Censoring across the board.
There are so many things that should make the headlines that nothing makes the headlines anymore.
It’s called desensitization.
And honestly, if you think some cazy dude killing two people is what should be on page one these days, you got your priorities wrong.
Like you said, I think it’s more prioritization than desensitization. It really isn’t the most important story out there now, and it’s not a conspiracy that it’s not being mentioned.
Hypernormalisation
And that’s only the last couple of weeks. That list could be a hundred times longer.
I stole this. Quite shamelessly, too.
Can we impeach and convict and remove/imprison him yet?
Impeachment requires majority, Republicans have majority and MAGA will never cross their cult leader.
Anymore it seems the only out may be 86.
Strap in because the next one will distract us from war with Iran.
Or, more likely, accelerate it.
“Yes, we do have a moon base and yes, we are experiencing some bear problems.”
Lunar bears or Saturn bears?
Good to see someone asking the right questions!
Well I noticed some chatter through my Wizard Alliance contacts and thought it might be related
Aliens or moon nazis is on my bingo book
I was thinking that the next one was going to be caused by Iran (or at least blamed on them) so as to manufacture consent for this bullshit war.
Elon’s minions are still running amok in our government agencies doing god knows what with our personal data.
I have a prediction:
Iran will send agents to America, who will act as ICE members. Through this guise, they will antagonize the Trump Regime - blackbagging supporters, assassinating politicians, and generally performing domestic terrorism on the ‘behalf’ of the Regime in a very showy and flashy way. They don’t need ID, license plates, nor uniforms, can mask, and bear weapons. Any time they need plausible deniability or to cause some form of riot, they can also attack the general populous, and earn a $1,500 paycheck for each colored head they bring to the Regime.
The Trump Regime has destroyed America’s intelligence apparatus, too. Iran has a blank check for destabilizing America, and Trump signed the fucker.
Probably many sleeper agents in the US already
President Krasnov is one.
American concept of law enforcement at the hands of the Executive resulted in this lawlessness
Flood the zone. This is by design
Some great explanations in this post:
We’re drinking from a firehose of bullshit and you want me to talk about the turd I swallowed three days ago? Buddy, I won’t forget that turd, but there’s literally newer and more horrifying shit coming down the tube. It’s amalgamating into a giant shit mountain and crushing us underneath it. C’mon, my dude. Redirect your angst somewhere else.
Firehose of falsehood also is Russian thing
Why do you think fascists create wars?
To create a ladder?
A ladder of what?
Meat ladder
Corpses!
As a distraction for internal problems they caused
People’s minds are growing numb to the madness. This is very similar to what happened in Soviet Russia in the five years leading up to the collapse of the government.
It does seem rather similar to the collapse of Soviet Russia. Increasingly little confidence in the government by citizens all across the country. States that increasingly aren’t seeing any benefit in existing as part of the union. Its quite uncanny actually.
There are differences of course bcz there isn’t as big of different ethnic groups concentrated throughout the country ready to start their own countries bcz they never wanted to be part of the country in the first place.
I really dont want to find out whats on the other side of that scenario for us, but it doesn’t seem completely unlikely.
There are differences of course bcz there isn’t as big of different ethnic groups concentrated throughout the country ready to start their own countries bcz they never wanted to be part of the country in the first place.
You sure? Black separatism was big in the 60s and 70s, and once the dissolution of the Union filters into the wider public consciousness, you’ll probably see Latinos want to do their own thing.
I figure we’ll see smaller inter-state alliances forming into regional powers. Most likely all of the states that have larger populations will gain a lot of power relative to those with smaller populations. In all likelihood the stratification of wealth will accelerate even further into an absolutely obscene spectacle. The oligarchs will win, in the short term at least, if the federal government falls.
California, Oregon, and Washington kinda do already. All three states often tie legislation to the other two states also passing it. Like locking daylight savings in place if Washington hadn’t dropped the ball.
Those are called interstate compacts, and they tend to be specific to individual laws. I was thinking more along the lines of military alliances, so kind of a more advanced form of this type of political alliance-making
There was the Western States pact from the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_States_Pact
dropped the ball
Saved the ball you mean. Daylight-saving time is a curse which should be abolished not set in stone.
At this point I’m down for either daylight time or standard time as long as we stop changing back and forth!
I’ll grudgingly accept that as less awful than our current arrangement.
Spring/Summer/Autumn time should be made permanent; Winter time should be abolished. Stop stealing the only unallocated hour of winter daylight we get for ourselves.
Buy Little Johnny a PT Belt and a flashlight for the three weeks a year he has to walk to school in the dark, and give him an hour after school to play outside with his friends.
Balkanization comes to mind
Some voted to destroy the United States. Others were failed by the educational system and the media. Irrespective of cause, there’s no going back. We’re now in a place where “fuck you I’ve got mine” and “make me” is the basis of our formal society that only recognizes power in all its forms. I do not know what the future holds. I can only say that if this year were a taro card, it’s Death, as what was changes into something new an unrecognizable.
The documentary, HyperNormalization, was made nearly a decade ago, in 2016.
Just a fun tid bit I thought I’d share.
Yep. It’s been a while. Already contained Trump.
If you (anybody) haven’t watched it yet, please do.
BTW - and I don’t say this to nitpick, just to make it easier to find - the documentary is named Hypernormalisation.
I experience the opposite, at least here on Lemmy. It all leads me to conserve my attention for the things that are actually happening.
I mean sure, it’s still draining and hard to keep up with, but I think we all learned to filter out some of the nonsense, and see behind the clown show. Except for those who thrive on the outrage, and not actual concern.
Here’s hoping it’s leading up to a collapse this time too.
I know this narrative is wide spread, and I have no chance to fight it, but it’s not fucking not.
USSR has collapsed because of a lot of factors, but the most important of them was that the political elite was willing to change (not to be mistaken with to go away). USSR had an infinite space for doubling down deeper and deeper
War is a beautiful thing…
suicides, school shootings, spree shootings, and political assassinations
the three pillars of american education
That’s four pillars… I’ll start again…
…
“Amongst the pillars of American education are such diverse elements as…”
War, what is it good for?
Apparently it’s good for taking the public mind of a politicians wrongdoings.
waging the dog, Reichstag Fire, whatever you want to call it that’s all this is. We can’t have the plebs focusing no us assassinating the opposition, lets go bomb Iran saying we took out their nuclear capabilities meanwhile we actually didn’t.
Pretty much all I ever talk about, and its also all over the news, idk where you’re taking shelter under.
Always appreciate more attention on it, tho, good work.
