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"It’s amazing how many people don’t understand that we’ve barely even entered the find out stage. Shits about to get a whole lot worse for a lot of people." - Wednesday, April 23, 2025 (lemm.ee)
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"It’s amazing how many people don’t understand that we’ve barely even entered the find out stage. Shits about to get a whole lot worse for a lot of people."

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1k5yk4w/terrified_trump_flees_tariffs_war_after_ceos/momuz6g/

"People honestly do NOT understand how this works on any level. We have become an “immediate, right now” society and as a result the general populace has no concept of time scale for things like manufacturing, food production, etc. None of this shit happens overnight, and most manufacturers and producers will try slightly overproduce or keep a minimum of excess supplies on hand in case of a minor disruption to supply lines - but once that handful of emergency supplies or parts is gone? THAT is when you find out how absolutely fucked you are."

"Pausing a handful of tariffs for a month or so will make zero difference. Large scale manufacturing plans out months and years in advance and a 30 day grace period means nothing to someone who is now looking at a possible fifty percent or more, who knows increase on a multi-million dollar contract a year down the line. It’s the instability and lack of logic that will kill so many businesses."

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[-] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This social media topic:

"Crisis in Understanding in USA" Mastodon Hashtag
"Manchurian Population" Mastodon Hashtag
"People keep saying they do not understand how it is possible"
"Understanding the Crisis in Understanding" Mastodon Hashtag

 

What to Understand

  1. Donald Trump is the most obvious liar and egomaniac since year 2013. It is blatant, it is obvious, it is clear as day, it is documented.

  2. Understanding the Problem Assertion 1: The problem is not Donald Trump. One liar "Big Shot" who plays golf and spends time with his family retired in Florida on the golf course and goes and hangs out with his buddies is nothing special for a man age 70 and older.

  3. Understanding the Problem Assertion 2: The problem is We The People, the population of society. "MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL"

  4. How did this happen? Assertion 3: A 1985 book by Neil Postman, Manhattan / New York University Professor (Donald Trump's Home Town) predicted all this for America's future. On February 2, 2017 his son Andrew Postman confirmed that Donald Trump was what his father's book was ultimately about.

  5. Understanding the Problem Assertion 4: The Theory of SOCIETAL STUPIDITY by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Nazi Germany mass conformity / collective blindness

[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago

Egomaniac sure. But it’s important to recognize and come to terms with at may very well be an underlying pathology. The man’s behavior set fits in neatly with Cluster B personality disorder. Narcissist type.

We’ve become far to accustomed to calling non diagnosable behavior by a would be diagnosis: oh I’m OCD about this, ADHD much? to someone who is distracted, oh he’s vain so he’s such a narcissist. That’s not how any of this works.

The pathology of Cluster B is just functional enough to not be institutionalized. But barely. Borderlines find themselves there most often due to their self destructive tendencies.

Look at the behaviors:

  1. Elaborate construction of false realities
  2. perceived enemies of focus, it’s almost like they need an enemy to focus their vitriol
  3. No blame of their own, (see 2.)
  4. outwardly destructive to anyone who contradicts or attempts to dismantle the false reality
  5. spiteful doubling down when you tell them they’re wrong
  6. revelling in power over scenarios and subsequent exploitation where applicable
  7. lack of empathy
  8. delusions of grandeur, self-importance
  9. Unabated need for admiration
[-] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

What concerns me is social media users who can't escape the immediate social media enviornment and show the dozens of articles already describing this by medical professionals, unable to demonstrate they can get on the same pages of information on a topic and instead only want Donald Trump and Elon Musk kind of inline media environment sources.

Why can't we just all repeat the same story every day until every person in USA gets on the same page?

Why do we have to generate millions of unique messages that all pass like ships in the night and nobody ever gets on the same page at the same time?

  1. Psychologist-backed documentary labels Trump 'malignant narcissist' https://www.france24.com/en/20200901-psychologist-backed-documentary-labels-trump-malignant-narcissist

  2. The ‘Shared Psychosis’ of Donald Trump and His Loyalists. Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee explains the outgoing president’s pathological appeal. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-shared-psychosis-of-donald-trump-and-his-loyalists/

 

Why do people not work towards getting everyone on the same pages of the problem, instead finding engagement in discussing the problem over and over and over independently on social media platforms and different communities and different messages for over a decade, since year 2014?

 

Egomaniac sure. But it’s important to recognize

I think media consumers go into egomania discussing how they are better than Donald Trump day after day as a form of egoism on social machine systems, "engagement" about how they are so much mentally healthier than one single person. Unable to see Mass psychosis of the entire population behaving that way. Forest for the trees problem.

Your entire reply was only about the icon status symbol of a single person, Donald Trump, and entirely skipped the other assertions I made in the message you replied to.

.3. Understanding the Problem Assertion 2: The problem is We The People, the population of society. "MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL"

.4. How did this happen? Assertion 3: A 1985 book by Neil Postman, Manhattan / New York University Professor (Donald Trump's Home Town) predicted all this for America's future. On February 2, 2017 his son Andrew Postman confirmed that Donald Trump was what his father's book was ultimately about.

.5. Understanding the Problem Assertion 4: The Theory of SOCIETAL STUPIDITY by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Nazi Germany mass conformity / collective blindness

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