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Clown Population
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Clown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a "basket case of clowning around" on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.
People like to play a game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It's the entire population of Untied States of America.
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I don't know. You're exemplifying some pretty clowny behavior
Yha, you do not know or understand media ecology. Probably never learned from Neil Postman or Marshall McLuhan, or have long ago forgotten it.
Maybe the problem is you are using a computer and you can't see beyond the framing of the machine you consume your media on? You are giving 9-word Twitter-length Bluesky-length reaction comments to Elon Musk X media content.
Essentially your comment boils down to: I am smarter than you, Stephen Gutknecht is a dumb idiot, but me BleatingZombie hiding my real identity on a machine system I'm not the zombie in a media enviornment. Only the people I respond to with my 9-word shit-talk are the zombies.
You witness this all over in 2024 and 2025 social media systems. Egoism "shade throwing" behaviors everywhere.
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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995