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#ResistTrump today by treating him like the clown he is
#ResistTrump today by treating him like the clown he is
On CNN, Brit journalist Rob Crilly makes the case for mocking Trump mercilessly. In a post titled "It's your duty to laugh at Donald Trump," Crilly notes that
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Curious what people think about this. It seems like there is a split between "laugh at trump" versus "laughing at trump is what got us into this mess" with a lot of people who write about politics. Thoughts?




False. The main weapon of politics is organizing, and no head of state is impervious to that. This is why people go apeshit over Black Lives Matter. Do we like effective right-wing organizing?
Probably the saddest call for "activism" ever. (It's fine as part of organizing, but the guy focuses on this alone.)
Why not be "demeaning to the office of the President"? For example, Obama blows arms off brown kids. His drone campaign is “the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern history, if not ever.”
To explain why it's disturbing that the CNN article advocates nothing but putting on a show for Trump... Consider the difference between protest & direct action:
"protest, however militant, is an appeal to the authorities to behave differently; direct action, whether it’s a matter of a community setting up an alternative education system or making salt in defiance of the law (an example from Gandhi’s famous salt march), trying to shut down a meeting or occupy a factory, is a matter of proceeding as one would if the existing structure of power did not exist."
The CNN editorial even advocates a particularly tepid form of protest.
I think David Futrelle does a different one of these #ResistTrump posts fairly often, maybe daily? So I don't think he's suggesting this should be the only or even the main form of "protest".
But yeah I agree it comes across as a bit odd. Thanks for sharing your thoughts :)
There's going to be a lot of hot takes that will try and say "X is why Trump got elected" which usually just consists of the author's personal pet-peeves.
Media not taking him seriously during the campaign was a mistake, but folks justifiably laughing at and making fun of his orange-ass is not.
Good point.
haha. what's with the small hat? I like it.
It's just one of those dopey 'MAGA' hats i think. This was my phone wallpaper for a while during the primaries. 😂
Good fucking luck. Crying wolf got him elected.
Can you expand on what you mean by crying wolf?
The boy who cried wolf used to get eaten 'cause no one believed his words anymore. The boy who cried wolf in 2016 got handed the fucking nuclear trigger.