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Wow, I guess this is peak 2025. I know I'm calling it to early, but it can't get much worse than this.
Right?
Right???
- the bird flu epidemic hasn't ground the US to a halt yet.
  You motherfuckers better keep it to yourselves.

This is old school propaganda imagery
- If this wasn't posted by the White House account, I'd definitely believe it was posted by someone against the deportations.
  It's an innocent looking woman bawling her eyes out while being arrested. Why would they think this would help their anti-immigration cause?
  I mean, I actually know why. Because that's what the conservatives want. They know innocent people are being arrested and denied due process. It's not that they don't care - they actively want it.
  Go look at /r/conservative on Reddit. These people are cheering Rubio on after he announced that visaholders are being deported due to something they said or protested with no evidence being offered. And I'm not joking or exaggerating.
  
  It's an innocent looking woman bawling her eyes out while being arrested. Why would they think this would help their anti-immigration cause?
  Didn't you notice her skin is dark, and she's fat? Also probably something about her hair. These obvious signs point to the true evil inside her, you see! Only a bleeding heart satanic liberal atheist could see that and think she's an innocent woman!
  
  It’s an innocent looking woman bawling her eyes out while being arrested.
  Reality is that she's a drugs dealer (Fentanyl) - looks don't tell everything.
  I'm all for criticizing the USA government for the bullshit they pull. This one just isn't one.

Bro take me back to my timeline i don't like it here

Why would they arrest the lunch lady?
- Probably because she was a drugs dealer, and illegal in the USA. That tends to be an arrestable offense.

This photo breaks my heart. Like what the actual fuck???
- If it makes you feel better, that hand has 7 fingers so it's probably AI.
  At least a human didn't draw it
  
  It's AI. The trend du jour is uploading a picture to ChatGPT and asking it to recreate it in Studio Ghibli style.
  
  it does not
- Hey, chill. It’s just a cartoon.
  /s
- So maybe to unbreak it just a little, the picture is some AI drawing of an actual woman, a convicted fentanyl trafficker. I just don't understand why the cartoon.
  
  They memeing.
  
  I don't understand the downvotes. There's plenty to criticize the USA government for. This just isn't one of those moments.

I prefer the original artist's work
- Damn straight.

It's even a bad image for their intended purpose, because it evokes empathy for the person crying in handcuffs.
I guess since the person making it and the philistine machine that produced it both have no understanding of empathy nor art, that was lost on the generators of this image.
- You've missed out on the last several decades of Republican rhetoric, tears of "their enemies" is exactly what they want. They know they're the bad guys and revel in it.
  
  Y’all thought trail tears wasn’t a burn on natives? Like laugh at the people who died in forced marches.
  
  This isn't like tears of their enemies though, it just evokes empathy. I haven't cried in a long time, don't cry often, and didn't cry about this image. It's just a sad image.
  It's close to actual reality, where a lady probably previously working in a kitchen in a hairnet is sad that she's being deported, and some villainous, stone-faced everyman tries to look tough while standing in front of a flag.
  Usually they add in some fascist elements that make it look more glorious to be a sack of shit, but they didn't even do that with this image.
- It does for you. For the intended audience, it makes them cheer and jeer at the ‘stupid brown woman’ ‘finally getting her comeuppance’ for ‘daring to disrespect the flag by being an illegal’.
  They have no sympathy or empathy. They want to see PoC crying in chains as they are led off by white officers. To them, that means the system is working.
  
  Seems like a bad art style to convey that message to anyone except the most hardened of fascists -- which is almost a more succinct wording of my original point.
- For them, crying is a mark of their weakness and hypocrisy. It's laughable to them and adds to their sadistic joy.
- Not many people with empathy are left on Xitter, I suppose.
  If you hate your mental health, you can use Nitter to read the replies to that post. Just the most sickening shit imaginable.
  
  Nah I'm good, I bailed on that site as soon as it was sold.

Ahem... US people? You there?
Just in case: none of this is normal.
- Take a look at big chungus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Cheung_(political_advisor)
- That's the thing - this is only barely not normal. It's definitely more in your face, and a lot tackier, but the US has never been great, at least not for anyone straight, white, male, and relatively well off. Our history started with theft and genocide and continued on in that vein. While there have obviously been improvements over the last few hundred years, large portions of the population have had to be dragged kicking and screaming toward every bit of it. Even most of our best presidents have been responsible for atrocities, and then the pendulum always seems to swing back toward the worst of us for a while.
  Now we have a population that has been systematically under- or uneducated and fed a steady diet of propaganda about how incredible this country is without any critical thought, and they blame anyone not just like them for any of their problems instead of ever paying attention to the wealthy ransacking the place. The vast majority of them cannot be reasoned with, because Republicans have spent decades making sure they don't have the skills or desire to look at new evidence and change their minds.
  It's hard to come to terms with the fact that at least a third of my fellow Americans don't think I should exist as a queer person, and another third don't give enough of a fuck to bother taking any kind of stand. It's hard to watch every institution we've been assured would provide some kind of checks and balances fail as soon as someone decides they're no longer going to abide by any norms. Any meaningful action is likely to end up in a lot of death and if I thought this was a bizarre one off instead of something way too many people are rooting for, it would be a lot easier to think that sacrifice was worth it. It feels pretty hopeless at this point. My only real motivation is trying to use the little bit of privilege I have to try to help my community, but I know it's not enough.
  
  It's just really hard to comprehend for me. See, we get a new cancelor who is right wing, but would still be considered mild, maybe even Dem in US terms. And even I am active every single day. Especially before the elections. There is protests everywhere. Just a day ago a nazi leader decided to step down because of the huge counter protests.
  And you sit there, literally watching picture perfect facism rise, and be like: "Ayo, watcha gonna do about it?!"
  You are the forefront of the literal world to deny "Hitler but with a massive arsenal of mass destruction armory," but you resignate. It's insane.
- They never seem to be there. All Americans ever seem to be is talk.
  All these dumb excuses for constant inaction to the point where other fucking countries have to clean up their mess. I'm frustrated to the point that I want to see a policy implemented saying that if you didn't vote in the last election (assuming you were eligible to do so), you don't get entrance since you'd be more of a burden as someone who can't perform their civic duty
  
  It must be really easy to sit in judgement.
- Oh don't you worry, the Americans will be out in full force (about 3 dozen people) about this, and they will be carrying their most sarcastic and passive-aggressive signs, and will be standing around in the most unapproving ways.
- Oh I'm here... maybe not for long tho...
  Hmm what's that? A knock on the door? ICE Agents?
  Oh yea, btw I'm not white, so I'm fucked... 🤷‍♂️

The only war is class war! Immigrants are hard working people who deserve a path to citizenship. The parasite class is the tech bro oligarchs!
- We need to take the class war to the streets. This shit isn't going to stop. Look how quickly they panicked about a couple of Teslas self immolating. Direct action works, the time for peaceful noncompliance is over.
- They weaponized the only interesting thing about America. Immigrants.
  
  That's incredibly reductive of the massive amount of interesting things like our beautiful nature that America has

I saved you a click. I didn't believe this post was real and I went to find it on X. It's real and I'm sad for all Americans.
- Wait what?
  I am now sure were living in some mickeymouse simulation.
  
  My cousin has convinced me that we all died from Covid and this is hell
  
  I would avoid going to the Whitehouse Twitter page. The entire thing is just a bunch of sound bites from Fox news.
- Seriously what kind of soulless creep goes for this shit, not to mention thinks it's fun to post? Oh right, MAGA.
  
  It makes a white dude that's a real drain on society and his family feel superior, like he's winning. Don't make me whip out the Johnson.
- We just take your word for it?
  what is a link?
  basically
  
  non-X link
  
  You could search for it yourself. I just don't want to give any link juice/backlinks to Twitter to help improve their SEO rankings.
  
  Source

Looking at this image, every child could easily point out who's evil here. Do they not see it?
- They see it and they like it.
  They are evil. You don't get horns and cool red eyes when you turn evil. Mostly you stay the same!
  Fun thing I've noticed, evil people even seem to live longer. They don't stress about it when others suffer, they laugh. And laughter... Is the best medicine.
  
  Dunno man. There's a reason why the best comedians are left leaning.
  
  I've noticed that cancer seems to be really good at killing decent people, so my solution is that every time someone nice dies of cancer we should go out and round up five or six total shitheads, throw them into a volcano, and say they died of cancer.
- The fascists don't care. They will happily rub it into your face how much they can do something you cannot. It's a feature of fascism, not a bug.
  A Hungarian fascist told me how all gay people will be pedophiles in his eyes no matter what, while he himself groomed his wife from the age of 16.

I utterly despise this AI Ghibli trend. If you're a fan of Ghibli or Hayao Miyazaki you wouldn't do this. I especially hate that fascists are now doing it. Miyazaki hates fascists. I hate what the internet and social media have done to our society. Clearly the majority of us are not ready to use them responsibly.

Jesus, they really do ruin absolutely everything they touch. It's like Midas but even worse.
- Mierdas
  
  El Rey Mierdas...
  
  🥇

On top of all the actual fascist shit happening and yet to happen but about to, cherry on top, can you imagine?
Miyazaki is alive to see this happen.
Fucking. Imagine.

Hayao Miyazaki: I don't think there's anything that could make me despise the US more than I already do.
The US:
- TIL I am Hayao Miyazaki.

At least be realistic about it. The fascist is in plain clothes with a facecovering. The secret police making people disappear is already well established.

I don't understand what they thought this image would do? Except make people more upset.
- When people say the cruelty is the point they really mean it. MAGA fascists consider this satisfying. If it makes people upset that's even better. Imagine these people as highschool bullies. That's really all there is to it.
  
  MAGA and fascism are not simple bullying. They are not "politics". They are a mental illness epidemic.
  These people have had their logic corrupted, like a neurological virus. They can't explain Trumps policies or what he's done to benefit them. They don't even care. They just have "faith" in the closest thing to Satan they'll ever see, for absolutely no reason they can logically explain. They are insane, and a danger to society.
- They're the living embodiment of the Genoese saying "to cut off your dick to spite your wife". They live to make other people "mad", but being sympathetic with the plight of less fortunate people isn't "being mad". They are nothing more than bullies, but they run a world power.
- They want to show how tuff white cops are when they attack somebody's mom.

Studio ghibli produced some of the profoundly touching movies ever made. Them butchering it like this with AI is just fucking stupid.
- miyazaki fucking hates it and thinks it's a sign of the end times
  
  He does but I don't believe he's mentioned the end times
- 7 fingers btw.
  
  Nice catch!
- This is a good time to rewatch Porco Rosso.
  
  I love Porco Rosso. The theme of the golden age of aviation is something I love. Barely 10 years ago I wrote what would be my first novella in a setting that would be a dieselpunk fantasy that would invoke that era and a fantasy ww2 where Nazi like enemies are fought.
  But the come back of Nazis in the real world blasted my creativity. I could no longer make what seemed to me a distant era separate from what is happening now. The result is my own planned fantasy universe that had been building in my mind for years was just crushed.
- It's gone now GPT refuses to do it if you ask
  
  What if I told you...

Source for anyone
Also let’s never forget the deportation ASMR video
The cruelty is the point
- I recommend deleting this. If anyone really cared, they would search for it themselves. Don't give X any SEO backlinks.
  
  Or maybe a mirror link (like nitter) instead of deleting.
- So there is some context to it. She has been arrested for smuggling Fentanil, reentered the US again and got arrested once more.
  The image is making fun of her specifically, not so much the all out "immigrants are bad and nobody cares if they cry" message that is suggested by not posting said context with it. Making fun of sonedoby in this way can be m condemned morally too of course, but it's not how people ITT are aporachig the issue.
  This is the kind of "I want my worldview reassured so I will ignore the context" behaviour that I see a lot on the right. The more I am on Lemmy, the more I see this same aporach.
  So this is nothing more than left wing propaganda.
  I know this will get me some downvotes, but I encourage you to argue why I am wrong too. Because I think I am right now, but I am open to change my mind.
  
  For even more context, this specific post has to be seen with other posts and comments made by the administration.
  For example, the deportation ASMR video I also linked. Or Trump’s statement “they’re poisoning the blood of our country.” Or his statement “they're not humans, they're animals.” There are many others.
  The larger trend of these instances is to dehumanize a specific group of people. So while this specific instance in isolation may not be sufficient to infer their larger message, when it is seen in the larger context then it becomes clear.
  
  This is the kind of “I want my worldview reassured so I will ignore the context” behaviour that I see a lot on the right. The more I am on Lemmy, the more I see this same aporach.
  Warning for everyone else: This "both sides" thing is a typical tactic used by alt-right (and even fascists)to muddy the water, making us questioning if we should punch up or down.
  Yes, there are some cases where "both sides" talk may make sense.
  But what determines if it makes sense or not is the following question:
  "Is the criticism against punching up or is it a criticism against punching down?"
  "Punching up" means punching the privileged elites (example: talking bad of shareholders for making our lives worse)
   
  Punching down is what this comment is doing, which is making excuses for harmful behavior against a minority (Remember that human's right are a right for any and every person)
   
  So, remember, just like with comedy, NEVER punch down (never make the oppressed lives worser)
  Do Punch Up! (Make the oppressors lose their grip)

The US is very quickly turning into the new Nazi-Germany. Very sad and alarming to see.
- we're about to find out what would have happened if the Nazis had got the bomb first
  
  Spoiler alert…. It won’t end well.
  
  The Man In the High Castle
  Go watch it, its... interesting... (very dark and depressing)

When dumb Nazis have the largest nuclear arsenal freely at hand...
- And imperialistic oligarchs the 2nd largest...
  
  And genocide-loving ethnic supremacists have nuclear weapons, but don't want to admit it
  
  They're the same picture.

This was posted without context even then the picture is pretty fucked up since there are a ton of Latina women that work in cafeterias. The woman in the image was a food worker that sold fentanyl, this picture without the context is fucked up with the context it is kinda of a dog whistle😔.
- Context doesn't make it any better. This is a propaganda image that is glorifying a white man having power over a crying Latina woman who is in distress.
  This is genuine 100% nazi shit. Why are people not terrified by this?
  
  The person looks like Putin a little bit
  
  Always had been.

Caption: The Eternal Immigrant.
- so that everyone can get your very clever reference :)
  
  Your link is broken. It just takes one click to get where you meant to go though.

the white house is Ghiblifying fasciporn
One for !brandnewsentence@lemmy.world

"You see, I told the computer to make then weak, fat and darker skinned than me, so everyone knows that they're the bad one"

Those of us who survive this hell will show this to our children, when they're old enough.

From when he first came into office he was talking about "Lying CNN" on the official Whitehouse website. I think it was cooked long before this.

Can someone do a Ghibli of Luigi?

Why does he look like donald tusk
- the fascist pole?
  What a surprise
  
  Not a fascist.

Using AI generated memes based on a Japanese artist this was after we got confirmation that AI art can't be copyrighted 🤔 does that mean DMCA is the good guy?

slopaganda

The OP is very astute. Hopefully also correct.