• Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    On March 18, the official White House account on X posted two photographs of Virginia Basora-Gonzalez, a woman who was arrested earlier this month by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The post described her as a “previously deported alien felon convicted of fentanyl trafficking,” and celebrated her capture as a win for the administration. In one photograph, Basora-Gonzalez is shown handcuffed and weeping in a public parking lot.

    The White House account posted about Basora-Gonzalez again yesterday—this time, rendering her capture in the animated style of the beloved Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, who co-founded the animation company Studio Ghibli. Presumably, whoever runs the account had used ChatGPT, which has been going viral this week for an update to its advanced “4o” model that enables it to transform photographs in the style of popular art, among other things. The White House did not respond directly to a request for comment, instead referring me to a post by Deputy Communications Director Kaelan Dorr that says, in part, “The arrests will continue. The memes will continue.”

    Look at the cruelty. By the elected representatives of a people who won’t stop this.

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    23 days ago

    “It’s vile.”
    They want it that way.

    “It’s inhumane.”
    They want it that way.

    “It’s dangerous.”
    They want it that way.

    “It’s criminal.”
    They want it that way.

    “It’s illegal.”
    They want it that way.

    The current administration is doing all the evil because…they want it that way.

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      22 days ago

      It is genuinely scary how normalized it is. I know we are disgusted by it. But i mean how it does really receive that much push back.

      Judge orders are completely ignored and way to many people are cheering. We are only 2 months in an i have not been this terrified in my life of how close we are to a war between many countries in the west. 2 months and they proceed as if there are no boundaries or roadblocks.

      I really think we are underestimating what is coming.

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        I really think we are underestimating what is coming.

        For sure. Anyone with a good command of history knows where we are headed.

        The old saying is “Those who ignore history, are doomed to repeat it.” It’s supposed to be cautionary, but for the MAGA Nazis, its a Game Plan. They think the only thing wrong with the Nazis of WWII is that they weren’t ruthless enough to win. They don’t intend to make that same mistake. If anything, the MAGA Nazis will be far worse.

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      23 days ago

      I mean Elon was a 4chan user at some point and probably still mostly to inflate his ego from time to time. So it makes sense.