#breadandcircuses — Public Fediverse posts
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/ -
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/ -
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/ -
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/ -
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/ -
From "Bread & Circuses." I think maybe the continents were not exactly duplicated in that one. Looks similar quality though.
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From "Bread & Circuses." I think maybe the continents were not exactly duplicated in that one. Looks similar quality though.
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From "Bread & Circuses." I think maybe the continents were not exactly duplicated in that one. Looks similar quality though.
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From "Bread & Circuses." I think maybe the continents were not exactly duplicated in that one. Looks similar quality though.
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From "Bread & Circuses." I think maybe the continents were not exactly duplicated in that one. Looks similar quality though.
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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. -
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).
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A quotation from Jean-Paul Marat
In order to subdue his subjects, the Prince labours to blind them. Conscious of the unlawfulness of his own designs, and sensible of what he has to fear from clear-sighted men, he endeavours to deprive the people of every means of acquiring knowledge.
How many crafty devices have not Princes employed to oppose the progress of learning? Some banish science out of their dominions; others prohibit their subjects from traveling into foreign countries; others again divert the people from reflecting, by continually entertaining them with feasts and shews, or keeping up among the the spirit of gaming; and all stand up against men of spirit, who dedicate either their voices or their pen to defend the cause of liberty.
[Persuadés d’ailleurs combien il est commode de régner sur un peuple abruti, ils [les princes] s’efforcent de le rendre tel. Que d’obstacles n’opposent-ils pas au progrès des lumières? Les uns bannissent les lettres de leurs Etats; les autres défendent à leurs sujets de voyager; d’autres empêchent le peuple de réfléchir, en l’amusant continuellement par des parades, des spectacles, des fêtes, ou en le livrant aux fureurs du jeu. Tous s’élèvent contre les sages qui consacrent leur voix et leur plume à défendre la cause de la liberté.]Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793) French physician, political theorist, scientist, journalist
The Chains of Slavery [Les Chaînes de L’Esclavage], ch. 40 “Of Ignorance” (1774) [Beckett ed. (1774)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marat-jean-paul/8000…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jeanpaulmarat #breadandcircuses #censorship #distraction #education #ignorance #isolation #learning #nationalism #suppression #tyranny
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Yay! More #BreadAndCircuses
I don't normally watch live streaming events, so listening to national broadcasters and seeing commercials is _really_ disorienting and alien to me. I will suffer through it for the spectacle 🎉
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Being a masochistic #SeattleMariners baseball fan finally pays off tonight after 24 years. That was an exhausting vicarious five hours.
On to the Championship Series!🎉
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For tonight's #SeattleMariners playoff game, the Puget Sound Seismic Network has "installed the Richter Rizz seismic station at T-Mobile" to "track the energy in the ballpark":
The site just went live now(16:30PST):
https://preview.pnsn.org/experiments/2025-mariners/alds-game-5
#Baseball #MLB #Earthquakes #SeismicMeasurement #PSSN #GoMs #BreadAndCircuses
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I love that my #orioles and my #mariners are digging into a strong September to get above 10 under .500 and leading the AL West, respectively, but...
Let's not have any of that interfere with my #bluejays entrenching a solid AL East win and the AL top seed.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
#mlb #breadandcircuses #toronto #elbowsup
Also, I can't believe we aren't still booking the #mairikkkan anthem, fuuuuuck.
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I love that my #orioles and my #mariners are digging into a strong September to get above 10 under .500 and leading the AL West, respectively, but...
Let's not have any of that interfere with my #bluejays entrenching a solid AL East win and the AL top seed.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
#mlb #breadandcircuses #toronto #elbowsup
Also, I can't believe we aren't still booking the #mairikkkan anthem, fuuuuuck.
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I love that my #orioles and my #mariners are digging into a strong September to get above 10 under .500 and leading the AL West, respectively, but...
Let's not have any of that interfere with my #bluejays entrenching a solid AL East win and the AL top seed.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
#mlb #breadandcircuses #toronto #elbowsup
Also, I can't believe we aren't still booking the #mairikkkan anthem, fuuuuuck.
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I love that my #orioles and my #mariners are digging into a strong September to get above 10 under .500 and leading the AL West, respectively, but...
Let's not have any of that interfere with my #bluejays entrenching a solid AL East win and the AL top seed.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
#mlb #breadandcircuses #toronto #elbowsup
Also, I can't believe we aren't still booking the #mairikkkan anthem, fuuuuuck.
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Recreating Auditory Experiences in the Colosseum: An Archaeoacoustic Investigation of Acoustic Perception in Ancient Rome [pdf 10pp] #ArchaeoAcoustics #AncientRome #BreadAndCircuses #PanemEtCircenses https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Martyn-Chambers-2/publication/395206053_RECREATING_AUDITORY_EXPERIENCES_IN_THE_COLOSSEUM_AN_ARCHAEOACOUSTIC_INVESTIGATION_OF_ACOUSTIC_PERCEPTION_IN_ANCIENT_ROME/links/68b75c81360112563e100247/RECREATING-AUDITORY-EXPERIENCES-IN-THE-COLOSSEUM-AN-ARCHAEOACOUSTIC-INVESTIGATION-OF-ACOUSTIC-PERCEPTION-IN-ANCIENT-ROME.pdf
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Coldstream Guard, Buckingham Palace, #shiny #BlueSkyArtShow #photography #travel #parasites #PompAndCircumstance #BreadAndCircuses #EastCoastKin
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He won over the ignorant masses with shows, building projects, largesses, and banquets. His followers he bound to him by rewards, his opponents by an apparent clemency. In short, he succeeded in bringing a free country, partly because of its fear, partly because of its passivity, to an acceptance of servitude.
[Muneribus, monumentis, congiariis, epulis multitudinem imperitam delenierat; suos praemiis, adversarios clementiae specie devinxerat. Quid multa? Attulerat iam liberae civitati partim metu partim patientia consuetudinem serviendi.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 45 / sec. 116 (2.45/2.116) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. Berry (2006)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #juliuscaesar #acquiescence #breadandcircuses #freedom #masses #passivity #politicalpower #populace #power #rewards #servitude
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He won over the ignorant masses with shows, building projects, largesses, and banquets. His followers he bound to him by rewards, his opponents by an apparent clemency. In short, he succeeded in bringing a free country, partly because of its fear, partly because of its passivity, to an acceptance of servitude.
[Muneribus, monumentis, congiariis, epulis multitudinem imperitam delenierat; suos praemiis, adversarios clementiae specie devinxerat. Quid multa? Attulerat iam liberae civitati partim metu partim patientia consuetudinem serviendi.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 45 / sec. 116 (2.45/2.116) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. Berry (2006)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #juliuscaesar #acquiescence #breadandcircuses #freedom #masses #passivity #politicalpower #populace #power #rewards #servitude
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He won over the ignorant masses with shows, building projects, largesses, and banquets. His followers he bound to him by rewards, his opponents by an apparent clemency. In short, he succeeded in bringing a free country, partly because of its fear, partly because of its passivity, to an acceptance of servitude.
[Muneribus, monumentis, congiariis, epulis multitudinem imperitam delenierat; suos praemiis, adversarios clementiae specie devinxerat. Quid multa? Attulerat iam liberae civitati partim metu partim patientia consuetudinem serviendi.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 45 / sec. 116 (2.45/2.116) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. Berry (2006)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #juliuscaesar #acquiescence #breadandcircuses #freedom #masses #passivity #politicalpower #populace #power #rewards #servitude
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FIFPro Blasts Infantino: Player Overload, Club World Cup "Bread and Circuses"
#AncientRome #BreadandCircuses #FIFPro #GianniInfantino #GlobalSpectacle
https://blazetrends.com/fifpro-blasts-infantino-player-overload-club-world-cup-bread-and-circuses/?fsp_sid=67661 -
Furor over Epstein files sparks clash between #PamBondi & #DanBongino at DOJ
The #DOJ & #FBI are struggling to contain the fallout & appease the demands of #FarRight *conservative* personalities & influential members of Trump’s base after the admin’s decision this week to withhold records from the #JeffreyEpstein #SexTrafficking investigation [likely because #Trump is in them].
#law #idiocracy #BreadAndCircuses #PanemEtCircenses #ConspiracyTheories
https://apnews.com/article/epstein-files-dan-bongino-bondi-trump-fbi-0f02f67b6c97fc50e4d93bc4dbf4c4d0 -
About Fascism and it’s well known approaches. Today: Bread and circuses:
»The Daily Mail reports that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is “backing” an outlandish proposal to have immigrants pitted against each other to compete for U.S. citizenship on air in a reality show called The American.«
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kristi-noem-citizenship-reality-show-b2752121.html
#Citizenship #Diversion #Autocracy #BreadAndCircusesIf that doesn’t ring a bell, let me quote from Wikipedia:
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@strypey
Yes commercial value. Basically if one were to #rent, or is, renting out the #land, how much would they get? #Tax that value.It needs to be done, but among the #breadAndCircuses this issue is not to be seen or heard.
If the land has a natural resource that #thePeople say should be utilised and isn't, then all known land with that valuable resource would be taxed a bit extra to help pay for a #subsidy to gather that #naturalResource.
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No one is coming to save us but us! The rich own everything, and the working class is left to suffer. Rent is too high. Wages are too low. Healthcare is a privilege, not a right. ENOUGH. The Labor Party is the answer!
* JOIN: http://votelabor.org
* Organize: discord.gg/votelabor
#change #PowerToThePeople #LaborParty #partypeople #BreakTheChains #wethepeople #itshappeningnow
#breadandcircuses #union #solidarity #workers #follow #unite #unitedstates #bethechange #dosomething #labor
