• xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    did you see the video where trump added a fake hurricane path prediction with a sharpie marker?

    trump set the precedent of providing obviously fake things as evidence, and now people are expecting that.

    but also, pot leaf, smiley, cross, skull doesn’t mean MS13 and that’s just insane….
    even if it meant that, that would only prove that he fucked around with some affiliate gang when he was a kid, not that he’s a super terrorist.

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      18 hours ago

      The whole thing absolutely ridiculous; regardless of their meaning, it’s an incredibly flimsy reason to link him to gang activities and suspend due process.

      I’m just annoyed at all the people and various news articles failing to talk about that and instead scream things like “Internet Sleuths determine image was photoshopped!!!” and go on about how the font means its fake, because somebody clearly opened it in MS Paint and added some shitty annotations before having Trump pose with the printout

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        18 hours ago

        it pisses me off too… the first thing i heard of it was the “internet sleuths say it was photoshopped”… so i looked at it, at first i was shocked… they really just put letters on the picture? didn’t match the color or shape of the hand?!?!
        then i realized it was just annotated and the real story is the only flimsy evidence they have is some shitty non-ms13 tattoos….

        back in the day i say some table of gang associated tattoos and it said the pot leaf is a ms13 symbol, and i thought that was just soooo stupid.
        but now they’re acting like it’s proof.

        but i wouldn’t call it disingenuous to think the annotation was their fake evidence since they’ve faked evidence before while barely trying….
        even this could’ve been an attempt at fake evidence and then they claimed it was annotated later… they’re really that dumb….