this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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Attention USA

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Dear USA:
Attention USA:

“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, year 1985

 

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[–] tensor_nightly69@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Risks his life? Come on. He's still a billionaire, himself.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not to mention his eugenics money grabs and being buddies with pedophiles.

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not to mention his eugenics money grabs and being buddies with pedophiles.

"not to mention", which you did just mention. A mental Jedi mind trick.

To mention that a Lemmy comment promoting the electric messages sharing the idea that nobody should stand up to Elon Musk, to normalize mocking people who stand up. To shift the topic away from the core reason it was posted, to notify the killing of children by USAID slashes, and instead to discuss the lifestyles of the rich and famous with Twitter-length Twitter-thinking meme patterns.

Almost every time you post on Lemmy in 2025 about standing up to the mass dehumanization at the White House / Elon Musk mass dehumanization, some Johnny on the spot instantly react-comments to turn the topic away. As if Elon Musk has a bunch of complex reactionary media cults who go all over the Internet to turn the topic away form those standing up to Elon Musk using systems of mass dehumanization, USAID financial cuts.

 

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“For when I speak of the banality of evil, I do so only on the strictly factual level, pointing to a phenomenon which stared one in the face at the trial. Eichmann was not Iago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been farther from his mind than to determine with Richard III 'to prove a villain.' Except for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all… He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing… It was sheer thoughtlessness—something by no means identical with stupidity—that predisposed him to become one of the greatest criminals of that period. And if this is 'banal' and even funny, if with the best will in the world one cannot extract any diabolical or demonic profundity from Eichmann, this is still far from calling it commonplace… That such remoteness from reality and such thoughtlessness can wreak more havoc than all the evil instincts taken together which, perhaps, are inherent in man—that was, in fact, the lesson one could learn in Jerusalem.” ― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

[–] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

"Risks his life"? Bullshit. This is the constant bullshit and takeover of the news by rich assholes. The only thing I ever want to hear about gates, musk, or any billionaire - is how painfully they died yesterday.