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For some reason this hurts worse. I was listening to James O’Brien on LBC, and [IIRC] he said he was serving jury duty with a woman who was convinced that Volo
by yakshaving_jgt 11mo ago
For some reason this hurts worse.
I was listening to James O’Brien on LBC, and [IIRC] he said he was serving jury duty with a woman who was convinced that Volodymyr Zelenskyy had spent hundreds of million of dollars on a super-yacht.
He asked if she had any evidence for that claim, and she produced a picture of a boat.
He said “That’s just a picture of a boat.”
- groestl 11mo agoIronically, there is no evidence that woman ever said that.
- anonymous908213 11mo agoThere is, in fact, evidence that hundreds if not thousands of random people have said that: https://xcancel.com/KimDotcom/status/1729171832430027144 https://xcancel.com/KimDotcom/status/1729171832430027144 Perhaps you could even find that specific woman leaving an outraged comment over photos of boats if you looked hard enough!
- netsharc 11mo agoHah, Kim Dotcom is still around? In the 90s he was bragging that he's this super hacker that made millions, his website posted pics of parties, cars, girls, and yachts, and it turned out those were bought/rented using swindled investor money (ironic that he's accusing Zelensky of the same crime). Then he became a sort of hero when the US/NZ governments Team 6-ed his house for the crime of aiding copyright infringement. Now he's a Putin/Trump apologist...
- tjpnz 11mo agoStill around and at a huge cost to the New Zealand taxpayer - people used to have some sympathy but public opinion turned against him years ago. His extradition was declared ok, long overdue he was put on a plane and made somebody else's problem.
- sunaookami 11mo agoThe people of New Zealand should be mad at the illegal tactics used by the FBI and GCSB. And why should he be extradicted to a country he never visited?
- gunt_crusher 11mo ago[dead]
- groestl 11mo agoYes, but in that story, parent only has the word of that Journalist. I personally don't even have that, I only have a post about it. My deeper point is that it's arguably very difficult to establish a global, socially acceptable lower threshold of trust. Parent's level is, apparently, the word of a famous Journalist in a radio broadcast. For some, the form of a message alone makes the message worthy of trust, and AI will mess with this so much.
- jasonvorhe 11mo agoWho cares about a single or two Yachts. Ukraine likely made 100 billion USD disappear and there were many people expecting just that. Just like some of the "donated equipment" started showing up on all sorts of black markets once it was shipped to Ukraine. It's just the obviously controlled media in Europe that stopped mentioning Ukraine's corruption issues right after February 2022. Obviously I can only be a Putin-loving propaganda bot for saying such things.
- matthewmacleod 11mo agoEverybody is aware the Ukraine has major corruption issues. It is frequently covered in the media and is common knowledge. I have no doubt however that Europe (and hopefully the wider world) is less worried about that corruption than they are about Russian military aggression. And there will be some level of media focus on that – rightly so, where the focus should be on grinding the Russian kleptostate into dust as quickly and thoroughly as possible. You're not a propaganda bot; you're just making their lives easier.
- jasonvorhe 11mo agoIf you're happy with your tax euros disappearing in Ukraine, good for you. I know for a fact via family ties that major newsrooms in Germany received instructions to tune out the corruption angle once the war started. I'm sure it's all nothing though and that Putin will find himself in Poland next year. Of course!