I get that in political office everything in the public eye is a sort of show. What clothes you wear, how you handle yourself, the speeches etc.
So I get that to some people anything a politician does is purely for their own benefit. Nobody wants to look bad of course. But to me this seemed more genuine than most.
And just imagine what was going through the mind of that veteran! You do your part when you were young, filling out the forms, standing in the lines, training. Probably having doubts that they would make it out in one piece. Then decades later being thanked in person by a leader from the generations of children that didn't even exist in the world you fought for, but who also understands the realities and tolls of conventional war at an individual level. It's got to be surreal.
@SomeAmateur@LaFinlandia As someone who has entered politics later in life, I can attest to the "optics" that, yes, everything you do does "appear" to be for somebody's benefit. I can also tell you that much of what you see is simply us. That's who and what we are-unvarnished. I suspect that with Zelenskyii just about everything is WYSIWYG to use the early computer acronym-what you see is what you get. That's just him.
100%, it's honestly disgusting at this point watching the western power structure parade this war around. It's off putting, no wonder people's apetite for it has dried up.
Stop felching Putin for a moment and you’d realise he’s the one who started the conflict and can stop it at anytime by pulling back to Russia’s border.
How does ascribing blame to the aggressor, the accurate assessment BTW and I agree with you, make parading this dude around in a t shirt and cargo pants not disgusting?
I know, right? Why can't a dude who's country is invaded by another larger country waste money dressing up more fancy and piss off the green-collar and blue-collar citizens of his country actually fighting for their lives? /s
If real life was the Hunger Games, you would be one of those vapid idiots of the Capital City who care more about appearance over human lives. Fuck you.
Might be time to hop on your main account and make your nightly post about how mean women are to incels. Tonight is a double feature, you can bitch about how stupid you looked in this convo in the same circle jerk!
if this even is propaganda (what is very controversial), it's the good kind; the kind that inspires people to be thankful for what has been passed down to them and to treat others with respect.
Sometimes I scoff at "charisma" being a trait looked for in leaders but then I see anything Zelenskyy and I'm reminded yeah ok damn I can see that. The man is arguably one of the most effective politicians ever elected. And wholesome af. Hopefully one day he can go back to comedy.
First you have to get comfortable being on stage. Do some theater or singing or something where you're using someone else's words. Read speeches by Thucydides, Churchill, Lincoln, FDR, MLK.
Then move on to saying your own words, like improv or join toastmasters.
Do some physical training to improve your ability to stand correctly, could be tai chi or yoga or pilates or karate (the key is to find a good instructor not any particular discipline). Keep your grooming up to date.
Listen more than you talk.
Watch people whose style you admire that would feel authentic to you, steal liberally from them.
It can be learned, but you have to be willing for it and it needs a special trait as base requirement, neither Putin nor other Dictators have: Humility and Honesty.
