Continued from Part 1.
Elsewhere in the world, South Korea appears to have staved off a coup attempt. In the middle of the night, President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, claiming the opposition Democratic Party of engaging in “anti-state” activities in support of North Korea. In response, lawmakers successfully confronted armed forces and climbed over barricades at parliament, ultimately voting 190-0 against the declaration.
Whenever Twitter trolls decide to pile on a tweet for no reason, I typically decide to exclude it from TOTI: I don’t like to give that slice of the internet attention, it’s not why anybody reads this newsletter, and rarely do I have any insightful thesis as to why it all happened. This case is no different, but went so mega viral that it felt wrong not to include it, particularly when our incoming VP quite clearly draws inspiration from these communities.
On November 27, a British woman posted a celebratory tweet about completing her English Lit PhD. Very standard, normal tweet that would normally get a few likes from followers. Instead, right-wing reactionaries found it and lost their minds over her thesis title, “Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose.” As of me writing this, the tweet has 88 million views.
I’ve said before that sports Twitter is a world mostly unknown to me, but occasionally a post is so good/bad/insane it crosses over into more mainstream politics and culture Twitter. This is one post.
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