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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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[+] zephorah@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

Also of note, I have a relative who divorced a cluster B. A legitimate, I told them 10 years ago this was going to be a problem, pathological individual. I received a call last year saying “you were right”, and they announced their pending divorce. They voted for Trump.

Do you consider such people untreatable, write them off for a lifetime? The 10 years prediction of them being a problem.

How many people in the world do you consider problem free?

they announced their pending divorce. They voted for Trump.

Any thoughts to share on adult marriage promises being a lifelong / even into concepts and metaphors of eternity beyond death? Do adults ever make any such choice promises like that to their job / employer or favorite HDTV news network? Or thoughts about how people are perhaps more married to Rupert Murdoch's media systems messages (Republican wealth televangelism to the poor) for a lifetime than a human spouse and children / parenting?

Repeating from my previous message: I think media consumers go into egomania discussing how they are better than Donald Trump day after day as a form of egoism on social machine systems, “engagement” about how they are so much mentally healthier than one single person. Unable to see Mass psychosis of the entire population behaving that way. Forest for the trees problem.

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“What Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countenance exudes suspicion and hate. In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985. !BackTo1985@lemm.ee