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Where’s the evidence that this is an authentic birthday card from Trump?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/18/wall-street-journal-trump-epstein
Thank you. Have my upvote. But it alarms me that my simple comment asking for evidence received so many downvotes. Even if we despise the cretin in chief we still have to ask for evidence.
What's alarming about that? One of the most common troll behaviors is jaqing off, pretending not to have an agenda when you do.
Regardless, the comment isn't even in the negatives, so for as many down voted more upvoted.
Not to mention that this has been the biggest story this week. You'd have to be living under a rock then just showed up to this thread to have only heard about this from this meme. Then their reaction, instead of thinking "hey this seems to be a popular topic let me punch it into a search engine to learn more, I have been out of the loop this week after all" is "well I may not have been paying attention to anything this week, but I've never heard of this so the burden of proof is on everyone else to prove it to me"
I didn't downvote, but I can assume the reason is that other sources like the one you just affirmed had already been posted in this thread by the time you asked. It was likely interpreted as disingenuous.
People blindly trusting an image with no citation to a legitimate source is a plague on our society. Thank you for being skeptical and asking.
It's a bit of group think. I noticed in on Reddit and on Lemmy it's the same. You easily downvote someone if they're already very low and the statement is not welcome in the current context.
Some of my reddit posts why <-200 are the ones I'm most proud of, e.g. one where I stood against torture and death sentence, even in the context of a child rapist.
Probably many people just thought you were "just asking" to spread doubts instead of… actually wanting to know a source. Don't think about it too much :)
Eww
What a normal reaction to when someone stands against waterboarding, torture and executions.
The description of the card in wall street journal was so detailed, that most likely this is just mockup what it probably looks like.
Trump denies this heavily, so it is probably authentic.