Here's your reminder that Putin, besides being a serial murderer & war criminal, literally stole & pocketed Robert Kraft's first Super Bowl ring right in front of him... & the Feds told Kraft to let him keep it.
Recently, if you look online, Russian disinformation outlets have been trying to spin this as Kraft "voluntarily" giving his precious ring to Putin.
Heres the NFL Videos documentation on the truth of the incident.
Part four of the Superbowl Jesus series kind of turned on me, becoming a meta-analysis of why they'd lie so transparently about the AI images used in the Superbowl "He Gets Us" propaganda piece.
The lie is so obviously a lie. Why do it?
It ended up being a deep dive into how the the fundamentalist authoritarian movement behind these ads defines "truth." Spoiler: it's not how most of the people I know define truth. But it should seem familiar to you, once you see it.
I decided I wanted to do a frame-by-frame analysis of the Super Bowl "He Gets Us" ad, getting into the iconography and meaning of this recruitment attempt tailored to attract moderate to liberal non-Christians and cultural Christians into the fundamentalist evangelical belief system.
It got long. REALLY long. Long enough that I'm dividing it into several posts. Here's part one:
882 private Jets sind zum #SuperBowl Finale geflogen.
T. Swift hat infolge ihrer Pendel-Aktion für das Finale allein 50 Tonnen CO2 emittiert. Das entspricht den CO2 Emissionen eines Deutschen über einen Zeitraum von 6 Jahren.
See that #SuperBowl#footwashing ad? Did it make you mad? As a #gay man, #transgender ally, and #LGBTQ advocate, I sure don't like the sponsor! But I'm just getting over a painful illness, and I'm "Thinking about Washing Feet in God's Country."
secondo me noi che gestiamo le istanze mastodon più grandi abbiamo una enorme responsabilità, dobbiamo agire e anche sporcarci le mani (e i piedi) per fare in modo che l'odio non entri e non vinca mai dentro i nostri social.
Here is more of the conversation among women today regarding: Travis Kelce pushing his coach during the #Superbowl and how it concerns fans of #TaylorSwift:
Esta última experiencia de #superbowl me hizo reflexionar en las razones por las que prefiero el 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭 frente a muchos otros deportes de conjunto, especialmente frente al 𝐟ú𝐭𝐛𝐨𝐥... Y decidí escribirlo en mi #gemlog:
@categulario ¡Entretenidísimo! También lo he jugado.
Ahí, hay cooperación para "competir" contra la gravedad. E irónicamente, nuestra única contrincante, que tiene todas las de "ganar", "coopera" con nostros brindándonos un buen rato de diversión :awesome:
@categulario@leoperbo ándale, parecido al voleibol jipi: cada toque le crea un problema interesante al siguiente jugador, pero nadie lleva un marcador.
¡Apuesto a que peteca es de poco interés para las televisoras!
Say what you will about that #Superbowl game, the reason the #Chiefs won wasn’t Mahomes or the defense or the coaching, it was because a punt hit the leg of a player on the receiving team. The entire game came down to that bounce of the ball. 🤷 #nfl@nfl
@vintagetech It was pretty good. I'm glad he did all older stuff, since most people don't know his newer stuff really. Good to see him bring some good friends along as well.
Bobby Shriver, a nephew of John F. Kennedy, said on X: “My cousin’s Super Bowl ad used our uncle’s faces — and my Mother’s. She would be appalled by his deadly health care views. Respect for science, vaccines, & health care equity were in her DNA.” His brother Mark Shriver wrote that he agreed.
I think #maga is really about making America simple again (simpler than now). The #superbowl conspiracy stuff seems to come from a place of powerlessness in complexity. Ceding to #trump that he is great and you are coattails, allowing for a simple hierarchy and understood role, is a desire to remove complexity.
8 billion people is necessarily complex, though Can’t go backwards, Pandora’s box lesson.
Embrace complexity. Grey. Degrees. Less harm is best path.
