Clown Population

I know what will help! I’ll sow even MOAR division! Yes! People haven’t been divided enough by the billionaires and media owners on corpo social media, so I’m gonna bring division to the fediverse!

It sounds to me like you think this (the White House being "owned" by Putin) is all hilarious and funny. That surreal comedy and absurd Twitter-speak on social media machines is all LOL and hilarious for you to consume and react-comment to. At least that's my initial take on how you (your electric media message) are treating extremely serious Russian information warfare against NATO and especially the United States of America. You can take people off of Twitter, but you can't get them to stop the Tweet-style mockery and sarcasm to extremely important and serious matters.

Your reply serves to banalize that USA is attacking Canada and doing other absurd and hyper-real surreal comedy actions in service to the Kremlin.

“In the twenty-first century the techniques of the political technologists have become centralized and systematized, coordinated out of the office of the presidential administration, where Surkov would sit behind a desk on which were phones bearing the names of all the “independent” party leaders, calling and directing them at any moment, day or night. The brilliance of this new type of authoritarianism is that instead of simply oppressing opposition, as had been the case with twentieth-century strains, it climbs inside all ideologies and movements, exploiting and rendering them absurd. One moment Surkov would fund civic forums and human rights NGOs, the next he would quietly support nationalist movements that accuse the NGOs of being tools of the West. With a flourish he sponsored lavish arts festivals for the most provocative modern artists in Moscow, then supported Orthodox fundamentalists, dressed all in black and carrying crosses, who in turn attacked the modern art exhibitions. The Kremlin’s idea is to own all forms of political discourse, to not let any independent movements develop outside of its walls. Its Moscow can feel like an oligarchy in the morning and a democracy in the afternoon, a monarchy for dinner and a totalitarian state by bedtime.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, year 2014

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"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you." - Banksy

I looked through their posts and it’s like the digital counterpart of the person ranting on the bus, now in mobile form.

Bruh are you okay?

No, I'm in the United States of America where people believe anything of computer media systems. Have you not noticed what is going on in USA in January 2025, February 2025, March 2025 and you think people are "OK"?

I thought this meme was good then read your comment, then I reach your description, and wrote Jesus Christ that is by far the stupidest take on anything I've ever fucking read. The people who actually like and/or want any of this are a VERY small minority lol

I mean, if you think all of us are Trumpers, then sure?

Why would I think something so shallow and superficial like your 12-word Twitter-length Bluesky-length message reply?

I've expressed what I think in hundreds of pages of discussion here on Lemmy, but you want to reply with ideas that imply people are "Trumpers", without even defining what that means.

I think it is people with accounts like "Joke Diety" identities (with no real name or identity) who find the USA amusing and funny as the Kremlin simulacra patterns are played out across all social media platforms since March 2013 and nobody resists or tries to counter it and thinks it is all hilarious. !CounterSurkov@lemm.ee

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"Now I would expect that to be a socialist realist film. No, no, it’s a sitcom. They have got two friends that are stupid and ugly. They dress funny. Their life is shit, if you will pardon the expression, and this is a comedy. Because all the troubles that such a life involve are just reduced to banality, just the common rubble of little one line joke, you follow me? It’s made banal by it. It’s banalised that way." - Rick Roderick, Duke University, 1993

AP released survey data today. ~40% of Americans support Trump's handling of the economy and trade. ~50% support his immigration policy which includes direct violation of free speech protections, one of America's founding principles.

OP has a point.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-poll-immigration-tariffs-trade-b7a430909606d6b8b27cfbc5049a32b4

Right now, the entire nation either supports Trump's actions or are allowing him to proceed. It's not a good look. Global trust in America as a tried and true partner (and even occasionally a force for good) is crumbling with each passing day.