The human urge to make meaning from the meaningless not only causes us to see faces in clouds, but apparently has forced a whole mediasphere to translate Trump's nonsense into some vaguely coherent message.

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

The human urge to make meaning from the meaningless not only causes us to see faces in clouds, but apparently has forced a whole mediasphere to translate Trump's nonsense into some vaguely coherent message.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/06/why-humans-see-faces-everyday-objects

[martinvermeer@fediscience.org]

@Remittancegirl AKA sanewashing.

[apenkop@mstdn.social]

@Remittancegirl They’re doing a bad job. That ‘message’ is still incoherent OR must be read as a loud ‘fuckyou’ to the public.

[mkoek@mastodon.nl]

@martinvermeer @Remittancegirl People on all sides do it: argue endlessly about his “strategy”. I guess to avoid the scary likelihood that there is none.

[martinvermeer@fediscience.org]

@mkoek @Remittancegirl "likelihood"

[eetschrijver@mastodon.social]

@Remittancegirl I wonder what they are trying to achieve by doing that. Or maybe I don't wonder all that much.

[steveclough@metalhead.club]

@apenkop @Remittancegirl But the thing is, they are also doing a wrong job. There is a sense that politicians rhetoric needs to be explained and understood. Because they are experts at waffling non-statements.

But also, it is important that people see when politicians are blabbering incoherently. Because that is also part of the message these people are presenting.

In Trumps case, of course, that he is utterly batshit. A fact that some people are not really getting yet.