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      Real tweet, fake text… no way any NATO leader would say “Europe is going to pay BIG” it’s just too Trump. Same with the incessant comma splices.

      But big congrats to Trump for ruining the information space so completely that I genuinely cannot tell what’s real anymore.

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        This is Mark Rutte.
        He would totally say “Europe is going to pay in a BIG way” to flatter Trump.
        Incessant comma splices is I guess typically Dutch and indicative to the way Rutte talks. I sometimes do it too.
        He’s a liberal, making him almost as right-wing as Ursula von der Leyen, not a social democrat
        or a democratic socialist or left of that.

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        Hasn’t Rutte always been known for being able to handle Trump well? I’m pretty sure the only way to do that is kiss his ass in a way he understands, so this doesn’t seem too surprising.

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        I’m sure EVERY European politician randomly CAPITALISES words like some LUNATIC

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          I would love and hate to see proof that Mark Rutte really texted this to Trump.

          The “Truth” post is 100% real, inarguably, but I haven’t seen anyone reporting the picture is of a real message from Rutte to Trump.

          E: never mind that is… apparently Rutte’s office has confirmed the message is really from Rutte???

          ???

          I need to go lie down.

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            I can tell you as a Dutchman, reading this I could hear Mark Rutte’s voice and it aligns with his anglophile suck-up character.
            I couldn’t see him writing it any other way.

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      The Rutte team has confirmed it was indeed a real text sent by Mark Rutte to Trump.

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        It reads like something Trump wrote about himself. He’s done that kind of bullshit before.

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          If you know Mark Rutte long enough, you can tell the difference.

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          This has been my thought the whole time. It looks read like something someone with an IQ 43 would write about themselves. That or they had Grok do it.

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            If you know Mark Rutte long enough, then you know it’s his style of flattering a person by mimicking him, mixed in with his own style of speech.

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        It’s saying the quiet part out loud. Surely anyone who sees this will be outraged?

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          It isn’t really a quiet part, though, never has been. NATO has openly been a millitary alliance for the purpose of maintaining Western Imperialism headed by the US, no more and no less, since its inception.

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      Ran a quick search and multiple well established news outlets are reporting this.

      I’m afraid it is.

      The wording does seem very out of character for Rutte but it makes sense that he feels the need to stoop to Trump’s level and overdo the flattering.

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      Things I’d want to know before deciding for myself whether the screenshot montage is real, regardless of whether Trump shared it (he did):

      • Have we seen other screenshots where Trump use enormous font sizes? Is that how bigger system text looks in this app? He’s not exactly youthful, so it’s no great surprise, but worth asking the question.
      • Is it realistic that Trump or an aide would have screenshotted the entire message within two minutes of it being received?
      • Does this messaging app routinely display the contact name offset and the profile image vertically cropped? What app is it?
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        Don’t know about any of it, but I’ve had Rutte as my prime minister.
        This reads like the way he talks and thinks.
        The biggest strength of Rutte is that he’s a chameleon,
        so there’s no telling what he actually thinks,
        but considering his party allegiance it’s pro-NATO through and through.

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      This is not real and does not belong in “World News”

      It is posted by and primarily upvoted by .ml users.

      Don’t fall for their bullshit.

      Looking further into it you can see that almost every post in “World News” is from .ml users. They are very anti-western everything but post western “news” heavily in communities. I wonder why?

      Furthermore they are brigading comments in this thread. Don’t believe me, just look at the upvote/downvote activity for comments here.

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        This is not real

        Don’t fall for their bullshit.

        It turns out that—as usual—it is real.

        It is posted by and primarily upvoted by .ml users.

        Looking further into it you can see that almost every post in “World News” is from .ml users.

        [email protected] is a lemmy.ml community. Why wouldn’t we be posting and voting in our own community on our own instance?

        They are very anti-western everything but post western “news” heavily in communities. I wonder why?

        The reason I use western sources when possible is because those are the only sources that western liberals tend to accept.

        Furthermore they are brigading comments in this thread. Don’t believe me, just look at the upvote/downvote activity for comments here.

        Yes, we’re “brigading” our own community on our own instance 🙄

        On a related note, how is your vote manipulation report coming along[1][2]? Given your trivially disprovable accusations here, I predict it will be more of the same.

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          It will never not be funny that these people care so much about fake internet points, and think other people care about those internet points enough to ??? follow them around and downvote them?? Downvote lots of comments at once?? In a way that is somehow different from normal browsing behavior??

          Like they’re not even tallied here like they are in the bad place, I genuinely don’t get it. Please drop the word bRiGaDiNg from your lexicon, I promise that absolutely nothing will change except you’ll be slightly less online and much better off for it. Sometimes you will get downvoted, and that’s okay. The world is not out to get you, even if it has a scary .ml next to its name and practices obscure forms of witchcraft like dialectical materialism.

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        This is Lemmy.ml’s World News community. Lemmy.ml users are not brigading their own World News community, lmao. The large proportion of Marxists on Lemmy.ml does lead to an anti-western bias, if you want a pro-western bias there are other World News communities like on Lemmy.world.

        If you have proof that it’s fake I would like to see it, but this is a real truth social post from Trump even if he’s lying.