I refuse to believe he's that fucking dense and instead he's acting in incredibly bad faith.
I'm not sure which is worse or if there's even a real difference.
'I find it impossible to believe he knew the flag was flying upside-down.' You mean that flag? The one on the tall flag pole? The pole in his front yard? The flag that was upside-down for days? Impossible, you say?
The upside-down flag is literally intended as a highly visible distress signal that will be recognized at a glance and inspire questions and concern, has been so forever. But, sure.
This is absolutely bad faith. There is no effort whatsoever to explain his reasoning and he undercuts it fully before desperately trying to get us to believe the excuse is more plausible.
This is 1984-level fuckery.
Which truths people hold so dear that they will bend their perception of reality around to prevent those truths from being wrong says a lot about what they truly believe.
You can't cure someone's hypocrisy if it's motivated by a deeply held belief just by pointing it out ☝️ but it's an opportunity to illustrate how a few people with so much to lose if it's not true structure the world to avoid keeping that from happening 👇
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Marx pointed out, and both Lenin and Mao amplified, that it is very important to pay attention to contradictions in society. When the ruling class is being contradictory, they're exposing a flaw in their rule, one that can be exploited by revolutionaries. It makes sense strategically to expose this.
He didn’t even say in his own explanation either that he didn’t know about it or that he didn’t know what it meant, did he? If either of those things were true, why wouldn’t he have said that?
Nah man, the guy appointed by the president, working at the place that appointed the last republican president, doesn't follow presidential politics...
The upside down flag is flown in times of distress. Maybe his wife was signaling for help after one of Alito’s “stop the steal” dinner rants got too intense.
This is the purest essense of American Elite Thinking that I've ever seen.
Once someone has reached a sufficient level of elite respectability in American society, they are then ABOVE REPROACH.
It's INCONCEIVABLE that a Senior Elite Person would do something wrong; they're a SENIOR ELITE.
It's inconceivable that Alito would do something that sounds like EXACTLY THE SORT OF THING ALITO WOULD DO, because that would mean he was a bad person who's unfit to hold the elite job he holds...which would strike against every faith belief American elites hold dear.
The rule is: Once a conservative becomes elite enough, anyone who speaks or writes about him or her becomes incredibly stupid during the period of time they are speaking or writing
To be fair, if they did something wrong, Gillers would be obligated to do something about it. So it’s far easier than look the other way and assume Alito’s fucking clueless.
... It's implausible to him that a married couple who seem completely pickled in the fox news universe would understand what an upside down flag was in January 2021? Is he a dumbass?
Much like how sometimes squirrels steal all the seed out of your birdfeeder, sometimes mysterious flags just get hoisted up in your yard. Every homeowner understands this.
Doesn’t sound like the squirrel I know, even though there are sunflower seeds scattered on the porch, and I’ve seen him stick his head in the feeder. That’s just a natural response to the birds accusing him of thievery.
Flying it upside down at that particular time without knowing its meaning would be quite the coinkydink.
What share of days was it accidentally flying upside down in the years before? In the years since? I'd bet 0%.
