@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialOnce again, where are all the 2A fuckwads caressing their guns for when they’ll need to protect the citizenry from a tyrannical government? Haven’t they read that poem? Somebody should maybe post it on Truth. I expect it’s been on X multiple times. What are the chances anybody there will twig?
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialUS political contradictions; knowledge systems
As Trump at least partially succeeds in constructing an alternate reality for his most ardent followers, it's tempting to think of his dogma as false, in contrast to some imagined "truth" which his non-followers are smart enough to believe in. But a more nuanced view of knowledge would admit that different groups of people have different shared truths, constituting different knowledge systems which each deviate from what's objectively measurable in different ways, and in fact they each accept different standards of what is objective, so there's not really a single "ground truth" we can even compare to to determine which of these knowledge systems is "more correct" (similar problems arise even if we only care about "more useful").
To make this more concrete, we can see that e.g., competing quantum physics theories, or likewise competing religious beliefs, have no reasonable basis on which to judge between them, either in terms of "truth" or "utility." So the Trump-dogma knowledge system, although bad, morally repugnant, etc., can't so easily be dismissed as "false" in my view. "Distorted" or "malignant" or "evil" or "contradictory" are better monikers, in my opinion.
But what I'm even more interested in thinking about is: in what ways does the current American liberal "common sense" knowledge system already bear the scars of past fascist lies & contradictions? I can think of a few:
"Columbus was an explorer."
This is "factually accurate" in the same way some of Trump's propaganda is, but it's also a cruel distortion of "Columbus was a child murderer," and it's a misrepresentation that serves an evil purpose, yet which is widely taught in elementary schools today.
Another: "dropping atomic bombs on civilians in Japan was necessary to end WWII."
Perhaps in the future we'll have "family separation & the 2025 ICE crackdowns were necessary to end the immigration crisis," although I dearly hope not.
"Reparations for slavery aren't reasonable," is yet another...
I'll close this rambling with a question: what other fascist lies have you noticed that are normalized in America right now from past Trump-like leaders (or even from less overtly fascist institutions)?
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialFrom @… - False UFO stories created by military... sometimes intentionally terrorizing their own soldiers https://n…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Applications of the Critical Incident Technique in Library and Information Science Research: A Literature Review" https://doi.org/10.1515/libri-2024-0065
@servelan@newsie.socialIOW, telling the truth.
ABC News' Terry Moran suspended after post calling Stephen Miller a "world-class hater"
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/08/abc-terry-moran-suspended-stephen-miller-post
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoIt's truth in advertising when the braided UHMWPE product page shows it unraveling! 🤣
I've learned that plasma lighters are great tools for cutting light gauge synthetic cord. They are basically small hot plasma knives that cut slowly. Works for UHMWPE, nylon, polyester, and more. Also PET cable sheath, which is otherwise highly motivated to spontaneously disassemble itself.
@rmdes@mstdn.socialAbuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/
@mapto@qoto.org"Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: ‘Look, until America goes into political decline, there won’t be an American pope.’ And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don’t want America running the world religiously. So, I think there’s some truth to that, that we’re such a superpower and so dominant, they don’t wanna give us, also, control over the church."
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: since his inauguration, President Trump posted 2,262 times on Truth Social in 132 days, 3x the volume of tweets in the same period of his first term (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/03/trump-truth-socia…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaTitle: The Truth About Spain
Author: Rudolf Rocker
Topics: #catholicism, #CNT, #FAI, #fascism
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.deToday, I learned that the founder of the #SimpleX messenger is a #ClimateChange-denying #Covid conspiracy-theorist, anti-vaxxer and
@cdarwin@c.im“The easiest way to save money in our Budget,
Billions and Billions of Dollars,
is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts,”
Trump posted on Truth Social.
“I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!”
On Saturday, he said that the move was still on the table:
“I’d be allowed to do that,” he said, “but I have, I haven’t given it any thought.”
Trump also suggested that it was Musk who was reeling from the toxic breakup.
“I thin…
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialI think we all knew a Melon Husk / Turnip meltdown was inevitable, but I didn't think it'd happen this soon, escalate this quickly, or blowup this spectacularly.
🍿 🍿 🍿
#MelonHusk #POTUS47
@ukraine_live_tagesschau@mastodon.socialTrump: "Es war ein gutes Gespräch"
US-Präsident Donald Trump sieht nach einem erneuten Telefonat mit Kremlchef Wladimir Putin keine Chance auf eine sofortige Lösung im Ukraine-Krieg. "Es war ein gutes Gespräch, aber kein Gespräch, das zu einem sofortigen Frieden führen wird", schrieb Trump nach dem Telefonat auf der Plattform Truth Social. Putin habe zudem eine Antwort auf die ukrainischen Drohnenangriffe auf Militärstützpunk…
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@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social“I know faithful people, including faithful preachers, who persist in hope for the future, against all odds, grounded in their hope in God’s steadfastness. That hope emboldens them both to hear and preach the truth of God’s compassion and of God’s justice, and to act accordingly. Their hope emboldens me.”
—Roger Ferlo ’79 Ph.D. writing in the latest issue of our journal, Reflections
@wraithe@mastodon.socialSo I think I’m kind of out of the loop but let me see if I have this straight:
Truth Social & Twitter are fighting now?
Sounds like a win/win to me.
@brentsleeper@sfba.social“i need everyone in the white house press pool to ask karoline leavitt if the president thinks joe biden is a clone or a robot. he can’t be both! we need to know which one he thinks it is.” https://bsky.app/profile/socialistdogmom.bsky.social/post/3lqj7isldfs2y…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialThe undeniable, uncomfortable truth #Trump voters will never escape is there's absolutely NO ONE ELSE that's at fault for empowering a sociopathic, senile criminal to become a US dictator.
Only #TrumpVoters are responsible for this.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNYSE Arca files with the SEC to list a Bitcoin ETF linked to Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social and Truth.fi (Vildana Hajric/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialBurnbrae egg cartons show a smiling egg, grassy fields, and sunny skies. But the hens that laid those eggs live trapped in small wire cages, inside industrial barns. #AnimalRights
@adlerweb@social.adlerweb.infoChaotic? Yes. Evil? Sometimes. All panels displaying too few screens? Hell yes.
https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/114557722686209992
@stf@chaos.socialπ is only half the truth!
@EmilyMoranBarwick@mastodon.socialNothing I’m trying to write is "flowing"...it's all laborious.
I'm encouraged by "Your labor isn’t a sign of defeat" from @… wherein she quotes Verlyn Klinkenborg:
"if you accept that writing is hard work, And that’s what it feels like when you’re writing, Then everything is as it should be. Your labor is…
@kctipton@mas.toTrump’s Truth Social posts make no sense – what do they say about his mentality? | Donald Trump | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/03/trump-truth-social-media-posts
@grahams@mastodon.socialBUTTHOLE SURFERS: THE HOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUTT was unlike so many modern band/album docs…. It moved quickly, had tons of great, varied interview subjects, fun interstitial and recreations, etc. Super fun. #IFFBoston
@brentsleeper@sfba.social“it is a truth of this website that no matter what position you hold on any topic, one of the most terminally online people on earth whose full time job appears to be getting angry on the internet will appear to declare that you are a centrist” https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3s5wt
@cdarwin@c.im“Time to drop the really big bomb,” Elon Musk wrote on social media.
Donald Trump, he said, “is in the Epstein files. That is why they have not been made public.”
Musk did not offer any evidence, but soon added,
“The truth will come out.”
https…
@lilmikesf@c.im
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyI think a tram is coming from behind.
@cosmicray@mastodon.social“On a warming planet, as scientific truth is subject to political distortion and where autocracy is on the rise, scientists should be prepared to make many such "impossible choices" as we attempt to protect the resources of the past in the face of an uncertain future.”
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sci…
@arXiv_csSI_bot@mastoxiv.pageThis https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19214 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSI_…
@caroldib@mastodon.socialTo the seeker of Truth who never stops thinking, but sometimes forgets to rest in his own heart:
You don’t need to impress me.
You don’t have to have all the answers.
I don’t want your solutions.
I want your smile.
Let me in, not through the door of reason, but through the crack in your voice when you speak what scares you.
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🖼️ Hilma af Klint. Svanen, nr 1, grupp IX/SUW, serie SUW/UW ✨
@erk709@social.linux.pizzaThe #US does #AmericaFirst #moron version. (It's not the only version, though...)
#politics
@erk709@social.linux.pizzaThe #US does #AmericaFirst #moron version. (It's not the only version, though...)
#politics
@rberger@hachyderm.io"But there were technologists and open source projects in attendance. Notably, representatives from the Mastodon and Bluesky teams were at the Festival. The Newsmast Foundation was also present, incisively taking part in conversations to help newsrooms onboard themselves onto both of them. I got to hang out with them all, connecting with people I’d spoken with but never interacted with in person. Mastodon has undergone a transformation, has doubled its team, and is working on smoothing out some of its rough edges, while not letting go of its core ethos. It’s also beginning to position itself as a European alternative to American social media platforms, with a community-first values system and new services to directly help organizations join the network.
Bluesky, on the other hand, has done an able job of bringing journalists onto its existing social app, and is now hard at work explaining why its underlying protocol matters. Both want to engage with newsrooms and journalists and do the right thing by them. They each have something different to prove: Mastodon that it can be usable and accessible, and Bluesky that it can provide a return to its investors and truly decentralize while holding onto its values. I’m rooting for both of them.
These platforms’ messages dovetail with my own: news can own the platforms that support them. Lots of people at the Festival were worried about the impact of US big tech on their businesses — particularly in a world where tech moguls seem to be aligning themselves with a Presidential administration that has positioned itself as being adversarial to news, journalists, sources, and, arguably, the truth. The good news is that the technology is out there, the values-aligned technologists are out there, and there’s a strong path forward. The only thing left is to follow it."
#media #Mastodon #BlueSky #Journalism
https://werd.io/2025/notes-from-perugia-journalism-values-and-building-the-web-we
@caroldib@mastodon.social📕 “If you want to know what’s really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty.”
Jaron Lanier.
