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“Unfortunately, when governments or institutions are hiding the truth about what they’re up to or they’re playing fast & loose with certain regulations or they’re not imposing certain laws on different people,” Donovan said, “it is much easier to believe in a conspiracy against oneself than it is to believe that the system has become rotted.”

#TrumpLies #Trump #PerformancePolitics #BreadAndCircuses #ConspiracyTheories #USpol #media

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Nonilex May 11

Jared Holt, a snr researcher at the online extremism tracking group Open Measures, said the statistics show how conspiratorial thinking is becoming more common in the US.
“Those poll numbers don’t terribly shock me. They’re definitely bleak,” Holt said. “Conspiracy theorizing has infected our body politic now to the point where it has become a gut reflex for a seemingly growing portion of the population.”

#TrumpLies #Trump #PerformancePolitics #BreadAndCircuses #ConspiracyTheories #USpol #media

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Nonilex May 11

Joan Donovan, a Boston University professor who researches media manipulation, said the results are an indicator of the role of showmanship in #Trump’s presidency. “It just seems incredibly Hollywood to imagine that this is staged,” Donovan said of the correspondents’ dinner shooting. “The entire apparatus of the government has been turned into a reality TV show.”

#TrumpLies #PerformancePolitics #BreadAndCircuses #ConspiracyTheories #USpol #media

Nonilex May 11

This is what happens when you lie ALL THE TIME

Many Americans think #Trump #assassination attempts were fake
 About 1 in 4 adults say the #WHCD shooting was staged, 1 in 3 Democrats said they believed the event was fake, & 1 in 8 Republicans also think it was staged, according to a survey published Monday by NewsGuard, a company that rates the reliability of online news outlets.

#TrumpLies #PerformancePolitics #BreadAndCircuses #ConspiracyTheories #USpol #media
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/05/11/trump-assassinations-staged-conspiracy/

Many Americans think Trump assassination attempts were fake, survey finds

About 1 in 4 say the correspondents’ dinner shooting was staged, the poll found, including roughly a third of Democrats, as conspiracy theories spread widely online.

The Washington Post

Wm.son Apr 30

#Rome #UnitedStates #BreadAndCircuses
#LucasBean

https://lucasbean.substack.com/p/how-republics-actually-die?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=265926&post_id=196042687&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=20nwza&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

How Republics Actually Die

The five warning signs Rome left us and why we need to pay attention

Lucas Bean Daily

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Darth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈Mar 25

@lxskllr @startrek

From "Bread & Circuses." I think maybe the continents were not exactly duplicated in that one. Looks similar quality though.

#AllStarTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #Miri #BreadAndCircuses

Kevin Bowen

Mar 23

Three more days.
I'm more than ready for #baseball season to start so that I can be properly distracted from all of these distractions in the world.

#BreadAndCircuses #Goms

Raurquiz Mar 15

#otd #startrek #breadandcircuses #kirk #spock #mmcoy #mericus #claudiusmarcus #septimus #flavius #maximus #deepspacenine #valiant #jakesisko #nog #timwatters #farris #rileyshepard #doriancollins #voyager #goodshepherd #janeway #mortimerharren #williamtelfer #talceles #mitchell #startrek59 @startrek @startrekonpplus

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Nonilex Feb 25

When Roman emperors ran out of ideas, they promised #BreadAndCircuses. Trump’s speech was full of circuses, including a lengthy celebration of the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team. But he’s *no* Roman emperor: He made a point of reminding the American people that his administration is providing a lot less #food to the #poor (having “lifted” 2.4 million people off #FoodStamps).

#Trump #clown #SOTU #FoodInsecutity