“How hard they work to define the slave as inhuman, savage, when in fact the definition of the inhuman describes overwhelmingly the punisher. When they rest, exhausted, between bouts of lashing, the punishment is more sadistic than corrective. If sustained whipping tires the lasher, and he or she must take a series of breaks before continuing, what good does its duration do to the whipped? Such extreme pain seems to be designed for the pleasure of the one with the lash. The necessity of rendering the slave a foreign species appears to be a desperate attempt to confirm one’s own self as normal. The urgency of distinguishing between those who belong to the human race and those who are decidedly non-human is so powerful the spotlight turns away and shines not on the object of degradation but on its creator. Even assuming exaggeration by the slaves, the sensibility of slave owners is gothic. It’s as though they are shouting, “I am not a beast! I’m not a beast! I torture the helpless to prove I am not weak.” The danger of sympathizing with the stranger is the possibility of becoming a stranger. To lose one’s racial-ized rank is to lose one’s own valued and enshrined difference.” ― Toni Morrison, The Origin of Others

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    “Narrative fiction provides a controlled wilderness, an opportunity to be and to become the Other. The stranger. With sympathy, clarity, and the risk of self-examination.” ― Toni Morrison, The Origin of Others

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          Why are you asking about Timecube?

          Does it have to do with this Lemmy posting? The subject-matter of this Lemmy post?

          “How hard they work to define the slave as inhuman, savage, when in fact the definition of the inhuman describes overwhelmingly the punisher. When they rest, exhausted, between bouts of lashing, the punishment is more sadistic than corrective. If sustained whipping tires the lasher, and he or she must take a series of breaks before continuing, what good does its duration do to the whipped? Such extreme pain seems to be designed for the pleasure of the one with the lash. The necessity of rendering the slave a foreign species appears to be a desperate attempt to confirm one’s own self as normal. The urgency of distinguishing between those who belong to the human race and those who are decidedly non-human is so powerful the spotlight turns away and shines not on the object of degradation but on its creator. Even assuming exaggeration by the slaves, the sensibility of slave owners is gothic. It’s as though they are shouting, “I am not a beast! I’m not a beast! I torture the helpless to prove I am not weak.” The danger of sympathizing with the stranger is the possibility of becoming a stranger. To lose one’s racial-ized rank is to lose one’s own valued and enshrined difference.” ― Toni Morrison, The Origin of Others

           

          @TachyonTele@lemm.ee is active on the Lemmy Community “Information Wars”. Has a target fixation on !CounterSurkov@lemm.ee content.

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              You are insane.

              I’m not the one who thinks Alex Jones Info Wars is hilarious comedy.

              Take your meds and please don’t hurt anyone.

              Sadly, there is no medication for living in the United States of America in May 2025. There is no treatment plan for “Mass Psychosis” of an entire population who dehumanizes people via social machines like Twitter, Reddit, Lemmy, White House systems, Truth Social, etc.

              “MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL”

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M

               

              … your “Timecube” and Alex Jones Info Wars content. You go around promoting Alex Jones and Otis Eugene “Gene” Ray nonsense.

               

              Toni Morrison, The Origin of Others

              This Lemmy posting is based on a work of non-fiction, it is not Alex Jones and Otis Eugene “Gene” Ray.

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                Hey moron. That article is about the onion buying info wars.

                Stop trying to argue with people and actually read things. You might learn something instead of looking like a lunatic.

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                  That article is about the onion buying info wars.

                  Yes, I clearly can read. Your Lemmy behaviors on Lemmy media platform are what is being called out.

                  Hey moron.

                  Out-group moron social machine behavior, conditioned reactionary response. You attack Americans and immigrants you don’t understand or comprehend, just like Elon Musk and Donald Trump do - use Elon Musk Twitter systems and Donald Trump Truth Social systems to attack and call people “low IQ” and other insults when they can’t understand information warfare from Russia.

                   

                  ::: ______________
                  “Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning—not just of science, but of anything—are avoidable, even undesirable.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995

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    “I read “Bury my heart at wounded knee” recently. It’s about the decimation and banishment of Native Americans. The pattern was to push them off the best land, send them to smaller areas where they were reliant on aid, allow many to die of starvation and illness due to lack of care, slaughter them ruthlessly if they pushed back blaming them for the violence against them, and then just keep repeating the pattern till they were mostly gone and/or penned into inhospitable reserves.”
    Reddit comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1kfxzlf/68_of_gaza_declared_to_be_offlimits_to_gazans_as/mqum9de/

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      “To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.” ― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

      “There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.” - James Joyce, Letter to Augusta Gregory (22 November 1902)

      “in the Bible, eternity withdraws, and nature is corrupt, nature has fallen. In biblical thinking, we live in exile.” - Joseph Campbell at age 83, Skywalker Ranch California filmed by George Lucas for his Star Wars audience education in 1987.

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    @JokeDeity@lemm.ee - who refuses to offer their real name in self-dehumanization via computer machines, who revels in anonymous no-identity dehumanization of others…

    @JokeDeity@lemm.ee Has attacked me multiple times, demanding that I justify my mere existence for having autism and severe brain damage. That my use of English is so disturbing to them that they make active measures efforts to silenced me from using social media systems.

    They have ridiculed me in public for being ugly with my English composition, they have mocked and insulted me for not being good enough at writing. They have reveled in the power of popularity, in the power of mob mentality, to silence any opposition to toxic popularity.

     

    This very behavior of people who love systems and hate people has been my focus since year 2009, leading me to the prediction of the Arab Spring and travel to Africa and the Middle East. This is the very values that breed Elon Musk, Robert F. Kenny Jr, Donald Trump as status symbols, popular leaders. That people form mobs who treat life as a joke, humor-washing, absurd-washing, surreal-washing.

    How hard they work to define the slave as inhuman, savage, when in fact the definition of the inhuman describes overwhelmingly the punisher.

    The necessity of rendering the slave a foreign species appears to be a desperate attempt to confirm one’s own self as normal. The urgency of distinguishing between those who belong to the human race and those who are decidedly non-human is so powerful

    the need to be a conformity enforcer and non-person dehumanize those who behave or think different.

     

    https://old.reddit.com/r/DeathByLOL/comments/1jc65ie/reddit_community_behavior_since_2024_and_even/

    March 15, 2025:

    Reddit (Lemmy) community behavior since 2024 and even harder in 2025: Any time you step outside the daily stream of meme-think, meme-life consumption, you get massive suppression of your idea, All ideas must conform to TLDR and ELI4 meme-thinking society / Apple iPhone screen think

    Not entertaining enough, suppression HiveMind obedience kicks in

     

    “When conformity enforcers overwhelm diversity generators, all of us are in trouble. Spartans–fundamentalists, militia groups, fascists, and ultra-nationalists–can freeze the machinery of collective mind. A shutdown of urban diversity devastates that exercise of collective acumen we call an economy. Christian Fundamentalism has been shown by the research of sociologists Alfred Darnell and Darren E. Sherkat to retard the learning of children raised within its grasp. Darnell and Sherkat sum up a common Fundamentalist attitude in the following words: “No schooling is better than secular schooling.” Then there’s the paralysis of thought which outright battle brings. When World War I erupted, Sigmund Freud was horrified by the sudden “narrow-mindedness shown by [even] the best intellects, their obduracy, their inaccessibility to the most forcible arguments.” Such closings of the mind may explain why authoritarians are prone to ignore it when their approaches flop. They often goose-step from one year to another rigidly glued to backfiring ways.”


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    Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
    Chapter: The Kidnap of Mass Mind
    Page: 203-204
    Howard Bloom
    Published: August 14, 2000

     

    Elon Musk antics are the Gold Standard of Reddit / Lemmy / Bluesky / Mastodon mockery entertainment in January / February / March (Q1) 2025. Absolutely people adore saying “I am smarter than Elon Musk” egomism memes. The dumber the meme saying “I’m smarter than icon Musk” every meme hour, the more the Reddit / Lemmy community upvotes

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      “Just realized that a basketball headline looks like complete gibberish when you don’t watch sports.” - https://lemm.ee/post/63195135/20224242

       

      But they actively don’t realize it in any other category of life, @JokeDeity@lemm.ee dehumanizes people who communicate outside of their context blindness, declaring them “not normal” in multiple ways to ridicule them for existing, for creating English content on a free part of the Internet. Intolerance of what they can not grasp, “looks like complete gibberish”

      Also sports-minded, sports mentality.

      “Just realized that a basketball headline looks like complete gibberish when you don’t watch sports.”

      I realized this at age 13, and further studied when I worked for the richest people in the world, NBA team owner, NFL team owner. of how the wealthy ruling class use information systems of sports to manipulate others. Same as religion jargon, religion language. All Tower of Babel !BabelTower@lemm.ee metaphors, actively exploited by billionaire networks.

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        Another message of @JokeDeity@lemm.ee

        “God of Jokes, Ruler of all Jokes”.

        “You might be one of the most hated people on this site, lol, just about every single comment and post of yours is negative. It’s almost like no one is falling for your pathetic fake leftist trolling.” - https://lemm.ee/post/63041344/20224186

        one of the most hated people on this site, lol,

        @JokeDeity@lemm.ee is wanting to emphasize on Lemmy May 6, 2025 - that Lemmy is good, that hate is good. That a toxic popularity of hate is goodness, just like Donald Trump as leader of the Free World / Elon Musk leader of Twitter Internet alues on Lemmy. That dehumanizing and hate are goodness.

        In severe need of remedial morality education. That a society that “lol” at “most hated people” is a toxic environment, a toxic use of machines by people. Hate is always bad.

        Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. identified this as the core problem of World War Two, shortly after the world war in 1954.

        February 1954 new comprehension / equation

        “We have adopted in the modern world a sort of a relativistic ethic … Most people can’t stand up for their convictions, because the majority of people might not be doing it. See, everybody’s not doing it, so it must be wrong. And since everybody is doing it, it must be right. So a sort of numerical interpretation of what’s right. But I’m here to say to you this morning that some things are right and some things are wrong. Eternally so, absolutely so. It’s wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. It’s wrong in America, it’s wrong in Germany, it’s wrong in Russia, it’s wrong in China. It was wrong in 2000 B.C., and it’s wrong in 1954 A.D. It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong. It’s wrong to throw our lives away in riotous living. No matter if everybody in Detroit is doing it, it’s wrong. It always will be wrong, and it always has been wrong. It’s wrong in every age and it’s wrong in every nation. Some things are right and some things are wrong, no matter if everybody is doing the contrary. Some things in this universe are absolute.”

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            Dragonfaggot @discuss.tchncs.de

            Created account for one single Lemmy comment of 5 words, to attack with Russian information warfare against !CounterSurkov@lemm.ee information warfare education.

            Also promotes use of “faggot” in username.

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            “We have adopted in the modern world a sort of a relativistic ethic … Most people can’t stand up for their convictions, because the majority of people might not be doing it. See, everybody’s not doing it, so it must be wrong. And since everybody is doing it, it must be right. So a sort of numerical interpretation of what’s right. But I’m here to say to you this morning that some things are right and some things are wrong. Eternally so, absolutely so. It’s wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. It’s wrong in America, it’s wrong in Germany, it’s wrong in Russia, it’s wrong in China. It was wrong in 2000 B.C., and it’s wrong in 1954 A.D. It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong. It’s wrong to throw our lives away in riotous living. No matter if everybody in Detroit is doing it, it’s wrong. It always will be wrong, and it always has been wrong. It’s wrong in every age and it’s wrong in every nation. Some things are right and some things are wrong, no matter if everybody is doing the contrary. Some things in this universe are absolute.”

            Woah, someone’s off their meds.

            You think Dr. Martin Luther King Jr is off his medication?

            No medication has been able to treat the “Mass Psychosis” of the United States of America, where I am living since year 2013. I’ve been hospitalized over a dozen times, and nothing the medical community has offered deals with the problem of Kremlin information warfare unleashed on the world wide web since March 2013

            5,000 alternate-reality fiction patterns https://www.facebook.com/konstantin.rykov/posts/10210643558675446

            “Британские учёные из Cambridge Analytica предложили сделать из 5 тысяч существующих человеческих психотипов - “идеальный образ” возможного сторонника Трампа. Затем… положить этот образ обратно на всё психотипы и таким образом подобрать универсальный ключик к любому и каждому.” … “Следующим шагом необходимо было разработать систему передачи задач и информации, чтобы никакая гэбуха и АНБ не смогли её спалить.” … “Дальше оставалось только загрузить эти данные в информационные потоки и социальные сети.”

             

            ::: ___________________
            “The necessity of rendering the slave a foreign species appears to be a desperate attempt to confirm one’s own self as normal.”

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          LMFAO, holy shit this is one of the most insane things I’ve ever seen in my entire time on this planet. I’m dying over here man. Have fun cataloging my Lemmy experience you full on psychopath. 🤣

          I’m so sorry for anyone that has to deal with you in real life.

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            LMFAO

            You mock and dehumanize compulsively those you don’t comprehend or understand who are resisting the absurd warfare of surreal comedy and absurd surreal humor of Surkov / Surkovian hybrid warfare. !HybridWarLost@lemm.ee

            I’m so sorry for anyone that has to deal with you in real life.

            This is real life, Lemmy isn’t outside of Earth’s communications systems. You are detached from reality if you think this isn’t real and that you dehumanize people using social machines.

            holy shit this is one of the most insane things I’ve ever seen in my entire time on this planet. I’m dying over here man.

            Your mind is easily blown, blown into out-group dehumanization and out-group hate.