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.”
It has been a fundamental mistake by the Pentagon to not make all the social media companies work together in sharing their spam filter hits (including false positives) and share IP address / browser strings and time patterns between platforms.
Russia claims only 1% of the social media accounts were found: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/16/russia-disinformation-discord-leaked-documents/
So many American social media power users say “Follow The Money!!!” and don’t grasp at all that Twitter and Reddit are highly influential and require no payment or money to create accounts. Throw-away account culture.
The USA government completely failed in not getting examples of Russian information warfare participation into the public audiences. It should have been pinned posts on Bluesky, Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, etc with examples of what Russia was doing to manipulate people.
People give you a blank stare when you point out factual evidence going back to 2014 impacting Measles and the COVID-19 pandemic https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45294192
People don’t even realize that hurricanes have been targeted by Russian information warfare: “Russia has helped amplify and spread false and misleading internet claims about recent hurricanes in the United States and the federal government’s response, part of a wider effort by the Kremlin to manipulate America’s political discourse” https://apnews.com/article/russia-hurricane-disinformation-fema-9e37c73ab8ffa2a2d338797a1a827e57
Like I said… why was this not pinned on all social media platforms? The government has completely failed in defending people through education and self-awareness / media ecology literacy.
I always got the impression that the governments just found out about tweeting when all this was already underway, and just didn’t have any idea or plan to counter it. It felt like they were just stuck in a completely different game and didn’t even realise what really was happening on social media all the time. The first viable counter strategies seemed to pop up with the late Biden campaign, targeting disinformation in the comment sections.
There’s no excuse though, when someone like me gets the picture relatively early.
Man, the hurricane “weather control” comments on all weather related topics and videos has been insane. It was imediately clear that it’s part of the “boost everything crazy and dividing” strategy.
I try for years now to get my point across, not get caught in discussions and not getting divided. You bet it isnt easy in the work environment and with people I meet.
Edit: And yet we both thinking alike were clashing and dividing… It’s tough keeping composure
I don’t try, self-dehumanizing yourself and acting like this is all LOL LOL fun and amusing is part of the sickness. That’s why I traveled to live in North Africa and spent years in the Middle East, I just could not accept the hate people have over the most superficial and tiny language differences and such. Islamic Shia vs. Sunni vs. Sufi, they can be all the same skin color, same Quran book, but butcher each other over the most trivial and small differences in how to read a book about love and compassion. Everything I have heard in 15 years of autism support groups from tens of thousands of people has only shown me just how much people go into egomania over their language and communications to dehumanize what they do not understand.
“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.” - Carl Sagan
I am not a “believer” in the Bible, but I take it very seriously because people take it serious. I view religion symbolism systems as languages.
It is disgusting what clergy in United States of America teaches. they completely avoid Bible verse “1 John 4:20” about how all hate is bad, they ignore everything from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s excellent teachings about hate. The clergy in USA avoids “1 John 3:17” in teaching their audience about Elon Musk and Donald Trump moral values with wealth. They outright teach hate the non-believers. They find every excuse they can to dehumanize others in reading that 2,000 year old storybook. Sickening that these are what people flock to.
I think people in USA have not learned love and compassion and forgiveness, the think these are all just reactionary emotions and short-term and the clergy and psychology / psychiatry industry is teaching them garbage. The psychology industry is actively participating as manipulative predators with Cambridge Analytica and Dr. Abraham Brill with Edward Bernays as role models. So few have stood up against the Donald Trump / MAGA values of mass dehumanization and “hate those you disagree with” egoism.
The Constitution does not teach “Love One Another” and nor does the owners of Facebook, Fox News, TikTok, YouTube or corporate America. There is nobody teaching goodness, everyone just teaching competition and win at any cost in every area of life.
People in the USA in year 2024 and year 2025 have lost all sense of what life was like before year 2013, or what life was like before everything was Apple iPhone format meme-think egoism of who can be the most clever on social machine systems. Everyday people in the USA since year 2013 have become hate harder teachers every day, and if a computer or government system or insurance system / process / procedure is involved, dehumanize those you don’t find entertaining values. A “Monster State” of attacking and kicking those weaker and punching down by every person in the society. That’s exactly how people behave in terrorism societies I have lived in and studied!
“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. … Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianisn, published 1951
If I hadn’t lived in terrorist nations and studied the Middle East by living there first hand in 2010, 2011, 2012, I could never believe the hatred and dehumanization people will accept and further in the name of mob mentality and insulting those they disagree with.
“So woe to those who write the “scripture” with their own hands, then say, “This is from Allah,” in order to exchange it for a small price. Woe to them for what their hands have written and woe to them for what they earn.”
Surah Al-Baqarah-Verse 79
https://quranexplains.com/the-warning-against-false-prophets-safeguarding-the-path-of-islams-faith/
The bible and Quran is full of warnings about what is happening right now, and yet so many are mislead by false prophets and become hateful instead of heartful, and go against everything their scriptures tell them. In their own words, they’re simners, and yet they point the fingures everywhere else.
Is there a chance we get out of it without going through even darker times?
I think the idea of saying “only one single book is perfect, can never be changed, and all other books in the world public library are imperfect” is very bad. Quran, Torah, Bible all try to do this and create a ton of hate by having a “story supremacy” / “book supremacy” cult.
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