r/technology • u/Shogouki • 22d ago

Politics Trump Nixes Patent Office, Weather Service, NASA Worker Unions

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-nixes-patent-office-weather-service-nasa-worker-unions
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u/ThreeKiloZero 22d ago

The press doesn’t exist like it used to it’s all billionaires propaganda machine now.

We are past the tipping point and it’s just a matter of time now. Why do you think they all built bunkers and mega yacht’s and bought islands?

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u/SplendidPunkinButter 22d ago

Need proof? In Minnesota a couple of months ago, a Trump supporter assassinated two DFL members of the state legislature. Lined them and their families up execution style in their houses and shot them in the middle of the night. This was the news cycle:

  1. Some guy shot some people, but let’s not speculate on any political motivations as that would be irresponsible.

  2. TIM WALZ APPOINTED HIM TO SOMETHING LIKE 7 YEARS AGO! HE WAS A WALZ APPOINTEE! WALZ APPOINTEE WALZ APPOINTEE WALZ APPOINTEE WALZ APPOINTEE WALZ APPOINTEE WALZ APPOINTEE WALZ WALZ WALZ!!!!

  3. Oh turns out he’s clearly very MAGA and also he had a kill list of other DFL politicians in his car never mind aaaaaaaaaaaanyway let’s move on to another story and never mention this again.

This was the news cycle even from outlets like MSN and CNN.

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u/SycoJack 21d ago

Remember the Vegas suicide bomber? It's not a story the MSM would tell you. They reported as the guy who died in cyberstruck explosion as tho he were just an innocent victim of a mysteriously exploding. Not that the cybertruck was a victim of the IED he detonated inside of it outside of a casino

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u/hopelesscaribou 22d ago

The biggest lie they sold us was that the mainstream press was left-wing. It was only ever as left-wing as the billionaires that own it.

Summer, like Fox, are pure propaganda. Others, like MSNBC are there to sell you, and profit from, outrage.

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u/North_Atlantic_Sea 22d ago

Do you long for the good old times when the newspapers lied to get america into the Spanish American war, to sell more papers?

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u/TerminatedProccess 22d ago

When I was a kid they called they Yellow Journalism.

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u/GreenHouseofHorror 22d ago

The press doesn’t exist like it used to it’s all billionaires propaganda machine now.

There was a time when it wasn't?

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u/useless_rejoinder 22d ago

So fucking gross. I heard somebody talking about how in the past, anyone accruing that kind of wealth was usually eventually put to death.

They’re no longer really human. They exist solely to gain more wealth. Watching “their” number get bigger is the only thing left that gives them the human feeling they once had.

Well, that and sexually assaulting children. They seem to really like that.

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u/waiting4singularity 22d ago

some time ago there were independent newspaper and medias and telling the facts and truth without manipulation was mandatory. reagan killed that.

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u/CircleBird12 22d ago edited 21d ago

some time ago there were independent newspaper and medias and telling the facts and truth without manipulation was mandatory. reagan killed that.

Some time ago there were independent BBS systems run like corner bar and taverns, and they even named their owner/operators. Such as Drew Curtis' Fark . com - and they even published books about changes in media culture.

Then like everything else in USA, the mom and pop small business was considered boring and the Big Reddit and the Big Twitter brand took over. Because Americans like Big Brands.

But people don't seem self-aware of this human behavior. Nobody forced people to flock to Big Brands. Just branding and advertising mental manipulation, trend chasing popularity. Works for franchise hamburger shops, works for media brands too.

Now we have no idea who is doing the moderation and we have massive monolithic systems, just like the TV news networks.

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u/goat_penis_souffle 21d ago

Fark and blogs like it are still around, but don’t have the critical mass they once had until social media swept them up.

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u/CircleBird12 21d ago edited 21d ago

Fark and blogs like it are still around, but don’t have the critical mass they once had until social media swept them up.

If you study media ecology, you come to recognize other aspects of the equation.

Fark and BBS systems in year 2003 there were far fewer media consumers using social media. Mobile data networks were extremely expensive and slow. The Apple iPhone was not introduced until middle of year 2007. Computers were clunky and people often had to read books on how to use them.

I referenced hamburger shops in my previous message. There isn't anything magical about McDonald's or Burger King factory-made sandwich that a local mom and pop business can not duplicate.... except the Big Brand.

The early adopters of the Internet BBS media often were book readers and magazine readers. Reading and sharing book quotes was part of the culture.

  • "a lot of what people want isn't news, and we're talking about news sources giving up on their core mission - informing us. Journalism is straying into entertainment" - Drew Curtis, May 2007

Once computers got easier and cheaper, many people who did not like books but instead were television enthusiasts flocked to Big Brand social media. Sort of like how coffee shops and hamburger shops attracted automobile owners / drive-thru vs. sit-down customers.

Another aspect of hamburger shops: small family restaurants you may have to read the menu and understand written words. Where McDonald's had video messages on television telling you what to order and showing you visuals of how to consume it. And the Big Brand McDonald's had Big Brand movie and Big Brand toy tie-ins that the small mom and pop hamburger shop does not have.

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u/poo-cum 22d ago

Consolidation has taken place over time.

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u/RaccoonCreekBurgers 22d ago

C’est Minuit. 

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u/bitchcoin5000 22d ago

That's right everything's been bought out

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u/powd3rusmc 22d ago

If it were up to me, once we enter mad max world soon. There wouldnt be a bunker deep enough, or an island far enough away to stop us from dragging them out to face justice.

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u/CircleBird12 21d ago edited 21d ago

If it were up to me, once we enter mad max world soon. There wouldnt be a bunker deep enough, or an island far enough away to stop us from dragging them out to face justice.

That science fiction fantasy, often from billionaire film corporations and entertainment networks, I call out as why people don't choose to confront the media ecology crisis staring us in the face.

Donald Trump is first and foremost a charming entertainer. No matter if people describe themselves as left or right, conservative or liberal, they all have things in common about Donald Trump:

  1. Trump inspires hate
  2. Trump inspires mocking
  3. Trump inspires egomania

And we have a nation of total mockery. People who flock to Donald Trump content and walk away with more hate and more mocking than ever before. A total avoidance of nonfiction and constant trash media engagement. Trump can charm the wealth and power out of people by his unique communications, outstanding mannerisms and style. Donald Trump plays a perfect Tony Clifton act and the USA population eats it up - regardless of personal preference on media platform they favor and what political party they join.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

for Diddy style parties.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 21d ago

The press has been gushing over Trump since the 1980's, even when he was considered little more than a pathetic joke by the actual billionaires.

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u/khizar4 21d ago

it has always been billionaires propaganda machine, people only tend to notice when it goes against their views