#memory hole

[tomorrowusa]

Donald Trump's botched handling of the pandemic emergency spread COVID-19 throughout the United States. Perhaps memory loss is an unexpected side effect of Long COVID.

It's up to all of us personally to remind people of the horrors of the Trump administration. Don't rely on the media and political ads to do so.

Those who blame Biden for the chaos at the end of US involvement in Afghanistan conveniently leave out the fact that the Trump administration effectively handed over the country to the Taliban.

Senate Republicans, before they became full-time concubines of Trump, were alarmed by the timetable. This is from FactCheck.org

^^^ Li'l Marco should hope that nobody reminds Trump how critical he was of The Orange One's Afghanistan withdrawal.

Biden inherited a flawed deal from Trump. At the time Trump left the White House, US troop levels in Afghanistan were down to 2,500 as 5,000 Taliban prisoners were being released.

Of course not many people in the US were paying a lot of attention to Afghanistan in the immediate aftermath of Trump's January 6th coup attempt.

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

Instances of censorship are growing to the point of normalization. Despite ongoing litigation and more public attention, mainstream social media has been more ferocious in recent months than ever before.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/information-war/pay-attention-they-are-scrubbing-the-internet-right-now

#TheFreeThoughtProject

[hexagr]

You're telling me that you can only recall the sins of others? But you can't recall any instances of deliberately forgetting your own sins? You've just conveniently memory-holed all of your own faults? "Memory hole? What memory hole!?"

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." -- George Orwell, "NIneteen Eighty-Four"

Unethical, dishonest and sinister.

When multiple historians called out the 1619 Project's pervasive historical fraud, known compulsive liar, Nikole Hannah-Jones justified it as "reshaping public memory." That is, it isn't true, but it should be true, and people should believe and insist that it's true.

Dublin Pride has since added some text to their page to handwave the dishonesty. However, anyone using the site and its assets as a historical reference - and why wouldn't they, when it's the official site for Dublin Pride - will be reproducing the images they want them to have, not the ones that are factually accurate. So any news sites that source from their site will be, knowingly or not, perpetuating Dublin Pride's rewrite of their own history.

[whereserpentswalk]

We memory holed the BLM protests in the summer of 2020 so much in America. Destructive praxis was incredibly effective at making change, the US military was deployed on peaceful protesters, there was an anarchist microstate in the pacific northwest somehow. It's probably one of the best examples of leftist praxis on a large scale in 21st century North America. And everybody just fucking forgot, like it was all wiped from our collective consciousness.

Don't let neoliberal society memory hole our history.

[lord-taco-the-great]

I went to go look for this hyper specific meme on here, and when I looked for it, it wasn't just gone, but completely deleted from EVERYONES blogs, anyone who had ever reblog'd it had it deleted from their profile automatically. is this technically lost media? lmao

the only screenshot of the original post is from this one, single, user.

[scumgristle]

this is the only merch i want made out of my books

[krebs-gorlon]

I bought an Everything Is Terrible! VHS tape, have a fairly sizable random VHS collection, and am heavily in the RedLetterMedia fandom, and idk how it only struck me today how people recorded fucking weird shit back in the day.

ngl, gen x & boomers have a lot of nerve calling TikTok brainrot

[immaculatasknight]

Narrative control

[crazydiscoturkey]

does anyone remember the girlie who had foxes as pets on tumblr and always had mad drama

at one point I think someone released her foxes??

[lenbryant]

Just so this one doesn’t disappear down the memory hole…

[tomorrowusa]

« [I]f you’re willing to support the election of a president who cannot conceive of any distinction between what he wants and what the law permits, you are placing the survival of the Republic at risk. »

— Jonathan Chait at New York Magazine (archived).

The burden is on us to go the extra mile in this election to preserve democracy. Part of that is to highlight Trump's most disastrous failure.

If you know anybody afflicted by Trumpnesia, the burden is on you to address that condition. It's necessary to speak up now and do so assertively.

Some people have forgotten how Trump's mishandling of the COVID-19 emergency tanked the economy. There was the Trump COVID recession, the HŪGE spike in unemployment, and the supply chain issues and need to heavily stimulate spending to prevent another Great Depression which drove inflation for a couple of years.

COVID-19 was an international crisis. But some countries handled it much better than others. Under Trump, the US had the worst per capita death rate of all the G-7 countries.

The Trump White House was actually giving out quack medical advice such as recommending that people take Hydroxychloroquine – an anti-malaria drug which also acts as an immunosuppressant. The last thing you need when fighting an infection is an immunosuppressant. Trump also recommended that Americans drink bleach.

Reminding people in the next week or two of how catastrophic the last year of the Trump administration was may be the best way to preserve American democracy.

Millions Have Amnesia About the Worst of Trump’s Presidency. Memory Experts Explain Why. How Trump is benefiting from the limits of our memory.

[gholateg]

Isn't the Divine Act of Creation a trans post thing?

Lemme try and memory it:

Why do you question God's choice to make you the gender you were born as?

"For the same reason God created Wheat but not Bread, or Grapes but not Wine. So that we could also partake of the Divine act of Creation."

Something akin to that.

2023

1. COMMIT TO THE BIT

2. PARTAKE IN THE DIVINE ACT OF CREATION

3. LET THE SOFT ANIMAL THAT IS YOUR BODY LOVE WHAT IT LOVES

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Bari Weiss: Nell, I think people will hear this conversation, and we'll be talking about CHAZ or Portland or this Robin DiAngelo training or how algebra is racist and think, "Okay, all absurd, but are you just nut-picking here? Are you just picking up on the most absurd excesses of the American left and claiming that it's something bigger than it is?" What would you say to the person who asked that?

Nellie Bowles: I would say that that person is being willfully naive. I would say that to pretend like Robin DiAngelo wasn't an enormously influential figure, that the list of white supremacy characteristics wasn't enormously influential - even though you had the Smithsonian Museum making a poster of it - to pretend like the policies around homelessness and drugs were some fringe, silly thing when the entire American West follows these, to pretend like, like this was silly sideshows is to lie.

And maybe you want to lie now. Maybe you're embarrassed about it. Maybe you want to say no one ever argued that prepubescent children should be able to start hormones to block their puberty, and then hormones to transition all before they turn 18. "No one ever said that," you might want to say. "No one ever said abolish the police," you might want to say. This is what people say now, I know. I know. I'm aware.

But it happened.

Weiss: And you were there.

Bowles: Yeah, and I was there. And people did argue to abolish the police, and people did argue that toddlers know their true gender, and that 15 years old is fine to begin cross-sex hormones. People did argue that accelerated math is racist - they still argue that.

I mean, the memory-holing that we're seeing or the attempt to pretend like these arguments are more rational than they are, I don't blame people. I probably would too.

==

Expect to see more of this gaslighting, memory-holing and revisionist history like everything we've been through in the last half-decade didn't really happen, but if it did happen, nobody really meant it, but if they did mean it, they weren't of consequence, but if they were of consequence, nobody took it seriously...

A couple of years ago, people were telling me that I was taking the whole "2+2=5" thing too seriously and nobody really meant it. Today, California have already taken the math out of math.

[ajumbleoffk]

I think everybody should just be controlled all the time. At home, at work, all the time. No freedom. We need the state to take charge-to be intrusive in all our lives because people are stupid and don't do what is responsible.

Yes, what we really need are experts to decide and plan everyone's day according to their employment that will be decided by another group of trained professionals that assess each individual's proper place.

After all, most people are just too stupid to know what is really important. It would be to the benefit of the whole (and totally not the ruling class) that everyone be trained for obedience from the moment of birth.

We must repress the imagination to keep people from stepping out of their respective lanes, so to speak, so that they will remain focused on their tasks and satisfied with their labor. Entertainment should only be educational for moral training and reinforcing attitudes that are conducive to the needs of the collective. Individuality shall be a thing of the past. History rewritten in order to eternalize the correct order of things.

[wat3rm370n]

Pandemic Revisionist History. 

I don’t know how these things got memory holed other than there’s been just a continuous firehose of covid minimization, pandemic disinformation, and lockdown revisionism, that everyone’s senses became overloaded with the mere exposure effect of repeated nonsense and it’s created informational learned helplessness.

The nature of coronaviruses.

We always knew that coronaviruses don’t tend toward long-lasting immunity, and that making vaccines for them has been elusive. This was a known thing. This wasn’t unexpected. So anyone who claimed that there would be herd immunity of any type in 2020 was ignoring everything that was known about coronaviruses. Many of course knew this hopium for natural immunity was bullshit. And there were people pushing back on it in 2020. But nobody wanted to hear that, of course, and people telling people what they wanted to hear of course has always been popular. And so we have All The Variants now - and this shouldn’t have been unexpected, and was not unexpected. 

Vaccination is a public health measure.

You always need high uptake for vaccines to be successful public health. This has always been the case. This à la carte mindset, and restricting of safe vaccines for a widespread disease, where anti-vax is left to stand mostly unchallenged, is antithetical to previous vaccination campaigns. The polio campaign in the U.S. was successful because of a concerted effort to do a door to door campaign that started before the vaccine was even available. But for some reason since this covid pandemic started it’s been “if you wanna” and so uptake isn’t even barely mentioned even in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) October 23, 2024 meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The only person who mentioned the need for messaging and uptake and overcoming distrust was Robert H. Hopkins, Jr., MD, the NFID medical director, (National Foundation for Infectious Diseases). Vaccine uptake is important and it’s always been that way. 

Funerals are important to most people, but big crowded funerals are not essential.

Back in the 1990s there were things said about the ebola outbreaks in Africa that I now realize were horribly racist. Professionals in the news were quoted as saying that the African citizens were uncooperative and wouldn’t follow simple rules. An example is the LA Times article from 1995 which reported: “one microbiologist said he was terrified that the virus would spread like wildfire because people were sneaking into the hospital to visit their dying loved ones, possibly carrying the virus with them when they leave.” People often remarked it was because of backward superstitions that they wouldn’t give up their funeral rites, even to save themselves from ebola. I remember this well. When this covid pandemic swept in, I heard about so many people who were going to funerals, insisting that they had to go to indoor wakes and funeral breakfasts, and doing all sorts of other unnecessary things. People are people and make decisions based on impulses, and that’s why societal rules exist, to give people guidelines based on collectively known information. On Conspirituality Podcast and in an LA Times op-ed about the Stanford covid contrarian right-wing symposium, it was reported there was outrage about how people were kept from big funerals in the early pandemic, as if not having funerals was uncivilized and backward.