Posted on 05/12/2024 10:19:22 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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The Met Gala drew comparisons to The Hunger Games quickly online on Sunday. As social media flooded with reactions to the spectacle of the red carpet, others were acutely aware of the scenes unravelling outside the prestige of the gala. Just about a mile away from the Met, hundreds of pro-Palestine activists demonstrated in protest of the war, with many blocked from entering the gala itself. And miles away, Israeli armed forces carried out an assault on the city of Rafah, resulting in dozens of casualties and injuries.
Simultaneously, the student movement across college campuses in the U.S. has resulted in thousands of arrests and cancelled commencements, as university goers protest in solidarity with Palestine, despite efforts to suppress their demonstrations.
The circumstances surrounding both the Met Gala and the ongoing devastation of violence in Gaza, and the subsequent link with between Ballard's story and the protests outside the event, was almost too clear. The Met Gala itself has not changed: it is always a chance for extravagance, an overt display of opulence, and a moment for the cult of celebrity. But the timing, this year, has raised different questions.
It's less surprising then, that users on X (formally Twitter), turned to The Hunger Games as an apt metaphor. The line between fiction and dystopian reality, say these users, has been blurred.
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They can crowdsource if they get cut off.
Barry can probably help them out. He was a community organizer. You'll have a lot of people chip in $5 for "Queers for Palestine".
A lot of the true believers are getting money from Qatar and other middle eastern countries, these same countries are financing middle eastern intellectual centers in universities all over the country.
MBS had a huge spat with Qatar. Apparently, he found Qatar too radical.
IMO, most of these Middle Eastern Countries are filled with nothing more than rug merchants and goat herders, if it weren’t for oil, they would still be Bedouins wandering around in the desert.
For most part, yes. They're modernizing. The Gulf States are led by pragmatic rulers except for Qatar.
And the elitists were dressed exactly as outrageously and hopelessly out of touch with reality as I expected based on the comparison.
The analogy is apt.
If you think about the actual hunger games in the movie, the districts send two contestants to a contest where only one person is supposed to survive and win and thereby be allowed to enter the world of the elites.
In real life, the hunger games are real, pointless wars meant to enrich the elites while millions of people get killed it the process.
The entire Covid Hoax is just another Hunger Game scenario in real life.
The entire climate change hoax is another hunger game, meant to enrich the elites based on a series of lies that convince a certain element of the population to believe the lies and then act on them.
Just cal it TwiX for short
Yup. Exactly.
It is for foolish, yet rabid, “articles” such as this that I contend the broad fabric of mankind would be more intact - iow, less fractured - if the microchip and all that followwd from it had never been invented.
Sure, such things were written and disseminated pre-internet but a relative few saw them.
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