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A UK Minister Photoshopped the ex-PM from a rocket mission
- mathieuh 4y agoAnd now Shapps is claiming he wasn't aware it was edited. It really is remarkable how bad politicians' memories are. Every time they get caught out they miraculously forget everything.
- samwillis 4y agoEven if it's true that he was unaware, that just shows how bad the people he employs are. It's farcical, you are your team, if his team are crap it's because of him.
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- notahacker 4y agoShapps (or his pseudonym) once had a side gig selling $497 eBooks that promised to earn you $20k in weeks and scraping software for SEO spammers, so he definitely is tech-savvy and cynical enough to at least ask someone else to Photoshop Boris out... He forgot about using a pseudonym and having a side business when asked too.
- pjc50 4y ago> Every time they get caught out they miraculously forget everything. There's no cost to this, because tomorrow the media and your supporters will forget everything as well. Unless the media really want to use it against you.
- ben_w 4y agoNot to defend him[0], but humans in general have fairly flawed memories and can often end up with false memories after seeing fake photos of themselves. [0] course he should've known, the photo is framed in a way that only works with the missing PM, and is a bad enough photoshop job that I can still see BJ's elbow.
- mcv 4y agoOh my god. That's straight out of Stalin's playbook. Erasing Boris Johnson the way Stalin did to Trotsky.
- cm2187 4y agoStalin erased Trotsky a bit more violently than we are contemplating here.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y agoThere are some who would like that but I don't think many in government. Although if you include the civil service...
- jojobas 4y agoIt wasn't Trotsky, it was Yezhov, the man in charge of NKVD during the worst of the purge. Fun fact: of all occupations/organizations NKVD officers were at the highest risk of a speedy trial and execution.
- mcv 4y agoI think there have been several people who have been erased from photos. I recall one photo that had been updated several times to remove more and more people until only 2 were left.
- jojobas 4y agoYou must be thinking about this one. https://izbrannoe.com/upload/sotbit.htmleditoraddition/bed/bed7f3f44471adf1259d32832a7560e2.jpg https://izbrannoe.com/upload/sotbit.htmleditoraddition/bed/b... Trotsky was indeed deleted from a couple of pics, but they are much more obscure.
- mcv 4y agoThat's another example, but not the one I was thinking of. I clearly remember the photo, and yet it seems impossible to find on the internet. Closest thing I could find is this one, but it's Mao instead of Stalin: https://11points.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/maofuneral.jpg https://11points.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/maofuneral.j... (From https://11points.com/11-famous-doctored-photos-dictators/ https://11points.com/11-famous-doctored-photos-dictators/) Perhaps I'm misremembering after all and it was always Mao instead of Stalin.
- throwaway4good 4y agoIs it not more likely that this bojo character has photoshopped himself into the photo?
- _dain_ 4y agoNo
- blitzar 4y agoHe probably photoshopped the rocket into a photo of himself, and now we have gone full circle and removed him from it.
- hef19898 4y agoSo the only thing real in the picture is the sky? I like that!
- _trackno5 4y agoNope, look at both pictures and you can see the one posted by the MP is altered. There are clear editing artefacts
- underdeserver 4y agoThe edge of BoJo's right elbow is still there!
- hikkan 4y agoNorway isn't European I guess.
- LightG 4y agoMy country is an international embarassment. Someone make it stop. Please.
- mrlonglong 4y agoBloody Tories!