This used to be stuff I only thought about when I was high, but there's infinite layers of semiotics in a Trump supporter desperate for attention defacing a mural that, though it references a meaningful cause, is itself a nearly-meaningless token meant solely to upset Trump. https://twitter.com/JFNYC1/status/1297624336120111105

A meaningless, symbolic protest using political references she doesn't really understand against a meaningless, symbolic protest using political references the city doesn't understand against a man who was elected in an act of protest against a system people didn't understand.

A woman, ignorantly railing against symbols she doesn't understand that were railing against an ignorant man who doesn't understand symbols, has herself become a symbol of ignorance.

Screaming "god bless the blue" while literally being arrested is just too on the nose.

I have been awake 14 hours and this is deep

I never thought I'd see a Semiotic Cascade, let alone create one

As much as they claim to hate postmodernism, right-wingers really have done a tremendous job creating a world where words and symbols have no concrete meaning.

What does the Statue of Liberty even represent, anymore? What does "liberty" even mean?

Black plastic swarm of DSLRs circling like vultures.

There were more cameramen there than actual protesters, getting every angle, swooping in tight for the close-ups.

Everything about this was artificial, and yet I'm sure some of them felt it was genuine and meaningful.