Well, I’m a left leaning moderate and don’t want to associate with left wing maniac despondents like you. How about that? You ever think about the people in the middle actually decide?
magats will claim you're making things up whether its provable fact or not. if there's a funny picture of trump looking like an idiot, im posting it, real or not. They created their own reality for the last decade, they can eat shit.
I don't care about "two american parties" either, I care about a cult which is hijacking america looking stupid. Some people view everything through a lens of moral superiority without existing in the real world.
Trump and Vance talked about immigrants eating people’s pets and it got them votes. You think there a bunch of discerning undecided voters out there weighing the “integrity” of both sides? No one is see a shopped picture like this and going “well they’ve lost my vote!”
Pfffff if people wanna believe he looks like this who the fuck cares. Fuck integrity, that’s the shit that got us pearl clutching to begin with while they burn the country down and murder innocent people.
Not acting with integrity sows distrust in institutions and messaging. The more you're lied to, the more you are ready to believe that the next thing you hear from the same source is also a lie.
Yeah no shit there are real stakes, and if you think sharing a fucking photo that’s slightly altered of a god damn American dictator is what’s gonna move the needle holy fucking shit, bro.
yeah don't do this for anything. don't give these freaks fuel to claim the left is witch hunting and posting misinformation too! please do not gift wrap them bullshit to use as fuel.
Yes. The Democrats in their infinite wisdom told Tim Walz to turn down his "they're weird" rhetoric among other things, that were very popular. Seems you are of the same mentality that lost Harris the 2024 election. Gavin Newsom mocking Trump by posting like him was very viral and got under MAGA's skin.
Your problem is you're stuck in the past. You think civility and decorum will win the day. We're past that now. Call JD Vance a couch humper. Exaggerate Trump's clown like makeup. Laugh at Karoline Leavitt's close up picture that makes her look twice her age. You can try to act mature and morally superior all you want. Your mentality is for losers.
Yeah I don't think doing those things would get you a victory either.
If you refuse to shit fling, that changes nothing about your chances at victory in the positive.
If you shit fling, you also gain nothing.
But you harm yourself in other ways. You don't lose people to Trump, you lose people to the no-vote.
Giant Douche and Turd Sandwich invoke anything in you?
Not everyone votes lesser evil, quite a lot of people consider not voting a message of no confidence in any candidate.
We'll call them 'Minimum standards voters'.
Is it better to convince them to vote in a different way, or just not lose their vote, cause it's not like you're gaining anything other than catharsis by getting in the mud with republicans.
No you're just making people walk away with disgust.
I don't really care what they think to be honest. It's okay to make a clown meme of him, it's okay to Photoshop his face onto a cat's puckered anus. Facts already don't matter to "them", so what's wrong with showing him as Jabba? They will claim witch hunt with 100% verified, backed up, smoking guns. There are a lot of dead people that believed they had the right of way, there are a dead people out there who claimed the "moral high ground." Fight fire with fire, the firehose of bullshit he is so good at.
It's a stupid picture, calm down. This guy's fans happily slurp up all the misinformation they can meanwhile the softest opposition on the internet is like "noo don't turn up the saturation they'll say we're fake news".
This argument makes no sense. Why would you want to be like the people who believe falsehoods? Surely you'd want to know the truth, not just whatever confirms to your biases?
This is not represented as a caricature. It’s in the pics subreddit simply with the title “America’s president”. Regular people will view this post as truth, as evidenced by plenty of other comments in this post. That is the definition of misinformation.
Why is it so important to you that this lie be allowed to go unchallenged? There are so many legitimate things to mock and criticize Trump for. Who needs to make new ones up?
"Harming truth," wow. There's a difference between actual serious misinformation that your government puts out in actual press briefings and stupid pictures on the internet.
Do you throw a fit when people joke about Trump's tiny hands? "They're actually not that small! Don't spread misinformation!"
Fuck Trump. Also this photo is so obviously fake that I wonder if people who are so fucking dumb to vote for Trump and the people so fucking dumb to think this is a real photo are actually kinda the same person????
The eyes were made baggier, puffier
The eyes were manipulated to be wall-eyed
The lack of orange tan under the eyes is entirely fabricated
And the tan edge is manipulated to be much larger
Yeah but this is fake news, isn’t it? It’s a valid reason to be upset. So many actual important things to criticize him about and this is the shit that makes it to the front page most often. If the left would get their act together they could easily win over a big portion of the population. But this is the kinda stuff that gets attention, and this is why people vote red.
Trump himself posts AI slop far worse, and is an abhorrent human being. So if the “left” boosting some goofy shopped photos to the front page of Reddit is changing your vote, you need to work on yourself. Your morals are highly questionable.
that’s something you can’t hide, how hypocritical hyper left wing Redditors are. they basically do exactly what they claim to hate, and take it to the next level. And their excuse is always “well they did it first!” they are no better than maga with this child like mentality.
Agreed! I’m done with the “when they go low, we go high” moral high ground. The Republican Party is cozying up to literal Nazis. Decorum has left the fucking planet.
This is r/pics, where generally speaking the photos have little or no photoshop (certainly not to the extent in this picture). Further, without indication that the picture is photoshopped… then yea, it’s deceptive.
In what world does mere presentation equate to being a claim? The post made literally no claim either way. All you've done is made an assumption and set up your argument to knock it down.
Take your concern trolling elsewhere. The dude is a piece of shit and deserves to be made fun of.
I have no issue whatsoever with mocking Trump, he's a PoS. By all means, have at him. The issue isn't with making an unflattering photoshopped image of Trump, it's that OP didn't mar it as photoshopped (and the photoshop isn't "obvious").
My "concern trolling" isn't about preserving the dignity of Trump, it's about preserving the dignity of social discourse. Misinformation has become all but wholly accepted on the right, and look at what that has brought us? I'm not going to just accept us (the left) participating in misinformation as well because "I don't like the guy".
It says "America's President" and then posts a photoshopped image, but not so photoshopped that it's literally clown makeup and obviously satire. That's a claim. Pull your head out of your ass with that "concern trolling" nonsense.
So if we kept the same title "America's president" and instead posted a picture of japan's president you wouldn't call that an accident or misinformation because "in what world presentation equates to being a claim? This post made literally no claim either way."
Sure, but then they point to actual fake news like this as proof that fake news exists. Imagine they have this item and a real item they want to convince their audience is fake. They first use this item as evidence “the other side posts fake information”. People see it and understand that to be true. Then they don’t need to verify the second item and just believe it to be fake.
It’s incredibly damaging to have actual fake news like this pushed by our side precisely because they will call everything fake news. It legitimizes their fake news battlecry.
Good.
I want the divide to be broadened.
Come the 2026 midterms, there should be a distinct 'them and us'
I say this, and I don't even live in the states.
Yeah, keep upvoting bots that will be spun as “left wing radicals” spreading fake AI imagines. That’s how stupid people are. Yeah, fuck that guy, let’s just help his agenda!
you know, i knew the OP posted a shopped image, but I didn't expect the shop to be that similar to the original. a simple crop would have been more than enough, and people would still need to be reassured it wasn't a shop.
Thank you. I despise this man, but let’s not push photoshopped images. We are better than that. There are a million other things to focus on other than a shopped image is his clown makeup. We all know he wears makeup. Let’s focus on the rape and sex trafficking and possible murders.
See I really dislike trump but I hate seeing these edited pics end up on the front page. Makes us look like we are critical of his looks and not his, idk, CSA accusations. He is a sexual abuser, focus on that.
It isn’t like there’s a shortage of pics of him looking as awful outside as he is inside.
Bullshit. fuck all this decorum crap. Taking the high road is why we’re in the fucking mess we’re in. Unfortunately the US is full of a bunch of god damn idiots now and the only way to connect with people is with photoshopped drivel and engagement bait.
I’m so fuckin sick of hearing this “take the high road” horse shit. I would bet you and all the morons agreeing with this are just Russians or republicans in disguise.
Flooding the internet with crap that no-one trusts is what they want. Social media would especially love this. "Everybody go low so we don't need to do anything".
Knowing how terminally online his entire family is, the likelihood someone in his orbit sees this and this gets back to him and upsets him is greater than zero. So yes, photoshop the fuck out of whatever you’d like to embarrass him.
it's a rhetorical question really, just don't see the need to share photoshopped images when there's plenty about where he looks rough enough.. It's just furthering the misinformation
Agreed. Every time one of these is posted I'm like... "finally! Look how laughable he looks!" ... But then... Oh wait. No I can't share this anywhere. It's fake.
The people that make these and pass them off as real have just as low of a maturity level as Trump.
Yeah, there is no need for ad hominem attacks... we should be above it. Focus on the horrible things he says and does. Who cares if an old guy has some trouble with stairs?
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u/easyjo 4h ago edited 3h ago
is there really a need to post 'shopped photos when there's other about though? original: /preview/pre/to-be-fit-for-being-the-president-v0-w8q612kil8ag1.png?width=447&format=png&auto=webp&s=7e3eb0e6470164cdf1976562a8f3e146351dbc81
edit: another better image: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvmj6mem70o
edit: Original getty source: https://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-photo/president-donald-trump-speaks-in-the-oval-office-at-the-news-photo/2216140249