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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (15 children)

These people really have no understanding of reality do they? I mean, maybe I'm wrong myself, but to not even entertain the possibility of him gaining politically from this event...?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

Kruse is an unabashed (if not shameless) dem cheerleader but he's not a total idiot. I can't decide if he's outright lying (to rally the dem troops) or if he actually believes there's no upside for Trump. At first I was going to write that he's surely lying but then I realized people can poison their own brains by pumping out propaganda nonsense every day. And the easiest person to deceive is yourself.

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I think Trump's fist pumping will turn out to be the most powerful political images* in all of American history and there won't be a close second.

Edit: By "political images" I mean how that's defined in the media or in history books or in textbooks and not how we define it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The New Yorker agrees with you:

But what makes the image is Trump. In its surface details, it carries echoes of the marines at Iwo Jima. In the former President’s bloody defiance, it even evokes Rocky Balboa. On that stage, Trump seemed well aware of the image he was creating. It is an image that captures him as he would like to be seen, so perfectly, in fact, that it may outlast all the rest.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump looked like the American heroes of myth, such as (staged war photo) and (entirely fictional character)

That Iranian guy was so right

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

sorry out of the loop which iranian guy?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I am assuming this is the commentary about how when the US assassinated the Iranian general who was a cultural hero that they were unable to respond because all of the US's cultural heroes are made up (I believe Micky Mouse & Captain America were the examples given)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Spiderman and Spongebob

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

It is an image that captures him as he would like to be seen, so perfectly, in fact, that it may outlast all the rest.

Nothing will outlast

feast

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

He's a good performer. Knows how to appeal to the crowd. Must be all the TV experience.

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