Diane Keaton’s people are so right-wing that if you help a blind man cross the street they accuse you of socialism. Agreed, Woody, but more right-wing is Ángel Garó, who dared to call Putin a communist. “Leftists, deniers of history… Because now Putin is not a communist, no, he is Franco’s friend,” he mocked in a tiktok. The artist has been tricked, Woody. “Pack of scoundrels. (…) I see injustice every day because I read”, he adds about Podemos. You know that ignorance, like fascism, is not cured by reading. Or not only To begin with, it all depends on what you read.
Let it be clear to you. Garó is not a fascist, but he says what he says. The problem is that we too have been fooled. The video that has gone viral @franciscoescobar00 is conveniently cut to omit what a friend of the comedian says at the beginning: “Well, tomorrow we have elections in Andalusia”. Therefore, they are words of 2022, and they are not said in the face of the next general election. Few media have paid attention to it. Some even titled that the comedian was positioning himself “for the 23-J”.
We fall into the culture of deception that moves the ultra-right and its digital speakers so well. The same one that in Spain is led by an Abascal who in an interview with Telecinco is able to call Pedro Sánchez “leader of the pack”. Look, Woody, another one that says pack. Well, in another sense and perplexing even Pedro Piqueras, a journalist who has worked in “apocalyptic” and “spooky” scenarios.
But, as you’ll see, it’s true, the thing. “In no case will we add to the politicization of violations.” It is a tweet from Vox from 2019, following the sentence of La Manada. Where I say I say, I say Don Pelayo. Another deception.
The ultra-right should warn when it deceives. This is done by clothing brands, which print “KEEP AWAY FROM FIRE” on the label. So, in all caps, when everyone knows cotton doesn’t burn… (or does it?). Or Junts, which overprints a message in its campaign video with a Sanchez made with AI to remind that it is made with… AI. Yes, to avoid quarrels, but hey, what the hell.
We touch iron. One oversight and in Moncloa, next to Feijóo, there will be someone who will make him go so extreme on the right that he will be forced to cross the curb line on the highway. We are about to see all the social rights fought for years deconstructed. But for when it’s time to build them again, @adhucat has a question for you, Woody: If the tool for assembling and disassembling furniture from Ikea was not made of iron but of wood, would it be called Woody Allen?
