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Diary of Anne Frank April 23, 2025 - "We felt we could not trust what he might do next to us as individuals and to our country. We no longer felt welcome nor safe.” - anti-goodness abounds

Last week, Tracy and Dale McMullen sold their vacation home in Buckeye, Arizona, a property they owned for five years. The Alberta residents, who usually spend four to five months in Arizona a year, said they are not planning to come back.

“We decided to sell the property after the current POTUS took office,” said Dale, referring to U.S. President Donald Trump, who was inaugurated for the second time in January.

“It was time to leave. We felt we could not trust what he might do next to us as individuals and to our country. We no longer felt welcome nor safe.”

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/many-canadian-snowbirds-in-us-looking-to-pack-up-and-fly-north-for-good/

81 comments
  • Do you think people are going to read 5000 words before they judge your seemingly misleading comments?

    Loaded question, negging question. "your seemingly misleading comments" - no precise quotation of what I have said that is misleading, just more vague bullshit.

    I don’t even know what your intentions are with this, it’s so unclear.

    Not my fault that the entire world is confused by "Operation Matthew 4:19" - Kremlin and Cambridge Analtyica simulacra and information warfare since March 2013. See this Lemmy community: "Understand USA" !UnderstandUSA@lemm.ee

    I don’t even know what your intentions are with this, it’s so unclear.

    Not my fault you are so confused in April 2025 and didn't study and learn from Neil Postman's 1985 book:

    “In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different roder from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century opinions. It is probably more accurate to call them emotions rather than opinions, which would account for the fact that they change from week to week, as the pollsters tell us. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this world almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information--misplace, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information--information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985. !BackTo1985@lemm.ee

     

    Do you want to educate?

    Not really, but nobody else is doing it. Civic duty is how I have described it when asked why before. Mastodon hashtag I originated: "My Civic Ditty" https://mastodon.social/tags/MyCivicDitty

     

    Do you want to divide further?

    No, the 5,000 Kremlin alternate reality screen games ("Operation Matthew 4:19") continue to penetrate hearts and minds and divide people all over the world. Your question is another Loaded question, negging question

    Do you want to push conspiracies?

    another Loaded question, negging question

    Do you try to be the New Nostradamus creating texts that could be interpreted any way?

    another Loaded question, negging question

    I'll keep REPEATING: Russia-watcher Catherine Fitzpatrick, who documents Kremlin disinformation for InterpreterMag com, says just as Moscow uses vague Internet laws to encourage self-censorship, trolls inhibit informed debate by using crude dialogue to change "the climate of discussion." "If you show up at The Washington Post or New Republic sites, where there's an article that's critical of Russia, and you see that there are 200 comments that sound like they were written by 12-year-olds, then you just don't bother to comment," she says. "You don't participate. It's a way of just driving discussion away completely," she adds. "Those kinds of tactics are meant to stop democratic debate, and they work." -Daisy Sindelar. August 12 2014

     

    I didn’t criticise the articles

    I'm not here to crticize articles and act like they are for entertainment and casual purposes. Again, you are trying to change the climate of conversation that the goal here is to "criticize articles"

    The purpose is for people to understand, comprehend, not to criticize them. So far, you demonstrate no understanding other than to apply active measures against me to drive me crazy and make me want to quit using Lemmy. REPEATING: “You don’t participate. It’s a way of just driving discussion away completely,” she adds. “Those kinds of tactics are meant to stop democratic debate, and they work.” -Daisy Sindelar. August 12 2014

     

    My postings here on this post I created here... here... here on Lemmy... Started with "anti-goodness abounds" - which has been your behavior. "anti-goodness abounds" in April 23, 2025.

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