@SNerd
The background is different¹, but this is similar to the notion #MackReynolds uses in the Corporate Wars stories involving Joe Mauser, where corporations decided their disputes by battles, with the tech capped around 1880 levels. Mercenary armies clashing in 3D in people's living rooms, with real people being heroes or being killed, worked great as part of the System's #BreadAndCircuses approach to the populace. Free drugs also helped keep them in line.

[1] People's Capitalism was a system where government forced corporations to pay their taxes in the form of shares up to a certain limit. Inalienable Basic Shares were given to everyone as a #UniversalBasicIncome. Over time, Government and Corporations merged, with the latter on top. #UBI #sff #SciFi #ScienceFiction

If the country can grind to a halt as a man past retirement age has some oil dabbed on his forehead and puts a silly hat on in order to do a job he has already been doing for over six months, why can’t it make any serious efforts to:
reduce #GreenhouseGas emissions;
restore #biodiversity;
reduce #inequality and poverty; and
increase health and happiness?

It is just more #BreadAndCircuses to keep the masses quiescent while rich get richer and the world burns.

#NotMyKing #GTTO

@rrogers
I too am much better at deep, rather than quick, responses.

That's a strong reason why I would be much better suited as a key advisor than as the top executive and face of the organization.

In the case of Biden, as VP and now POTUS, I've never seen him demonstrate strength at quick—or deep—thought.

So I ask: Is this the best we can do?!

#politics #reason #quality #democracy #apathy #breadAndCircuses #squirrel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

Government scandals are a form of #BreadAndCircuses that, while pissing many people off, keep them divided and distracted.

This Tory government is clearly bad for the people and bad for the planet. Whether Sunak sacks Raab is irrelevant: the electorate has to sack all of them ASAP.
Unfortunately, Labour (most likely replacement by far) is chasing the fascist vote these days and doesn’t look massively better, it is a #RaceToTheBottom

#ToryMisrule #NeverVoteTory

Roman emperors used Bread and Circuses. Our modern equivalent is the brain deadening TV “entertainment” spoon feeding bored and inattentive minds while powerful people make more and more cash off a nation’s misery that they created. Maybe I’ve just reached an age where I can see what’s happening in tv drama plots and how banal so much tv output is. Are we really so stupid to not realise we’re being spoon fed? #BreadAndCircuses

#ThoughtForTheDay #BreadAndCircuses

Call me churlish if you like, but I can't help noticing how enough £ can be shaken from the magic money tree to pay for a fireworks extravaganza at at time when half the country's on strike over low pay. #breadAndCircuses

@mafeesh

Duller than #BigBrother was 20 years ago. Anything #celebrity or #realityTv is deeply dull.

Sadly we are in an era of #breadAndCircuses - except bread is now getting a bit dear......

Seine Meinung zur WM drückte Smith auch mit dem Hashtag #breadandcircuses, zu Deutsch Brot und Spiele, aus.
WM 2022: Robert Smith sagt schon mal Auftritt in Katar ab
https://www.rollingstone.de/wm-2022-robert-smith-sagt-schon-mal-auftritt-in-katar-ab-2519827/

Ah… j’étais même pas au courant de cette rumeur…

RT @RobertSmith@twitter.com

HATE TO DISAPPOINT EVERYONE, BUT DESPITE THE RUMOURS WE WILL NOT BE HEADLINING THE WORLD CUP OPENING CEREMONY #breadandcircuses

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RobertSmith/status/1591989026630041600

A very intelligent person, @m , said the above today, and we found it of intense interest.

To understand it you may need to understand cronyism.

To understand cronyism you may need to understand corporatism, #rentseeking, oligarchy, and our current trajectory towards #neoFeudalism.

Also look at how #coinClipping (aka #inflation) started happening in ancient Rome… or more recently in #France *wink

#letThemEatCake #breadAndCircuses

It (sort of) feels like people with a differing point of view or interested in talking about #JulianAssange and or #Bitcoin, are just going to be #denied actual basic stuff like #shelter and #technology.

How long might a #postTruthSociety last, though?

Or are we now simply being #sacrificed as part of the theatre, the #breadAndCircuses?

#mazlowsHierarchy #societySacrifice #neoFeudalism #slavery #CBDC

When you see "#farRightExtremists something something" and replace it with "#Cloudflare something something" — and the report goes from being #entertainment to a proper #report.

#breadAndCircuses editing #editor #qanon #bitchute #alexJones #gab #dissenter #4chan #minds #journalism #reporting #extremism

Central bankers are not #evil, they've just been funding both sides of #wars for the sake of curiosity.

#sport #centralBanks #itsASportDumDum #WWI #CIA #WWII #curiosity #bloodSport #divideAndRule #breadAndCircuses #bitcoinFixesThis

@jwildeboer
We almost forgot our #KevinRuddCoup (2010).

In #Australia our #corporateForces are so effective that the coups happen and we just accept them as part of a rolling news cycle.

#breadAndCircuses

OK, I get it, Prince Phillip is dead. No further news coverage is needed or wanted. #BreadAndCircuses

@schestowitz
Swapping #neoliberalism for #neofeudalism.

They know we know.

They will do anything to stop us from #organising. Including diverting attention with #breadAndCircuses and creating #astroturf movements for those angry about stay at home.

Small shops mostly destroyed is no accident.

Also the ongoing #privacy scam of 5G #smartCities (#smartForWhom) needs to be stopped. We'd do well to #flightMode our phones when we leave home, as a sign of #protest, frankly.

#PublicServiceAnnoucement

If you are worried about #symbols while there is a #securityState and #billionaireClass creating extreme #inequality and using #violence, and/or a #threatOfViolence to continue its #dominance and #hegemony...

Please take a step back.

Thank you.

#symbolism #idolatry #distraction #breadAndCircuses #programming #memes #restrictTheFrame #resistTheFrame #baitAndSwitch #engineeringOfConsent #theMedia #forcedNews

Private #corporation just put people in space, with all the #publicMoney you can find.

Let's celebrate #entrepreneurs, lol

#elonmusk #spacex #spacexpoitation
#business #enterprise #privatesector #moneyprintergobrr #breadandcircuses

@techbolt
As the west fades, we need to at least try to be proper.

#asthewestfades #anempirefading #hubris #breadandcircuses #identitypolitics #westending