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Nothing Better Encapsulates Zombie Simpsons than this Picture from the Official Facebook

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Notice the flags are just copy and paste jobs. The artist wants the audience to understand that war propaganda is just an oversaturated, cheap reproduction of a simple template. That the choir of voices all telling you the same thing is nothing but an illusion. It's all just one voice, copy and pasted all over.
The Simpsons seemingly exist inside a void, staring blankly at you as you stare blankly into the emptiness of their expressions. It is frightening. Confronting! It dares the viewer to face what he may not want to: That there is nothing there! It's all a lie.
Once you look beyond Marge, the focal point, you notice that something is not quite right. The drawing becomes cruder towards the edges, as propaganda tends to look when you look more closely into the details and circumstances. This also creates the impression (quite deliberately) that the artist gave up on this assignment, his professional self-respect, and life in general. Like he wants to say: Please Xi Jinping! The Simpsons yearn for freedom!

(Werner Herzog voice) Marge as a flagpole represents her decline as a human being. Her life has been reduced to nothing more than an empty statement. I would cry, but to shed tears for this would be like an ant weeping over the dirt beneath his feet

Marge Simpson pride flag but on fire
- oh my god it is the marge pride flag

Why have them so emotionless? At least make them determined or something
- Matt was held at gunpoint until he drew it

Tbh what I hate in Simpsons is that Lisa is shown as a very progressive person, while she is just a chauvinistic liberal lol
- Yeah it’s so weird, like I’ll be nodding along to some of her points in an episode and then all of a sudden she bursts into “‘MURICA (fuck yeah!)” out of the blue.
  Lisa definitely has a NAFO Twitter account.
  
  I think what's more fitting for her is an account that promotes uyghur genocide news, as in the show she protests in favor of "Free TIbet". But she would definitely be a very annoying lib too. In one episode she literally becomes a Hillary-like female president to show how PROGRESSIVE murica has become
- in the early seasons it was done in a somewhat self-aware way. still radlib shit but it wasnt played completely straight they would at least find ways to deride her for having faith in american institutions etc.

they've been kicked off their prime spot on sundays so it seems that their time has come.
- A shame because the last few seasons have actually been pretty good
  Not back to golden age good, but definitely better than the previous dozen and half
  
  i was wondering if it was just me that notice that the episodes have a plot again. lol
  
  Is it at least Skully era good?
- Damn, the Simpsons has really fallen.
- Who must go

why do they have the most dead expressions possible
- Because they are in silence due to respect or something

Giving Lisa Simpson a flag as if she were supporting any country engaging in war is just proof that whoever made this has never watched the Simpsons
- Lisa definitely has NeoLib tendencies. [This is from early Season 7:
  
  also she was totally onboard with burying jebediah springfields very cool crime (attempting to kill washington) in order to keep the legend of him being a settler alive.
  
  Hmmm, good point. Fuck, we're so cooked
  
  Damn they called for more female fighter pilots first.
- This was made by the current Simpsons writers
  
  No fucking way, are you serious?!
- Lisa's always been an incredibly pro war neoliberal
- Why is she holding the lower corner of the flag? It looks windy.
  
  The cloth is too heavy for Bart
- It's got Matt Groening's signature so I assumed he'd drawn it?
  
  I assume matt groening hasn't actually drawn anything in years
  
  Well, that's kinda easy to copy-paste. If matt groening did it, that would be absolutely wild
- We're calling defending yourself from invasion "engaging in war" now? Didn't realize we were drinking that Russian propaganda.
  
  We're not drinking any Russian propaganda. Russia did start the war, but as in the case of Oct 7th, history doesn't begin in 2022.
  Russia tried to approach Europe in the past, so much so that there were tanks of Russia joining the EU back in the 2000s, but the US wasn't interested in such a strong Europe so it did its thing and put Europe against Russia. There's been an unnecessary expansion of NATO towards the east, despite the agreements that NATO wouldn't go further east than Poland.
  Since the 2010s, Russia has seen all the countries in its former sphere of influence (Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine...) suffer so-called "color revolutions", i.e., "spontaneous" protests leading to government changes putting these countries against Russian interests. What a coincidence, that protests in eastern Europe such as the Euromaidan lead to changes in government, but protests in the west have no effect! The occupy movement in the US, the Gilets-Jeunes in France, the 15-M in Spain... Huge protests all of them, bigger in some cases than any Maidan, no effect whatsoever in government.
  Russia tried to approach Europe, it wasn't allowed, and then it wasn't allowed either to maintain a sphere of influence in neighbouring countries because of the stronger economic power of the US and EU. And to top it all off, an eastward expansion of NATO. It's a blatant attempt to undermine Russian sovereignty and to make it subservient to US interests. Putin, as proto-fascist as he is, sees this, and sees that Russia is ignored in diplomacy and undermined in the economic, and that the only possibility for Russia to maintain a sovereignty and a sphere of influence, is by force. This is an unfortunate reality of geopolitics: Russia had to either accept subserviency, or to literally fight for its sovereignty, and it chose the latter.
  So yeah, you can both simultaneously understand that Russia is a capitalist country fighting a war to maintain the power of its bourgeoisie, and the fact that the US is the main culprit of this since Russia has tried to collaborate with the west for more than a decade and only seen maidans in response.
  
  Wow is this 2022 how do you still believe CIA propaganda

Blink twice if your being held hostage
- The dead eyes capture how everyday people feel about this. Like performative empathy for the Ukrainians, but let's keep putting them through the meat grinder to weaken Russia.

Why does marge look like a properly done version with clean straight lines but the rest of the family's all sketched out?
Also why are the flags copypasted?
- I think maybe because Marge is already Ukraine colored?

They all look confused lol
- This is probably from when the war started when people didn't know what a Ukraine was

Mobilizing pop culture for ukraine is so cringe

it looks like AI

This looks like a weird mix of AI, Tracing and some original stuff. Pretty funny considering that The Simpsons portrayed Ukraine as a corrupt country controlled by the mafia (the usual shit for The Simpsons whenever they portray another country)
The Simpsons' creator Matt Groening's paternal family originated from a Mennonite settlement in Ukraine. After Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the official Simpsons Twitter account released a tweet showing Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie each holding and draping over on them flags of Ukraine, showing solidarity to the country in response to the war
- Misread 'Weird Mix of AL' which sounds like a seedy knock-off of Weird Al.
  
  Evil Weird Al clone who copies all his song parodies but uses the original lyrics

Can't work out if he drew Marge especially well compared to the rest of them, or just copied her in from somewhere else?
- Marge is copied in, but the downward turning corner of her mouth is redrawn, and the tops of their eyes are all slightly smooshed.

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