USA We The People are unable to comprehend how Donald Trump wins every year since 2013 "Operation Matthew 4:19" started.
"Andy, did you hear about this one?" Rapid Eye Movement, Dream States: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLxpNiF0YKs
This guy is a textbook stereotypical big city con man, the kind you find on literally every street in NYC or London working selling used cars, real estate/property, or before algorithms selling penny stocks. And they're such dumb rural morons they fall for him to point of cultism while pretending to be big tough rural dudes etc.
The greater problem is that all Americans care about is mocking and insulting other Americans. "Liberal suffering funny tears, LOL".... It is up to the educated age 18 to 50 "warrior class" of society to defend the rest of the population. You can't just let Russian information warfare take over all the hearts and minds of Reddit and Twitter and Facebook and act like nothing bad is going to happen because you think the rural less-educated people are hilarious to mock and insult. Those are exactly the kind of people that join the military and go overseas, so why aren't the intellectually trained and educated people in media ecology / people who have studied Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman and Joseph Campbell not defending Americans and only kicking them when they have lost to the Internet Research Agency?
What good is higher education and understanding of liberal arts when all We The People do is throw compassion in the toilet and mock at those Americans that Russia has manipulated since March 2013? Anti-compassion is exactly what Russia was counting on!
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." - Jeff Hammerbacher
You are welcome.
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"An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth -- scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, the comics and many books -- might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it. What kind of society would it be if, instead, we drummed into them science and a sense of hope?" - Carl Sagan. January 8, 1994. Open Letter to American Society, We The People advice.
Putin has the ESP
No, it isn't Vlad Putin, it is Vlad Surkov. Surkov understands that people on social media who react-comment with Twitter-Length Tweet-thinking of 4 words are easily controllable with media systems. Vlad Surkov openly explains this, but the people on social machines who have brain-damage from their machine lust can't seem to put two and two together and get anything near 4 or higher. Reacting only to clickbait and headlines, giving up their free thinking skills to meme-patterns.
Vlad Surkov: "The illusion of choice is the most important illusion, the main trick of Western democracy especially…. The rejection of this illusion in favor of the reality that everything is predestined will allow society to reflect first on our vision of democratic development," Surkov wrote. "Foreign politicians talk about Russia's interference in elections and referendums around the world. In fact, the matter is even more serious: Russia interferes in your brains, we change your conscience, and there is nothing you can do about it."
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“What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.”
― Joseph Weizenbaum, MIT computer science research, 1974
Donald Trump praises President Putin of Russia, but insults President Biden of USA in April 2025. This pattern plays over and over, Donald Trump saying Putin is smart and American leaders low IQ.
There is no evidence of Joe Biden having a low IQ.
This is about 5,000 alternate reality game monomyth story patterns created by the Kremlin + Cambridge Analytica in late 2012 and deployed since March 2013 that are now all over Lemmy / Mastodon / Bluesky in year 2025... how people do not engage reality and human values with science thinking and are detached from humanism in favor of mockery / mocking via electric media systems.
Very brief review:
Planned late 2012: https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/24/a-trumprussia-confession-in-plain-sight/
Meetings in Moscow in November 2013: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/18/trump-in-moscow-what-happened-at-miss-universe-in-2013
Announced by Putin / Kremlin / Russia in December 2013: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/12/vladimir-putin-conservative-icon/282572/
Ukraine takeover started in February 2014.
George Washington University and Johns Hopkins University validated Twitter content going back to year 2014: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45294192
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"The new Russia doesn’t just deal in the petty disinformation, forgeries, lies, leaks, and cyber-sabotage usually associated with information warfare. It reinvents reality, creating mass hallucinations that then translate into political action." - year 2014, Russia and the Menace of Unreality. How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare. By Peter Pomerantsev
the 72 names
Looked it up The "72 Names" refers to a collection of 72 three-letter combinations in Kabbalah, believed to hold mystical power and be useful for various purposes like healing, protection, and spiritual enlightenment.
I may have known it at one point, but not memorized currently.
“When the student is ready, the teacher appears.”
I believe in cherry-picking from every religion in the world... (or any story) ... the Cherry Picking art symbol / religion teaching tool I use is the 1776 "Great Seal of the United States of America" (science thinking / non-instrumental reason thinking). I created a teaching website at www.GreatSealUSA.com and there is also a Lemmy Community at [email protected]
72 names or any other esoteric entities
The Star of David / Solomon's Seal is part of the USA Great Seal symbolism, as is the Egypt pyramid on the Nile river and many other symbols! It's all about picking the best of everyone together on Pale Blue Dot.
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"Esoteric spirit that moved not only the people who drew that [Great] Seal, but the entire philosophy the early republic was based upon. And how utterly deplorable and regrettable and terrible it is that all of this has been virtually totally forgotten by our days. And that we have held, The American People, have held in their very hands, handed to them by people like Franklin and Jefferson and all kinds of others... One of the most splendid treasures of spiritual philosophy - applicable to all manner of human purposes. And we have discarded it. And we are running around like beggars, the world over, picking up crumbs from every kind of anarchists, Marxists, this thing, fascists, this thing that thing, all over the world. All of which, put together, could never come close to the psychological spiritual wisdom that was given to us to begin with... and that we have simply forgotten about and thrown away. And how incredibly unfortunate and terrible this is. And, I know for a fact, that Joseph Campbell feels this very very keenly." - Joseph Campbell: A Modern Sage - 1986 on "Inner Reaches of Outer Space" book - Dr. Stephan A Hoeller
To me, it is a matter of pure ignorance of 100% of the USA population.
I traveled since 1999 all over the USA in an RV and lived full time / worked from home / in the RV.
I would pull out and Dollar Bill and ask people the most simple facts about the Great Seal meaning and symbolism of art.
What river is the Pyramid on? Nobody can answer. Answer: Nile in Africa.
What is behind the Pyrmaid. Nobody can answer.
Is 13 a unlucky number to Americans? Did the Founding Fathers consider 13 lucky number in year 1776, why would they consider 13 unlucky? (Answer relevant to Palm Sunday today, Easter - 12 apostles at the Last Supper and Jesus is 13 who comes back "born again" with mental enlightenment, and other meanings of 13 outside Levant mythology).
This is a society that has a Dollar Bill in their pocket every day and too ignorant to ask their teachers to explain the meaning. Every student in every classroom of the nation doesn't ask a teacher. Massive literacy failure of symbolism of art and metaphors. I even ask people if they are Star Wars fans, know of who George Lucas is - and they say they do, but not a one of them has read Power of Myth book (page 36) that George Lucas facilitated the creation of - which covers the Founding Fathers and USA art symbolism and metaphor literacy. A total failure of literacy education on the "Power of memes" from Lucas.
That so many academics / school systems / teachers / educators are falling for this snake oil is very alarming. The very people who have access to information systems to research topics go with the flow of the latest apps and trends blindly without validating and researching that the tools don't have massive harm problems.
“But to what extent has computer technology been an advantage to the masses of people? To steelworkers, vegetable-store owners, teachers, garage mechanics, musicians, bricklayers, dentists, and most of the rest into whose lives the computer now intrudes? Their private matters have been made more accessible to powerful institutions. They are more easily tracked and controlled; are subjected to more examinations; are increasingly mystified by the decisions made about them; are often reduced to mere numerical objects. They are inundated by junk mail. They are easy targets for advertising agencies and political organizations. The schools teach their children to operate computerized systems instead of teaching things that are more valuable to children. In a word, almost nothing that they need happens to the losers. Which is why they are losers.” ― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992
There is some kind of social construct with Lemmy's 4.5 year development that foundational tools like Redis, Memcached, dragonfly were avoided when in May 2023 people were beating a path to the door of Lemmy. And lemmy servers crashed, one after the other, and I don't think there will be any statistics about all the times the pages didn't load and the 4 year old Lemmy app's SQL statements couldn't cope with the comments/post growth for even 20,000 users.
Sure, people will leave Reddit and Twitter/X and Threads and whatever again later in 2023 and in 2024. But it's still some pretty odd social situation that May 2023 came along and performance problems were holding the project back... and Redis, Memcached, dragonfly were not put on the table as routine tools of the trade.
MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010 Reddit spelled out all the performance and scaling problems they had, they gave an open presentation. The source code was open since June 18, 2008... long before this May 17 presentation.
If anything Reddit should have turned itself into a non-profit organization and kept selling reddit awards after ChatGPT came on the scene. The 2 month move to "charging for the API" was the wrong direction.
Twitter and Elon Musk with X, it just seems popular to turn things bad. Crashing servers, broken features, wild changes.
Clickbait news and anti-science popularity still seem to keep growing. Reddit or Lemmy users could replace headlines with sincere and earnest descriptions of news and information... but it seems Reddit and Elon Musk are in some kind of agreement that audiences don't really want that. In APRIL 2017, Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales tried to take on clickbait and fake news, but few have cared and clickbait headlines are still all over Reddit and Lemmy in 2023.. I don't get the appeal and attraction of junk clickbait all the time. But it's hard to ignore the upvotes it gets on Reddit and Lemmy both... you can watch it every day.
Leemy seems determined it doesn't want to optimize SQL statements and add scaling tools like Redis, Memcached, dragonfly to the platform. The crashes have been all over multiple sites since May, but the SQL problems and caching need is still ongoing in August.
The trend of Reddit, Twitter the ongoing favoring of clickbait seems intertwined.
Is this satire? I can not find this quote anywhere outside of copies of this article.