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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Studio ghibli produced some of the profoundly touching movies ever made. Them butchering it like this with AI is just fucking stupid.
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.
Those of us who survive this hell will show this to our children, when they're old enough.