What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
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NEVER….EVER….AGAIN 🇺🇸🚫
Intuitively I get it - but it’s easy to define it based on your priors.
All of that
(especially “performative outrage”)
I agree, but I was surprised it was that high.
I think the number will be much higher today.
The political tectonic plates of the world are changing.
Or wake me up and tell me this all was just a nightmare 😔
Asking for real.
The damage being done to US and global institutions may well be irrepable.
If that fails, I fear we’re facing the societal abyss.
Again not to dismiss your hypothesis, just informing on an alternative, which may be complementary.
Elements (dis/mis/malinformation)
Agents (see below)
Drivers (of which there are many, and vary across agents)
Discourse Development (how disordered discourse goes from just asking questions to discourse absolutism)
https://bsky.app/profile/suchmayer.bsky.social/post/3ljrwhvvitk2j
A repeated lie that immigration was somehow a societal negative (when it’s the reverse) and out of control (when it really wasn’t) was used to distract from inequality.
Now they’ve lost control of the narrative.
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Dismissed it with oh it's just some weirdos on the internet... Twitter is not real life etc..
Needs to be addressed head-on and loudly
And echo Chambers need to be penetrated
The question is, will we allow ourselves to meet the same fate here in Europe?
Time to regulate social media like airlines (European ownership & strict licensing) and ditch US clouds (AWS, Azure, etc)
Now that political leaders see how easily and completely a democracy can be destroyed by information warfare via social media and foreign-owned media, maybe they’ll act.
They Are NOT Bi-partisan & don't bargain💙✌🏽
Attacking and abusing the victim is not courage, it's the exact opposite. America has forgotten what shame is, psychopaths is the new rule.
Now he will repeat that with a horrible peace deal with Russia and Ukraine.
This was their intention. They actively pushed it. They could've stopped it at any time.
It was their response to their failures after 9/11, the banking crisis, & Obama's success.
we need to make sure the military doesn't start shooting Americans
honor, honesty, compassion, generosity, love of country...
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You are barking at a tree that doesn't exist anymore.
The USA we both knew, isn't available at the moment.
We can hope it gets back. But, given the trajectory, it seems like it will not.
The Fourth Protocol.
In the movie, mostly about the device.
In the book. Initially. The take over of a winning party (Labour)
In this case, USA, it was far simpler than FF could have imagined
Well, is USA, not UK
Yet. When only a few elects the candidates. A path can be carved
https://bsky.app/profile/mickeymoosenhauer.bsky.social/post/3ljh3shllos23
https://bsky.app/profile/leahmcelrath.bsky.social/post/3lisyhu4mc223
And the Fairness Doctrine never prevented syndication so did not prohibit his going national.
Which is what he based the Fox News format on.
I believe that the division in America can be traced back to that moment.
You’d be hard pressed to cite one station still not following the old guidelines voluntarily
…I would have thought that the dropping of a requirement to air contrasting views and allowing channels to be highly partisan has led to split media
Cable, internet, and print do not have broadcast licenses because they do not use the broadcast airwaves.
And again, you’d be hard pressed to cite one station still not following this old guideline today.
You’re confused about what that policy actually required.
Religion is one of the keys to this
In hus book Imagined Communities, Anderson points out the rook a shared reality and shared "pilgrimages" play in the development of nationalism. I would argue they matter even mord for democracy as a whole.
The USA is just one in line of many countries: Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland during PiS, Austria, UK , Eastern part of Germany, now USA.
It's always the same PowerPoint .
- toxic media e.g. Fox News
- Citizens United / lobbying
- greedy, bought politicians
- dirty Russian money
It's bullshit soundbite noise wrapped around self-interest, at everyone's expense.
The game isn't to be convincing, it's to pretend to be keeping all the balls in the air by constantly inventing new balls.
Velocity beats sense.
Less than a fortnight left for him to repeat the bringing down the constitution like Hitler did.
I like "disordered discourse" but delusioned discourse also works. You can only scam your constituents with lies for so long before lies become truth & now we're governed by frauds.
When we handed over the reins to a sociopath that had no concept of reality outside of what affected him? Yeah. We were fucked. (even I don't know if I'm referring to Elon or Trump here)
Here is a translation for you:
https://bsky.app/profile/albertbonkstein.bsky.social/post/3ljdjgchewc2b
Somebody old, stinky, and orange got it very wrong
Trump cult members are maybe a third of the country at most. But our political system is set up to reward a devoted minority over the majority, and one of our two political parties long ago chose power over country.
It’s always been evil.
Time for it to be scrapped.
People decided that they weren’t going to vote or vote against their own interests. 😑🤦🏽♀️ Unforgivable stupidity. I’ve been angry almost daily, since 11/5/24 & even angrier after 1/20/25. I’ve ✂️ off so many people (fam/friends, etc.) as my starting point.
Trump didn't start his own party, he took over the Republican one.
I love the Democrat Party but we need a firecracker at the helm.
It's only disordered if you ignore that every contributing actor was out to make themselves wealthier regardless of the cost to others.
They're a Crime Gang - that's what Crime Gangs do.
https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism
In France, we do not understand how this idiot was able to convince and be elected.
I admit that this risk can happen to any country. What is happening is disastrous.
They don't cover most things, and Americans don't care about international issues
The damage being done in the mean time though is almost impossible to fathom.
The world is insanely more dangerous today than it was 40 days ago
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They’re 100% on board with each & every nightmare insanity which is being ordered by Trump.
tbf it's always been that. The reason we arrive here today is because we allowed it to go on in weaker forms and pretended it was democracy.
Now a strong form has arrived ...
https://bsky.app/profile/mypdt.bsky.social/post/3lkban4rvnk2n
The Dakota hangings Dec 26 1862.
This was the same week that President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. It is all built on lies. At best.
Strong presumption that we had a shared reality, and that it was a correct grasp on reality.
There's a reason we arrive in this pickle today.
In the end, it's all just social engineering.
― Mark Twain
Sadly apt for the Republican Party in the US today.
It’s not like they’re singing a new tune. SCotUS just brought in global financing.
All that's just a cover for them while they overthrow democracy and hand the country to Putin.