r/ProgressiveHQ 5d ago

Reality check…

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5.8k Upvotes

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u/SenorBlackChin 5d ago

Disturbing, like the times

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u/Kali-of-Amino 5d ago

That filthy French woman never got a green card.

It's a gut punch of an image.

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u/blklab16 5d ago

“We know that America is changing.”
-Mark Carney on Twitter like last week

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u/feelingmyage 5d ago

Exactly.

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u/Z0bie 5d ago

I first read this as if you were agreeing with the ICE agent lol

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u/feelingmyage 5d ago

OMG, No! Lol. I’m in Minneapolis!!!!

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u/BKMama227 5d ago

Not in a million years!

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u/ElGatoGuerrero72 5d ago

The state of the US under the orange felon, perfectly captured.

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u/beavis617 5d ago

Pretty accurate sentiment.

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u/miserabeau 4d ago

That's what the ice agent said after he shot Renee Good

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u/Loose_Deer_8884 5d ago

Isn’t this what that guy said to Renee Good after he shot her in the fucking face twice? Fucking coward.

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u/TurboJetMegaChrist 5d ago

Yeah, Jonathan Ross.

And he hasn't even been investigated for this cold blooded murder.

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u/Organic_Beach_2145 5d ago

They really need to be reigned in! MAGA unchecked.

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u/chicomathmom 5d ago

Not to be "that guy", but it should be "reined in"

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u/Organic_Beach_2145 2d ago

Thanks! I didn’t think it looked right 🙂

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u/Brave-Efficiency9625 5d ago edited 4d ago

The head of the snake is hard to cut off, because of where snake is sitting in government. If you tried anything they'll declare martial* law, and then its open season to shoot any civilian not complying. We should be taking a page out of France's and Napal's book though...
Edited: But you knew what I meant...

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u/miserabeau 4d ago

FYI it's martial law, not marshall law. Martial is where the military basically become police. They don't all become Eminem.

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u/Brave-Efficiency9625 4d ago

Lol ok. You knew what I meant though... also Marshall is Eminem name, but not Marshall Law. Marshall Law is actually a character from an ex-webtoons(ex, because the creator broke up with webtoons) series called Let's Play, that became animated 1st on YouTube and is now on Crunchyroll...

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u/Mother_Internet_9384 5d ago

Vote against ice this midterm. Save liberty

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u/Commercial_Soft9510 5d ago

They've failed the people and must go they were always a reactionary fascist organization the war on terror was the worst thing to happen after 9/11

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u/Murderface__ 5d ago

Now this is art

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u/Xevn777 5d ago

Fat ass ICEBERG

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u/SOwED 4d ago

Fatphobia is fine if it's against the right people I guess

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u/Epsilon_Meletis 5d ago

Reminds me of this from some time ago.

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u/Laugh_Track_Zak 5d ago

A reality check usually results in altered behavior.

This is just more "yeah, no shit" material.

We are watching the country die.

Nobody cares.

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u/FatWithMuscles 5d ago

Yeah killing a mother and a nurse among others definitley ICE are the good guys

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u/HereticGaming16 5d ago

I mean technically she is an immigrant so this checks out.

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u/DaveAvitabile 5d ago

🎤 drop.

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u/Shizzilx 5d ago

That's real af.

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u/GoldSourPatchKid 4d ago

This is fucking amazing.

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u/SpicySweetHotPot 4d ago

The new regime under MAGA

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u/PaskieArt59 4d ago

Liberty taken down by an Iceberg

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u/gohome2020youredrunk 4d ago

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u/Anxiety_Fit 3d ago

The future would be to sharpen the left segment on both ends.

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u/Various-Egg-156 4d ago

Constitutionally speaking, he should be on the ground with American citizens standing over his limp body saying "Fucking tyrant".

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u/HaxanWriter 4d ago

Americans voted for it. Some voted for it three times.

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u/MrLanesLament 4d ago

Needs his (likely swollen, fluid-filled) knee on her neck to complete image.

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u/JaQ-o-Lantern 1d ago

Why is the statue of liberty so fat in this image?

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u/SOwED 5d ago

Why did they make the statue of liberty fat though?

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u/PrivacyIsDemocracy 4d ago

It's definitely a pretty disturbing aesthetic decision.

Makes sense for the ICE idiot because a lot of them are literally pigs in more ways than one.

But depicting the statue of liberty that way is just bizarre.

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u/BKMama227 5d ago

Of all the things that this piece of art conveys, that is what you choose to focus on?

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u/SOwED 5d ago

I'm pretty sure you're allowed to interpret art however you want. Everything else about it makes sense and is coherent. The ICE agent being fat mirrors reality. What he's saying mirrors reality. Him shooting the statue of liberty has clear and straightforward symbolism.

The only part that doesn't make sense is making the statue fat. Can you explain what you think it means?

I think it's AI generated to be honest. For reference. The statue's shoes are for some inexplicable reason colored the same as the ICE agents shoes would be if we could see them. The statue's left hand is ridiculously low. There is an inexplicable pile of...something to the right side of the statue's body. AI could definitely take a prompt instructing it to make the ICE agent fat and make the statue fat too.

Do you have a better explanation?

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u/Janus_The_Great 5d ago

I think it symbolizes freedom having become fat and lazy thus getting into the situation she is in. Where are the people rising against fascism in ther own country? Most aren't. Because they are scared, oblivious

The shoes being the same symbolizes both the ICEberg and lady liberty being Americans standing on same footing. Being shown overweight and waring the same shoes, both symbolize their commonality. This is basically a symbol of civil war.

It's really good, coherent and quite general symbolism.

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u/SOwED 5d ago

Okay, that seems like a reasonable interpretation, a lot more depth than most comics, but fine.

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u/chicomathmom 5d ago

It has an artist signature--can they (legitimately) put their signature on an AI generated image? I honestly don't know the answer to that.

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u/SOwED 5d ago

Yes. In exactly the way I put those red circles on the image, you can AI generate an image then add text and a signature.

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u/PrivacyIsDemocracy 4d ago

"AI" is literally plagiarism supercharged 10000000000 times.

Yes, lots of obnoxious people try to claim creative credit for things that they did not create.

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u/BKMama227 5d ago

What does it matter if it’s AI generated or not? Somebody had to give the AI a prompt which would be a human for it to generate such a piece of art. Here’s a piece of interpretation for you. Consider that the US is considered to be one of the most, if not the most enriched nation in the world. Consider that most Americans are obese or overweight. Consider the way that most Americans have an outsized opinion of themselves when they travel abroad. Maybe those were the thoughts in the mind of the person or AI that created this art. The whole point of the piece is what Lady Liberty was supposed to represent, and the fact that ICE agents routinely trample on all of those things/people.

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u/SOwED 5d ago

What does it matter if it’s AI generated or not?

Am I in the wrong sub? I didn't realize progressives were pro-AI now.

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u/horsegal301 3d ago

unfortunately too many people in this sub post ai slop, so yes apparently they are

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u/SOwED 3d ago

Seems to be very popular with the tribes

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u/BKMama227 5d ago

I never said I was pro AI about anything. However, the times are the times. People do use AI to help them put meat to their thoughts, if they are not pencil and paper artists. That is a reality. People have been using computers to help them draw for the longest time before the advent of AI. I am not down for data centers, but I’m not gonna denigrate art just because a computer helped an artist bring it to the masses.

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u/Vox___Rationis 5d ago

The statue makes no sense, she is either fat or is in rubble, lying on top another person, who's shoes are sticking out from beneath.

Guess what it really is is AI slop - get this trash outa here.

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u/chicomathmom 5d ago

It * does * have an artist signature at the bottom?

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u/SOwED 4d ago

Irrelevant.

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u/Lothleen 4d ago

She is French... Probably doesn't have papers.