Nothing like having a “presidency” done by tweets and memes.
FFS.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
This comment deserves to be its own post.
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.
They have hit rock bottom but they immediately started digging.
More confirmation of the rampant hypocrisy in the religion
What a joke of a country.
Feels bad, man
Really bad
Did… Did 4chan take over the United States???
Since about 2015 or so. It got remarkably worse in 2017-2021 and then again in 2025…
That’s not a meme, that’s Propaganda.
It’s also libel made with actual malice.
Gonna be a really expensive lawsuit. That is paid out by all of us taxpayers.
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.
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.
Law? In this economy? In this part of the world? Localised entirely within our judicial system?
right? it is literally the definition of libel…
And actually published by the government.
Its a lie. They lie so often that they think its truth.
You’re not going to believe this, but…
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.
Defamation.
Also, nice racist bias on that model (making her fatter).
I dunno about fatter, but it definitely made her darker. Oof.
Honestly both might be a difference in when the shot was taken.
Its the same picture. One is edited.
That’s the entire subject of this post.
Cool. They look like slightly different angles.
Its cropped and edited… Feel free to read the article which covers this in its entirety.
Even just the headline should have been enough
Yeah, it’s literally the opening words of the title.
I mean… One would hope, but clearly it wasn’t enough for some.
And darker.
A government agent altering a photograph to render an inaccurate image of an accused person will raise serious questions of bias. But also, any defense will likely now include whether the government has also digitally altered any other evidence concerning the matter, and whether that evidence was developed for public consumption or otherwise. to generate bias.
I’d say more broadly this raises concerns about how the White House directly controls or damages the credibility of the Judicial Branch. But, for the world audience, this should raise red flags about the (in)stability of the US in general.
I’ve been saying this for months. A primary role of any jury is to determine the credibility of evidence. I would argue that no jury should trust any evidence presented by the Trump DoJ at this point.
I know history is full of nasty little dictators and their lackeys but have any of them ever been this fucking childish?
I don’t know about childish but the Khmer Rouge was batshit insane, their way of “governing” was completely unsustainable.
It’s always inspiring to see the bottomless well of incompetence, absurdity, and stupidity that makes up the entirety of this white house.
I no longer feel shame as a person, because I have been presented evidence that I am not a hemorrhoid on society. I don’t hurt people for fun nor profit.
This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs – to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.
Orwell, 1984
Don’t you worry darlings, we’re all laughing our asses off at Trump and Vance memes too. It is hilarious to put your hated enemies in unflattering situations, isn’t it. Have fun with the deluge fuckers!
In THEIR case, it’s part of the state media. In YOUR case, you can run into problems with memes and tweets, including FB posts that are critical of conservatives now, too - see that woman in Miami that got a visit from the cops. Nothing violent at all in the Facebook post…
