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  • Sure, I should've stuck to a strict definition of the poorly defined thing that you "suppose" means something that wasn't at all indicated in the comment. Makes sense.

    The comment made two claims:

    1. We are outraged about this
    2. We are not outraged about the targeting of the left

    I said:

    1. We can be outraged about more than one thing.
    2. What evidence do you have to support your second claim?

    Using "we" or "no one" is immaterial in that sentence in this context. It's not more than just not repeating the same words again and again for readability. No sensible person took that to be an ask for evidence that literally not one single person was outraged. The crux of the question, as written above, is "What evidence supports your claim?" Using your assumed definition, I'd have the same question about both claims instead of just one. My main point that we can be outraged about more than one thing would be unchanged.

    Why are you acting like an apologist for normalizing the increasing psychopathy of the American society?

    I'm not. You're just failing to think clearly.

  • I have no idea what they're individually doing or not doing.

    But in the interest of national unity, I'll join you in the most Canadian of pastimes: talking shit about Americans.

    Fuck you, you American bastards! Fix your dumb country, you fucking hosers.

  • You sound tough, Captain Discomfort. What you bench bro?

    Also, I'm Canadian. Not particularly interested in being a good American. Or any kind, really.

  • Who me?

  • We can be outraged about more than one thing.

    What is your basis for saying no one is outraged about this administration targeting leftists? I've seen nothing but outrage.

  • Not really, but if my circumstances were different I would have. I've been super busy so I've been a very casual user lately. For me, that means mostly using my phone where I use Voyager. I also bounce back and forth between Lemmy and Piefed. I knew something was wrong with Tesseract but I couldn't figure out what it was. I wrote a comment about it in a deleted thread that I'll quote here. This is in response to AdmiralPatrick asking rhetorically if they should have been more up front:

    As someone who's used Tesseract for years, it would've been nice. You said elsewhere that no one else had complained but I had no idea what was going on. I use Voyager on my phone and I had notifications showing up there that were absent in Tesseract. I had comments I'd made from my phone that I couldn't see from my browser. And, like, comments about the World Cup. Does Tesseract hate football? Sports in general? I had no idea that there was a new semi-secret blocklist and that someone else in that comment chain had committed some unknown-to-me sin elsewhere so I couldn't continue that discussion with others from my laptop. I ended up keeping a second Lemmy-UI tab open because, as much as I love it, I couldn't trust Tesseract until this mysterious problem was resolved. Not a great experience.

  • I switched to Photon so... a little, I guess?

  • A lot of the time this is just AI-generated trash, not an actual person linking to their stuff. They are both scammers and spammers.

    Townflex is AI plagiarism repackaging trending stories to siphon clicks.

    I haven't deep dived into the cybersecguru but there isn't a single named human being associated with that site. One "person" claims to have written maybe 15000 words of journalism in the last 24 hours and doesn't want credit. This is from their About page:

    My name is The CyberSec Guru, and I’m the founder of The CyberSec Guru. I’ve been fascinated by technology and online security since my High School days.

    Again, I haven't spent a lot of time looking, but this is probably AI slop.

  • This happens all the time. They fly under the radar for a moment until someone notices them. Then their accounts get banned.

    Stermy4u was banned for promoting their AI plagiarism site.

    Have you reported the other user? It's way less likely anyone will notice if they're not reported. If you report a post make sure to say that the user is a spammer so mods/admins will look at account activity.

  • The Independent is from the UK. They're mid as far as newspapers go. They're also not saying this was a formal announcement:

    Donald Trump hinted he will run for president again during a speech at the White House correspondents’ dinner on Friday (24 July).(Emphasis added)

    Announcements are the destroyers of uncertainty.

    Enough time has passed that we can say definitively that the original story is false. At best it's bad reporting; at worst it's misinformation engineered to harvest clicks. If it were true, to say nothing of the news environment, this community would be absolutely wallpapered with stories about it and there'd be a stickied thread about the constitutional crisis.

  • These next gen AIs are really gonna fuck good

  • About Trump? I doubt we have any disagreement about that. Not about who he is, what he is, what he wants, or how he behaves.

    The only question I'm really asking here is: why is the reporting from this single Australian news organization so wildly out of step with every other news organization on the planet?

  • So the gas lighting has been going on for a bit?

    From Trump? Decades and decades and decades.

    Gross? We literally have someone who actually did that stuff sitting in the oval right this second. So, if anything, its a presidential metaphor.

    I'm not sure gross and presidential are mutually exclusive.

    Alright, I think I've reached my jumping off point with this one. Good talk. You're great, whatever I think about the article. Have a good one.

  • I don't disagree with you.

    But that has no bearing on whether this story is true. The claim is that he has "announced a re-election bid." He hasn't. And you know this -- your recent comments are about him cloaking his intent or desire in feigned humour. I don't disagree that he's doing that. But, he does not need to do that if he has actually announced a re-election bid.

  • Sure. I mean, in this context it's probably more trolling than that. Why test the waters in a room full of people who despise you? But that's completely immaterial to whether this story is true. If the headline was "Trump indicates for the nth time he really wants a third term", that would at least be defensible. It says that he has announced a re-election bid. He has not.

  • I think the reason no one's reporting it is that it just isn't a story. Trump makes comments like this all the time. There's a difference between him making them and him actually announcing a re-election bid, which is the claim in the headline and article. Why would he even announce at the White House Correspondents Dinner while he's bombing on stage? It just makes no sense. This reporting is bad.

  • https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/us/politics/is-this-supposed-to-be-fun-trump-hurls-insults-at-correspondents-dinner.html

    There was little laughter in the room as the president’s speech took on a harder edge. Not many people chuckled when he compared the “really beat-up faces” of UFC fighters with those of Bette Midler, Jane Fonda and Bruce Springsteen.

    Mr. Trump seemed to realize he was losing the room. After a joke he told about the gerontocracy on Capitol Hill bombed, he said: “That was actually the only thing I thought was good in this whole fricking stupid speech. It was the only good one, and that went down with not exactly great laughter.”

    He threw his arms up in exasperation and people started to laugh again.

    As his speech reached its conclusion, he pulled out a hat and with a theatrical flourish plopped it on his head. It said, “Trump 2028.” Some clapped. Others laughed. Most of the reporters just stared straight ahead.

  • Technology @lemmy.world

    arstechnica.com /gadgets/2026/06/reddit-will-require-you-to-log-in-to-use-old-reddit-com/
  • politics @lemmy.world

    In Plunging Into a Mideast Conflict, Trump Gambles His Presidency

    www.nytimes.com /2026/03/02/us/politics/iran-trump-polls-republicans.html
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    The Many Shades of Complicity in the Epstein Fallout

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/27/style/epstein-friends-associates-complicity.html
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    Judge Vows to End Trump Administration’s Noncompliance ‘One Way or Another’

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/26/us/minnesota-judge-ice-immigration.html
  • Canada @lemmy.ca

    Any trade deal with Canada will include tariffs, says Trump's trade rep

    www.cbc.ca /news/politics/trump-tariffs-canada-trade-deal-jamieson-greer-interview-9.7104990
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    How Right-Wing Political Influencers Dodged Election Spending Rules

    thetyee.ca /News/2026/02/24/How-Right-Wing-Influencers-Dodged-Spending-Rules/
  • politics @lemmy.world

    When Faced With Claims of Racism, Trump Points to His Black Friends

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/22/us/politics/trump-black-people-history.html
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Epstein Scandal Leaves Some Young Trump Voters Feeling Betrayed

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/20/style/epstein-files-young-conservatives.html
  • News @lemmy.world

    Epstein Built Ties to U.S. Customs Officers, Prompting Criminal Investigation

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/19/us/epstein-customs-officers-usvi.html
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Grand Juries Tend to Defer to Prosecutors. Not in This Justice Dept. Case

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/18/us/politics/pirro-inquiry-video-democratic-lawmakers.html
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Republicans, Braced for Losses, Push More Voting Restrictions in Congress

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/17/us/politics/republicans-vote-fraud-id-midterms.html
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Despite Epstein’s Toxicity, Steve Bannon Stood by Him, Texts Indicate

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/16/us/politics/jeffrey-epstein-steve-bannon.html
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    More Than Ever, Videos Expose the Truth. And Cloud It, Too.

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/15/us/politics/minneapolis-videos-killings-artificial-intelligence.html
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    Conspiracy Theories Only Flourish With More Epstein Evidence

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/13/business/media/jeffrey-epstein-conspiracy-theories-disinformation.html
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/10/us/politics/trump-democrats-illegal-orders-pirro.html
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Former Police Chief Said Trump Told Him ‘Everyone’ Knew of Epstein’s Actions

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/10/us/politics/trump-epstein.html
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Trump Says His Unpredictable Style Gives Him Leverage. But It Has a Cost.

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/04/us/politics/trump-deals-allies-adversaries.html
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/04/us/professors-classroom-surveillance-politics.html
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Border Czar Says He Is Pulling 700 Immigration Agents Out of Minneapolis

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/04/us/politics/homan-minnesota-dhs-immigration-agents.html
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    ‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/03/us/politics/nekima-levy-armstrong-minnesota-protest.html