Re: The Alec Baldwin Left Hook

On 2024-04-25 19:06:46 +0000, moviePig said:

On 4/25/2024 2:01 PM, shawn wrote:

On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:12:03 +0000, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

"super70s"  <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-04-23 17:04:10 +0000, anim8rfsk said:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

For once I'm on Alec's side. This girl deserved a Baldwin Shot to the
jaw.

 
 

 

https://apple.news/A9M48T4LsTYOCvCmG3eY14Q
 
"The agitator, who hosts a show on social media called Crackhead
Barney & Friends and is known for ambush interviews"

 
They showed it on TMZ Live, from "why did you shoot that girl" to "say
Free Palestine...say it just once"?
 
She's gonna ambush the wrong person one of these days, probably from
her own hood.

 
What is it with this thing protesters do these days where they demand
their target repeat a phrase? They did this to Occasional-Cortex and now
Alec Baldwin-- in both cases they wanted them to recite "Free
Palestine".
 
Even if Baldwin doesn't believe it, she wants him to just say it. If
you're a normal person and you watch that, you think, what value is
there in making him say it?

 
I'm not sure what she intended. I'm sure someone would clip out his
just saying the phrase and use that to show more support for Palestine
but I'm not sure if that was her point. More likely it's just the hot
phrase that can generate clicks so she's using it. After all she can
use it as a title to draw in the clicks "Alec Baldwin says Free
Palestine!"
 

Let's say you succeed and he says the phrase. He's only saying it
because you have hectored and harassed him into saying it and he figures
you'll go away if he does. He's only saying it because you won't shut
up, not because he believes it. You haven't changed his mind or
anything. He's just repeating a phrase that you have assigned to him.
What do you get out of that? What does that accomplish? What's the
point?

 
The clicks are all that matters.
 

They did this during the BLM Summer of Love riots, too. They'd burst
into restaurants and surround white people eating dinner and demand
that they say "black lives matter".

 
My response as a nobody who doesn't have a social media following
would be to say "Black lives don't matter" just to watch them lose
their minds. Demanding any sort of comment from me isn't going to get
the desired response unless I'm in fear of damage to my person.
 

Leftists seem to take this approach on every issue, in every situation.
It seems intellectually adjacent to the pronoun stuff with the troons.
You *must* say the words they want regardless of whether you believe
them or not.
 
Not only don't they care if you actually believe the words, they almost
*prefer* that you not believe them. Because that shows their power over
you. If you believed the words, then they haven't really exercised any
power over you, but if they can make you say shit you don't believe in
because they've scared or intimidated you into doing so, then they have
bright line evidence of the power they wield.

 
Power that amounts to nothing in the real world. Maybe it makes them
feel good but it is only going to make people turn against them and
their ideas. It's like winning the battle at the cost of losing the
war.

 
I doubt there's evidence this is the province of "leftists".

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I understand Jesse Watters started his (in)auspicious career doing
"ambushes" for Bill O'Reilly.