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Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tweet and Trump/Alice Johnson Pardon Hypocrisy
from Dinner Pig · #99
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4 minTim rips into Lin-Manuel Miranda's tone-deaf tweet reacting to Bourdain's suicide by hanging, then pivots to media outrage over Trump pardoning Alice Johnson being framed as 'good but for bad reasons,' and broader hypocrisy about pandering.
- 10:47Tim suggests suicidal people should contact Lin-Manuel Miranda to see how quickly he dismisses them.
- 11:03Lin-Manuel Miranda's suicide prevention tweet about hanging was weirdly self-centered and poorly worded.
- 11:28Twitter users cancel people daily for disagreement, then the next day post about mental health support.
- 12:00During the Obama administration, ideology felt less fractured than it does now into tiny camps of five people.
- 12:57Vox's headline that Trump pardoning Alice Johnson is good but his reason is bad doesn't make logical sense.
- 13:16All politicians pander—the real question is whether the pandering actually helps people, and Trump's pardon of Alice Johnson did.
- 13:44Hillary Clinton gave lip service to the gay community 35 years late and everyone treated her like a hero.
- 14:20Suggesting people think logically about things has become an attack, especially when people behave irrationally.
- 14:37Comedians like Brandon Mordell blamed irony and their own comedy for Trump's election after it happened.
Lin-Manuel MirandaHillary ClintonDonald TrumpAlice JohnsonKim KardashianBrandon Mordell