In terms of those who did attend trump’s kremlin-esque parade, it would be amusing to know what percentage of those were journalists there to cover the attendance (see also: who remains signed onto Xitter). …should be magnanimous and suggest there were slightly more sycophants than journalists.
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Different country. They faced their demons and have become a better country for it. Odds on the U.S. doing the same mea culpa? Yeah, I’m not making that bet.
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Every photo I’ve seen of the military parade in conventional media (the kind covered in our what’s wrong with the 4th estate thread) is a tight shot. They might use weasel words and even lie outright, but they’re not yet ready to use CGI to fill in the gaps in photos.
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thread of photographs i took at my local protest (3)
this trump supporter was the only counter-protestor i saw, and the police forced him to stand on the other side of a creek far away from the crowd of thousands — all alone, he helplessly kept trying to shout “you are the minority!”
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(It’s very useful! 
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If he wanted people to show up and party, it needed to not be a birthday parade…
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The turret on the little tank is too big.
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Glad they came. Happier that they’re not the focus of the coverage.
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In Canada, we do love a kilted pipe band; they make a lot of noise and seem to take up a lot of space.
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A nice parade vídeo. Please notice the drone, probably a chinese one.
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From the second link, “Shows of Weakness”:
An interesting moment happened during this little show. There’s this awful woman named Nancy Mace who serves in the House on behalf of the unfortunate people of South Carolina, and I’m sorry to make you aware of her if you weren’t already. She used her time to grill one of the governors—Tim Walz of Minnesota—with the following question, which left Walz momentarily nonplussed.
What is a woman?
This is a pretty standard question from the type of bigot that Nancy Mace is. It’s meant to erase the existence of trans women, who are being especially targeted for cruelty and exclusion by the birthday boy and all his little minions. The question is asked to attempt to enforce the asker’s own narrow definitions, and then to accuse anyone who refuses to accept those restrictions of sexism and bigotry. This is what the sexist bigot Nancy Mace did, at which point, her job done, she yielded her time, leaving Walz blinking.
Walz might be forgiven for being taken aback; the question seems like a complete non sequitur in the context, which was a House Oversight Committee session on immigration policy. However, as I say, it’s a very standard question among the birthday boy’s crowd, so I think it would be good if everyone who might be asked questions by such types had an answer prepared.
I’d like to furnish an answer to the question.
Question: What is a woman?
Answer: A woman is not a what. A woman is a who.
I’d observe that once you ask who is a woman, you get billions of different wonderful and extraordinary answers, but you no longer get to police which women get to keep their humanity, and to what degree.
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So a good person with a gun shot twice at a bad person carrying a with a semiautomatic gun, striking the bad person along with an innocent bystander—who was killed?
Once again, it’s guns that are the problem (along with the dipshits who carry).
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My god what a good answer. Filing that away for future reference.
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