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.

  • griefreeze@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 days ago

    I know what will help! I’ll sow even MOAR division! Yes! People haven’t been divided enough by the billionaires and media owners on corpo social media, so I’m gonna bring division to the fediverse!

    • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPM
      35·
      2 days ago

      I know what will help! I’ll sow even MOAR division! Yes! People haven’t been divided enough by the billionaires and media owners on corpo social media, so I’m gonna bring division to the fediverse!

      It sounds to me like you think this (the White House being “owned” by Putin) is all hilarious and funny. That surreal comedy and absurd Twitter-speak on social media machines is all LOL and hilarious for you to consume and react-comment to. At least that’s my initial take on how you (your electric media message) are treating extremely serious Russian information warfare against NATO and especially the United States of America. You can take people off of Twitter, but you can’t get them to stop the Tweet-style mockery and sarcasm to extremely important and serious matters.

      Your reply serves to banalize that USA is attacking Canada and doing other absurd and hyper-real surreal comedy actions in service to the Kremlin.

      “In the twenty-first century the techniques of the political technologists have become centralized and systematized, coordinated out of the office of the presidential administration, where Surkov would sit behind a desk on which were phones bearing the names of all the “independent” party leaders, calling and directing them at any moment, day or night. The brilliance of this new type of authoritarianism is that instead of simply oppressing opposition, as had been the case with twentieth-century strains, it climbs inside all ideologies and movements, exploiting and rendering them absurd. One moment Surkov would fund civic forums and human rights NGOs, the next he would quietly support nationalist movements that accuse the NGOs of being tools of the West. With a flourish he sponsored lavish arts festivals for the most provocative modern artists in Moscow, then supported Orthodox fundamentalists, dressed all in black and carrying crosses, who in turn attacked the modern art exhibitions. The Kremlin’s idea is to own all forms of political discourse, to not let any independent movements develop outside of its walls. Its Moscow can feel like an oligarchy in the morning and a democracy in the afternoon, a monarchy for dinner and a totalitarian state by bedtime.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, year 2014

       

      :::: _________
      “People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.” - Banksy

      • forrgott@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 day ago

        It sounds to me like you’re looking for conflict. Your language is very accusatory. And honestly, it really doesn’t seem justified.

        • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPM
          1·
          1 day ago

          It sounds to me like you’re looking for conflict.

          I a LIVING in the United States of America. I am LIVING in conflict. People are in denial.

          • forrgott@lemm.ee
            1·
            1 day ago

            Yes. I know. I live here, too. You know what fucks with my head? I’ve seen posts here on Lemmy outlining the specifics of how Trump/Musk actually stole the election. And you know what? If we’ve figured it out, then we’re not the only ones. But nobody in a position of power and authority did anything. They knew; and they let him do it.

            But anyway, I merely want to suggest that you’re current tactics are more likely to alienate people. If you wish to get people to open their eyes, there might be better ways?

            But I am just another idiot doom scrolling; what do I know, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

            • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPM
              11·
              1 day ago

              I’ve seen posts here on Lemmy outlining the specifics of how Trump/Musk actually stole the election. And you know what? If we’ve figured it out, then we’re not the only ones. But nobody in a position of power and authority did anything. They knew; and they let him do it.

              I don’t believe they manipulated votes. since 1999 I’ve lived in an RV as my home office, I’ve traveled and lived in 25 cities.

              This is what USA has become since the introduction of the Apple iPhone in year 2007. Since all the streaming platforms and Elon Musk is a perfect example with the purchase of Twitter.

              People are becoming so in love with technology and machines that they are dehumanizing people. That’s the story of America.

              This isn’t a stolen election, people actually are attracted to a 78 year old man who has an Apple iPhone addiction and consumes Russian mental manipulation. Donald Trump does not live in objective scientific reality. He lives in Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News HDTV and memes he consumes off the Internet. And all that matters to most people is that decoration on a meme makes an idea sound good. That a pretty picture along with one or two sentences of wors made almost any idea attractive.

              People in the USA have become so meme addled since year 2015, they are attracted to the stereotype of a loud fat male American that the rest of the world thinks is “bad taste” and ignorant. The problem is morality comprehension, people are attracted to bad things. As long as they can keep consuming Fox News, Elon Musk antics, Reality TV, Joe Rogan, etc. They are putting into their minds more and more junk and Donald Trump attracts people.

              The problem is “brain rot” of an entire society. Not “stolen elections”. There are far better people out of 300 million that could be President, but people are attracted to the shit-talk and insults. The problem is: the people. The population.

      • griefreeze@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 days ago

        Your read is way way way fucking off base. Might be my fault, I thought I was clear but I suppose I understand how one might not think so.

        I do not find anything about this administration or their actions to be funny or amusing. I find the people and policies that makeup MAGA to be abhorrent. To be honest, I think you and I can probably agree politically on a lot of topics.

        What I was commenting on, through sarcasm (my bad for not including the /s I guess), was your sweeping generalization. Those only serve to divide, further pushing members of the working class to splinter off into smaller groups to be more easily exploited and controlled by the ownership class.

        Maybe its hyperbole and I missed it? Maybe not, perhaps you truly believe everyone in the US deserves, wanted, and supports what our government is doing. Perhaps you think we aren’t doing enough to resist? I can agree to that, all the protests I’ve been to have been smaller than I had hoped. I’m also getting in touch with other orgs in my area to get more started, hopefully we can get something happening.

        Idk what to tell you. Your post came off as very crass to me, and I responded with heavy sarcasm.

        • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPM
          24·
          2 days ago

          What I was commenting on, through sarcasm (my bad for not including the /s I guess), was your sweeping generalization

          Perhaps you suffer from a media literacy problem of light-speed social machines. I suggest you study over on [email protected] …

          You react-comment instead of try to understand someone. I also suggest [email protected] - it is a MASSIVE crisis all across the World Wide Web in year 2025 that people react-comment and don’t seek understanding. James Joyce, Irish Writer, was dealing with the same crisis of Dublin life over 100 years ago. The metaphor of the “Tower of Babel” and how humans get in conflicts over language and jumping to conclusions and at each other’s throat.

           

          ::: ________
          “Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man.” - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine, p.56, February 28, 1966 — www.LazyWake.com

          • griefreeze@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 days ago

            Interesting suggestion, I’ll have to check it out when I get some time.

            So if my post was a “react-comment,” the implication being my lacking of media literacy has caused me to misunderstand you, can you at least do me the favor of clarifying your meaning? I asked some questions, answering those might help.

            I’m trying to discuss this in good faith with you, but I truly do not think that’s being reciprocated.

            • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPM
              13·
              2 days ago

              I’m trying to discuss this in good faith with you, but I truly do not think that’s being reciprocated.

              That’s entirely my point. You may notice that I frequently cite books, magazines, professionally edited writings from professors, teachers, etc. I suggest you escape your fixation on my personal language and demonstrate some comprehension of the “Forest for Trees” topics being discussed using someone’s words entirely not your own or mine. As I’m not here for pissing contest of [email protected] social machine comment section conflicts.

              “I truly do not think that’s being reciprocated” <<< I witness that. Community description of this Lemmy community: “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.”

               

              :::: __________
              “For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in ‘Brave New World’ was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985

    • billbaggins@lemmy.world
      163·
      3 days ago

      I looked through their posts and it’s like the digital counterpart of the person ranting on the bus, now in mobile form.

      • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPM
        18·
        2 days ago

        I looked through their posts and it’s like the digital counterpart of the person ranting on the bus, now in mobile form.

        Hi “billbaggins”. My name is Stephen Alfred Gutknecht, I was raised in Fort Wayne Indiana. What’s your name? Do you shit-talk about people all over the Internet or only here? Or only those standing up to Putin and Kremlin information warfare over on [email protected] ?

    • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPM
      1411·
      3 days ago

      Bruh are you okay?

      No, I’m in the United States of America where people believe anything of computer media systems. Have you not noticed what is going on in USA in January 2025, February 2025, March 2025 and you think people are “OK”?

    • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPM
      14·
      2 days ago

      I mean, if you think all of us are Trumpers, then sure?

      Why would I think something so shallow and superficial like your 12-word Twitter-length Bluesky-length message reply?

      I’ve expressed what I think in hundreds of pages of discussion here on Lemmy, but you want to reply with ideas that imply people are “Trumpers”, without even defining what that means.

      I think it is people with accounts like “Joke Diety” identities (with no real name or identity) who find the USA amusing and funny as the Kremlin simulacra patterns are played out across all social media platforms since March 2013 and nobody resists or tries to counter it and thinks it is all hilarious. [email protected]

       

      :::: _____________
      “Now I would expect that to be a socialist realist film. No, no, it’s a sitcom. They have got two friends that are stupid and ugly. They dress funny. Their life is shit, if you will pardon the expression, and this is a comedy. Because all the troubles that such a life involve are just reduced to banality, just the common rubble of little one line joke, you follow me? It’s made banal by it. It’s banalised that way.” - Rick Roderick, Duke University, 1993

    • shawn1122@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      AP released survey data today. ~40% of Americans support Trump’s handling of the economy and trade. ~50% support his immigration policy which includes direct violation of free speech protections, one of America’s founding principles.

      OP has a point.

      https://apnews.com/article/trump-poll-immigration-tariffs-trade-b7a430909606d6b8b27cfbc5049a32b4

      Right now, the entire nation either supports Trump’s actions or are allowing him to proceed. It’s not a good look. Global trust in America as a tried and true partner (and even occasionally a force for good) is crumbling with each passing day.

  • ObtuseDoorFrame@lemm.eeEnglish
    326·
    3 days ago

    Fuck you. I am a disabled person who voted against this and I’ll be put in a concentration camp some day soon if this escalates. The entire population? Asshole.

    • Soulg@ani.socialEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      I thought this meme was good then read your comment, then I reach your description, and wrote Jesus Christ that is by far the stupidest take on anything I’ve ever fucking read. The people who actually like and/or want any of this are a VERY small minority lol

      • ObtuseDoorFrame@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, it’s some seriously hateful shit. I blocked them after they replied to my comment without reading their reply. I didn’t choose to be born in this country but I’ve voted straight blue for 20 years. This is NOT my fault.

    • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPM
      426·
      3 days ago

      Fuck you. I am a disabled person who voted against this and I’ll be put in a concentration camp some day soon if this escalates. The entire population? Asshole.

      You just clowned around on Lemmy social media with your hate-speech. Exactly my point of the population of media consumers, the nation of USA. You worship hate leaders and you tell people to “Fuck you” that you disagree with, just like MAGA. You think computers are so awesome you dehumanize people. It has wrecked the entire population in the acceptance of hate and dehumanization while computers keep taking over more and more.

        • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPM
          15·
          2 days ago

          I don’t know. Your exemplifying some pretty clowny behavior

          Yha, you do not know or understand media ecology. Probably never learned from Neil Postman or Marshall McLuhan, or have long ago forgotten it.

          Your exemplifying some pretty clowny behavior

          Maybe the problem is you are using a computer and you can’t see beyond the framing of the machine you consume your media on? You are giving 9-word Twitter-length Bluesky-length reaction comments to Elon Musk X media content.

          Essentially your comment boils down to: I am smarter than you, Stephen Gutknecht is a dumb idiot, but me BleatingZombie hiding my real identity on a machine system I’m not the zombie in a media enviornment. Only the people I respond to with my 9-word shit-talk are the zombies.

          You witness this all over in 2024 and 2025 social media systems. Egoism “shade throwing” behaviors everywhere.

           

          ::: ____________________
          “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995

    • Hawke@lemmy.world
      317·
      3 days ago

      Are you wearing a MAGA hat? No? Then you’re not the target of this cartoon.

        • Hawke@lemmy.world
          133·
          3 days ago

          I stand corrected then, oop is an idiot and doesn’t know how to make a decent political cartoon.

          • notabot@lemm.ee
            51·
            3 days ago

            Thanks for stating you changed your position rather than just deleting your comment, it’s moments like this that make Lemmy a better place.