The profit off the intellectual property (IP) of a Star Wars toy is taken in the USA, even if the toy is manufactured with plastics in China. The USA retailer and intellectual property brand owner is making far more profit than the factory making the product.

Same often with farmer. When a restaurant sells a plate of food for $28.13, the farmer who grows the corn and harvests it is lucky to make $0.70 of that plate of food. The waiter getting a tip is earning more per hour than that farmer.

It is as if Donald Trump / White House does not grasp "value added retailing / value added reselling" and how a toy is just a toy, but having the Star Wars brand and film rights to put on that blob of plastic to make an action figure is what makes it worth $18. The factory in China is cut-throat trying to profit $0.70 on a $2.00 toy they produce, where Disney is pocketing way more money slapping the Star Wars permission / brand rights / logo ownership on that doll. Especially with products that get bundled with high-margin services and luxury stores and delivery.

This social media topic:

"Crisis in Understanding in USA" Mastodon Hashtag
"Manchurian Population" Mastodon Hashtag
"People keep saying they do not understand how it is possible"
"Understanding the Crisis in Understanding" Mastodon Hashtag

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

“We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995

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

NATO / USA lost the Hybrid War that was launched in March 2013 against the World Wide Web.

1. Kremlin brags that only 1% of the manipulation Hybrid War content has been discovered and removed. NATO has entirely been unable to defend, 99% flies under the defense radar of Five Eyes (FVEY).

2. Russian military was able to completely get past USA FBI, CIA, NSA, and whatever else the Pentagon has. Competely unable to defend the population against Russian Hybrid Warfare. "For years, AIVD had access to the infamous Russian hacker group Cozy Bear. That's what de Volkskrant and Nieuwsuur have uncovered in their investigation." "the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD penetrated the computer network of a university adjacent to Red Square back in 2014, only to later realize they had tapped into APT29, aka Cozy Bear, one of the Russian government-affiliated organizations that penetrated the DNC and targeted other US government departments". "It was Dutch intelligence operatives that hacked into some of Russia's own institutions -- including their closed-circuit television cameras."

3. Putin and Surkov's "Operation Matthew 4:19" global manipulation of everyday people included turning social media consumers into Russian assets of the Hybrid Warfare who deliberately spread measles and COVID-19 virus during the pandemic. Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University validated evidence going back to year 2014.

4. Absolutely no defense has been found against this Hybrid Warfare since it was unleashed in March 2013. "At the NATO summit in Wales last week, General Philip Breedlove, the military alliance’s top commander, made a bold declaration. Russia, he said, is waging “the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the history of information warfare.” It was something of an underestimation. 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"

"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. So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new ones rise.* - Carl Sagan, 1995, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Chapter 13: "Obsessed with Reality", Page 229

Joseph Campbell
Lecture I.1.4 - New Horizons
November 16, 1961

TRACK 4: Society’s Choice: Tradition or Truth?

Now this is a very serious affair. It is serious because these symbolic worlds were the supports of the civilizations, of the moralities of the civilizations, of the self-confidence of the civilizations, of the vitality and creative power of the civilizations. And with the cutting down, the frustrating of the self-confidence that derives from images of this kind, there is a disequilibrium within the society itself. And everyone is challenged in his loyalty—are you going to be loyal to the tradition, to the form, to the morality and myth of your society, or are you going to be loyal to truth? They are two different things.

Mass Mind Brian Damage

Not just personal brain damage, not just one individual brain damage.

Brain damage of entire groups, mass mind brain damage. Mass man brain damage.

Reference:

1. “The Galaxy Reconfigured or the Plight of Mass Man in an Individualist Society” - Marshall McLuhan

2. "Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century" - Howard Bloom

Is there anything that can be done to hold Reddit accountable or make people aware of they way they are censoring speech?

Many people on social media platforms don't realize the spam filters can be abused by attackers to prevent certain topics from being mentioned. And on front-page subreddits they do not publish comments, they look published if you are logged in, but if you check from off-axis they are unpublished. I've been posting some of them here and on Bluesky, but nobody cares (on Bluesky, but people have here) [email protected] maybe some tech press will cover it.

Lifetime (of the person) bans on Reddit for individual subreddits and accounts are dumb. That sites been around for decades. I can only image how many people got banned there at age 16 and are completely different people at age 22. I never see people bring this kind of criticism up.

Literally Idiocracy.

That kind of 2-word answer is a common misunderstanding.

In Idiocracy fiction film story, they took the smartest person to the White House and put him in charge. that is not what is happening in the United States of America year 2025.

There is a crisis in the USA that morality understanding and comprehension is gone. People think it is entertaining to entourage and support Kid Rock and Elon Musk and Donald Trump and Fox News and a whole slew of bad things.

Kid Rock being in the White House is another warning to us all that bad is attractive to too many people. Morality comprehension is in serious crisis in USA. If people continue to be attracted to bad our lives will get worse and worse. Kid Rock is using the White House and the White House is using him to spread ideas and teach people more terrible things.

Our minds can be very flexible in what we put into them and what we value, and it's looking very bad, like we are a nation that has been learning and studying from Fox News and other bad ideas.

Damned anti-vaccine activists.

I don't blame them. In a society that worships the Apple iPhone and iPad and things that only fit in the length of a single screen, meme-speak and 3-word reaction commenting, it's inevitable that entertainment mocking would eclipse science understanding. Carl Sagan said this in his 1995 book shortly before his death.... that "10-second sound-bites" (meme-speak, Twitter-length junk) would drown society in the future if not changed. His 1995 warning has proven true since 2012.

Damned anti-vaccine activists.

I mean, who exactly educated these activists and everyday Apple iPhone users about information warfare? The most sophisticated devised by humanity? People were eaten-alive by Moscow information predators.

Look at the timing of this story, one year before the Wuhan Pandemic was front page, but nobody can seem to escape meme-think to discuss serious evidence. The activists didn't stand a chance, they were scalped by Putin's meme army since 2013.

Russian trolls blamed for spreading anti-vaccination propaganda
By Lia Eustachewich New York Post
Published February 17, 2019 2:01pm EST

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/russian-trolls-blamed-for-spreading-anti-vaccination-propaganda

I can't imagine the volume of those older years is that much, there weren't nearly as many bots and corporate users.