If they are really relatives, they are humongous dickwads. Envious, pathetic idjits who don’t understand how embarrassing they look.
Poor Walz. I have all sorts in my family but nobody this hopeless.
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Look at the hands
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That photo is AI-generated.
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Pretty good for AI, though I wouldn’t rule out just manipulation. I don’t see any overtly unnatural finger configurations.
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Look at the left hand of the right-most woman in the picture. She seems to have 3 fingers in addition to the thumb, not 4.
The fingers of the right hand of the older person sitting seem fused. There is something unnatural going on with the left arm of the man right next to the older person’s hand.
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Oh, thank God it’s a fake. I was losing my faith in humanity here.
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Also, the dog in a jumper with the same logo is missing…..
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I also refuse to believe that an entire family would pose in these hideous shorts.
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I looked at all those things on the first pass, and they scan as plausible. Pinky finger could just be angled away from the camera. Old lady in the chair is gripping the seat of the chair with her right hand, and while the dude to her right does have his hand in an awkward posture, there is nothing anatomically implausible about it, that leaps at me.
The only things that registered as possible editing errors are the sunglasses in the old lady’s lap (but they are too blurry to say for sure), and the lady standing middle of back row– my mom favors those variegated glasses frames, and it is unusual, though not impossible, for the coloring on those to be so asymmetrical. Like usually if the hinge area on one side is dark, the hinge area on the other side will match it.
Otherwise… visible feet are generally where you expect to see them, and not at weird angles, nothing anatomically or architecturally-implausible is going on (old lady’s chest is lumpy, but consistent with any number of reasonable explanations from old age droop to mastectomy + falsies). The grammatically-incorrect apostrophes are galling, but it’s a common enough error and I have seen it on more professionally-printed items than I can count. People in print shops do not proofread.
So, no, nothing where I’d say with confidence it’s a fake, a couple of spots where, if I was going to analyze it forensically, I’d home in on to look for signs of photo-editing, and a couple of things (eg black object behind legs on right side) that don’t raise any immediate red flags but do pique my curiosity and I’d love to see more than one take of the photo, and/or a higher resolution, to see if I could figure out what those things are.
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“they scan as plausible”
I didn’t go into nearly as much detail as you did, but yeah… it all seems pretty real (maybe photoshopped names… who knows?)
If its AI then AI has made a quantum leap in the last few days…
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What about the hand coming out from under the chair arm by the man sitting on the left?
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You mean his forearm?
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Around here they’re trying *really* hard to talk up his country boy roots, headlines about the down home rally, he’s just like all the other farmers in the state, a nice conservative teacher/coach not like those career politicians dontcha know. I can understand people trying to push back against that narrative instead of being used for the campaign.
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If it’s a fake, then whatever. But if actual relatives do it, they are pieces of shit. People should understand that it’s a terrible look. It comes off as spiteful and pathetic. Family before absolutely anything else.
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Walz is not an uncommon last name….especially not in the Midwest. It could possibly be people named Walz but not family members? (But obviously playing it as if they are related.)
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But I’m with you. I prefer to live in a world in which people are not vicious to their own family members. Don’t vote for him if you don’t like his politics. But no need to humiliate him.
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Gut feeling is that we are being played by those sentiments.
An apolitical variation: Your schizo sister is manning a movement to … IDK… make teen sex work legal. She has cred up the wazoo.
What are the boundaries?
We have shot all our institutions and boundaries and desecrated their corpses. So it is a question that wants asking.
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It is a real picture, but it does raise the question of how far out Clarissa’s rule should go for distant relatives. https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-photo-shows-relatives-003500322.html
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Nobody is going to sit there and parse their genealogical complexities. But the image of underachieving, resentful little losers is already there, and they have nobody but themselves to blame. That they are too limited intellectually to understand that they, not Walz, look terrible in this is beyond the point.
This is the cost of petty spitefulness.
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