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[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 139 points 3 months ago

It's the greatest essay I have ever seen, folks. *accordion hands*

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 61 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

accordion hands

Never in my life have I needed something so much, and never known until I received it

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 45 points 3 months ago
[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago

I’ve rewritten this comment 15 times, alternating between thanking you, describing the perfection that is this video, and pontificating about media and its modern incarnations. Anyway, sincerely, thank you for connecting me to this.

[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 months ago

You can't just say "perchance".

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Stompin turts

[-] MagicPterodactyl@lemmy.ml 123 points 3 months ago

I'm not sure how anyone could get past the second line and not start reading it in Trump's voice.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

At this point I only hear impersonations of Trump; I read it and heard Shane Gillis as Trump.

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[-] rsuri@lemmy.world 98 points 3 months ago

The craziest part is he read this off a prompter

[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago

I'd like to see what was actually on that prompter.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

Gettysburg, wow. (Improvise me boy. Remember, Robert E. Lee not in favor)

[-] Liz@midwest.social 14 points 3 months ago

Imagine being his teleprompter controller and having to wiggle the text up and down in a vain attempt to get his attention back.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

I thought the joke was that this was written by AI. But it’s worse.

[-] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 88 points 3 months ago

People come up to me all the time and tell me how great my report on Gettysburg was. Great people. Best report they've ever seen. And they've seen a lot of reports. And they tell me mine was the best they've seen. But the crooked evil liberal teachers keep persecuting me and try to say my report wasn't good. They try to give me an F, but I tell them it's an A, because that's what my papers get, because I'm the best student. Best student people have ever seen. Smart people see me and say that is the best student that has ever been. Make school great again!

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 77 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

what a great essay. a great essay.

i knew this student, very smart. i knew him and he said umbrella you- i am a real patriot (and there are real patriots) and he said umbrella- umbrella is the most upvoted user on lemmy. what i was told- they know you are much bigger than the second one by far. great. you are doing a great job.

[-] Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 76 points 3 months ago
[-] DogWater@lemmy.world 55 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] DrGiltspur@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago

What's hilarious is that even if you didn't notice the name on the paper (I didn't) you still know immediately who this is mocking.

[-] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Didn't see the name but recognized the style.

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[-] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm pretty sure it is literally a transcription of a trump speech...

Edit: oh fuck, I just noticed the name on the paper is also Donald Trump... Lol I guess I "ate the onion".

[-] Wilzax@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He said it verbatim at a rally. https://youtu.be/pq4xSuiueUc

[-] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 66 points 3 months ago

I didn't see the name until the end. Bravo

[-] Senseless@feddit.de 32 points 3 months ago

I only saw if once you pointed it out. But I was going to comment that is what kids learn from Trump. Being a vague as possible, speaking without saying something.

[-] iarigby@lemmy.world 60 points 3 months ago

I was about to write that it’s not funny when the child has an obvious and quite severe learning disability, then I read the comments and the name. Speechless.

[-] drathvedro@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

To me it was the reverse. At first it was like haha the kid didn't pay attention and is now trying to weasel out hoping the teacher won't notice. Totally relatable. But then I looked up the name and the speech it's referring to and... oh god... they've put an imbecile in charge of the most powerful country in the world, holy shit, that's TERRIFYING.

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[-] discount_door_garlic@lemmy.world 59 points 3 months ago

This isn't just a parody of his style, its just what he actually said: https://youtu.be/pq4xSuiueUc

[-] itsnotits@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

it's* just what

[-] enleeten@discuss.online 49 points 3 months ago

Love "never fight uphill, me boys, never fight uphill!"

I'm picturing Lee with a peg leg and a parrot on his shoulder.

[-] MacAttak8@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Robert E Lee x Mr. Krabs mashup

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

"Mr. Lee, why do you like slavery?"

"Money!"

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[-] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 33 points 3 months ago

I only got it at "no longer in favor". That's when it clicked. Before that it just read like a student who had to write a one page essay on a topic he knew nothing about and tried to fill the lines.

[-] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 31 points 3 months ago

Definitely don't make him a president

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago

Looks to me like they knew exactly what to do with that student.

[-] cornshark@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago

Straight to the presidency. Straight away

[-] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

F is for felon

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago

Do convicted felons have the same rights when it comes to plagiarism of their work?

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

Like they asked ChatGPT to write the essay for them. And ChatGPT was stoned.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

or they asked chatGPT to write it like Donald Trump was talking about it

[-] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

It's a literal direct quote from one of his "speeches."

[-] tsonfeir@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Did anyone read that and think “I understand him?”

His voters have to hear those words and somehow they make a sentence. Like some kind of mass stupidity that makes everyone of them understand.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

"Lee GOOD, liberals BAD, America GOOD, Gettysburg WOW"

A rough translation.

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[-] shield_gengar@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 months ago

Holy shit I was about to ask if the kid you teach exclusively watches Fox

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

I somehow imagine MAGA guy starting to slow clap.

[-] anticurrent@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 months ago

Even AI can't come up with something like this.

[-] Peter_Arbeitslos@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 months ago

Didnt read the name and tought it was the text of a foreign elemantary student learning English.

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

It's like a poem

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Are some people really taking the essay seriously? The student was obviously trying to mimic Trump 😂

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 months ago

I don't know if you're serious, but this wasn't a student mimicking Trump. It was a teacher mocking Trump by treating his insane speech as if it were written by a student. This isn't someone mimicking Trump. This is somehow actually the insane ramblings of the man himself.

[-] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago

The thing is we're not seeing the spelling mistakes

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Russian bots. So Russian. Everyone says so.

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