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.
Your 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.
Perhaps you suffer from a media literacy problem of light-speed social machines. I suggest you study over on !CounterSurkov@lemm.ee …
You react-comment instead of try to understand someone. I also suggest !JamesJoyceExperience@lemm.ee - 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.com
Interesting 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.
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 !MasturbatoryEgoism@lemm.ee 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, 1985
You’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.
Sounds like you are under the influence of Kremlin simulacras. Seeing things as absurd and surreal via media machines.
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!
So you’re just taking the piss. Got it. Thanks for wasting my time.
Not at all. Your replies all seem to be attacks against me. I’m entirely serious. People who consume clown content / entertainment all day every day (“memes”) off social media often have a very hard time being able to tell when someone (or even when media content itself) is being serious and raising alarms about information warfare from the Kremlin. I witness this frequently.
My name is Stephen Alfred Gutknecht, I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana - what’s your background?
I’ve been fighting the Russians on the Internet full time since summer of 2015. The USA has entirely lost the Hybrid War against Putin. !HybridWarLost@lemm.ee - and so many everyday social media users have “lost their hearts and minds” to anti-reality.
Is that what you are doing to me? are you just here for one-line insults that sound like Elon Musk on X media platform? I’m here to try and RESCUE people in NATO / USA from all the damage done since 2013 by the “Internet Research Agency”. This isn’t about entertaining people with “taking the piss” bullshit.
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“Social media, that little narcissism machine, the easiest way we have ever had to place ourselves on a pedestal of vanity, also is the mechanism that most efficiently breaks you up.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, 2019
My first comment was absolutely an attack at the content of your post and the generalization made (specifically the image description).
I don’t give a flying fuck about your personal identity. Literally couldn’t care less who you are, your name, your age - any personal details about you are completely irrelevant at this point in time.
One-line insults? Friend, you’ve suggested I had media literacy issues and vaguely malignant fixations in multiple comments. Is that not insulting?
I made a single comment that could, by the most generous of measures, be considered insulting because of how sarcastic it was. I used clinical language purposefully in an attempt to avoid anything that could be considered insulting. Hence anemic, in the context, meaning the forum you linked was rather small or inactive.
I’m not going to reveal any PII to you or anyone else here for any reasons. I want to discuss ideas and explore their merit, personal information is irrelevant.