In 1989 I worked for a steel factory in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I worked for a plastics factory in 1990 in Grabill Indiana.
Many Americans do not desire these jobs. Especially the way that management ran them. They dream to be like Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and Hollywood film stars. They are so stuffed full of marketing and advertising “trickle down marketing” from billionaires that they don’t want to work in a factory.
The democrats have a bad case of “mostly telling the truth"
Lemmy users and Reddit users and Bluesky users since year 2013 have a horrible ability to tell Russian simulacra from reality. People who think hiding real identities and accepting any information in decorated “meme” form is a good idea have wrecked the USA since the year 2007 introduction of the Apple iPhone. “our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true”.
The democrats have a bad case of “mostly telling the truth"
And you somehow think the Republicans political party members do not? it’s the ENTIRE POPULATION of 0.34 billion people. It isn’t just a single political party. It is the whole entire social media society of North America. A “Clown Population” of anonymous no-identity Lemmy, Reddit, Twitter, Bluesky users. [email protected]
The problem of year 2025 USA is cult of ignorance. Celebration of ignorance. As Carl Sagan predicted about manufacturing in year 1995.
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. 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. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning—not just of science, but of anything—are avoidable, even undesirable.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995
::: ___________ “I have read about many historical periods. But not one in which you can talk to young people the way you can at the college level today, and find out that they believe… nothing. Want… nothing. Hope… nothing. Expect… nothing. Dream… nothing. Desire… nothing. Push ’em far enough and they’ll say: “Yeah, I gotta get a job. Spent a lot of money at Duke.” That’s not what I am talking about here. They hope nothing. Expect nothing. Dream nothing. Desire nothing. And it is a fair question to ask whether a society that produces this reaction in its young is worthy of existence at all. It really is. It’s worth asking that. Whether it’s worth being here at all. And my criticism of this society couldn’t get more bitter than it is in that case. It couldn’t possibly be. Remember, I am talking about the young I have encountered at Duke. These are privileged youth. At an elite southern school. Mostly white, mostly upper-middle to upper class.” - Rick Roderick, 1993
And you somehow think the Republicans political party members do not?
No, I don’t. I think they mostly lie, or say whatever they think will get them what they want.
Many Americans do not desire these jobs.
Of course they don’t. But they think they do, in the way I think I want to be a sailor in 1805. And weather they want them or not, they think that it would be good for other people.
Americans in year 2024 and year 2025 think what Lemmy, Reddit, Bluesky, Twitter, HDTV, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram simulacra tells them to think.
We had since year 1996 to address the Fox News elephant in the room. Instead of rescuing Americans, people LOL LOL LOL at MAGA and mock Americans over on [email protected] mockery chambers and many others all over.
That’s how Russia won the information war. [email protected] The USA is a total 100% all inclusive mockery. 5,000 patterns of Kremlin mocking channels to switch from hashtag to hashtag, subreddit to subreddit, Lemmy to Bluesky.
::::: ____________ “The display, which was called ‘Can Democracy Survive the Internet?’ was dedicated to a ‘global election management’ company called Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica claimed to have gathered 5,000 data points on every American voter online: what you liked and what you shared on social media; how and where you shopped; who your friends were… They claimed to be able to take this imprint of your online self, use it to understand your deepest drives and desires, and then draw on that analysis to change your voting behaviour. The boast seemed to be backed up by success: Cambridge Analytica had worked on the victorious American presidential campaign of Donald Trump; it had also run successful campaigns for US Senator Ted Cruz (twice); and others all across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, year 2019
of course they are not. Which is my entire point.
In 1989 I worked for a steel factory in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I worked for a plastics factory in 1990 in Grabill Indiana.
Many Americans do not desire these jobs. Especially the way that management ran them. They dream to be like Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and Hollywood film stars. They are so stuffed full of marketing and advertising “trickle down marketing” from billionaires that they don’t want to work in a factory.
Lemmy users and Reddit users and Bluesky users since year 2013 have a horrible ability to tell Russian simulacra from reality. People who think hiding real identities and accepting any information in decorated “meme” form is a good idea have wrecked the USA since the year 2007 introduction of the Apple iPhone. “our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true”.
And you somehow think the Republicans political party members do not? it’s the ENTIRE POPULATION of 0.34 billion people. It isn’t just a single political party. It is the whole entire social media society of North America. A “Clown Population” of anonymous no-identity Lemmy, Reddit, Twitter, Bluesky users. [email protected]
The problem of year 2025 USA is cult of ignorance. Celebration of ignorance. As Carl Sagan predicted about manufacturing in year 1995.
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. 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. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning—not just of science, but of anything—are avoidable, even undesirable.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995
::: ___________
“I have read about many historical periods. But not one in which you can talk to young people the way you can at the college level today, and find out that they believe… nothing. Want… nothing. Hope… nothing. Expect… nothing. Dream… nothing. Desire… nothing. Push ’em far enough and they’ll say: “Yeah, I gotta get a job. Spent a lot of money at Duke.” That’s not what I am talking about here. They hope nothing. Expect nothing. Dream nothing. Desire nothing. And it is a fair question to ask whether a society that produces this reaction in its young is worthy of existence at all. It really is. It’s worth asking that. Whether it’s worth being here at all. And my criticism of this society couldn’t get more bitter than it is in that case. It couldn’t possibly be. Remember, I am talking about the young I have encountered at Duke. These are privileged youth. At an elite southern school. Mostly white, mostly upper-middle to upper class.” - Rick Roderick, 1993
No, I don’t. I think they mostly lie, or say whatever they think will get them what they want.
Of course they don’t. But they think they do, in the way I think I want to be a sailor in 1805. And weather they want them or not, they think that it would be good for other people.
Americans in year 2024 and year 2025 think what Lemmy, Reddit, Bluesky, Twitter, HDTV, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram simulacra tells them to think.
We had since year 1996 to address the Fox News elephant in the room. Instead of rescuing Americans, people LOL LOL LOL at MAGA and mock Americans over on [email protected] mockery chambers and many others all over.
That’s how Russia won the information war. [email protected] The USA is a total 100% all inclusive mockery. 5,000 patterns of Kremlin mocking channels to switch from hashtag to hashtag, subreddit to subreddit, Lemmy to Bluesky.
::::: ____________
“The display, which was called ‘Can Democracy Survive the Internet?’ was dedicated to a ‘global election management’ company called Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica claimed to have gathered 5,000 data points on every American voter online: what you liked and what you shared on social media; how and where you shopped; who your friends were… They claimed to be able to take this imprint of your online self, use it to understand your deepest drives and desires, and then draw on that analysis to change your voting behaviour. The boast seemed to be backed up by success: Cambridge Analytica had worked on the victorious American presidential campaign of Donald Trump; it had also run successful campaigns for US Senator Ted Cruz (twice); and others all across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, year 2019