Last week, Tracy and Dale McMullen sold their vacation home in Buckeye, Arizona, a property they owned for five years. The Alberta residents, who usually spend four to five months in Arizona a year, said they are not planning to come back.
“We decided to sell the property after the current POTUS took office,” said Dale, referring to U.S. President Donald Trump, who was inaugurated for the second time in January.
“It was time to leave. We felt we could not trust what he might do next to us as individuals and to our country. We no longer felt welcome nor safe.”
You’re asking me if I saw the literal only thing I referenced
You said “Apple” and that’s not in the opening of the Lemmy message you replied to.
So far, all your replies I would describe as trivialization, annoyance information warfare tactics, that I witness happen whenever the Kremlin / Russia / Putin information warfare topics are invoked. Many people since year 2013 have adopted these styles of comments and mimic what they consume off the Internet. It makes dialog very difficult because questions become so non-specific that they do not further conversation of important topics and seem to only try and drown signal with noise by sheer volume of low-meaning content.
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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
Oh man, what is happening in your head lol
I am starting to suspect that Sparrow is a bot. They never actually answer questions in a normal way, and the responses they post are often incoherent while appending quotes from random shit.
I would agree with the bot idea, but there is a sort of mania to their posts that you only see in strange internet humans. Or, at least, that I’ve only seen in strange internet humans. I also guess I’d ask what the purpose of building a bot that posts like this even would be!
Dehumanizing me, Stephen Alfred Gutknecht, as a machine. How common a message on Lemmy and Reddit in 2025. Everyone you disagree with is a machine bot. !FakeDetectors@lemm.ee bullshit society.
Yha, everything you can’t comprehend or grasp about context is “random”. You sound like you need hard-core learning of media ecology. I teach it over on !MediaEcology@lemm.ee community. I suggest you study and learn some humanism too.
What questions do you have that are asked in a detailed and specific way and not just a insult loaded question? I also have covered most of the questions, but people here are just wanting personalized conversations instead of actually reading the books and reference from other authors and teachers I keep citing.
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“There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong. I don’t think we have to look too far to see that. I’m sure that most of you would agree with me in making that assertion. And when we stop to analyze the cause of our world’s ills, many things come to mind. We begin to wonder if it is due to the fact that we don’t know enough. But it can’t be that. Because in terms of accumulated knowledge we know more today than men have known in any period of human history. We have the facts at our disposal. We know more about mathematics, about science, about social science, and philosophy than we’ve ever known in any period of the world’s history. So it can’t be because we don’t know enough. And then we wonder if it is due to the fact that our scientific genius lags behind. That is, if we have not made enough progress scientifically. Well then, it can’t be that. For our scientific progress over the past years has been amazing. Man through his scientific genius has been able to dwarf distance and place time in chains, so that today it’s possible to eat breakfast in New York City and supper in London, England. Back in about 1753 it took a letter three days to go from New York City to Washington, and today you can go from here to China in less time than that. It can’t be because man is stagnant in his scientific progress. Man’s scientific genius has been amazing. I think we have to look much deeper than that if we are to find the real cause of man’s problems and the real cause of the world’s ills today. If we are to really find it I think we will have to look in the hearts and souls of men.”
I’ve been writing about it here, do you have a literacy problem? Or all yous an do is “LOL” at serious and sincere people, thinking everything in life is just entertainment and mockery. The Hell I’m living under in April 2025 in United States of America where people are inside 5,000 alternate reality patterns and mass dehumanizing everyone they disagree with amused and mocking constantly.
I might have a literacy problem, but you sure do write like a nutcase
Yha, “love all people in the world” and “do not dehumanize people using social machines because they don’t communicate like you do” must seem insane to you.
You know what drives me crazy and puts me in the hospital? People with values like you: Donald Trump on Twitter, Donald Trump on Truth Social, Donald Trump on Fox News HDTV, Elon Musk on Twitter media machines, people on media machines who think the most important use of a media system is to hate upon human people they don’t like. Like you are doing with Lemmy right here and right now.
The past 48 or so hours, RFK Jr has massive media machine power and is punching down as hard as he can on people with autism, just to dehumanize and attack people because they communicate differently than he does. That’s the Hell I am living in.
REPEATING from the message you replied to: The Hell I’m living under in April 2025 in United States of America where people are inside 5,000 alternate reality patterns and mass dehumanizing everyone they disagree with amused and mocking constantly.
Get well soon bud. It’s hard out there, and it is scary at the moment. Best of luck ✌️
I’ve been writing about it here, do you have a literacy problem? Or all yous an do is “LOL” at serious and sincere people, thinking everything in life is just entertainment and mockery. The Hell I’m living under in April 2025 in United States of America where people are inside 5,000 alternate reality patterns and mass dehumanizing everyone they agree with amused and mocking constantly.
lol more dehumanization. Yes, I’m just an automaton controlled by powers above me, trying to push some agenda … (that an avowed enemy of democracy works against democracy, controversial!)… and you are just an innocent neutral truth seeker who in no way seeks to minimize Russia’s role in world politics right now.
You find this amusing and funny. That’s a symptom of the Kremlin information warfare that was unleashed in March 2013 all across the World Wide Web. That people LOL LOL LOL LMAO at serious and important topics.
Your words, not mine. Many people who compulsively adopt Twitter-thinking behaviors don’t have an agenda other than to be constantly entertained and amused. one contributor wrote that the book “may help explain the otherwise inexplicable”. CNN noted that Trump’s allegedly shocking “ascent would not have surprised Postman”
You seem incredibly insincere and dishonest about me. As I have been fighting the Russians full time since 2015 when I contacted the Pentagon. You seem to be here to throw shade and mock and insult my defending the !GreatSealUSA@lemm.ee … … … www.GreatSealUSA.com thinking values against Putin and Surkov “Operation Matthew 4:19” media invasion.
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“His aim is to undermine peoples’ perceptions of the world, so they never know what is really happening. Surkov turned Russian politics into a bewildering, constantly changing piece of theater. He sponsored all kinds of groups, from neo-Nazi skinheads to liberal human rights groups. He even backed parties that were opposed to President Putin.” - BBC, Adam Curtis, 2014 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9_L9GRRsQo
“There’s a lot of advantages in blaming…” sounds like a conspiracy theory itself.
Do you suggest that blaming russia, Facebook or murdoch is only done because it’s advantagous to some?
More negging short replies that do not discuss the off-Lemmy content (I have linked Washington Monthly, who links Facebook information source, I have linked The Atlantic - professionally written articles with edited writing. All you can do is comment reply after comment reply about my messages on Lemmy, a target fixation).
It is (sort of, it is mostly about forward-action plans, proposals for USA society response to the Hybrid Warfare loss). That’s how Hybrid Warfare works. There are such things as authentic fact-based conspiracy theories. With evidence. Evidence analyzed by Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University.
You keep invoking “thought-terminating clichés” (meme think in the social media society audience) to change the Lemmy climate of discussion, a Kremlin electric media environment technique.
I’ll keep REPEATING: 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
I think you’re the only one fixiated on this, I only replied once.
I didn’t criticise the articles, I criticised your distinguishing way of implications, instead of writing a clear and straight forward message.
Do you think people are going to read 5000 words before they judge your seemingly misleading comments?
I don’t even know what your intentions are with this, it’s so unclear. Do you want to educate? Do you want to divide further? Do you want to push conspiracies? Do you try to be the New Nostradamus creating texts that could be interpreted any way?
Loaded question, negging question. “your seemingly misleading comments” - no precise quotation of what I have said that is misleading, just more vague bullshit.
Not my fault that the entire world is confused by “Operation Matthew 4:19” - Kremlin and Cambridge Analtyica simulacra and information warfare since March 2013. See this Lemmy community: “Understand USA” !UnderstandUSA@lemm.ee
Not my fault you are so confused in April 2025 and didn’t study and learn from Neil Postman’s 1985 book:
“In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different roder from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century opinions. It is probably more accurate to call them emotions rather than opinions, which would account for the fact that they change from week to week, as the pollsters tell us. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of ‘being informed’ by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this world almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information–misplace, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information–information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985. !BackTo1985@lemm.ee
Not really, but nobody else is doing it. Civic duty is how I have described it when asked why before. Mastodon hashtag I originated: “My Civic Ditty” https://mastodon.social/tags/MyCivicDitty
No, the 5,000 Kremlin alternate reality screen games (“Operation Matthew 4:19”) continue to penetrate hearts and minds and divide people all over the world. Your question is another Loaded question, negging question
another Loaded question, negging question
another Loaded question, negging question
I’ll keep REPEATING: 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
I’m not here to crticize articles and act like they are for entertainment and casual purposes. Again, you are trying to change the climate of conversation that the goal here is to “criticize articles”
The purpose is for people to understand, comprehend, not to criticize them. So far, you demonstrate no understanding other than to apply active measures against me to drive me crazy and make me want to quit using Lemmy. REPEATING: “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
My postings here on this post I created here… here… here on Lemmy… Started with “anti-goodness abounds” - which has been your behavior. “anti-goodness abounds” in April 23, 2025.
You’re doing an exceptional Bad Job at making people understand.
You’re talking to someone that rang the alarm bells way before Cambridge Analytica and correctly identified the misinformation and it’s source in 2015.
You lost me completely with your unclear messaging and ad hominem attacks.
Am I arguing with a rogue LLM or is it DMT fueled rambling?
If this is the case, I’m not quite sure why you didn’t clarify your meaning when asked. Instead you seemed to take further steps to remove blame from Russia
Meaning of what? When asked what?
You want to waste a bunch more of my time by being non-specific? Start the entire conversation over one word at a time until you clearly define what the question was, other than it being a negging pot-shot non-specific?
More bullshit from you. Prove this happened, where and when? Just non-specific non-quotation claims on your part. Insincere, dishonest. You sound like Donald Trump fabricating claims.
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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