• Fat Tony@lemmy.world
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        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…”

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

      Because quite frankly, I would probably believe either way .

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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 :)

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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.

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    I feel sheepish saying it but I wish even these obvious fakes were marked as parody in tiny little font somewhere

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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.

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      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.

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            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…

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      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.

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        LOL lmk what your psych says about that

        When you try it, make sure it’s in a domain where there is some chance of starting an international conflict

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        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…

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

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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.

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    Hey now, you just can’t call him “Benny” out of the blue. His birth name was Benjamin. That’s what he should be called. That’s exactly according to his own rules he’s espousing. /very sarcastic of course