman's 1985 book "Amusing Ourselves To Death" about the Apple iPhone, Internet memes, and Lemmy / Reddit.
Your fascists have been fascists all on their own, long before the big scary Putler was in charge of Russia.
They didn't have a meeting in November 2013 in Moscow and then make a world-wide announcement in December 2013. You are deflecting from factual evidence and reality. The Ukraine war started in February 2014, right after this December 2013 announcement. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/12/vladimir-putin-conservative-icon/282572/
long before the big scary Putler was in charge of Russia.
Which has been 25 years Putin has been in charge of Russia. You know what they didn't have 25 years ago? Anonymous no-identity shit-talkers on Lemmy social media who give Twitter-think short-message replies to hand-wave away real authors and real citations. Also, 25 years ago when Putin came along, the Apple iPhone wasn't the meme channel outlet for Americans - that didn't until year 2007.
long before the big scary Putler was in charge of Russia.
Your entire simple-think Twitter-think meme-think reply comes down to: Oh you had 30 fascists in America, so don't do anything to resist that now there are 800 million of them in the world, including 340 million of them in USA who think having xAI / Elon Musk datacenter in Memphis run their life is entirely cool because a fascist machine running their life is cool because Lemmy and computers are cool! Or whatever other "I love Twitter-think short-shit" you are going for. Fox News answers to critical and serious society problems.
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"“I am the author, or one of the authors, of the new Russian system,” Vladislav Surkov told us by way of introduction. On this spring day in 2013, he was wearing a white shirt and a leather jacket that was part Joy Division and part 1930s commissar. “My portfolio at the Kremlin and in government has included ideology, media, political parties, religion, modernization, innovation, foreign relations, and ...”—here he pauses and smiles—“modern art.” He offers to not make a speech, instead welcoming the Ph.D. students, professors, journalists, and politicians gathered in an auditorium at the London School of Economics to pose questions and have an open discussion. After the first question, he talks for almost 45 minutes, leaving hardly any time for questions after all. It’s his political system in miniature: democratic rhetoric and undemocratic intent." - The Hidden Author of Putinism. How Vladislav Surkov invented the new Russia. By Peter Pomerantsev. November 7, 2014
Yeah homophobia and transphobia didn't exist before 2013, so true
homophobia and transphobia didn’t exist before 2013, so true
I think you are hallucinating and have lost all understanding before year 2013. You aren't living in true reality. You need to get media cult deprogramming. [email protected] community on Lemmy can help. You seem to have consumed a lot of Fox News HDTV content, or exposure to Cambridge Analytica content on Lemmy and Reddit or wherever else. "Russia and the Menace of Unreality. How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare", "The new Russia doesn’t just deal in the petty disinformation, forgeries, lies, leaks, and cyber-sabotage usually associated with information warfare. It reinvents reality, creating mass hallucinations"
homophobia and transphobia didn’t exist before 2013, so true
perhaps you might even be an agent to sane-wash the White House / Kremlin, to morality-wash what they are doing with messages on Lemmy media platform?
I appreciate what you're trying to do, but check the instance they're from.
Hexbear tends to have the largest community of communists that don't believe Russia is doing anything wrong even if they are "attacking" America. They use a definition of fascism that is more centered on corporate subservience and oppression of people outside of the country for said corporate interests, that isn't exactly wrong, it just leaves them in a state where the US has always been bad so our "recent" cries of increasing fascism seem laughable to them as we've "always been" fascists.
Our relative silence of the treatment of people within and outside of the country for generations, as well as the general support for the capitalist system that has exploitation inherent to it makes all "liberals" fascist to them as we've supported the status quo for so long until it started getting uncomfortable for "us."
I would imagine they see fox news and MSNBC as the same kind of laughable nonsense.
I would imagine they see fox news and MSNBC as the same kind of laughable nonsense.
But they don't see their own Lemmy usage as even worse than Fox News and MSNBC. Every audience lives in their own egoism. We have a world-wide failure of [email protected] literacy. Almost nobody has been taught or understands Neil Postman's 1985 book "Amusing Ourselves to Death". [email protected]
“One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.” ― Marshall McLuhan, War and Peace in the Global Village
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You're definitely right about seeing fox and MSNBC as laughable nonsense.
Literally no one on hexbear thinks Russia does nothing wrong, Russia is a capitalist nation too. The problem is with westerners blaming Russia for their own failures, as if Russia caused the US to be conservative, like OP.
The US committed a genocide of hundreds of different Indigenous groups, enslaved them and people from an entirely different hemisphere, put Jaanese people in internment camps, sterilized gay and trans people, and has the largest slave labor population of the world righy now. America has always been fascist because of what it does domestically, not to mention what we do to other nations
Lmao amazing. Yep you've got it, I'm actually tucker Carlson, no, I'm Alexander Dugin! That's why I am pointing out that transphobia and homophobia have been an essential part of the west for generations! Saying that the US and Europe are also full of bigots is actually Russian propaganda! Thank God you showed me a Lemmy community about media literacy, I would have never known that Russia invented bigotry in 2013 and forced it on the world who was otherwise absolutely against that sort of thing!
Lmao amazing. Yep you’ve got it, I’m actually tucker Carlson, no, I’m Alexander Dugin!
Mocking, USA in April 2025 is a total mockery. "There are new information warfare tactical cleverness I would describe as "mock for a mock" conditioning among The People, the population of a society. This information warfare tactic manipulates people into factions that mock back and forth, turning the entire population into a big mockery."
that Russia invented bigotry in 2013 and forced it on the world
You are hallucinating again. You can't see reality beyond Lemmy machine view. You live in "alternate reality" crafted by the Kremlin. 5,000 alternate reality screen games that are now on Lemmy in 2025. Your pattern of egoism and deflection is a symptom. You are in total denial of the media enviornment around you, lacking in comprehension from University of Toronto professor Marshall McLuhan topics / New York University professor Neil Postman topics / Sarah Lawrence College professor Joseph Campbell topics.
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.
Зато, кто вложил в сетевое продвижение в 5 раз больше Хиллари и стал президентом? Тоже Дональд Трамп. Дальше оставалось только загрузить эти данные в информационные потоки и социальные сети. И мы стали искать тех, кто справился бы с этой задачей лучше других.
В самом начале смельчаков и романтиков было не очень много. Пара хакерских группировок, гражданские журналисты из Викиликс и политический стратег Михаил Ковалев. Следующим шагом необходимо было разработать систему передачи задач и информации, чтобы никакая гэбуха и АНБ не смогли её спалить.
Как сделать так, чтобы даже люди не говорящие на языке друг друга, могли бы обмениваться информацией быстрее всех, понимать друг друга с полуслова, чувствовать тренды и влиять на их развитие? На программирование такой системы ушёл примерно год. Ещё год ушёл на тесты и доработку. В итоге. За год с небольшим, мы установили "Медиафильтр" всем, кого успели подтянуть в наш заговор и 18 августа 2015 года открыли портал Трамп-2016.
Alternate reality crafted by the Kremlin? Honey, I am the Kremlin! Putin installed me into the Kremlin a la Disney's 1999 smash hit Smart House. I am even voiced by Katey Sagal
Alternate reality crafted by the Kremlin? Honey, I am the Kremlin! Putin installed me into the Kremlin a la Disney’s 1999 smash hit Smart House. I am even voiced by Katey Sagal
Yes, and active measures against someone trying to Wake Up the entire population of the USA to Neil Postman's 1985 book [email protected]
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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." - Daisy Sindelar. August 12 2014, 11:34 AM ET