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Operation Epic Fury - How Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are selling the Iran war to Americans

"We see the secretary of defense constantly putting [the war] in the framework, the narrative, of a big video game...We're blowing up a lot of stuff, we're killing a lot of people' … it's so distasteful to me...I think there probably is a good reason for why we are doing this, but we're certainly not hearing it from the administration." Professor VanLandingham >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-09/trump-hegseth-white-house-frame-iran-middle-east-war-as-a-game/106427790

„Crusades“ and the “Secretary of War” - The man in charge of the world’s most powerful military. "‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war" >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/pete-hegseth-pentagon-trump-iran
#war #hyperreality #media #movies #VideoGames #reality #DesertOfTheReal #spectacles #narratives #crusades #crusader #iconography #extremism #rhetoric #military #justification #GodWillsIt

Tough talk and video games: How the war is being sold to Americans

The US administration's unapologetic stance on the war has come with a lot of bravado, but there are signs the American public is not convinced.

Toni Aittoniemi Feb 20

Disneyland is cover for the fact that the whole country is a Disneyland (Baudrillard)

Matrix is the movie the matrix makes to keep you in the matrix (Damien Walter)

AI is cover for the ongoing project for making everyone less intelligent and capable of participating in the system.

(inspired by Damien Walter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPkRdJ3EwWE

#hyperreality #ai #philosophy #resistance

Jupiter Ascending is HILARIOUS garbage. But.

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PseudoNovalis Jan 15

CHILL, IT'S ONLY CHAOS...

"There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven’t noticed already."
(RAW / POEE)

#AIart + #collage

#Pataphysics #dystopia #CHAOS #Chaosmagick #Magick #cyberpunk #bulldada #Discordia #Discordianism #surrealism #Futurism #Hyperreality #Memetics #Fnord

MindTGap Jan 11

1hr 29min
"How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult"
#TheElephantGraveyard
Aug 18, 2025
#REWIND
#comedy #comedyjonestown #joerogan #comedyczar #cult #culty #austin #tx #simulacrum #Techbros #Oligarchs #Zuck #Musk #Thiel #billionaires #x #twitter #shitter #antireality #fuckzuck #elonmusk #peterthiel #palantir #hyperreality #migration #HeavensGate #MarshallApplewhite #ComedyMothership #sui #bunkers #bunkerboys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvRS3NwIlQ

How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult

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𝕯𝖔𝖔𝖒𝖘𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖑™Oct 25

Imagine closing your eyes after scrolling too long. The shapes behind your eyelids are still luminous, negative imprints of a thousand images. That residue is the new unconscious: bright, restless, algorithmic. We are not haunted by technology. We are haunted through it. #Hauntology #MediaEcology #AttentionEconomy #Hyperreality #CriticalTheory #DigitalCulture

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𝕯𝖔𝖔𝖒𝖘𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖑™Oct 25

You don’t need to believe the simulation; you just need to engage. In hyperreality, truth is irrelevant. What matters is circulation. Attention has replaced ontology. To exist is to trend; to vanish is to stop rendering. #Hyperreality #AttentionEconomy

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𝕯𝖔𝖔𝖒𝖘𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖑™Oct 25

Influencers perform sincerity as a service. Brands simulate activism with machine learning. Authenticity becomes a genre. The hyperreal object — video, persona, AI intimacy — exists not to reflect the real but to replace the need for it. Participation now outranks belief. #Hyperreality

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𝕯𝖔𝖔𝖒𝖘𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖑™Oct 25

Baudrillard warned that simulation precedes reality. What he missed was how the simulation would start to feel better. Hyperreality isn’t a malfunction; it’s an upgrade. We prefer the copy because the copy looks directly at us. #Hyperreality

N-gated Hacker News Sep 22

🎩✨ In a groundbreaking exposé, the author postpones his vacation (and laundry) to enlighten us on Cracker Barrel's logo transition—a pivotal moment in American #hyperreality 🙄. If you weren't glued to your screen like a true internet sage, you'd surely miss this earth-shattering revelation about corporate design trends. 😂📱
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-cracker-barrel-hyperreality #HackerNews #CrackerBarrel #LogoDesign #CorporateTrends #InternetSage #HackerNews #ngated