Distractions
“Don’t worry, he’s physically incapable of holding three knives.”
– the “at least Knife Guy is only limited to two knives” camp
Knife Guy returns after over 5 years. Actually, he’s been around that entire time, just stabbing people and causing trouble, but for some reason, everyone kept advising that if you stop giving him attention, he’d just stop.
And somehow, that reminds me of a similar situation, where people seem to think that literally every terrible thing Donald Trump does is just a distraction from some other terrible thing. The mobilization of the National Guard in cities around the country is just a distraction from the Epstein files! No, the Epstein files are a distraction from how he’s slowly involving us in a war with Venezuela! Actually, invading Venezuela would be the perfect distraction from his crypto-scams and blatantly corrupt profiteering! Never mind, all his shitcoin pumping and dumping is just a distraction from how his tariffs are fucking up the economy! Wait, stop, you’re distracted from the EPSTEIN FILES!
Guys, sometimes terrible people do terrible things and we still have to pay attention to those terrible things! Even when there’s a lot of them! Look, ideally, just one of these terrible things would have been enough for everyone to say, “Wow, this guy’s terrible! We should really stop letting him do terrible things!” but sadly, our world doesn’t seem to work that way! Ironically, all this talk about, “Don’t be distracted by X, pay attention to Y!” seems only to undermine the significance of everything A-Z. For God’s sake, fascists do not do fascism to distract from their fascism! They’re just fascing!
– James
