unpublished comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/FluentInFinance/comments/1jnduq7/hence_the_cycle_continues/mkkom7x/
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I love people trying to still use the old classics cause it really helps show people how fucking crazy shit is right now.
That's why we are where we are in 2025. People adore this shit, the Twitter behavior of a Apple iPhone meme addict leading the nation appeals so much to the audience. People who hate Trump adore mocking Trump. That's the heart of the Russian information warfare that started in March 2013. Which you can't link or even quote here on Reddit front page topics because the spam filters (and/or anonymous no-identity Kremlin participants) are manipulated by Russia too (and not just this platform). You can't get Americans to escape it because they don't even realized absurd mockery is the foundation of the whole Kremlin techniques. People love it and adore when others act stupid, which MAGA was the first to go way off the deep end of anti-intellectualism in 2015, when it was 18 months into the Russian media invasion.
In mental disorders, that is called "Executive Function" - which I suffer from greatly when fighting the Kremlin information warfare. The irony is not lost on me that the psychology industry calls it "Executive Function" and that's the executives in the White House they are manipulating.
Peer pressure, advertising, marketing, propaganda, union busting - all tend to converge on using techniques to manipulate this area of the mind and overwhelm it or cause disorder of some kind.
Look at the techniques from year 2014 onward that Russia used to manipulate mental function of people regarding pandemic / vaccination / defense against diseases: Many posted both pro- and anti-vaccination messages to create "false equivalency", the study found. It examined thousands of tweets sent between 2014 and 2017. Vaccination was being used by trolls and sophisticated bots as a "wedge issue", said Mark Dredze from Johns Hopkins University. "By playing both sides, they erode public trust in vaccination, exposing us all to the risk of infectious diseases," he said. ... "A significant portion of the online discourse about vaccines may be generated by malicious actors with a range of hidden agendas," said David Broniatowski from George Washington University. The researchers reviewed more than 250 tweets about vaccination from accounts linked to the St Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency (IRA). In February the agency was named in a US indictment over alleged election meddling. The IRA tweets used polarising language and linked vaccination to controversial statements about race, class and government legitimacy, the researchers said.