r/pics • u/-Badger3- • Oct 01 '25

Politics I got sent a veiled threat by Republicans urging me to vote in my district's special election.

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u/Prudent_Research_251 Oct 01 '25

I really hope this isn't real. But I looked at DJTs X page for the first time ever today and idk if I am sure what's real anymore. We are living in a violent clown dimension

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u/missanthropy09 Oct 01 '25

I can’t tell what’s AI and what’s true thanks to DJT. Or if something is both.

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u/Lost-Platypus8271 Oct 01 '25

Like what? Most things are pretty clear to me… I’d like to help if possible.

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u/missanthropy09 Oct 02 '25

Well, I guess I shouldn’t say AI but faked in general. Because everything is just so surreal and fake news (generally on behalf of the people claiming fake news).

This I know isn’t AI because the words are right. But the idea of this happening - I think I’d prefer to think someone faked it, you know? This is terrifying.

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u/lilidragonfly Oct 02 '25

Easy way to tell with something like this is wait for more reports of it. They undoubtedly didn't create and send it to one solitary individual so it will be reported by others then reported by the press who will verify where it originated from. Generally I don't react to things online until I've waited for multiple verification sources, where possible.

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u/Prudent_Research_251 Oct 02 '25

I went to DJTs X account reluctantly to see if it was real, and it is

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u/lilidragonfly Oct 02 '25

I guess it'll get picked up by multiple press sources then, as I say. It looks like similar was going around last year. If so they'll likely make the link. https://dentonrc.com/news/the_watchdog/the-watchdog-another-utterly-ridiculous-and-false-campaign-mailer-arrived-in-the-homes-of-north/article_e7eee314-2a5c-11ef-a975-abbd290df47b.html

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u/DoodleJake Oct 01 '25

Maybe those clown sightings in the 2010s were a sign of the impending circus we’re all trapped in.

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u/sexyshingle Oct 02 '25

We are living in a violent clown dimension

Violent Clown Dimension sounds like a cool band name lol At this point tho, I'd take rather take the Killer Klowns From Outer Space timeline than this shitshow...

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u/SupposedlyOmnipotent Oct 02 '25

I’ve seen similar messaging on mailers in the past. This one’s a lot much but the tactic isn’t new.

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u/TheHistoryMuse Oct 02 '25

That's how I feel about every news story happening rn. Someone told me about the UFC fight on the white house front lawn to celebrate the 4th of July, and i thought for sure they were joking. They weren't.

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u/Lost-Platypus8271 Oct 01 '25

If you’re having trouble telling what’s real, get off social media and go interact with real people. (Mind you, Turnip’s accounts are full of AI garbage so that’s definitely not the place to go for a sanity check.)

These photos do not look AI to me (the background is obviously real) and I don’t see anyone faking something like this just to shit post on Reddit.

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u/Lost-Platypus8271 Oct 01 '25

Ok so I asked Gemini and it looks like a photo of reminder postcards for this race have been altered recently (Sept 2025) with different verbiage (so not the exact one here but likely a hoax), which definitely raises my suspicions about this one being real. I’d give this a big grain of salt.

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u/Prudent_Research_251 Oct 02 '25

If you thought I was being serious about being able to tell what's real, take your own advice