It took me way too long to understand they meant the pool was empty of people, not empty of water ...
The pool being empty is pretty important context.
Somehow I think they're leaving out some other important context too.
What does this have to do with politics?
"These people who throw milkshakes could be throwing acid"
No, they couldn't. They made a conscious decision to throw a milkshake at someone because a milkshake is not going to hurt that person. It won't burn them. It won't injure them. It won't damage them in any way other than to get milkshake on them.
Throwing milkshakes and throwing acid are two WILDLY different things and to try to suggest they are the same is just bullshit.
It's like throwing a chair in a pool and throwing a baby in a pool.
I must be out of the loop because I have no idea what throwing milkshakes is a reference to, but I assume national guard troops.
That makes more sense what it has to do with politics now.
OTOH if you threw a chair into the pool where I swim, they would kick you out too, lol, but they are legally not allowed to ban you because they're funded by public money.
The context that the pool is empty is crucial though.
The milkshakes thing is in relation to UK politics - I live in the UK.
There was a spate of people throwing milkshakes at right-wing and far-right politicians. And some on the right (and the far-right) lost their rag over it and said "If they throw milkshakes they could throw acid". Which, as I said, is bullshit nonsense.
I would have just taken that as permission. “He said I could throw acid as long as I threw a milkshake first!”
Re: politics
Im thinking maybe something like "calling protesters terrorists for kicking over a trashcan"
Politics specifically, nothing. But if you are the kind of person who violates the social order, no matter how mundane or harmless your behavior is when you do it, don't be surprised when people don't want to have you around anymore. They don't want to see the kind of behavior you demonstrate when you realize that consequences don't apply to you for whatever reason.
If you want a political example, a pardoned January 6th insurrectionist is currently in the news for threatening the house minority leader.
People don't remember the "9 times out of ten" you were cool as hell, they remember the one time you crashed out and made everyone feel uncomfortable or unsafe, and they think about that every time someone has to decide whether to invite you out somewhere.
Huh.
You manage to take exactly the opposite point of view I took from it.
Not sure what the says about you, about me and about the post, but it does - I guess - open up the floor for further discussion?
Was the pool empty after he threw in Schrodinger's baby?
Oddly the last line kinda killed the whole thing. I thought it was an interesting commentary until that point. Then it felt just wannabe edgelord.
This is why spelling important. Or make u look dum
didn't patricia taxxon write this?
https://www.tumblr.com/patricia-taxxon/793276713956261888?source=share
Ty for this. I can't read white text on a black background (especially not in that god awful font) and I was about to OCR it
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