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???
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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!
Bro take me back to my timeline i don't like it here
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.
Ahem... US people? You there?
Just in case: none of this is normal.
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.
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
Seriously what kind of soulless creep goes for this shit, not to mention thinks it's fun to post? Oh right, MAGA.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Hayao Miyazaki: I don't think there's anything that could make me despise the US more than I already do.
The US:
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.
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.
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.
Studio ghibli produced some of the profoundly touching movies ever made. Them butchering it like this with AI is just fucking stupid.
The US is very quickly turning into the new Nazi-Germany. Very sad and alarming to see.
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?