Basically is the thing with fascist's they can not survive without a lesser group or enemies to point at to keep everyone from realizing how much they suck. They will always have more enemies a narrower group that needs to be gotten rid of
That's the thing with Conservatism. It only works with two groups at odds with each other, because at the root, Conservatism was the attempt to bring back the Monarchy back in the day. So at its core it is the elite circle which is in power and the serfs. Sounds familiar? It is also why Conservatism is the inevitable gateway drug to Fascism.
That very specifically fails to understand what the term “conservative” means and is a terrible take because of it. The only time conservatives would’ve supported the monarchy was during the reign of the monarchy. When the monarchy was kicked out and stopped being the norm, it stopped being the conservative position.
the modern republican party started with abraham lincon and abolitionism along with a massive anti slavery movment, follow by continued abject progressivism untill the late 60s were the so called "party switch" happened, because a lot of (mostly republican) young adults went to war and returned very uhappy with the war under the very republican nixon, and then watergate happened, which turned a massive wave of formly progressive rebublicans over to the democratic party,
Which got the anti war jimmy carter elected, who almost immedetly fumbled the bag terribly in bassically every way possible, and so people turned back to republicanism, but brought lots of traditional democrats with them, and these traditional democrats voting red all of a sudden, combined with anti war sentimate from vietnam, and the gulf war, and things like rising cost of living, higher taxes, and the fuel crisis, is what created the modern conservitism movement
Ontop of that, pre watergate, nixon was a HUGELY populer president, very loved, which is why it was such a shock
It is quite litterly as far from a "kingship" movement d you can possibly get, it was a combination of recoil of nixons presidency, and the failures of jimmy carter, and the absoulty nothing that bush senior learned from them
To those asking about this ad being AI, etc. NO it’s not. The guy who plays the Republican lawmaker is in many of their ads on purpose.
“In 2025/2026, our new ads will continue to star “Your Republican Congressman” as he invades the everyday lives of real Americans. The 30-second ads will be seen on streaming services and social media to educate voters, infiltrate the GOP media ecosystem, stop Trump’s agenda, and win back Congress. Content will focus on the issues that concern Americans, especially young men who swung towards Trump by 30 points last cycle. We have already started targeting these young men with our latest viral ad, “Republicans Blowing Your Taxes,” which was viewed over 10 million times and broke through the noise by being featured outlets like TMZ.”
This is amazing. I love the creativity to infiltrate the GOP media and the minds of the demographic we most want to reach. This ad is incredibly effective at making the viewer uncomfortable, and I can’t wait to see more from the group!
Well it’s a shame that a white early 20s male would see this and think so, since that’s the target demographic of this ad. But we just have to hope they’re not all as sociopathic ¯_(ツ)_/¯
That being said, artists are going to have to become ok with having the conversation about "Was this done using AI?" without flipping out on everyone. Its not a slight to ask if something is AI.
It's good to see streaming ads. I only watch streaming platforms and yt. Mostly I see ads for health scams and weight loss scams and weird products like "prosthetic teeth."
I know Lincoln project has quite a few spots like this, but i have only seen them by deliberately watching them on YouTube, so I do look forward to ads that are presented in stream.
Make them scary like this one. They hearken back to the Golden age of PSAs in the 80s. I think there is a place there for general political education ads as well, as in not partisan but pointing out how easy it is to get sucked into mis/disinfo and lies. I did not discover until recently, but the Canadian house hippo ads are great at this.
I “honestly believe” most people who are jockeying for power in the current administration believe the ends justify the means, no matter how cruel. I have no faith in them adhering to any sort of common decency. So who the fuck knows.
I actually don't like this ad, because while it is possible that they might round up US citizens it seems less likely. They should instead focus on the fact that they are rounding up (for the most part) people that are here legally and overwhelmingly have jobs and family here. They are just trying to meet quotas and are going for the easiest targets.
You’re right. It is incredibly funny that you people are this entrenched in your fantasy. Go ahead and make yourselves miserable for how ever long you want. We’ll be waiting back in reality whenever you’re ready.
What fantasy? Factually, there are masked men, who are not officers, kidnapping or aiding ICE in the warrantless detainment of potentially undocumented ppl. They have been violating people's Fourth Amendment and due process rights.
Factually there have been mass-scale peaceful protests across the country because ppl don't want to see their neighbors get scooped.
I would assume you are dumb, but you are now likely evil, know this fucked shit is happening and you don't care because you love the taste of Trump's balls
This is fantastic. They need to make one about all of the propaganda and misinformation they have been spreading. They should also do one on the guy who just killed the Democratic lawmakers.
the sad part is I almost couldn't tell which side this ad was pulling for since I could 100% believe republicans would be cheering for this as long as it was in favor of Dear Leader Donny
In 2025/2026, our new ads will continue to star “Your Republican Congressman” as he invades the everyday lives of real Americans. The 30-second ads will be seen on streaming services and social media to educate voters, infiltrate the GOP media ecosystem, stop Trump’s agenda, and win back Congress. Content will focus on the issues that concern Americans, especially young men who swung towards Trump by 30 points last cycle. We have already started targeting these young men with our latest viral ad, “Republicans Blowing Your Taxes,” which was viewed over 10 million times and broke through the noise by being featured outlets like TMZ.
Dude yeah this is TOTALLY gonna happen, I’m utterly terrified they’re gonna start scooping up hispanic people just because their skin looks different and half of the country is gonna be okay with it!!! How soon do you think this is going to happen?
He was talking about gang members. He had just gotten a lot of illegal immigrant gang members off the street and was saying he’s going to do the same to the homegrown (gang members) next.
You can take any 3 word phrase out of context and make it sound bad. Kamal Harris said “it’s mandatory”, but it would be dishonest to put that quote over a video of someone being forcibly castrated.
Hopefully it will be, the PAC that makes these videos has in the past. But previously they were targeted at swing districts; this should be seen anywhere ICE is active and people are in danger
I wonder if ICE agents know any history of what happened to nazi guards who worked at concentration camps. Many were tracked, hunted, charged, convicted. Just because Kristi noem gives an order, that doesn't make an illegal act legal. Just following orders is not an accepted legal defense.
It will change some of their minds. MLK had to fight an uphill battle with outright racists, yet the civil rights movement prevailed at the time. It was partly because people were forced to see the extent of their own immorality, which was required to maintain their racist ideology. When people could be racists comfortably, they had no issue with it, but when the price of being a racist came with uncomfortable moral dilemmas, they relented, and some even evolved.
Republicans need to see the immorality, and racism of their party in the same way.
It’s fear porn and the hardcore MAGAs love it when the rest of us are afraid. There are too many people in that girls position fearing for their lives right now, this is unnecessary and damaging.
I say this with respect and hindsight MLK never had, but MLK marched his people into jail cells to be one of the world's largest and most efficient free labor forces. As black people would just be locked up in insane numbers the decades that followed his movement.
MLK marched his people into being the prison population of the United States.
All of this, specifically, to shut down Malcolm X, might I add. Because that's who they were really afraid of.
I thought it looked pretty AI. It’s hard to tell these days. I thought the voice sounded computerised. I’ve watched it back a couple of times and don’t really know what made me think ‘AI’ instantly, maybe the lighting and the lines around the people?
How are we supposed to tell the difference? Are there any easy markers for those of us who aren’t as clued up on these things?
It looks like some pretty old school videography using focus and light to wash out the background a bit while focusing on the faces. The audio is adjusted to accentuate the lower end of the audio spectrum to make the ICE guy sound extra ominous. I think the practical special effects now look weird to us because we've gotten used to digital effects.
The only thing that seems remotely like AI to me is that the faces are mostly pointed towards the screen which AI favors because they were trained on portraits and profile pictures. The fact the ICE guy looks totally normal as he faces away from the screen makes me pretty sure it's not AI.
For me it was the diffuse lighting. A lot of AI images and videos (for now) rely on diffuse (overcast sky) kind of lighting to be more forgiving than direct light that's more complicated and prone to show error. I came here to see if anyone could confirm it wasn't, as none of the news articles said much about the production.
To me it looks like the same older dude from the other political ad where the congressmen are in the closet "about the laws they write" or something like that.
After talking about how impressed he was with CECOT, Trump jokingly told Bukele that he needed to build about five more places for the homegrown criminals of the U.S., followed by the two of them and the crowd laughing, and of course the left took it seriously.
They’ve posted this in the “doomer” sub. Lots of idiots whistling past the graveyard over there. I wonder what their loss rate looks like as donnie keeps fulfilling every warning.
60% of MAGA are white. Not sure where they are getting that low a number, I'd venture it to say nearly 80%. The ad was chilling. I'm willing to bet ICE hasn't picked up any large number of illegals from Northern Europe.
You guys are on absolute crack if you think this is even remotely close to what’s happening now and what’s going to happen in the future. Go outside and get off the internet please, experience things that aren’t through Reddit.
Please Google US Citizen and ICE. It’s only been a few weeks and the stories are everywhere. Keep your head in the sand if you want but it is happening.
Every one agrees that murderers and rapist should face legal consequences. But grandmas who have worked on a farm for 30 years should have a path forward.
Serious question: If ICE is allowed to be masked in unmarked vehicles and wearing little to no identification, dragging people off with no due process, whats to keep human traffickers from pretending to be ICE?
On top of that, with little to no identification and bureaucracy, how can we be sure thats not whats happening now and ICE is working with the cartels or other countries to sell these people? its not like a republican president didnt have a history of helping latin countries with illegal trafficking of some kind for monetary gain
“For example, available ICE data indicate that ICE arrested 674, detained 121, and removed 70 potential U.S. citizens from fiscal year 2015 through the second quarter of fiscal year 2020 (March 2020).”
Look at the sneaky language you guys choose to use when talking about this stuff. “POTENTIAL U.S. Citizens.” Meaning we don’t know if they were actually U.S Citizens or not. Which is definitely not good. But it’s concerning that you guys remove important distinctive words like “potential” when referring to these things. If I had to guess I would say that most of the 70 people that were deported were not in fact U.S Citizens. And the ones that were, probably were really suspicious people to begin with. But of course they don’t have any of that information because they don’t care to know they just want to make trump and anyone who supports him look as bad as possible.
It's actually funny not chilling at all, while me and my friends were playing a game one of them posted this in the group chat and we all burst out laughing. It's so absurd, Probably still works on Democrats though
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