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[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago

The New Yorker agrees with you:

But what makes the image is Trump. In its surface details, it carries echoes of the marines at Iwo Jima. In the former President’s bloody defiance, it even evokes Rocky Balboa. On that stage, Trump seemed well aware of the image he was creating. It is an image that captures him as he would like to be seen, so perfectly, in fact, that it may outlast all the rest.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago

Trump looked like the American heroes of myth, such as (staged war photo) and (entirely fictional character)

That Iranian guy was so right

[-] Clippy@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

sorry out of the loop which iranian guy?

[-] Runcible@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I am assuming this is the commentary about how when the US assassinated the Iranian general who was a cultural hero that they were unable to respond because all of the US's cultural heroes are made up (I believe Micky Mouse & Captain America were the examples given)

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

Spiderman and Spongebob

[-] micnd90@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

It is an image that captures him as he would like to be seen, so perfectly, in fact, that it may outlast all the rest.

Nothing will outlast

feast

[-] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

He's a good performer. Knows how to appeal to the crowd. Must be all the TV experience.

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