#memory hole

[victusinveritas]

[trans-atlantic-drawl]

Lanesville, 1958, Saul Leiter

Photograph, 1958

[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.

[peachpulpeuse]

ummm is anyone else freaked out that the national history center has apparently been replaced by ai slop????

Fostering public understanding of history, Supporting teaching and scholarship, Helping to deepen knowledge of the past

it did actually used to be a real institution at least as of 2022...

On “The National History Center and the AHA” – AHA

James Grossman’s announcement that the National History Center is to be absorbed into the AHA is a discouraging turn of events to everyone w

i was looking thru my bookmarks and they had a collection of sample syllabi for teaching decolonization, which i bookmarked in may 2020. but now this is what their "decolonization resource collection" page looks like

Decolonization Resource Collection: What is decolonization?

Explore our Decolonization Resource Collection for an in-depth understanding of decolonization's history, impact, and ongoing processes.

Several movements have significantly influenced the landscape of decolonization, propelled by key figures in decolonization who ignited the fire of change.

Mahatma Gandhi: Advocated nonviolent resistance against British colonialism in India, inspiring future generations with his philosophy of peaceful protest. Nelson Mandela: Fought against the apartheid regime in South Africa, becoming a symbol of resilience and unity in the anti-colonial struggle. Mau Mau Uprising: This movement in Kenya represented a bold challenge to British authority, underscoring the quest for land and freedom. Cuban Revolution: Through decisive actions against colonial powers, this movement signified a shift toward independence and socialism in the Caribbean.

ummmmmmm...

[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.