that was a lot of bullshit I’m not gonna read.

You crave Lemmy shit of TLDR, “ELI4” reading material, I get it. Very common in April 2025. Anti-learning, anti-understanding, a population of people who think Donald Trump on Truth Social and Twitter is the smartest thing in the whole wide world. Attracted to Elon Musk / Fox News HDTV parroting social media Lemmy content.

Chuckle-head nation, meme nation 2025! USA thinking is “ELI4”, “TLDR” Trumpism

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"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance." ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985. !BackTo1985@lemm.ee

I’m saying, Russia encourages both sides to fight each other and I’m sick of the fucking Russian propaganda everywhere and anywhere I look these days

You said “fuck off”, spreading hate. I was born in Georgia, were Dr. Martin Luther King Jr is from, you need lessons: “You can’t see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost”

“There’s another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. You just begin hating somebody, and you will begin to do irrational things. You can’t see straight when you hate. You can’t walk straight when you hate. You can’t stand upright. Your vision is distorted. There is nothing more tragic than to see an individual whose heart is filled with hate. He comes to the point that he becomes a pathological case. For the person who hates, you can stand up and see a person and that person can be beautiful, and you will call them ugly. For the person who hates, the beautiful becomes ugly and the ugly becomes beautiful. For the person who hates, the good becomes bad and the bad becomes good. For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That’s what hate does. You can’t see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I’m saying, Russia encourages both sides to fight each other and I’m sick of the fucking Russian propaganda everywhere and anywhere I look these days

It is Americans like JD Vance and Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump spreading hate on media systems, it is also Middle East supporters who want to kill each other in Israel and Palestine over Torah Synagogue vs. Quran Mosque, I suggest you view hate itself a s problem no matter where it is in the world and your “FUCK OFF” messages are hate messages.

fucking Russian propaganda everywhere and anywhere I look these days

You think October 7, 2023 in the Middle East has nothing to do with social media propaganda everywhere the past 18 months? You know how long those hate-wars have been going on, thousands of years. Propaganda everywhere surged when terrorists attack Israel. This isn’t only a Russia and USA problem.

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“We felt like the Taliban saw us as like little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He would not have made us all different.” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. October 8, 2013. Age 16

Maybe leave the room while the adults are talking

I see how you go around on Lemmy saying Twitter-length insult comments on political discussions. An agent of mockery for Putin lovers.

Russia-watcher Catherine Fitzpatrick, who documents Kremlin disinformation for InterpreterMag .com, says just as Moscow uses vague Internet laws to encourage self-censorship, trolls inhibit informed debate by using crude dialogue to change “the climate of discussion.” “If you show up at The Washington Post or New Republic sites, where there’s an article that’s critical of Russia, and you see that there are 200 comments that sound like they were written by 12-year-olds, then you just don’t bother to comment,” she says. “You don’t participate. It’s a way of just driving discussion away completely,” she adds. “Those kinds of tactics are meant to stop democratic debate, and they work.”

Fuck off back to Russia you divisive troll

I’m not Russian. My name is Stephen Gutknecht, I was born in Columbus Georgia. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I’ve been to Milwaukee, the topic of this Lemmy posting. I speak critically of Russia, but you seem to have a style of Lemmy communication I can describe: Your messages here on Lemmy are reactionary, Twitter-length hate-filled “fuck off” messages to Americans, that’s what you do here to Americans who call-out Putin’s information war on social media systems.

Fuck off

As I said, i was born in Georgia. That’s were Dr. Martin Luther King Jr is from. Going around on social machines and telling people to “fuck off” is hate messaging, I suggest you study up on what hate does to your brain:

“There’s another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. You just begin hating somebody, and you will begin to do irrational things. You can’t see straight when you hate. You can’t walk straight when you hate. You can’t stand upright. Your vision is distorted. There is nothing more tragic than to see an individual whose heart is filled with hate. He comes to the point that he becomes a pathological case. For the person who hates, you can stand up and see a person and that person can be beautiful, and you will call them ugly. For the person who hates, the beautiful becomes ugly and the ugly becomes beautiful. For the person who hates, the good becomes bad and the bad becomes good. For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That’s what hate does. You can’t see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

you divisive troll

Your Lemmy account is only 2 months old, you show up on days-old post that mention Russia and you start attacking the Americans who are criticizing Russia. Are you describing your own Lemmy messages, psychologically projecting that you are copying “Internet Research Agency” patterns of messages in April 2025 on Lemmy?

Russia-watcher Catherine Fitzpatrick, who documents Kremlin disinformation for InterpreterMag .com, says just as Moscow uses vague Internet laws to encourage self-censorship, trolls inhibit informed debate by using crude dialogue to change “the climate of discussion.” “If you show up at The Washington Post or New Republic sites, where there’s an article that’s critical of Russia, and you see that there are 200 comments that sound like they were written by 12-year-olds, then you just don’t bother to comment,” she says. “You don’t participate. It’s a way of just driving discussion away completely,” she adds. “Those kinds of tactics are meant to stop democratic debate, and they work.”

This waste of space owes existence itself an apology.

So you have one-line answers to all political discussions on Lemmy with your one-month fresh account. I see you are a video gamer, do you think Lemmy is a screen game of reaction-commenting to important issues, detached from reality of how the psychologists and psychiatrists of Cambridge Analytica have worked with Russia to create alternate-reality out of USA society?

Have you noticed how people in USA are behaving in 2025, talking about invading Greenland and forcing Canada to be the 51st state… or are you back to your video games for distraction? Have you ever studied how people can become detached from reality and dehumanizing with social computer systems, outright anti-humanism behaviors?

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“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”

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Fuck China, but also fuck Elon

Ahh, so you hate people you disagree with. Today is Easter Sunday, maybe you should brush up on your morality lessons. I’m holding !RemedialMorality@lemm.ee teaching right here on Lemmy platform.

You go around telling people you don’t like that their life should be fucked-over. The entire nation of China. I can see why you are so popular on Lemmy and get so many upvotes, you spread hate and dehumanization.

James Joyce ARG / Alternate Reality Game

An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs transmedia storytelling to deliver a story that may be altered by players’ ideas or actions. The form is defined by intense player involvement with a story that takes place in real time and evolves according to players’ responses. It is shaped by characters that are actively controlled by the game’s designers…

“Sean Stacey, the founder of the website Unfiction, has suggested that the best way to define the genre was not to define it, and instead locate each game on three axes (ruleset, authorship and coherence) in a sphere of “chaotic fiction””

You clearly wanted to say something!

yha, I created a comment on public social media like people do every day. it’s common.

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.

Are we talking about the same person? Trumps ramblings are more incoherent than ever.

Yes, his chaos and nonsense has gotten more aggressive, even stronger in favor of Russia, etc.

He has zero sense of humour: an inherent inability to recognize or invoke it.

There is a humor-like mocking of watching human beings suffer at the hands of government and business systems, “human tears”, “liberal tears”, “Ukraine tears”, values of winning and defeating humanism with systems of power. Donald Trump is very motivated and works many hours to socially arrange this domination and damage over human persons that don’t please his ego.

When you ask countries you just threatened to invade for help with your inflation.

What’s happening is that people under the influence of Russian mental manipulation are doing what I call “Surkov Information Warfare”, “Surkov Governing”. NO DEFENSE HAS BEEN FOUND, POPULATIONS COMPULSIVELY MOCK-BACK AND YIELD POWER TO THESE TECHNIQUES, IT IS HORRIFIC HOW MANY HAVE LOST THEIR HEARTS AND MINDS TO THESE METHODS.

“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, 2014

When you ask countries you just threatened to invade for help with your inflation.

"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, to a man called Vladislav Surkov, who is a hero of our time.

Surkov is one of President Putin’s advisers, and has helped him maintain his power for 15 years, but he has done it in a very new way.

He came originally from the avant-garde art world, and those who have studied his career, say that what Surkov has done, is to import ideas from conceptual art into the very heart of politics.

His aim is to undermine peoples’ perceptions of the world, so they never know what is really happening.

Surkov turned Russian politics into a bewildering, constantly changing piece of theater. He sponsored all kinds of groups, from neo-Nazi skinheads to liberal human rights groups. He even backed parties that were opposed to President Putin." - 2014

I encourage you to watch the whole video: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/12/31/bbcs_adam_curtis_on_the_contradictory_vaudeville_of_post-modern_politics.html

People under the influence of these LOL patterns of governing often show characteristics of being unwilling to discuss and name the techniques, their years of origin, which nation they originated in, etc. Often they will praise egoism and self-centeredness in how they react to information on the subject of being bamboozled in information warfare.

Linux community arrogance is to deny the device driver issues and think Apple is fine, when the reason Apple thrives is because they don’t have open hardware like Linux, BSD, Windows…

Hardware companies are rarely held account for their absent support of Linux - some campaigns have come and gone, but in the end Linux users tend to arrogantly say it’s trivial to switch and embrace dishonesty. I guess they figure Microsoft is dishonest, so they normalize it.

Then why do people use them? And quit yelling.

People are attacking you, ganging up on you, one of the favorite things on Reddit like media platforms is to be hard core conformity enforcers and silence attempts at understanding mob mentality.

DOWNVOTES DONT MEAN SHIT! SO SHUT UP ABOUT DOWNVOTES AND GET OVER IT!

“MEDIA ECOLOGY DON’T MEAN SHIT I"M JUST HERE FOR AMUSING US ALL TO DEATH WITH DUMB MEMES”

Agreed. It is urgent that we teach Neil Postman’s “media ecology”. The junk noise garbage shit Internet sucks, and enough is enough!

Musk and Putin, two historic experts and achievers in trickle-down memes. Population control via meme machines. They seek power the Rupert Murdoch way.

Being open source won’t prevent this, sadly. 4 years is still young, but if a critical mass shifts back to Reddit then Lemmy will be considered a failure.

you express very limited understanding of open source and how competition works. Just because Microsoft kept selling Windows and “Linux on the Desktop” never came to displace Windows by 2005, it doesn’t mean Linux on end-user machines was a failure. Android Linux came along and is the biggest Linux distro ever, defeating Windows CE / Windows Mobile.

if a critical mass shifts back to Reddit then Lemmy will be considered a failure.

Again, that is like saying “people looked at Linux on desktop in 2003 and went back to Windows, so Linux was a failure”. Trying to displace entrenched players is often not how it works, it is when people leverage the source code and some parts of the system in different ways - like Android did with Linux - that things often change.

Regarding Reddit specifically, the Reddit code was open source for a very long time, nobody wanted to leave Reddit for different owner/operators… that changed in 2023 when every alternate to Reddit has seen a surge in developer interest (even non-federated apps like Tildes). That’s not really happened in the decades Reddit has been around before that specifically large groups of people and app developers have specifically expressed interest in moving away from Reddit in mass (Voat was the only prior big movement, but API apps were not really a focus in that movement).

By “MySpaced” I mean “become irrelevant”.

8-bit video games stopped selling in the 1990’s, but then in 2023 there is a huge “Retro gaming” and “retro computing” movement. Same with vinyl music records going out of style then coming back in as retro. Right now TikTok and video dominate Reddit front page - which Lemmy hasn’t even been taking on with video clips that reach Reddit’s technology level, let alone TikTok. There are trends of changes that are more than just one platform owners vs. another. Some of those may be in favor like federation/networked servers that Reddit does not have - that even drew the attention of Facebook.