nicehands.bsky.social
Historically Politicking… I drink & I know things…. Unfortunately
Raleigh, NC by way of the 252
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didnt vote but stayed home are unserious. These people are seriously trying to roll back to the 1800s. Nobody has time to wait for us to stop being stupid.
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but twice?! When everybody can see exactly what this is! People in the rest of the world didnt need “messaging” to recognize what this is. You have media and businesses lining up to bow down to this man like they think that free enterprise can flourish under a communist regime. Even the ones that
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🤣🤣😂🤣😂
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We need to consider what this means for our democracies at the most fundamental level. If governance is shaped by engagement-driven narratives over reality, how do institutions survive? If truth is irrelevant to power, what stops disordered discourse from capturing the state everywhere?
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If you think this can’t happen outside the U.S., consider that we’re all subject to the same forces - social media-driven discourse, collapsing institutional trust, and the rise of narratives untethered from reality. It’s a systemic vulnerability in every democracy.
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The end result is what we’re seeing in the U.S. - a democracy struggling to function because its institutions are trapped in disordered discourse. Governance isn’t about solving problems; it’s about demonstrating loyalty to manufactured narratives.
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Democracies weren’t built around this. They depend on a shared reality, however contested, to function. When governance becomes a battle between competing fictions rather than policy and truth, institutions designed for debate and compromise become tools for enforcing narratives.
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The result? A fragmented public consciousness where competing realities coexist, each self-reinforcing and resistant to correction. When truth is no longer a shared foundation, power shifts to those who control the most compelling narrative - no matter how detached from reality it is.
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We’re living through a fundamental shift in how discourse is created. Institutions once shaped a shared reality through discourse - imperfectly, but with structure. Now, that reality has splintered. In its place, engagement-driven ecosystems amplify whatever resonates, truth optional.
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America is not unique. Any democracy can fall to state capture by disordered discourse if there’s no systematic response. This isn’t something we can fact-check our way out of - it’s deeper than misinformation. It’s about power, identity, and the narratives that shape reality itself.
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Disordered discourse doesn’t just govern through those who believe its manufactured narratives - it forces even those who don’t to submit. To stay in power, they must either bend the knee to the lies or become the next target of the machine they helped create.
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Now, with its grip on institutions, disordered discourse isn’t just shaping politics - it has overtaken those in power, who now govern as if manufactured narratives were reality, eroding the state and democracy itself from within.
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The Times is doing pieces on people coming home after being pardoned for that attempted coup (cause let's stop giving them cute names like "J6'ers" and remember what they did) and re-acclimating to life. Fck those ppl. They're criminals and anarchists.
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I don't need to hear about another person who voted and then lost their job, their healthcare, their whole ass family member (to deportation). The people who need to see it ain't gonna read it.
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They're not pokemon. I can throw a rock from the corner of a street in the middle of the historically ultra-liberal west village and hit a 47 voter at this point.
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I don't need any deeper humanizations to understand these people... but its riveting (not really) that no editors think they need to understand ME.