• CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
      10·
      6 days ago

      I also, unironically, couldn’t tell. That’s not a great sign, when you look at gibberish like that and your first thought is “that… genuinely could be him…”. Then you come to the comment section, and you’re still not sure, because everyone else was unsure too.

    • YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca
      61·
      6 days ago

      LLM have come such a long way. They can mimick that cum sock perfectly and it only costs like a swimming pool of water and electricity to run a small Swiss village in the alps.

    • TheChargedCreeper864@lemmy.ml
      1·
      5 days ago

      I thought it was real until the part where he gives away the US to Canada and Greenland. Had that not been in there I would’ve fallen for it

  • 8000gnat@reddthat.com
    221·
    7 days ago

    I saw Boards of Canada at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

  • Charlxmagne@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 days ago

    Regardless of if this is real or not, “he” types just like he speaks. I read that in trumps voice in my head.

  • Aeri@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 days ago

    Honestly we’d probably be better off if this was true, plus we get rid of florida? No brainer

  • Drunk & Root@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    7 days ago

    i imagine every capital word hes just screaming it and its not him its the guy that plays him from snl and then i reamber theres a chance this is real and i just get sad

  • HexPat@lemm.eeEnglish
    182·
    7 days ago

    What upsets me the most is how far into it I had to read before I knew it was fake.

    • Glide@lemmy.ca
      108·
      7 days ago

      It literally took until the “signed America over to Canada” line before I was confident it was fake.

      Fuck, this is a weird timeline. At least Hitler was eloquent.

      • LePoisson@lemmy.world
        5·
        6 days ago

        He wasn’t that eloquent honestly. Just … Boisterous, loud and probably about on par with Trump when it comes to just packing stadiums and getting people riled up over social problems. Problems that were complex but he had simple answers to.

        I’m really tired of all this “Hitler was a genius” bullshit, not only did he make terrible military decisions but he ran a government that was in disarray all the time. Constant turmoil followed him and many changes in personnel in important offices oftentimes just seemingly at a whim.

        Not saying you’re making that argument and honestly I get what you’re saying but my God I have met too many people IRL and online that would suck Hitler’s dick in an instant. You’re right though, this timeline is dumb as fuck.

        • Glide@lemmy.ca
          2·
          6 days ago

          Yeah, you gave me the benefit of the doubt and I appreciate it, but I want to say clearly that Hitler was anything but a genius. He had a penchant for sticking his nose into professions that he had no business involving himself in, and making decisions that he had no background in, education on, or understanding of. Like Trump, he was a narcissist who thought he knew best just because he is who he is, and was not self-aware enough to let the professionals work.

          Perhaps eloquent was the wrong word, as I wrongly assume Mein Kampf was his words, when in reality it was likely the words of his editor, followed by a translator. Instead, I would say that when you hear him speak, Hitler’s voice is powerful. I cannot the same for Trump. One feels like a commanding leader, and the other feels like a toddler throwing a tantrum, though they were both, ultimately, the latter.

          Also, just so it’s on the record, I read Mein Kampf as part of a minor in history. This was not personal interest, though it is an incredibly interesting text. It was fascinating to discover he devoted ~2.5 chapters to the importance of the same kind of simple, yet powerful finger-pointing rhetoric used by right-wing ideologists to this day. I joking say it’s one of the earliest texts on meme theory, and it’s only half a joke.

          • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            1·
            5 days ago

            This was not personal interest, though it is an incredibly interesting text. It was fascinating to discover he devoted ~2.5 chapters to the importance of the same kind of simple, yet powerful finger-pointing rhetoric used by right-wing ideologists to this day. I joking say it’s one of the earliest texts on meme theory, and it’s only half a joke.

            I still find it funny that just a few years ago a feminist social work journal called Affilia published an article that was essentially a rewrite of a section of Mein Kampf in terms of sex and with some “fashionable buzzwords” included under the title “Our Struggle Is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism.” Especially since the bit is spelled out right in the title (for anyone who doesn’t know, “Mein Kampf” literally translates as “My Struggle”). It was part of the grievance studies affair.

          • LePoisson@lemmy.world
            1·
            6 days ago

            Oh yeah I won’t pretend he didn’t move crowds to coalesce around the Nazi philosophy, he was obviously popular enough to pack stadiums.

            Hitler and Goebbels, hell the whole Nazi party, we’re really good at the propaganda game. I’d say they really were one of the early pioneers of the use of mass media to steer people into alternate reality. Much like how we see social media being taken advantage of today.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      20·
      7 days ago

      I mean, there is literally 0 chance Trump has listened to or even heard of the … band? musical group? … Boards of Canada, only took me 7 words.

      But uh hey, if you’ve never heard of em, give em a listen.

      In particular, here’s the last song, the outro ‘manifesto’ of their album ‘Music has the right to children’, their debut in 1998.

      https://youtube.com/watch?v=wnopyFg5msU

      Rather poignant message.

      Whole album is also great, of course.

      Oh uh, headphones recommended.

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
      9·
      7 days ago

      I could tell partway into the first line because there is no way that this man appreciates art of any kind.