• edric@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    To be fair, he did this in Colbert’s show, which was kinda done in jest/humor. Having said that, the guy does like to “ackchually” stuff a lot, even for fictitious things. And he definitely was his usual smug self even though it was a comedy bit.

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      8 months ago

      This is all a bit of harmless fun beginning to end, but this is such a model of misinformation it loops around to being actually fascinating.

      Harmless event>fair but misleadingly titled article>social media responding to the headline. There’s some worm life cycle for you. Simultaneously elegant and horrifying.