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[–] snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Joey B himself isn't updating his own Twitter page.

[–] oldGregg@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

His Twitter page speaks for the US government (@POTUS). This reflects poorly on the US, if nothing else.

[–] aes@lemm.ee -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dude if you've ever struggled getting your pants legs onto your legs this past month I don't want to hear a fucking thing from you about some intern uploading DCIM_2938484.jpg instead of DCIM_2938483 as a pic for a post on a goddamn microblog site

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

So the US cares so little for it's relationship with Vietnam that it can't be bothered to find an intern they can put on their pants?

[–] NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.com 15 points 1 year ago

Someone wrote down the wrong notes. F

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was prepared to almost defend them if the photo had been of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, since he has more de facto power in Vietnam than the President does and you can kinda see how that mistake would have been made. Even then it would have been an awful blunder that someone whose literal job is to represent his country to the leaders of other countries shouldn’t be making (and neither should his PR team), but you could follow how it happened.

But it’s not even that. It’s the Chairman of the National Assembly. The equivalent of the US Speaker of the House. Pretty indefensible blunder.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah whatever aide is in charge of this probably got quite the talking-to!

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a massive diplomatic error from the US government. In fact, it came from the US government Twitter handle @POTUS. Just because an aide made the issue doesn't make this issue not reflect poorly on the US.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Where in my reply did I say anything to the contrary?

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

since he has more de facto power in Vietnam than the President does

I get what you are saying, but I would expect whoever runs the US President's social media accounts to understand that 'President' is a figurehead position in a lot of countries. Our President probably has less actual power than our PM, Speaker, (federal) ministers and even the Vice-President.