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President Joe Biden had conspiracy theorists in a tizzy after posting what appeared to be his reaction to the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl win on Sunday night.

“Just like we drew it up,” Biden posted on X alongside a photo of “Dark Brandon,” the meme created by hardcore—and very online—supporters of Donald Trump that Biden and his team loved so much they adopted it as their own.

The post was apparently referencing far-right conspiracy theories which posit the NFL and high-level government operatives conspired to rig the Super Bowl in Kansas City’s favor to give maximum exposure to a yet-to-be-announced endorsement from Chiefs star Travis Kelce and his girlfriend Taylor Swift.

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[–] Jagermo@feddit.de -2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

*American Internet

Rest does not give a shit

[–] anoxydre@jlai.lu 20 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Clearly. As non-US person, clearly see this whole US political shit like a reality-show, so there is no room for this kind of thing in my memory.

[–] i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml 57 points 9 months ago (2 children)

As non-US person, we watched the Superbowl in anguish, fearing a win for SF would directly lead to a Trump win and a destruction of the current world order!

[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 72 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Please don't joke about this. This is legitimately how politics work here now.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Liking the Chiefs is now "woke."

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Damn I guess I like KC now.

Actually I like whoever is the most fun to watch. I like Seattle for that reason, and I liked KC when it was Mahomes and Tyreek Hill.

Whatever is fun to watch. That's whats most important.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Why would SF winning do that?

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

In all fairness, most US voters also treat politics like a reality-show.

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 5 points 9 months ago

Not like you can do anything about it

[–] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Here we go again... The web, which is what most people think about when saying "internet", is an European invention.

So the low level stuff is American, but higher level stuff is European. But then again, were could claim that "web 2.0" was invented by American companies.

Internet is 70% American?

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can argue about this all day long. The web was invented on a Next computer, created by Steve Jobs, written in C or maybe C++, also invented by Americans.

Point is, a thousand different things had to come together from all over the world to create the modern Internet. I don't think it's accurate to say only one entity was responsible for it.

Edit: A gigantic amount of the Internet and its infrastructure runs on an OS written by a dude from Finland.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Unless that entity is Al Gore.

[–] H4mi@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Heh. AI Gore. My font doesn’t differ on l and I.