• Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
    5·
    2 hours ago

    They should have put the images side by side in the article instead of only linking to X (where they may even disappear).

    via xcancel:

    Before Editing After Editing
  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 hours ago

    Looks like we’re going to end up a crossover of North Korea and Russia.

    All because conservatives hate America and enough others don’t give enough of a fuck to stop conservatives from destroying America.

  • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    Today, German public broadcasting morning show was showing a supposed video of the one recently shot dead, supposedly kicking ICE cars and cursing at them and then being wrestled to the ground, and supposedly escaping afterwards. The movement looked strange to me, which made me suspect AI.

    Can anyone confirm whether such a video is in circulation and the validity of it?

    I most certainly wouldn’t be surprised if it were AI generated.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    7 hours ago

    Man, are they gonna be pissed when people use this against them as well. Collectively we have more time to do stupid shit :)

    • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Those seeking truth are misled into lies. Those seeking things that fit their agenda or views find lies.

      It’s a pretty asymmetric balance. No matter how much more time we have collectively, Trump and MAGA don’t care. If we lie about what they will catch on to, I imagine it would be things they’d radicalize and self-validate them more. Everything else, they’ll disregard. Like they have been doing for years with founded reporting etc.

      They also have the centralized platform to propagate and promote.

  • yetAnotherUser@lemmy.caEnglish
    39·
    1 day ago

    The US government and everyone that stands behind it, they want to make those who fight against ICE look like dangerous creatures that roam the Earth and must be stopped. They want to look like they’re in total control, by making these fighters look desperate for their lives when they are arrested, by celebrating whenever one of them is killed. But most importantly, they want us to fight each other, so that we forget who is our true opponent on what is basically a war on our rights as human beings.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    89·
    2 days ago

    I’m getting a lot of miles out of Orwell these days.

    This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs – to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

    • 1984
      • lost_faith@lemmy.caEnglish
        19·
        1 day ago

        Yes, it was corrected to what the party wanted it to have been. It really is a good book, you should give it at least a once over.

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        1 day ago

        You should actually read the book, or at least that part of the chapter.

        Edit: you can read the context, and the entirety of the book, for free here or at Project Gutenberg.

  • epicthundercat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    2 days ago

    My partner was fake edited in one of the DHS videos in Portland! He was wearing a moth man costume and dancing to EDM at the ICE center and they put fake smoke and filters over it to make him look scary lol… Absolutely ridiculous.

  • bampop@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 day ago

    I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I mean, obviously it’s a bad thing in the short term. I’m sure the current administration will continue to lie in more egregious ways. For example, if there were no clear bystander videos, would the DHS be releasing doctored bodycam footage to show Alex Pretti pulling his gun and trying to shoot ICE officers? Does that sound far-fetched? It’s technically feasible. It might seem too big and blatant a lie, but that lie has already been told in words from the DHS and Trump administration. Why not embellish it further?

    And of course it’s enormously dangerous because no matter how blatant the lies are, there are many people who will accept them at face value, because they are too uneducated, or too locked into the “us and them” mentality to ever doubt the story that their team is selling.

    So how could it be a good thing? Well, if the USA manages to rid itself of this cancer, the Trump administration will serve as irrefutable proof that government institutions cannot be considered intrinsically trustworthy, or relied on to act in good faith. There needs to be checks and balances like never before. That was always true, but knowing it and being able to act on it are two different things. The Trump administration’s eagerness to lie, cheat and cause suffering, even in the most clumsy and blatant ways, shines a clear light on dangers that were already there. It is an exemplary model of the abuse of power, and I hope that one day we will be in a position to take lessons from it. Maybe I’m being overoptimistic. It seems like the lessons learned from Nazi Germany were mostly the “how to do this” kind. But there is a chance to make things better here, not just better than they are now but better than they were before.

    • purplestar@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      16·
      1 day ago

      So how could it be a good thing? Well, if the USA manages to rid itself of this cancer, the Trump administration will serve as irrefutable proof that government institutions cannot be considered intrinsically trustworthy, or relied on to act in good faith.

      This only works if the population is wanting to sustain it. Previous horrible presidencies has shown us that they will sweep it all under the rug and move on to the next bad thing.

      • bampop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        Previous presidencies have indeed done that, but that’s why this particular situation gives me a glimmer of hope. The rot is at the point where it all needs to be ripped out. All branches of government are loaded with MAGA appointees, the supreme court is politicized and disgraced, the whole Republican party is complicit in crimes against the nation. Business as usual just isn’t an option any more. I’m not saying that things are automatically going to get better, and unless there is a major cleanout of the Democratic party, it’s doubtful that they would. Just saying that there is a chance now that didn’t exist before.

        • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
          2·
          8 hours ago

          I agree. When we take it back, we can’t just go on like business as usual. We have to crush MAGA, and purge it from our government and society, before we can move on and fix the systemic problems that have been neglected for far too long. Our Citizens, our Nation, the World, and History require that before we can redeem ourselves.

          We can do that by declaring MAGA to be the the National Security Threat that they unarguably are. They have committed sedition, treason, had an Insurrection, stole hundreds of classified documents, permanently damaged our relationship with our allies, strengthened our enemies, damaged our economy on the international stage, engaged in mind-boggling corruption, sent death Squads into the streets to kill American citizens, etc. Whether their destructive intentions have been deliberate, or just as the result of their virtuosic incompetence isnt relevant, they are still an existential threat to the future of this nation, and must be prohibited from existing.

          In addition, active members, especially MAGA leadership and elected MAGAs, need to be designated Domestic Terrorists, and Insurrectionists, and prohibited from holding public office for life, under 14A/S3.

          The second Trump administration needs to be found invalid, due to election fraud, and all legislation, executive orders, appointments, etc., should all be rolled back. That includes his pardons, and all those traitors should be sent back to prison. Those who attempt to evade the order, should get an additional 10 years on their sentences. Laws should be passed that presidential pardons cannot be used to cover, advance, or excuse criminal activity.

          The Democratic Party can become the party of the right that they’ve always wanted to be, and a true progressive party can rise to represent the left.

          Hardcore Right Wing Nut Jobs will have to recalibrate their politics and learn to fit in, or remain MAGA and be reviled by society like KKK and Neo-Nazis should be.

    • D_C@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      I have absolutely no doubt that if there were no external videos we would all be seeing pictures and videos of Alex Pretti brandishing, and most probably shooting a gun. No doubt whatsoever.

      I wouldn’t put it past the orange child rapist and cronies to make up a complete back story about Alex being “involved with domestic terrorists” etc etc.

      They will do absolutely anything to stay in power.

      The real question is:
      If they did AI up some pics and videos then would anyone with clout pull them up on it?
      Again, I doubt it.

  • Hayduke@lemmy.worldEnglish
    138·
    2 days ago

    It’s ok, I never trusted any audio/video/images from this administration in the first place.

    • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
      81·
      2 days ago

      You sure? That AI video Trump made where he shat on the American public seemed convincing enough…

      • hector@lemmy.todayEnglish
        61·
        2 days ago

        Or the one with him and some soccer asshole freestyling a soccer ball in the oval office. Guy can barely walk down a ramp and he’s shitposting hackysack kicking a soccer ball.