Fixed.

Those headlines aren’t reality, it’s hyperreality, outside is a whole different world from what the images you are being bombarded with. You only have one life to live, may as well experience it while you can.

https://youtu.be/S96e6TdJlNE

Hypernormalization even.

If you’re interested, this reddit thread has an interesting take on the reasoning behind their trolling strategy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sorceryofthespectacle/comments/1o5dq1p/i_found_magas_playbook/

They competed for the support of the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic. But their practice showed how closely they are related. To both, the real enemy, the man with whom they had nothing in common and whom they could not hope to convince, is the liberal of the old type. While to the Nazi the communist, and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits who are made of the right timber, although they have listened to false prophets, they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom.

The Road to Serfdom, Hayek.

Regardless of the pervasive reach of interpersonal social media and of the Internet in general (unless blocked by effective firewalls), control over the mass media emanating from the political center will still be our most important weapon in establishing our authority after the coup.

– E. Luttwak, Coup D’État: A Practical Handbook. pp. 131.

Climate change and extreme wealth inequality are the primary drivers of civilization collapse. From that understanding, the actions of this administration makes perfect sense.

It’s called the Dark Enlightenment, they essentially want to accelerate civilization collapse so their utopian vision is realized. The financial backers behind Trump adopted this philosophy, and have articulated their plan: dismantle democracy, Balkanize America and establish a patchwork of technomonarchy city-states. People really need to be talking with their community about localization of production of basic necessities, otherwise it will be chaos, famine and death when the system fails.

Civilization collapse will hit hardest on communities who haven’t localized their production of basic necessities like food. The financial backers behind Trump adhere to the Dark Enlightenment philosophy, with the goals of dismantling democracy, balkanizing America and establishing a patchwork of technomonarchy city-states from the ashes of destruction. The dismantlement phase is complete, now begins another phase of their philosophy, the scapegoating of Trump and replacing him with their Chosen One.

Here is a quote from the dark enlightenment to get people an idea of what these people have planned:

Civilization, as a process, is indistinguishable from diminishing time-preference (or declining concern for the present in comparison to the future). Democracy, which both in theory and evident historical fact accentuates time-preference to the point of convulsive feeding-frenzy, is thus as close to a precise negation of civilization as anything could be, short of instantaneous social collapse into murderous barbarism or zombie apocalypse (which it eventually leads to). As the democratic virus burns through society, painstakingly accumulated habits and attitudes of forward-thinking, prudential, human and industrial investment, are replaced by a sterile, orgiastic consumerism, financial incontinence, and a ‘reality television’ political circus. Tomorrow might belong to the other team, so it’s best to eat it all now.

The Dark Enlightenment, Nick Land

His reluctance to devolve power, his lack of loyalty towards his most zealous followers, his readiness to chop and change policies, his preference for mediocrities and sycophants over men of natural ability, and, most of all, his increasing tendency to believe his own rhetoric about the state of the nation ensured that the new state was never going to be a meritocracy

Nature of Fascism, R Griffin

This is in reference to Mussolini, but it’s a valid description of Trump as well.

It’s over the top and stupid because he’s using crowd psychology, it’s language tailored to elicit an emotional response based on irrational fear and anger. The “truth” is delegated from above, it’s true because the “authority” says it’s true. The intent of this type of rhetoric is to mobilize supporters to commit violence.

Since fascism’s mythic power is automatically sapped by the renewed ascendancy of the private over the public sphere of life which ensues once political stability and relative social harmony are restored, it can only maintain its momentum and cohesion by continually precipitating events which seemed to fulfil the promise of permanent revolution, of continuing palingenesis.

Though it may seek through agitation and propaganda to develop into an ‘irresistible’ mass movement, fascism must always in the last analysis be imposed by an elite in the name of a national community yet to be realized, and whose realization, even once the movement is installed in power, will initially (and in practice indefinitely) involve reeducation, propaganda and social control on a massive scale.

Since only a minority of the population can be temperamentally susceptible to converting spontaneously to fascism or becoming the new breed of homo fascistus, and since even at the height of its popularity, no modern regime can enjoy total support, the thorough-going ideological coordination of the national community could never come about ‘naturally’. A grotesque parody of it has to be enacted through the extensive use of propaganda and terror.

Nature of Fascism, R Griffin.

The means of action of the leaders. Affirmation, repetition, contagion

When, however, it is proposed to imbue the mind of a crowd with ideas and beliefs—with modern social theories, for instance—the leaders have recourse to different expedients. The principal of them are three in number and clearly defined — affirmation, repetition, and contagion. Their action is somewhat slow, but its effects, once produced, are very lasting.

Affirmation pure and simple, kept free of all reasoning and all proof, is one of the surest means of making an idea enter the mind of crowds.

Affirmation, however, has no real influence unless it be constantly repeated, and so far as possible in the same terms.

When an affirmation has been sufficiently repeated and there is unanimity in this repetition … what is called a current of opinion is formed and the powerful mechanism of contagion intervenes. Ideas, sentiments, emotions, and beliefs possess in crowds a contagious power as intense as that of microbes.

The Crowd, Gustave Le Bon

“Influencer” is just the propaganda term for propagandist.

After repetitive exposure to this propaganda (repetition priming), the people were beginning to believe and stand up for what each respective government had been flashing before their eyes, without them even knowing it.

https://sites.psu.edu/psych256sp18003/2018/03/04/h/

The fact of being exposed to propaganda and misinformation, repeatedly and continuously, has a psychological affect over time.

The individual must not be allowed to recover, to collect himself, to remain untouched by propaganda during any relatively long period, for propaganda is not the touch of the magic wand. It is based on slow, constant impregnation. It creates convictions and compliance through imperceptible influences that are effective only by continuous repetition. It must create a complete environment for the individual, one from which he never emerges.

Propaganda, Jacques Ellul

Republican rhetoric follows Le Bon’s The Crowd method: Affirmation, Repetition and Contagion.

First they espouse an idea or belief (ex. Radical Left are violent animals). The crowd accepts these statements as true, regardless of reality.

Then blast it on repeat through every medium so it becomes internalized in their minds.

Finally, the contagion phase, where the crowd is spurned to action, whether it is getting out to vote, storming the capital or going door to door murdering “The Enemy Within.”

It’s not difficult to see what the fascist intent is behind the extreme violent rhetoric.

The simulacrum is never what hides the truth - it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

Simulacra and Simulation, Jean Baudrillard.

I would recommend reading Le Bon’s The Crowd and Ellul’s Propaganda. There really is no distinction between truth and lie, it’s all just information these days. You have to ask yourself whenever presented with information what the intent behind it is, and decide on your own what to believe.

Just don’t mention Lysenkoism and arbitrary rule, that will get you banned from their subs. It is a microcosm of how communism operates, it must conform to the ideology over reality, and the democratic consensus gets jailed/executed for disagreeing.

If a small group of elite are making the decisions, then the working class doesn’t own the means of production, because the owners of the means are the ones who make those decisions.

All those examples have centralized power under centralized leadership, it’s pure fantasy to believe the working class had any control of the decisions being made.