#memory hole

[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

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[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.

[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…

[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

[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.

[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.

[thearbourist]

Objectivity in Reporting Matters

Why should Fox News have to be the ones reporting on the apparent attempt of rewriting of Harris’s performance on the border? Wouldn’t a responsible objective media be curious about a potential President’s past performance – and thus doing its duty to provide the American people with the facts of the matter? It seems though the MSM is too busy spinning a narrative of competence about Harris…

[arcenciel-par-une-larme]

Copying the tags from another reblog (emphases mine):

#just when you've forgotten #all this past tense like y'all it is STILL HAPPENING out there??? #yes for the average person it's less likely to kill you but this only means you're more willing to sacrifice those most at risk #they slowly tricked you into doing this by reporting less and showing you fewer resources and data #what I'm saying is please still wear a mask to the grocery store or to work because people still are dying today from covid #people are still becoming disabled from long covid #but it is literal life or death sickness for MANY people and you can still try to stop it by something simple like wearing a mask

The original tweet (not even the Tumblr post or the reblog with these tags) was posted on the 6th of October, 2024.

The One True Narrative has been collapsing piece by piece for THREE YEARS ALREADY, and yet they still not only adhere to it to the letter, not only do they still want us to have our face blocked with a useless muzzle for 8+ hours every day (or else we're "inconsiderate jerks" and "killing grandma"), but they also keep acting all smug and holier-than-thou as if not a day has passed since the lockdowns began.

THREE YEARS and we have not progressed an INCH beyond "Trust The Experts Wear Masks Stay Home Save Lives Protect The NHS Heil Fauci Trump Lied People Died".

No words.