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.”
anti-goodness abounds
There are a lot of advantages to blaming Russia. Coming together and rescuing MAGA from the 5,000 alternate reality screen games created by Putin / Kremlin / Russia / Surkov and Cambridge Analytica. Read here: https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/24/a-trumprussia-confession-in-plain-sight/
There are a lot of advantages to blaming Rupert Murdoch Media Systems, Fox News, which launched on Putin’s Birthday October 7, 1996. Using a 1985 book, more than a decade before Fox News launched… there are a LOT OF advantages to making the topic “rescue human beings, rescue people” from HDTV Fox News. Please read here: “My dad predicted Trump in 1985 – it’s not Orwell, he warned, it’s Brave New World. The ascent of Donald Trump has proved Neil Postman’s argument in Amusing Ourselves to Death was right.” https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/feb/02/amusing-ourselves-to-death-neil-postman-trump-orwell-huxley
There are a lot of advantages to blaming the Apple iPhone introduced in year 2007 for people who were never educated on media ecology and behavior induced by electric media systems / light-speed media systems. Please watch and share this 6 minute educational non-fiction video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETUGwC9jXCM
Are you trying to say those people are not to blame…?
Are you trying to say those people are not to blame…?
Can you please define “those people”? and “blame” for what, precisely? Some kind of time frame in terms of blaming who for what?
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“With today’s regimes, which struggle to formulate a single ideology, the idea that one lives in a world full of conspiracies becomes the worldview itself. Conspiracy theory replaces ideology with a mix of self-pity, paranoia, self-importance, and entertainment.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, 2019Apple and the others you named which clearly are somewhat responsible for the discontent in the United States. What else would I mean?
Apple and the others you named which clearly are somewhat responsible for the discontent in the United States. What else would I mean?
My message that you replied to on Lemmy starts out with: There are a lot of advantages to blaming Russia. Coming together and rescuing MAGA from the 5,000 alternate reality screen games created by Putin / Kremlin / Russia / Surkov and Cambridge Analytica.
Apple and the others you named which clearly are somewhat responsible for the discontent in the United States. What else would I mean?
Clearly the answers include:
- Cambridge Analytica
- Russia / Kremlin / Surkov / Putin / Konstantin Rykov
Did you not see that opening paragraph in the Lemmy message you replied to?
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“The thesis at the center of this book is that since we have delegated the ability to read context to contextual technologies such as social media, location, and sensors, we have become context blind. Since context blindness―or caetextia in Latin―is one of the most dominant symptoms of autistic behavior at the highest levels of the spectrum, people with autism may indeed be giving us a peek into our human condition soon.” - Context Blindness: Digital Technology and the Next Stage of Human Evolution (Understanding Media Ecology, 10) by Eva BergerYou’re asking me if I saw the literal only thing I referenced
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 2014Oh man, what is happening in your head lol
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.
“Too bad, so sad” - JD Vance
“I prefer jews who weren’t captured by the Nazis” - Donald Trump
“Too bad, so sad” - JD Vance
Another social media user who can’t resist mimicking JD Vance and behaving like JD Vance. The “JD Vance” mind virus has got you. You have brought the JD Vance thinking, JD Vance values to Lemmy here this morning on Wednesday April 23, right here, right now.
That’s how the people behave, they become like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, JD Vance in behavior, thinking, and electric media communications.
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“If all information is seen as part of a war, out go any dreams of a global information space where ideas flow freely, bolstering deliberative democracy. Instead, the best future one can hope for is an ‘information peace’, in which each side respects the other’s ‘information sovereignty’: a favoured concept of both Beijing and Moscow, and essentially a cover for enforcing censorship.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, 2019Yes, my impression of JD Vance is what is offensive here. Strange take.
Yes, my impression of JD Vance is what is offensive here.
Offensive? no. Bad… anti-intellectual, copying the mannerisms and your brain adopting Donald Trump behavior.
Strange take.
Yes, it isn’t Twitter-thinking Twitter-length copying and mimicking the behaviors of Twitter users like JD Vance and Elon Musk and Donald Trump do in the White House / on the world stage of Fox News / CNN / other media systems, including Reddit, Lemmy, Bluesky.
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“Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985Get off your high horse.
Rambling, repetitious, pretentious blocks of incoherent text aren’t a sign of some greater intellect, just that you’re full of yourself
Get off your high horse.
Yes, join you down in the Elon Musk, Donald Trump, JD Vance anti-thinking reactionary hate harder values you are wanting and craving in April 2025.
Rambling, repetitious, pretentious blocks of incoherent text aren’t a sign of some greater intellect, just that you’re full of yourself
Ignore my personal writing if you hate so much that I don’t communicate in the shit-talk and hate-speech of JD Vance that you have adopted since 2024, read the books and content I keep referencing and pointing to every day. This is my personal diary, why can’t you engage with great content instead of repeating JD Vance and worshiping his shit ideas, thinking systems, and messages? Why can’t you dust off Neil Postman’s 1985 book “Amusing Ourselves to Death” and use Neil Postman’s professionally edited words to describe April 2025 social media society instead of shit-talk me on Lemmy, as your brain is locked in junk meme consumption like Donald Trump does on Truth Social and Twitter?
Rambling, repetitious, pretentious blocks of incoherent text aren’t a sign of some greater intellect
You are the one with Twitter-length brain mirroring the social machine usage of Donald Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk. I’m doing everything I can to get people to stop being in JD Vance meme stupors. You are inside the Russian simulacras and unable to escape.
The post script you included here describes what you’re guilty of in this exchange
The post script you included here describes what you’re guilty of in this exchange
“Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985
Elaborate and explain? i dd not exchange a meme image, I did not meme-speak in Lemmy style. You honestly sound like you don’t understand Neil Postman at all and have not studied his work.
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“You know what is easy to do on a smartphone or tablet? Little pot-shot negging insult comments to serious and important ideas. Twitter-length reactions and meme-thinking conditioned responses to difficult and complex problems.” - Stephen GutknechtYou ad hominemed someone as a flat stereotype. An unthinking social media moron without an original thought.
Which is a form of you claim to be against. Not exchanging ideas. You simply slung an insult without substance.
You ad hominemed someone as a flat stereotype. An unthinking social media moron without an original thought.
I love all people, so if I were to communicate the way you just did, I would consider it a mistake or malfunction of my brain. I think you are having serious distortion from the elecric media enviornment of computers and Lemmy and reading into things that are not there. I believe you are reaction commenting and ract-thinking and do not understand Neil Postman’s 1985 book.
You simply slung an insult without substance.
What was the insult? I was describing what I saw in terms of media ecology. Inclusive of how Lemmy alters communications, what is popular on Lemmy as a media environment, and what is gong on in USA society mass mind / Hive Mind / mass man in April 2025 vs. say April 2012.
I in no way take language and communications to be clear, simple, trivial, easily comprehended and I state this frequently, practically daily. !BabelTower@lemm.ee
You simply slung an insult without substance.
I’ve been posting massive amounts of text and ideas, I didn’t “simply sling an insult” as you describe. You seem to have a very very narrow interpretation of what is gong on in this Lemmy community named “Diary of Anne Frank”.
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“Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.” - “The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects” by media analyst Marshall McLuhan and graphic designer Quentin Fiore, and coordinated by Jerome Agel. It was published in March 1967
What’s with the community name?
What’s with the community name?
I answered this in another posting: “Why use ‘Diary of Anne Frank’ for your personal diary?” - https://lemm.ee/post/61801588
TLDR; Things in USA are far far far far far worse than people are admitting. People are stuck in year 2014 unable to grasp how bad it is in 2024 and 2025.
You’re a loudmouth, rambling twit.
You’re a loudmouth, rambling twit.
And this kind of 5-word Twitter-think Twitter-length electronic hate-humanism message is what has wrecked the world since March 2013.
My name is Stephen Alfred Gutknecht, what’s your name? Where do you live? I live in the USA.
Do you love media machines and hate human persons?
Repeating form the title of my posting: “anti-goodness abounds”, mass dehumanization abounds in April 23, 2025.
Your name and location are irrelevant to how you are wholly obtuse.
Your name and location are irrelevant to how you are wholly obtuse.
You don’t care about human beings, all you care is about entertainment messages on machines.
Shut your stupid ass pie hole. You must be an AI POS Bot.
Get fucked, you digital twat.
“Boston area” Lemmy user: MedicPigBabySaver @lemmy.world
Shut your stupid ass pie hole.
That’s how Elon Musk and Donald Trump use social media, who you mimic. Hate and wanting to shut up and dehumanize and even starve off those they disagree with over ideas, words, language. Hate values to use social machines and government systems and machines to destroy people they disagree with and make them “shut up”.
You must be an AI POS Bot.
My name is Stephen Alfred Gutknecht, what’s your name? I live in United States of America, where do you live, in Boston as your Lemmy profile says? Do you go around on social machine systems and attack and dehumanize people you disagree with constantly? People you find language and words you don’t understand you go into hate rages and demand they shut up and dehumanize them?
You are dheumanizing me as a machine and you hate human persons and love machines.
Get fucked, you digital twat.
That’s how Elon Musk and Donald Trump use social media, who you mimic. Hate and wanting to shut up and dehumanize and even starve off those they disagree with over ideas, words, language. Hate values to use social machines and government systems and machines to destroy people they disagree with and make them “shut up”.
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“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. … Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published 1951So,yes, this is clearly AI. Such pathetic drivel for a computer.
So,yes, this is clearly AI.
You are dehumanizing a real person, popular among people who support Donald Trump, Vald Putin, Elon Musk, RFK Jr. To dehumanize people they do not understand, are unable to instantly comprehend, or disagree with on social media machines. Machine and technology lovers who hate humanism and hate human people.
I suggest you learn morality, I teach remedial morality for people like you over on !RemedialMorality@lemm.ee
Such pathetic drivel for a computer.
To a person who loves machines and hates humanism, I have seen such responses when people are authentic and sincere about problems with United States of America’s mass mind / total society in April 2025. People who live in social media alternate-realities in their mind and want to worship and praise wealth lords like Donald Trump. People stuck inside mindsets of Media Cults.
Such pathetic drivel for a computer.
I’ve seen this kind of response from heavy consumers and audiences of Joe Rogan, Alex Jones, Rupert Murdoch media systems such as Fox News. When they encounter information and content they can’t grasp or understand, they start saying “Fake News” and other responses in a meme stupor.
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“Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology.” ― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992
anti-goodness abounds
It’s impossible to describe in a way that even if I read my own words in 60 days that it would convey the missed opportunity and the avoidance of goodness that people are doing over the cult behaviors and attraction to hate people are showing. And even on a good day other people would almost never turn to my expressions and writing to try and learn. Ultimately on my deathbed, this is my faith and I haven’t turned away from it since December 2009 when I made my prediction of the Arab Spring and traveled to Africa and the Middle East and beyond in trying to better understand how people respond to tend changes in big waves of society (Mass mind (Howard Bloom terminology), Mass Man (Marshall McLuhan terminology)).
We have nothing to fear but fear itself (paraphrased) speech about the mass mind / group behaviors. Given our situation, today it would be “our problems are hate itself and avoiding goodness, attraction to bad” or something like that. This can’t be composed, I’ve failed since 2009, but I’m still trying.
anti-goodness abounds
The attitude of the American Mass mind is that of Donald Trump. People have to see beyond reacting to that statement, there are time-shifts, it didn’t all start with everybody, but now since January 2024 - it became everybody / all-inclusive.
By attitudes of Donald Trump I mean: Hate Harder, Dehumanize those you disagree with or do not understand, use systems / structures / machines / tools to dehumanize, as he does with Twitter / Truth Social / and “the news” media systems. Double down on hate, hate harder, and the problem is not hating hard enough the last time.
Go beyond the obvious: yes, conservative is anti-goodness, yes Republican party has been anti-goodness for decades, yes, MAGA movement from year 2013 onward was first in line for anti-goodness, yes Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News audience was first for anti-goodness. You have to make a cut-off point. I encourage you strongly to make that cut-off point 1985 and President Ronald Reagan. That was the second term, before the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany / Russia. Please try not to be tempted to shift to other cut-off points… because there is a method to this madness.
… 1985 … “But it is much later in the game now, and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, to make the assumption that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, stupidity plain and simple.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985 … !BackTo1985@lemm.ee
And do not make this about one person being stupid. Do not make this about one person being dumb, idiot, egoism / pissing contest of one single brain vs. one single brain that so often is used to “win debate” on social machine systems and HDTV Fox News methods. Please. This is about group-think, mob mentality, tend changes in big waves of society (Mass mind (Howard Bloom terminology), Mass Man (Marshall McLuhan terminology)).
Just last night I posted a Nazi Germany perspective on SOCIETAL STUPIDITY, Group-think, mob mentality, not just individual persons. !MassBrainDamage@lemm.ee — https://lemm.ee/post/62131641 - “The Theory of SOCIETAL STUPIDITY by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Nazi Germany mass conformity / collective blindness”
anti-goodness abounds
Go beyond the obvious… yes 1985 which is more than a decade before Fox News went online Putin’s Birthday 1996. Yes 2013 MAGA movement and the Putin Media Invasion of social media.
Idealize ourselves for a moment or longer, please. Fox News audience of year 2013. Republican political party identity of year 2013. Conservative faith, no matter how much it may seem a misunderstanding, was an identity like a religion or a club for people. Try to think of HDTV / technology of media systems and year 2013.
These were the non-nerds, people who would mock personal computer users and people with mobile phones. But the Apple iPhone changed everything in year 2007. By year 2013, even the very old people in Florida and Arizona were adopting Facebook and smartphones. But they had the LEAST education on media ecology, the had the LEAST experience with understanding Internet and computer behavior.
This is all generalization, and an attempt to focus generalization for a useful positive outcome in our future, year 2026 onward, etc. Please try to connect these Neil Postman 1985 perspectives to year 2013 perspectives.
Generalizing… conservatives / anti-progressives / Republicans / Fox News audience / what became MAGA 2013 movement and year 2013 Putin Conservative International movement, the anti-nerds, the anti-intellectuals, the “50% of people who insult and mock the educated” (except when it comes to money-making education, not comprehension education)…
These were the first to fall to the Cambridge Analytica psychiatrists and psychology discoveries. Put aside all the hate harder and baggage, and recognize these were the half of society who was least-prepared for a war of egoism from Cambridge University working with KGB / FSB Kremlin.. Go back to Neil Postman in 1985 perspective of electric news systems, television news, and see what was coming from social media systems in 2013 that Russia and Cambridge Analytica unleashed with 5,000 alternate reality screen games of artificial religions / monomyth egoism / egomania patterns.
A healthy society can not just let the weakest half of society, the bottom 50% of people who don’t understand Neil Postman’s 1985 “Amusing Ourselves To Death” problem of Fox News and bad religion Clergy medium / media / televangelism, who don’t understand the Apple iPhone and predatory Twitter and Facebook and Reddit behaviors… was the least prepared for these 5,000 mind-fuck Cambridge Analytica alternate reality screen games that Russia unleashed.
As a society, you can’t just let Russia take over the hearts and minds of 205 of of your society, let alone the bottom least-educated least-understanding 50% of your society, what is now MAGA (and don’t assume all non-voters in 2024 are anti-MAGA, Russia went deep into society, including people who didn’t turn up to vote)…
You can’t just throw 50 percent of your population to the Kremlin mind-fuck wolves and say “fuck you”, without massive consequences to the total 100 percent population. And that’s what we did. When MAGA came along in 2013, when it really became something ultra-toxic and mass dehumanization social movement… people turned away, mocked, insulted, hate harder against MAGA.
Yes, MAGA and Trumpism were the first to adopt hate harder, yes, it did start there. But ultimately in year 2025, it doesn’t matter. As since January 2024 it became EVERYONE, even anti-MAGA, even those who hate Donald Trump, even those who hate RFK Jr, even those who hate Elon Musk, even those who hate everything about Newsmax, Twitter, Fox News, and Reddit - became hate harder. The entire nation may not in year 2013 have been hate harder values, but in April 2025 it is everyone preaching and messaging to machines that reproduce those messages in mass: hate harder.
