• FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    The optics of Musk addressing the room while Trump is disengaged are bad enough without simply making up things that are not there.

    “Why is Elon Musk acting as the leader while Trump is disengaged” is a hard question for a reasonable person to deal with.

    Saying “lol look at Trump sleeping” when that’s obviously not what is happening, makes you come off as unserious and casts doubt on anything you say in the future.

    Spreading misleading lies is not the way to engage with the world. (To those of you that are people and not disinformation bots/agents)

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      How is it obvious that he isn’t sleeping? He looks like he’s sleeping. Without the caption I would assume he’s sleeping as well.

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        His hands are very close together, he’s looking between his hands and we know Trump is a social media junkie.

        Without the caption you would assume he’s sleeping because someone probably flipped through hundreds of frames of video to find the shot that looked the worst so they could post about it.

        Trump, if you’re to believe the rumors, uses stimulants and drinks a lot of caffeinated soda. He’s not falling asleep in the middle of the day.

        It’s worse, he’s letting an unelected man, the richest man in the world, who paid for his campaign, act as the leader while he reads Twitter.

        Him merely being asleep would be preferable over Musk being in the room. Incompetent and lazy leadership by Trump would be vastly better than his simply handing the reigns of power to an unelected non-American.

        That’s the messaging that needs to be happening. All this is going to do is make the blue team laugh and the red team think the blue team is ignorant.

        Meanwhile, Elon is taking a chainsaw to our entire government while we’re too busy trying to score points on the other team (who are the people we need to be allying with to protect the US).

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          I’m not suggesting people lie, but your messaging doesn’t have to be completely true to work. That’s how the red team got elected in the first place

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            I’m not saying that lying and manipulation don’t work. I’m saying that we shouldn’t be on the team of the liars and manipulators.

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        his eyes are closed too, conservatives try to say hes posting on truth social.

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    50 l 50 he’s looking at memory of “that one time with Epstein and those girls”, or in a Big Mac coma.

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    Jesus Christ, every single thing to come out of his campaign and mouth was projection. ‘Sleepy Joe’ my ass. More like drowsy Donny, who’s uppers are always wearing off

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    What gets me about this photo is how fundamentally unserious the whole scene appears. The body language of nearly everyone, the lack of focus, the shabbiness of it all… just embarrassing. I’ve seen high school clubs looking more competent and serious.

    I know this is just an aesthetics thing, but it gets to me. 🤷

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      What you’re picking up on is body language and that’s not strictly aesthetics. It’s sometimes even more important than verbal language.

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    To me this picture says one thing: these reps and the sycophants that surround them were never representing the ppl. They just represent what keeps them, personally, in power.

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    I mean, he’s obviously just staring at his phone, but if this had been Biden then they’d have been calling him Sleepy Joe in all the headlines. :|

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    OT, but what do you mean “Sign-in Required” when trying to read the post on bluesky, weren’t they supposed to be better than twitter?

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      It’s a way to dip their toe into being closed off. Right now it’s a “user choice” so some people can slowly build the wall while feeling good about “blocking AI scrapers” (they’ll get around it no problem) or “blocking stalkers” (they’ll get around it no problem) or “blocking [next week’s bogeyman]” and all of a sudden everyone has to make an account to interact with the website but it was oRgAnIc™

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      This user has requested that their content only be shown to signed-in users.

      Huh. I guess that’s a feature Bluesky offers. TIL.

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        So the enshittification begins… I can’t think of a single valid reason for wanting only account-havers to view your post.

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          This is a way to slightly make a block work better to keep away from stalkers. Yes, a stalker can create another account. But it does add an additional small speed bump.

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        It was just added recently, like within a week or so. At least it’s the users choice unlike Twitter.

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          Correct, I noticed the feature recently too. I’d imagine it’s anti-spam (or at least anti-lurk?) but it’s not like you can comment without an account.

          I don’t see a good enough reason to toggle that unless you’re expecting a non-user to leak it to another platform to make fun of you (e.g. Lemmy) and obviously we’re proof enough that it isn’t much of a deterrent, lol.

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    While I have saved this for later distribution, it looks more like he’s checking his phone. Either way, he’s not paying attention.

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      Obviously? No. There is no possible way his hands could be holding that phone. And we all know he is absolutely a 2-handing smart phone user. He can barely hold a 16oz bottle of water. Probably a 15.9oz at that.

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      He’s obviously looking at his phone. This isn’t the burn the meme makes it out to be.

      The real fucked up shit is the world’s richest man addressing the Cabinet. In a fucking baseball hat.

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        Yes, outrage farming misinformation doesn’t belong here (or anywhere).

        Engage with reality, don’t cheer on lies because they’re lies that you like.

        It should be pretty obvious the kind of damage that can be caused by people living in alternative-fact-based realities.

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      That’s what it looks like to me. To be honest though just about everything on the internet is probably more important than what Elongated is saying.

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        Oh my God this comment just made me realize when the inevitable Watergate type scandal happens with this administration it will be called Elongate

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          I think we need to retire -gate. Watergate was a laughable nothing of a scandal compared to what the Trump regime does daily.

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    He is really old, he’ll be 79 in june. How many people that are that age, you hear they die, and you’re like, “mmhmm, they had a long life.” He should be at his country clubs being racist and assaulting women like all the other republicans. Retire, it’s just a job man.