But we looked cool as hell while having those migraines.

Yeah this has been online a while now and I’ve seen no attempts at providing evidence from theconcernedbird other than linking to the github that shows examples of how it can be used.

Persona Management software has been around for a long time, so it’s not even like the idea is even new, it’s just a new way of doing the old thing that’s been going down on the US internet since about 2010-2012ish.

We need actually evidence it’s being used for specifically this, not just an example of how it could be detailed in the github. The entire Republican establishment and corporate establishment function almost exclusively on the idea of “plausible deniability” it’s all about what can be proven in court, and now these groups have such massive coffers or money that almost nothing can be definitively proved in court. It’s why Musk wears his cheating and his alts and his nazi salute like medals of honor because “nyeah nyeah you can’t prove it.”

And part of the reason they act that way is because US courts have fecklessly surrendered “the justice system” to the corporate class for fifty fucking years or more, if they ever weren’t being bought by corporations. They’re legally shielded by our idiot ass broken fucking system and now they’re literally rubbing our faces in it.

Honestly, having said we need hard evidence, I’m not even 100% sure that hard evidence of this even matters anymore. It feels like the Iraq War torture leaks, and the Snowden disclosure… What changes? Nothing changes. The government was always just gonna keep doing what it did, and now Trump has taken steps to take quick control of all of that and twist it into his own dark ends.

I don’t think he’s clever enough to understand that. He didn’t understand that Hitler’s own Generals had plotted against him. He’s genuinely a dumb fucking prick. He just thinks “I’m a strongman and this is what strongmen do, MARTIAL LAW!” He’s like Captain fucking Murphy declaring “Martian Law.” He only barely understands these concepts.

According to Goldberg’s account of Baker and Glasser’s reporting, Kelly responded by explaining to Trump that the German generals “tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off,” but Trump reportedly was not swayed by the correction.

“No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him,” Trump said, according to Goldberg’s telling of Baker and Glasser’s reporting.

It’s so sad that cult deprogramming works so much like cult programming, just in reverse. The cult isolates you inside the cult community, and the only way to break it is to isolate a person from the cult community. It’s not really the same thing, because once they’re separated from the cult they should otherwise be allowed to freely associate with anyone, but it operates on the same principles.

Actually, that’s part of what he is aiming for. He wants mass protests so he can enact Martial Law. That was literally part of the plan on January 6th, 2020, to enact a State of Emergency. He’s just looking for excuses to put the hammer down on American citizens.

Not to say that’s a reason to not stir shit. They’re looking for excuses to ramp up the violence anyway, even if you try to keep your head down. Keeping our heads down won’t save us from it, so stir away.

Oh yeah, the violence will come. After they’ve sufficiently shocked everyone into submission. The violence is to perpetuate the submission since shock wears off.

AP has a new poll out which asked whether people think it’s a good or bad thing that the President “relies on billionaires for advice about government policy.” When I first saw the results of this poll as “good” coming in at “+12” I thought they meant ‘net’ 12% and I thought, ‘eeeesh, the honeymoon phase is more intense than I thought!’ But no, 12%: as in, 12% of the public think it’s a good thing. 60% think it’s not. That’s US adults. The only outliers are Republicans, 20% of whom think this is a good thing. But even that is pretty feeble. To put it simply, these are terrible numbers.

In a strange way, this is reassuring. I’ve said a lot of times the most frustrating thing about all of this isn’t that the conservatives are too stupid to see the forest for the trees. No, they see a lot of the same shit we do, but their dedication to hierarchy is what undoes them every time. They could technically agree with me about an issue, but I’m not a person they consider an Authority Figure, and the only people they do respect as Authority Figures are, to put it fucking mildly, abusive bullies.

It’s also that misinformation has succeeded. What I assume is due to primarily a lack of quality education, but they seem incapable of understanding nuance. So they see that, say, the New York Times may not be trustworthy when discussing certain issues, just like I do. However, unlike myself, instead of reading it anyway with a skeptical eye while also digesting other sources about the same issue, they instead write off all mainstream media sources and then believe crazy shit online. They don’t know who to trust anymore, so they trust the most wild charlatans that exist. That’s not their fault, to be fair, our mainstream media has been failing us for decades. I worked in local news during the Iraq War and I remember how much the media juiced the war for the Bush Administration while asking few questions and the NYT even sat on the NSA wiretapping story for over a year to help Bush.

They’re not wrong to not entirely trust legacy media, but they end up throwing the baby out with the bathwater. In the end, they also see how letting the most obscenely wealthy run the show isn’t such a hot idea. Which is strangely reassuring, as I said. They know something stinks, but they lack the education and tools to properly identify it, as well as their inability to break out from hierarchical thinking.

He’s rapidly destroying the regulatory infrastructure and sending his brown shirts out to sow fear and confusion.

It’s literally the playbook from Bush’s “Shock and Awe” campaign turned on US citizens (minus the indiscriminate bombing). It amounts to the same thing, though. It’s a blitz, do so much so fast it sets everybody off balance and puts them in a state of shock.

Shock and awe (technically known as rapid dominance) is a military strategy based on the use of overwhelming power and spectacular displays of force to paralyze the enemy’s perception of the battlefield and destroy their will to fight.

Project 2025 wants to shock people into obedience. The flurry of Executive Orders are part of this shock treatment, as are the deportations, and roadblocks suddenly thrown up in front of government agencies. They intend to shock us and cripple our ability to respond via governance.

EDIT: Turns out, Klein agrees.

Trump is a rolling shock machine, which a recipe for keeping us scattered and reactive to the latest shocking news. There will be moments when we need to react forcefully and meaningfully to protect one another.

The good, kind, and compassionate will be the first against the wall.

Will, will shoot America in the foot.

They are covering a short bit of the unrelated “Belgian techno anthem Pump Up the Jam”

I knew the answer before I even watched the clip.

I’m not OP, but maybe this one?

https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

Seconded for Soulseek.

I think we need to get people on board to realize that this is the equivalent of Bush’s “Shock and Awe” campaign in Iraq.

They’re using the same Shock Doctrine used in the Iraq War and it’s the final tool they’ve brought home to use on the American citizens.

Currently both the media and populace play right into it’s hands, yes.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/16/media/steve-bannon-reliable-sources/index.html

“The Democrats don’t matter,” Bannon told Lewis. “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE2F7n9OVU

Two days before inauguration day on CBS. The chyron reads “worldwide protests” during the whole story despite focusing on the US women’s march.

Flooding the zone with shit works, who knew.

It was on CBS six days ago on Jan 18th:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE2F7n9OVU

It mostly focuses on the US women’s march, but it does make brief mention of ongoing worldwide protests, without really discussing them. The Chyron focuses its message on the “worldwide” aspect of it through the whole story, however.

EDIT:

Here it is on CNN on January 21st:

https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/21/politics/trump-women-march-on-washington/index.html

The Women’s March extended beyond the United States, as similar protests cropped up around the world over women’s rights and other issues the marchers fear could be under threat from Donald Trump’s presidency.

Although the focus of the day was the Women’s March on Washington, many people attended the hundreds of “sister marches” that occurred around the US and the globe.

People are checked out my dudes. Women’s march was expecting 50k and 5k showed, I think people are broken and losing hope.

Which is fair, these media organizations failed us miserably and continue to fail us miserably for not being able to call a Nazi salute a Nazi salute, which calls into question what little is left of their credibility. So yeah people are checked out while this is happening and being covered.

Yep, and that’s why I put all my hope in the local Mutual Aid Groups and other community organizations.

If You Can Keep It is funded by Protect Democracy a non-profit that has been fruitlessly pursuing legal matters against Trump for years. It’s a bunch of “we can beat him with the law!” which is painfully not true at this point and people are fucking suffering god damn it, we’d already waited most of our lives for a government that gave a damn about us, and now we’re facing one that wants to actively hurt us. We can’t count on those legal systems anymore and if we want real hope, we need to begin making parallel systems that don’t rely on these old, broken, co-opted systems.

It’s not giving up to realize that the US Constitution failed at what it set out to do and Trump is the final nail in the coffin. We let this guy get away with stealing mountains of state secrets just because he wanted to wave them around and seem impressive to other people. The ship of handling this legally has sailed, we are in fascisms legalism stage. Trump’s fucking master move is lawfaring people til they give up, and now he has the weight of the US government behind him once again to do so.

spiraling out of Trump’s control

So? It won’t do anything to damage him. It’s all of us who will be left hurting when it spins out of control. Even if it’s out of his control, he won’t take responsibility, and his followers will deny it’s his responsibility, too. Even insulting his followers intelligence seems pointless because they revel in being dumbfucks and having it annoy you.

The media is already plying out there “We gotta be hopeful in the face of this” canard while placing hope on the wrong things entirely. We do gotta be hopeful, but not in the dumbfuck ways the media that failed us and helped get us here think.