There's a word that describes people who claim they need to tell lies to communicate a deeper truth, and that word is... [View all]

[demmiblue]

..."liar".

People acknowledging that this image is AI but still insisting that it's real on some deeper level...

I am going to become the Joker.

Link to tweet

The picture in question, which had also been shared by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), showed a crying girl holding a puppy being rescued from what appeared to be the devastation of Hurricane Helene.

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Kremer is a right-wing political activist who has been using her feed to torch the Joe Biden administration for supposedly mishandling the response to Helene (though there’s little evidence that the response has been in any way mishandled). She’s an RNC National Committeewoman for Georgia Republicans, the founder of Women for Trump, and most famously helped organize the rally that immediately preceded the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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Actually, it does matter if this is AI.

This girl does not exist. The puppy does not exist. This is not reality. No, the image is not “emblematic” of some deeper truth. That is nonsense. There are plenty of real photos that can be used to make whatever politically-motivated point these partisan opportunists want to make.

https://www.readtpa.com/p/people-are-sharing-fake-hurricane