• Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    I like that he closed his eyes. It’s the little kid logic of, “If I can’t see you, you can’t see me.” Truly, a stable genius.

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    When you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the medal. You can do anything.

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        9 hours ago

        If you have credible evidence saying it was only gifted retroactively, please link it. The video evidence does not appear support that interpretation of events.

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          Yes it does learn human interaction.

          The guy asks for it back, goes it the pocket and he shrugs it off.

          That’s not giving it stupido

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          Why wouldn’t they announce it ahead of time, or during the ceremony?

          Don’t be naive.

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            I have linked a video showing what actually happened, linked a verified signatory of the International Fact Checking Network and member of the European Fact-Checking Standards Network saying that it was given to him and that the submitted headline is misleading, and your response is “don’t be naive”.

            Are you guys fucking for real? What the fuck even counts as credible evidence to you anymore!?

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                Accepting whatever makes “the other side” look bad instead of fighting for the truth is the reason we’re in this thread talking about that dipshit [Trump]. I’m not sure I’ll ever understand why the fuck people in this thread fighting against that so hard

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                  it’s great you have morals and integrity, but there’s a time and place for that.

                  when dealing with fascist pedophile scumbags that continue to corrupt society, leave the gloves at home. otherwise, you’re only supporting those same scumbags who continue to rape and pillage.

                  in a fight to the death there is no such thing as a clean fight, only survival.

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              How many leaders of the host country got a medal before him?

              Will they hand them out to future hosts as well?

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              Do you not understand how PR works? If they gave it to him, the President of the United States, who was literally there in person, do you really think he would have just slyly pocketed it? Or do you think they would have said, “we are giving this to you”?

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                And this, ladies and gentlemen, is a good example of how certain people come to believe in conspiracy theories.

                They are faced with a seemingly overwhelming argument that destroys some fictional narrative they chose in their head, probably because they misremember or misunderstood some basic fact behind that narrative in the past (like not listening to a thing during math and sciences classes).

                Re-evaluation of all the facts in light of new information would be too taxing, and probably lead to an undesirable outcome even if completed successfully (like realising they were wrong, and possibly start questioning themselves), so a different strategy is employed.

                This consists of cherry picking a very minute aspect of a bigger picture (here, that trump puts the medal in his pocket) and spin a whole narrative around it.

                This works surprisingly well, at least for them, since their brain has either forgotten the conflicting facts, or outright fails to recognise their glaring ignorance about all other possibilities to explain that minute aspect differently (like the fact that the guy handing over the medal to trump is talking to him, in what looks very much like the act of gifting him the medal).

                Where this unfortunately breaks down is when other people, not so reality-impared, challenge them by pointing out the glaring factual omissions.

                This is usually seen as a personal attack, like they’re being called out individually and being called unpleasant things (which can be usually the case), and will respond by questioning the other person’s character, intelligence and/or intentions.

                Oh, and downvoting.

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      This doesn’t contradict the article. It explicitly says he was given the medal by Infantino in the subheader and the article body.

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        Yes, but the implication of “given the medal to look at” and “pocketing FIFA medal” is that Trump “stole” it or wasn’t supposed to keep it, which I haven’t seen supported by a credible source yet.

        Edit: regarding your own edit (adding the second image), I found no information at the linked source supporting the sentence as presented.

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      Ask Cole Palmer what he thinks since this was a totally normal thing to do and not in anyway confusing.

      Also I’m 100% calling bullshit and this gift was to save face. Chelsea players we’re pissed he was even there.

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    Dementia. Not that he hasn’t always been like this, speaking from experience, it just sometimes makes the true self harder to hide for better and for worse.

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      I don’t think so, Putin did a similar thing with a Superbowl ring years ago. It’s an alpha male thing, like his handshakes and all the other bullshit he does.

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    He’s a thief? Wow, the person who steals from a charity is a thief!!?!! Anyways you guys better watch him around top secret documents, you don’t want to steal any of them (and then store them in an unlocked toilet next to a fax machine so he can easily fax them to other hostile governments for money or just because he’s an imbecile).

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      Every time I see him in public, all I can think of is how I’m so hoping to see his head explode from a sniper’s bullet. I don’t think that could be described as Pride.