SPQR2d ago

The Washington Post under Jeff Bezos is a pro-oligarchy propaganda broadsheet. Consider the rant against Graham Platner, Maine Senate candidate. They described him as a "socialist" with a Nazi tattoo. Yes, that makes sense.

Meanwhile, their favorite Mussolini impersonator in the WH, introduced global tariffs that have upended the world economy, started illegal wars, kidnapped a foreign leader, and defends genocidal fascists.
#USpolitics #propaganda #ManufacturedConsent https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/06/18/inside-dsa-takeover-democratic-party/

The Democratic Socialists of America won’t be pacified

From Platner to Raman, a left-wing movement is poised to remake a national party in its own image.

The Washington Post
David BolesJun 15

The Rented Crowd: Nero’s Five Thousand, the Paris Claque, and the Box That Laughed for America

For the better part of two decades, the laughter of the United States lived inside a padlocked box. Charles Rolland Douglass, a CBS sound engineer who had spent the war helping the Navy develop shipboard radar, built the device in the early 1950s and guarded it the way a sexton guards a reliquary. The laff box, as he called it, stood a little over two feet tall and worked like an organ: keys for titters, chortles, belly laughs, shrieks, a foot pedal to let a wave of mirth swell, crest, and die on command. Douglass wheeled it from studio to studio himself. Clients heard the output and never saw the mechanism. Only his immediate family knew what the inside looked like, and when he finally stepped back from the work, his sons carried the trade forward like a guild secret. The industry word for what he did was sweetening, which tells you the industry understood the product. Sugar is what you add when the thing itself goes down easier disguised. […]

https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/15/the-rented-crowd-neros-five-thousand-the-paris-claque-and-the-box-that-laughed-for-america/

PronoiaMay 10

"Do not adjust your mind - it is reality that is malfunctioning."

A legitimate look at the capture of the institutions we rely on for protection and information - media, medicine, wikipedia - and the patterns of suppression.

https://intothedialectic.com/the-capture-of-truth/

#ManufacturedConsent #plantmedicine #medicine #democracy #censorship #CriticalThinking #Media

The Capture of Truth

On the consensus machine, the inversion of protection, and the dissolution of democracy. Democratic societies are built, in theory, on a set of interlocking protections: a free press to hold power …

...Into the dialectic
Show threadPepperberryMay 2

Most media debates feel open.
But they’re often structured long before they reach the screen.
This piece looks at how framing, expert selection, and incentives shape what gets discussed — and what doesn’t.
“Freedom of speech exists.
You just have to stay inside the question.”

Essay👇
https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/we-dont-report-the-truth-we-manage

#MediaFraming #ManufacturedConsent #PublicDiscourse #MediaCritique #AgendaSetting #PolicyDebate #LaborShortage #WageDebate #NarrativeControl #CriticalThinking #Journalism #PoliticalEconomy

WE DON’T REPORT THE TRUTH: WE MANAGE THE DEBATE.

Media Framing, Expert Selection, and the Architecture of Managed Debate on Canadian Broadcast Media, A Case Study in Curated Consensus

Curmudgeonly Canadian
PepperberryMay 2

We often assume biased media means false information.
More often, it means something subtler:
a narrowing of the conversation itself.

This essay explores how “reasonable” expert panels can produce consensus by defining the problem in advance.
Not by conspiracy —
but by structure.
👇
https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/we-dont-report-the-truth-we-manage

#MediaFraming #ManufacturedConsent #PublicDiscourse #MediaCritique #AgendaSetting #PolicyDebate #LaborShortage #WageDebate #NarrativeControl #CriticalThinking #Journalism #PoliticalEconomy

Jeferson 'Shin'Apr 10

And here we go again, another 2000+ post... I hope you like this one, it's a good one, and took me a few weeks to write everything.

https://jeferson.me/blog/2026/04/09/review-on-age-verification

#AgeVerification #AntiTrust #AttentionEconomy #Ban #Capitalism #Data #DataPrivacy #Digital #Enshittification #Fediverse #ManufacturedConsent #Privacy #SelfHosting #SmallWeb #SocialMedia #Sovereignty #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #SurveillanceState #Web

A review on the age verification

We were all wrong about age verification, and looks like we should cut the roots of the problem. We should instead of bandage the bleeding we should cut the limb, otherwise we won't be able to survive.

Stephen HayesMar 5
#Capitalism #Brainwashing #ManufacturedConsent #OperantConditioning Okay, all you Pavlovian dogs.. m.youtube.com/watch?v=20JN...

Capitalist conditioning 101: u...
Capitalist conditioning 101: understanding & overcoming it

YouTube
Show threadRusty ShacklefordFeb 4

@georgetakei
Re: https://loops.video/v/czE2YkFJI2

Noam Chomsky: The five filters of the mass media machine, presented by AlJazeera

#consent #manufacturedConsent #politics #geopolitics #massmedia #capitalism #socialism #fascism #censorship #surveillance #government #news #education #video #loops #fyp

Noam Chomsky: The five fil... - @Rusty__Shackleford | Loops.video

Noam Chomsky: The fi... • 23 likes • 0 comments

Miro CollasJan 31

Appropriating the death count: Manufacturing consent for an attack on Iran | Protests | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/31/appropriating-the-death-count-manufacturing-consent-for-an-attack-on-iran

"Unverified protest death toll estimates have been widely circulated, preparing public opinion for military intervention and downplaying the genocide in Gaza."

#Iran #USA #Israel
#ManufacturedConsent

Appropriating the death count: Manufacturing consent for an attack on Iran

Protest death toll speculations are used to rally support for an attack on Iran and downplay the genocide in Gaza.

Al Jazeera
CultureStormJan 25
Violence gives Trump exactly what he wants: pretext. A blank check for repression, surveillance and total control. It does not threaten his power. It authorizes it. Do not take the bait! #StateViolence #ManufacturedConsent #AuthoritarianPlaybook #ReichstagFire #PassiveResistance