- over the past decade or two, protests have largely been between online activists and the offline establishment. - movements were largely organized online and spread via social media; virality of the message was important. - in [[trump, donald|trump]]’s second term, that dynamic has largely swapped – - the state is intentionally trying to go viral and control the digital narrative. - movements and protests are largely organized word-of-month. [[broderick, ryan]] points out during the [[panic world podcast]] dispatch from [[minnesota]]: > According to a story from WP this week... [ICE is] under intense pressure from the Trump administration to be filming as much as they can. So all over the city this week, they have been raiding different businesses and people's homes, and they've got cameras out... There's also the assumption from most of the protesters here that _all_ of our faces are being uploaded to some sort of database, likely run by Palantir... **Unlike most of the protest movements I've witnessed over the past 15 years, where you have a heavily online protest movement, or activist movement, versus a largely offline or semi-offline establishment, here that dynamic has completely flipped.** [[{3.4b} the mirror world is where people end up when their views are too extreme or fringe for traditional social media]] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cjxGMJIAS4 - we’re being governed by the mirror world! - [[we don't just disagree on the shape of reality, we disagree on who is in reality]] - i’ve also been thinking lately about how the last of the “normies” got very online post-covid. a lot of this is just that the echo chambers got more full…