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Unhappy the land that needs heroes.

A hero that the Divided States of America desperately needs is speaking up.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/130

Proof of Conway's Law
melconway.com/Home/Conways_Law
"Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.":
Kellyanne Conway playing Trump's Mouth of Sauron to divide the USA with propaganda divides her family and makes her daughter run away in disgust.

A grotesque mediocrity playing a hero's part

So, on election night of 9 November 2016, I posted:
"This time, the farce"¹
as reference to the beginning of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
"Hegel remarks somewhere that all the events and personalities of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."

Only when I told this Ha ha, only serious joke to my uncle Thomas Nielebock from the Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Tübingen two nights ago did he point out to me that, if I bothered to read the full text, I would find a rather apt description of the kind of Self-coup that Trump is trying to get away with:
marxists.org/archive/marx/work
"Of the writings dealing with the same subject at approximately the same time as mine, only two deserve notice: Victor Hugo’s Napoleon le Petit and Proudhon’s Coup d’Etat. Victor Hugo confines himself to bitter and witty invective against the responsible producer of the coup d’etat. The event itself appears in his work like a bolt from the blue. He sees in it only the violent act of a single individual. He does not notice that he makes this individual great instead of little by ascribing to him a personal power of initiative unparalleled in world history. Proudhon, for his part, seeks to represent the coup d’etat as the result of an antecedent historical development. Inadvertently, however, his historical construction of the coup d’etat becomes a historical apologia for its hero. Thus he falls into the error of our so-called objective historians. I, on the contrary, demonstrate how the class struggle in France created circumstances and relationships that made it possible for a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero’s part."

¹ facebook.com/Tatzelbrumm/posts

[Dank an Wolfgang M Schmitt Juniors —wie üblich— vortreffliche Filmanalyse youtu.be/DBX3DgYdMl4 ]

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„Wer aber vom Kapitalismus nicht reden will, sollte auch vom Faschismus schweigen“
Max Horkheimers Wort in Joe Bidens Ohr ... aber der salbadert auch propagandistisch, geradezu manichäisch von Licht und Dunkel, um den heißen Brei herum:
youtu.be/pnmQr0WfSvo
Da ergibt dann angesichts des drohenden Durchmarschs der kapitalistischen "alle gegen alle"-Propaganda nur noch die ewige Weisheit der bayrisch-amigokapitalistischen Lichtgestalt Franz Beckenbauer
sich:
"Schaun mer mal.
Dan sehn mer's scho."

If someone cuts me off from the most beautiful computations in the world for selfish reasons, I need to prevent this cutoff ever to make business sense for that person.
Time to get to work and publish Prior Art.

A Day In The Life
(would be #40)
... and though the hints are rather small,
You have to count them all.

wonders whether refugees will arrive at qoto.org, while social networks of the people, for the people, and by the people shall perish from Mr. Zuk-zuk's empire.

For a successful technology,
reality must take precedence over public relations,
for Nature cannot be fooled.

Well done, @SpaceX

Erinnerungen an den Schiausflug ins Kleine Walsertal nach dem schriftlichen Abitur im Januar 1986 kommen wieder hoch.
youtu.be/wHylQRVN2Qs

On the one hand, youtu.be/B6K0-7oj_38
is a disgusting panegyric for a billionaire Mover and Shaker and propaganda for his private company that fills the vacuum left behind by a government space agency systematically rendered ineffective …
on the other hand, the propaganda works on me, even though I'd prefer a much more technical narrative.

Do not forgive them, for they know what their platforms are doing:
Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
archive.is/cSUlh

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