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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

Iran does have sea drones, and they have made giant holes in tankers at sea level with them. Iraq claimed that 2 of them were used to turn 2 real tankers into 2 giant fireballs in their harbour. I have seen AI of 20 simultaneous missiles hitting downtown Tel Aviv, but a bigger problem than AI on Israel is that Israel is criminalizing the sharing of strike information, with selective permission after for whining about civilian areas. There is a lot of damage every night in Israel.

Trump said the rallies in big square of Tehran are also fake, and even the hits Israel/Israelis admit to are fake. Same with GCC hits that GCC acknowledges.

If using AI for fake news, there is a Netanyahu video out early today, where his wedding ring fades in and out. He should then give death penalty to IDF/Netanyahu (he could be hiding instead of dead) for fake news.

It is next level, Hitler's bunker, and losing, to be resorting to this level of desperation.

[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 56 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Oh right. The "liberal news media." The one that's owned by six billionaires. The one that sucks up to Trump constantly. The one that's constantly doing. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ in response to Trump's demented bullshit. THAT liberal news media.

[–] zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

Sorry to burst your bubble but Liberals ARE right wingers.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 33 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Sorry about the loss of your arm. :(

[–] tehfishman@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

Another victim of the liberal news media!

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 15 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

Yeah, but his other arm is fine, so… it's definitely a choice in this case. lol

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 18 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Shitty article from a shitty source. In fairness, about a shitty President.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 21 points 18 hours ago (5 children)
[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Midterms ... Impeachment ... then Prison or LEGAL execution upon conviction. Can't say Im spouting threats or violence for that.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Long as him and his enablers are out and unable to return, it makes no real difference to me how its done

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[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 227 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If not dictator why dictator shaped

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

if it walks like a dictator, quacks like a dictator, and shits its pants like a dictator…

[–] chode_tode@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Sounds like a shitty dictator...

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 63 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If not a dictatorship why PDF file shaped

[–] PanGodofPanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I prefer my autocrats in .txt

but seriously why are we censoring "pedophile" here?

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 150 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I see the war is going well

[–] dumbass@piefed.social 80 points 1 day ago (3 children)

When will Walmart Hitler just fucking die?

[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

At the worst possible time and not a moment before or after.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 27 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

When will Americans exercise their rights and force him out of office instead of waiting for luck?

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago

Americans don't exercise.

[–] Medic8eme@piefed.ca 13 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Don't worry. They're sending hopes and prayers.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 66 points 1 day ago (10 children)
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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 44 points 23 hours ago

As if starving and murdering detainees in ICE concentration camps weren't enough.

What a motherfucker.

[–] petey@aussie.zone 45 points 1 day ago (4 children)

So I listened to it and heard nothing about death penalties for reporters. Am I missing something?

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 142 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Quoting Trump's post, the nugget of truth is from:

The story was knowingly FAKE and, in a certain way, you can say that those Media Outlets that generated it should be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information!

Which they turned into "Demands Death Penalty" because DailyBeast is a tabloid.

TBH I'm sick of DailyBeast and Rawstory showing up in my Lemmy feed. I'd argue they violate this community's "credible sources" rule.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah no, the president saying people should be charged with something thats punishment is death or life in prison is exactly that.. saying those journalists should be put to death or life in prison for what they have written.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 16 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It’s tough, because I don’t want to give him or the American justice system the benefit of the doubt, but I really hate the misrepresentation of this in the media. Charging someone with treason doesn’t mean they’ll be imprisoned or executed, it means they’ll be put on trial. If this story had addressed the potential for the president to bias the country against these reporters by calling personally for them to be charged with treason, I would be a lot less annoyed by the headline, but it’s inaccurate and they didn’t put any actual investigation into this piece.

It might be splitting hairs, but I really do wish for exhaustive Nuremberg style trials when I call this regime criminal, treasonous, and genocidal. I wouldn’t mourn if a few of them didn’t make it to trial, but I don’t want them to be able to take their secrets to the grave en masse.

[–] tristan@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 8 points 17 hours ago

I don’t think you’re splitting hair; you’re being consistent in your values, and journalistic integrity matters more to you than having your biais confirmed.

It doesn’t matter whether the target of this article is the best person in the world or the worst person in the world, their words are not being reported accurately.

I loathe everything Donald Trump stands for, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay to misrepresent what he says like that for engagement. There are more than enough appalling things the man does and says on a daily basis to not go that low.

Like someone above wrote, I don’t think daily beast articles have their place here.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

well that's true but also the penalty for treason is the death penalty

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Or imprisonment.

Point is, that's not what the quote directly said. And that's what distinguishes journalism, and tabloids like DailyBeast (or talking heads/"analysis" like Fox News). Hence, every actual news outlet on this topic went with a factual headline, and quoted Trump directly instead of making a jump.

This distinction is very important to me. Ragebait like DailyBeast is why Trump is in power and the world sucks now, because it works.

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