this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
99 points (93.0% liked)

politics

19043 readers
3552 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Donald Trump’s biggest fans have come up with an outlandish new conspiracy theory about Tim Walz. But the screenshots undermine the whole thing.

A MAGA influencer is trying to spread a nasty rumor about Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz. The issue is it reads more like fan fiction than facts. 

“DocNetyoutube,” whom Washington Post media reporter Will Sommer describes as “an up-and-coming new player in the ‘making things up’ corner of online Trumpworld,” claims he has proof that Walz sexually assaulted a student during his time as a high school teacher. 

In a series of “drops,” a term popular in the QAnon community, DocNetyoutube on Sunday posted several alleged screenshots of communications between himself and Walz’s anonymous victim. But the posts have several red flags about their authenticity.


🗳️ Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

top 9 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 17 points 23 hours ago

We all know that if he really had sexually assaulted someone, Republicans would vote for him

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 89 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Only correct response:

"Are you sure you aren't mistaking me for Jim Jordan?"

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago

Let's be fair to ol' Gymnasium, he didn't molest anyone, he stood by and let the team doctor do to many students over years and did nothing about it.

That's almost worse in my mind, since he was protecting an asshole who was abusing kids and enabling that behavior.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

Or Dennis Hastert, or one of the 1300+ Republicans listed here

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 30 points 1 day ago

"Donald Trump’s biggest fans have come up with an outlandish new conspiracy theory about Tim Walz. But the screenshots ~~undermine the whole thing.~~ don't fucking matter because truth is false and fake is true in Trumpworld."

I'm so sick of all these types of stories that claim some shit someone makes up is undermined or whatever. It's the fact that the thing is said at all that matters, when it's proven to be false it isn't proven to be false to the Magoos. It's always real when they want to believe it and fake when they don't. Reality has no bearing on what they believe.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Believe women" doesn't mean "use the trauma of abused women as a costume to lend legitimacy to your baseless attacks," pal.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Worked on Al Franken tho

New Republic - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)Information for New Republic:

MBFC: Left - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - United States of America
Wikipedia about this source

Search topics on Ground.Newshttps://newrepublic.com/post/187127/maga-tim-walz-conspiracy-one-big-problem
Media Bias Fact Check | bot support