I prefer the original artist's work
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2025
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Bro take me back to my timeline i don't like it here
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.
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Jesus, they really do ruin absolutely everything they touch. It's like Midas but even worse.
Studio ghibli produced some of the profoundly touching movies ever made. Them butchering it like this with AI is just fucking stupid.
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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???
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Caption: The Eternal Immigrant.
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