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    Some haven’t even considered that not every user is a yanqui for example.

    Yes, they do consider it. World Wide Web, TCP/IP is everywhere. But you think tiny-short commenting messages (anti-book) should focus on banal and unimportant superficial aspects instead of the serious problem of USA being a mob mentality nation (since July 6, 2011 or June 16 Bloomsday 2015 depending on measure) ready to wreck the entire world. for laughs and memes. Shit-commenting mockery social values.

    To you, everything is Lemmy commenting in the moment, fixated on your target fixation. The crisis is the forest, not me the tree.

    The Emperor Has No Clothes and We The People are laughing non-stop, amused and joking endlessly in feedback loops at the naked emperor. The blind faith that the entire world is adopting that sarcasm, satire, mocking, mockery will always fix problems. The never-questioned religion of meme faiths, always more LOL mockery.

     

    • “Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture’s being drained by laughter?” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.
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      I’m just trying to get direct answer to my questions I’ve put to you. you seem to think I won’t notice the deflection if you post enough tangential information.

      To you, everything is Lemmy commenting in the moment, fixated on your target fixation. The crisis is the forest, not me the tree.

      Why do you think this about me specifically?

      The blind faith that the entire world is adopting that sarcasm, satire, mocking, mockery will always fix problems.

      So you’re not even reading my responses in whole, I’ve put forward concrete actions to reverse the anti-intellectualism. You keep posting appeals to authority and no actual plans of actions, beyond magical thinking.

      quantity != quality

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        you seem to think I won’t notice the deflection if you post enough tangential information.

        You seem to think tiny-short commenting messages are all about you you you and your egoism.

        You keep posting appeals to authority

        That’s your thought-terminating cliche phrase. “Appeal to authority” magic words nullifies experts. Stephen Alfred Gutknecht quoted Neil Postman books from year 1985, so can’t listen to matching ideas, because the magic phrase “appeal to authority” nullifies it! Stephen Gutknecht appealed to books printed on paper and not screen-game interactive commenting! That nullifies ideas!

         

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        “How a distrust of experts is shaping government policy under Trump”
        August 8, 2025 4:17 PM ET
        By Selena Simmons-Duffin, Domenico Montanaro
        https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5494569/how-a-distrust-of-experts-is-shaping-government-policy-under-trump
        “President Trump and members of his administration have often expressed a distrust of science and experts. That distrust is now helping to shape policies in several areas of government, from vaccines and health care to trade and the economy.”

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          You seem to think tiny-short commenting messages are all about you you you and your egoism.

          explain in detail what makes you think this? be cogent and specific do not go off on a tangent, answer this one specific question alone if you have the intellectual capacity to do so, reply with irrelevant excepts and ignore the direct question if you do not

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            explain in detail what makes you think this? be cogent and specific do not go off on a tangent,

            You sure want personal attention. You sure keep giving loaded questions.

            do not go off on a tangent

            Obey me, I command you, the Lemmy servers direct your mind. Active measures. Anti-free thinking. You want reactions to your comments. As my Lemmy profile clearly says: “War and Peace in the Global Village” book by Marshall McLuhan is my subject focus here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace_in_the_Global_Village Almost everything I share is related to University of Toronto teachings of media ecology (Lemmy is media systems).

            I consider Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, and Dr. Bandy X Lee to be the elephants in the room (the teachers, educators, everyone is avoiding). My Lemmy profile makes no secret of my addressing the media and not just low-effort commenting as entertainment amusement at Donald Trump for laughs.