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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 hours ago

Another descriptive term is wagging the dog (referring to the tail having disproportionate leverage over the beast) which is a (not uncommon) presidential tactic of taking a serious military action in order to distract from other scandals.

News media, including classic liberal media will allow other stories to die to report on attacks or invasions (or when you can get it, attacks on the US by foreign units).

George W.Bush used this method, but also blitzing the public with countless scandals. (George H. W. Bush did too) So Trump's kitchen cabinet was likely informed by history when considering becoming Bibi's personal B.

Oh yes we are. The news has a short memory but we don't. F that guy.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago
[–] cmoney@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

Just like when tRump became the oldest candidate and suddenly no one was talking about age anymore.

[–] phneutral@feddit.org 16 points 14 hours ago

For full explanation please read: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 18 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, I feel like Trump and the GOP's strategy for a while now has been to do so much illegal, evil and heinous shit that the media and public just move onto the next thing.

Any other administration would have been brought to its knees by Signalgate. A few months later and the fucking Secretary of Defense is getting congratulated for not leaking military plans ahead of time.

[–] Zenith@lemm.ee 14 points 13 hours ago

It’s literally called “flooding the zone” and they’ve talked openly about the fact they’re doing it

[–] WiseScorpio@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

We are used having a crisis per quarter not crazy Orange Chicken spamming the controls and creating 4 crises per day

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 29 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Texas quietly defunded the border wall. 8% has been built and it's not even connected sections.

[–] LadyButterfly@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago

But Mexico was going to pay for the wall...

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

8% is honestly impressive. The Mexico / Texas border is 2000 km. If they actually built 160 km of wall that's a real achievement.

But, it shows how unrealistic the project is. 160,000 metres of wall is a massive undertaking. There aren't many other human projects that involve building something that big. And it was only a tiny fraction of the distance they needed to cover. They would have left the hard parts for the end. The hard parts are both hard to construct and hard to legally acquire.

Some sections of the wall would have been hard to construct because of the type of soil/rock, and because of how remote they are from everything. The costs there would probably have easily been 10x the costs to construct in easier places. Good thing Mexico was going to pay for the project.... right?

Then, there's the issue of expropriating private land to build the wall. A lot of the land along the border is privately owned, and even when the owners are die-hard Texan republicans, they're not want to give the government their land so the government can build a huge wall. The stuff that was easy legally would have been the first to get done. The stuff where they needed to claim eminent domain and defend lawsuits in court is another matter. The really tricky stuff would have have been put off as long as possible.

So, it's 8%, but it's not the hard 8%, it's the easiest 8% of what was frankly an impossible project.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/17/texas-border-wall-funding-ends-abbott-trump/

It's a decent article explaining where money didn't go, how much of the wall isn't really connected l.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 25 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

The US hasn’t been a country anyone should treat seriously since 2024-11-05, and won’t be again until they can prove their ability to hold another legitimate election.

It’s a coin flip as to whether I’ll see that within my lifetime right now.

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[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, man, let's get back to talking about it. Like we were doing. Just sittin around, talking about it, while more and more of this list happened. And then we just kept on talkin. That's what we need to get back to, suddenly, no one's talking about it. That's the problem.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 23 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

🤔 is this accurate? I don't even follow political stuff and I've heard about everything in that list. Seems like people have been talking about these things

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

"People" meaning major news stations which are controlled by billionaires and are the only source of news for the boomer generation. This has lead to the brainwashing that allowed our current president to get into office.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

It's hardly better for the Facebook generation, or the Twitter generation, or the TikTok generation, or the Roblox generation. Everybody is living in their information silos in the US.

[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 8 points 16 hours ago

Mario's Brother also. Although he might resurface in the news in a month or so.

[–] copd@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

You think "nobody" is talking about it?

What a tiny world you live in

[–] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I already see way to much news from the USA while the war in Ukrain is a day driving away. We see almost nothing from that.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 16 hours ago

USA would much rather support genocide in palestine than resist genocide in ukraine.

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I remember seeing some post of reddit while lurking of a bunch of election letters being dumped in a drain

I wonder what came of that

Edit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mTLoKMyLnDI

[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

It does feel like that story just got moved from way too fast.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I have a prediction:

Iran will send agents to America, who will act as ICE members. Through this guise, they will antagonize the Trump Regime - blackbagging supporters, assassinating politicians, and generally performing domestic terrorism on the 'behalf' of the Regime in a very showy and flashy way. They don't need ID, license plates, nor uniforms, can mask, and bear weapons. Any time they need plausible deniability or to cause some form of riot, they can also attack the general populous, and earn a $1,500 paycheck for each colored head they bring to the Regime.

The Trump Regime has destroyed America's intelligence apparatus, too. Iran has a blank check for destabilizing America, and Trump signed the fucker.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Probably many sleeper agents in the US already

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 3 points 15 hours ago

President Krasnov is one.

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[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 15 points 20 hours ago

The news has been captured by monied interests for decades now. Stop expecting it to televise the revolution.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 149 points 1 day ago (5 children)

People's minds are growing numb to the madness. This is very similar to what happened in Soviet Russia in the five years leading up to the collapse of the government.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (11 children)

It does seem rather similar to the collapse of Soviet Russia. Increasingly little confidence in the government by citizens all across the country. States that increasingly aren't seeing any benefit in existing as part of the union. Its quite uncanny actually.

There are differences of course bcz there isn't as big of different ethnic groups concentrated throughout the country ready to start their own countries bcz they never wanted to be part of the country in the first place.

I really dont want to find out whats on the other side of that scenario for us, but it doesn't seem completely unlikely.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 41 points 1 day ago

Some voted to destroy the United States. Others were failed by the educational system and the media. Irrespective of cause, there's no going back. We're now in a place where "fuck you I've got mine" and "make me" is the basis of our formal society that only recognizes power in all its forms. I do not know what the future holds. I can only say that if this year were a taro card, it's Death, as what was changes into something new an unrecognizable.

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[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

The documentary, HyperNormalisation, was made nearly a decade ago, in 2016.

Just a fun tid bit I thought I'd share.

Edit: spelling. Thanks, u/A_norny_mousse

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[–] EldenLord@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago

"Flood the zone with shit" is working as intended. It‘s chilling to see how quickly push comes to shove and we‘re in a world war once again.

[–] FleetingTit@feddit.org 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

War, what is it good for?

Apparently it's good for taking the public mind of a politicians wrongdoings.

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

waging the dog, Reichstag Fire, whatever you want to call it that's all this is. We can't have the plebs focusing no us assassinating the opposition, lets go bomb Iran saying we took out their nuclear capabilities meanwhile we actually didn't.

[–] saimen@feddit.org 19 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Classic authorian playbook. Either stage a domestic terror attack or start a war.

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[–] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I have seen articles and discussions about all of those items multiple times. We've known trump was an associate of Epstein for how many years? 20? 30? The problem is that there's literally no system in place to hold anyone accountable for anything unless the person being held accountable is just a regular person living paycheck to paycheck.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

there's literally no system in place to hold anyone accountable for anything

There is, it's voting.

The problem is that democracy relies on voters being informed. Aside from being racist, sexist and classist, one reason that the US founding fathers initially limited voting to white male land-owners is that they thought they would be educated and knowledgeable. In 2025 we're in a situation where any US citizen over 18 gets to vote, regardless of knowledge or education. At least half the country is buried under an avalanche of disinformation and propaganda, so the system that should hold people accountable for things is broken because nobody can agree on even the most basic facts.

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[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

I thought the 2024 election rigging was all wild speculation?

I agree the pieces are there for it to happen but I didn't see any actual evidence.

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I saw an analysis of results in deep-blue Arizona cities where there were quite a few people who voted for Trump...then Democrat down the rest of the ballot.

It's not hard evidence, but it's suspicious. The problem the US has is that the winners are quite okay with winning at any cost and don't see a problem, even if the win was stolen.

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[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 18 hours ago

There's an active court case in New York uncovering indications of tampering and wild statistical anomalies. This blog is a little conspiratorial sounding, but it's also doing a difficult job of putting back together the pieces of what is looking like a well executed technological coup.

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the

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