I think this was an intentional choice by the writer/editor to pair together two statements of similar truthfulness — er, rather, what the Ministry of Truth says is true.

(despite the em dash, I am still a human)

From the article:

There is no evidence the pair were introduced to each other by Epstein, who took his own life in prison while awaiting trial in 2019.

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Do you think this was a photoshop or an AI generated image? The original image has got to be rather old if it’s a photoshop since he doesn’t look like that anymore

No, you and those 72 virgins just have to hang out and take turns playing Mario Kart

lol no. Photographs can easily be faked, especially with modern technology. Defer to those who have applied the scientific method, who have done solid research, and even do those things yourself to cross-reference; you should really know scientific literacy by now.

“Guy who does actual literal magic” is never real. “Guy who alone violently killed numerous women in London 1888-1891” (AKA Jack the Ripper), as a counterexample, is plausible but (as far as I know) has yet to be proven or disproven by historical evidence or other scientific means as to if it was one killer or multiple killers. “Guy whom historians generally agree did XYZ and had such and such characteristics based on their study of historical evidence and use of the scientific method” is virtually guaranteed to be real within a level of approximation (as in, even if we don’t know John Doe’s middle name was Jack, John Jack Doe still existed but only slightly different from how we know him).

taken to it’s logical conclusion - leads us to believe virtually nobody existed prior to that advent of photography.

That has the logical weight of Last Thursdayism or The Truman Show Delusion. Like technically it’s possible, but there are way more assumptions being made about what it obscured than there are assumptions being made about what is observed.

Unfortunately there really are people who lack the critical thinking skills to recognize that historical evidence and the scientific method are valid methods of understanding truth in the world and they instead wallow in their baseless preconceived notions

The problem is that they believe their in-group to be categorically innocent. They have a double standard of when a rightwinger does X then it’s good, but when anybody else does X then it’s bad. And when they are lawmakers and judges doling out who gets affected, they will keep their in-group clean.

Just because Spider-Man 616 isn’t real, doesn’t mean Spider-Man 199999 is real

Which one are we talking about here? /s

It’s impossible these days to find someone qualified to use Google image search and/or click and drag images and text on a blank workspace and/or use established tools such as imgflip or kapwing

Veronica and Betty btw

You could have just said Lorem ipsum and it would have made as much sense

Oh yes, I am aware. The person I was replying to had implied that step 2 didn’t exist at all so I was making a more broad statement.

I do realize your username is literally GuyFawkes. Nevertheless, when somebody is doing wrong, the first approach should be to use reason and empathy as a point of argument. If that fails, then work to starve the oppressor of what they seek to exploit until they find that pursuit to be no longer in their interests. If that fails, then use whatever means necessary to ensure oppression ends and human rights that were once willingly suppressed instead become guaranteed.

Solution: sacrifice the richest people until their wealth adds up to $37 trillion and maybe a few more rich people just for extra security

Or scientific notation

Normalize not passing on generational trauma

Reproducing is the most substantial drain to the environment, and people with AI girl/boyfriends tend to excel at avoiding that.

What’s even the point of nihilism then

Two or more people in agreement about an idea is basically a cult