Cuomo then deleted the post, but in response to Ocasio-Cortez on social media he doubled down on his criticism of her, writing: “You are correct…that was a deepfake (but it really does sound like you)
That’s the whole point of a deepfake, numbnuts.
*that sounds like the caricature of you I have in my head
This is what drives me nuts about his apology.
It’s not that you thought it looked like her. It did.
It’s not that you thought it sounded like her voice. It did
It’s the fact that you thought she would string together the sentence:
Watching that sultry little temptress squeeze into a Canadian tuxedo three sizes too small with her bouncy little funbags on the screen staring at you, piercing through the core of your soul with those ocean-blue eyes that could resurrect the Führer from his grave in Argentina
In front of a full congress to be saved in the library of congress. That is how little you think of her. That’s the insult, that she’s somehow dumber than MTG.
That’s the thing to apologize for.
Neoliberals are essentially maga and have been for a while
Dude fell for a deepfake, made some outrageous unrelated claim, then when pointed out he actually tried to pivot and talked shit she only replied to one false aspect and didn’t write a fucking dissertation on how everything he said was bullshit
It’s classic gish gallop.
And no matter how big the tent gets, letting shit it’s like the Cuomo’s in just makes a lot of people reconsider why they’re in the same tent.
We have to have some standards as a party
The world isn’t ready for deepfakes. I miss feeling like things would get better in the future.
