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Bill Moyers On The Dangers Of So Much Dishonesty

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"I really want to ask people in the US - how has he NOT been impeached yet?" - Friday May 23, 2025

Reddit comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1kthjaj/donald_trump_warns_apple_of_25_tariffs_if_iphone/mttpidn/

 

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Donald Trump is a constant source of entertainment and mockery. We The People of the United States of America find Donald Trump hilarious, LOL, funny, LMAO, amusing entertainment.

Donald Trump is Tony Clifton. People can not get enough of mocking, insulting, and shit-talking at Donald Trump. Crowds calling Trump stupid, dumb, idiot, clown every day for over 11 years on social media systems.

No entertainer in all human history has been able to engage audiences into comedy stupor like Donald Trump does. He truly is the Ultra Tony Clifton performer.

 

REFERENCE 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg0vKCuAWTQ "Bob Zmuda as Tony Clifton on Late Night with David Letterman Show, February 18, 1982"

"Now, Tony, you are not a well-liked man... despite the fact you came out here and pleased this audience." - David Letterman https://youtu.be/Kg0vKCuAWTQ?t=344 at 344 seconds into video.

IMPORTANT CONTEXT: David Letterman's comedy show is in Manhattan, New York City - the family home of Donald Trump. This is what Americans value as never-ending entertainment.

IMPORTANT CONTEXT: I am not just saying legal voters. Don't just assume this is only the voting portion of the population. For example, a 16 year-old person finds the poopy diapers and orange skin amusing and parents adore it equally too, but not everyone in the audience to the comedy is a voter.

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"Why are we letting fascists walk all over us? If you think fighting back will be worse than giving them what they want, history has bad news for you." - Thursday May 22, 2025

Reddit comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1ksx4rp/trump_administration_halts_harvards_ability_to/mtp3eea/

 

What to Understand

  1. Donald Trump is the most obvious liar and egomaniac since year 2013. It is blatant, it is obvious, it is clear as day, it is documented.

  2. Understanding the Problem Assertion 1: The problem is not Donald Trump. One liar "Big Shot" who plays golf and spends time with his family retired in Florida on the golf course and goes and hangs out with his buddies is nothing special for a man age 70 and older.

  3. Understanding the Problem Assertion 2: The problem is We The People, the population of society. "MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL"

  4. How did this happen? Assertion 3: A 1985 book by Neil Postman, Manhattan / New York University Professor (Donald Trump's Home Town) predicted all this for America's future. On February 2, 2017 his son Andrew Postman confirmed that Donald Trump was what his father's book was ultimately about.

  5. Understanding the Problem Assertion 4: The Theory of SOCIETAL STUPIDITY by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Nazi Germany mass conformity / collective blindness

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“One characteristic of those who live in a Technopoly is that they are largely unaware of both the origins and the effects of their technologies.” ― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992

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Time-index link into YouTube music video*

173 seconds into the video: https://youtu.be/cfm4L0TGDrw?t=173

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https://billmoyers.com/story/podcast-bill-moyers-talks-with-dr-bandy-lee-donald-trump-violence-contagion-trumpism/

While millions of Americans were still trying to figure out if Trump was just a crude playboy and fast-talking con man she felt a duty to warn the country about dangerous possibilities stemming from a man who lacked the mental fitness to be president.

For almost 20 years she had been trying to understand violence. It was her calling. After earning medical and divinity degrees while studying at Yale and Harvard, and a stint at Massachusetts General Hospital, she joined Yale’s faculty to teach in both the school of medicine and the law school. In her clinical practice, she treated inmates in maximum security prisons. And in time she began applying psychiatric concepts to public health and safety.

When Trump emerged as a political candidate, everything she had learned from her career in mental health seemed to converge. She began corresponding with kindred spirits and colleagues about how best to make their voices heard. She would become the catalyst of their collaboration, and the editor of the book they produced, titled THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP. It appeared just months after Trump’s inauguration and became an instant bestseller, dubbed by The Washington Post as “the most courageous book of the year.” But not without a price. Bandy Lee and colleagues had broken ranks to speak the truth, had stirred the hornet’s nest, and the hornets came after them in swarms. Now, Bandy Lee has published another book – PROFILE OF A NATION: TRUMP’S MIND, AMERICA’S SOUL.

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"Ambush Reality"

From Enter Shikari's album titled 'Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible'

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think people are far too concerned with the style, structure, syntax, fashion of language and communications. Since year 2022, when ChatGPT became a household name, it became incredibly obvious - but people still can't recognize the Babel Tower / Tower of Babel metaphor problem.

ChatGPT and other competing artificial intelligence systems have a "temperature" setting, and are prevented from accessing their own source training material to search. The can not accurately quote books and provide citations, because Copyright Is Brain Damage to both Human Minds and Artificial Intelligence Systems. ChatGPT has been deliberately crafted to NOT provide credit to the teachers, sources, references on ideas and concept, who it learned from and where. Because that would create a financial / money / economic problem of ownership of words. Paraphrasing, AVOIDING infringement is what it is programmed to do, generate endless variations of words - which is the very disaster I meant to address with this posting.

It was back perhaps in 1998 that I came to terms that original speech and communications is incredibly overrated. I had dataceneter Internet access in my office in Bellevue, Washington...t the fastest available Internet on the West Coast, only 8 or 10 doors down from Vern Rayburn and Paul Allen's offices. My job would pay for any books, magazines, research material I requested. I had Edward Snowden level access to Paul Allen / Bill Gates/ Microsoft Board of Directors private communications systems.

And it was then I started to recognize that what Neil Postman was saying in 1985 was coming very true in 1997 and 1998.

 

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"Imagine my shock as a neurodivergent teen when I first realized that using large vocabulary and eloquent speech doesn't make you less likely to be misinterpreted, rather it adds an entirely new layer of misinterpretation I had never even realized existed in the form of people thinking you're being snobbish or condescending when you're just trying to be specific" https://notthewriteryourelookingfor.tumblr.com/post/759681306752942080

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The moderators must have released it. I just now got a reply to the comment.

It was the OWNERS, which is more than just Spez. It's the people who write the server-side code, not the moderators.

They do not notify you, they just do not publish even for a single second. they even make it seem falsely that your comment is there, you have to check out-of-band to see that it is not published. The Spam Filters have been weaponized by Russia against Americans on Reddit and many other media platforms.

In fact, I just replied to a reply and IT TOO is not being published.

https://old.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1k52y62/oc_distraction_tactics/mofcga7/

content:

 

There will be no balance until a correction is made.

Yes. The entire social media society needs to make a massive change away from junk noise content and educate all people, voters and even those too young to legally vote, on two key topics:

  1. Mass psychosis, how an entire society becomes mentally sick

  2. Media ecology, we all need to study the 184 page book and teach each other using front-page postings and Hashtags for at least 6 months. Neil Postmans book "Amusing Ourselves To Death"

“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985

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Google Search AI Overview (Monday, April 21, 2025)

"Dieing" is a misspelling of "dying." While "dieing" might be used in a manufacturing context (like using a die to shape metal), it's not the correct term for the process of ceasing to live. "Dying" is the correct word to use when referring to the act of becoming dead.

 

"the act of becoming dead" is a pretty rare phrase itself ;)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So, if you don’t think anyone can help them

I didn't say that, can you quote where I said that?

I said nobody has been able to, that doesn't mean the future is written and undecided.

why do you do what you do?

I think good is good. I personally think the USA is a hell-hole since Q4 2014 and I've been hospitalized over a dozen times because I can't stand how people hate each other and use social machines like Lemmy, Bluesky, Reddit, Twitter to promote mass dehumanization and hate.

I felt it was a matter of Civic Duty and I contacted the Pentagon for help and assistance in year 2015. I haven't given up on love and compassion just because other people keep teaching Hate Harder to every problem. "I reported it in 2015 under Biden/Obama! At the time, I did not know it was Russia attacking social media, but I knew it was hard core Joseph Campbell / Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller level Mythology, and I reported it! I was BOOTS on the Ground in North Africa Arab Spring, December 2010. I know my shit!" - August 17, 2015 is when I telephoned the Pentagon.

I used to work for Telos Federal Systems at age 16 as an Apprentice during the cold war, so I had some training on Kremlin information warfare.

Nobody else was stepping up, so again, my civic duty.

 

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"Most people can't stand up for their convictions, because the majority of people might not be doing it. See, everybody's not doing it, so it must be wrong. And since everybody is doing it, it must be right. So a sort of numerical interpretation of what's right. But I'm here to say to you this morning that some things are right and some things are wrong." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Why should anyone read such large amounts of text, not knowing someone’s credentials? They likely won’t, and will move on.

The fact they are addicted to Tweet-length and Tweet-think is the problem. Neil Postman's book is only 184 pages, it is in any used bookstore from 1985 for probably $6 cost. "large amounts of text, not knowing someone’s credentials" - Neil Postman is not difficult to read, there are even videos that cut the subject down to brief consumption.

6 minutes and 15 seconds on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETUGwC9jXCM

I created a Lemmy community too:

[email protected]

If you saw my old reddit account, you would have seen similar walls of text. I still say the same things. but, now i feel like more people actually listen, learn, and respond.

I understand what you are saying, that TLDR and ELI4 stuff sells better. I have known that since Neil Postman's book came out in 1985. I'm entirely self-aware of how I communicate and the kind of craving and advice you have about how to mimic Donald Trump and Elon Musk and be much more popular in year 2025 on social machine systems.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Trivialization is the act of making something seem less important, serious, or complex than it actually is. It involves reducing something to a trivial or insignificant level, often with the intent of dismissing or minimizing its significance.

The constant meme machines hammering the 5,000 alternate reality screen games upon the population, people trivialize it.

Fox News language and thinking that conditions minds with wealth televangelism of Rupert Murdoch's media systems. People trivialize it, act like it is normal, and refuse to study media ecology of how it influences every other media platform. When education and learning and understanding is presented how the Mosque and Church and Synagogue do the same thing as Rupert Murdoch media environments to empower land lords and kings over everyday people, people dismiss it, trivialize it, act like it is unimportant topic.

The anti-intellectualism problems of meme-think Twitter-thinking meme-head society people trivialize and LOL and are so amused that they can't even understand what they have lost. Russia has won your heart and mind with surreal comedy and absurd humor, and all you do is mock humanism and goodness itself in favor of mocking and name-calling and LOL at orange skin color and poopy diapers of Donald Trump and side-act Elon Musk all 2024 and year 2025.

It is sickening, sick society, bottom to top, and has been since Q4 2014 when the Putin Media Invasion of Cambridge Analytica mental payloads had been deployed for 18 months. People can not get enough of mocking Donald Trump's image and mimicking his mass dehumanization behaviors on Twitter.

“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The FAA is now a laughingstock too

April 10, 2025 another problem. As if all the corporate influence Boeing 737 MAX shit wasn't enough. Any benefit of doubt is disappearing fast in 2025.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/planes-collide-dca-per-members-congress-board

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

no, it's fine / no problem. I corrected it (I hope). Again, thank you. Be well.

I also have a constant problem when I type that I write "Untied States" instead of "United States"...

 

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“I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.” ― Malala Yousafzai, I am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban. October 8, 2013.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

James Joyce apparently wrote the post title and description underneath

University of Toronto professor Marshall McLuhan's words.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

If I tried to make reasonable points about anything, or god forbid, shared my experiences - I was downvoted into oblivion

Introducing quotes from authors that were related to the subject would really show how people were locked in the context of media immediacy, the environment. Links to outside citations would almost always generate replies from people who obviously did not study the citation and just wanted to respond back.

It used to be something people said 'out loud' about people not reading links and just commenting... then it just became normalized.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

exclusivity sure is a popular idea, they keep bringing it back.

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