The truly terrible thing about this is that turning off Trump TV and choosing not to engage with the platforms that are signal boosting the LOLCOW feels like negligence. It feels like avoidance. "Oh you're going to just look away and pretend it's not happening, like people did during the Holocaust? Maybe go reread the Niemoller poem to see how that turns out!" But I think it's the only way we solve this. Trump thrives as long as people are watching. The media love him as fervently as MAGA, and actively worked to get him re-elected because he is good for their bottom line. They love him because the anxiety his antics generates locks people into algorithmic social media and cable news and creates "engagement." So we turn off the TV and delete those apps. We go back to Web 1.0 to organize. Between Bluesky and Dreamwidth (a Livejournal clone!) I have personally witnessed more organizing and mutual aid happening on the latter. I think this is how we win this. Trump is the apotheosis of Web 2.0. He's the baby that Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerfuck made. So we divest from Web 2.0 as much as possible. I know this seems like a big impossible ask, but it may just take something this drastic. It doesn't mean we look away. It means we use platforms and spaces to organize that aren't profiting from the problem.
The sort of maybe good news is that "Brad T. Faciti" is probably fake? I guess? But because of the way everything is, even what may have been intended as obvious satire seems like it could be real?
The thought I keep having is that the Butlerian Jihad makes sense now, and sounds like a pretty good solution.
I cannot stress enough that we’re in a pretty bad state when a political thing that happened in Dune seems like a good idea.
The truly terrible thing about this is that turning off Trump TV and choosing not to engage with the platforms that are signal boosting the LOLCOW feels like negligence. It feels like avoidance. "Oh you're going to just look away and pretend it's not happening, like people did during the Holocaust? Maybe go reread the Niemoller poem to see how that turns out!" But I think it's the only way we solve this. Trump thrives as long as people are watching. The media love him as fervently as MAGA, and actively worked to get him re-elected because he is good for their bottom line. They love him because the anxiety his antics generates locks people into algorithmic social media and cable news and creates "engagement." So we turn off the TV and delete those apps. We go back to Web 1.0 to organize. Between Bluesky and Dreamwidth (a Livejournal clone!) I have personally witnessed more organizing and mutual aid happening on the latter. I think this is how we win this. Trump is the apotheosis of Web 2.0. He's the baby that Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerfuck made. So we divest from Web 2.0 as much as possible. I know this seems like a big impossible ask, but it may just take something this drastic. It doesn't mean we look away. It means we use platforms and spaces to organize that aren't profiting from the problem.
The sort of maybe good news is that "Brad T. Faciti" is probably fake? I guess? But because of the way everything is, even what may have been intended as obvious satire seems like it could be real?
https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/07/fact-check-brad-t-faciti-badfaithact-forgive-trump-rapes-women-children.html