• Parsani [love/loves, comrade/them]
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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.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      You'd think they would understand something about optics

      It seems to work enough that their partisans don't really question their leadership. Like it looks farcical to us, but idk how libs perceive it.

        • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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          I think they really are this out of touch. Their only interaction with protesters was the 'riots' on TV and the guy kneeling on the football field.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Honestly easier for my mind to accomodate. I keep a brick on my desk for when I need to remind myself that Libs actually believe the stupid shit the Dem leadership says. A few good smacks re-adjusts my worldview the necessary degree.

      • Parsani [love/loves, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        I can only assume there were several interns thinking "wow this is fucked" but need to remain sycophantic as to not ruin their chances of being a full fledged ghoul one day

      • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        iirc it even got worked over in reddit-logo, it just sat in 'Controversial' for a little while with barely any attention, then vanished.

    • SpookyGenderCommunist [they/them, she/her]
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      1 year ago

      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 remember Nancy Pelosi introducing a thing for the one year anniversary of the Jan. 6th riots, and saying something to the effect of "Jan. 6th was a horrible day for our democracy where our sacred halls were desecrated. Now, here's a performance from the cast of Hamilton."

      Don't know if that's what you're thinking of, but it was peak lib.

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      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.

  • HarryLime [any]
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    1 year ago

    The worst is when she thanked George Floyd

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Wheaties [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        you know how twitter broke a lot of celebrities brains? like, they just could not cope with knowing there were people out there that didn't like them? I wonder what the equivalent is for incumbents and the news their staffers choose not to share.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          1 year ago

          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.

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  • ElGosso [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    The worst part is that the Dems on the Congressional Black Caucus requested they do this

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    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        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.

      • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Hey, Floyd's killer got sentenced, that was case closed for the Dem party. They used BLM to get votes, then immediately started destroying it on election day. There is no systemic problem as far as they are concerned.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      You mean they pretend to care about black people. Considering you're doing Sinophobia on your alt account right now, I doubt you're acting in good faith.

    • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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      I hope you're fucking with us

      This may be the ultimate example of Virtue Signaling™ Ive ever seen. Insead of doing their jobs as legislators and creating legislation to fight injustice, without even pretending to try, they don parody level racist "african culture" scarfs, and then to 'honor' George Floyd they reenact the way in which he was murdered for a fucking photo op.

      added bonus, half of them then struggle badly to get back to their feet after kneeling, a great dog and pony gerontocracy show

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Hey so the police are killing more people than ever before in American history and they have more funding, more guns, and more impunity.

      So I don't think they care about black people.

    • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      They are making a rascist toktik challenge meme video. No, they do not care

  • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Oh come on this is postmodern genius. Babies in incubators Hill and Knowlton is so passe. Real game respect game. They got all those signifiers that are like a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing