A round up of Trumpian events 🖕🍊🤡

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https://twitter.com/Marshall_Cohen/status/909914312340381697

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What?! Oh, whistleblowers, not leakers.

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Is ‘winking’ with Putin on Skype against the law?

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This is another one of those times when I’m trying to choose my words very carefully. No offence or accusation intended, and I hope I don’t fuck it up. Aspiedom sucks.

However: the power of the imagery of that event is as much to do with the race and class of the victim as it is to do with the “clarity”. Innocent, non-violent people get trampled by riot cops all the time. It is a completely routine event. It gets filmed quite often, too.

The reason why the granny in red went viral was this:

https://twitter.com/nicnichwall/status/908876145671720961

She was a person with a combination of race and class [1] that is accustomed to thinking of itself as immune to events like this. The demonstration that she wasn’t was shocking to people who shared that assumption of safety.

So, on the one hand: yes, if you’re trying to appeal to Americans, especially if you’re trying to appeal to middle class white liberals, imagery like this has a lot more power than yet another picture of a poor or black person getting beaten or killed.

But on the other hand: you need to be careful about buying into the framing of the people you’re fighting against.

The fact that one middle class white person getting some incidental bruising attracts more attention than thousands of poor and black people getting gassed and beaten is the very thing you’re fighting against.

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[1] No, I obviously haven’t examined her bank balance. Talking about appearances here.

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BTW: regarding the journalist who filmed this mass arrest and got maced.

The police lie about everything. Do not take them at face value.

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Also: a thread of Reb Z’s account of the arrest.

https://twitter.com/Rebelutionary_Z/status/910009277762478082

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https://twitter.com/hellodeliaaaaa/status/910011067568410624

https://twitter.com/maryteatowel/status/910061650362765313

https://twitter.com/missjupiter1957/status/910062611525402624

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So the mayor says the ‘days’ have been calm and it’s the ‘nights’ that are destructive and when the violence happens.

So the old lady being knocked over, etc. - that looks like ‘day’ to me.

So that was ‘calm’?

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https://twitter.com/mrflamesbaldwin/status/909894888317124609

https://twitter.com/krangtnelson/status/909832588952571904

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That has nearly nothing to do with what I said, but I understand that you are very passionate about the subject.

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Fucking nightmare.

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https://twitter.com/missjupiter1957/status/910143141860265984

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I would suggest that if we’re going to classify any bad-to-terrible thing that happens in the United States as a “Trumpian event”, this thread will become extremely bloated indeed.

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I seem to remember he wanted tanks parading down the streets for his inauguration. Our lunatic president.

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https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/910127131841241088

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Oh well, never mind then.

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