![]() It’s the agitated, aimless buzzing of the type of crowd that gathers in the aftermath of some bewildering catastrophe. But the behavior on display is, if nothing else, a product of a lack of sense. I don’t know what to make of all this, and I doubt if there is anything to be made. So repulsive and disquieting to see the MCU people muscling to the forefront of the discourse again today after a few days of clearly feeling silenced by the gravity of what’s happening - Rosa Lyster February 28, 2022 “Wipe out that convoy and say what are you gonna to about it? All bullies are pussies.” His followers were dogged in their attempts to talk him out of this idea-forgetting, it seems, that Van Zandt’s attitude about whether the United States should declare war against Russia matters not at all. ![]() “We should call Putin’s bluff because he ain’t nukin’ dick,” Van Zandt tweeted last night. And for reasons I cannot explain, I have read hundreds of messages about the conflict from Steven Van Zandt, of Bruce Springsteen’s band and Tony Soprano’s fictional crew. After a Ukrainian brewery started making Molotov cocktails with Putin is a dickhead written on the label, I saw someone declare that Ukraine was “winning the meme war,” and that it was “hard to overstate just how important” that was. Others found joy in the punchiness of the Ukrainian resistance, retweeting images of anyone cursing out Russian war machinery. The Marvel fans, of course, immediately began processing the bombardment of distant cities as action movies, and then cast them with political figures. A woman who went to the same college as I did (Lord, help us!) let her fellow “empaths” know that it is okay to take a break from the news and find your inner peace, while an impressive number of Americans expressed the opinion that they should not have to do their “silly little email jobs” during a war, and that they were tired of “living through historic events.” “I know how I could easily have moved in the direction of becoming a dictator myself,” she later told BuzzFeed. The actor AnnaLynne McCord recorded herself (wearing a turtle-tank!) doing spoken word about how if she had been Vladimir Putin’s mom, he would not have become evil. These include jokes-attempts at dark humor for dark times-that end up being like, “I don’t know about you, but this is not the ‘vibe shift’ I was hoping for.” Then there’s the deeper horror of stupid sincerity. I mean that almost literally: It’s as if an important door has been ripped off its hinges, allowing all the worst thoughts ever thought in the history of thinking in sentences to come spilling out. No surprise, casual social-media chatter about the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been unhinged.
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