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That wasn’t just a photo — and it was intentional.

US markets had the red backdrop dictator scene, while international markets had a blue-and-red shot.

The Biden PR team intentionally broadcast a dictator speech, while broadcasting a different look internationally — an act meant to provoke and intimidate political rivals.

Edit:

I’m not sure your point?

The speech following that brief crowd segment is the red with marines behind him — at a point where the light was on, rather than the one featured in the photo.

I think there’s a reason you deep linked rather than show the beginning: the start is exactly the dark red set shown in the photo.

People should watch from the start —

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JemWkV2Vcic

You’re the only one here being a “joker”.




Stop being a joker, what you're saying isn't true. CSPAN's coverage is right on YouTube and anyone can look it up and make you look like a fool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JemWkV2Vcic&t=967s


Did you post the wrong link or something? I clicked the video you linked, and most of the speech is Biden with red walls and marines to either side of him.


Yes... but it's a joke to suggest it is anything like the picture in the article.


I don't want to get drawn into your flame war, but that picture from the article is exactly the same as what's in the bulk of that YouTube video, just from a slightly different angle. You're acting like Snowden deceptively cherry-picked a photo to look like Dictator Biden, but any screengrab from that YouTube video link you posted is going to look almost as malicious as the photo Snowden picked


"it's exactly the same, but here are a bunch of differences"


Seriously? Look at that youtube link you posted again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JemWkV2Vcic&t=44s

You don't think there's anything scary or fucked up about the imagery Biden is presenting, where it's him in front of a red-and-black shadowy military force?


No, not really. You do?

The stage at CPAC was literally shaped like a Nazi symbol. They banner there said something like "we are all domestic terrorists" - there were confederate flags inside the capitol building on Jan 6th.

Trump held the bible upside down.

Trump's supporters: https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/anna-m-kapl...

Trump using more nazi symbolism: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/us/politics/facebook-trum...

blah blah blah

I don't take the Biden stuff any more seriously than the CPAC stuff or Trump stuff above.

Do you disagree, or do you think that it's all a part of some secret imagery to tell us "what they are really thinking?"


I guess you're assuming I'm some mega Trumper just because I disagreed with anything any Biden fan said

I don't think this discussion is going anywhere productive


I never said that. I am pointing out that I take all these things with equal weight.

Why can't you answer my questions?




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