Pictured are John Fetterman, Kirsten Sinema, and Joe Manchin applauding a war criminal.

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=0wSttkKdkYg

  • AernaLingus [any]
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    4 months ago

    Her dress looking like a combination of Palestinian and trans flags is really odd given the context

    • dead [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 months ago

      Besides being known as a spoiler of progressive action in the Senate, notably for voting down $15 minimum wage, Kyrsten Sinema was declared to be the first bisexual congress member.

      The colors looks like this flag to me. I'm not sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_fluidity

      • AernaLingus [any]
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        4 months ago

        Yeesh...not all representation is good representation, I guess.

        Also I'm not seeing that flag, personally. And in fact, looking at the dress more closely I see there are five colors (black, white, light pink, dark pink, teal) but no repeating pattern. Okay, well technically there's a repeating pattern, but it's quite long (D=dark pink, L=light pink):

        W T L B
        D T L W
        B T L W 
        D B T L
        

        In a crop of this photo from Getty

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        you can see it repeat the first nine colors again, and it just happens that the photo really does capture the last stripe of the dress (confirmed with another Getty photo).

        We can also see the colors in a lot higher fidelity compared to the C-SPAN stream which shows that any similarity to palestine-heart was just an artifact of video compression. I'll admit my eye for color isn't the best, but the light pink and blue seem to unambiguously be the shades from flag-trans-pride. The deep pink looks like the color used in flag-bi-pride to me, but it's missing the shades of purple and blue and that doesn't explain the black stripes at all.

        idk why I got so fixated on this...just neurodivergent stuff, I guess