Mike Masnick @masnick.com · Jun 12 Um. Hey everyone reposting the deceptively edited @factpostnews.bsky.social post about Pete Hegseth benching, maybe don't. We all fall for clout farmers sooner or later, but just because it's edited to show you what you want to believe, doesn't mean it's real. "FactPost" is lying to you.
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What has the internet come to when you can't trust an account with "Fact" in the name?
Aw, man, I really wanted it to be true.
Ok but technically on his only actual rep he struggled to get the bar past the point a rep is supposed to go past.
Why do this when we never have to lie to defend our ideas (unlike those people)? It's really lame.
I don't even get what any of this is, all I see is him doing half reps.
Technically they're right. He is struggling with his first rep after 43 other... things.
This is particularly bad because the clout farmers are, literally, the DNC democrats.org/icymi-dnc-la...
I can't stand this crap, no matter who does it.
Were those 25 lb plates?
Can't express enough how much damage this does. Every time I bring something up to my MAGA family they can point to one of the endless lies being pushed around and use that as justification to dismiss the truths they don't want to face. These people are horrible enough, we don't need to lie.
zero, zero, zero, is the only correct count
The real clip is bad enough. Those are all barely half a rep
That thing where I am more trustworthy that so many sources, and I insist I'm an immortal sociopath...
actual lifters would know the "one more" shout is to get one last rep that's gonna be a struggle