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    For years, some on the extreme right have promoted the conspiracy theory that the U.S. military is in possession of technology — in the form of magic “med beds” — which can singlehandedly cure any disease and extend human life. The beds can supposedly even regrow missing limbs within minutes.

    leaks show that the military really is in possession of such a device.

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    FTFY

    Trump Posts an Absolutely Bonkers AI Video in Which He Promotes a Magic ‘Med Bed’ That Can Cure Any Disease

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    No wonder Trump wants to remove any and all AI regulations, it makes it easier for him to grift people.

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    So I take it this dipshit finally got around to watching Elysium? Surely his handlers should know by now that you shouldn’t let Donny watch movies by himself after dark.

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      He didn’t pick up on the theme of the commons defeating authoritarianism and only noticed the magic medical beds.

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        It’s like thinking Star Wars is all about cool glow stick fights. I mean, it is, but it’s about other stuff too.

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          It’s about pew, pew too.

          Actually after Andor my Star Wars perspective has shifted. Any Star Wars from the epic to the small is about hope, and that anyone can contribute their part to change. Sometimes a person is a big part of that, sometimes just a small piece, but they’re all important.

          Wow, Trump wouldn’t like that, would he? That is, if he could possibly pick up on that theme.

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          What like trade federations and the legal structures which allow that and similar federations to thrive? Action packed galactic senate debate?

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    Which version of med bed? The alien origin ones or the advanced earth civilization hidden under Mount Shasta?

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      There’s also the third option of “we saw a diagram of a monopolar electrosurgical unit at one point and decided that was magic that can cure stuff”.

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    Ok, so was that video entirely AI and he saw it and posted it thinking maybe he was interviewed for it and forgot… or is that video real and he was actually interviewed and this was a real news clip?

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      The Fox News studio posted a statement, saying the clip was never aired on their channel. The entire news clip is AI, not just the part with Trump talking.

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        I just think it’s ai voices over mostly real clips and obvious stock footage. If you make a cut every second of two no one can even tell that video doesn’t belong to the audio

        But then, I have no interest in going framed by frame. I can see how this would fool someone as moronic as anyone to the right of left

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    My grandmother actually believes that this “med bed” bullshit is real. It’s not going to do anything.

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      It’s not going to do anything.

      I bet it will do one thing: Separate idiots from their money. There will inevitably be scammers who target the elderly, claiming that their medbed card was delayed because they owe back taxes. Now they need to go buy $5000 in Target gift cards, or else they’ll never be able to access their medbed.

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        Not just the elderly, there’s a LOT of chronically and terminally ill people who fall for these scams because at some point, there’s a lot of people who are willing to flail your arms and try anything, regardless of how dumb it sounds, rather than having to hear the doctors say “well we can try X for 3 weeks and see what we get out of it” for the 50th time.

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      He must have just watched it. Or one of his sycophants told him about it.

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    This is FANTASTIC NEWS! What’s even More Fantastic is that Trump gave MORE Funding to Research and Medicine to make this A REALITY! I DO MY OWN RESEARCH!