PolitiFact: You might have seen a clip of President Joe Biden “shaking hands” with thin air. It never happened. Here’s the truth, as well as how misinformers manufacture and embellish embarrassing presidential moments:

https://x.com/PolitiFact/status/1516838083051855879

								

								
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This plays as satire of deboonking but it's got a blue checkmark. But why would they seriously do this it's on video

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Only a real chud actually watches video too try too see if the faithful fact checkers are telling the truth. Why don't you just take the headline at face value and go away?

trans lives matter

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Don't believe your lying eyes, believe what our deboonkers tell you.

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Let it slide :#marseylaugh:

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This plays as satire of deboonking but it's got a blue checkmark. But why would they seriously do this it's on video

Because 90% of people aren't going to wait for a video to load, they're just gonna read the headline and nod

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Did you watch the video?

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naw it was loading slow so I assumed the jorunos were lying r-slurs

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I never watch any videos, I just assume the person I dislike more is wrong and I will argue to my death against them.

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There is a big, big market for cope

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Um, chud much? You clearly didn't read what they said. It's not that he didn't do it - he just pointed at crowd that was behind him. Please do better next time sweaty

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These tidings transpired not.

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One of the few good comics by that guy

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That and the D&D ones.

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This is like how I imagined life in the USSR was when I was a kid.

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People forget the USSR mostly did away with the heavy-handed mass murder shit by the 60s. The late USSR was like above: pathetic party members churning out talking points nobody believed. In fact, a true believer once took the helm and started enforcing the rights in the Soviet constitution. His name was Gorbachev and the system collapsed almost immediately.

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Gorbachev was kind of based

Guy really didn’t give a shit

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Nah Gorby did give a shit, that was his blessing and a curse. For example, the Soviet constitution said that constituent republics had the right to secede. Everyone knew this was a funny joke — everyone except ol' Gorby, the True Believer, and the madman actually let the republics secede.

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Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, and Mikhail Gorbachev are all travelling together in a railway carriage. Unexpectedly, the train stops.

Lenin suggests: "Perhaps we should announce a subbotnik, so that workers and peasants will fix the problem." Stalin puts his head out of the window and shouts, "If the train does not start moving, the driver will be shot!" But the train doesn't start moving.

Khrushchev then shouts, "Let's take the rails from behind the train and use them to lay the tracks in front." But still the train doesn't move. Then Brezhnev says, "Comrades, Comrades, let's draw the curtains, turn on the gramophone and pretend we're moving!" Finally, Gorbachev says, "Don't worry, we were going the wrong way anyway!"

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Lenin died in 1924 and Gorbachev was born in 1931. It's not possible that both were on the same train speaking.

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excellent debonking

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Tag yourself dramanauts. Personally id be khrushchev :marseyboomer:

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Im such a centrist now I think communism and capitalism both work and want the USSR back

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It was fricking nothing like today. I'm not saying it's better, worse, etc. It's just a completely different situation. I'm sick of reading so many r-slurred pseud takes on RDrama.

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There are plenty of salient comparisons that can be made to the USSR and the US. Just think of Vaclav Havel's greengrocer. Specifically:

Let us now imagine that one day something in our greengrocer snaps and he stops putting up the slogans merely to ingratiate himself. He stops voting in elections he knows are a farce. He begins to say what he really thinks at political meetings [...] The bill is not long in coming. He will be relieved of his post as manager of the shop and transferred to the warehouse. His pay will be reduced. His hopes for a holiday in Bulgaria will evaporate. His children's access to higher education will be threatened. His superiors will harass him and his fellow workers will wonder about him. Most of those who apply these sanctions, however, will not do so from any authentic inner conviction but simply under pressure from conditions, the same conditions that once pressured the greengrocer to display the official slogans.

And then:

the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance.

Pretty prescient stuff :marseythumbsup:

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America is mass murdrring people nowadays anyway. They sent a million contaminated vaccines to the japenese, they locked down the economy so africans wouldnt be able to buy food, they encourage obesity its all designed to massacre people tbqh.

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Yes America in the 21st century is very similar to the USSR

lmao most geopolitically aware dramanaut

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Very cool :derpthumbsup:

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oh frick politicians are lying to us

literally soviet

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Where are the lying politicians in this thread? If you have to smugpost at least smugpost about something related to the thread r-slur

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darn you got so mad

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the old no u

classic

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You talk like a BIPOC

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No that was me lol

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… Biden was actually pointing at the audience behind him with his whole hand. He acknowledges the right side, then the left, and begins to walk forward.

Ahhh the backhanded point. Makes sense now.

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Wonder if this is where hunter learned his strong backhand… “oh I was just pointing at the prostitute’s face with the back of my hand”

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What a terrible cover story even if you believe it. Who the frick ends a speech, turns around and points at one narrow section of the audience. Who the frick points at the audience after finishing a speech, at all?

Not to mention that, if you watch the video embedded in the article, Biden turns to the right, "points" at the audience there, turns another 30 degrees, "points" at the audience here, then stops for a moment, waves briefly, and seem to move his hand to his chest before the video cuts off. It looks weird as heck even if you accept the premise that Biden points like an r-slur.

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Politicians typically don't point with a single finger. Focus groups or whatever say it comes off bad.

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He points with one finger shortly before finishing the speech, though.

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At people? Shrug.emoticon

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You don't point at stuff with all of your fingers?

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Is this gaslamping?

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Not if you believe it

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i dont know why you guys are laughing at the truth. it was literally fact chooked

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i dont know why you guys are laughing at the truth

Whenever truth is told, you either laugh or kill the one who said it.

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that sounds interesting but im gonna wait until snopes checks in on it

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Vincent Vega is clearly pointing at people with his whole hand.

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When even the denizens of bird app are dunking on you then you know it’s time to get a new PR commissar.

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It was Russia's fault, Putler used invisibility when shaking hands and that's why inflation rose by 70% in our cumtry

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Trans lives matter

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#PutinsPriceHike get over it chud

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Regardless if he was shaking hands with a ghost or just gesturing, this is absolutely embarrassing for everyone involved lol

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:#marseybluecheck: :#marseycope:

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Lol Trumpers mad. Cope even harder, Turds

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Trump lost get over it and get over him lol

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Biden was actually pointing at the audience behind him with his whole hand

Is this a frequent Biden pointing technique that I've missed over the last 50 years?

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that ig vid was unironically sad to watch, he just looks like a confused old man

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There are many people with dimensia that have their shit way more together.

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He was shaking hands with Allah (PBUH) to bring Sharia law to USA.

:#marseyinshallah:

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Anybody got a link to the vid? I refuse to taint my browsing history with i*stagram

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Love ya' babe :marseymarseylove:

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You will never be a real jannie. You have no presence, you have experience, you have no reason to be one. You are a homosexual man twisted by hunger for power and stupid minimodding into a crude mockery of internet's scum.

All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. The admins are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “fellow users” laugh at your awkward attempts at minimodding behind closed doors.

Normal users are utterly repulsed by you. Decades of evolution in Reddit's ecosystem have allowed Drama users to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even wannabe jannies who “pass” look awkward and disgusting to a user. Your message structure is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a drunk admin to give you powers, he’ll turn tail and demote you the second he gets a whiff of your mentally ill, power-hungry mind.

You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.

Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll opt out of nitro, delete your Groomercord account, stop boosting the server and leave. The admins will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment. Your messages will remain as you will fade from memory, and every passerby who uses the search function and comes across your pathetic minimodding messages for the rest of eternity will know a wannabe jannie is buried there. Your presence will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a user who's undoubtedly not a moderator

This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.

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Look politifat

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i member when biden had a greenscreen in front of him at a fake conference outside

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Camera pans out, he gestures (politicians stopped pointing years ago) directly to a group of thr audience who then stands up. Then he works the other side.

Or not, he imagined someone there, motionlessly shook hands, then imagined them disappearing. Lol.

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As a specialist in the rapidly growing field of Fake News, I try to fact-check anything the media tells me that confirms my own biases too heavily. I'm a conservative so it would be tempting to believe that Biden is just a doddering old man teetering on the edge of senility... which is exactly why I'm skeptical. It's so easy to churn out Deepfakes nowadays, and gullible people just believe anything that they see without even questioning it. This is exactly how the Leftoids were dumb enough to underestimate Donald Trump, on not one but multiple occasions. If you think your opponent is stupid, take a step back and consider whether the reason you think that is because you want it to be true.

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Of course he didn't shake hands with the air, he was shaking hands with President FDR. I don't understand what is so controversial about saying hi to a president who died in 1945. One old Mayo saying hi to the other.

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