• xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Hang on, this guy the AP seriously took a picture where there is no injury to his ear? What was all the blood then? This one needs independent corroboration.

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        4 months ago

        There was supposedly a big chunk out of his ear. Now it’s just a skin-only graze that heals super fast? Very convenient

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        4 months ago

        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?

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          Honestly, I thought he would milk it until the election somehow. We can’t be right all the time I guess!

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      I think he wasn’t hit by a bullet but by shrapnel from something else that was hit. It’ probably superficial.

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      4 months ago

      When an octopus gets frightened it releases ink to confuse predators. Due to his love of hamburgers Donnie releases catsup.

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      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

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          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

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      4 months ago

      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.

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        4 months ago

        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.

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      4 months ago

      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.