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I don't know how we are letting trump get away with all this shit
That's the only serious question to ask, why a population of 0.341 billion people are unable to get on the same information page and reach self-awareness to see that a paper tiger has charmed them into not seeing reality. This has been going on since year 2015, a decade now. A population entirely unable to resist mocking and mockery.
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“What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.”
― Joseph Weizenbaum, world famous MIT researcher
Southern strategy/response to Bacon's rebellion. Divide and conquer the working class, so they can't fight you
This is about 5,000 alternate reality game monomyth story patterns created by the Kremlin + Cambridge Analytica in late 2012 and deployed since March 2013 that are now all over Lemmy / Mastodon / Bluesky in year 2025... how people do not engage reality and human values with science thinking and are detached from humanism in favor of mockery / mocking via electric media systems.
Very brief review:
Planned late 2012: https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/24/a-trumprussia-confession-in-plain-sight/
Meetings in Moscow in November 2013: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/18/trump-in-moscow-what-happened-at-miss-universe-in-2013
Announced by Putin / Kremlin / Russia in December 2013: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/12/vladimir-putin-conservative-icon/282572/
Ukraine takeover started in February 2014.
George Washington University and Johns Hopkins University validated Twitter content going back to year 2014: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45294192
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"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 that then translate into political action." - year 2014, Russia and the Menace of Unreality. How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare. By Peter Pomerantsev