Clown Population

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Clown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a "basket case of clowning around" on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.

People like to play a game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It's the entire population of Untied States of America.

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"Clown Population" clowns away learning / citations / teaching on social machines for 10 years and can't resist Twitter Clown Leaders in Total Tweet-Mockery Nation (lemmy.world)

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"As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.

This book (1985) is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985

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"My dad predicted Trump in 1985 – it's not Orwell, he warned, it's Brave New World. The ascent of Donald Trump has proved Neil Postman’s argument in Amusing Ourselves to Death was right." - Andrew Postman, February 2, 2017

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

AI slop

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I was unsure of this one at first, since despite the visual style it could have just been existing photos with a Snapchat-style filter put over it. However, Trump is furthest from the camera, then FDR, then Trump’s arm sprouting out of FDR’s chest. But slop-aganda needs to stop if people want any credibility for what they’re advocating for.