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[–] 227 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Defamation.

Also, nice racist bias on that model (making her fatter).

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

    I dunno about fatter, but it definitely made her darker. Oof.

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  • [+] -41 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Honestly both might be a difference in when the shot was taken.

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

    Its the same picture. One is edited.

    That's the entire subject of this post.

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  • [+] -30 points 9 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 40 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Its cropped and edited.... Feel free to read the article which covers this in its entirety.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Ohhh i see it now. The officer's arm has the same shilloete on the window. Wow the model really edited the lady. Must have been a bias of the training data to put her more forward/in focus.

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

    That's not a meme, that's Propaganda.

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

    It’s also libel made with actual malice.

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  • [–] 41 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Gonna be a really expensive lawsuit. That is paid out by all of us taxpayers.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    You can sue Donald Trump without suing the US Government. Right now several lawmakers are preparing a lawsuit against Pam Bondi over the Epstein Files.

    If we flip the house and senate I'm gonna start sending drafts to representatives for a law that makes the Trump estate and all future president's estates liable for all the avoidable and frivolous lawsuits on the basis of which they did not protect the human beings who live in this nation nor represent the system of laws which govern them, rather that they were personal and need to be paid for personally by the officials responsible for giving the orders resulting in lawsuit.

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

    You would have to show that Trump specifically ordered the alteration. That almost certainly didn't happen and it was someone else in the administration that actually made that call.

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

    ? The boss of an organization is always responsible for what happens in said organization. So, no. They wouldn't.

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  • [–] 99 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    I know history is full of nasty little dictators and their lackeys but have any of them ever been this fucking childish?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago*

    Hitler was actually extremely childish as was his entire regime. The similarities are remarkable.

    Henry VIII of England was basically what would happen if a pro American football player was a powerful king. He's suspected to have had CTE.

    Versailles was basically a cruel experiment on the mental health of trapped nobility and rulers, that involved basically nothing but petty social games for power and prestige, but no options to use them.

    Rome had plenty of emperors like this including Caligula and Nero. Nero had a neck beard and unhealthy attachment to his mother. Meanwhile if half of what was written about Elagabulus is true then we have proof of how bad of an idea it is to give absolute power to a horny teenager with neither qualifications nor training.

    Speaking of weird mommy issues, Wilhelm I of Prussia/Germany was a weird childish man whose family spat was the first world war. On the other side was Nicolas of Russia who wasn't much better.

    Also Ghaddafi was nuts, like in funny and horrifying ways, but definitely never matured after taking power young.

    So yeah, I'm conflating kings, emperors, and dictators as all more or less the same, because they kinda are. Julius Caesar took the title of dictator, was assassinated to prevent him from being a king, and was invoked by the emperors. We have a modern tendency to think of dictators as people who came to power through coups or the military, which can lead towards more mature and sane figures, but we still use the term for the hereditary absolute ruler of North Korea (it's a socialism themed monarchy) and we don't use it to describe the huge portion of roman emperors who were generals installed by coup. Additionally, history indicates (to me at least) that you likely have to be a bit nuts and immature to overthrow an established republic, because of the behavior shown by citizens in a destabilizing republic.

    I understand the urge to treat this administration as a freak of history, but they're just too similar to the third reich to do so responsibly. And yeah those similarities include immaturity. It seems that a destabilizing republic is best hijacked by the narcissistic, and narcissists who are leaning into their disorder tend towards immaturity because growth often requires painful self reflection.

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

    This is actually really scary. They’re modifying photos to manipulate and control people.

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  • [–] 67 points 9 months ago

    The altering of a photo is meant to distract you from the fact that they are arresting ordinary citizens who don't have the financial means to legally protect themselves. It may seem like an irrelevant distinction based on everything else they do but this is an escalation.

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

    She should sue for defamation.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago

    Now, I am not an expert of US law, but if American news has taught me anything, the only possible outcome of going through the courts is the following:

    Court decides against the govt
    Govt appeals to a higher court

    Higher court decides against the govt
    Govt appeals to a higher court

    Supreme court decides Trump is God and all is well

    The end.

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  • [–] 56 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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    [–] 45 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    An ICE pastor is the craziest part of this story... has the cunt ever read his supposedly favourite book?

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

    Just the Old Testament. Yahweh is bit of a dick in that half, from what I recall. Gaslighting some dude to sacrifice his child, I think?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    YHWH is the archetype of a controlling, abusive father.

    The other highly informative part is the Book of Job, where God and Satan are hanging out and making wagers on how severely they can fuck with some decent, honest guy before he loses it.

    The opening verse of Highway 61 Revisted should be added to the Bible. It's more insightful and better-written than most of the canonical parts. I'd also throw in Dante's Inferno and Paradiso. I'm in two minds about adding Milton, though.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    Well in that particular case he stopped him last second like 'oh man, you were actually gonna go through with it, nah bro just joking you don't gotta kill your kid.' But in other instances he fully destroyed cities, the world, and just killed random people cause they didn't do what he said.

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  • [–] 90 points 9 months ago

    Dystopian fiction: The regime alters photos to make people look happy and smiling, to hide their cruelty.

    Dystopian reality: The regime alters photos to make people look sad and pained, to brag about their cruelty.

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

    It's like fucking 4chan is running the goddamned country.

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  • [–] -4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    It’s almost like you are ALLOWING 4chan to run your goddamned country.

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

    Thinking anyone against this administration is ‘allowing’ it to happen is a childish understanding of the modern police state and civil wars.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    You don't know me. I'd wager you don't know any of the people you hurl such a poor excuse for an activist comment at.

    I'm willing to bet that I've done more to fight back against fascism this week than you have your whole life and I wasn't even born in the US.

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  • [–] 40 points 9 months ago

    Very professional and mature. This is what everyone expects from a government institution.

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  • [–] 37 points 9 months ago

    As an American, watching the highest office in this country be turned into an absolute joke over the decades has been demoralizing, to say the least. There's nothing to be proud of. I feel like, thanks to social media, we got to see the real people, and then it distilled people down to their worst parts. I despise seeing the leaders of the nation be so petty, so idiotic, so childish.

    I mean, throw this on the pile of reasons the current administration isn't worthy. The felonies, the child raping, the blatant attempts to start wars, the blatant disregard of the Constitution, and just misinformation galore. They edited a photo... how small of a person do you have to be to think "I'm part of the government, I have access to the White House official channel, I'm going to be very transparent about what I think of the current situation and use AI to mock and try to spread misinformation." I hope people link back to these things (all of these things, not just this photo) every single time anyone in the current administration speaks. When ever any company supports them. When ever any person supports them. Like NEVER let it go. Just flood them every single time. They say Merry Christmas, bring up the Epstien files, the rape, the photo editing, the felonies, the... everything. Just non-fucking-stop.

    It's just so god damn fucking embarrassing to be an American right now. And I know by the end of the year, I'll be wishing to get back to how it is now, I'll look back fondly on how it was "only" so bad at the start of 2026.

    Sorry for the rant, I'm just, so god damn tired of every single day Dimentia Don, doing yet again, another dumbass thing.

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

    Me, the other day: "They've finally done it. They've finally hit rock botto...wait, nope, I was wrong."

    Me, yesterday: "They've finally done it. They've finally hit rock botto...wait, nope, I was wrong."

    Me, this morning: "They've finally done it. They've finally hit rock botto...wait, nope, I was wrong."

    Me, tomorrow: "They've finally done it. They've finally hit rock botto...wait, nope, I was wrong."

    Etc, etc, and fucking, etc.

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

    America won't tolerate "attacks" in their churches yet seems to have no answer for and tolerates quite a lot of school shootings....

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    A government agent altering a photograph to render an inaccurate image of an accused person will raise serious questions of bias. But also, any defense will likely now include whether the government has also digitally altered any other evidence concerning the matter, and whether that evidence was developed for public consumption or otherwise. to generate bias.

    I'd say more broadly this raises concerns about how the White House directly controls or damages the credibility of the Judicial Branch. But, for the world audience, this should raise red flags about the (in)stability of the US in general.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago

    I've been saying this for months. A primary role of any jury is to determine the credibility of evidence. I would argue that no jury should trust any evidence presented by the Trump DoJ at this point.

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  • [–] 32 points 9 months ago

    This is not even a meme

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  • [–] 53 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Ignoring the fakery, I don't see how the alteration makes her less sympathetic. I would also be distressed if being frog-marched by facists for the crime of being born autistic.

    All this propaganda does, is cement my decision to fight. The Trump Regime and Dogey Americans, are enemies of any decent human being, and must be destroyed.

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

    They think they are portraying the subject as 'weak'. It's for their racist base to feel like 'right on, we made a weak black leftist woman cry, like they all deserve''.

    It was never about making her less sympathetic, but a celebration of hurting the 'correct' people to get hurt.

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

    It's not JUST for thier base.

    For anyone pondering joining such actions, these would be leaders.

    If you're thinking of joining, and the leaders look "weak", it might not inspire much faith. You might decide to hold back.

    The truth is, she looked calm and collected, confident in her decisions and actions. She looks like a leader. She looks like someone worth following. That type of imagery is dangerous if you're trying to suppress action.

    So, in short, it's an attempt at active suppression, not just a "treat" for thier own. It's the modern equivalent of going on about how short Napoleon is. It's an attempt to diminish those they're afraid of to try and keep others from following them.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    It's also meant to say "look see we can make them regret it" as well as to draw into the paternal metaphor they keep using. Those weird comments they keep making about "daddy" being home to punish dissenters, feels very in line with this. The idea being that they're trying to depict themselves as tough but necessary, and opposition as the same as a child misbehaving because of unenforced boundaries. In this regard they're depicting her as crying to treat her like a child who has been spanked, and as such (in their eyes) one who will in the future respect their authority and eventually thank them for it.

    They need to maintain the narrative that the protesters to contain both hardened rebels, and primarily be ordinary people who just don't understand discipline and the need to enforce the rules.

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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago*

    Why do they always depict a "far left agitator" as a black person? 🧐

    (I mean you all know the answer... its racism)

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

    .....context? Who is that on the right?

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago

    Nikolai Yezhov, head of the NKVD during the height of the great purge. He fell out of favour, was tortured, convicted of various crimes (including wrongful purgings, funny enough), and secretly executed. Don't feel too bad for him though, he was a nasty character.

    I don't think it's a particularly apt comparison. He was previously an important government minister, edited out of the picture to pretend that actually, Stalin was never cool with him. This woman is just a citizen that the US government has decided to humiliate using generative AI.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago

    Bondi: "Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON (our) PLACES OF WORSHIP.”

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

    Nothing like having a "presidency" done by tweets and memes.

    FFS.

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

    It's almost like they don't understand how and why everyone likes memes. Memes are like a mycelium. Okay make up your own metaphor. Memes are like my gut flora.

    Memes are not allowed to be poisonous disinformation.

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

    Memes have contained dangerous misinformation for over a decade. The bigger thing is that this is government propaganda trying to pass itself off as bottom up relatable content.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    Welcome to the USA, deepfakes are not only legal but encouraged.

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  • [+] 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It’s always inspiring to see the bottomless well of incompetence, absurdity, and stupidity that makes up the entirety of this white house.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    The White House has confirmed that it posted a fake arrest image of a Minnesota protester to its official X account Thursday.

    Uuuhhh, by default you should always assume that if information comes from the whitehouse, that it's modified, faked, or whatever to make the USA look better.

    NEVER trust anything coming from the US whitehouse (or it's congress, or just anything from the US government)

    That was good advice ten years ago, now it's just rule #1, because literally EVERYTHING they say now is a lie. Trump breathes lies, he couldn't stop lying if he wanted to I guess because I literally have a hard time hearing or seeing anything from him that isn't a complete and outrageous lie. Same goes for his ass kissing cronies.

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