“Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.” ― Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man, year 1951

Leadership of Nations by using Cringe behaviors. Exploiting the minds of the audience, the citizens of nations, with cringe antics. Using cringe as a method of control and exploitation against a population.

… see also: !CounterSurkov@lemm.ee “Counter Vlad Surkov methods”

  • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPM
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    5 days ago

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly25yny3ego

    Musk wields his Doge chainsaw - but is a backlash brewing?

    21 February 2025

    Wearing a black “Make America Great Again” hat and dark sunglasses, Elon Musk - the multi-billionaire tasked by Donald Trump with taking a metaphorical chainsaw to the federal government - received a rock-star welcome as he took the stage at a right-wing gathering on Thursday.

    He even had a literal chainsaw.

    As the crowd of several thousand cheered, Argentine President Javier Milei, also a favourite at the annual Cpac event, emerged from backstage. He handed Musk a shiny chainsaw with "viva la Libertad carajo! – Spanish for “Long live liberty, damn it!”- emblazoned on the blade.

    Musk waved the power tool high, shouting: “This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy! Chainsaw!”