Fact checking

Mar 28, 2017 4:34 PM

MonocledTiger

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'Was browsing a not to be named social media when platform when I came across this? Looks plausible, right? Let's examine it a bit more closely.

Enter reverse image search.'

Bullshit ex machina. Always do your due diligence, folks!

I dont think The mexico-guatamala border has a wall. There is a water Park in the border.

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"Guadamala"...

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

As someone who lives in "Guadamala"...: AHAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!! BABOSOS!!!

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Walls don't keep people out, they keep people in. Most illegal immigrants here are here on expired visas.

9 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 9

Tell a lie long enough it becomes the truth!

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

The issue with the wall isn't that it's racist. It's that it's ineffective, expensive, and stupid.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

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9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 2

Let's not forget that's it's over 500 miles of dense jungle between. Those two nations.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

also fronta sura was built at the behest of the USA w US tax dollars

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 2

I could understand El Salvador, due to their atrocity of tamales....

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's the wall I want to see built, the watch towers, the concrete it's great

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I don't understand. An image clearly made in MSPaint that spells Guatemala wrong isn't 100% factual? Impossible.

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even if it was truth, how dose every damn adult in existance know "two wrongs dont make a right", but not know it would apply here too?

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Bias. People are tempted by impractical solutions tht fulfill their ideals. This happens with every political side.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Look at google earth. The Guatemala mexico border is almost nothing but jungle

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Was gunna downvote when I saw the first picture, then realized you were calling them out.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

There is no continuous wall on the border, although there are sections of fence near populated areas and official border crossings.

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 4

Right... Because Israel has built a wall to enforce their crimes against humanity... it's okay? Someone else's crimes don't excuse yours

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

We do deport the fuck out of them tho, as an imigrant in mexico you can't partake on protests or you can be deported

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

well I mean, there's a reason people will go to great lengths to not be in mexico.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

To be fair, they do have tight border security at their southern border, they just can't afford this nice of shit

9 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 8

tight or not .. that wall looks expensive .. neither of them could afford such a shiny wall

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"Mexico’s southern border... is notoriously porous. Unlike the U.S.-Mexico border... Mexico’s southern border is almost imperceptible."

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

They have very little security at their southern border.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I once went to Chiapas (south state in Mexico) and i crossed to Guatemala in a raft juts because we were visiting the area 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I was literally about to post the exact same thing. It was a river and rather nice

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

After eating, i came back the same way. There wasn't any kind of border or guards there. Very nice place 2/2

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Its like Canada and USA border

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah and ask people who lived in Berlin what they thought of the wall they 'needed'

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Are you seriously this ignorant as to why the Berlin wall was built?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

No, and you miss my point then. Im saying that it became a negative experience for both sides , in sight as well as function.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It was always a negative experience, for everyone, aside from the Soviet commissars.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Stupid meme anyway. No one thinks it's racist to build a wall. It's arrogant and stupid to think you can force another country to pay for it

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

So, southern wall to keep brown people out, but no northern wall to keep white people out? 'But we want cheap smokes and maple syrup!'...

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

As a Mexican I don't mind if you build ten walls. What is offensive is that he wants us to pay for it.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Too late, Trump supporters have already taken it in as unquestionable fact and all criticism is you being "triggered"

9 years ago | Likes 48 Dislikes 12

Well, there are rational right-wingers.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

They only have one comeback "Libtard."

9 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 5

Also cuck, shill, snowflake, sjw, and a few others.

9 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 3

Or "this is why Trump won."

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I do appreciate the use of those terms in a way. Lets me know that the person using them has literally nothing to contribute.

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 2

It's like a bumper sticker!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I'm sure if you pointed out the truth to the person who posted that, they would thank you for correcting them

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Hahahahah! Nice one,

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'd just ask them why they want to be more like Mexico.

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Definitely not get really angry and clutch their red baseball cap tighter

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God forbid we assume someone can act like a normal human being before we've tried to talk to them, amirite?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 5

They would call it fake news and dismiss it. Their version is obviously right.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That's usually how that works out, yes.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm sure you'd never hear the words "fake news" come from them, either.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

With kind words like "fucking snowflake libtard."

9 years ago | Likes 246 Dislikes 5

Pthnowflake.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I hear that's a term of deep respect among their people. That's what they call me all the time.

9 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Hahaha. Add a cuck or two in there and you'd probably be correct. Man I hate that word.

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Ever seen that Breitbart article that tried to say that "cuckservative" was a "genius" insult? Ewwwww.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

The truth is, no wall and Mexico is full of Mexicans.

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

And Israel built a wall, and I would like to see the stats on illegal Mexicans in Israel!

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I built a fence around my backyard. There's currently no Mexicans in it. Did it work?

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Have you checked for tunnels leading into your basement?

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I was wondering where that mariachi music was coming from.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also http://www.snopes.com/mexico-guatemala-border/

9 years ago | Likes 63 Dislikes 6

That's fake, they spelled Guatemala correctly in the URL

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9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 2

Fake news

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 3

I've seen dozens of people claim Snopes is a bullshit source full of lefty bias. Facts once again have a liberal bias.

9 years ago | Likes 60 Dislikes 17

"Reality has a liberal bias." –Stephen Colbert

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 11

On a site that give judgments like "mostly false" there's plenty of room for bias. But bias doesn't make facts inherently wrong.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

Someone told me snopes is owned by the clintons and snopes actually debunked a claim about them owned by the clintons

9 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 7

Can I tell you a joke about the wall? Never mind you won't get over it.

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"Sex."

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Did you hear the one about the three eggs? Ah, two bad.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

Guy prays daily at the Wailing Wall in Israel for 25 years. "How does it feel? It feels like I'm talking to a wall!"

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Sounds a lot like this joke I heard about Obamacare 8 years ago

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I'm already over it. It's beneath me.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

All in all its just another Israeli wall...

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I don't get it.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Its from Pink Floyd, Another Brick In The Wall

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hey Jew, Jew behind the bike shed. How can you have any babka if you don't eat your brisket?

9 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

I hope this comment does wall; it's quite clever

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I won't down vote you but...no

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

This was built to keep Zombies out. Just ask Brad Pit....

9 years ago | Likes 482 Dislikes 3

Haha I was thinking the same thing but it failed !

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Aye, ask him how well it worked...

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just read the damn book.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

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9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

It's a shame that Brad Pitt is attractive. He's an amazing character actor trapped in a leading-man's body.

9 years ago | Likes 70 Dislikes 1

The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford. He takes the backseat to Casey Affleck and it's amazing

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Leo had the same problem for years.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Burn out reading!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

+1 for Burn Without Reading

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Burn after reading? bloody hell, I'm not good with titles

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Lolllllllll- just realised, neither am I! Either way, cool role for Brad in a good movie :)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've been saying this for a long time. He would have gotten an oscar by now if he wasn't so pretty. Maybe as he gets older he'll be able /1

9 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 1

to do the Matthew McConaghey route. /2

9 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

It has a lot to do with role selection. Popcorn movies never win acting oscars and that's the vast majority of his repertoire.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Think so? I think he's been in some pretty interesting stuff. Imagine if, for example, DiCaprio had had his role in Moneyball. Or /1

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Didn't stop De Niro. He chooses his roles, nobody else.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

DeNiro isn't conventionally good looking

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 6

What? Maybe not anymore. He definitely was.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

We can agree to disagree

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

"Guadamala"

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shid posd

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

whadamala?

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Guacomole

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The people who would share this image probably have never left the US

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You laugh but the official Email from the U.S Army about my orders to deploy there were spelled that way.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It truly is the worst Guada.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

abbacado

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Someone called me a guacamolean once...

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wrapped with "bullshit ex machina." I'm reporting this post

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Everyone knows it's Guacamaya duuuh

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Que pendejos jajajaja

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Jajajajaja pinches putos

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Hey Culeros de Mierda dejen de decir malas palabras.

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Morons. Guacamole*

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This feels racist to laugh at but +1 dammit.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Guacamala.

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

This sounds straight up delicious.

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Glaucomatamale

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Guantanamo*

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Guava juice

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Giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

One of the only Spanish phrases I know. "Salir Guatemala por Guatepeor" roughly translates to "we left guate-bad for guate-worse"

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

"Salir de Guatemala para entrar por Guatepeor" close enough though:)

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Gualagualabingbong

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Bumbershoot Guadamalabatch

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He basically spelt it phonetically. If I was doing an American accent I'd totally pronounce it like 'guadamala'.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

They do T's as D's i guess

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is exactly the reason Americans say St Pattys day instead of St Paddy's day, Patty is a freaking Girls name!!!

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"Quadamala" - the country with the best legs

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But..."mala" means "bad"...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It sounds like someone trying to sound it out instead of looking it up.

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Wuacamola

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I'm from Guatemala, let me show this to my dad.

9 years ago | Likes 310 Dislikes 0

That's exactly what I said when I read this

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i am Guatemalan too, this killed me. it worst than people asking what part of Mexico is it.

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Hola Guate! Soy tu vecina Nica! :)

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Nicadaua???

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Post his face when you do

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Dad is Handsome Jack?

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