Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod?

TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• brax@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s silly how some of them do this while simultaneously pushing ugly and aggressive policies.

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  • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They’re squeezing their hands like that so they don’t accidentally do the nazi solute again.

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Gotta make those policies seem friendly and non-aggressive!

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• BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s neat.

  Why does that article contain no references more recent than 1806 though. Is it called something else these days? It seems like there should be more modern information on the practice.

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  • netvor@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    honestly with drawings like that I half expected at least one panel be involving bloodletting

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  • brax@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_jive

    Not really tho.

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• netvor@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  wow, so Trump is doing “Liberatem resigno” (“I give up my freedom”) but with rubber shackles.

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• N0t_5ure@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And this is safer than “air dicking”.

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