Journalists need to stop fucking using Twitter for fucks sake.
Hard to get an audience if you leave big tech, Twitter included
At the end of the day incentives are incentives. All the engineers Elon fired when he took over did in fact build a site that’s really good for announcing things like news to the world, and it was really quite complex behind the scenes. And if someone wants to replicate that, it’s a lot of work with the added problem that unlike the original Twitter, they have to compete with Twitter in building a new network. Additionally, social media news just isn’t very profitable which is why Meta/Threads has discouraged news and politics. So unfortunately Twitter is really all there is, social media news now essentially has a strong built-in right wing bias for the foreseeable future.
Do you guys remember back when Elon insisted he was a Free Speech Absolutist? How he wanted to ensure nobody was censored on Twitter? That shit just gets funnier every day.
His “clarification” was great too.
“By ‘free speech,’ I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect. Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.”
So, you know, North Korea’s idea of “free speech” is just fine with him.
considering he unbanned an account that reposted csam I think he doesnt gaf about the law
Limiting free speech in accordance with the law is reasonable, there is no other good solution. The problem is that he does go beyond the law with what he censors all the time.
And he’s still a hypocrite.
He probably rationalizes it by thinking of Twitter as his personal publishing platform, thus all speech on it is subject to his editorial control. To take away his editorial control would be to violate his free speech rights in his eyes.
We all knew he is a liar, so…
When are people actually going to leave that hellsite in meaningful numbers?
When they don’t also deepthroat Netflix after they banned password sharing. All the optimistic people, me included, said “oh this will make a huge dent in Netflix what a stupid move.” But they read the room like a hawk.
People swallowed the hook and signed up in huge numbers. https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-password-sharing-crackdown-worked-how-to-increase-subscription-streaming-2024-1
The West has created the perfect neutered, obedient consumers who will drink whatever coolade they are given. Until we have enough people who are willing to challenge convenience and stop bowing at the altar of comfort, we will have no meaningful change.
You even got people on the left saying “I won’t vote for the less bad politician unless he makes me excited to vote”. When did everyone get so selfish?
When there is a good enough alternative to Facebook/Twitter/reddit/ticktok
When other social medias also let’s artists post NSFW alongside regular users for maximum exposure.
If that’s an actual photo from today then I doubt he was grazed much because I skinned my knee biking the day before his rally. I’ve still got a giant scab there.
Also Pete Souza isn’t just anyone. He’s a former director of the White House photo office.
It probably means he’s on blood thinners. You’ll bleed like you cut an artery even with a tiny nick.
So he probably had a tiny cut that just bleed a lot because of blood thinners.
Could be, but then blood thinners also make the wound heal longer.
So he’s probably off them to let it heal fast and back on. If it’s just a nick, a day off doesn’t sound too drastic.
When your a 90 year old turd with a steady diet of trash, not taking blood thinners for a day might be your last day.
When your veins and arteries are lined with years’ worth of fast food grease, it could be pretty drastic actually
Most blood thinners work for 7 days after you stop taking them because that’s how long thrombocytes live in your bloodstream.
My thoughts exactly. I was on them for a time and I’d bleed FOREVER if I cut myself shaving. That’s when I learned about styptic pencils and alum blocks.
Styptic stuff is amazing. I didn’t find out about it until I was in my late 30s
Stings like a bitch but sure does work
Similarly, I cut the crap out of my hand on a waterslide 2 weeks ago - grabbed the fiberglass side while trying to right myself so my kid wouldn’t get dunked - and it’s still healing. Close to being back to normal, but you can still clearly see where It was for sure
Everyone needs to chill out about this ear thing. It’s amazing what can be covered with a little bit of makeup. As much as I detest the man, I can see why he wouldn’t want to walk around with a visible ear cut. Women cover zits and blemishes with makeup as a matter of course. Do you think the orange douchewipe wants the focus on his ear? All presidents (and “presidents”) have makeup up people, and their job is to cover this kind of shit up and make the person look as flawless as possible.
Let’s leave the conspiracy theories to the conservatards.
Do you think the orange douchewipe wants the focus on his ear?
I mean, yeah, I kinda do. I expected him to milk the assassination attempt for all it’s worth, and I don’t think that makes me a conspiracy theorist.
Some campaign adviser told him that a damaged ear presents as damaged goods, and it would be better to cover it. This is a man so concerned about his looks that he spray paints his face orange. His narcissism elevates the priority of his looks beyond any perceived sympathy (sympathy being a foreign concept to him). Even his rabid base depict him in their artwork as having a six pack abs. He is absolutely covering it up. If the blood was a prop then even his dumb handlers would be smart enough to apply a fake scab to keep the ruse going.
You’re right, I’m trying to apply logic and reason to Donald Trump, which is just silly of me
Knowing how Trump has played up his assassination attempt at every opportunity… He absolutely would want to bring attention to any damage to his ear.
I don’t really care one way or another about whatever drama is going on about his ear. I’m just saying, I don’t think he’d choose to use makeup to cover up any scars on his ear.
Based … if it weren’t that the fact that accounts getting banned for simply alluding to it is very real. The whole drama may be bullshit, but accounts getting banned for this isn’t. It is partisan censorship inside a major social network just using the drama as an excuse.
Men cover facial blemishes as well.
That, and any 5 year old with a phone could mirror a photo
Edit: was it because there was an implication he might not have been wearing makeup? Honestly I can’t keep up with what the popular opinion on lemmy is anymore
Hang on,
this guythe AP seriously took a picture where there is no injury to his ear? What was all the blood then? This one needs independent corroboration.2 weeks is plenty of time for a shallow, skin-only graze to heal. And ear cuts can bleed a ton.
There was supposedly a big chunk out of his ear. Now it’s just a skin-only graze that heals super fast? Very convenient
Ears, scalp, cuticles… all places that bleed like crazy.
Especially when you’re on blood thinners
In addition, a competent plastic surgeon would likely make it look like it had never happened. I hope he goes to jail for the crimes he committed, but do people really expect him to wear an ear diaper the rest of his life?
Honestly, I thought he would milk it until the election somehow. We can’t be right all the time I guess!
Note that I believe he will milk it forever, but he’s also fairly vain.
I think he wasn’t hit by a bullet but by shrapnel from something else that was hit. It’ probably superficial.
When an octopus gets frightened it releases ink to confuse predators. Due to his love of hamburgers Donnie releases catsup.
Do not bring us cephalopods into this.
Well they do say imitation is the best form of flattery.
Not when it’s Elon!
Scalp and ear tissue heals really fast. I’ve had 5 ear surgeries, eardrum replaced with cartilage, titanium prosthesis, whole 9 yards, but 3 weeks is all it takes for the graft to ‘take’ and for me to be off lifting (and sneezing) restrictions
Wait they replaced your ear drum with cartilage? Does it work? Can you hear?
Yeah, my hearing’s normal in the ‘problem ear’, as good as my non-affected ear, which is pretty fortunate, and there’s only a scar way way back behind the ear, where it meets the skull, so it’d be hard for anyone to even notice. I had some recurring cyst thing in my right ear, cholesteatoma, but to remove it they pretty much have to drill behind the ear, cut out the ear drum, remove all the hearing bones, and then remove the cyst from those 2 angles. Then they replace the bones with a titanium rod and replace the ear drum with a small amount of cartilage harvested from the ear. Sounds kinda barbaric, kinda is, but 3 weeks is all it takes to recover from all of that. Even the scar from the incision behind the ear is mostly healed after a couple weeks
Wow sounds intense. Hope things are good and glad you can still hear.
The AP does indeed claim that this photo is from July 27, but I think that date is wrong. I can’t find this exact picture elsewhere but here’s an article with an almost identical picture of him climbing the same stairs, published in March.Blue and black suit. Airplane fuselage in the background of one. Different angles of his face, different lighting. They are similar, but I wouldn’t call them nearly identical.
Could simply be his other ear and photograph is just mirrored. Like screens, you raise your left hand but to your reflection it’s its right hand.
Seems unlikely since it was posted by the guy who took the picture.
His ear does have a graze at the top, such as a mild glancing blow from a bullet might cause.
People died that day, from being hit by the bullets meant for him.
So he was shot at.
Let’s move on.
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
THIS SHIT ISN’T FUNNY ANYMORE
It’s so on-the-nose that I don’t even Trump is the parody anymore, it’s evangelical Christianity that’s the real parody. A group of folks who make a story about a socialist day laborer from the Middle East and use it to justify white supremacy, unfettered capitalism, and wealth as a measure of God’s love falling in line behind a cartoonishly accurate representation the “bad guy” in their book…exactly like their book said they would.
Out of context it sounds like something.
But add the lines right before and it’s more clearly fever dream gibberish of a dying old man:
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns were ten diadems, and on its heads were blasphemous names. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And the dragon gave it his power and his throne and great authority.
Did Trump come out of the sea? Does he look like a leopard with bear feet and a lion mouth?
People have been misunderstanding and trying to extend parts of that text to contemporary events since it was written.
I’ve not seen his feet, but he certainly has a lyin’ mouth
Mar-a-lago Spanish - sea to lake
There are 9 current trump towers. Moscow would make 10
7 heads with blasphemous names - TRUMP on the top
Feet of a bear -Russia is known as the bear in the west since early 20th century.
Lion mouth - have you heard him speak? (Who hasn’t, he’s loud, boisterous, like a lion)
Bastion of free speech
Can we revoke his government contracts now?
I mean, they didn’t even do that when he literally fucked up a Ukrainian operation against Russia.
Money rules this country. It stopped being a democratic republic a long time ago.
Elon Goebbels really seems to be working hard on this one.
45 got 99 problems but not being visibly injured enough ain’t one
(And by 99 I mean an order of magnitude or so more)
Would be interesting if he kept wearing a bandage after this though.
9^9 problems
It would be pretty funny if the photographer just mirrored the image before uploading it.
that would be funny, but i feel like we would know about it, because like, other photos also exist.
Wow, so that bullet BARELY clipped him? And he has all those pictures of him trying to act heroic?
Veterans (AKA “suckers and losers” according to Trump) must hate this guy…
No bullet touched him, it’s not like in the movies, if a round had even grazed his ear it would have removed a nice chunk of it. Extremely fast objects don’t slice you nice and cleanly.
They were saying it was most likely a piece of the teleprompter that nicked his ear.
Yep, why the FBI is wanting to basically look into it.
The FBI has already confirmed that he was struck by a bullet
Did they? I thought they told congress they were not sure.
Trump’s campaign has also declined to release medical records from the hospital where he was first treated or to make the doctors there available for questions.
So they’ve not been able to talk to the doctors, just got the info from trump himself lol
Do you have a source?
you got one that isn’t just
republicans say FBI revised that it was a bullet that took out half his ear?
Read the first sentence
Funny how no one has the actual release just those words saying fbi totally said it
Extremely fast objects don’t slice you nice and cleanly.
What? If is a light graze, yes they would just scrape(or even penetrates thin cartilage)- even if its hollow-point if the target is thin enough.
Shrapnel creates jagged punctures. JHPs do not work the way you think. They mushroom out to create a larger wound channel. FMJs are much more likely to fragment into pieces upon impact. The FBI apparently is taking trumps word for it, but odds are trump being hit with something one of the bullets hit.
Shrapnel creates jagged punctures.
So?? I’m confused what that has anything to do with whether he was grazed, or penetrated lightly.
They mushroom out to create a larger wound channel.
Yes in flesh.
Fragmenting nor expansion are going to happen in something as thin as an ear.
Trump’s ear isn’t a steel plate, its a very thin piece of flesh, it doesn’t absorb much energy before breaking.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_gelatin#Calibration] I’m no physicist, but if a smaller and much slower BB penetrates over 3.3in through solid flesh, I think the less than half an inch of an ear will not absorb much of the bullets energy.
I think you’re missing the point here, the knick he had on his ear was so damn small that it’s way more likely it was a piece of something from the podium vs a piece of a bullet. The angle also mean if that was a round or piece of a round his head would have been in the way.
Umm his last insta post was two days ago. Can someone ummm check on him?
Last time I saw ‘em, he said something about hanging out with his buddy at Boeing.
I’m sure everything’s fine, they’re prolly just messin with planes & stuff.
