Why did rural Americans start to trust a city-slicker con-man bullshitter from New York City penthouse / rich family.

Rural Americans were raised not to trust city-slicker con-men salesmen like Donald Trump.

What CHANGED was "Operation Matthew 4:19" agreed in November 2012. What changed was the 2007 introduction of the Apple iPhone and rural less-educated people joined Facebook, Twitter and were exposed to Russian information warfare. That is WHAT CHANGED!

Year 2016 analysis like this: https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/11/16/13645116/rural-resentment-elites-trump COMPLETELY FAIL TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT Neil Postman, Media Ecology

What changed in 2014 and 2015 was Kremlin information warfare. DOCUMENTED by George Washington University & Johns Hopkins University as starting in year 2014. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45294192

What CHANGED is that Rural people who hated city slickers and computers and nerds with laptop computers all adopted smartphones! The very people with the least experience on the Internet, the kind of people in year 2005 would warn you to not trust what you read on the Internet, suddenly were trusting everything in meme format on Facebook and Twitter and the least experienced at knowing information warfare and Internet manipulation!

You can not discount the rise of "liberal tears, LOL LOL, liberals are suffering ha ha ha LMFAO amusement" reactions of year 2014 onward. These are the very foundation of Surkov / Surkovian information warfare against American people, including rural populations of MAGA supporters.

All of these reporters and journalists have failed to study their own profession of media itself, "media ecology", Neil Postman was a teacher in Donald Trump's home town, New York University!

The Apple iPhone screen size changed the rural population. Donald Trump is entertaining in the same way Tony Clifton is. The Apple iPhone changed everything, and the media journalists and reporters just can't see that their own newspapers went out of business at the same time (2013) that rural Americans started to believe and trust city slickers who were obvious liars. Russian information warfare found least-educated rural people to be the first to fall for the Kremlin manipulation.

“But it is much later in the game now (1985), and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, to make the assumption that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, stupidity plain and simple.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985

There are 8 billion people on Earth, yet there is a very consistent pattern what HDTV machine users and social machine users flock to.

Teenagers of all eras have imitated their idols.

I see people of age 21 to 91 imitate and admire Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Rupert Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones and Elon Musk in their mass dehumanization. I see people flock to and imitate terrible behaviors in the Middle East and Russia. This problem of dehumanizing the other and attacking women goes on with the Taliban and Afghanistan and Pakistan, leaders in Iran and many other places.

I do not see people standing up to all hate. We just rotate between colors and flavors and brand-names of hate. People refuse to face up to the equations of World War Two that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr spelled out in 1954 after analyzing the world wars.

All hate is bad. Even if you program a machine to do the hate for you and you are dead, the hate is still bad. We just can't accept the eternal truth in that equation and we can't educate each other to stop worshiping hate. People keep hate on hand, can't wait until it is revenge and payback time, and always their deepest answer to the most difficult problems, hate harder.

"I'm here to say to you this morning that some things are right and some things are wrong. Eternally so, absolutely so. It's wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. It's wrong in America, it's wrong in Germany, it's wrong in Russia, it's wrong in China. It was wrong in 2000 B.C., and it's wrong in 1954 A.D. It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, 1954

November 11, 2016: "None of us listened, we didn’t listen to the Michael Moores. We didn’t listen to independent journalists, we didn’t actively seek the information needed in order to understand fully what effect this would have on the USA and the rest of the world. The nightmare has just begun, don’t use this opportunity to numb yourself through pharmaceutical drugs and recreation cannabis, take this opportunity to regain your power. Educate yourself, change were the flow of where your money goes, stop allowing them to succeed by paying for their cushy homes and going in debt with all your loans. Lets replace our selfish nature with our nurturing instincts and fight back."

November 11, 2016: "The nightmare has just begun"

Oh we lost so we’re giving up entirely and letting Russia’s culture and ideals dominate the world. Chuds.

Thirty years ago... we were educated and warned, and we instead have anonymous no-identity kitten image meme sites.... amusement mills.

“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, year 1995

Picture of The Year Probably.. President Donald Trump Arrived at His Golf Club Reading Chinese News

Bluesky told me he couldn't read. The problem is that Bluesky community doesn't grasp his egoism in choosing what to read. Bluesky user feeds reflect the same egoism. It's like saying "Donald Trump can't watch TV news channels", no... that's not the problem with USA. He chooses Fox News as his news station.. That's the problem, his morality of good from bad... Donald Trump flocks to bad. Bluesky users do the same thing and don't get it.

Don't you see the morality problem he has... Donald Trump flocking to McDonald's food? He has morality problems with everything. We (the people of all ages, even those too young to legally vote) need to rescue with education on morality itself.

What is looking like more of an idiot than he already does going to accomplish? He’s the most idiotic politician in living memory, by far, and there are some absolutely colossal morons on that list.

He is a Reality TV star. People can not resist mocking Donald Trump. Mocking isn't resisting, mockery is all part of the Kremlin media techniques. The more idiotic he and Elin Musk behaves, the more people rush to their social machines and LOL. People can not resist his orange skin color, it makes skin color a constant topic (brown, black, white, orange, etc).

Introduction to the Kremlin media techniques of year 2014

1. Peter Pomerantsev September 9, 2014: Russia and the Menace of Unreality. How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare

2. Adam Curtis, BBC, December 31, 2014: On The "Contradictory Vaudeville" Of Post-Modern Politics - "What this film is going to suggest is that that defeatist response has become a central part of a new system of political control. And to understand how this is happening, you have to look to Russia, to a man called Vladislav Surkov, who is a hero of our time. Surkov is one of President Putin's advisers, and has helped him maintain his power for 15 years, but he has done it in a very new way."

3. Book reading from December 5, 2014 on the subject by Peter Pomerantsev

Are they just stupid or have they been paid off?

Neither one. they are in a cult. Donald Trump is entertaining / clickbait / meme leadership. The novelty of having a 78 year old man shit-talk on an Apple iPhone they can't resist. They have brain damage from it all.

“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]

"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

By funding you mean resuming advertising on the platform, right?

yes.

The clergy are failing all of humanity in not calling out the hate patterns in the middle east from all across the world. People need to stop grey-rocking Malala and promote her teachings.

“If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, October 8, 2013

“In his pocket he kept a poem written by Martin Niemöller, who had lived in Nazi Germany. First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the socialists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak out because I was not a Catholic. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, October 8, 2013

9.9xxx years before October 7, 2023.

The comic's suit questions if AI models can function without training themselves on protected works.

I doubt a human can compose chat responses without having trained at school on previous language. Copyright favors the rich and powerful, established like Silverman.

I expect it is federation outbound activity growing in memory usage, it's all held in RAM for every post/comment/like going out to subscribed servers. [email protected] is a community for the focus on scaling Lemmy.