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[-] EdlritchEconomics@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

Yep, I'm sure these are absolutely really real locations. Look at the M.C. Escher shit going on here.

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

$$$ looks pretty expensive

[-] dead@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

The video posted by the White House account looked surreal. It has a lot of jump cuts. The audio feels like the people are reading a script. There is a lack of emotion.

https://nitter.net/WhiteHouse/status/2074499867989123417#m

However, the CBS article has 25 addresses listed. Surely someone could visit to the addresses if they were fake? I pulled up some of the addresses on street view and it shows various gas station businesses. Possibly these locations were purchased and converted.

[-] EdlritchEconomics@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good idea to streetview them. I have way too much time on my hands and my brain sucks, so I looked up all of them.

Firstly, that second picture I posted is probably intended to represent the location in the video.

Which is indeed a real location according to street view (1400 Dreshertown Rd), formerly a Sunoco.

Which kind of begs the question why they didn't just use a real photo of the site since it does apparently exist. But whatever. In the process I found something much more interesting.

Of the 25 sites listed on the website, eight are (or were, more on that later) Sunoco. Six are Gas 'n' Go, three United (including one defunct), three Karco, a Gulf, a Shell, a Valero, a Phillips 66, and one defunct unknown that literally just says "Gas" on it. The Sunoco sites are interesting, because they're the only ones that consistently showed up on Street View looking like they were undergoing rebranding in 2025. Six of the eight had "upgrading image" signs and the livery stripped back to plain blue, including the Dreshertown Rd site. The remaining two didn't have photos after 2023. This leads me to believe that Sunoco were the only ones with advance knowledge of the change.

So my thinking is that this is actually just the white house shilling for a Sunoco acquisition and rebrand.

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Street view is this up to date?

[-] EdlritchEconomics@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In some places, yes. Depends on the last time they surveyed the area. In browser it shows the date of the photo in the bottom right corner.

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