Ducky Krup
@duckykrup
Politics and glitter. BU alum. Bluesky elder. Wanna be film critic and also wanna be figure skater. Occasional writer of @cpsc.gov fan fiction
Anyway, since it’s The Atlantic, the kicker of this section is basically a subtle denouncement of how Mamdani campaigned in NYC and, notably how it’s the democrats who are wrong.
I’m actually surprised that the author, a Yale alumnae, has no sense of oratory or rhetoric or any of the skills honed in speech & debate - including that winning is often about who speaks the most persuasively and less about the actual argument and whether or not it’s sound - and those devices are
The text is a reference to Magritte’s “The Treachery of Images” which is famously a painting of a pipe with “ceci n’est pas une pipe” (this is not a pipe) underneath it
Why do the snails encircling the plate of escargot by Mbappé keep sending me?
A movie actually got a person handling historical documents scene correct and the reviewer is complaining about it?!?!?!? Lol.
Lol they just showed Trump again and I was a second too late for the proper loud boos
