I think if glue-on labels had been applied (especially with thick glue / extra height), visibly raised above the surface of the paper, an older man / Executive like Donald Trump at age 78 would have better understood these are labels. Having labels integrated into the same paper surface as the photographic image can be confusing to many consumers of media, the medium of having raised / elevated "stickers" that are not all perfectly aligned and placed might have made it more clear.

“One of the Count’s most quoted sentences is “The map is not the territory.” In other words, don’t confuse the word with the object, the description with the thing itself.” ― Donald Fagen, Eminent Hipsters

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"

People in general aren’t all that bright and are easily distracted by wedge issues.

I find it's become incredibly popular on social machine systems to say: every other person is dumb and stupid, I'm inside my artificial reality and everyone else is not very bright. This all started in March 2013 that this pattern of egoism began to surge and increase on social media populations. [email protected]

I've been in social media since the early 1980's. I know how all this works. I used to work for Paul Allen and Bill Gates as a consultant and on Paul Allen's private staff, I'm a published author on media systems and an expert on spam filtering.

Silent removal (or never publishing, even for a single second) is unethical and bad, especially how it manipulates you as creator into appearing as if your comment was published - and you wonder why nobody replies or upvotes. It's manipulative. My Reddit account is over 15 years old, the spam filters have clear patterns of Russian manipulation / weaponized agitation to remove content on important keywords and author names.

I'm not sure why you are here defending Reddit against someone calling it out who clearly knows what the fuck they are talking about. But it's very sus.

May I give you a little unsolicited advice? It will be the same advice that I believe made me more effective with my messaging. also, it was hard advice for me to get at the time, but it has worked wonders.

Sure, and I'm 55 years old, and I've heard this told to me every day of my life that I verbally communicate since age 12 in 1982. The same conformity enforcers who want to wreck you for using language outside of their ego system.

This is why I traveled to the South America (Arica, Chile) to live in 2004, how I predicted the Arab Spring on December 16, 2009 from Austin Texas study of social media systems and the newly emerging smartphone culture, and went to Algeria in North Africa on December 3, 2010 - and over to the Middle East for the Syria war outbreak to monitor in Amman Jordan in March 2011 for a couple years.

I just couldn't believe how much people murder and kill and go to war with each other over the most superficial shallow values of language and communications. But after all that experience in Africa / Middle East, I fully understood and recognized what was happening when Cambridge Analytica and Russia unleashed on the World Wide Web in March 2013 the 5,000 language and communications alternate reality game patterns onto Reddit, Twitter, news comment sections... because the way to wreck human minds more than any other way is to communicate slightly differently.

May I give you a little unsolicited advice? It will be the same advice that I believe made me more effective with my messaging. also, it was hard advice for me to get at the time, but it has worked wonders.

You know what worked wonders for me facing up to the egomania of people who want to direct you how to communicate? James Joyce's book Finnegans Wake fro 1924 onward. www.WakeIndra.com

I also teach it over on [email protected] Lemmy community.

James Joyce's excellent writing has a lot of cures for language, Tower of Babel, egomania in English readers and communicators!

Even our dumbest fellow humans are smarter than we give credit.

This isn't about smart or dumb. This is about [email protected] people not being able to distinguish "good" and flocking to bad, especially with social machine devices in their hands and HDTV media distortion. How people think that what they consume on social machines is the same as reality itself.

"Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man." - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine, page 56, February 28, 1966 www.LazyWake.com

the people that you need to reach and teach (and you have many good things to teach) are not like us.

They are inside the 5,000 Kremlin alternate reality games, and the Middle East Bible / Torah / Fiction alternate reality simulacra story patterns, MonoMyth fiction patterns. As I have been doing full time since December 16, 2009 - I can only try to get people to recognize the danger this poses to humanity when Hate Harder is their core value and faith.

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

Nobody holds Donald Trump accountable for all the falsehoods he spread on Fox News and such.

The bigger qustion is why he was cliaming in early 2020 it would be over by Easter Sunday in 2020.

US President Donald Trump has said he hopes the US will shake off coronavirus by Easter, even as New York's governor sounded the alarm that the illness is spreading faster than "a bullet train".

The president told a White House news briefing reopening the US early next month would be "a beautiful timeline".

On Tuesday, he told Fox News he hoped the country could get back to normal by Easter, which is on the weekend of 12 April.

Mr Trump, a Republican, said: "We're going to be opening relatively soon... I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter."

He added in a subsequent interview: "Easter is a very special day for me... and you'll have packed churches all over our country."

Mr Trump also warned that unless the country reopened for business it could suffer "a massive recession or depression".

The president said: "You're going to lose people. You're going to have suicides by the thousands. You're going to have all sorts of things happen. You're going to have instability."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52029546

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.

USA will be on mobile networks that the rest of the world will not support, Apple iPhone and Apple iPad will not be anywhere near leading edge of technology - the rest of the world of total 8.0 billion people will dump the USA status symbol of Apple iPhone that every Hollywood star and politician holds... nation of 0.34 billion in own world where it thinks Apple iPhone is the best in the world.

And the USA made Apple iPhone will have Trump-approved content filter and undo ability of any journalists, press, citizen who does not comply with Donald Trump messaging values on social machines.

more than a decade ago:

“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

see also: [email protected]

YouTube video on topic from December 2014

More than a decade ago: “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

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