On the importance of being froggy:
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On the importance of being froggy:
The play in the #fascism handbook that #trump and his handlers have been itching to play out is a more widespread martial law.
They don’t need an excuse mind you, but oh my does it piss them off that they don’t have one in Portland. The corporate media agencies are built around clickbait and even though they’re a propaganda machine for Trump, folks in frog suits facing off against an armed gestapo is too juicy for them to ignore.
So now you have folks like Miller desperately lying to the media about “war-ravaged #portland” and people laughing at him because there are no riots for them to inflame, just folks laughing at the absurdity of it all.
Keep laughing. Keep mocking. It’s infectious. The more we laugh at them now, the less likely it is that the people we need to march in protest are cowed and kept too scared to do so.
If we’re lucky maybe we can laugh them out of office on a raft of inflatable frogs. I’m not naive, I know that’s unlikely, but for now at least I’m choosing to have some faith in the power of the absurd.
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On the importance of being froggy:
The play in the #fascism handbook that #trump and his handlers have been itching to play out is a more widespread martial law.
They don’t need an excuse mind you, but oh my does it piss them off that they don’t have one in Portland. The corporate media agencies are built around clickbait and even though they’re a propaganda machine for Trump, folks in frog suits facing off against an armed gestapo is too juicy for them to ignore.
So now you have folks like Miller desperately lying to the media about “war-ravaged #portland” and people laughing at him because there are no riots for them to inflame, just folks laughing at the absurdity of it all.
Keep laughing. Keep mocking. It’s infectious. The more we laugh at them now, the less likely it is that the people we need to march in protest are cowed and kept too scared to do so.
If we’re lucky maybe we can laugh them out of office on a raft of inflatable frogs. I’m not naive, I know that’s unlikely, but for now at least I’m choosing to have some faith in the power of the absurd.
@monkeyninja Remember "weird" & how hard it hit?
Ridicule is one of the most powerful weapons against the self-righteous. They
️ need an image of themselves as arbiters of normalcy & seriousness - they're basically Jorge from Eco's "Name of the Rose", telling people to stop laughing because the truth tastes of death. To which William of Baskerville responds that he should be tarred & feathered & paraded as a bufoon so people could laugh at his small-minded selfrighteousness.
