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Trump posts bizarre AI video of Gaza vision as beach resort on Truth Social (www.yahoo.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In Trump's latest Truth Social post, he shares a disgusting video depicting a golden statue of himself, a sky scraper with his name on it, a superyacht on the Gaza coast, him holding hands with a female entertainer in a night club wearing a see-through gown, him & Netanyahu shirtless together sipping alcohol on the Gaza coast with a sign that says "Trump Gaza," and money raining down with kids jumping up to grab it.

All the signs of what many would call the antichrist, yet the religious-right is convinced he's their savior. He wants to turn Gaza into a Las Vegas style resort with his name plastered everywhere.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Please don't post news from aggregators.

Here's the original article:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-gaza-ai-musk-riveria-middle-east-b2704870.html

[–] [email protected] 21 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The link I provided included the video inline, but I don't see it with the link you provided. I tried finding a better source that included the video with it, but they were all right-leaning news organizations.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It works for me:

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago

Doesn't for me, maybe the mobile version is different.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

...you mean like Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

What are the issues with aggregators?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

They steal advertisement revenues from the sources that created the content they serve.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

LOL. We all use adblockers around here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

For those who don't...

I mean if we have to do advertisement-supported journalism, whichever advertisement revenues are generated should go to the creators, not to the thieves. It doesn't cost you anything to link to the real McCoy rather than the copy, and if someone finds your post from outside Lemmy and clicks on your link without an ad blocker, it will send a tenth of a penny to the creator.

And yes, plenty of people browse without an ad blocker. How do I know? Because the advertisement industry is still alive and well, sadly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Fediverse is said to be too confusing to use from redditors when reasons are given for why that haven't joined, so this demographic of users likely skews much higher towards ad blocking with how niche the user base is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

By the same token, one can argue that expert Fediversers shouldn't have any trouble retracing the true origin of whatever story they want to post and linking to that instead, to give credit where credit is due.

Because really, it doesn't cost anything and it helps deprive the leeching aggregators of a few clicks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

That's a different matter though when it comes to ad block usage here, which you had presented as though this place has the same mainstream access of non ad block users as other platforms.

I'm just talking about ad block usage of fediverse compared to other sites.