• tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Lindell was ordered to pay $5 million to a man who won a “Prove Mike Wrong” contest at his 2021 “cyber-symposium” where he challenged experts to examine his data, which he claimed proved Donald Trump really won the 2020 election.

    It didn’t, and one expert who looked at the data demanded the prize.

    Lindell refused to pay, so the case went to court, where he lost.

    🤣

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      What’s even better is that the guy in question - Robert Zeidman - is, in fact a Trump supporter. But as a data analytics engineer, he wasn’t able to fool himself with bullshit data.

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        Yeah I seem to remember an NPR interview he did where they gave him “the packets” they captured of a malicious actor communicating with voting equipment and the files were Word documents that somebody typed a bunch of gibberish into and renamed the file extension.

      • Chalky_Pockets@lemmy.world
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        This doesn’t surprise me at all. I’m an aerospace engineer and I know MAGA aerospace engineers and if Trump were to say something along the lines of “we’re gonna cut the cost of designing an aircraft by loosening the safety requirements”, they would be able to articulate exactly why we shouldn’t do that. Their inability to translate that into things like deadly virus precautions is another matter but when they know he’s wrong, they know.

        It’s just that so so so few of them could even pass a GED…

  • Clown_Tempura@lemmy.world
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    People who cry the loudest about cancel culture hate it because it works. Sorry. Maybe don’t act like a clown and people won’t shun you.

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    “Cancel culture” lmao. Dude used his position as a pillow salesman to spread conspiracy theories and now has to bear the consequences.

  • ryan213@lemmy.world
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    “They did cancel culture on us.” LOL Just pictured him with his hands in his pockets and kicking dirt while saying it.

  • VelvetStorm@lemmy.world
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    Really funny how they always talk about cancle culture but they are always the ones calling for boycotting.

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      If they didn’t have projection, hypocrisy, and a perpetual victim complex would they really be MAGA Republicans anymore?

      It’s unreal how the “Party of Personal Responsibility” is chock full of people who NEVER accept the consequences of their actions…

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      That’s not entirely true. I boycott places I don’t agree with all of the time. Be it religious views that affect policy, political views, or a range of others things, there’s almost always an alternative that I’d rather give my money to.

      Is it a boycott if it’s just me participating?

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        No, it isn’t just you. “Cancel Culture” is another of those pejoritive terms the right is so fond of. Making decisions about where to spend your money based on the behavior of the companies is a one of the few ways we have to influence corporations (and politicians).

        The extreme right seems to have given up o boycotts and moved on to direct physical attacks as their preferred methods of influence.

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      They can’t handle it. Remember they wanted to go after companies who decided to stop donating or advertising with right wing shitstains?

  • Thales@sh.itjust.works
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    “I do every customer like my only customer and every employee like my only employee,” he told the station.

    JFC he can’t even speak English.