• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    Dystopian fiction: The regime alters photos to make people look happy and smiling, to hide their cruelty.

    Dystopian reality: The regime alters photos to make people look sad and pained, to brag about their cruelty.

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    Ignoring the fakery, I don’t see how the alteration makes her less sympathetic. I would also be distressed if being frog-marched by facists for the crime of being born autistic.

    All this propaganda does, is cement my decision to fight. The Trump Regime and Dogey Americans, are enemies of any decent human being, and must be destroyed.

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      They think they are portraying the subject as ‘weak’. It’s for their racist base to feel like ‘right on, we made a weak black leftist woman cry, like they all deserve’'.

      It was never about making her less sympathetic, but a celebration of hurting the ‘correct’ people to get hurt.

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        It’s not JUST for thier base.

        For anyone pondering joining such actions, these would be leaders.

        If you’re thinking of joining, and the leaders look “weak”, it might not inspire much faith. You might decide to hold back.

        The truth is, she looked calm and collected, confident in her decisions and actions. She looks like a leader. She looks like someone worth following. That type of imagery is dangerous if you’re trying to suppress action.

        So, in short, it’s an attempt at active suppression, not just a “treat” for thier own. It’s the modern equivalent of going on about how short Napoleon is. It’s an attempt to diminish those they’re afraid of to try and keep others from following them.

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        Now he’s hurting the people he needs to be hurting! I still cannot afford jack squat, and don’t have a job or health care, but at least he’s punching down, thank goodness!

  • D_C@sh.itjust.works
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    Me, the other day: “They’ve finally done it. They’ve finally hit rock botto…wait, nope, I was wrong.”

    Me, yesterday: “They’ve finally done it. They’ve finally hit rock botto…wait, nope, I was wrong.”

    Me, this morning: “They’ve finally done it. They’ve finally hit rock botto…wait, nope, I was wrong.”

    Me, tomorrow: “They’ve finally done it. They’ve finally hit rock botto…wait, nope, I was wrong.”

    Etc, etc, and fucking, etc.

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          You can sue Donald Trump without suing the US Government. Right now several lawmakers are preparing a lawsuit against Pam Bondi over the Epstein Files.

          If we flip the house and senate I’m gonna start sending drafts to representatives for a law that makes the Trump estate and all future president’s estates liable for all the avoidable and frivolous lawsuits on the basis of which they did not protect the human beings who live in this nation nor represent the system of laws which govern them, rather that they were personal and need to be paid for personally by the officials responsible for giving the orders resulting in lawsuit.

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            You would have to show that Trump specifically ordered the alteration. That almost certainly didn’t happen and it was someone else in the administration that actually made that call.

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    The altering of a photo is meant to distract you from the fact that they are arresting ordinary citizens who don’t have the financial means to legally protect themselves. It may seem like an irrelevant distinction based on everything else they do but this is an escalation.

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    I know history is full of nasty little dictators and their lackeys but have any of them ever been this fucking childish?

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      I don’t know about childish but the Khmer Rouge was batshit insane, their way of “governing” was completely unsustainable.