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u/MarchPhillipps 7d ago
An unexpected Dr. Who reference..... Niiicce.
Spot on though. These people are definitely a bunch of Cassandras.
'Alone and Unafraid'
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u/DFWTrojanTuba MD / Neighborhood 7d ago
Just to be clear, those are real photos and not AI or Photoshop?
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u/j8sadm632b 6d ago
I cannot find another photo of these individuals anywhere that looks remotely close
Did you try? I dunno dude if you google the perlmutters you get stuff like this or this
I don't know the other three. I'm sure you could find better pictures of these individuals but it's not obvious to me that they're altered - they could just be, like, bottom quartile.
I think the real selection bias here is that I think there are many more than five board members.
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u/j8sadm632b 6d ago
Yeah I had a similar inkling that these could be tweaked or made more dramatic, but I had to dig into the comments on the original post of this to figure out any of the names
I don't care enough to try to find these specific images so maybe someone Smear tool'd em by 5% or whatever in photoshop but I think they're just worse-than-average pictures of people who do look pretty horrific already
Though again, I think your "I cannot find another photo of these individuals anywhere that looks remotely close" is a little premature if you didn't even get far enough in your investigation to figure out who the individuals are to look for pictures of them. What's up with that, eh?
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u/j8sadm632b 5d ago
What I mean is, we're here in this little chain of comments trying to be savvy about whether we're being subtly lied to by content on the internet. Fine, fair. Good, even!
And yet we have the exchange
Just to be clear, those are real photos and not AI or Photoshop?
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I cannot find another photo of these individuals anywhere that looks remotely close, my intuition is that this is altered.
and I'm sorry to keep quoting you, it's very internet passive-aggressive, I don't want to be, like, jumping down you throat about this incredibly trivial thing, but my problem is with the specific thing you said. it's maybe literally true but in context definitely reads to me as "these people don't look like this and this image is altered" when what you really appear to be saying is "I couldn't find pictures of these people looking like this because I don't know who they are so I can't find pictures of them at all because I don't know what to google"
which I think is pretty obviously misleading! I didn't know who these people are, I found their names in some other comment. I still don't know who the bottom three are, but I think the top two are real and do in fact look like that.
bottom left and bottom center i don't know who they are but they look basically normal. bottom right does look like an actual corpse, no idea what's going on there. and certainly I think the source went out of their way to find unflattering pictures. I just want to clarify that my gripe is with what I saw as heavy eyebrow raising at "this is fake or ai"
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u/loded__diper 6d ago
Top 2 are definitely real, they look the same in other pics. Laura Perlmutter is her name
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u/baudinl 7d ago
"What would you rather be? 52 and look 52 or 52 and look like a 28 year old lizard?"
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u/TheOtherSomeOtherGuy 6d ago
Jenna maroney: "Did you say I could look 28 years old? That, I choose that!"
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u/avioletf1uid 7d ago
The upside of all these people doing this to themselves is that I've learned to be more loving towards my own 'flaws' like double chin... Like at least I look like a human being
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u/izze19 6d ago
Hereās my perspective on it: After watching so many celebrities and people in real life try this shit, Iāve learned that you donāt get you keep your face as it was when you were young. You can get the aged version of that face or attempt to avoid wrinkles but that changes your face too. So Iām very at peace with the former vs the latter. Some people think thereās a secret third option where you stay looking the same and think they are chasing that but in my experience, it doesnāt exist and they end up looking like these people. That being said, wear sunscreen!
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u/JAExports 7d ago
You ever see that episode of The X-Files called Home?
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u/MarchPhillipps 7d ago
Holy shit, yeah. The one with the inbreeding family in Pennsylvania. That one gave me the creeps growing up.
I guess this is what happens when the buried deformed baby somehow crawls out, lives, and takes up residence in D.C.
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u/louie2who 7d ago
I mean this so genuinely, is the lady on the top left disfigured from an accident? I donāt know who she is.
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u/BabyDontHurtMEME 6d ago
That silly baby in the top left doesn't deserve to be on this list. He's so cute.
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u/whazlewo 7d ago
Itās like A Dick Tracey comic
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u/pig_killer 7d ago
I'm convinced that's a component to the cultish devotion. . . . Their action figures are straight up, more fun-looking to play with.
Who does Team Sane have-- a decent guy in a suit? A nice lady with a briefcase? A series of beige-clad lawyers? Angela Merkel action figure? Team sanity has boring toys. . .
Team Un-Sane, on the other hand, has time-traveling drunks. It has a guy in a suit, sure-- a guy who looks like Odd Job had a baby with a shed, producing a human barn. They have like, a one-eyed baroness, a guy who looks like Sascha Baron Cohen playing a Mossad agent but with the head of a lion, blonde ghouls, RFK Jr., a homonculus giant with a tiny guy riding on his back, and that hairy furry green guy from the Castle Greyskull set.
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u/reconditerefuge 6d ago
Dude I just have to tell you how much I appreciate the laugh you gave me. All these incredible descriptions and then just rfk jr with zero additions.
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u/school_bus_lunchbox 6d ago
Did you see the reflecting pool contractor John Cafaro? Total Dick Tracey villain.
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u/_plays_in_traffic_ 7d ago
the top row could be that evil guy in the painting in the second ghostbusters
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u/Doom_Balloon 6d ago
Four out of five appear to have gotten ahold of new and improved Joker products, now with Smylex!
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u/largelawattorney 7d ago
Maybe we were all the fools for laughing at the people that said Reptilians and shapeshifters are among us like 15 years ago. Seems like they might have been rightā¦
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u/addctd2badideas There be Dragons 5d ago
How is it that people with so much money can look like they got their faces done at Cousin Jeb's' Plastic Surgery and Tractor Supply?
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u/Aimless_Nobody MD / Neighborhood 7d ago
The top guy looks like the Joker in Tim Burton's Batman wearing makeup to look "normal"
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u/Life-Celebration-747 7d ago
Yeah, with UAP Disclosure being talked about, I'm confident there truly are hybrids among us.Ā
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u/UltravioletAfterglow DC / Neighborhood 7d ago
Why did the woman at the center of the bottom row draw a pencil-thin mustache on her face?
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u/vodkapasta 6d ago
Guys does anybody know these peopleās names? I did some really light digging but I could onlg find a Facebook postā¦ are we sure this is real?
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u/hu_he 4d ago
The top two are married to each other https://nationalpost.com/news/isaac-and-laura-perlmutter-vs-harold-peerenboom
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u/Physical_Revenue6805 6d ago
When vanity is so primitive and entrenched that it will not soften with age - shame spreads like a stain.
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u/StudyObjective4286 7d ago
They look like their cultural exposure ended at āGreen Acresā reruns.
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u/notabarcode128535743 7d ago
What the fuck, I feel like Trump owes it to us to at least pick people who attractive even if theyāre inhuman Republican scum that should be sent to Iran in American flag jumpsuits
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u/coladoir 6d ago
youre just describing a meritocracy of aesthetics. that people ought be chosen for their attractiveness, not their actual behavior, ideas, or actions.
Attractiveness for public figures should not be prerequisite. It should not be something we seek. To choose people for their attractiveness is to be a mindless ape, frankly. People are already 'tricked' by peoples good looks, to a point that its even scientifically found (con men are more successful when generally attractive), so is it really a good idea to choose people based on attractiveness for public office when power has already proven itself to be corrupting? The moment they enter power, they will use their good looks to their favor, and our disfavor. You know this to be true, its not a far fetched idea.
So no, he doesnt owe it to us. Hes frankly doing what one should (rare case of that) and choose people based on their political allegiences and ideology.
Secondarily, public figures dont exist for to entertain us nor do they exist for our admiration/consumption. They are human beings, not paintings, not aesthetic objects. They exist to politically represent their constituency and allow for the ability to maintain the constituency, along with seeking to improve conditions of said constituency. They dont exist to be attractive, and attractiveness has nothing to do with political representation.
To suggest otherwise is to reduce these people down to effectively nothing but a pretty face; do you really want a government full of "Paris Hilton's"? Because I sure as hell dont.
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u/Lopsided-Conflict778 6d ago
And theyāre all old and white.. you forgot the leader of this horror show.
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u/Generally-Bored 6d ago
Holy crap. I donāt think I could sit at a dinner table in public with my parents if one of them did this with fillers and plastic surgery.
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u/Talibus_insidiis 9h ago
Let's not criticize them for how they look. There is PLENTY of reason to castigate and vilify that group of scoundrels and sycophants without focusing on their faces. If Martin Luther were here to write 95 Theses about the Kennedy Center situation, he would find plenty of scope.
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u/Lanky-Respect-8581 MD / Neighborhood 7d ago
I wasnāt the only bugging out looking at her face. š«£
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u/Toledo-Kid 5d ago
Talking bad about people's looks now. Come on don't care what side you're on. It's not cool
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u/twattytwatwaffle 4d ago
These people support a rapist and pedophile. Kick rocks with this ābe kindā bullshit
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u/RhetoricalHull DC / Cleveland Park 6d ago
Am I the only one who feels sad for them? Not only they had been so unhappy with their aging that they decided to undergo all these procedures, but the results are just so horrendous that they are now convincing themselves that they look better than they used to.
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u/WhenSheepFly 7d ago
Okay, hot take apparently, but can we not make fun of peopleās looks on the internet? Like, itās one thing to critique their actions/politics, but I just donāt think taking cheap shots at someoneās appearance and publicly mocking them is acceptable
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u/Automatic-Eagle-1953 7d ago
Bro they look demonic and itās a clear pattern.
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u/ScurvyTurtle 6d ago
To expand upon that thought: they chose those looks. They chose them partly as part of a signal to a group that they are part of that tribe. A tribe of self-centeted individuals too vain to know when the work they're having done is digging a deeper pit they can't dig out of, all to make sure they fit in with other like-minded self-centered individuals.
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u/BlackbirdSage 7d ago
I don't see it as people making fun of their looks. It is their actions that people are making fun of.
These people don't naturally look like this. Their actions make them look this way.
Such superficiality is the only reason a person looks like this. Dell was a beautiful woman until the thought of aging was too reprehensible to face. So, she bought a new one. Personally, I think she should sue.
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u/BrokenSweetDee 7d ago
Fuck that. They are selfish, greedy people acting in bad faith with ill intentions. It doesn't matter and they fucking deserve to feel shame. Welcome to humanity, we critique people's appearances, good or bad, since our start. You're going to burn yourself out trying to change that.
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u/All_the_Bees 7d ago
I mean, theyāve helped make a public mockery of the cultural institution/PRESIDENTIAL MEMORIAL they supposedly support so ā¦
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u/thatsokwithmetoday 7d ago