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In her last campaign, undertaken at a time of millenarian expectations on the left, the phrase “Kamala is a cop” probably hurt her. But at a moment when the Democratic Party wants to memory-hole calls to defund the police, some who were once turned off by Harris’s record as a prosecutor are thrilling to her law-and-order case against Trump. Her pop culture fluency is delighting Democrats who’d either never known or forgotten that politics can be fun.

Well before there was serious talk about Biden dropping out, queer influencers had started memeing Harris into icon status; on the Hard Fork podcast, the journalist Casey Newton said a friend had made him a Harris-themed coconut tree T-shirt back in February. That meant that when she became the presumptive nominee, there was already an online repository of affectionate Harris content waiting to be remixed and made viral.

And the more it went viral, the more Democratic voters emerging from a carapace of dread wanted to be part of it.

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[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago

Her pop culture fluency is delighting Democrats who’d either never known or forgotten that politics can be fun.

The whole reason this coconut tree meme stuff takes off is that it's not because of Kamala's "pop culture fluency" (which she doesn't have), but that it seems to have started as a grassroots thing that had nothing to do with her and her campaign staffers. It's just her being unhinged and saying weird shit and people memeing about it. No PR ghoul would've dared to touch her coconut tree clip with a ten foot pole. That's exactly why people like it. If the campaing leans into this too hard instead of letting it run its course, if the Dem establishment picks it up and posts about it instead of just amplifying it on social media, they'll pokemon go to the polls the entire thing.

[-] MaxOS@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

That’s literally what dark brandon was

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

queer influencers had started memeing Harris into icon status

LIBs did that. And if her team wants to keep trying to manufacture her queer rights stuff I will keep countering ih how she stepped on queer votes and queer rights to crown herself obama-medal

top-cop Kopmala used her Kop influence to expell chelsea-stare who was nominated for her sacrifice in exposing the Empire's crimes and insert herself as Grand Marshall of SF Pride so she can get an accolade to the top.

Her entire carrer has been santos ing and using subvertive influence with her sorority to increase their own prestige.

Now she's trying to use the capitalist-woke A-list well to do's K-hive / Hillbots to manufacture consent about her or give her bonefides. I do believe she is fine with queer people, but I don't think she will do shit about the states criminalizing queers and their allies. California was a safe space by practically default on that anyways and obviously she wasn't able to push Biden to give a damned during his administration either.

This will not be memory holed.

San Francisco Pride, Chelsea Manning, and Queer Assimilation

https://www.flickr.com/photos/savebradley/albums/72157630313906858/

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

In her last campaign, undertaken at a time of millenarian expectations on the left, the phrase “Kamala is a cop” probably hurt her. But at a moment when the Democratic Party wants to memory-hole calls to defund the police, some who were once turned off by Harris’s record as a prosecutor are thrilling to her law-and-order case against Trump.

"I love licking boot, please give me more to lick"

Her pop culture fluency is delighting Democrats who’d either never known or forgotten that politics can be fun.

Wearing Chuck Taylors and talking about how you smoked pot (ignoring that you imprisoned people for doing the same) are "pop culture fluency" now?

And the more it went viral, the more Democratic voters emerging from a carapace of dread wanted to be part of it.

I want to make fun of this, but she's not wrong. So many libs that were justifiably critical of Biden abruptly dropped ALL of that criticism, even though much of it applies to her as well, so that they could just run right back to the party.

[-] ihaveibs@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

They've hid her behind a media blitz for a week lmao

[-] booty@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

that's it im rooting for trump and it's your fault michelle

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 years ago

Mmmmm. No.

She's a slave driver; and in the spirit of John Brown, everyone who votes for her deserves a bullet and a deflating lung at the very least.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

I don't think anyone would ever think of a worse politician-related word than ”Obamailures”, impressive.

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

I hate it so much

[-] LeZero@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But at a moment when the Democratic Party wants to memory-hole calls to defund the police

maybe-later-kiddo Which is a good thing btw

[-] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Oh man that made me physically cringe

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago
[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Finally hope for the Kamalamperial core

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago
[-] D61@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Is that the word you say to activate the Necronomicon?

[-] MaxOS@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

The kamalahameha is coming
spirit-bomb

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