• tomiant@piefed.social
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          The problem is that millions do, and won’t understand what the big deal is, and be sucked into the fucking psyop vortex.

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            Few powerful people deciding everything and millions falling in line and the few outliers being affected even if they opt out due to decisions of millions of others who support the few powerful sums up the world.

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              That’s the thing. You don’t have to fool all the people all of the time, just most of the people most of the time.

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                I’m watching Gladiator tonight for the first time in 20 years. It’s hardly new but so painful to watch again through the lens of the current state of America. It went from ominous historical warning 25 years ago of power, weakness and how men act in opportune moments to a primer on current affairs.

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                  I never really saw it as an allegory for fascism, but that’s an interesting take.

                  At least the bad guy gets shanked in the end.

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                    Not really the merger of corporate and state power in fascism buT what I noticed was the similarity in times with the fundamental decision between authoritarian rule and democracy and the crossroads Rome was taking going the other direction and how the US seems to be retreating from.

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            Indeed. It’s like so many people have been trained to be asleep at the wheel.

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              Many don’t have the capacity left to make conscious decisions about these things - either they are already living paycheck to paycheck or it is too abstract for them to realize it might bite them and everyone else on a future date. Even if i have ideas for the first group that I have no power to make reality, I don’t have a solution for the second group either.

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      i still use them without going through the id system

      hasn’t affected me at all

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      Let’s wait until it’s revealed that every commercial us platform is connected…