Happens here on Lemmy too. Seems like that’s how the Internet of today works
That's why I'm pointing it out: twitter behavior has taken over the White House and all social media platforms.
that's the point, it isn't just Reddit users who mimic Donald Trump.
This is all spelled out in 2014: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/12/31/bbcs_adam_curtis_on_the_contradictory_vaudeville_of_post-modern_politics.html
They are all mimicking Surkov governing, Russia.
If it were only Reddit and not the entire American population behaving in LOL LOL LMAO amused at Elon Musk, JD Vance, RFK Jr, Donald Trump. Rudy was removed from this year's stage, but Elon Musk sidekick and his second stage of DOGE performers has done much more to turn the USA into a total joke on the world stage to a population who finds it all so entertaining / amusing.
Everything is Twitter reaction comments in year 2024 and year 2025. Everyone is behaving and mimicking Donald Trump mannerisms and behaviors of Tweet-think, Elon Musk behaviors of Twitter-think. Americans can not resist copying the behavior of White House performers. Status Symbols like JD Vance and Pope together is comedy gold to all the people in USA.
That's why all these people keep going to the top of society / federal government, they have their finger on Internet consumers of junk memes and antics audience laugh-track comedy. A 78 year old Reality TV star is America's great taste in meme-joke Twitter-reaction engagement.
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"As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.
This book (1985) is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985
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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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What are you doing encouraging no-identity social media Bluesky short-length messages? What are you doing promoting reactionary thinking and anti-intellectualism? What are you doing adopting the social media behaviors of Donald Trump and Musk?
4.34K votes, 282 comments. A vote bot army going on?
yes, including social media. People think adopting Donald Trump methods of dehumanizing those you disagree with, Donald Trump Twitter-think and Tweet-length mental attitudes is actually addressing the problem... in reality, it is joining in with the bonfires of goodness. Instead of a "we are under siege mentality" of posting a thread to the top of every social media platform every 6 hours since 2015 when it was clear Donald Trump and Putin wanted to fulfill their "Conservative International 2013" politician aims, people have just mocked and gone along with the total mockery media values of MAGA / Donald Trump Twitter-tweeting thinking.
People are entirely unable to defend and resist absurd comedy, surreal humor, surreal absurd "jokes', they all end up joining in / jumping on the bandwagon with the mocking and mockery.
Neil Postman was correct in 1985: “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985