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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 76 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Ladies and gentlemen, the rot in the Democrat party.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Harder and harder to say "Vote Blue No Matter Who" with that boot up your throat.

[–] JustKeepStretching@lemmy.world 31 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

The other side tried to violently overthrow an election, is engaging in record fraud and government abuse, is led by a rapist who's hiding the Epstein files, wants to overturn all civil rights achievements and destroy all workers rights, they illegally toppled a foreign government and are now stealing billions from Venezuela's oil sales, and they are currently trying to rig US elections.

They tried to overturn birthright citizenship, want to undo marriage equality, have sent armed thugs to harass democrat cities, and their dumbass tariffs and Iran war have essentially caused a voluntary global recession while oil and defense make record profits.

I take your point but one side is still astronomically worse

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 17 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

The other side tried

And the first side just sat around with thumbs up assholes, because they hate Palestinians and Transgender folks more than fascists.

one side is still astronomically worse

John Fetterman has far more in common with Ted Cruz than nearly anyone who voted for either of them.

There's two sides, alright. But these people aren't on yours.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

The "otherside" is literally enabling everything you are saying here. You are being played, there aren't two sides, there are zero for you.

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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 31 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (18 children)

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-midwesterner-bias-and-credibility/

"RIGHT-CENTER" (Dogshit) "LOW CREDIBILITY"

Don't trust this to be anything more than AI.

Why the fuck are you posting this garbage, yonderbarn? You're not a nazi, are you?

Edit: Not even Snopes could verify it.

Your friendly reminder that there are nazis, russians, chinese, and israeli bots on here trying to stop people from voting Democrat in November. Please be mindful of these fools purporting falsely equivalent nonsense. Yes, Democrats have issues and I'm not even the biggest fan of Whitmer. But she and almost every Democrat would be orders of magnitude better than what is in office right now, or any Republican for that matter. And every single good politician from Sanders to Mamdani to AOC and so on just so happens to caucus or outright BE a Democrat.

Edit 2: Now @yonderbarn@lazysoci.al is commenting on my 10-month-old comments and posts, haha, wtf?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (15 children)

If you read that whole page you linked to you would see they haven't produced fake news so much as they consistently misrepresent facts to suit a conservative narrative.

So arguing it could be AI means you failed to actually read their fucking reasoning for the low credibility and bias claims. None of it had to do with facts not being true, but rather presenting those true facts within a conservative narrative. Whitmer is mentioned several times, and in each case it was rooted in real facts but presented with a conservative slant.

Screaming "fake news" is unhelpful.

[–] seathru@quokk.au 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Screaming “fake news” is unhelpful.

Vetting sources absolutely is helpful.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (13 children)

It's clear they didn't actually vet the source or read what mediabiasfactcheck said then, because at no point did they make "fake news." So the likelihood of this being AI is near zero.

Taking the top line that some group made and not actually looking at the details is not vetting a source, it's taking a quick glance as gospel. It matters that they don't make fake news because it makes this video likely real.

But I mean you do you if you just take a quick glance as gospel and don't actually, you know, fucking read anything yourself.

[–] seathru@quokk.au 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

You keep putting "fake news" in quotations like it's something they said.

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[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 6 points 4 weeks ago (13 children)

Do we seriously have to insinuate that people are Nazis every half a second? Could we just like, instead, not do that? Here on the threadiverse?

The point you're trying to make is frankly weaker for it.

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[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 18 points 4 weeks ago

Controlled opposition

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The quote is near the end of the audio clip and is easier to hear than the first half of the clip. We need some audio engineers isolating her voice

[–] Carl@anarchist.nexus 8 points 4 weeks ago

Isolating vocals on a messy track would actually be closer to audio forensics, which is a pretty specific branch of the audio world. There are lots of specialized tricks that audio forensics experts can use, which would fly in the face of a lot of what traditional audio engineers would consider best practice. Because an audio forensics expert isn’t thinking about best practice for a mixed and mastered track, which is the mindset that most audio engineers would approach the problem from.

[–] ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 weeks ago

Democrats are trash and the BlueMAGA that keep defending them are holding everyone back

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago

Immediate recall. Anything else is allowing it to happen.

[–] notsure@fedia.io 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

This was June 1

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Primary her, Michigan, because fuck this shit.

[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

Term limited

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 weeks ago

From the article:

Since she’s riding out the last six months of her lame duck administration, it’s wondered if Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s political aspirations...

Her last year has essentially been just throwing darts at a board and riding her time out. Allowing Altman to even enter this state pretty much sums up her current level of give a s***.

That literally describes any government ever. People will always say fuck no, just not all the people all the time. Some people all the time though because they hate the government no matter what.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago

Just gonna keep recycling the same stories here.

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