By Ceres
Things took a turn for the unfathomably based earlier today when it was revealed that the Reform Party in the UK has been running fake candidates with AI-generated election photos.
The candidate, with the hilariously fake name “Mark Matlock”, was running as Reform’s candidate for Clapham and Brixton Hill. In addition to using an obviously AI-generated picture, the candidate made no appearance on election day itself. His excuse for missing election day was that he had pneumonia (Self-diagnosed by the way, since he also claimed he couldn’t get into the hospital). Not a single other image of him seems to exist anywhere on the internet.
When challenged on his account on X, he responded with this obviously chatgpt-written statement:
“To all those people on Reddit wondering if I’m real or if Reform has fake candidates ? Keep smoking the crack pipe and wondering what sexuality you are. How do you think anyone could be nominated if you don’t exist ? Do you people know anything about anything?”
lol. lmao even. And I for one think this is absolutely fantastic. Democracy is already fake and gay. Germany has decided that the solution to an opposing party gaining popularity is to ban it. The people of France apparently voted for the “Nazis” in the first round of their general election, then decided “Nah. Fuck it. We’re voting for the Commies in the second round”. And let’s not the forget the United States of America, which is run by one of multiple demented body doubles of a long dead Brandon, as well as his lunatic wife and (admittedly based) party animal son.
So why not? If democracy is fake and gay, lean into it. Have fun. Accelerate the fakeness and the gayness. Vote for the lookup table. Or the party animal. I for one am ridin’ with Biden. Hunter that is.
Hunter/Matlock ’24
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1920525/reform-uk-candidate-ai-bot