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[–] 69 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Numerous Republican offices have confirmed that they were targeted by an unidentified group or individual who distributed American flags bearing a similar symbol, which were initially indistinguishable from an ordinary American flag to the naked eye,” he said. “My office was among those that were subjected to this ruse.”>

I noticed it with my naked eyes. Is it a weird illusion that only happens on camera? Can you not see it standing in front of the object?

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago

    It wasn't me! It was the one armed liberal who snuck into my office in the middle of the night. How he lowered the rope and descended down from the skylight, I'll never know! But I'm keeping that and the other Nazi gear where it is .. it's evidence!

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    No, they just need a soundbite for Fox News. Stunning how easy it is.

    "Yeah, heard that story. Some libtard planted that Nazi flag."

    Fox won't come out and state it was planted, they just plant the idea in their viewer's minds and away we go.

    I see the same sort of unquestioning belief on lemmy every day. But oh my fuck are liberals harder to brainwash than conservatives. If you see some boolshit on here, at least someone questions it in the comments. Goose steppers fall in line, no questions, and no questions allowed.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago

    Wait wait, this schmuck claims that that swastika was indistinguishable with the naked eye? Seriously? That's super fucking obvious swastika dead center of that flag?

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    “Numerous Republican offices have confirmed that they were targeted by an unidentified group or individual who distributed American flags bearing a similar symbol, which were initially indistinguishable from an ordinary American flag to the naked eye,” he said.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    That is the kind of shit you would expect to see in like a Harry Turtledove alternate present America where Hitler had won.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    They keeping calling us Nazis and fascists. Why do they keep calling us racists? Stop demonizing us!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ4ZLDK_XZA

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Bro. It was just a prank, bro. Bro!

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    "It was a ruse! I was bamboozled by hoodlums!"

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    I just went to the flag shop and picked it in a hurry.

    It was a dog that dropped that paper bag with $50.000 on my porch.

    That woman must have broken in and drowned herself in my bathtub, I hate it when that happens.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago
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    “I don’t appreciate you’re ruse ma’am”

    “My ruse?”

    “Yeah, your cunning attempt to trick me”

    https://youtu.be/fEEj6d3GTOU

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    [–] 59 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In a past life, the office down the hallway would definitely get some REALLY strange and fucked up stuff in the mail. And it was very common to have that "Hey, you gotta come see this" email. And taking photos wasn't uncommon.

    But those were photos of it in the box or on the table. Not hung up and displayed on a bulletin board.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago

    "New details have emerged from a coordinated investigation into the vile symbol that appeared in my office," Taylor's statement read.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Fox News said it was an optical illusion.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    That article was a perfect example of gaslighting, treating quotes from people who said it was hard to notice and another that said it only showed up while taking a picture as if they were reasonable, but still quoting someone who said it was obvious and they threw it away.

    Then focusing on the optical illusion bullshit for the title. Just giving all the excuses for right wingers to say it wasn't obvious.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Anything but admitting you’re a filthy Nazi that deserves to be in the ground. Fucking cowardly yank. Own your racism, chicken shit pussy

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    You know that might be enough reasonable doubt if not for the other dozens of stories showing Republicans being Nazi shitbags including the one this week

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you're gonna lie at least make it believable. If he said one of his staffers put it up one day when he was out and he never noticed then that would actually be a believable story.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago
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    Ruse? You mean because they found it? The ruse was to keep it hidden right? Right next to the pointy hat and robes?

    I mean it’s possible they get fan mail. People used to send Reagan jelly beans because he liked them too.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I don't appreciate your ruse.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm to believe in 2025 the white house can't track who is making and sending these through USPS?

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  • Bullshit.

    Just another “My wife did it…” GOP lie.

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  • Ruses should be hanged!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Wow, why would anyone vote for somebody so easily tricked by Nazis?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It might also have been a jape!

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    There was no investigation, and the flag was thrown away, “like we would hate mail,” the staffer said.

    Based

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Was it edgy 35-year-olds kids?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    The problem now is going to be Sora 2. Used or not, it will have a lot of fingers pointed at it for items like these.

    I’m sure it’s no mistake that big tech made this available to everyone, for free, right now.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    This can be put to rest quite decisively:

    Get fingerprints.

    Or would that undermine the prank theory?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    You misspelled "rube" and forgot to mention that the GOP are the rubes.

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