Last week, Tracy and Dale McMullen sold their vacation home in Buckeye, Arizona, a property they owned for five years. The Alberta residents, who usually spend four to five months in Arizona a year, said they are not planning to come back.
“We decided to sell the property after the current POTUS took office,” said Dale, referring to U.S. President Donald Trump, who was inaugurated for the second time in January.
“It was time to leave. We felt we could not trust what he might do next to us as individuals and to our country. We no longer felt welcome nor safe.”
Offensive? no. Bad… anti-intellectual, copying the mannerisms and your brain adopting Donald Trump behavior.
Yes, it isn’t Twitter-thinking Twitter-length copying and mimicking the behaviors of Twitter users like JD Vance and Elon Musk and Donald Trump do in the White House / on the world stage of Fox News / CNN / other media systems, including Reddit, Lemmy, Bluesky.
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“Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985
Get off your high horse.
Rambling, repetitious, pretentious blocks of incoherent text aren’t a sign of some greater intellect, just that you’re full of yourself
Yes, join you down in the Elon Musk, Donald Trump, JD Vance anti-thinking reactionary hate harder values you are wanting and craving in April 2025.
Ignore my personal writing if you hate so much that I don’t communicate in the shit-talk and hate-speech of JD Vance that you have adopted since 2024, read the books and content I keep referencing and pointing to every day. This is my personal diary, why can’t you engage with great content instead of repeating JD Vance and worshiping his shit ideas, thinking systems, and messages? Why can’t you dust off Neil Postman’s 1985 book “Amusing Ourselves to Death” and use Neil Postman’s professionally edited words to describe April 2025 social media society instead of shit-talk me on Lemmy, as your brain is locked in junk meme consumption like Donald Trump does on Truth Social and Twitter?
You are the one with Twitter-length brain mirroring the social machine usage of Donald Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk. I’m doing everything I can to get people to stop being in JD Vance meme stupors. You are inside the Russian simulacras and unable to escape.
The post script you included here describes what you’re guilty of in this exchange
“Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985
Elaborate and explain? i dd not exchange a meme image, I did not meme-speak in Lemmy style. You honestly sound like you don’t understand Neil Postman at all and have not studied his work.
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“You know what is easy to do on a smartphone or tablet? Little pot-shot negging insult comments to serious and important ideas. Twitter-length reactions and meme-thinking conditioned responses to difficult and complex problems.” - Stephen Gutknecht
You ad hominemed someone as a flat stereotype. An unthinking social media moron without an original thought.
Which is a form of you claim to be against. Not exchanging ideas. You simply slung an insult without substance.
I love all people, so if I were to communicate the way you just did, I would consider it a mistake or malfunction of my brain. I think you are having serious distortion from the elecric media enviornment of computers and Lemmy and reading into things that are not there. I believe you are reaction commenting and ract-thinking and do not understand Neil Postman’s 1985 book.
What was the insult? I was describing what I saw in terms of media ecology. Inclusive of how Lemmy alters communications, what is popular on Lemmy as a media environment, and what is gong on in USA society mass mind / Hive Mind / mass man in April 2025 vs. say April 2012.
I in no way take language and communications to be clear, simple, trivial, easily comprehended and I state this frequently, practically daily. !BabelTower@lemm.ee
I’ve been posting massive amounts of text and ideas, I didn’t “simply sling an insult” as you describe. You seem to have a very very narrow interpretation of what is gong on in this Lemmy community named “Diary of Anne Frank”.
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“Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.” - “The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects” by media analyst Marshall McLuhan and graphic designer Quentin Fiore, and coordinated by Jerome Agel. It was published in March 1967
“you didn’t respond really, you just knee jerked like an idiot” is always an insult. can’t really weasel out of that.
Yes, calling people “idiot” like that is an insult. And you are dishonest and fabricated a quote that is not true.
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March 11, 2016: Bill Moyers writes: Robert Reich’s essay, “Trump The American Fascist,” reminded me that back in November Reich had posted as his “Quote of the Week” an excerpt from an April 9, 1944, speech by then Vice-President Henry Wallace. Let it sink in: “The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity… They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
I think it’s a pretty honest interpretation of what you said. Just a lot less pretension.
All your replies have been classic Kremlin media techniques of negging and insulting and mocking to move the topic away from New York / Manhattan Professor Neil Postman’s topics, Cambridge Analtyica topic, etc.
From the perspective of someone who adores mockery and mocking, you probably react that any attempt to move society away from April 23, 2025 behaviors in USA is pretense. It’s also a thought-terminating cliché phrase to “win debate” on Twitter-thinking social media environments in 2024 and 2025.
Russia already won, as I have clearly stated in public thousands of times. Surkov won, Russia won the Hybrid Warfare. Most people are reveling in the anti-intellectualism and Donald Trumpism / Ellon Musk Twitter thinking going on. Hybrid War Lost; !HybridWarLost@lemm.ee