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Meddlesome Wanderer
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My favorite allegory of the cave reference.
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Sadly, it seems that flooding the zone with bullshit produces an environment where truth becomes irrelevant. So people latch on to sounds good narratives, especially if fear based. It's less that we're believing lies, more we latch onto narratives rather than live with uncertainty.
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The result of repetition, repetition repetition and the sheer overwhelm is that a larger and larger portion of the populous loses its capacity for critical thought via overwhelm and every narrative is 'You can't trust the Democrats, the government has been ideologically captured by THEM'.
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TPUSA, Joe Rogan and similar, Daily Wire, Tucker Carlson, Chris Rufo, all pumping out reactionary narratives and gaming the parasocial networks of the online environments an ever growing number of people (including us) inhabit and build their social narratives. 6/
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These wedge narratives were flooded into information environments that boosts whatever gets the most reaction. Bot armies trained to start arguments and boost this messaging pumped into the same. 5/
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Homeless MS13 communist immigrants funded by Soros want to trans your kids and teach them that being white is bad. Joe Biden/Kamala are singularly responsible for the Gaza genocide, Joe Biden/Kamala are enabling antisemitic paid agitators funded by china to invade college campuses 4/
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Where literally every reactionary wedge issue that could be leveraged: trans panic, immigration, CRT panic, trans panic, Israel/Palestine (both sides), homelessness, etc. were channeled through media echo chambers to either depress Dem votes or build a demonizing narrative about the left 3/
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The information environment and they all have enormous power to both boost/suppress framing narratives and do analysis on what people react to on an emotional level. These were exploited by Putin/Bannon et al in 2016, but Tech venture capital actively jumped on the bandwagon in 2024 2/
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I think it comes down more to the fact that everyone thinks they are less susceptible to propaganda than they are/the neoliberal order relied on normalizing the population to propaganda and the techno-fascists exploited it. Google/Youtube, Twitter, Facebook/insta, and Toktok dominate 1/
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The family of the fire chief, who will lead the tending of the sacred fire at this year's Sun Dance ceremony are holding a fundraiser to help procure the tools and wood to make sure this year's ceremony does honor to Chief Crow Dog's memory.
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The ceremonies held this year have serious significance to those who have struggled with the American Indian Movement, as both the fourth year of mourning Leonard Crow Dog and the first since the release of Leonard Peltier. One of Leonard Crow dog's deepest wishes.
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The ceremonies being presently held through the night and all day tomorrow 6/9-6/10, include Peyote ceremonies and a memorial horse ride. Marking the fourth year since his passing. Cycles of four are central in Lakota culture.
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In particular, the Sun Dance ceremony held at what is now called Crow Dogs Paradise on the Rosebud Reservation in SD, was both one of the first to be fully held outside of BIA control and the first to be open to all nations and peoples. Now led by his son Leonard Alden Crowdog Jr.
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Along with being the spiritual leader of AIM, incarcerated along with his close friend and essentially adopted brother Leonard Peltier, he was instrumental in working to free his people's ceremonial practices from BIA control.
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The family of the fire chief, who will lead the tending of the sacred fire at this year's Sun Dance ceremony are holding a fundraiser to help procure the tools and wood to make sure this year's ceremony does honor to Chief Crow Dog's memory.
venmo.com/code?user_id...
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The ceremonies held this year have serious significance to those who have struggled with the American Indian Movement, as both the fourth year of mourning Leonard Crow Dog and the first since the release of Leonard Peltier. One of Leonard Crow dog's deepest wishes.
youtu.be/cfiFHbKXIaY?...
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The ceremonies being presently held through the night and all day tomorrow 6/9-6/10, include Peyote ceremonies and a memorial horse ride. Marking the fourth year since his passing. Cycles of four are central in Lakota culture.
sacred-texts.com/nam/pla/sdo/...
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In particular, the Sun Dance ceremony held at what is now called Crow Dogs Paradise on the Rosebud Reservation in SD, was both one of the first to be fully held outside of BIA control and the first to be open to all nations and peoples. Now led by his son Leonard Alden Crowdog Jr.
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Along with being the spiritual leader of AIM, incarcerated along with his close friend and essentially adopted brother Leonard Peltier, he was instrumental in working to free his people's ceremonial practices from BIA control.
youtu.be/HYVo65KP4C8?...
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The same people "hur hur"ing over the small town Missouri folks outraged their neighbor was arrestes by ICE are now cheering deportation because social media and crowdsourcing propaganda is the real brain worms.
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Half of what is addictive about the hellsite is the shitposting dunkfest wars, and the parasocial connections between accounts that arise from that. Here, people actually have to think your shit is funny or interesting enough to repost or it goes nowhere.
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I would be really curious to see how many, if any, large accounts on here like Katy or Juniper, aside from offline celebrity accounts, didn't initally build their following on Twitter by such activity. Maybe Fain?
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Like, prior to the nazification of Twitter, stuff like dunking on the chili lady, the wars between the parasocial cults of various twitch streamers, etc. drove day to day conversation. The closest things to that here I've seen have been Alf hog and dunking on Stancil.
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Half of what is addictive about the hellsite is the shitposting dunkfest wars, and the parasocial connections between accounts that arise from that. Here, people actually have to think your shit is funny or interesting enough to repost or it goes nowhere.
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I think many are used to the way the algo drives engagement and the parasocial environment that generates. Engagement doesn't drive reach here the same way. People actually have to be interested in what you post. You can't expand reach by trolling.
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Why does genderbent David Tennant look exactly like Jodie Whittaker?
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I always find it tragically ironic that those who are most resistant to letting people decide who they are, are also most often those who get all 'libertarian' when told to stop being a bigot.
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I mean that was basically what he did in Rogue 1.
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Gonna screenshot this for the next 'post a picture from your phone to describe your current mental state' chain post that pops in my TL.
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Pundits?
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"And the children that you spit upon, as they try to change their world/are immune to your consulations, they're quite aware of what they're going through"-Bowie, Changes
I swear 50% of the socio-political fuckup of the day is weaponized systemic adaptive failure.