Reddit front page

https://old.reddit.com/r/meme/comments/1kufhsb/_/

The problem with this bi-polar 1-bit logic thinking, is it skips mass mind. It's like saying someone's choice (man or woman) to trust and believe Donald Trump - an American trusting American Donald Trump is simply an individual choice.

People on Reddit society sometimes talk about the "Reddit Hive Mind' but can't generalize it beyond "Facebook bad", "Fox News bad", and discuss seriously the mechanics of peer pressure and chains of trust in groups of people.

Always blaming the individual is what wealthy people (Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, etc, etc) promote as the cause of anyone who can't pick themselves up by their own individual bootstraps.

And education is not all equal. Reddit society itself avoids Neil Postman understand of Reddit entertainment venue framing all things as entertainment / amusing. An information war has been lost because Reddit society can't break free of mocking individual trees (women in this case) vs. the mob mentality depicted in the comic itself! There is no discussion of Marshall McLuhan (mass man), Neil Postman, Howard Bloom (mass mind) until EVERYONE in society gets on this critical and important same-page regarding MAGA / Fox News audience / White House / Kremlin / Putinism / Surkov governing.

“[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

Front page of Reddit:

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1kuehum/greg_gutfeld_mocks_and_yells_over_jessica_tarlov/

Reddit society has no-identity people mocking people with real identity who have media power. Stand up for the Big Guys in media, while Reddit society self-dehumanizes and abuses people constantly with powerful media system of Reddit itself.

Entertainment mockery is not called out as a Surkov / Surkoviain information warfare. Instead, a never-ending stream of mocking and mockery - joining in with MAGA values - all Americans joining in with Kremlin Russian information warfare since March 2013.

Yes, Reddit and politicians in USA had mocking and mockery before March 2013. But the Internet Research Agency has weaponized it to a point people can only see trees and not the forest of total mockery of the 5,000 anti-reality screen games.

Just like average people can handle some booze and drink, but USA has a extremely serious chronic Donald Trumpism / MAGA / Fox News mockery problem that has taken over as amusement and funny humor absurd exploits of all human brains, we have lost an information war and are in such a meme stupor every day because of what people do with free time and spare time on Reddit encouraging more of it, more mockery.

Front Page of Reddit:

https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1kue3xp/everyone_is_saying_it_lots_of_people_come_up_to/

Reddit society constantly adopts the language and style of Donald Trump. Reddit society mimics and reproduces Donald Trump, constantly entertained and amused by Donald Trump actions and communications.

Reddit society does not understand or show self-awareness of Neil Postman's 1985 "Amusing Ourselves To Death" behaviors of mimicking and using Donald Trump as a role model. Neil Postman's book was written when Ronald Reagan had the same audience reaction among some people, not that is way worse with Donald Trump and Reddit users / society of Reddit consumers.

People find Surkov / Surkovian information warfare amusing and entertaining on Reddit electric media systems, that Donald Trump content creator gives them a constant stream of mockery and mocking.

Only one Reddit user asks for citation, given a runaround answer, no upvote in first hour to sincere question of fact-checking and integrity. Front page posting.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BlueskySkeets/comments/1kuc6ht/i_fear_the_ones_who_need_this_most_will_not_care/mu0svfy/

"knowledge isn't just devalued here"

4:58

And now we're here in a world where believing something loudly is more important than being quiet correctly. Where doing your own research means spending 2 hours on Reddit and suddenly knowing more than a virologist who spent 12 years studying infectious diseases.

Knowledge isn't just devalued here... it's actively mocked. It's considered suspicious. Is someone saying "you think you're better than me?" when they're presented with irrefutable evidence on a particular topic like if you know too much you must be part of some secret cabal.

So welcome to the land of the free and the home of the brave if by brave you mean too stubborn to Google it.

All right, so, stupidity didn't just wander into America like a drunk at a wedding and start slow dancing with grandma. No, we invited it in! We pulled out a chair poured it a drink and let it drive the bus. It started slow.

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At some point maybe right after World War II the US of A decided that comfort was more important than curiosity. We wanted life to be easy and thinking is hard we built the suburbs we filled them with TV dinners plastic smiles and educational systems designed to create compliant workers not curious thinkers. Questioning anything became unamerican he didn't want kids to be philosophers he wanted them to grow up punch a clock and buy a Buick. And then came cable news where complex issues were considered... well... condensed into 30 second sound bites by men wearing obnoxious ties. And once reality TV hit... it was game over! Stupidity wasn't just tolerated it became America's favorite distraction. We laughed it off we told ourselves "Ah it's just entertainment." While chugging diet soda and watching 6 hours of strangers throwing chairs at each other over baby daddies. I mean I don't know about you but Jerry Springer was pretty much inescapable in the 1990's.

Anyways, being smart started to become seen as being elite and being educated meant you were somehow out of touch and if you were too smart then you were probably planning something nefarious. You were somehow dangerous. Smart used to be attractive. And then it got you labeled as distrustful.

Okay so then came the internet and everything changed. Where all information was instantly available and therefore instantly disposable. Because when everything is at your fingertips nothing really matters anymore. You can just Google the answers or better yet just decide your feelings are the answer regardless of the facts. And meanwhile the foundations rotted out

Why oh why can social media users since December 2019, in year 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 not say / not communicate the most simple factual statement about the situation? Why let RFK Jr and Donald Trump billionaires spokesmen speak for anti-science and anti-goodness and not point to science information being used as a warning to be prepared?

"Bill Gates was correct to warn everyone, to pull the alarm bell in April 2015 about pandemic preparation"

"It is only now beginning to be understood that cultures may also suffer grievously from information glut, information without meaning, information without control mechanisms.” ― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992

"The unformulated message of an assembly of news items from every quarter of the globe is that the world today is one city. All war is civil war. All suffering is our own." - University of Toronto's Marshall McLuhan

All war is love of something or someone, fetish of something or someone, killing an enemy is because you love your homeland. Killing an enemy of a religion, infidel, gentile, holy war - is because you love your science fiction story.

"I need my Love To Translate" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqotifaBzrM

The Pandemic warnings

Why can't a billionaire actually say something correct, true, factual, sincere, earnest, and good? Why can't a billionaire actually be authentic and honest?

Why can't social media consumers recognize fact from fiction? Why can't social media users say: that fact is correct. Just because billionaires Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump and Elon Musk constantly deceive and manipulate about medical science, why do people have to jump to the simple binary conclusion that all billionaires are always wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Af6b_wyiwI

38,201,382 views
Friday April 3, 2015
"The next outbreak? We’re not ready | Bill Gates | TED"

The USA information systems, "the media", "the mainstream media", "the news media", "the social media systems".

Attracted to what. People seek out and subscribe to what. When every channel on YouTube is free, when every Reddit subreddit is no-cost no subscription fee, what do people seek?

Front page of Reddit:

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1ku8ule/its_eerie_how_much_donald_trumps_mother_looks/

Normalizing Donald Trump situation, crowd attracted to famous people and icons and symbols. Amusement and Entertainment as usual over Donald Trump family.

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
page 7
https://www.finnegansweb.com/wiki/index.php/Page_7

With her issavan essavans and her patterjackmartins about all
them inns and ouses. Tilling a teel of a tum, telling a toll of a tea-
ry turty Taubling. Grace before Glutton. For what we are, gifs
à gross if we are, about to believe. So pool the begg and pass the
kish for crawsake. Omen. So sigh us. Grampupus is fallen down
but grinny sprids the boord. Whase on the joint of a desh? Fin-
foefom the Fush. Whase be his baken head? A loaf of Singpan-
try's Kennedy bread. And whase hitched to the hop in his tayle?
A glass of Danu U'Dunnell's foamous olde Dobbelin ayle. But,
lo, as you would quaffoff his fraudstuff and sink teeth through
that pyth of a flowerwhite bodey behold of him as behemoth for
he is noewhemoe. Finiche! Only a fadograph of a yestern scene.
Almost rubicund Salmosalar, ancient fromout the ages of the Ag-
apemonides, he is smolten in our mist, woebecanned and packt
away. So that meal's dead off for summan, schlook, schlice and
goodridhirring.

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1ku5bsi/jon_stewart_shares_dark_prediction_for_how_the/

I listened to the Jon Stewart quote, and he says "one man". This isn't one man. JD Vance cult of pope couch chanting and Elon Musk and all the others in the White House have been building up since 2013. People want to keep acting like this is all just "normal Fox News audience" and Rush Limbaugh audience behavior,... it isn't. All my family and where I've lived since 2006 has changed. Texas, Georgia, Florida, Arizona - people have changed into believing falsehoods. People are not taking Neil Postman and Reddit, and Lemmy and Twitter and Facebook and Cambridge Analytica and Russian information warfare seriously...

The Apple iPhone changed everything in 2007. And 2012 and 2013 is when social media users changed. Hate-filled, nasty, dehumanizing. This is not just a FEW PEOPLE in the White House, this is everyday Americans who used to say computers were for nerds and don't trust people on the Internet.

They used to say don't trust rich city slickers in New York City - and now they obey one with terrible ideas. They are actually attracted to the power and success of hate and dehumanization.

Jon Stewart thinks the media is bending to Donald Trump, nope. Donald Trump and the media are bending to a core values and moral shift in the entire population. And it is right here on social media. Neil Postman's 1985 book 'Amusing Ourselves to Death" explains it.

Look at the pandemic. Bill Gates in April 2015 warned the whole world in a ted talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Af6b_wyiwI

This isn't even about billionaires. Bill Gates isn't spewing bullshit like RFK Jr. this is about what Carl Sagan wrote in his 1995 book... which is quoted in this posting on Lemmy.

How come nobody can parrot "Bill Gates was correct in April 2015 about us being unprepared for a pandemic"? How come we can't recite truth and facts and people can only recite fiction memes and junk?