This mornings article is in reference to this tweet: https://twitter.com/BrandMooreArt/status/780391058358280193 and also this one as well: https://twitter.com/mattgood/status/780412920689754112
I spend a lot of time on Twitter. Far more than I ever did on Facebook. And since joining in 2011, it’s been my go to for political news and updates from around the world. A veritable feed of any type of information I’m looking for from who won the Tigers game last night (12-0 Tigs over the Cleveland Indians), to Theo Walcott’s passing percentage v Chelsea (77%), to the amount of unarmed civilians Obama has droned since taking office (at least 314 since 2009).
But where there’s a wealth indisputable knowledge, there’s also conjecture and lunacy. There’s tightrope walking that fine line of Political Correctness that still allows hundreds of thousands of us a soapbox of our very own. And magazines like Medium to make sweeping statements that wind around and never really go anywhere.
As of this morning, I follow 604 different Twitter accounts. Most of them news conglomerates, politicians and a wide variety of graphic designers, whose posts help inspire me and see the design world from a different perspective. On Monday morning, a pair of tweets appeared in my timeline.
Firstly, this one:
It certainly caught my attention.
Hitler was a lot of things to a myriad of people. But no one can argue that with the help of German clothing designer Hugo Boss, he had an immense sense of style. The Feldgrau and Luftwaffe fashion is still part of every day wear over 80 years after. He also had some incredibly lofty ideas that made Germany a super power and a country feared by every neighbour within a one hundred mile radius of Berlin. The article, sadly, does nothing to prove it’s point for or against.
The second tweet, was by Canadian rock musician Matthew Good, someone I’ve known for well over 20 years, and whose politics have always been concise and well thought out yet, filled to the brim with a foreboding tinge that let’s you know exactly who he’s backing. Put mildly, he’s very Liberal.
I probably should’ve been more eloquent. I certainly could’ve been less biased as well. But what developed was an exchange over direct message that would compare former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to a war mongering sociopath, while mostly overlooking the atrocities carried out by this regime. My point was, that if you kill one person, or you kill over 300, you’re still a criminal. And since Trump, to the best of my knowledge has done neither, that sets him apart.
Trump is different. He’s not a politician. He’s not beholden to anyone. I’m not an American, so it’s irrelevant really, but given the opportunity I’d throw my vote away on Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, despite the fact that msm berated him for not knowing what Aleppo is.
That said, I can fully understand why someone would vote for Trump instead of a lying, conniving criminal like Hillary, who would likely sell out her own family and backstab her former cohorts at the State to have another chance of climbing those White House steps. She lied to congress, she covered up the planned kidnapping and eventual killing of an Ambassador, while her and Obama blamed it on a laughable propaganda film denouncing Mohammed.
Hitler had some truly terrible ideas when it came to ethnic cleansing, eugenics and racial purity. None of which I see in Trump. Frankly, Hillary’s win at all costs mentality is far more in line with the Third Reich, in my honest opinion.
Media Spin 