Social media erupted Wednesday afternoon as Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) took the stage in Wisconsin. But Walz shut down his speech momentarily when he saw someone fall ill under the hot Eau Claire sun. Looking out across the large crowd gathered, Walz spotted the person off to his left, whom he immediately...
    • owsei@programming.dev
      13·
      4 months ago

      he was right in front of me and I turned away. I didn’t want to touch him. He’s bleeding all over the place, I felt terrible. You know, beautiful marble floor, didn’t look like it. It changed colour. Became very red.

      Holy shit it’s worse than what I expected

      • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
        7·
        4 months ago

        And you know what I did? I said, ‘Oh my God, that’s disgusting,’ and I turned away.

        …

        And you have this poor guy, 80 years old, laying on the floor unconscious, and all the rich people are turning away…

        🤔

      • Gloomy@mander.xyz
        4·
        4 months ago

        I was saying, ‘Get that blood cleaned up! It’s disgusting!’ The next day, I forgot to call [the man] to say is he OK.

        It’s just not my thing

    • TheDoozer@lemmy.world
      7·
      4 months ago

      All of that absolutely tracks for what I would expect of him. And honestly, I could imagine a number of people having similar reactions.

      I feel the disconnect here is I can’t imagine someone going out of their way to tell the story unasked. Like, I feel even amongst the people who would do it they wouldn’t talk about it? And of those they wouldn’t talk about it in an interview, unprompted. That’s the truly baffling part, to me.

      • Sadbutdru
        1·
        4 months ago

        I think when you read that article it’s important to think critically about how it’s composed. I am as anti-trump as the next European “centrist dad”, but nothing I read there made me think he went out of his way to tell that story unprompted. I imagine he was interviewed, said a bunch of stuff, and then someone cherry-picked the quotes they needed to support the narrative of the article… You can’t just take it at face value!?

        • Gloomy@mander.xyz
          3·
          4 months ago

          But they are giving the context in which he says it.

          The story came about as he was discussing his uneasiness for looking at blood, which prompted him to recall the incident.

          And I wouldn’t call it cherry picking if an article that says: Here is a bad thing Trump said in an old interview is quoting, well, said bad thing. In Context.

          I mean, you are right about what they did. He said a lot of stuff and they represent the things that make him look bad. Doesn’t change that he said them tough.