I wonder if Poole has done any interesting interviews on the intersection of 4chan and the modern fascist propaganda machine it bred.

Jefferson to John Adams’ son in law, 1787 -

“Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it’s motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order.”

https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/tree-liberty-quotation/

I will never forget that day - I was tripping on molly and stupidly briefly looked at my phone to check time or something, and there it was the Apple News notification about the incident. I then had a legit vision, about the forces working to make his victory an inevitability, and I cried as the world collapsed on me.

I came from a different country, that has struggled for decades with “strong men” and their corruption, and knew right then that the incredible feat that is the American Democratic experiment, which I admire and came to join, was going to end.

There is a slim chance to save it still, but most folks not bought in are far too naive to understand what is really happening or complacent to do anything about it.

Idk, I hope I am wrong.

Haven’t watched the video, but my prior knowledge and intuition tells me a) this was the special case of the United States hegemony, where the world literally runs on usd, and b) this might not be the case in the multipolar world that Trump is making for some criminal reason.

It’s crazy that when he got rid of any ethical restraint, literally nothing can stop the president from doing whatever the crazy fuck shit he wants, as we are seeing…

I am pretty sure he thinks he can just get anything from our piece of shit in chief

Permabanned here - my crime was to evade ban (inadvertently, with 2nd account commenting in r/Conservatives), say Russian orcs should be killed, and that Reddit was (partially) owned by the CCP and operating in the interest.

Idgaf what anyone thinks about me saying that Russian culture is shit and the world will not know peace until that culture is defeated in war, because it’s fucking true.

I haven’t been able to find active non-political or geographically relevant communities on Lemmy, and not sure how to.

Least deranged Jewish Trumper

I would totally gloat on the FO, but it sucks for the non-idiotic Texans and those that can’t get vaxed. :-/

Well, the good news is that the topic likely won’t be an issue anymore in 2028 for disrupting non-GOP candidates

Wait for it

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Excellent set of resources - ty for posting them

Damn Autocorrect 😆

Should say “gunk”

Frankly I couldn’t tell you, but whatever the timeline is, I expect it will be much faster than before, as everything is.

There are a few very young politicians and new media commentators that know what’s up, and I think we should rally around them.

In the meantime, boycott as best as possible, build, develop and protect your community and funk up the authoritarian machinery at every turn possible.

The revolution will be federated.

Is he including Private Property among these discarded regulations?

I agree with the gaslighting part, but don’t necessarily think it was “the government”.

I think it was billionaire/adversaries funded groups, probably Elon in part, definitely Russia/China.

Elon understood Twitter/SM very early on. I remember reading somewhere how Tesla didn’t spend a dime on (traditional) marketing the first few years, it was pure social media manipulation / dark patterns.

“The point of propaganda is not to make you believe something in particular, is to make you not believe anything.”

• G. Kasparov

My consolation is that these motherfuckers are not ready for how hard the pendulum will swing back.

It will be a proper wrecking ball.

I think we severely underestimate how much better life would be if we changed away from this paradigm. There are alternatives.

Also seen in Mexico - incredibly annoying if you are trying to see where the fuck to go

Edit: and the stupid ads are like a whole minute or two, so you need to stand there like an idiot waiting to see where to go while hating everything this represents

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