I’m just amazed people drink that stuff. Then again, if you’re eating hot dogs at a Costco food court…
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Only savages don’t drink Coke. I drink the diet version as it is newer and improved.
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That’s like the opposite. If Bill Clinton denounces somebody, that gives you reason to believe everything that person had said previously.
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Retroactivity:
I Read Five Pages and Went, Oh My God, They Framed Nixon
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Yes, indeed. The left learned that all you need do to bring down your enemies is tell whopping lies and add the suffix “-gate”. Checkmate. This explains some portion of our descent.
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FoxNews, Travel+Leisure, Maine Lobster Now (mail order lobster?), and credulous blondes named Khloe and Stacey:
I’ll footnote a quote:
The state has 1,022 pizzerias, which equates to about 72.73 pizzerias per 100,000 residents.[1]
This was the highest in the dataset, according to Maine Lobster Now.[2]
“Add in the high pizza enthusiasm of 22,512 pizza-related searches per 100,000 residents [3] and a wallet-friendly average pizza price of $15.74 [4], and you’ve got a state that ensures pizza enthusiasts have ample options at relatively affordable prices,” the Maine-based seafood company said.
[1] Too bad they play the moron game of not providing their data because they know you’ll find errors. Consider:
States with the most pizza restaurants US 2019| Statista.
[2] What dataset?
[3] If these people were satisfied with their local pizza, why search?
[4] Do they regard Walmart’s low prices as dominating America’s fashion scene?
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With CarScoops and a moron named Brad, we have a Les Nessman award winner. Repeated stealth edits and still not getting things right.
Thanks for the Wayback machine!
He added this:
The vehicle was owned by Tyler Hoovies of Hoovies Garage, who bought it back in 2023. It appears he had it in his possession for at least a few weeks before the listing, as it was featured in one of his videos where he talks about his tax bill. It’s unclear whether Hoovies sold it via proxy or if someone else bought it and resold it.
It’s “Tyler Hoover”, not “Tyler Hoovies” and the commenter who informed him of Hoover used Hoover’s correct name. And he still did not research well enough to find these:
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New York Magazine:
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I wonder what the person or AI who wrote that caption was high on.
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The article is archived here https://archive.is/PUV2m
I am far more impressed by the use of generative AI video synthesis by the Iranians though:
…and by the Palestinian film industry:
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Shouldn’t that be in The Crazy Years? That appears to be serious as far as YouTube is concerned. It might as well be an Israeli satire.
Recall that, even well after Musk bought it, Twitter would not let you use the term “Pallywood”/“Paliwood”!
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The Palestinian dead baby makeup horror film industry snippet is from a Turkish documentary as far as I remember. I think both of these fit both the Gell-Mann Amnesia thread and the Crazy Years thread.
Thing is, I’m not sure this is a train wreck type of a scenario. I think there’s stuff we can do. John Walker did tools like https://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/greasemonkey/ that could lower the efficacy of the truth-compromised influencers.
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from Grok:
The term “Pallywood” (sometimes spelled “Paliwood”) is a portmanteau of “Palestinian” and “Hollywood.” It is a controversial and derogatory term used primarily by some pro-Israeli advocates to allege that Palestinians stage or manipulate media, such as videos and photographs, to exaggerate or fabricate suffering and civilian casualties in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with the intent of gaining international sympathy and demonizing Israel. The term was coined by Richard Landes, a historian, in 2005 through his online documentary “Pallywood: According to Palestinian Sources,” which focused on the 2000 killing of Muhammad al-Durrah, questioning the authenticity of the footage.
Critics, including some media outlets and scholars, describe “Pallywood” as a disinformation campaign or conspiracy theory that seeks to discredit legitimate Palestinian suffering and dismiss evidence of Israeli violence. They argue it dehumanizes Palestinians and is sometimes used as an ethnic slur. For example, Larry Derfner in +972 Magazine called it “a particularly ugly ethnic slur.” Instances of alleged “Pallywood” have often been debunked, such as viral videos misidentified as staged but later traced to unrelated events, like a 2013 Egyptian protest or a Malaysian TV satire.
Usage of the term spikes during escalations in the conflict, as seen in social media posts after October 7, 2023, with accusations targeting individuals like Gazan influencer Saleh Al-Jafarawi, falsely labeled a “crisis actor.” Posts on X reflect polarized views: some pro-Israeli accounts use “Pallywood” to label Palestinian media as propaganda, while others denounce it as a racist trope.
The term remains divisive, with no consensus on its validity. Proponents see it as exposing media manipulation; detractors view it as a tool to undermine Palestinian narratives. Always approach such claims critically, verifying sources and context, as misinformation is rampant in this conflict.