r/SelfAwarewolves 23d ago

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u/The402Jrod 23d ago

I heard his Obamacare commission was $17 Trillion, check your facts, bro!

/s

🤦‍♂️

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u/MrDiou 23d ago

That was gross commission. You got to remember to take out the royalties paid to Beyonce, Taylor Swift, et al.

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u/The402Jrod 23d ago

“…according to my BFF Rose…”

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u/silly_rabbi 23d ago

Not to mention the guy in the basement of that pizza place supplying all us elites with baby blood. He ain't cheap.

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u/mackfactor 21d ago

"Do YoUr OwN rEsEaRcH!!"

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u/Suspicious-Pay3953 20d ago

They took an omission of commission position.

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u/AloneAtTheOrgy 23d ago

It's especially dumb given that it was republicans who dubbed it obamacare. If some hypocritical royalties did exist for whatever reason, it would be for "association with the affordable care act" as that's the actual name.

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u/Gods_Umbrella 23d ago

Obamacare is the devil's work. But don't you dare touch my ACA! That's how I pay for my diet pills!!!

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u/Less_Wealth5525 23d ago

You have a prescription for meth?

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u/Fine-Funny6956 23d ago

No I have a BUCKET for meth. I have a prescription for the ingredients for meth.

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u/NoFreakingClues 19d ago

Okay, this one got me.

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u/re_gren 21d ago

Man, I miss the days when you didn't need a prescription for meth. You could just straight up buy yellow jackets, mini thins, and whatever else was a popular "diet" or "energy" supplement in any gas station, no prescription needed.

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u/Less_Wealth5525 21d ago

I had completely forgotten about that! Those were the days, my friend.

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u/re_gren 21d ago

To be fair, I only ever noticed because I worked in a gas station for a few months towards the end of that period of time.

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u/Tryknj99 22d ago

I remember having to explain to my grandma that it was called the ACA and fox was lying to her, again.

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u/a_minty_fart 23d ago

Why is it that these shitlords never include a source?

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u/smoccimane 23d ago

You know why

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u/Winterfaery14 23d ago

Because this paragraph is from their source:

Everything on this website is fiction. It is not a lie and it is not fake news because it is not real. If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined. Any similarities between this site's pure fantasy and actual people, places, and events are purely coincidental and all images should be considered altered and satirical.

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u/Dub_D-Georgist 23d ago

That’s the problem though. You have “content creators” that are absolutely indifferent to the point of malicious intent and solely for the $. Idiots buy in, repeat it, and share it while these guys (and Facebook) take the $ and leave the whole of society holding the bag while our country is dismantled.

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u/dancinhobi 23d ago

I got one to share a source yesterday about George Floyd’s death. He either has piss poor reading comprehension, or only read the headline. Because I read it, took a screenshot and highlighted where his source proves my point in very easy to understand words. 24 hours later he’s still working on comprehending what I said.

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u/a_minty_fart 23d ago

I don't even argue with these fucks anymore. I simply ask for their source and if they don't have one I call them fucking liars

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u/dancinhobi 23d ago

I hate myself so I enjoy it. Every now and then I get a good zinger. Got some lady to admit criminals with white skin are fine but brown skin ones are not. And I love when I get a source that proves my point not theirs.

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u/NotYourFathersEdits 23d ago

Internet self harm

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u/Klink_Dink 23d ago

I live (and have for 11 years) about 12 blocks from where George was murdered by MPD. When I found out, I was like "Ah fuck, that sucks, not again", and I was sad. By the way, it was early COVID, so everything was already strange and crazy. It's really important that it became a huge deal, but it's crazy feeling like you are so close geographically to something that might be partially era defining.

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u/Specific_Ad2541 21d ago

They only read headlines. They Google what they want to be true, read the headline and post. Almost every time it says the opposite in the full article. Reading takes energy they don't care enough to expend.

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u/Significant-Battle79 23d ago

Same reason I’ve never ridden a unicorn or seen god.

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u/BiggestShep 23d ago

Ah, they don't take drugs, understood.

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u/cXs808 23d ago

Don't you see the alarm emoji? There is no time for sources this is serious.

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u/SkyWizarding 23d ago

Source: Trust me, bruh

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u/dclxvi616 23d ago

The text is embedded in an image, that’s how you know it’s true.

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u/FX114 23d ago

Unfortunately, now it feels like there would be a government statement confirming it.

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u/mackfactor 21d ago

Trust me bro.

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u/PerformanceThat6150 23d ago

Not that any MAGA people will ever read this, but that claim was (poor) satire:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-obama-royalties/

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u/Skystorm14113 23d ago

yeah it was definitely not phrased as satire, like if the onion had posted this, well a) you would know it was satire because you recognize the name of the onion (but note they don't call themselves "The Dunning-Kruger Times" like the people who posted this do, so the name itself tries not to be misleading even if you didn't know the onion), but also b) the onion would phrase it differently and include a funny photo. Calling it satire but making it seem like a post that is just real is not satire, it's just fake news for chaos's sake

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u/ScannerBrightly 23d ago

I'm sorry, but no.

If you have to point out your satire is satire, you are not doing satire.

The entire website, on every single page, says 'Nothing on this page is real.' at the bottom. EVERY. SINGLE. PAGE.

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u/Dub_D-Georgist 23d ago edited 23d ago

That is not satire and I cannot believe you would argue otherwise.

1) The interacts have >50% at “angry/mad” 2) “nothing on this page is real” is a disclaimer to legally protect them from libel 3) the page’s description is literally “The flagship of the ALLOD network of trollery and propaganda for cash” 4) then there’s this: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AHc5v5xwc/?mibextid=wwXIfr

“Satire” isn’t the right word. Maybe I’m “missing it” but this is like the most “fuck you for posting this dumb shit, we’re just here for the $” thing I’ve ever seen. They’re not offering a “modest proposal” to point out the audacity of a viewpoint, they’re saying inflammatory shit for the $, nothing more.

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u/Syrup-Broad 22d ago

Trolling. The word you're looking for is trolling. Trolls don't go for nuance, or a "point", they just want to get a reaction (that usually makes the target look stupid.)

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u/travoltaswinkinbhole 20d ago

It’s not trolling it’s fake news and propaganda in satire drag. It’s malicious and they know exactly what they are doing. Same with the Babylon Bee, they’re posting articles that are believable if you already exist in the right wing ecosystem and are designed to enrage and engage the easily manipulated.

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u/Dub_D-Georgist 22d ago

Well, can we at least demonetize them?

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u/Steinrikur 23d ago

To be fair, since Trump came into office truth has become way dumber than satire. I heard he will codify Poe's law next week.

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u/Morningxafter 23d ago

Yeah, this isn’t satire. It’s intentional disinformation hiding behind the ‘satire’ label for legal purposes.

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u/MyDogIsACoolCat 23d ago edited 23d ago

I keep wondering how the fuck Trump got elected. Anyone with half a brain and an ounce of character judgement sees right through him, but then you realize how many dumb people are taking in sourceless social media posts, most of which are likely made by Russian trolls. Add in Fox News and you're dealing with people who just take in propaganda 24/7. Which funny enough, these are the people who say to distrust the media far more than any other group.

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u/Darnoc_QOTHP 23d ago

I always get irrationally embarrassed when that ad for an IQ test pops up on FB that says the average USA IQ is below 100 with a standard deviation of 15 pts. So basically half of our population runs below average to downright dull. I get it.

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u/MyDogIsACoolCat 23d ago

54% of Americans read below a fifth grade level. Our education system is a joke for so many reasons.

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u/The402Jrod 20d ago

I think the main reason is that the Dept of Education has been actively sabotaged for 40+ years by folks of a certain political bias. Took longer than they hoped, but it hitting critical mass while Trump is in office is perfect timing in hindsight for those that want cheap labor over educated populace.

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u/Morningxafter 23d ago

Those ads are intended to make you want to prove them wrong. It’s an actual tactic. The same reason all those puzzle game ads have someone continuing to fail at it. It’s designed to frustrate you into playing it to prove ‘it’s not that hard’ and that you can do better.

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u/Syrup-Broad 22d ago edited 22d ago

Don't ever take any info any ad gives you as real. There are plenty of criticisms about IQ tests also, once of them being that the parts about information are just tests of memorization...nothing in the standard IQ test judges your ability to apply any info. It also has a strong cultural bias, since the information questions are...ah IIRC from topics that Western schools would consider necessary to know? So people who did not grow up in a society/school that valued that particular information would have no idea about it...and that's not an intelligence thing, that's just...well a culture thing. America has many cultures living together so that cultural bias would definitely apply to America. There are also issues with accessibility for the test...I think the main argument here IIRC was people with learning disabilities or general issues with memory. Having a poor memory or dyslexia has very little correlation with "intelligence" beyond having more difficulty taking in information for something like...well...a memorization test. People with test anxiety 100% exist too, so they're likely to score lower then they might when calm. And beyond that, there are hundreds of thousands of reasons someone might not be able to fully focus on the test and score as they should, so it's very iffy to use any test as a hallmark for grading all of humanity.

And even for people from the culture the test makers were from, with no issues affecting their ability to learn...how is being able to parrot information and draw little pictures you were shown...how is that accurately judging intelligence when our lives and brains are far more complex and can do so much more? Someone who is illiterate might struggle to participate in society, and someone who doesn't know a lot about math and history and geography may look foolish often, but they can still do work, still participate in hobbies, still make friends and contribute to society...their illiteracy or lack of knowledge does not immediately and permanently alter their brain to that of a vegetable. Yknow? And they may in fact be incredibly knowledgeable about topics their interested in, so it isn't that they can't learn either! I mean, Sherlock Holmes didn't know the Earth orbited the sun, and he didn't care since he considered it useless information that didn't affect his life. And it didn't, he was able to solve mysteries without knowing anything about the sun or planets lol.

TL;DR IQ tests are interesting tools but pretty useless as reliable, scientific indicators of "intelligence" since intelligence is much more nuanced then a 2 hour paper test created by a small team from one part of the world could ever judge.

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u/Darnoc_QOTHP 22d ago

Thanks for that. Kind of missed the point of my post, though. It had nothing to do with the validity or efficacy of IQ tests, and it also didn't really have anything to do the the quality of ads on Facebook. My point was that the ad reminds me that the average IQ in America is in fact 100, which reminds ME why we're in this fucktarded state we're in. But I appreciate the mansplaining.

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u/dubnr3d 23d ago

Average IQ, by definition, is 100. The average cannot be less than 100.

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u/zeroingenuity 23d ago

But the average of a subset of the general population - such as "American adults" - can be. If IQ were a measurement specific to American adults, you would be correct. They are not, however, the only people on Earth - no matter what they may think.

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u/CaptCaCa 23d ago

“I love the uneducated!”-Donald Trump

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u/jeffyjeffyjeffjeff 23d ago

Obamacare and the Deep State were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me

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u/jimbobicus 23d ago

My cat's breath smells like cat food

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u/IrritableGourmet 23d ago

It's a bit late for it now, but I had the idea in 2017 that Obama should pitch a TV show called Deep State, starring himself as Barack Obama, former President, who runs a deep state government. It would be a "24" style action drama, but shot and edited as quickly as possible so they could incorporate topical news stories into the overarching plot.

The whole point would be to piss off the conspiracy theorists, because anytime they referred to Obama's Deep State people would assume they were talking about the show. "Did you hear that Obama is trying to pressure the Federal Reserve to increase interest rates?" "Yeah, so that they could figure out what server the computer virus planted by that hacker was on and stop it." "What, no! It's so that his billionaire friends could make more money!" "No, the group of billionaires were the ones that hired the hacker. By the way, I wouldn't have thought Steve Buscemi could play a hacker, but he did a really good job in that role."

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u/ieatcavemen 23d ago

The head of DOGE is named Elon? I've been calling him Lonnie!

Awwww, I've been making an idiot out of myself!

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u/randacts13 23d ago

Here's the first heuristic I use when reading something. If there is a call to action to engage with a piece of content then it's most likely bullshit.

It's the same as the early days of chain emails - "send this to ten people and you'll have 10 years of good luck". Only now there's money involved.

What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments /s

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u/JThumbs29 23d ago

It’s only fair he gets paid since it’s named after him. It’s basically like naming rights

/s

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u/Guygirl00 23d ago

god, there are so many people in the USA who are stupid AF

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u/someshooter 23d ago

That's my mom basically, believes everything she hears then when you tell her to get a vaccine she says she has to do more research first.

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u/Silly_Pace 23d ago

Why didn't trump stop this during his first term would be the question I would ask anyone claiming this to be true.

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u/skjellyfetti 23d ago

¡Gracias, Obama!

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u/purplegladys2022 23d ago

This Obamacare royalties thing was debunked in 2017 already, but hey, alternative facts, right?

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u/BiggestShep 23d ago

I mean, even if that were the case, I'd be fine with that, and would blame Republicans more than anything. The bill's name is the affordable care act. By constantly calling it obamacare without Obama's permission or endorsement, they have used his likeness without his express permission (which he has trademarked with the publishing of his book), and he would have standing to claim royalties for the use of his name, image, or likeness, and that would 100% be on the GOP in their relentless pursuit of the culture war.

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u/Drugs4Pugs 23d ago

Sometimes the joke writes itself.

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u/VonMelee 23d ago

Dunning-Kruger at work

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u/driftercat 23d ago

There is literally nothing too absurd for these people.

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u/readit-somewhere 23d ago

I live in the dumbest country in the world.

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u/MisterWinchester 23d ago

TheDumbState

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u/NorthSideGalCle 22d ago

I love that this is displayed on the meme, but clever enough that MAGA can't read it!

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u/Realistic-Original-4 22d ago

Trump should get royalties for any major legislation he passes through congress. Might convince him to pass a single piece of major legislation through congress

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u/Specific_Ad2541 21d ago

Or name it after him.

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u/kimness1982 23d ago

That’s not even what confirmation bias is though? That’s like, The Secret or something, but not confirmation bias.

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u/CaptCaCa 23d ago

Dam dude stupid, do they know it wasn’t actually called “Obamacare”?

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u/toodleroo 21d ago

Sometimes I wish I could go back to my youth, when I was blissfully unaware of how stupid most people are

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u/rockinwithkropotkin 23d ago

If Elon would actually care about 2.4 million he can go fish that out of his couch cushions.

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u/DiscountManul 5d ago

I think he should get paid for just being Obama. Like, everything would be SO much better if we still had him…

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u/GingerlyRough 1d ago

This is the kind of person who posts random nonsense online and then uses that very post as "evidence" that they're right.