• Lord Wiggle
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    182 days ago

    Talking about exerting control over impulses and the impulse to post this shit.

    • I’d like to apologise now for when, in the future, I place a “parody” sticker on a genuine social media post. I know, there’s something wrong with me… but I thought I’d give you a heads-up about it as you seem pretty reasonable.

    • @A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      112 days ago

      You shouldnt feel sheepish about it.

      I’ve already seen people using these fake tweets that everything thinks is soooo funny being use to defend and handwave the shit he actually says.

      but why use brains and care about common sense when some stupid fucklechuckles get a giggle.

          • @brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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            12 days ago

            Very true. Mentioned this elsewhere someone suggestion a large watermark:

            I went a different route, though I avoided placing the callout somewhere it may be accidentally cropped.

            I hope the, uh, non-disinformation can have a simple start here, and if we’re big enough some day that kind of thing is a problem maybe we re-adjust. Of course, nothing stopping someone from recreating something to their less-scrupulous heart’s delight. (in the case someone is re-creating something to intentionally mislead, not re-creating based on their expectations of people’s knowledge and BS meters)

            Ahh just can’t wait for the proliferation of high-quality generated videos…

      • @A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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        Which is exactly what i’ve argued a hundred times.

        I genuinely would not be surprised if half of these are being made by trolls for the explicit purpose of muddying the waters and confusing things to give cover/plausible deniability to what he actually says, since screenshotted tweets have apparently become a medium of information transmission.

      • @brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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        12 days ago

        I went a different route, though I avoided placing the callout somewhere it may be accidentally cropped.

        I hope the, uh, non-disinformation can have a simple start here, and if we’re big enough some day that kind of thing is a problem maybe we re-adjust. Of course, nothing stopping someone from recreating something to their less-scrupulous heart’s delight. (in the case someone is re-creating something to intentionally mislead, not re-creating based on their expectations of people’s knowledge and BS meters)

        Ahh just can’t wait for the proliferation of high-quality generated videos…

      • Fat Tony
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        162 days ago

        It doesn’t even have to be plausible to be funny. Anything read in his goblin voice is funny.

        “Let’s say for the sake of this argument in a theoretical hole, under the ground, there lived let’s say a hobbit…”

    • @ArbiterXero@lemmy.world
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      1003 days ago

      I literally came to the comments to find out if it was real or not.

      Because quite frankly, I would probably believe either way .

    • KairosOP
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      163 days ago

      You got any more :)

      • @brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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        Hey @LodeMike@lemmy.today - loved the post.

        After sharing my concerns and receiving affirmational feedback, I have made a very small edit to this image.

        Please consider using Lemmy’s awesome image hot swap feature to update the image. You may simply tap edit and paste the following link:

        https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/0b64e0dc-3e66-4e0c-81b1-953bdb42b002.jpeg
        

        If there any mods reading through here, I might suggest a rule asking folks to use their best judgment to include a similar indicator in similar circumstances.

        I’m not much of an “/s” guy, but I think these six letters (parody) can avoid misleading without ruining the fun :)

    • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      We don’t need shit like that around here. Conservative / christofascist fucks say enough things that we can malign. Don’t make shit up unless it’s impossible for someone to misperceive as real.

      • @StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world
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        Yeah but it’s funny.

        Also, one could argue that by taking the piss out of some of these people, they’ll be taken less seriously overall. Which is a good thing.

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    Well, I’ve just learned more about his search history and interests.

    This post is fake, but let’s face it… even when I believed it, it wasn’t a surprise at all.

  • Prethoryn Overmind
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    What the fuck is he actually talking about? I have no fucking clue how the US is full of people that read this shit and go, “yeah politics and I am an American Republican this guy knows the truth.” Like how did we get to this kind of stupidity?

  • @PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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    533 days ago

    It’s funny because his sister looks like someone gender bent him and gave him a proper skin care routine

    • @Delphia@lemmy.world
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      243 days ago

      I mean, in fairness Ben Shapiros looks are possibly the least offensive thing about literally everything else about him.

  • @cRazi_man@lemm.ee
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    383 days ago

    Dear lord, please smite twitter and all on it so that we may be cleansed from the unholy content it exposes us to 👏😔

  • @HRDS_654@lemmy.world
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    “… Maybe you steal her underwear a couple times…” No Ben. No we don’t.

    Regardless of it being the fake, the fact that so many (including me) thought it was real speaks volumes.