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.
*American Internet
Rest does not give a shit
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.
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!
Please don’t joke about this. This is legitimately how politics work here now.
Liking the Chiefs is now “woke.”
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.
Well soon Taylor Swift is gonna dump Kelce for flipping shit at his coach… This guy is too hot headed for a smart girl like Taylor.
Then the Chiefs won’t be woke anymore.
But on the other hand, new Taylor Swift album.
Taylor Swift leftist propaganda machine you mean?
For sure! All about her ex boyfriends and not letting haters get you down. Basically pure communism. More like Taylor Lenin!
Why would SF winning do that?
In all fairness, most US voters also treat politics like a reality-show.
Not like you can do anything about it
America invented the internet, silly.
Ah yes, the Wamerica Wide Web
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?
Very human of us to argue over who gets credit for creating the greatest tool for collaboration in history when it was clearly a collaborative process.
Seems like it was a collaboration of many scientists from many different nationalities. By “low level stuff is American”, I think you mean the backbone? And maybe “higher level stuff is European” means stuff like web browsers?
I enjoyed this article which is slightly less technical than the one above. https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/invention-of-the-internet
That article is a joke. bbs’ we’re doing that long before berners lee made www a thing. The “web” was always there. All he did was develop another protocol.
Right but BBs was a direct connection from one computer to another on one phone line not an “internet” I believe but the technical aspects of it are beyond my knowledge
When people say ‘Can I get the password for the internet?’ they are undoubtedly referring to the wifi password, which is an Australian invention.
Internet is 40% American?
Oh… All this time i thought they were talking about “the internet”, trying to ask me the password to access my ISP’s IP routing tables! 😯
It makes so much sense now that i think about it… They were confused when i replied that i didn’t know what was the password to the internet!
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.
Unless that entity is Al Gore.
Heh. AI Gore. My font doesn’t differ on l and I.
Al Gore funded the internet.
the what now? Is this about those monkeys that went into space and came back super-intelligent?
Objective-C was the native programming language for the NeXTSTEP exnvironment when developing using Project Builder, the precursor to XCode.
while C and C++ could be used in Obj-C projects (painfully, sometimes), NeXTSTEP apps themselves had to be written/compiled in Obj-C.
edit: this was pretty much the case after they were aquired by Apple and running all the way until 2014 when Apple invented Swift, an evolutionary step beyond Obj-C. macOS (the evolution of NeXTSTEP) can now execute binaries built with Swift and Obj-C nativley.
WWW was a mistake, we should have stuck to Gopher. That one actually counts against Europe.
I love how you say all that and then provide ZERO sources, like I’m supposed to take the word of some random stranger on the network that Americans invented.