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    Ladies and gentlemen, the rot in the Democrat party.

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      15 hours ago

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

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        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, they’ve called anti fascists and Democratic socialists dangerous violent leftists, 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

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          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.

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

        Obviously we’re way past “Vote Blue no matter who” now. That effort was the last ditch attempt to stop fascists from taking power. If it had worked, it might have been possible to enact safeguards to protect the democratic institutions of the Constitution. Or might not, as it was probably already too late. But it was the last chance we had to prevent the fascist regime and try to salvage anything.

        Obviously it failed, and fascists/grifters/looters/christian nationalists/oligarchs now have complete control of the government. They’ll do anything to hold onto that power. We’ll know for sure in November, but working within the democratic election system to change who’s in power is basically futile at this point.

        So yeah, it’s nice to see that people have finally started supporting progressive candidates in many states and a lot of them are winning their primaries–but sadly it’s too late for that now. It’s what needed to have been done well before now, starting during Dump 1.0 at the latest, which was the final wake up call. But not enough people gave a shit until it was too late, and most still don’t.

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    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.

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      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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      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.

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        Screaming “fake news” is unhelpful.

        Vetting sources absolutely is helpful.

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          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.

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            You keep putting “fake news” in quotations like it’s something they said.

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              It’s not even something I said lol. They’re clueless.

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            You’re not inspiring confidence in people here when purporting an obvious strawman fallacy. Please quote where I said they’re “fake news” as you put in quotes no less.

            Second, one demonstrates an unfortunately low level of comprehension skills, given I stated, “Don’t trust this to be anything more than AI” – which suggests by comparative logic that there are possibly other things I trust equal to or lower than AI.

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                No, it does not lol. AI can distort half-truths / half-lies, take things out of context, but yes can also fabricate entirely.

                Remember: LOW CREDIBILITY

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                  LMAO it’s a fucking video dude. You’re saying you’re NOT saying it’s AI while claiming it might be AI? What part of the video is real and what part is AI and what part is taken out of context. You’re just pulling shit out of your ass.

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        Cool. Whatever. Find me a better source.

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          lmao, jesus. Sorry I asked you to read and ripped a hole in your pulled out of your ass AI theory.

          They don’t have a history of making shit up. They have a history of being extremely biased. This video has no commentary.

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            14 hours ago

            Soooooo no other source beside some shithole far-right subpar slop?

            Last chance!

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              Oh I’m sure there’s plenty of sources here for this obviously surreptitiously recorded video. /s

              Dismissing the source when the facts are real is in, a word, stupid.

              Why don’t you prove to me they have a history of making shit up? Oh yeah, because your own source proves that wrong, ding-a-ling.

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                Dismissing the source is a genetic fallacy. They comment on someone else creating a fallacy and cant see their own. Their cognitive dissonance is in over drive

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                LOW CREDIBILITY

                Should be easy to find a better source reporting on this, if vetted! Hell, even Fox News!

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                  I mean, things take time. The Drudge Report wasn’t wrong about Monica, he was just an asshole. Assholes can be right and still refer to facts but present those facts in a different ideological context.

                  but I clearly was never going to get through to you.

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      Dispelling the myth of a 2 party system is being a Nazi? Like Clinton said, you need a public and a private position, Whitmer’s private position is now public

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        False Premise fallacy. We’ve not yet established the premise to be true. You sure trust far-right sources an awfully lot.

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          And you sure distrust them despite there being zero evidence that they make up items like this.

          I would distrust their slant, but this is a video with no commentary. What slant is there?

          There’s a major difference between faking shit and misrepresenting shit.

          If their facts are still true, I don’t know what to say, but you do you man.

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            You sure trust a far-right outlet with LOW CREDIBILITY a lot.

            Tagged nazi. Thanks for playing.

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          If it were fake as Whitmer claims they could have captured and provided the audio from one or several of the other cameras on them at the time. Theyve had over month to do something. SNOPES confirmed the comments. Democrats dont give AF about the working class anymore than republicans

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            Lots of Democrats do, actually! But that’s another topic. Be careful, lots of Russian and Republican trash on here trying to spread misinformation and stop people from voting Democrats, helping fascist Republicans win in November!

            Snopes only acknowledges footage happened and audio occurred but could not independently verify or make out what was said, which means anyone could use AI to inject what they want her to say. They left Unrated.

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              I’ll make it simple for you, democrats are fascist. Pointing out that BlueMAGA operates on the same frequency as MAGA isnt spreading misinfo, its breaking down their similarities.

              IF you read the story they confirmed what was said but couldnt clarify the context.

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                BlueMAGA

                This is where anyone with an IQ above room temperature stops reading.

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                lol you righties keep trying to make this stick but it’s not going to work.

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      I’m not familiar with the outlet but heard about the story on Breaking Points. Since the sub requires an article, I just searched for one and this is what popped up.

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    Immediate recall. Anything else is allowing it to happen.

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    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

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      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.

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    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.

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    Regarding AI data centers, China isn’t going to stop building them. Consequently, either the US and other countries build them or fall behind in AI. This should be explained to Americans. Whitmer wouldn’t be a good choice for the Democratic presidential nominee. Jon Ossoff would be better.

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      and all those people who bought nfts are laughing at us because we fell behind too, right?

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      build them or fall behind

      Americans building data centers they don’t even turn on. They build centers that can’t afford the hardware to fill them. They build centers running dogshit inefficient algorithms. They build data centers that can’t turn any kind of profit. They build centers for CSAM. They build centers for bot farming social media. They build centers for drone striking elementary schools. They build data centers for mass producing AI slop to cover up the CSAM, the bot farms, and the child murder.

      Why do we want more of these things, again?

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      China is also building more efficient data centers that dont rely on near unlimited amounts of water and resources

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      It’s a race to the singularity, and whoever gets there first will create and control God. So we need to sacrifice everything to get there before the Red Chinese, or we’ll be living under a Communist Gangster Computer God. After all, sacrificing consumer goods, clean water and basic survival needs is a small price to pay for your only hope for a future.