White House's Attempt To Scrub 'Unflattering' Photo Of Karoline Leavitt From The Internet Is Backfiring Hard

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White House's Attempt To Scrub 'Unflattering' Photo Of Karoline Leavitt From The Internet Is Backfiring Hard - Lemmy.World

Vanity censorship + Streisand Effect = immortality

oh my god, who the hell cares. There’s enough absolutely INSANE shit that these people do that we can focus on actions and policy instead of stupid vain bullshit.

Slurred speech yesterday in the address is an excellent example.

Authoritarians need to project an appearance of peerless strength, intelligence, and infallibility. The people who fanatically believe their policies will directly lead to what was promised aren’t doing it on the basis of those policies, but instead on the trust of the confident strongman who made them.