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is that real?
It’s all over MAGA that Haitians either have or about to invade Springfield just like Venezuelans have taken over CO. Neither is true. We know Vance doesn’t have any issue with lying. He’s a piece of shirt.Wt bleep is he talking about? What reports?
Evidently there was a woman who ate a cat in Springfield. But she was a US citizen. MAGA, like always, lies about something that happened for propaganda purposes.
Evidently there was a woman who ate a cat in Springfield. But she was a US citizen. MAGA, like always, lies about something that happened for propaganda purposes.
Immigrants are really hard workers. I know I don't have a strong enough work ethic to take your job, rob you, kill a few of your loved ones, rape a bit, and eat a few pets. That's so much work.is that real?
So illegal immigrants are stealing your jobs, robbing and or killing your friends and family, raping your women and now they are eating your pets
And all because Kamala Harris hasn't secured the well known Haiti/Ohio border
Evidently there was a woman who ate a cat in Springfield. But she was a US citizen. MAGA, like always, lies about something that happened for propaganda purposes.
Seemingly out of the blue Monday morning, supporters of former president Donald Trump began posting myriad AI-generated images depicting the Republican presidential nominee as a savior. Not of the American Dream or of Christianity, mind you, the normal targets of such praise. Instead, Trump was shown protecting ducks and kitty cats.
If you are not a denizen of the right’s conversational bubble, this will probably strike you as incomprehensible. If you are such a denizen, though, you know what’s happening: Trump and his allies — and his running mate! — are elevating false or unsubstantiated claims about immigrants injuring and eating pets and other animals. And of course, blaming the Biden administration and Trump’s opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, for this thing-that-is-not-demonstrably-happening happening.
The claim centers on Springfield, Ohio, a small city a bit southwest of the state capital of Columbus. A screenshot of a Facebook post purportedly from a local resident warns that the author’s neighbor’s daughter’s friend had discovered that her neighbors — supposedly Haitian immigrants — were trying to eat her cat. She also claimed (this time crediting “Rangers & police”) that similar fates were befalling ducks and geese at a local park.
This message was clipped and shared by a putative breaking-news account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. It was paired with a photo of a Black man carrying a goose and walking down a street. In short order, the post was picked up by a number of prominent voices on the right, including Trump adviser Stephen Miller.
From there it metastasized, with people plucking pieces of information off the internet and attaching it to the original claim as though it was supporting evidence. A guy at a community meeting mentioned the ducks! An Ohio woman was recently arrested for eating a cat! Just proves the point.
Except that the guy carrying the goose was photographed in Columbus a month ago and is not obviously an immigrant from Haiti, much less one in Springfield.
And except that the woman arrested for eating the cat was also not obviously an immigrant — and was arrested in a different Ohio town about 100 miles northeast of Springfield.
And except that the local police say they have no reports of pets being stolen in a manner consistent with the posts. That guy who mentioned the ducks? A local podcaster wearing a sweatshirt promoting his mayoral bid in next year’s election................
The story snowballed from various unverified reports, with people all over X and other platforms chucking their own little hunks of snow at it. In MAGA world, the alleged pet-eating is already a matter of fact, and Republican elected officials, including Vance, are hurrying to join the clout rush, the scramble to get attention and likes and followers by treating it as a serious issue.
This is a central reason that Vance and others on the right are susceptible to being described as “weird.” There’s an online world in which things get taken to the nth-degree because its economy rewards that sort of hyperbole. But then these obsessions and claims are taken out of that bubble and presented to everyone else and they don’t hold up. What else can you do but marvel at how strange it all is?................
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Just the opposite, in reality. It’s a damn shame.We are well past the critical threshold of the percentage of idiots a country can have and still sustain itself. If anything dooms us, it's that.
One of the failed promises of the internet is that it would make people more informed and smarter. That has not happened.
I think he's confusing RFK Jr. with Haitian immigrants.Wt bleep is he talking about? What reports?
Despite the vagaries of it, I think people should have to pass a basic mental test before voting. I think all sane people should be able to vote, but when you've lost your sense of reality or lost your mind, you should also lose your privilege to elect our leaders. I know there are many pitfalls, but it is crazy that we have no standards. We went from an extreme of only landowners being allowed to vote to literally every citizen, no matter their state of mind. My mom has dementia, and I know she and my stepdad already had the onset of dementia in 2020, yet both voted. I have an aunt that has early stages of dementia, and she is going to vote. Trump has something wrong with him now that is much worse than it was 4 years ago, and while I think he would still pass a mental test, a lot of his supporters wouldn't.We are well past the critical threshold of the percentage of idiots a country can have and still sustain itself. If anything dooms us, it's that.
One of the failed promises of the internet is that it would make people more informed and smarter. That has not happened.
I agree in principle, but you have to put a lot of checks and safeguards in place to make sure the devil is kept out of the details. If that system is corrupted in any way, it would be one of the most powerful and oppressive tools for voter suppression and authoritarianism.Despite the vagaries of it, I think people should have to pass a basic mental test before voting. I think all sane people should be able to vote, but when you've lost your sense of reality or lost your mind, you should also lose your privilege to elect our leaders. I know there are many pitfalls, but it is crazy that we have no standards. We went from an extreme of only landowners being allowed to vote to literally every citizen, no matter their state of mind. My mom has dementia, and I know she and my stepdad already had the onset of dementia in 2020, yet both voted. I have an aunt that has early stages of dementia, and she is going to vote. Trump has something wrong with him now that is much worse than it was 4 years ago, and while I think he would still pass a mental test, a lot of his supporters wouldn't.
Despite the vagaries of it, I think people should have to pass a basic mental test before voting. I think all sane people should be able to vote, but when you've lost your sense of reality or lost your mind, you should also lose your privilege to elect our leaders. I know there are many pitfalls, but it is crazy that we have no standards. We went from an extreme of only landowners being allowed to vote to literally every citizen, no matter their state of mind. My mom has dementia, and I know she and my stepdad already had the onset of dementia in 2020, yet both voted. I have an aunt that has early stages of dementia, and she is going to vote. Trump has something wrong with him now that is much worse than it was 4 years ago, and while I think he would still pass a mental test, a lot of his supporters wouldn't.