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Antipope SuperstarReally amazing that there's all these libs wringing their hands about the optics of the LA protests when "the optics of the LA protests" are literally this
youknowthatonepersonwithaface@julieofthespirits They're out of their damn minds if they don't think the miners would have been popping wheelies if they had BMX bikes at Blair Mountain a century ago.
@Thatonepersonwithaface going back in time to distribute BMX bikes to the guys at blair mountain
Steff 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈@julieofthespirits "Optics" always put property over people.
Working Class Games@julieofthespirits possible alt: a person doing sick wheelies on a street next to burning cars with graffiti.
sleet01@workingclassgames @julieofthespirits Burning _self-driving cars_ that were confounded by cardboard.
UrbanEdm@workingclassgames @julieofthespirits The fact that they're Waymos is important, though. You don't even have to feel bad for the people whose car is getting burned.
Nazani@UrbanEdm @workingclassgames @julieofthespirits I definitely is! As a senior with mobility issues, I'd love a self-driving car, but waymo ain't it. (And I'm disgusted with Google.)
https://www.damfirm.com/waymo-accident-statistics.html
https://www.damfirm.com/waymo-accident-statistics.html
Ciggy Bringer of Smoke"This isn't me exchanging money for entertainment, this is wrong"
Nate Allen@julieofthespirits the Democratic Party needs more of this sort of energy I think, rather than 'oh mistakes were made I wrote a mean letter '.
Voline"Beautiful, maybe not, but O how charming: life versus survival"
— Graffito from Paris, May 1968
sidereal@julieofthespirits literally some of the greatest optics in the history of freedom but go off
@sidereal some dude who writes for the atlantic: "can you guys make these protests less rad? there's too many cool skater dudes for my tastes. thanks!"
S. Sanchez@julieofthespirits Can you add @altbot description to the picture? Thanks!
scabby lil pill@julieofthespirits @ombres the optics are they’re sick as hell
misomunjeWhy can't they protest the disappearing of their neighbors politely?
pancakes🔜Bed@julieofthespirits this already looks like its gonna be a historic photo.
mivox is exhausted 
@squeakypancakes @BernieDoesIt @julieofthespirits Hope that kid doesn’t end up like the guy in Ferguson in the historic photo of him throwing a tear gas canister back at the police (or any of the other dead Ferguson organizers). 😕
@julieofthespirits I shed no tears for waymo.
Aknorals⚑Ⓐ 🏴@julieofthespirits "Help my cousin, he's quite sick" energy
Cassandrich
Craig Askings@dalias @julieofthespirits Etienne Laurent, AFP Via Getty Images
@haakon @julieofthespirits Thanks! Sorry we have to do this, but there's so much AI slop out there...
@dalias @julieofthespirits no need to apologise. I just happened to have seen it on a news website at similar time to when I was reading this thread. I fully expect a lot of AI slop to be thrown around and we need to be vigilant.
Sara Passmore@julieofthespirits fuck yeah for cycle lanes!
Gamey 
@julieofthespirits This is fucking beautiful! I still don't get why you Americans fail to understand the word Liberal but whatever, at least it's a shared culture fight word and not entirely dominated by fascists like many others I guess.
Tommi@julieofthespirits @urja hell yeah
Space Hobo@julieofthespirits I feel like LA needs to get #BikeStormz going.
madame poolhair@julieofthespirits #waroncars podcast really need to make this photo their next cover art 🤘🏻🚲 🔥
volkris@julieofthespirits keep in mind that much of the wringing of the hands over optics is not about how cool the picture may look, but about the impact the picture may have over the long run strategically.
Even if a picture is totally rad, if it harms the effort because it's used as propaganda directed towards swaths of the population that aren't engaged, that's worth wringing over.
And that's the case here.
We can complain all we want that this is the reality, we can criticize media, we can criticize normies for being normies, etc, but in the end it is the reality.
Not really, because there's a dogmatic impulse to claim anything the speaker themselves haven't come up with is absolutely detrimental to the effort, no matter what is, speculatively according speaker's Theory of Change.
craignicol@julieofthespirits yeah the optics of "I'm John Conner, you're Skynet, and Schwarzenegger is on my side" standing up against ICE and Palintir. What an example to set!
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