It isn't funny. It's exactly how Trump got into so much society power in the first place! "Mock mock mockery" behavior!

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/12/31/bbcs_adam_curtis_on_the_contradictory_vaudeville_of_post-modern_politics.html
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...

NOTHING stops this, because people keep mocking back. And it isn't just one single individual, Donald Trump, but multiple families (Rupert Murdoch, etc) and millions of people who believe QAnon / "Q" without there being any person, just a constant barrage of leadership icons mocking truth, mocking sincerity, mocking the Constitution, it is a media cult of ignorance! NOTHING STOPS IT! 10 years and 10 months of this!

We are in an Information War and I don't see enough peer to peer friendships being made between The People of China and everyday people in USA, South America, Africa, North America, Europe, Australia, etc.

I don't see China people on GitHub and YouTube like I did 5 years ago. Maybe the real war is power over technology and all of humanity isn't winning. Isn't that another way to interpret Climate Change, an education mistake on a global scale? Advertising and marketing defeating science teachers? The love for the singe-passenger automobile 9 to 5 commute job - exceeding the reality of global climate physics?

Like they say in The Orville - Dolly Parton was a hero! she basically turned out to be a great teacher, like Mr. Rogers on the true problems of childhood. 9 to 5 was kind of like showing children what your divorced single mother was having to go through. Not to say that fit the relationships in the film itself, but the office environment of white collar world. The technology of the Office Workplace and the era of typewriters as business machines. EDIT: It's a real War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Do6VWUxyg

Rudy Giuliani 'may have been compromised' by the Kremlin, and FBI leaders didn't care

"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." - Carl Sagan, 1995

we aren't far away from easily-made interactive images / video where people will be able to create realistic selfies / video clips of their own self - in famous situations. Like Forest Gump being inserted into meeting historic President. The appeal is too strong and it will likely create tons of highly upvoted/shared social media images distorting the original.

People tend to treat detecting photoshop images as a game of one-upmanship, not as an importance of preserving a documented concept or situation for others to learn and understand.

In the world of post-truth drama, it makes sense. Nothing turns around the loyalty he builds when he captures the hearts and minds of his voters. Even if he dies of a heart attack, people will still seek out the kind of attitude he has been iconic for. Eton Musk is 25 years younger, but seems to be following Trump as a behavior model of successful businessman icon.

Beehaw!

There are outright attacks of putting illegal images that have caused major problems the past few days on the biggest Lemmy instances...

Hating Reddit was not necessarily a great motivation for people to create original content here. Hating Elon Musk and Twitter to x, the introduction of Threads generated more hate. It's been kind of hate burnout lately.

Anthony’s song is a variant of Springstein’s which criticizes the current festering plight of white rural and lower class American, yet again, as it highlights the wealth inequality which leaves many families struggling to survive.

I'n not sure Anthony's new song holds up to Springsteen's or even Billy Joel's Allentown. Lyrics like: "Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds... taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds". Yha, and about that "god" they invoke, almost always that means Jesus - and Bible verse "1 John 3:17" says exactly the opposite of what Anthony is saying rich men's taxes should go for.

“I mean, we are the melting pot of the world,” Mr Anthony told the interviewer in the video, “and that’s what makes us strong, is our diversity, and we need to learn to harness that and appreciate it, and not use it as a political tool to keep everyone separate from each other you know?” - except if you are a certain height or weight... he doesn't offer help to a food-addicted person or all the marketing and advertising jingles and images that sell junk-food other than to say taxes should not serve you.

I’ve noticed this everywhere on Lemmy

Same here. And it's been wave after wave of negativity of outside events flocking people. June Reddit API change, then Zuck @ Threads hate, Twitter to X shockwaves, and now Trump back on Twitter. It hasn't been people seeking out positive as much as it's been world wide web of anger.

I think it's very deliberate, they are getting their audience to flip the meaning.

He knew in September 2005 that certain iconic symbols in society can get away with anything: "I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. ... Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything." ... January 2016 he described the same crowd phenomenon: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible."

Even if people get enough of Musk and Trump, the pattern holds true that if you can get yourself into the right area of the spotlight, crowds will flock like moths and people will be overwhelmed by the media power of a person... and laws, conventions, even murder will be allowed. The rules won't apply. And humanity is playing this pattern out just as it always has. What's new is that in the past 100 years we have had the ability to organize our history from all over the world and see that these social patterns of authority and power happen time and time again... but we seem unable or unwilling to stop from forming crowds and letting it play out.

With Trump, it was all so obvious he wasn't a earnest or positive intending person. He just knew he was in the spotlight that so many people would follow. For all our psychology therapists and other media stars, nobody could stop the crowds from forming for terrible outcomes or reverse the trend of accepting anti-science anti-truth nonsense. His pattern may mostly play out, and his health can't hold up forever... we are still left with the problem of what he has demonstrated is possible.

"Essentially, they’re saying you can bake up a sample of this stuff, pop it out of the oven, and just sitting there on your lab bench it will conduct electricity without any resistance."

From what I have heard, it's not supposed to be that expensive or even difficult to make. They should have sent actual samples of the material to a dozen different universities from a batch they share their own data measurements about. Save everyone a lot of time about doubts that it's manufactured correctly.