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[-] Lightor@lemmy.world 153 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"But the people on television!"

Ok Grandpa, let's get to bed.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 67 points 1 year ago

This is where you got him with something like: "This is a man who would rather believe made up stuff on TV than the actual officials in charge. You don't want someone who can't tell fact from fiction in the white house again."

[-] Mozingo@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Did you watch the debate? She basically said that lol

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago

Didn't see that bit, no. Based on the clip I assumed she didn't get a chance to reply.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Yes I loved how she didn't get caught up in going point by point to refute all the bullshit he spewed, but still managed to convey the whole "everything this guy says is bullshit" message.

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I bet, the television he was watching was showing static.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago
[-] lemonmelon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

"Commercial alert! Commercial alert! Put the VCR on pause!"

[-] clickyello@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago
[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

I didn't even need to watch a single minute of the debate to know it's going horribly for Drump, all the Trumpys on xitter are absolutely seething about it lmao

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I mean, wtf did they expect?! Lol

Even for Trump though, that's a fuckin sound byte! I knew he'd have some new ringers to bestow upon us and he hasn't disappointed! Trump looks weak, confused, and desperate

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 76 points 1 year ago

I think everyone watching had the same "WTF" moment .

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

But but the television said so.

[-] spirinolas@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

The dogs and cats bulcrap did what it was supposed to do. It allowed him to avoid the question on why he refused the border bill proposed by Biden.

[-] whereisk@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

By making him sound like an insane conspiracy theorist instead? Nah. He could have given a plausible answer like “it wasn’t going far enough” which would have been sufficient.

[-] spirinolas@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

The thing is, that insane answer didn't put out any of his base. A bad answer to the actual question would.

[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

His base is not a target for the Harris campaign.

[-] spirinolas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They may never vote for Kamala but they might not vote for Trump.

[-] colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly. At this point it can’t be about convincing undecided voters (whoever is still undecided won’t pay attention to any of this and will still be undecided). It’s more about whether or not people can be arsed to go out of their homes to vote.

Saying this: Please vote (as long as you are not planning to vote for the convicted felon of course)

[-] kralk@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

You're saying it was a... dead cat?

[-] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

It's totally true though! At one of his recorded speeches he said that exact thing! And wouldn't you know it, when he got back home and turned the TV on, he watched some Cheeto looking old man say the same thing he'd said just a little earlier!

Coincidence? I think not!!

/s

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 17 points 1 year ago

What do you mean? There is a lot of memes featuring Jim Halpert and I don't know which one we're talking about.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 50 points 1 year ago

This refers to the fourth wall break he does when something absurd is said and he looks right at the camera/viewers.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 36 points 1 year ago

as in "are you seeing what I'm seeing"?

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 11 points 1 year ago
[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It's called "Jimming the camera".

[-] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

When she stares in the camera without speaking like "you can't believe this guy either, right?"

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You could watch the 8 second video and know almost instantly.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 8 points 1 year ago

And hours of The Office, presumably.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

And some Bluey, just for kicks.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly, time well spent.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 13 points 1 year ago

Is it just me or is imgur turning to shit? I can't get it to load anything anymore.

Hmmm, might be something with Chrome.

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Works for me, but you're probably right. Everything is turning to shit.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago

Ah fixed - deleted cookies from imgur.com.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Oh this was on Imgur

Shoutout !voyagerapp@lemmy.world for embedding it

[-] pedz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Imgur has been enshittifying for multiple years. When I went on reddit a few years ago, its use was already discouraged by some subs.

They wanted to become their own site and more profitable, instead of just being an image hosting site for reddit. So they started to fight against hotlinking and tried to keep redditors captive on their site.

When people share a link to an image hosted on imgur, it finds ways to break hotlinking to show the whole site in an effort to show ads and keep users captive, on their site.

From what I can see their enshittification started around 2016.

Recently there's also been people reporting that they apparently highjack the back button of a browser to make it even more difficult to escape.

AFAIK it's also why reddit itself started to host images.

They really really really want people to stay on their site.

EDIT: Here's some evidence, from a reddit thread, obviously https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/awfckb/whats_the_deal_with_imgur_does_reddit_own_it_why/

[-] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I felt like there were so many more times when she could have Jim'd the camera. I was hoping that they would do a quick zoom on her while she knowingly looked to the camera to emphasize the "we all know this is bullshit" vibe.

[-] sasquash@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I think it's just a way of shifting the terms (cat, dog, pet) away from the "childless catlady"-story which backfired so horribly.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

To me it played more like "the caravan" - a way to drive fear and hatred of immigrants - but even more insane.

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