RoundSparrow on Bluesky

Stephen Alfred Gutknecht

Brain damaged by autism and Donald Trump. Brain damaged by USA society MAGA nonsense. Media ecology of Neil Postman, Marshall McLuhan topics. Please read: “War and Peace In The Global Village” - 1968 book on paper.

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  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialOPMtoMind Dump@midwest.social•Reddit social is a cult of compulsive MAGA USAEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Cheap Media, Cheap Truth Social society

     

    “Today, reports of the day’s events are conveyed to the viewing public by way of alternate universes, The Fox News cable channel conveys its version of reality, while at the other end of the ideological spectrum MSNBC presents its version. They and their many counterparts on radio are more the result of an economic dynamic than a political one. Dispatching journalists into the field to gather information costs money; hiring a glib bloviator is relatively cheap, and inviting opinionated guests to vent on the air is entirely cost-free. It wouldn’t work if it weren’t popular, and audiences, it turns out, are endlessly absorbed by hearing amplified echoes of their own biases. It’s divisive and damaging to the healthy functioning of our political system, but it’s also indisputably inexpensive and, therefore, good business.” ― Ted Koppel. Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath. October 27, 2015. Page 13.

     

    “The long-term implications go deeper. If all information is seen as part of a war, out go any dreams of a global information space where ideas flow freely, bolstering deliberative democracy. Instead, the best future one can hope for is an ‘information peace’, in which each side respects the other’s ‘information sovereignty’: a favoured concept of both Beijing and Moscow, and essentially a cover for enforcing censorship.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, 2019, Page ???

  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialOPMtoMind Dump@midwest.social•Reddit is an audience to MAGA.English
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    15 days ago

    Reddit comment o4d4m4m

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    Comment URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/TrendoraX/comments/1qzrix5/bad_bunnys_super_bowl_halftime_show_performance/o4d4m4m/
    Comment ID: o4d4m4m
    Author: Flexbottom
    Bio:
    Account Created: 2024-03-09T02:08:06Z
    Link Karma: 440
    Comment Karma: 76227
    Comment Age: 11 hours ago
    Timestamp: 2026-02-09T02:29:15Z
    Score: 124 points
    Post Title: Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show performance is one of the biggest FUs to Trump and MAGA that I have ever seen!
    :::::: Reddit User Comment: ======
    Love, family and community. Things MAGA hate.

    [!NOTE] :::::: Analysis_Thoughts Commentary: ======
    This headline is pure propaganda. Billionaire Jody Allen has Reddit audience eating out of her hand. The sportswashing of Trump and the music-washing of Trump and MAGA. “Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show performance is one of the biggest FUs to Trump and MAGA that I have ever seen!” fandom of hate-watching Trump and MAGA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate-watching

    Trump is an entertainer. This real-world Russian winning hearts and minds… isn’t a TV show. This is real world health care and real world people having their lives wrecked by Jody Allen’s investments and holdings and Trump’s investments and holdings. Bad Bunny is part of the system, hiring humans to be trees, because we paved over all the real trees! This is all rectangle simulation. Square logic, blockhead thinking. Paul Allen’s Microsoft legacy of sports fandoms beings programmed with music museum and song arrangement patterns for Wired World licensed copyrighted cults. https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970611/2544107/the-enigmatic-paul-allen----everyone-knows-what-he-does-but-few-really-know-who-he-is “Carlos Santana and Allen himself”

    OPERA_A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvtJPs8IDgU Giving it all away, Reddit. Why do you want to give it all away to your simulation … billionaire content? This isn’t a fuck-you to Trump, it is not resisting, it is praising. Surkov won since March 2013, NATO lost. “Tree museum”, is what the Super Bowl Half Time show had, people dressed in plastics. Simulation of trees. Simulacra dancing. 40,319,373 views June 16, 2009

    OPERA_A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CZ8ossU4pc Images on a screen, fake trees, simulation. Rectangle stage. Let’s bring in the Russian resistance. 5,211,627 views March 28, 2012 - price to pay and a consequence. Tree museum, men given every luxury and medical army to service their political team drama. Sports-washing our wealth-lords asset-lords copyright-lords intellectual property-lords, Jody Allen Patton.

    Yes, Alphabet Google YouTube and GitHub Microsoft are in the system. Bluesky is in the system. I can not change these systems on my own. My writing is public domain. Better to be a naked screaming person in agony than normalize this bullshit and living in denial of the billionaire Rupert Murdoch successes. Staring into the mind-fuck of Reddit is horror. Reddit is mind-wrecking. Reddit is the horror show that the gifted and skilled technical people blow their minds out with. Surkov won using Reddit voluntary fans / fandoms of hate-watching. Surkov students won by tuning minds to favor mocking and hate above all else. Billionaires are feeding shit into Reddit audience minds, right here, right now, and it keeps accelerating.

    What billionaires do is not give families something to celebrate, they rip apart relationships. They turn it into a power and wealth concentration system. A theme park for worship of the power and copyright and content creation cartels. Mecca, Quran, Mohammad science fiction storytelling of year 635. That is the “Old World Order” that the Free Masons founding fathers were educating us about with a pyramid on the Nile river symbolism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novus_ordo_seclorum We The People have let Russia, Surkov students, push us (we, our minds) so far into monomyth mythology patterns that We The People, We The Fandoms, can no longer see the media simulations we are living under. Surkov won, USA defeated, hearts and minds lost… since March of year 2013. SEE_ALSO https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/12/vladimir-putin-conservative-icon/282572/

  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialOPMtoMind Dump@midwest.social•USA nation of 0.34 billion people in world of over 8 billion people. Reddit <===> Trump White House. Feedback looping mechanismsEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Reddit comment o4d0vt3

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    Comment URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/1qzrlff/it_doesnt_get_better_than_this/o4d0vt3/
    Comment ID: o4d0vt3
    Author: MamaJuana1
    Bio:
    Account Created: 2020-04-08T16:54:01Z
    Link Karma: 311
    Comment Karma: 2418
    Comment Age: 9 hours ago
    Timestamp: 2026-02-09T02:10:19Z
    Score: 1855 points
    Post Title: It doesn’t get better than this!
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    What a giant piece of shit human.

    [!NOTE] :::::: Analysis_Thoughts Commentary: ======
    Front page /r/All Reddit posting Title: “It does not get better than this”
    Reddit wins, Murder by Words, The Resistance Wins!!! mind-fucking propaganda on Reddit.

    Which means, life itself doesn’t get better than this. Super Bowl sports-game simulation media. A Reddit screen game. A video screen game of insulting back and forth with MAGA / Trump / Twitter screen game over and over on Apple iPhone / Apple iPad / Samsung Android devices. A simulation of a resistance that always avoids ENDING the simulation itself. Twitter-think, twitter screen shot, the best thing ever seen on a screen in all their lifetime. This isn’t governing and government, this is machine love.

    Reddit is video game addicts who have sold out to Trump / ICE / Musk Twitter as a source of entertainment. People who prize on-screen entertainment and mocking above health care and mental health care. People on Reddit have sold-out Dr. Bandy X Lee’s professional education and leadership in favor of sanewashing ICE / Laura Loomer and other MAGA actors as a source of “good as it ever can get” comedy material. Spare time and free time on Reddit is devoted to celebration of MAGA ignorance.

    • “these are the phenomenon that Baudrillard examines with the most care. Incredible information overloads with information moving at incredible speed and even to the youngest children. I have talked about how children used to learn morality from their parents and now I think that … Super Mario Brothers. They spend much more time with Super Mario Brothers and are much more emotionally involved with Nintendo than they are with their aunts, their uncles, their mothers and their fathers. I asked one of my children “Why are you yelling at a machine?” when he began to bang his Nintendo, and he looked at me as though I were a being from another world. And because of that there is a postmodern trajectory. I am from another world. I am still, as it were, caught in the modern. He’s not. Why not be emotional with a machine? His peers are machine-like, we have already discussed that. I mean in fact what he sees on the Nintendo screen is his thrill of the day. That’s the most active he’s seen any simulated image that day. Now simulation in this society didn’t just come from nowhere. This society of simulations and of spectacles. Baudrillard actually builds his work on a foundation again that comes out of the Marxist tradition.” - Texan Rick Roderick, Duke University https://rickroderick.org/308-baudrillard-fatal-strategies-1993/
  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialOPMtoMind Dump@midwest.social•USA nation of 0.34 billion people in world of over 8 billion people. Reddit <===> Trump White House. Feedback looping mechanismsEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Reddit comment o4e6c54

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    Comment URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1qzwpy6/jd_vance_ridiculed_for_40car_motorcade_taking_him/o4e6c54/
    Comment ID: o4e6c54
    Author: BuzzBuzzington3
    Bio:
    Account Created: 2019-01-24T16:47:27Z
    Link Karma: 603
    Comment Karma: 7483
    Comment Age: 3 hours ago
    Timestamp: 2026-02-09T06:41:15Z
    Score: 2282 points
    Post Title: JD Vance ridiculed for 40-car motorcade taking him down tiny Italian street
    :::::: Reddit User Comment: ======
    You can smell the fear from here

    [!NOTE] :::::: Analysis_Thoughts Commentary: ======
    Top-upvoted comment. Twitter-length short-message mindset. Eating right out of the hands of the Kremlin and White House. This is a Reddit community eating the Surkovian onions. Eating the Onion. Incredibly gullible Reddit audience that will not turn to Dr. Bandy X. Lee or Peter Pomerantsev teaching and education. SEE: https://github.com/RocketDerp/April14_2025/blob/main/Quotes_Pile/Reddit2025A/Surkovian_Onion_Eating.md

    Every hour of every day, Reddit is sane-washing JD Vance, hundreds of millions of MAGA cult members, Putin, Trump, Elon Musk. Over and over, Reddit falls for the same antics politics and entirely misses the point of why over-dramatic antics are constantly appearing on the front page of /r/All by the White House.

    Reddit users have been manipulated and targeted by the Internet Research Agency… https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43301643 Useful Idiots is the term that Russia uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot (not my insult, I strive pretty hard to write things like “avoids nonfiction learning” and “unable to focus on using Google Search and finding Peter Pomerantsev’s information” … if you want a better-quality writing than my shit English. Calling people banal “idiot” is even something Marshall McLuhan addressed https://youtu.be/2JIj0Bqbdhk?t=156 in one of his filmed interviews. Mocking “idiot”… is a thought-terminating cliché.).

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    1. Putin, MAGA, White House, Musk does some bold antics action

    2. Reddit audience posts image, quote, or mocking of the antics

    3. Reddit community sane-washes the situation by prizing it as entertainment and amusement

    4. Reddit members crack-jokes to sanewash the USA society in total. That this is just “Internet culture” of how people have fun. Jokes, falsehoods, fictions, make-up scenarios, make-up quotes, mirroring Trump’s writing style, talking about skin color (brown, black, orange). Make fan-fiction about the situation.

    5. ALWAYS avoided: Peter Pomerantsev’s writing, videos, etc. Questioning the pattern witnessed over and over. Pondering and questioning: if maybe the crowds that gather every single day to mock and insult Trump aren’t a form of intentional population control. Imprisoned fandom…compulsive brainwashing into always joking and always mocking and always hating MAGA and Trump.

    6. ALWAYS avoiding: reflecting on what Donald Trump actually is good at. Instead of listing all of Trump’s failures: bankruptcy list, divorce and failed marriages, TACO trade deals, failed Trump university / steak seller / on and on. FACE THE ONE THING Trump is known for grifting, tricking, actor, acting, acting like an actor. An actor who is faking being an actor, a grift of acting itself. Entertainer, Reality TV. Like Trump is playing in the film “Jackass” as a character for an audience. Trump’s ONE GOOD SKILL is getting on camera every 90 minutes of every day and rage-bating Reddit!

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    Repeating number 5: … pondering… Are we living inside a Reddit screen game of grinding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinding_(video_games) away… sane-washing jokes and behaving not as political actors, but an audience to a Reality TV theater and circus performances? Does Trump behave like a fiction character, President Tony Clifton of SNL NYC? Are we gullible and falling for the acting of a Tony Clifton actor? Are we “eating the onion” just like Fox News audience does in red states / rural population and not recognizing that Fox News is a fiction entertainment show like SNL Weekend Update?

    • “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. SEE_ALSO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETUGwC9jXCM

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    THE SIMULATION: “You can smell the fear from here” (this Reddit comment being linked)

    THE REALITY: “Those media addicts will do anything to put on a show, and American MAGA eats it up. 40 cars is over the top, antics to get on the front page of Reddit, and look, it is on the top front page of /r/All”

    THE REALITY: The only “fear” they have is that their acts and antics and investments in 40 motorcade cars doesn’t have a film audience to the blockbuster show. That it doesn’t dominate the headlines like a new Taylor Swift song release. That the tickets and #1 rating on Reddit, that your MAGA absurd comedy and surreal humor show is a flop.

    IF YOU ARE MAKING ENTERTAINMENT POLITICS: Borat film or Jackass film, taking ICE and massive motorcades to Italy is right up your scripted ally of antics entertainment.

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    There is no self-awareness in the Reddit audience. The Reddit media cult is reading The Onion and falling hook, line and sinker that it is “fear” and not in fact political theater, entertainment politics, Surkovian.

  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialOPMtoMind Dump@midwest.social•Moscow won. October 2011English
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    19 days ago

    “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. So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new ones rise.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995, page 241

     

    Celebration of Ignorance

    “Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a (year 1995) foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning — not just of science, but of anything — are avoidable, even undesirable.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995, page 59

    year 1995 media 10-second sound bites == year 2025 Bluesky and Twitter media reaction comments / images.

     

    Nation of Suckers

    “Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don’t practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us and we risk becoming a nation of suckers” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995, page 38

  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialOPMtoMind Dump@midwest.social•Ablative Armor is Mock Armor - Surkovian USAEnglish
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    21 days ago

    LOL cow

     

    The Trump family is the greatest entertainers in all human history. Donald J. Trump is a acting leader of all actors and comedians in the USA. Social media commenting comedians follow Trump’s every move and shake and follow his mockery leadership. We are a LOL Cow Milking nation. Surkov won since March 2013.

    Every media system in the world is running at full speed milking Trump for LOL jokes. Ablative Armor is Mock Armor. The media systems adore the mocking that social meme-thinking mindsets provide. Every HDTV news network, every newspaper. they are all mocking away at their audience of how funny and entertaining Donald Trump family is for content creation.

    The influencer of all influencers. The LOLCOW of all cows. USA nation is a joke to milk over and over for a decade. Surkov won since March of year 2013.

  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialOPMtoMind Dump@midwest.social•Ablative Armor is Mock Armor - Surkovian USAEnglish
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    21 days ago
    • “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. So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new ones rise.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995, page 241

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