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Adam
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Still thinking of this picture captured by Julia Nikhinson, from this year's Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
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Phil Cockfield
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Wow. Incredible on-the-ground slice of reality. Is there any more context on what is going down?
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Adam
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A tale of two Americas. A corporate behemoth looms over, while police excessively detain a person who dares to disrupt their dominance
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Phil Cockfield
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Damn - Such a strong image, and even stronger with that context. Thanks Adam. Ronald don't give a shit about you, citizen!
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Adam
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Not to be graphic, but it looks like that person is being held down for Ronald to have their way with them. A metaphor for a larger concept of power applied to the powerless
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Phil Cockfield
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"Ronald" and "Roy Cohn*" and all the likely friends with icky power dynamics bubbling and boiling within that great big frothy "American Experiment" of greed and lust! And all going down in the big apple. The disillusionment vibes totally write themselves with that powerful image. *(just finished watching the new movie "The Apprentice" a period piece in NYC, very good piece of film making, but made me feel dirty).
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Phil Cockfield
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“There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. … And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.” — Hunter S. Thompson, 1971 "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
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Adam
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One of my favorite things Hunter wrote, and definitely worthy of resurfacing here
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