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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.
The Trail of Tears was always taught to me as a black spot in our history, a horrible thing that we (the United States) did to natives.
Indian removal act sounds like the impending Latino removal act
Same here, but I learned about it from my mom - I don’t think we spent much time on it in school.
Can you imagine a photo of the Trail of Tears with a cartoon AI filter posted by the government? Fuck.
I can.
It’s called newspapers from the 1840s.
Yeah. What am I even asking? This is more of the same.
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.
They don’t have empathy. The crying lady is brown, they’re ecstatic.
Yeah. It’s white, military authority literally standing on the side of the flag. They’re crying because they’re being handcuffed “probably because they’re gonna be sent back to their shithole country cuz they came here illegal.”
Perhaps you think this is more empathetic because of the art style but this is rote, flag-hugger imagery. Except this was probably produced by bot and the poster was too lazy to run the gen more than twice.
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.
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.
For them, crying is a mark of their weakness and hypocrisy. It’s laughable to them and adds to their sadistic joy.
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.
Studio Ghibli style
So that’s what it’s called.
it does not
6 fingers and 1 thumb
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.
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!
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
Mhmm. It existed before us. And will after us.
… That is completely irrelevant to the point that it’s in America and you called it by extension not interesting
The humans that are alive on American soil now have raped the landscape for miles in every direction. Whats to see other than travesty in place of majesty?
I see you don’t live in America. I’m sorry you haven’t been able to see the massive majesty that still exists. But it’s incredible, what still remains mostly untouched. America is a vast, vast place. And not everywhere has been gone through.
Been here my whole life.
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.
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.
I don’t care is she’s Kaiser sose this is not something that should be posted by the White House
She’s actually a kindergarten teacher and volunteers at a soup kitchen every weekend
Poe’s law. Can’t tell if serious or playing a bit.
As an European im already confused, why US-American law enforcer publish mugshots (privacy-rights of the offender)
But to post a picture of the offender crying inface of deportation as a ghibli-meme… wow. The USA are really fucked up
The USA are really fucked up
Always has been.
I dunno, for some times in history they have been (relativly to the world) the good or at least better ones.
Bro take me back to my timeline i don’t like it here
Jesus, they really do ruin absolutely everything they touch. It’s like Midas but even worse.
Mierdas
El Rey Mierdas…
Toque de Merda in portuguese (Touch of Mierda)
Yeah I was going for “shit king” in spanish. But it checks 😆
🥇
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.
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.
Remember that writing is also for processing (emotionally) the shit that is going on.
I know it is your work and you do with it what you want.
Even then I want to suggest just to write your voice against what is happening today in whatever way you want.
It may be in the style you imagined or you may just shelve this particular style for a while.
But writers are always needed to shout the voice of those who “can’t do so by themselves”
You could flip it around and use your ideas to write a near future or current day alternate reality story.
It had a strong fantasy element (I even had a massive map made of the world that I was detailing on a microlevel until… I lose the file due to a crash…). It also has furries in it. I’ll DM you with a link to the story and even the file if you want it.
Sure I’ll read it. I don’t care about furries one way or the other but it’s an honor to read someone’s work. So sorry about your map. I spent so many hours making fantasy maps when I was young.
It’s gone now GPT refuses to do it if you ask
What if I told you…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
You are not engaging with my criticism.
I’ll refrase it, maybe I was unclear the first time.
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The Comic is about one specific insident, which is provided with the original.
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The picture here stirps it of that context.
Hence the picture here is suggesting that the original tweet made fun of ALL immigrants. Most peoples posts here are working from the assumption that this is the case.
Im not saying it is okay to make fun of this woman. A person smuggling Fentanil (if that is even true) still does not deserve to be mocked in this way.
I saying it is not okay to strip the tweet of the context, because it makes the goverment look worse on purpose (making fun of all immigrants, not one specific case). And yes, that is a tactic used by the right lot. I’m not saying “both sides do this so it’s okay when it happens on the right”. I’m saying the left should be better than that.
The goverment are all ready acting like fashists. There are plenty of things to be critical of that are ture - why try to play up something like this? Why lie?
No “both sides are equaly bad”. Just a “our side should be above this”.
I agree with your sentiment.
The cartoon is clearly in extremely bad taste and dehumanizing.
However, the context that she had been previously convicted for fentanyl trafficking is important.
It’s tough though, because if we put the cartoon aside, this is technically what they should be doing. I don’t disagree with deporting felon immigrants.
But then you consider all the history of this administration that got us here… it’s really hard to agree with them.
I don’t disagree with deporting immigrants that have been shown, trough due process, to have committed crimes.
I disagree with making fun of one of them with bad AI pictures.
I also don’t think this comic shows how the Trump government has no empathy for immigrants.
That is better shown by their actions: Deporting 250 Venezuelans to a foreign prison without due process for example.
I belive that, in the face of such clear evidence that they regard immigrants as sub-humans, there is no need to take a comic out of context to make your point.
With you on that. This is a bit of a “bad example.”
And someone looking in from the outside could totally make the conclusion that “they (lemmy) are totally taking this out of context! They’re a felon!”
Like you say, there’s a menagerie of actions done by this administration that are dangerous and telling of their goals.
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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.
Yes, I agree. I by no means are trying to argue that the administration is NOT dehumanising immigrants (and Transfolk. And we all know it won’t stop there).
I’m just pointing out that we don’t need to make up things (or in this case ommit context), especially given the vast amount of clear evidence that we have for the administrations stand.
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Those of us who survive this hell will show this to our children, when they’re old enough.
Can someone do a Ghibli of Luigi?
