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Every day I'm glad I don't have any Trump cultists in my circle. The everyone is 12 theory continues.
More like everyone is 92 because most kids today are smarter then this.
I bet if you showed this case, without political context to a class none would laugh and all would agree its wrong for officials to do this.
I wonder how many judges will have the courage to sanction the government for this conduct... If POTUS lies or falsifies documents, throw the charges out already. We can't have a tainted jury.
And that won't stop Mr. Orange. But at least it will give some relief to people who are harassed by him.
The judicial system is stacked with Trump supporters.
The White House has confirmed that it posted a fake arrest image of a Minnesota protester to its official X account Thursday.
Uuuhhh, by default you should always assume that if information comes from the whitehouse, that it's modified, faked, or whatever to make the USA look better.
NEVER trust anything coming from the US whitehouse (or it's congress, or just anything from the US government)
That was good advice ten years ago, now it's just rule #1, because literally EVERYTHING they say now is a lie. Trump breathes lies, he couldn't stop lying if he wanted to I guess because I literally have a hard time hearing or seeing anything from him that isn't a complete and outrageous lie. Same goes for his ass kissing cronies.
It’s always inspiring to see the bottomless well of incompetence, absurdity, and stupidity that makes up the entirety of this white house.
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Welcome to the USA, deepfakes are not only legal but encouraged.
This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs -- to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.
Orwell, 1984
What's the rule for defamation or misrepresentation here? This feels like something you should be able to use for evidence of malicious prosecution.
The US is so cooked.