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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.
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 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
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.
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.
slopaganda
Why does he look like donald tusk
the fascist pole?
What a surpriseNot a fascist.
Oficially.
That whole country is infested with them.
https://www.belnovosti.com/en/in-the-world/thousands-of-nationalists-march-in-warsawWhile there is a lot of overlap, nationalists and fascists are different and should not be confused.
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.
This photo breaks my heart. Like what the actual fuck???
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.
I don’t understand the downvotes. There’s plenty to criticize the USA government for. This just isn’t one of those moments.
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
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 😆
🥇
This photo breaks my heart. Like what the actual fuck???
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 don’t 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)
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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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.
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?
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
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.
Those of us who survive this hell will show this to our children, when they’re old enough.
