And let’s not mince words: it was baffoonery for the time.

The Clergy was laying Original Sin on everyone... The Fall on the Finnegans, avoiding verse Romans 11:32 and "1 John 4:20" in The Bible. Joyce knew the origin of the Bible and he outdid it. Alas, people still won't face up to John 1:1 words and only words, memes and only memes, metaphors and only metaphors, language and only language, fiction and only science fiction, mind virus and only mind virus.

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Joycean Joseph Campbell, married to Joycean Jean Erdman: “Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.” ― Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Mark Zuckerberg's vision of the future: 80% of your friends will be AI, owned by Meta, and they'll always be selling you stuff.

Given how people treat each other in 2024 and 2025 USA, this developing prediction makes a lot of sense. People are so incredibly "hate harder" values, "dehumanize those you disagree with". To be able to delete AI you don't like, force it to not disagree, would be incredibly appealing to the Elon Musk / Donald Trump / JD Vance / RFK Jr egomania leadership values that has become so popular. People absolutely adore mocking those they disagree with, that would be the 20% of real people.

I also see it becoming popular for people to interface with real people through AI rewrites. Even films, TV shows, songs, photographs. To alter content the way they expect, to adjust comments on Reddit automatically to ELI4 ELI7 ELI3, etc. And especially "Wall of Text" filters. And films / TV / YouTube /etc have scenes removed that are boring / undesired, not ego pleasing. Replaces voices / entire actors in shows in real time.

“Hatred and violence are our common enemies, not each other,” Yousafzai, a Pakistani education and human rights advocate, said Wednesday in a post on the social platform X. “The international community must act now to promote dialogue and diplomacy.”

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5289407-malala-yousafzai-india-pakistan-tensions/

“I think we have to talk about the root cause of it — we have to talk about how it comes about,” she said. “Because I believe that nobody is born a terrorist, nobody is born an extremist. These things are taught. This is part of an indoctrination.”

The laureate said she worries about the civilians, especially children, in both countries.

“Our common enemy is extremism, terrorism and violence — not each other,” added Yousafzai, who has also spoken out against the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. “We have to unite against these forces that try to divide us.”

“Hatred and violence are our common enemies, not each other,” Yousafzai, a Pakistani education and human rights advocate, said Wednesday in a post on the social platform X. “The international community must act now to promote dialogue and diplomacy.”

Many Lemmy users worship hate and dehumanizion, just like Reddit, Bluesky, Twitter, Fox News HDTV, Newsmax, White House, the whole USA society has built social media / media systems that praise reactionary punishment of those who speak out about the hate via systems of government and hate via media systems conditioning to attack "The Little Guy", indoctrination.

“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

which will give him the legal right to detain whomever he wants without any need to prove legal reasoning.

It's not like he has to do it his own self. Feed the people detained or clean their rooms. He has other people take care of that.

If you gave every social media user a "punish button" (next to the "block button") to act upon every other social media user in 2025, I think you would find that many people want the exact same power Donald Trump is building. In fact, a "punish button" for entire subreddits. Entire hashtags. That's the twitter-thinking technology loving Donald Trump nation I see everywhere. The people who hate Trump have faith in hate. Donald Trump already has faith in hate.

This is a nation in crisis of morality understanding and education, people are flocking to bad. Hate is bad.

“What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accommodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.” ― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.” ― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.” ― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

https://youtu.be/auc_x9lq9Tk?t=443

"And it is amazing there is not more outrage"
"Standing up and saying"

https://youtu.be/auc_x9lq9Tk?t=637

Constitution / Lord God Worship of Donald Trump is bigger than United States of America to the USA worshipers

https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1kit2r9/they_are_arresting_congress_members_and_the_mayor/mrls3tx/?context=3

And you apparently have total undeserved faith in your own intelligence

No, I don't at all. I have faith in shared knowledge, like Wikipedia, and it's all become poisoned by Twitter-length reactionary thinking, Tweeter-thinking, since March 2013. The USA lost an information war to Russia / Putin / Surkov / Kremlin and everything has gone to shit. I have extreme brain damage from the information warfare, and many other people have brain damage and don't even realize it!

-Reddit-WhatsThat: you apparently have total undeserved faith in your own intelligence

It's that kind of egomania of Donald Trump, RFK Jr, Elon Musk, Fox News HDTV audiences that have made life terrible and awful. I can't think at all, it is constant twitter-thinking assault from machines and systems. DOGE kind of Twitter-like superficial / shallow thinking.

It really is terrible, so many people who trust Vlad Putin and trust Donald Trump, the gullibility is so out of control in USA in who people trust and so much polluted information from Russian information warfare outcomes, everything is really terrible since January 2024, really since 2013!

we need to show grace to the truly sorry willing to do the work

Yes

We need to show intelligence, dealing with the brain damage caused by Surkov / Surkovian information warfare. We (The People) need a massive campaign of cult deprogramming and media ecology training. People are entirely unable to resist the Surkov / Surkovian governing techniques. Since March 2013, people are compulsively mocking and insulting and promoting hate and dehumanization against what they don't grasp, comprehend or understand. Media ecology literacy is our best defense. Teachers Neil Postman, Marshall McLuhan, etc. Social Media Ate My Nation's Face!

willing to do the work

Not a soul has been willing to do the work.

Trump and his cult will ignore the ruling. Why wouldn't they, no one is doing anything about all the other laws they're breaking.

It is a media cult. It isn't a Donald Trump cult. Fox News HDTV audience is a cult. Donald Trump images on the front page of Reddit is a media cult. Pope images / kitten images are media cults here.

Death is the only thing that will get rid of this man.

This is about a nation of Twitter-thinking reactionary values, Tweeting-thinking. Carl Sagan published a book in 1995 spelling all this out, down to manufacturing obsession and "10-second" Twitter-length thinking. The problem is media systems, social media inclusive. People toss their real identity into the trash while rich people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump use their real names. The Death of Donald Trump isn't gong to change the hundreds of millions of people addicted to the entertainment total mockery values of Twitter White House.

“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning—not just of science, but of anything—are avoidable, even undesirable.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995

I'm saying his death is the only way he's going anywhere.

His death isn't going to end the cult of his images and mockery shit-talk Tweeting-style any more than the death of Mohammad ended the Mecca / Quran cult.

People have to actually confront media cult problems with education / understanding of meme cults. "Amusing Ourselves To Death" book from 1985 is a starting point.

People in USA do not grasp that there is no supernatural.

Even atheists don't get it.

The Bible is science fiction storytelling. it is fiction, it is not non-fiction.

The Bible is so entertaining people bow down and worship. People create rituals and cosplay.

Now every media platform in May 2025 USA is a worship center of total mockery to the fiction storytelling of White House God Donald Trump. People have been worshiping him daily, posting images of Donald Trump God constantly. Worshiping every change to his clothing, hair style, cosmetics. Worshiping and mockery prayers to Donald Trump the God multiple times a day, they set smartphone notification when a new event and image set is released, very much like Islamic nations prayer calls I lived under in Algeria and Jordan. The flock to worship the total mockery.

Golf course "touch grass" rituals of Donald Trump are some of the most holy mockery worship I have ever witnessed. People when seeing new golf outings and images of God Trump on the golf course, go into wild faith-healing kind of mockery reactions. People even do financial accounting of his "touch grass" outings, like tributes to God Trump, they keep track of USA dollars spent in service to Lord God Trump mockery worship rituals.

People just do not get it. The Bible is word and only words, memes and only memes, it's spelled out in John 1:1 - there is no magical burning bush, it is media content, just like Donald Trump. And the worship religion of Donald Trump can not be stopped

When he dies, the worship of mockery will become even stronger! People keep mocking over and over that he will go into heaven and they will praise and mock even more.

It is so sick here, it is so fucking sickening, it never ends. People will not stop worshiping and mocking Donald Trump God.