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Trump Trolls European Leaders With AI Map Showing Greenland, Canada, and Venezuela as US Territories (www.mediaite.com)
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[–] 122 points 9 months ago (6 children)

"Trolls"? Fuck off, seriously. He's going to invade and bomb Greenland and what, are the headlines just going to read "Trump trolls Nuuk citizens"?

Is Trump going to invade and bomb Canada and we'll get to see headlines the next day saying "Epic troll, Trump just flattened Ottawa"? Sorry, I guess "we" as in the rest of the world will see those headlines because I'd be dead

Fuck

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  • [–] 81 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    It's the media continuing to sane wash Trump rather than do actual journalism.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    I watched a movie from the 90s yesterday about civil war breaking out in America. There's a scene where one newsanchor calmly tries to report on other news and the other newsanchor has an absolute meltdown telling him "fuck off, there is no other news". I wanna see a reporter melt down like on air in real life. I wanna see the insanity be properly acknowledged

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Yeah, I'm generally used to American media doing that by now but this headline is just so absurdly dismissive of non-American lives that it's infuriating

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    • [–] 111 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    I wouldn't use the word 'troll', maybe 'mask off'.

    Edit: u/shittydwarf had "Threatens", definitely a better word.

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    [–] 94 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Hitler trolls European Leaders with German Map showing Austria, Sudetenland, and Danzig as German territories.

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    • [–] 29 points 9 months ago

    Threatens

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    [–] 19 points 9 months ago

    That's a troll? It seems a lot more like an open provocation from the least stable mind on the planet.

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    [–] 63 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    He’s not doing this. Someone’s feeding it to him.

    Congress and Senate is virtually silent on the issues. This isn’t just Trump; this is representative of the USA.

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  • [+] 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    There's no way he's opening photoshop and layering the US flag over those countries himself. Maybe he asked someone to do it or he was feed the photo and he passed it by.

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    • [–] 33 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    This media can't differentiate between trolling and threats. Just like tRump 'floating' wildly illegal actions to test popularity and desensitize the public before just doing them regardless. I haven't decided whether this is intentional misrepresentation and journalistic malpractice, or ignorance and incompetence (a different kind of malpractice), but I do know the outcome is the same either way.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Do you expect professionalism from the US under Orange man?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (6 children)

    What about my comment makes you think I would?

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    This media … ignorance and incompetence

    What makes you think that this media is ignorant or incompetent? These are strong words, which IMHO need to be proven. Otherwise it is a simple rant related to frustration.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (4 children)

    They sure are, and I don't owe you a thesis statement on how I concluded this, opinions don't need proving to being with and I know that I've been exposed to, and critical of all political perspectives in US media for years. I did not ask for your "humble opinion" which is far from humble when presented as more valid than mine since it's assumed your rejection of my opinion doesn't require evidence of any sort, and I have no interest in entertaining your ignorance. If you would care to objectively assess the state of legacy media in the US under constant threat from tRump and his crony led FCC, I invite you to do so, and then perhaps we could have a serious discussion. Until then, and because you only seem able to criticize the terminology I use while ignoring the point, I'm going to ignore you because I think your only goal in responding to me is distraction and suppression.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    What do you then mean by „this media”? The singular form tells me you are thinking of a particular media like Lemmy. May be we have a misunderstanding here, because what concerns Trump and his entourage, I suppose we share the same thoughts as almost all users here.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    You have to be more careful when presuming. The singular form is medium, media IS the pluralistic form. I say the US media as a blanket term that includes both legacy corporate news, credible journalism groups like AP and Reuters, and independent US based outlets. I am aware of my 'leftist' bias in so far as partisan labels have any use, but I believe politics is more nuanced than that, and put critical thinking and historical education above partisanship when I can. I don't know what thoughts we share, but I'm sure there was some sort of miscommunication.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Absolutely my bed. Yes, media is plural and I thought it was singular. Therefore, I assumed you were talking about Lemmy. Sorry.

    I have doubts that there exists a really credible journalism. I believe that all have a certain type of agenda - some may be less and others more.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I appreciate that, and I think you're right to be skeptical, and I value your critical lens because a LOT of outlets get by on people's assumption of good faith and veracity. I think that's what makes it very important to check multiple sources and always consider the potential biases. Some decent credible outlets do end up linked here on lemmy too, so it's not completely useless for information gathering; the reality is we live in a downright hostile, post-truth media landscape unfortunately.

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    • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    Every day he draws breath is a day the world gets worse.

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    [–] 9 points 9 months ago*

    This is what the puppet-masters behind them are trying to do - the Technate of America

    https://studio.brooklynrail.org/assets/3b4ad0b8-cb97-40aa-b122-720e45385c4c.jpeg

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    • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    It's what Elon's grandaddy would have wanted.

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    [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    What is the us-american opposition doing about this? Trump is literally threatening ww3 and if not stopped he will start it.

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    [–] 29 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    He’s getting better at distracting us from the Epstein Files.

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    As if that mattered.

    He has established a dictatorship where he clearly is above any law and all other scrutiny. Whether he stuck his dick some place forbidden or not won't undo him.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Depressingly, the minds that matter in this case are those of the portion of the US electorate who voted for him.

    I promise that voting block is more likely to be appalled by verified sexually abuse of minors, than they would be of military/colonial activities.

    Doing what he is doing keeps the MAGA faithful focused on their fondness for violent nationalistic xenophobia and distracted from their pearl clutching puritanical offense at sexual offenses.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago*

    The people who voted for him will believe anything he says. They are stupid enough to have voted for that deranged idiot. If he tells them it's all fake news, they'll believe it. Also, by the way things are going, they won't get to vote again anyway.

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    • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    He wants to own Greenland, but moreso he wants to "own the libs".

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    • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    What a loser

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    [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Stop. Trade.

    Freeze him out.

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    [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    I wish my kids would grow out of this bad behavior

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Your first mistake is thinking someone has to do something for him to act the way he does. Even the rationalization for the illegal actions against Venezuela was contrived as a fig leaf to cover him just doing what he wants to for his own profit. The reason is there's profit to extort for him and his oligarchy buddies, but they'll come up with 20 justifications after the fact just to make you feel consoled.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Correct. Unfortunately the groups that typically would invest real assets in assassination are the ones with all the money, and one thing he's not doing is threatening their power and profits in a meaningful way. He desperately wants to be one of the gangster oligarchs, and would never cross them cause he is cucked to their opulence (see: Putin). People talk about blackmail material controlling his actions, and I'm sure there is that too, but I'm just as sure they don't need it. No, real preemptive assassination attempts tend to target socialists and equalists and those who stand a real chance at elevating the disenfranchised and bridging the gap in the class war. Can't have that. Mind you, assassination after the damage has already been inflicted is not unheard of, like Mussolini, but that's more of a vengeful act and pyrrhic victory cause it's too damn late. Anyway, happy Tuesday!

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I'm inclined to believe that it's because you can simply bribe him to change his mind. He's a convenient idiot puppet with power and you can tug on any string to get him to do things you want him to. It's probably why TACO. There's probably a bribery match going on in the background.

    It he was a zealot of his beliefs, rigid in his thinking, I believe he would be put down. But he's so malleable, so it's more useful to people that have the option to assassinate to bribe instead.

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    • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    Can't even change the colors on a pre-existing map without AI... These fucking chodes

    Edit: oh never mind, the photo itself is AI. Still chodes though.

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    [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Was really hoping to find a picture of Epstein hidden in there somewhere.

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    [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Save us, Rand al'Thor

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