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Some of you are approaching 29 years old and so might have learned that any time a Republican defeats a Democrat, it's an Assault on Democracy (TM), and Democrats rush to change the law to forbid whatever fascist factors caused Democracy to Die in Darkness.

The fan-made pro-Spencer-Prat ads are funny, and are persuading people, so Democrats have decided that these are "AI Deep Fakes" which are tricking the stupid sheep voters into believing that Karen Bass is the Joker, Kamala Harris is the Riddler, and Spencer Pratt is some kind of hybrid Superman/Batman superhero.

The people must be protected against this kind of RUSSIAN Misinformation.

So they're agitating to ban all fan-made AI ads:

Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger

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Governments should censor AI "deep fake" videos, many say, because they threaten democracy. But there is no evidence they ever have. The reason legacy gatekeepers are panicking is that AI disrupts their business model and fuels underdogs like LA mayoral candidate @spencerpratt

AI-generated "deepfake" photos and videos, like the ones being put out by supporters of Los Angeles Mayoral candidate @spencerpratt, are a threat to democracy, say many. "These Pratt social videos are catchy but...they are also 100% deep fakes," said political consultant @murphymike. "In fact, Pratt for Mayor is the most AI deep fake-driven campaign I've ever seen.... There is no disclaimer on them. They're not officially from his campaign... not sure who's paying for this stuff."

The people think that Kamala Harris is the Riddler who drives around in a Riddlermobile?

The ads depict LA as a post-apocalyptic hellhole. This is obviously a parody that no one believes.

Wait a tic... they do believe this.

But they recognize the AI ads as an exaggeration of the truth.

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Deepfakes, argued the Brookings Institution in 2023, "threaten to undermine" the "trusted information environment" democracies depend on. "Government needs to step up to protect elections from AI-generated deepfake video and audio," demanded the progressive Brennan Center in 2024. Stanford researchers warned that political deepfakes remain easy to generate and difficult to detect.

I personally had little difficulty telling the difference between the Castroist Communist Incompetent Karen Bass and the fictitious comic book character The Joker. I mean, they do share an ideology of chaos and misery, but they are plainly distinct.

Governments are acting. State legislatures have targeted election speech, satire, and political ads that use altered images or voices.

But the facts do not support deepfake alarmism, which activists, journalists, and policymakers are using to impose censorship.

The Spencer Pratt advertisements are obviously fake...

And a 2025 Cambridge paper on deepfakes and democracy concluded that, despite years of warnings, "there is no evidence" that deepfakes have produced the predicted election interference.

The idea that Pratt's viral AI-made ads undermine democracy is absurd. Filmmaker @charliebcurran produced a 99-second Batman-themed AI-made ad on May 5, 2026.

The ad depicts Mayor Karen Bass in Joker makeup, Governor Gavin Newsom dressed as a male Marie Antoinette eating cake, former Vice President Kamala Harris chugging vodka while declaring "Bass already solved crime, I endorse her," and Councilmember Nithya Raman as a puppet saying "let's move the drug addicts closer."

As such, the Pratt ads make the fraud theory of political deepfakes even harder to sustain. A nonpartisan researcher told CBS Sacramento that "as far as we know, Spencer Pratt is not Batman." Noted one strategist, "the Spencer Pratt spot is exactly what AI should be, which is using innovation and technology to make an interesting ad that is not trying to fool voters."

So why all the deep fake alarmism?...

Because Democrats are losing and that means Democracy Has Failed Yet Again.

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Here's another ad. Most people can tell that this is a humorous ad. And this ad featuring Spencer Pratt as a Lego character in a Lego LA sure is deceptive. You and I may know that real people aren't made of Legos, but some people -- Democrat voters -- might be stupid enough to believe it's all really real. And we must Protecc Retards.

Note the people complaining that ads showing a Lego Spencer Pratt must be criminalized because their retard voters might think they're real are the exact people who have pushed the Very Fine People Hoax for ten years straight.

Three months ago, Thomas Massie -- who today lied to voters and claimed a 2022 endorsement was a current endorsement -- smeared Trump as part of the "(((Epstein Class)))."

If you don't think he's trying to smear Trump as a Dirty Jew Sympathizer, you haven't seen him claiming that only (((outside))) Jewish money is causing him to lose his race. Meanwhile, Massie is funded by California far-leftists and Middle Easterners. America First, baby!

Weird how none of Massie's fervent internet defenders can keep the word "Jew" out of their mouths for a single sentence:

Update: Unbelievable. Trump told Massie to take down the false endorsement and Massie doubled down and posted another fake endorsement.

See, he's funny. He's a funny Democrat Nazi.

I'm assuming the three women in blue are Manson Family members. But don't hold me to that. I never read about the case or watched a documentary about it. It was always just too disgusting to even provoke my curiosity.

The Democrats' favorite Totenkopf tattoo Nazi is getting more bad press. Eh, I don't really care about this all that much:

In the comments, he discussed masturbating in public toilets and praised crude graffiti, according to Fox News.

In one comment on a post in March 2017 on Reddit's r/Military forum about nostalgia over smells in the military, Platner said, "I still have to j--k o-f every time I sit in a portas----er [portable toilet]... that blue water smell conditioned me."

The comment was posted under the account "P-Hustle," which Platner previously confirmed was his. It's since been deleted.

In another post, in March 2021, on Reddit's r/USMC forum, Platner wrote about a drawing of a penis inside a portable toilet, calling it "beautiful" and "engorged and veiny."

Platner enlisted in the Marines in 2003 and served three combat tours in Iraq.

Just the News has reached out to Platner's campaign for comment.

Platner has also been questioned about other posts including a now-deleted one from 2013 in which he stated people concerned about rape should not "get so f---ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don't mean to."

Most of that is just failed Edgelord "humor" of the kind that was popular among unfunny people from 2005 to 2015, when they all turned bitter censors and began cancelling people for the same jokes they used to make.

Here's what I think is more serious: Platner laughed at a video of an American serviceman getting shot by terrorists and said that the "motherf***er didn't deserve to live."

Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay

In 2019, seven years ago, when he was 34-years-old, Graham Platner logged into reddit and posted a response to a video of an American soldier being shot by the Taliban.

Platner wrote:

"This video never gets old. Dumb motherfucker didn't deserve to live. At least his stupidity and fat ass wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt. Poor marksmanship on the Taliban's part is the only reason this mouthbreather made it home, he managed to make every possible shit decision possible when it comes to small unit combat."

Think about each line. "This video never gets old." Platner's implying he's watched the video several times and enjoys it. "At least his stupidity and fat ass wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt."

That's what Platner thinks about his fellow Americans at war. If they're not good at killing or broader tactics, he has contempt for them. He displays no empathy. The opposite, in fact.

The man that Platner is commenting on, by the way, is Pfc. Ted Daniels, who was a 37-year-old father of two serving in Afghanistan at the time of the incident (2012). The bad tactic Platner enjoys mocking? Daniels stepped into the open deliberately to draw Taliban fire away from his fellow soldiers so his squad could get to safety.

Daniels was shot four times in this video and, ultimately, earned a Purple Heart.

When the video was initially released (2013), Pfc. Daniels was critical of himself in interviews, saying, "It wasn't the most tactically brilliant thing to do." He described that he was embarrassed by the video; that people could hear him screaming for help. But, also, he said: "I put my ass on the line for other guys."

Then, we have, again, Graham Platner, logging into reddit, in 2019, to comment: "Dumb motherfucker didn't deserve to live."

For all those who say, "That's just how Marines talk," I'll tell you: Platner's comment got downvoted by the military community. Even if it didn't: We're not talking about the military anymore. We're talking about a 34-year-old man, years after service, logging in to mock another man who's being shot on video. We're also talking about the U.S. Senate, not boys-will-be-boys or Marines-will-be-Marines.

We're always told to view Platner as a changed man. 2013, when he made the rape apologia comments, was the "darkest point in his life," or so we have been told. So what was going on in 2019, such that Platner enjoyed watching a video of a man getting shot and mocking him? How many arcs of change are there in Platner's life? Was there a specific point where he discovered human empathy?

I couldn't help but think of that specific reddit comment while watching the video below. "Still sending young Americans to die thousands of miles away from home," Platner says. Didn't he log in to reddit seven years ago to say, "Dumb motherfucker didn't deserve to live" ?

I don't like being lied to.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:04 PM

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