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Lee Neville's avatar

What does a picture of a sleepy whippet have to do with the essay? 🧐

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

It's weird. So so so weird.

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thephantomcheese's avatar

Well, they HAD to replace Harry Styles because... he was dating Taylor Childless Cat Lady Swift there for a while, wasn't he?

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WokeGrandma's avatar

"In fact, as simplistic as it sounds, I’ve always thought that if more conservatives played instruments or did some kind of art they could work hard at and be proud of and for which they might even get some credit, it would do something to fill that void inside some of them that makes them so mean." I would add "If more conservatives had a sense of humor," but that's not gonna happen because a sense of humor requires a sense of irony.

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Megan Macomber's avatar

My spirits haz been razed too. Rite with ya on that one.

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Michael Treece's avatar

Aren't these the same people who complain about "participation trophy culture"?

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Marla's avatar

Since RFK Jr. is so hot to investigate the causes of autism, maybe he should look a bit closer to home, if you catch my drift.

That boy just ain't right.

There's a school of thought that people who are autistic--or on the specturm--happen because their fathers are older. Barron definitely fits that metric.

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theCryptofishist's avatar

There are some weird videos saying that Barron is the heir apparent. I keep watching the beginning and then not finishing because I just can't.

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flancynancy's avatar

scary how gullible people are and also concerning is the major increase in AI videos just this past month my Insta feed is full of Mango Mussolini in different situations with a fake, or sometimes real Melania, showing her pregnant, or in bridal attire, walking down the street arm in arm... freaky shit I assume is supposed to mess with our minds

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DFG's avatar

A few years ago there were some weird as hell videos on YouTube of Spider-Man wrestling with Elsa from “Frozen.” It was aimed at kids and gave off a really strong pedo vibe. YouTube eventually cleaned it out, but the creators seem to have come up with a new product.

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The Mighty Ox's avatar

I had read somewhere that there was a project to pursue automated crop harvesting under the Carter Administration. Like solar panels on top of the White House, I recall it being another project dismantled by Reagan. Imagine AI efficiently harvesting produce under the hot sun instead of pretending to be artists. What could have been.

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kittyschmitty62's avatar

Worst season of Righteous Gemstones EVER.

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Ryp's avatar

So how many of the posters on YouTube who think this is real also think Keanu Reeves is their internet boyfriend and send him money.

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Jacqueline Klein's avatar

Anyone else notice how big the hands on fake trump are? First thing I noticed.

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LBMLiz's avatar

Check out the six fingers on Barron, too.

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Jens TINGLEFF's avatar

Should all us meanies on the left be welcoming to Art from right-wingers, for our own sake? Dunno. While it is popular to wish that Vienna just had taken one for the team and welcomed That Austrian Guy as a painter after WW1, I don't think that would have prevented WW2.

The underlying pathology would have burst through, and we would have had the same, only with - say - Charles Lindbergh and Joe McCarthy setting the US on a fatal course to join that nice Mr Mussolini

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