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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

Iran does have sea drones, and they have made giant holes in tankers at sea level with them. Iraq claimed that 2 of them were used to turn 2 real tankers into 2 giant fireballs in their harbour. I have seen AI of 20 simultaneous missiles hitting downtown Tel Aviv, but a bigger problem than AI on Israel is that Israel is criminalizing the sharing of strike information, with selective permission after for whining about civilian areas. There is a lot of damage every night in Israel.

Trump said the rallies in big square of Tehran are also fake, and even the hits Israel/Israelis admit to are fake. Same with GCC hits that GCC acknowledges.

If using AI for fake news, there is a Netanyahu video out early today, where his wedding ring fades in and out. He should then give death penalty to IDF/Netanyahu (he could be hiding instead of dead) for fake news.

It is next level, Hitler's bunker, and losing, to be resorting to this level of desperation.

[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 18 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Shitty article from a shitty source. In fairness, about a shitty President.

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 227 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If not dictator why dictator shaped

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

if it walks like a dictator, quacks like a dictator, and shits its pants like a dictator…

[–] chode_tode@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

Sounds like a shitty dictator...

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 63 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If not a dictatorship why PDF file shaped

[–] PanGodofPanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I prefer my autocrats in .txt

but seriously why are we censoring "pedophile" here?

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I self censored for no reason really.

I think I’ve written the word pedophile too much lately and wanted to mix things up a bit.

[–] zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, I thought you were legitimately opposed to PDF files, I guess they are not as bad at the eps files.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

I’ve always had issues with PDF files on Windows. I do not want Acrobat Reader!

[–] GameOverFlow@lemmy.zip 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Why does acrobat support PDF files? 

[–] chode_tode@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

They're in the files...

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

Did you find it in the PDF aisle?

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 20 points 20 hours ago (5 children)
[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Midterms ... Impeachment ... then Prison or LEGAL execution upon conviction. Can't say Im spouting threats or violence for that.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

Long as him and his enablers are out and unable to return, it makes no real difference to me how its done

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 143 points 1 day ago

I see the war is going well

[–] dumbass@piefed.social 76 points 1 day ago (3 children)

When will Walmart Hitler just fucking die?

[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

At the worst possible time and not a moment before or after.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

When will Americans exercise their rights and force him out of office instead of waiting for luck?

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

Americans don't exercise.

[–] Medic8eme@piefed.ca 13 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Don't worry. They're sending hopes and prayers.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] chode_tode@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

HOPES AND PRAYERS

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

He's way past expiration date

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago

As if starving and murdering detainees in ICE concentration camps weren't enough.

What a motherfucker.

[–] petey@aussie.zone 44 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So I listened to it and heard nothing about death penalties for reporters. Am I missing something?

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 138 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Quoting Trump's post, the nugget of truth is from:

The story was knowingly FAKE and, in a certain way, you can say that those Media Outlets that generated it should be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information!

Which they turned into "Demands Death Penalty" because DailyBeast is a tabloid.

TBH I'm sick of DailyBeast and Rawstory showing up in my Lemmy feed. I'd argue they violate this community's "credible sources" rule.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah no, the president saying people should be charged with something thats punishment is death or life in prison is exactly that.. saying those journalists should be put to death or life in prison for what they have written.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It’s tough, because I don’t want to give him or the American justice system the benefit of the doubt, but I really hate the misrepresentation of this in the media. Charging someone with treason doesn’t mean they’ll be imprisoned or executed, it means they’ll be put on trial. If this story had addressed the potential for the president to bias the country against these reporters by calling personally for them to be charged with treason, I would be a lot less annoyed by the headline, but it’s inaccurate and they didn’t put any actual investigation into this piece.

It might be splitting hairs, but I really do wish for exhaustive Nuremberg style trials when I call this regime criminal, treasonous, and genocidal. I wouldn’t mourn if a few of them didn’t make it to trial, but I don’t want them to be able to take their secrets to the grave en masse.

[–] tristan@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 8 points 19 hours ago

I don’t think you’re splitting hair; you’re being consistent in your values, and journalistic integrity matters more to you than having your biais confirmed.

It doesn’t matter whether the target of this article is the best person in the world or the worst person in the world, their words are not being reported accurately.

I loathe everything Donald Trump stands for, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay to misrepresent what he says like that for engagement. There are more than enough appalling things the man does and says on a daily basis to not go that low.

Like someone above wrote, I don’t think daily beast articles have their place here.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

well that's true but also the penalty for treason is the death penalty

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Or imprisonment.

Point is, that's not what the quote directly said. And that's what distinguishes journalism, and tabloids like DailyBeast (or talking heads/"analysis" like Fox News). Hence, every actual news outlet on this topic went with a factual headline, and quoted Trump directly instead of making a jump.

This distinction is very important to me. Ragebait like DailyBeast is why Trump is in power and the world sucks now, because it works.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I get your point, but the president saying people should get life in prison if not killed for their 1st amendment right which he swore and oath to uphold would be an absolute reason for an immediate impeachment to most.

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

TBH I’m sick of DailyBeast and Rawstory showing up in my Lemmy feed. I’d argue they violate this community’s “credible sources” rule.

I'll support that motion.

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[–] RePsyche@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is there a transcript? I’m not exactly sure which unhinged rant I’m looking for.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The source is a Truth Social post:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116235861005528220

click to expand full quote:

Iran has long been known as a Master of Media Manipulation and Public Relations. They are Militarily ineffective and weak, but are really good at “feeding” the very appreciative Fake News Media false information. Now, A.I. has become another Disinformation weapon that Iran uses, quite well, considering they are being annihilated by the day. They showed phony “Kamikaze Boats,” shooting at various Ships at Sea, which looks wonderful, powerful, and vicious, but these Boats don’t exist — It’s all false information to show how “tough” their already defeated Military is! The five U.S. Refueling Planes that were supposedly struck down and badly damaged, according to The Wall Street Journal’s false reporting, and others, are all in service, with the exception of one, which will soon be flying the skies. Buildings and Ships that are shown to be on fire are not — It’s FAKE NEWS, generated by A.I. For instance, Iran, working in close coordination with the Fake News Media, shows our great USS Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier, one of the largest and most prestigious Ships in the World, burning uncontrollably in the Ocean. Not only was it not burning, it was not even shot at — Iran knows better than to do that! The story was knowingly FAKE and, in a certain way, you can say that those Media Outlets that generated it should be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information! The fact is, Iran is being decimated, and the only battles they “win” are those that they create through AI, and are distributed by Corrupt Media Outlets. The Radical Leftwing Press knows this full well, but continues to go forward with false stories and LIES. That’s why their Approval Rating is so low, and I can win a Presidential Election, IN A LANDSLIDE, getting only 5% positive Press — They have no credibility! I am so thrilled to see Brendan Carr, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), looking at the licenses of some of these Corrupt and Highly Unpatriotic “News” Organizations. They get Billions of Dollars of FREE American Airwaves, and use it to perpetuate LIES, both in News and almost all of their Shows, including the Late Night Morons, who get gigantic Salaries for horrible Ratings, and never get, as I used to say in The Apprentice, “FIRED.” Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

God can’t exist. He just can’t. Because why would he let this pestilence live on, especially with three lifetimes’ worth of KFC and McCrap in his arteries?

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 7 points 1 day ago

Maybe God just loves us like a gardener loves plants. Right now looking at the garden and being like "oh no... This is a real mess. It would probably be easier to start over... But I've spent so much time on them, let's give them a chance to pull through if I leave it for a while"

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Pretty soon trump will have to release the epstein sex tapes to distract from the war!

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 6 points 1 day ago

things going well then I guess.

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