r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 8d ago

No Paywall ‘She Can Barely Read’: New Trump Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Faceplants in First Briefing

https://www.commondreams.org/news/katie-zacharia-debut-briefing
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u/PM_me_the_bootyhole 8d ago

My coworker saw me reading a book by the pool on a work trip and said “look at this smarty pants”. I was embarrassed for him and just sad.

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u/Giff13 7d ago

I was collecting plastics to recycle and I had a coworker say oh you're one of those people..

OK?

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u/Honest_World_3561 7d ago

I am hated by many at work for the sin of putting plastic in the plastics recycling bin. Though they will cheerfully toss their leftover food in it. People have become so weird.

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u/AggressiveDealer2220 6d ago

Recycling is a hoax. 

No amount of recycling is going to do a damn thing when you have entire industries out there burning bunker fuel or destroying our oceans trawling. 

Nevermind that in most places, recycled trash ends up in the same landfill as everything else.

But hey it makes you feel better about yourself so let's keep doing it 

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u/5zepp 7d ago

They can't articulate it, but in a way this situation represents the hubris of liberalism in general. Not political liberalism, but general liberalism which is way too susceptible into making one think that, because they are educated and have a very developed mind and a mindset that makes internal sense, that they are right in what they do. Plastic recycling is largely a scam, and there's a fair to good chance that your plastic is not being actually recycled to any significant effect, at least not to offset all the oil used to move it around. So they see it as performative and even judgmental. Which it largely is, but it's hard for people like us to be able to acknowledge that or understand how someone else might feel that way and not judge them for it. Like shaming them on foryms like this.

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u/Markshadow4999 Europe 7d ago

Really? Are you sure it's not just because "protecting the environment = woke"?

This genuinely sounds like you are trying to attach a deep meaning to something surface level.

Trump also constantly gets rid of environmental protection initiatives and they don't say a word about them, is protected land also performative?

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u/kjlcm 7d ago edited 6d ago

I can't figure out if there are brainwashed into owning the libs or just fucking stupid. Why would anyone embrace policies that are detrimental to the environment so some billionaires can get richer? It makes no sense.

Sincerely, an outraged American

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u/AggressiveDealer2220 6d ago

They were told those policies are why they can't afford things. They believe anything they are told by their handlers, so it's a losing battle. 

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u/5zepp 5d ago

I'm pointing out how this is a perfect example - performative action based on self important ideals that are actually a scam - and then looking down on someone who, from their perspective, sees right through that. I don't follow what you are getting at though.

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u/Markshadow4999 Europe 5d ago

I'm just saying that your reasoning sounds way too... Well, reasoned... for the kind of people we are talking about.

Things are often much simpler than that, ever heard "You can't reason someone out of a position they haven't reasoned themselves into"?

Imo most of them just latched onto the idea that recycling is bad because they've basically been told constantly that the environment doesn't need protecting and global warming is a hoax. They don't really think about what they preach, they just repeat it.

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u/cmVkZGl0MjAyNQ 7d ago

To recall an old Bill Hicks bit:

> whatchu reading for?

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u/Spell_Chicken 7d ago

I don't wanna be a fuckin waffle waitress.

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u/bloodphoenix90 6d ago

I think id immediately say ew, like involuntarily, before i could even think about it. I get full body disgust from people who take weird pride in having the intelligence of an inbred squirrel.