Sorry, I thought you were point at some of us in this thread.
Not trying be negative about her, I just have an issue with people saying this unironically
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "To Quote Alan Moore, YOU'RE LOCKED UP IN HERE WITH ME"
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Not trying be negative about her, I just have an issue with people saying this unironically
It is well known you can only quote pop media if you 100% align with the fictional characters views.
Kaep: Not good enough to win the Superbowl. Fact.
Kaep: Drummed out of the NFL after taking a knee after a rough season. Fact.
Kaep: Better than about half of the fully employed QBs in the league. Fact.
Kaep: Other QBs ASKING to have him added to their bench at least as a backup QB. Fact.
Kaep: Shit tier non-racist and probably even some racist team fans secretly hoping to be "burdened" with him.
Kaep: Shut out of his career about halfway through his potential by Trumped up racism.
Kaep: Personally targeted for hatred by the President of the United States directly interfering in private lives and business and his and our first ammendment rights.
Kaep: Still not wrong about crime stats.
Kaep: Would probably be on a major team if he even had short hair.
Wow, that was a line said by someone who murdered Maggie Gyllenhall and burned money how dare you
I hate cringe. It's course, and ruff, and irritating. And it gets everywhere.
politically his nihilist anarchy is more in tune with moore than rorschach
It's funny though because she's quoting a character that couldn't be more diametrically opposed to everything she stands for.
Arnold said terminator lines as governor, and he isn't even a murder robot from the future!
lol
That was a low key 9ers dig so you should probably read the rest instead.
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Maybe she can play the class of "tank". She keeps the fire on her, so the right-wing media machine doesn't focus on someone else.
LMAO
attributing Watchmen quotes to politicians needs to become a thing NOW
No one can be a robot assassin from the future.
Lots of people are racist, homophobic, sexist, ultranationalist rape apologists who derive the majority of their world view from far right wing news sources.
Like I said earlier, this line is part of pop culture now, we aren't at the point of doing character studies of fictional characters to decide what quotes are politicalty correct to use or not.
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Maybe she saw the movie version (which I did). Based on the page posted, its context is completely different
I mean, it's pretty clear she just watched the movie and is quoting that scene. I think it falls flat on twitter personally.
Her tweet is a joking reference, not something meant to convey the deeper context of the source material.
To me it seems like she's intentionally making it cringey for that reason.
Gold is a very safe investment. And it's a good hedge against inflation. Further, if people become very very sick, rich people with gold can simply pay to help them with charity from their gold reserves. There's nothing psycho about that.
She at least knew (or looked up) who wrote it. Moore's name isn't on the film.
The Arnie saying Terminator lines is actually way more cringey in that regard and suggests a double standard to me - not by you, but by how we as consumers view these things. She's simply demonstrating a normal range of pop culture knowledge and using it in a way any one of us might in a light hearted fashion. She's only being called out because it's not what we expect.
We need to stop comparing it with what some crooked cadaverous Kentucky senator would do and just get used to the fact that our elected leaders should look and sound like us. And I'm not @ing you - I'm actually just coming to terms with this myself, because I'm from the pragmatic use of existing systems school of what elected leaders should be doing.
Pelosi is the old guard and doing exactly that -- in the the way I want, but it's crazy to keep expecting our leaders to look like us, but act like them - a redundant vestige of 200 years of stagnant assumptions and norms that the other side is abusing harder than Uncle Bad-Touch at a Pinata party.