• Kissaki@feddit.org
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    They should have put the images side by side in the article instead of only linking to X (where they may even disappear).

    via xcancel:

    Before Editing After Editing
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    Looks like we’re going to end up a crossover of North Korea and Russia.

    All because conservatives hate America and enough others don’t give enough of a fuck to stop conservatives from destroying America.

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    Man, are they gonna be pissed when people use this against them as well. Collectively we have more time to do stupid shit :)

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      Those seeking truth are misled into lies. Those seeking things that fit their agenda or views find lies.

      It’s a pretty asymmetric balance. No matter how much more time we have collectively, Trump and MAGA don’t care. If we lie about what they will catch on to, I imagine it would be things they’d radicalize and self-validate them more. Everything else, they’ll disregard. Like they have been doing for years with founded reporting etc.

      They also have the centralized platform to propagate and promote.

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    I’m getting a lot of miles out of Orwell these days.

    This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs – to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

    • 1984
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        Yes, it was corrected to what the party wanted it to have been. It really is a good book, you should give it at least a once over.

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        You should actually read the book, or at least that part of the chapter.

        Edit: you can read the context, and the entirety of the book, for free here or at Project Gutenberg.

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    It’s ok, I never trusted any audio/video/images from this administration in the first place.

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      You sure? That AI video Trump made where he shat on the American public seemed convincing enough…

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        Or the one with him and some soccer asshole freestyling a soccer ball in the oval office. Guy can barely walk down a ramp and he’s shitposting hackysack kicking a soccer ball.

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    My partner was fake edited in one of the DHS videos in Portland! He was wearing a moth man costume and dancing to EDM at the ICE center and they put fake smoke and filters over it to make him look scary lol… Absolutely ridiculous.

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    The US government and everyone that stands behind it, they want to make those who fight against ICE look like dangerous creatures that roam the Earth and must be stopped. They want to look like they’re in total control, by making these fighters look desperate for their lives when they are arrested, by celebrating whenever one of them is killed. But most importantly, they want us to fight each other, so that we forget who is our true opponent on what is basically a war on our rights as human beings.

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      Main reason is money. They found a hype inducing thing and circle hyped it. Nvidia especially.

      This is just a side-effect. A nasty one.

      Disclaimer: “AI” is not completely useless.

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      its useful for propaganda, because googles video AI is very hard to tell unless you have been exposed to ai videos for a while. and Right wingers are less likely to tell apart propaganda AI and real news.

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    “It’s just a meme,” has the same energy as a confronted schoolyard bully, and apparently that’s just accepted etiquette now :/

    Ive seen the same sentiment on Lemmy. Manipulative/misleading articles or even straight up misinformation is posted, and when I bring it up, OP’s response is “I don’t care.” As long as it’s the right ideology, it’s alright; and mods didn’t disagree.


    …We’re so screwed, aren’t we? And by “we” I mean the internet. It’s nice to think of the Fediverse an oasis from all this, but it engineered in the same structural issues commercial social media has, I think.

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      „It‘s just a meme“ was proven false when Americans voted Trump for the first time „as a meme“. Yes, I remember many of them claiming they did that ironically the first time. Of course that was a lie and they stopped pretending to be just useful idiots the second time around. They‘re simply nasty people.

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      The horrible truth is many of the people who have the right opinion got there in the same stupid flawed ways as people who have the wrong opinion, and are deep down no better, but just accidentally appear to be so. These people just want what they want, they don’t care if it makes sense, they don’t care about validating their beliefs against reality or having logical arguments for their beliefs. They don’t want to be know truth, they want what they already believe to be truth.

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        The only good people are people who are brave enough to actively test their beliefs and earnestly question their own ideology (and accept that they even have one).

        Almost no one does this. People often even say they “don’t have an ideology”. Its convenient, if you have no belief system there is nothing to question.

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          Yeah I agree. I think the only refinement I’d add to this statement is that such people aren’t even necessarily located in “good” territory. They have a velocity in the direction of goodness, but their position may still be in bad territory. And likewise there are people who are in good territory but have a velocity in the direction of bad territory. What a complicated world…

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            I mean, I’ve interacted with someone with active anti-semitic beliefs in a dedicated debate space who eventually changed his views to “Well, its not the Jews fault that they got into finance. They just kind of got funneled into that.” So absolutely people with shitty views can evolve in the right direction. I respect that a million times more than someone who is morally lucky and never budges.

            And example of the opposite would be someone who adopts progressive stances of their time and never evolved from there or have selective self serving progressive blinders. “LGB w/o the T”, rainbow capitalists, Red-brown alliance types, etc.

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              Yeah, I respect them more for sure. It gets tricky if I’m like, appointing someone for a one year period or something though, then I have to consider both the position and velocity.