@atrupar Read: I have made a shit ton of money by gaming the system and artificially inflating stock prices because when you're famous, they let you do it.
@martinsepp@LakotaMan1 Poland is helping bring bison back from near extinction. It looks like they only have a few thousand. Still, a herd of a few hundred would seem very large to us now.
Trump fired all three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, leaving the agency with no commissioners just months before the midterms https://t.co/YNJjsNJsnE
One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwellโs 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (thatโs former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).
We are living in something much closer to Huxleyโs Brave New World.
The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.
The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.
A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.
That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.
Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.
The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.
I'm going to predict that when the damage assessment is complete, well into the future, Trump's greatest crime will prove to be espionage - AND - it will be the most catastrophic breach of national security in American history.
We will discover he passed secrets to Russia from day 1 because he was compromised; and did favors for the Saudis shortly after, purely for personal profit; and who knows what the hell else.
His many Useful Idiocies will boggle the mind. And his America First gaslight will be remembered as it should be remembered: "Trump Before America, facilitated by idiots who called themselves patriots."
His treachery - most done purely for power and profit, and some from pathology, revenge, and entitlement, will have massively impacted the globe, permanently shifted wealth, and cost many millions of lives.
I have to add that a good deal of it would not have happened but for our legacy media's consistent and widespread normalization of his disorders.
Trump made 250 stock trades today right before posting that the Iran peace talks are going well.
I hate that we have a president whoโs an insider traitor.
So
Remove any actual facts that might provide a critical thinking patriot with context to help us evolve our historically shared dream?
Replace with fictional whitewashed narrative to better suit propaganda??
I love America.
I love our historical progress & struggle to being better. And I love our moral arc toward justice for ALL
I loathe this pursuit by weak fragile greedy ignorant small component of white men to stop and reverse our collective forward progress re human rights and equality . This racist/misogynist weak subset do not at all represent the majority of white men , let alone the country as a whole.
We canโt let them prevail.
The moral arc of universe (with America leading it) must continue bending toward justice !
#ImpeachTrumpNow
@factpostnews Republicans: "Leftists are snowflakes that are get triggered by reality"
Also Republicans: "NOOOO Do not talk about actual history and slavery and women's rights and gay rights and civil rights!!!"
"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin..โ
Samuel Adams 1780 ๐บ๐ธ
Holy sh*t, EVERY LAST WORD that Michael Steele said here! ๐ฅ ๐ฅ
He blasted trump and Republicans for trying to sell Americans a bunch of bullshit on Communism.
"Who's buddy-buddy with all the big name Communists in the world? Donald trump."
Sorry, MAGA scum, you wonโt wear a mask during a pandemic, yet you will wear one so that your co workers and family donโt shun you as fascist scum?