Yeah i have never seen a press event where there was a giant light installed in the middle of the crowd pointing at the speaker. Would have been a cool picture though.
As others mentioned, it's fake
It's also really obvious, for such a shadow to be cast, she'd also have to be clearly lit from that direction, but is lit from above, not below.
And also the microphone arm is perfectly straight across her face, even though we're not looking from the same direction as the shadow is cast, so the straight line should be deformed by the shape of her face.
It's funny, and a nice reference to older movies where they did this to mock Hitler, but just be honest that it's photoshopped: ).
It coulda been timed with another photographer’s flash…but that’s pretty much the only way it would happen. Yes, I know it’s ‘shopped. Just offering the hypothetical.
Even then, for such a clear shadow, there should have been obvious light from that side, not just the light from above.
And the shadow should still have been deformed XD
For anyone who doesn't know what's happening: shadows blur when farther away from what's casting them because light sources typically emit light over some area rather than a single point. At the edges of the shadow, the light source is only partially obscured; this is continuous which leads to the blurring effect.
It happens no matter how far away the object casting the shadow is, but it's blurred more the further the object is because it gets smaller relative to the light source as viewed from where the shadow is.
Not sure if it's true but I heard she's a lesbian married to a woman from Sri Lanka (or some other country that's not exactly known for their arian people). How the voters don't see the contradiction is anyone's wonder but then again, we've learned that you can't be the brightest kid if you are voting for them so...
She gives AfD voters a shield to do bigoted things, because well their lead is a lesbian so how can they be bigoted? /s
It also improves the optics of the party and makes it look "normal" so people who aren't that far right doesn't feel they are doing something bad for supporting AfD.
barack obama was one of the best american and White supremacists of all time.
You have a Black man who not only is OK with continuing the usa's milking of Global South countries' resources and labour through the imf, wto , and world bank and unequal exchange deals, is OK woth continuing the 'wAr On TeRrOr' and bombing Africans and Asians civilian , is OK with the continuation of funding of death squads and pro-american-at-the-expense-of-poor brown-people governments all over the Global South too! (didnt the usa play a part in assad getting stuck into he Syrian Civil War during obama's tenure? also barack obama continued to fund the saudi arabian and gulf governments that have been either bombing out or kicking out the Yemeni and Palestinian people. He's done other more heinous things too...)
But obama is also A-OK with being the shield that american and White supremacists of the usa can hide behind to say 'SeE? My cOunTry IsNt RacIst!1?1?¡ We HaVe A bLaCk PreSieDenT !¿HrNgH!?¿'
(....ya a Black president who played a part in the current Congo and Sudan conflicts. A Black president who didnt force a single american billionaire to pay reparations to the Native and Black people enslaved and genocided back in the 1400s-1900s. Also ...isnt barack obama Hawaiian? Didnmt the american government massacre a bunchbof Hawaiians during colonization? So the americans had a Black president who happily massacred other Black people. How nice of him)
This lady's lesbian status and her Sri Lankan wife are the average German White supremacist's shield of equal strength to obama 's strength for american White supremacists!
Ah right... the old "I have a black/gay friend, I can't be racist/homophobic" trick... As I said, their voters are not known for being the sharpest tools in the shed.
I'm reminded of how Milo Yiannaopoulus not only played the "I'm Gay, I can't be bad." card, but was Jewish or Catholic depending on which made him look better at the time.
lol there's a name I haven't heard in a while. I hope its because he's become irrelevant, not because I've managed to shut that part of the world out of my life.
("Aryan" didn't originally mean what the Nazis wanted it to mean. Like the swastika and a bunch of other stuff, it was stolen and twisted to suit their purposes.)
Doesn't matter, the Roma are an Aryan people and were declared non-Aryan by the Nazis. Because the racist idea of Aryan has nothing to do with the correct scientific use of the word.
I was wrong! Sri Lanka is majority Sinhalese not Tamil. Still, the situation is quote different from Brahmin Neo-Nazis in Delhi
Sri Lanka is not part of the area you're thinking of. South Indians and Sri Lankans have a completely different language family and ethnicity to North Indians.
It's true but it doesn't matter. One of the main promises of the far-right is to free people from the shackles of "reason" and "logic."
Otherwise, how would they vote for a party that's going to make their lives worse in every aspect? It's not a bug, it's a feature.
I think we all can imagine how lesbians will fare after the 4th Reich that the far right is is yearning for has been installed.
I was taught that all humans are alike, that if you scind up society in better and less better humans you get nazism.
But here we are, with mentally ill leaders (like elon, musk, trump, ...) and mentally "challenged" (you know what I mean) hateful people cheering them on...
I personally need more adjectives, for the hoarding egomaniac overlords, but also for the hateful people "at the bottom" that'll turn on women, gays, foreigners, trans people, at the drop of a hat while simultaneously cry nobody helps them.
Is it just people without empathy?
Edit I wrote musk instead of putin, elon was already there, I was tired I guess
Also, her name is Alice. Yeah, for real. Hear me out. There's an old nazi chant the crowds can't say, which is "alles für alles". It would be illegal to chant it. One of the thing people like to do in her presence is swap in her name there. I know it's stupid, but the whole spirit of AfD, and their "time to move on" pillar is expressed with joy in this little things. Anyone following in detail they actions can see how obscenely brainwashed they are. Full of nazi symbolisms in their campaigns. Alice is just a pet politician in this regard. But that's not to remove any seriousness to her own speeches and ideas. She's as dangerous as any other of the deranged lunatics in this neonazi conclave Putin has installed in Germany
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
― Frank Wilhoit
It is just million times more relevant for fascism, and some more moderate conservatives try their best to not be hypocrites. Fascists however flex their status with public hypocrisy. Or think the people who expose their secret hypocrisy are the real bad people, who are trying to tarnish their right to be remembered as perfect human beings by historians.
You don't have to be a dumbass to be racially bigoted and full of contradictions. My mother is a christian who gave me shit for telling a (harmless) joke involving Jesus years ago. Then she voted for she shit-bag three times. Fuck her.
Sorry to break it to you but eh... you're describing someone who's not among the brightest. First time, I can understand. Second time, a bit less. But third? Yeah, you need to be a "special kind" of bigoted racist to vote for him. And I say special to not say dumb as a rock.
Wasn't there that one flyer, on which if one looks at the paper through sunlight, a window of a house pictured on the other side turns into a mustache for her?
I wonder how much time elapsed between the idea and actually getting the shot lined up. I'm imagining it taking forever, but I think most photojournalists these days have really fast cameras.
If anyone who knows camera stuff wants to hazard a guess on how difficult a shot this is, I'd love to hear it.
Yea, someone posted the original elsewhere in the thread. Little embarrassed because the more I look at it, now that it's been pointed out, the more obviously fake it looks. sometimes they slip under the radar though, and this one did for me.
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Yeah i have never seen a press event where there was a giant light installed in the middle of the crowd pointing at the speaker. Would have been a cool picture though.
With the perfect timing it could be from a flash from another photographer
But very unlikely
OMG it's a metropolico stache!
In this one she has a watermark mustache lol
You know the shadow has been edited in, right?
It is a fitting picture, but yeah, the lighting is all wrong for it to be real
Also shes blonde not brunette
As others mentioned, it's fake It's also really obvious, for such a shadow to be cast, she'd also have to be clearly lit from that direction, but is lit from above, not below. And also the microphone arm is perfectly straight across her face, even though we're not looking from the same direction as the shadow is cast, so the straight line should be deformed by the shape of her face.
It's funny, and a nice reference to older movies where they did this to mock Hitler, but just be honest that it's photoshopped: ).
It coulda been timed with another photographer’s flash…but that’s pretty much the only way it would happen. Yes, I know it’s ‘shopped. Just offering the hypothetical.
Even then, for such a clear shadow, there should have been obvious light from that side, not just the light from above. And the shadow should still have been deformed XD
For anyone who doesn't know what's happening: shadows blur when farther away from what's casting them because light sources typically emit light over some area rather than a single point. At the edges of the shadow, the light source is only partially obscured; this is continuous which leads to the blurring effect.
It happens no matter how far away the object casting the shadow is, but it's blurred more the further the object is because it gets smaller relative to the light source as viewed from where the shadow is.
Not sure if it's true but I heard she's a lesbian married to a woman from Sri Lanka (or some other country that's not exactly known for their arian people). How the voters don't see the contradiction is anyone's wonder but then again, we've learned that you can't be the brightest kid if you are voting for them so...
She gives AfD voters a shield to do bigoted things, because well their lead is a lesbian so how can they be bigoted? /s
It also improves the optics of the party and makes it look "normal" so people who aren't that far right doesn't feel they are doing something bad for supporting AfD.
barack obama was one of the best american and White supremacists of all time.
You have a Black man who not only is OK with continuing the usa's milking of Global South countries' resources and labour through the imf, wto , and world bank and unequal exchange deals, is OK woth continuing the 'wAr On TeRrOr' and bombing Africans and Asians civilian , is OK with the continuation of funding of death squads and pro-american-at-the-expense-of-poor brown-people governments all over the Global South too! (didnt the usa play a part in assad getting stuck into he Syrian Civil War during obama's tenure? also barack obama continued to fund the saudi arabian and gulf governments that have been either bombing out or kicking out the Yemeni and Palestinian people. He's done other more heinous things too...)
But obama is also A-OK with being the shield that american and White supremacists of the usa can hide behind to say 'SeE? My cOunTry IsNt RacIst!1?1?¡ We HaVe A bLaCk PreSieDenT !¿HrNgH!?¿'
(....ya a Black president who played a part in the current Congo and Sudan conflicts. A Black president who didnt force a single american billionaire to pay reparations to the Native and Black people enslaved and genocided back in the 1400s-1900s. Also ...isnt barack obama Hawaiian? Didnmt the american government massacre a bunchbof Hawaiians during colonization? So the americans had a Black president who happily massacred other Black people. How nice of him)
This lady's lesbian status and her Sri Lankan wife are the average German White supremacist's shield of equal strength to obama 's strength for american White supremacists!
Ah right... the old "I have a black/gay friend, I can't be racist/homophobic" trick... As I said, their voters are not known for being the sharpest tools in the shed.
I'm reminded of how Milo Yiannaopoulus not only played the "I'm Gay, I can't be bad." card, but was Jewish or Catholic depending on which made him look better at the time.
lol there's a name I haven't heard in a while. I hope its because he's become irrelevant, not because I've managed to shut that part of the world out of my life.
Both are fine to me though.
He was deported by ICE a few days back lol
He was recently deported. Changed his entire view on ICE
lol
also being a woman, not ugly helps too luring people.
True, and she also lives in Switzerland not in Germany.
she knows not to eat where you shit, she will be safe and sound once the AFD fanatics come for her head eventually.
and shes also FOREIGNER.
You might be surprised.
("Aryan" didn't originally mean what the Nazis wanted it to mean. Like the swastika and a bunch of other stuff, it was stolen and twisted to suit their purposes.)
Doesn't matter, the Roma are an Aryan people and were declared non-Aryan by the Nazis. Because the racist idea of Aryan has nothing to do with the correct scientific use of the word.
I was wrong! Sri Lanka is majority Sinhalese not Tamil. Still, the situation is quote different from Brahmin Neo-Nazis in Delhi
Sri Lanka is not part of the area you're thinking of. South Indians and Sri Lankans have a completely different language family and ethnicity to North Indians.Map from the article I linked:
Remind me again what that mostly-burgundy (for Sinhala-Dhivehi language group) island at the bottom right is?
Seems to be Sri Lanka if it didn't have any Tamils on it?
Edit: thanks for the correction!
It's true but it doesn't matter. One of the main promises of the far-right is to free people from the shackles of "reason" and "logic."
Otherwise, how would they vote for a party that's going to make their lives worse in every aspect? It's not a bug, it's a feature.
I think we all can imagine how lesbians will fare after the 4th Reich that the far right is is yearning for has been installed.
I was taught that all humans are alike, that if you scind up society in better and less better humans you get nazism.
But here we are, with mentally ill leaders (like elon, musk, trump, ...) and mentally "challenged" (you know what I mean) hateful people cheering them on...
I personally need more adjectives, for the hoarding egomaniac overlords, but also for the hateful people "at the bottom" that'll turn on women, gays, foreigners, trans people, at the drop of a hat while simultaneously cry nobody helps them.
Is it just people without empathy?
Edit I wrote musk instead of putin, elon was already there, I was tired I guess
Also, her name is Alice. Yeah, for real. Hear me out. There's an old nazi chant the crowds can't say, which is "alles für alles". It would be illegal to chant it. One of the thing people like to do in her presence is swap in her name there. I know it's stupid, but the whole spirit of AfD, and their "time to move on" pillar is expressed with joy in this little things. Anyone following in detail they actions can see how obscenely brainwashed they are. Full of nazi symbolisms in their campaigns. Alice is just a pet politician in this regard. But that's not to remove any seriousness to her own speeches and ideas. She's as dangerous as any other of the deranged lunatics in this neonazi conclave Putin has installed in Germany
The right believes in unequality.
― Frank Wilhoit
It is just million times more relevant for fascism, and some more moderate conservatives try their best to not be hypocrites. Fascists however flex their status with public hypocrisy. Or think the people who expose their secret hypocrisy are the real bad people, who are trying to tarnish their right to be remembered as perfect human beings by historians.
You don't have to be a dumbass to be racially bigoted and full of contradictions. My mother is a christian who gave me shit for telling a (harmless) joke involving Jesus years ago. Then she voted for she shit-bag three times. Fuck her.
Sorry to break it to you but eh... you're describing someone who's not among the brightest. First time, I can understand. Second time, a bit less. But third? Yeah, you need to be a "special kind" of bigoted racist to vote for him. And I say special to not say dumb as a rock.
Something I've personally heard - it's wrong only when men do it because it's disgusting to (conservative) men. When women do it it's sexy
Pulitzer worthy.
(not really)
Wasn't there that one flyer, on which if one looks at the paper through sunlight, a window of a house pictured on the other side turns into a mustache for her?
Complete with the hairdo
The same sex married, child adopting, immigrant marrying women, who is against all of the above mentioned leading the party of the same. Only in 2026
I love spreading misinformation. Thanks random social media influencer
Imo attention like this only helps her cause.
Er ist wieder da
So, my takeaway is that all of those Hitler photos and videos were doctored? Thanks AI! /s
Basil Fawlty's new wife? :)
Das est aber zeemlech ohnsereööös!
I wonder how much time elapsed between the idea and actually getting the shot lined up. I'm imagining it taking forever, but I think most photojournalists these days have really fast cameras.
If anyone who knows camera stuff wants to hazard a guess on how difficult a shot this is, I'd love to hear it.
It's very difficult, that is why the shot isn't real but edited.
How do you figure?
The shadow at the ear and somebody posted the original in the thread.
Oh yeah I see what you mean. Thanks!
I feel like I used to be better at picking this stuff out. Didn't used to have to ask as much as I do now. Getting old sucks.
I'd guess not difficult at all. Three minutes tops in Photoshop for a reasonably experienced user.
And yes, it's fake.
Yea, someone posted the original elsewhere in the thread. Little embarrassed because the more I look at it, now that it's been pointed out, the more obviously fake it looks. sometimes they slip under the radar though, and this one did for me.
They'd have to use a flash at a strategic angle, which seems unlikely.
I dont know under what rock you live but i have been reading about journalist who are warning about this group for multiple years now here on lemmy.
There got a significant boon after getting backed by Elon Musk
The better the healthcare, the greater the Führer.
Or what's your thinking here?