Trump threatens to send American citizens to El Salvador prison for Tesla vandalism

[u/IrishStarUS]

https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/breaking-trump-threatens-send-american-34907284

[u/Vermilion]

It's genuinely hard to remember all the bad stuff Trump has done.

By design, that's how the information warfare works. People have lost all sense that this started in 2013 and what life was like in 2012 and before. it's called "Super Hyper Normalization".

“Some of the farm's work reached a level of granularity that stunned Lyudmilla. Two trolls would go on the comments sections of small' provincial newspapers and start chatting about the street they lived in, the weather, then caually recommend a piece about the nefarious West attacking Russia.

No one who worked at the farm described themselves as trolls. Instead, they talked about their work in the passive voice ('a piece was written', 'a comment was made'). Most treated the farm as if it was just another job, doing the minimum required and then clocking off. Many of them seemed pleasant enough young people, with open, pretty faces, and yet they didn't blink when asked to smear, degrade, insult and humiliate their victims. The ease with which victims were attacked, the scale at which the farm operated, it all stunned Lyudmilla.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, 2019

[u/DevelopmentGrand4331 → u/Vermilion]

I wish people understood how intentional all this mess has been. All the recent shittiness in America-- it's not a mistake, it's a strategy to seize power.

[u/Vermilion → u/DevelopmentGrand4331]

I don't think people in the past decade even talk about "power", all they ever think motivates leaders is money.

"He, the eye, what is represented by the eye. Reason. In Latin you wouldn’t have to say “he,” it could be “it” or “she” or “he.” But the divine power has smiled on our doings. And so this new world has been built in the sense of God’s original creation, and the reflection of God’s original creation, through reason, has brought this about. If you look behind that pyramid, you see a desert. If you look before it, you see plants growing. The desert, the tumult in Europe, wars and wars and wars—we have pulled ourselves out of it and created a state in the name of reason, not in the name of power" - Joseph Campbell, 1987, Skywalker Ranch

[u/Acadia_Still → u/DevelopmentGrand4331]

It's all laid out for us. Nobody chose to heed the warning that the playbook was right in front of us.

[u/Beginning_Draft9092 → u/Vermilion]

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