No, I have no real investment in the American political system. I was pointing out the satire in the original photo was misplaced. As people have demonstrated in this conversation most of the interactions have made massive assumptions about why i made my comments rather then addressing my comment.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 57 points 9 months ago (3 children)

the satire in the original photo was misplaced

Perhaps you're not aware of the concept of synecdoche,, where one part of something is used as a representative of the thing as a whole. You saw the float and said that it had nothing to do with trump (vaguely true despite the fact that many of his party still answer his beck and call), whereas the float has "republikaner" written on it, which despite not speaking German I can only assume means "republican". So basically the float is depicting the republican party at large killing Ukraine, despite the fact that there are only two people shown.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 33 points 9 months ago

This float is far from anything even remotely close to "subtle", and yet that guy still couldn't understand the float. I'd say media literacy is abismal but at this point it's just reading.

[–] onion@feddit.de 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

German here, your assumption is correct

[–] Triadager@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago

I think it means Republicans, plural, as in not only Trump. Which is an important distinction imo. Trump is just used as an example.

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Pars pro toto. Nice.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 36 points 9 months ago

Well you made some irrelevant statements about who's president and then suggested changing the satirical image so that it would no longer make sense. It seems pretty well placed to me and doesn't need to be changed given that it's attacking the group of people currently withholding US aid to Ukraine. Not sure what conclusions you were expecting people to make based on your comments.