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.
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.
The goal is not to inspire or even get voots the goal is to induce despair
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.
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.
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
iirc it even got worked over in
, it just sat in 'Controversial' for a little while with barely any attention, then vanished.
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.
I vaguely remember them singing something on the day the court killed Roe. : p
There's so much just bizarre political theater, it's hard to sort any of it out without taking notes.
No, they sang on the day roe was repealed, there is a comment below with it. That was also wild though. Didnt they also get Bono to read a poem or something?
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
It's not the third precinct burning, it was an apartment building under construction that got set on fire
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.
Possibly the greatest unforced error in the history of football. The whiff heard around the world.
Possibly the greatest unforced error in the history of football. The whiff heard around the world.
Friendly reminder that mango mussolini was secretly backed by Shillary for awhile during the 2016 election.
Let’s keep it to actually elected politicians, not failed politicians who mean nothing to the current political landscape.
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.
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.
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.
brb, gonna go dress up in traditional Sami garb and take a shit on a reindeer
Still don't think it can hold a candle to David Guetta's tribute to George Floyd
i had not seen that. wtf lmao.
in his defense (diminished capacity), he is a guy whose function is to play records on a record player. probably not a big think thonker.
Woah I didn't realise we had an emote for that. We really do have everything don't we
The worst part is that the Dems on the Congressional Black Caucus requested they do this
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.
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.
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.
what is this in reference to? how do you know it's their alt account?
https://hexbear.net/u/YaaAsantewaa@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Exact same username on another instance, immediately responded after someone mentioned them being banned from a Hexbear community.
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
If they cared, they'd commit to undoing the centuries of colonialism that have ravaged black communities in this country. Not performatively kneel.
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.
They are making a rascist toktik challenge meme video. No, they do not care
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
I thought that's what this was
