U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who also serves as acting field director of the St Paul Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office...
  • fulcrummed@lemmy.world
    181·
    1 day ago

    In other news: water is wet

    Sorry, that’s a total smartass dick comment, just kinda gettin in the bandwagon and voicing my existing frustration.

  • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
    152·
    1 day ago

    The “both sides” in the comments are exhausting.

    Trump administration is literally denying video evidence, and using AI to manipulate photos in newspapers.

    One is way more fucking bad than the other. And shame on you if you can’t tell the fucking difference.

    • JackBinimbul@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      4·
      19 hours ago

      I worked for a newspaper a couple decades ago. AP Photographers were getting fired for cropping suggestively or removing power lines for composition.

      This is an insane time to be alive.

    • kescusay@lemmy.world
      71·
      1 day ago

      They can tell the difference. But you’d be amazed at the mental gymnastics someone with extremely strong motivations can engage in.

      You gotta remember that these are mostly people who went back to the Trump trough three times in a row, even as he’s been steadily destabilizing and destroying their lives. If they admit they fucked up now, they have to admit they’ve been fucking up for over a decade, non-stop. Many of them would literally rather die than do that.

  • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    19 hours ago

    I was going to say that I don’t understand why they put any effort into faking anything if they’re going to blatantly lie about what we’ve all seen.

    However, there’s a reason to fake things. It’s not to convince people that the faked things are real. It’s to convince people that the real things are faked.

    Edit: typo