{"id":19626,"date":"2025-09-23T18:53:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=19626"},"modified":"2025-09-23T22:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T22:28:58","slug":"social-telling-a-straight-up-lie-for-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2025\/09\/23\/social-telling-a-straight-up-lie-for-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Social: Telling a straight up lie for propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"528\" height=\"754\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-268.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-268.png 528w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-268-420x600.png 420w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-268-189x270.png 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These original photos were taken on May 14, 2025 at Barton Creek pool, in Austin Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Austin Texas is a college town. Nearly all colleges in the area reached the end of their semester during the first two weeks of May. From the photos, you can see that most of those picture are likely around age 20 +\/-.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This photo is not of lazy workers cutting out of their job to sit in the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"509\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-273.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19635\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That said, these photos have been widely shared by many, including Nick Huber, to &#8220;prove&#8221; that Americans are lazy and we must import as many foreign workers as possible. But all it really proves is that Nick Huber does not care much for accuracy. He&#8217;s part of the &#8220;I hate America&#8221; crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nick Huber, if he is as smart as he thinks he is, must know this post is a lie. Yet he repeatedly shares this photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"603\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/G1jDdMaWsAAeuUx-603x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/G1jDdMaWsAAeuUx-603x1024.jpg 603w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/G1jDdMaWsAAeuUx-353x600.jpg 353w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/G1jDdMaWsAAeuUx-768x1304.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/G1jDdMaWsAAeuUx-905x1536.jpg 905w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/G1jDdMaWsAAeuUx-159x270.jpg 159w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/G1jDdMaWsAAeuUx.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"628\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/G1jDdO6XYAA1Jjp-628x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/G1jDdO6XYAA1Jjp-628x1024.jpg 628w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/G1jDdO6XYAA1Jjp-368x600.jpg 368w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/G1jDdO6XYAA1Jjp-768x1252.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/G1jDdO6XYAA1Jjp-942x1536.jpg 942w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/G1jDdO6XYAA1Jjp-166x270.jpg 166w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/G1jDdO6XYAA1Jjp.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos of people sunbathing are presented as an illustration of lazy American workers, cutting work. But that is not what the photos show &#8211; in fact, its college students just after the spring semester ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,25,26,352,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cherry-picking","category-facts","category-internet-meme","category-lies","category-misinformation","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}