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"Crisis in Understanding in USA"
"Manchurian Population"
"People keep saying they do not understand how it is possible"
"Understanding the Crisis in Understanding"

This is mostly a read-only community to document what is being said on other Internet sites about people not comprehending Donald Trump and how information warfare has been waged on the general population of the USA.

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"It’s amazing how many people don’t understand that we’ve barely even entered the find out stage. Shits about to get a whole lot worse for a lot of people." - Wednesday, April 23, 2025 (lemm.ee)

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https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1k5yk4w/terrified_trump_flees_tariffs_war_after_ceos/momfo0j/

"It’s amazing how many people don’t understand that we’ve barely even entered the find out stage. Shits about to get a whole lot worse for a lot of people."

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1k5yk4w/terrified_trump_flees_tariffs_war_after_ceos/momuz6g/

"People honestly do NOT understand how this works on any level. We have become an “immediate, right now” society and as a result the general populace has no concept of time scale for things like manufacturing, food production, etc. None of this shit happens overnight, and most manufacturers and producers will try slightly overproduce or keep a minimum of excess supplies on hand in case of a minor disruption to supply lines - but once that handful of emergency supplies or parts is gone? THAT is when you find out how absolutely fucked you are."

"Pausing a handful of tariffs for a month or so will make zero difference. Large scale manufacturing plans out months and years in advance and a 30 day grace period means nothing to someone who is now looking at a possible fifty percent or more, who knows increase on a multi-million dollar contract a year down the line. It’s the instability and lack of logic that will kill so many businesses."

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Decades of corporate fascism and a two tier legal system gave way to: actual fascism! It's almost like they're symbiotic or something.

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Decades of corporate fascism and a two tier legal system gave way to: actual fascism! It’s almost like they’re symbiotic or something.

The size of the Apple iPhone screen and Twitter-length messages and SMS text messages length reduced all thinking patterns to one-line of thought, it's almost like there is a media ecology connection or something! As if the year 2007 introduction of the Apple iPhone changed all behavior in society, and 5G mobile networks too! To short-simple reaction thinking.

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“[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985