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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.

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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/