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You'd think the world's wealthiest nation would be able to at least create fake evidence that isn't immediately recognizable as such.
Yet another brick in the towering monument to these people's stupidity.
No, they are doing this on purpose. Create obvious fakes, and "release" them along with everything else, just so that if something meaningful gets released they can claim it is fake, too.
My latest conspiracy theory is that is why so much money is being dumped into AI. They want to make AI video so convincing that when the real videos come out, everyone can claim it's AI.
Considering they can't even properly redact I think you're giving them too much credit.
But when the AI gets properly good, it will be able to do all the redacting!
Same with all the "funny" AI videos getting released by the admin and federal agencies. Normalize fake videos so they can claim anything is fake.
Fascists are sending their best. If they were smart they wouldn't be fascists, but they're literally terrified of pronouns and cities
Absolutely. The world is more frightening now than it has been at any point in my life, but I still wake up every morning thankful that, for the most part, evil continues to prove itself to be utterly inept.
"Oft evil will shall evil mar"
Doesn't this prove that the moon landing was real? They can't make a convincing fake in 2025 but they could in 1969?
Honestly, so many conspiracy theories are debunked by how fucking stupidly this actual conspiracy has been handled.
For logical, sane people, yeah.
But conspiracy theorists have never been people who are willing to consider alternative points of view.
Well, one of the things that is happening in the background is brain drain - both at a broader national scale, as well as just within the government. Turns out that breaking bad and going fascist doesn’t sit well with most skilled and intelligent people, so they’re at best phoning it in and maliciously complying, and at worst just leaving their jobs so someone less competent steps in.
I have no doubt that, once this administration and our collective national nightmare are over, that there will be thousands of accounts of people in federal service doing what little they can to slow the machine down from the inside.
They just need more water