Pete Buttigieg posing at Holocaust Memorial

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4 minutes ago, Enzo626 said:

Disrespectful, maybe. But Sociopath? C’mon 

Does that mean people shouldn’t take pictures in front of the pyramids because they’re technically burial tombs? 

We can’t compare burial tombs from thousands of years ago to memorials and graves for people who have died during our lifetimes. Or to memorials for tragedies. 

I personally will never pose in front of a grave or memorial. Especially for tragedies. 

Historical anthropological sites are fine because they actually document humanity’s history and are not typically memorials for things like The Holocaust. 

Context matters. Always.

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12 minutes ago, Enzo626 said:

Does that mean people shouldn’t take pictures in front of the pyramids because they’re technically burial tombs? 

I think the technicality there makes it "ok". I mean, otherwise, who are we respecting? A few pharaohs that were dead and buried thousands of years ago on the backs of slaves and laborers?

I think there is a tasteful way to have a photo op at one of these memorial sites to show that you can reflect on history and respect those that died horrific deaths...but a side-on insta pic isn't it tbh.

OT: big oof  but it's not like this is his greatest shortcoming. He's a young, gay Biden with fewer Freudian slips

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8 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

Context matters. Always.

You’re right, I agree that context matters. However, I still feel that this isn’t the worst thing in the world. And you shouldn’t be deemed a sociopath because you took a picture at a memorial. It’s not like he went to just a regular cemetery and took a photoshoot. It is certainly not in great taste, but looking at the way the memorial was designed, it makes for a good picture  I’m sorry to say, but you have to look at that context also. 

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15 minutes ago, PartySick said:

I think there is a tasteful way to have a photo op at one of these memorial sites to show that you can reflect on history and respect those that died horrific deaths...but a side-on insta pic isn't it tbh.

I would disagree, I think this would be the “best” (even though it’s still not in particularly good taste) way to take a picture seeing as how most of the photos that I’ve seen are guys with shirts off and just being extra with the poses (I even saw one with a guy with his pants half down his as*). All this is, is a standing side profile of the guy. He’s not posing extra hard or doing anything crazy. And because he’s a presidential candidate, it’s being looked at more, even though (I believe) it was taken when he wasn’t even thinking of being a presidential candidate. 
 

I feel like he would have come under scrutiny for anyway he would have taken this picture. 
 

Yes it is a memorial for one of the biggest tragedies that has happened in recent history; however because it is a memorial and not just an art piece, everybody that take a picture gets criticized. It’s a good photo opportunity and would be seen as one if it wasn’t a memorial. 

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38 minutes ago, Enzo626 said:

You’re right, I agree that context matters. However, I still feel that this isn’t the worst thing in the world. And you shouldn’t be deemed a sociopath because you took a picture at a memorial. It’s not like he went to just a regular cemetery and took a photoshoot. It is certainly not in great taste, but looking at the way the memorial was designed, it makes for a good picture  I’m sorry to say, but you have to look at that context also. 

“It makes a good picture” isn’t really an excuse. 

Me posing as a zombie on Halloween on my neighbor’s grandma’s grave stone makes a good picture too  

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2 hours ago, PoshLife said:

As a Jewish person whose great grandparents were killed in the Holocaust (and whose grandparents fled Poland and spent years at a Soviet work camp), this was in extremely poor taste. Yes, random tourists take photos of it all of the time. But Pete Buttigieg is not a random tourist; he is running for the very highest office and should have shown better judgment than this. His husband thinking it was appropriate to post on social media is baffling, as well.

 

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I agree it was in poor taste, but this pic was taken back in 2017 and posted then, not recently. Either way, it is distasteful. 

Taking pictures at memorials seems to be a common questionable practice that Twitter and Facebook has exposed. People have been taking pics in front of memorials in Washington DC for generations, but now everyone posts them for everyone else in the world to see. 

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There is a Holocaust memorial in Miami Beach. People take pictures. 

And by the way. Here is another photo op in front of a memorial for  African Americans. Where's the outrage Bernie Bros? 

 

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8 hours ago, Bonkers said:

The way these TYT/Bernie fans clutch their pearls and feign outrage about every little thing is actually not helping bernie in the Polls.  At all.   In fact the reason that - even though I think Bernie is amazing, I would never support him.  Why?  YOU PEOPLE.  

This is literally the saddest thing I’ve read on here. How can someone be so childish? Politics isn’t a game hun 

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10 hours ago, Morphine Prince said:

You honestly have to be a sociopath to take a smiling selfie, or posing picture at any memorial, tombstone, etc. 

I actually think there's a decent chance Pete is a sociopath lol, and I'm not saying that to be shocking. It seems like his whole life has been perfectly planned out so he could run for President one day. Also, he seems to have no core beliefs when it comes to policy. Whether it's being a proponent of Medicare For All a few months ago to now dismissing it as essentially unAmerican, or simply trying to run as a progressive a few months ago to now running as a moderate, he comes across as a soulless  politician who just wants to attain power, unlike, let's say, Sanders, Warren, and Yang, who have solid beliefs and policy goals.

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2 minutes ago, Kevbev said:

I actually think there's a decent chance Pete is a sociopath lol, and I'm not saying that to be shocking. It seems like his whole life has been perfectly planned out so he could run for President one day. Also, he seems to have no core beliefs when it comes to policy. Whether it's being a proponent of Medicare For All a few months ago to now dismissing it as essentially unAmerican, or simply trying to run as a progressive a few months ago to now running as a moderate, he comes across as a soulless  politician who just wants to win and attain power, unlike, let's say, Sanders, Warren, and Yang, who have solid beliefs and policy goals.

I don't think he's literally a sociopath, but his career trajectory certainly is sociopathic.  I feel the same way about him that you do.

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7 hours ago, Morphine Prince said:

“It makes a good picture” isn’t really an excuse. 

Me posing as a zombie on Halloween on my neighbor’s grandma’s grave stone makes a good picture too  

There is a significant difference in the picture posted by Buttigieg and your example. 

One of them is a picture taken at a memorial, basically a tourist point. 
 

The other is outright disrespectful by dressing in costume, pinpointing and going to your “neighbor’s grandma’s” gravesite, stepping on said gravesite, and basically mocking the dead by posing on top of and around the gravestones. 

Let’s remember, context matters. 

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32 minutes ago, Enzo626 said:

There is a significant difference in the picture posted by Buttigieg and your example. 

One of them is a picture taken at a memorial, basically a tourist point. 
 

The other is outright disrespectful by dressing in costume, pinpointing and going to your “neighbor’s grandma’s” gravesite, stepping on said gravesite, and basically mocking the dead by posing on top of and around the gravestones. 

Let’s remember, context matters. 

And let’s remember I was talking about  in general, not just his example. 

Those tourists who take selfies smiling and posing at Auschwitz come to mind. 

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2 hours ago, JusKeepBreathin said:

There is a Holocaust memorial in Miami Beach. People take pictures. 

And by the way. Here is another photo op in front of a memorial for  African Americans. Where's the outrage Bernie Bros? 

 

The desperation and calling everyone “Bernie Bros”  

I’d never take a pic like this either! 

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1 minute ago, Morphine Prince said:

The desperation and calling everyone “Bernie Bros”  

I’d never take a pic like this either! 

Yet the Bros, minus you, are here defending it.