by Lord Rizz III December 13, 2024
Get the Mandlarious mug.The process by which consent is engineered through control of information, media, education, and cultural narratives. Unlike Imposed Consent (which uses direct pressure), Manufactured Consent works indirectly: shaping what people believe, what seems reasonable, what appears inevitable, until they consent to arrangements that may not serve their interests. The term comes from Herman and Chomsky's analysis of mass media, but applies broadly: advertising manufactures desire, education manufactures worldview, news manufactures reality. People genuinely believe they're choosing freely—but the options, the framing, and the information were manufactured by powers they never see.
"Americans overwhelmingly support the military, but ask them about the details of defense spending and they have no idea. That's Manufactured Consent: patriotism engineered through media, education, and culture until support feels natural, inevitable, chosen. It's not conspiracy—it's just how power works when it doesn't need to impose."
by Dumu The Void February 24, 2026
Get the Manufactured Consent mug.The appearance of widespread agreement engineered through media, education, and cultural repetition rather than genuine deliberation. Manufactured Consensus makes certain views seem obviously correct, universally held, beyond question—not because they've survived debate, but because debate was never permitted or alternative views were never presented. "Everyone knows that..." becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: repeat it enough, and people believe it, and believing it, they repeat it. Consensus manufactured, not discovered; constructed, not emergent.
"In the 1950s, everyone knew women belonged in the home. That wasn't consensus discovered—it was consensus manufactured: through media, education, advertising, and the silencing of alternatives. People genuinely believed it because they'd never heard anything else. Manufactured Consensus feels like reality until it isn't."
by Dumu The Void February 24, 2026
Get the Manufactured Consensus mug.The subtle shaping of what can be said, thought, and discussed through control of language, media, education, and cultural production—without direct coercion. Manufactured Discourse doesn't forbid certain topics; it makes them unthinkable, unsayable, ridiculous. It floods the available channels with certain framings, certain vocabularies, certain assumptions, until alternatives seem naive, extreme, or crazy. People don't refrain from questioning because they're afraid; they refrain because the questions never occur to them, or occur framed as obviously wrong. Manufactured Discourse is power that doesn't need to censor because it's already shaped what anyone would want to say.
"Decades of advertising, media, and education have made 'consumers' feel like a natural identity. That's Manufactured Discourse: the language of markets applied to everything, until citizenship itself becomes customer service. No one forbade other frameworks—they were just never made available."
by Dumu The Void February 24, 2026
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Get the Manglad mug.Ett slutresultat av en process som gör en person förstörd från insidan ut. Oftast skapad av föräldrar som vanvårdat sina barn och livets brutala händelser.
by En person March 12, 2026
Get the Manglad mug.To hold one end of your board/bike up “manually” without any mechanical aid.
This is not a wheelie. This is not a stoppie.
Save the brakes for dirt bikes.
Range of difficulty:
Levels
1. 10 seconds on flat ground
2. Hill bomb
3. Around corners
4. Down a steep bank
5. Up a steep ledge
6. Down/Up Quarters
7. Throughout every transition in a park
8. After a drop taller than 5 feet to flat. Taller than 10 feet to a landing.
This is not a wheelie. This is not a stoppie.
Save the brakes for dirt bikes.
Range of difficulty:
Levels
1. 10 seconds on flat ground
2. Hill bomb
3. Around corners
4. Down a steep bank
5. Up a steep ledge
6. Down/Up Quarters
7. Throughout every transition in a park
8. After a drop taller than 5 feet to flat. Taller than 10 feet to a landing.
“Dude can manual the whole park effortlessly.”
“Mikey Tyra used to have the best nose manuals.”
“Nick nose manuals better than anyone in Crankworx.”
“Brandon Semenuk did a flip whip to manual but everyone forgets that.”
“Children can double flip at the age of 10 but don’t have enough muscle mass to flip to manual without a brake lever.”
“Mikey Tyra used to have the best nose manuals.”
“Nick nose manuals better than anyone in Crankworx.”
“Brandon Semenuk did a flip whip to manual but everyone forgets that.”
“Children can double flip at the age of 10 but don’t have enough muscle mass to flip to manual without a brake lever.”
by Rickjames420 February 11, 2025
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