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I will never get over how insane this was. Like why the fuck did anyone think it was a good idea to kneel for this. Literally taking the position of the person who killed him for the same duration. And who the fuck gave them the kente cloth?! Why?!
This also reminded me of how the dems all sang a song on some terribly inappropriate day (roe V wade? School shooting? I can't remember), and when asked just went "well it was scheduled in advance".
You'd think they would understand something about optics considering their entire existence is to be on camera and make people think they can govern, but no, they are just completely useless in every way.
Because Kaepernick.
That gives me some closure then. I can see the logic even if it was deeply inappropriate for this moment
As both political and moral leaders, they needed to show all the violent rioters the correct way to protest
Speaking of I really need to go make a :thirdprecinctburning: emoji
I thought that's what this was
This also reminded me of how the dems all sang a song on some terribly inappropriate day (roe V wade? School shooting? I can't remember), and when asked just went "well it was scheduled in advance".
i think you hit on something here that absolutely confirms the truth of your last sentence. a real political project responsive to its stakeholders and constituency would absolutely pivot at the last second to meet the conditions of the moment. for example, if a "great hero" were to be receiving honors in an event and it came out that the hero was a monster, the event would be cancelled because to do otherwise would be insane and undermine people's faith in the institution, right? in a real democracy, the lack of faith is fatal to authority.
but what we're looking at here is the mentality of theater and spectacle, i.e. "the show must go on." it doesn't matter if the theater is on fire or the ship is sinking, the music can't stop, the actor must act & stay in character, to keep the audience's attention. it's a smoke and mirrors political system, not a democracy. it is here to ensorcell, anesthetize and distract us from efforts to reform.
Someone else we know loves the camera and cannot govern ๐
Friendly reminder that mango mussolini was secretly backed by Shillary for awhile during the 2016 election.
Yeah and these morons managed to lose an election to him lmao
what was?
After George Floyd was murdered Pelosi and a bunch of the other Dems put on kente cloth scarves and kneeled for eight minutes in some kind of sick parody of mourning. It was a very strange and disgusting action. Pelosi also thanked Mr Floyd for... being murdered? Who knows what goes on in their heads.
considering that George Floyd died because someone kneeled on his neck for 8 minutes, that they would have realized "oh, maybe this is a fucked up way to mourn publically?" It's like their wires got crossed and they confused Kaepernick's kneeling and Chauvin's kneeling with each other.
Wires crossed for sure. Also kente clothe for an American was pretty out of nowhere.
The worst is when she thanked George Floyd
Yeah. I wonder if they know what happened? Like do they watch the news? Do they just get a one paragraphy briefing in the morning? I'd love to know what their information environment is like, what they have access to, what is kept away from their by their aides.
I think she's just senile tbh
It must be so awkward trying to manage them. They were already utterly disconnected, alien monsters before they reached old age, so now even if they've got most of their faculties they've still got the cognitive decline everyone gets, they get tired promptly at 4pm, all their knowledge about how the world works is 40+ years out of date. God it must be miserable.
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023
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