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The "Third Rail" of USA society year 2024 and year 2025 is Apple iPhone addiction. The third-rail topic of Bluesky Reddit Mastodon is addiction to memes and banal shit-postings. Addiction to Elon Musk / Donald Trump "Shitbird on toilet tweeting bird" content.
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"Daddy Issues" - Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Joe Rogan - and Grok xAI is their "Daddy" in the sky
They have media ecology problems of the highest order, they have "Daddy Issues" of blind-faith in cloud computing "Daddy" / "Sky Daddy" in the clouds sending them messages and apps. That's why Elon Musk, leader of the Free World, is their meme drug dealer with xAI / Grok.
"The last weeks of Donald Trump’s successful campaign for president were a festival of crudeness. In light of this, Tucker Carlson’s warm-up act at a Georgia rally late last month was, if notably creepy, still typical of the sunken depths of rhetoric. Carlson offered an extended metaphor in which Trump was an angry “dad” with a household of misbehaving children (a 2-year-old who has smeared “the contents of his diapers on the wall,” “a hormone-addled” 15-year-old girl who has decided to “slam the door of her bedroom and give you the finger”). The children in this metaphor, if it wasn’t clear, are the citizens of this country."
America Got the Father It Wanted. The appeal of Trump's paternalism. By Gal Beckerman.