In that reporting stream, at 22:58, "White House releases photos of Trump in Situation Room"[1], I'm struck that we are in a timeline that is not only dark, but surreal.

It sounds trite to say from a position of relative comfort and distance, but I can only hope that someday our better selves will find peace with each other, around the globe.

But we won't be able to undo all the injustices and atrocities that we inflicted upon each other. We know these wrongs as we are doing them, and they will remain upon us.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/sR8YhcY.png

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PeterHolzwarth 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Nothing odd about that. I'm thinking of photos of Obama and Hillary in the situation room, observing the strikes on Bin Laden in realtime.

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seydor 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Remote War photos are now commonplace. The striking thing is that he is wearing his MAGA hat, as if he purposely wants to piss off his base who had delusions of "no wars president"

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wvbdmp 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Ah, but it isn’t a war. Just a little operation. It’s perfectly regular, everone does it, ask anyone.

	▲	seydor 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		145 airplanes , months of planning, weeks of positioning, it's very hard to claim it's not a war

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fastball 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What is surreal about Trump being in the Situation Room?

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neilv 13 hours ago | parent [-]

As photojournalism, the image is brilliant. Though not entirely candid, that subtext contributes.

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baobabKoodaa 7 hours ago | parent [-]

You didn't answer the question.

	▲	neilv 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not going to bother, when already-triggered people are downvoting this thread so hard.