what is going on in america? it’s starting to look like a social experiment
Folks want to provoke a civil war because they know they can't deliver what they promised in the 2024 election.
My best interpretation is that the apparent craziness of everything we're seeing reflects the level of how much the social order has really broken down.
We saw similar (albeit somehow tamer by contrast) things in South Africa during the excesses of the State Capture [0] years - people (mostly those complicit in trashing the country) started to do and say bonkers things. Jacob Zuma (like Trump) also acted as a lightning rod for these types of crazy characters. Genuinely sensible members of the public started to fabricate or grasp at wild explanations for what was going on. It took a major toll.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zondo_Commission
Fascism powered by bullshitting
You know exactly what is going on here. Don't let it happen where you are. Stay safe
Techno fascism. What is old is new again.
WW3 is asymmetric and crazy/dumb Christian Taliban people are helping Putin.
> Asked whether the image had been digitally altered, the White House responded by sending a post on X from Kaelan Dorr, the deputy communications director.
> “YET AGAIN to the people who feel the need to reflexively defend perpetrators of heinous crimes in our country I share with you this message: Enforcement of the law will continue. The memes will continue. Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he said.
Of note:
- government fabricating (with "AI", read: generative image model) contemporaneous image of arrestee
- when questioned about fabrication, official response refers to deputy communications director's Twitter post
- said tweet ridicules defense of alleged perpetrator — that is, defending criminal defendant, and/or not merely presuming guilt of arrestee
- said tweet indicates that government's memes regarding accuseds (that is, people who have not been tried and convicted by a jury of their peers) will continue
- said tweet parrots Trump's own tweet style
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Watch this post get flagged and buried despite (1) being about tech (use of generative models in daily life, and by government no less); (2) being news; and (3) being evidence of government's disregard for truth, judicial determination of facts, and constitutional rights.
Also, note the blurring of the separation of church and state: arrest occurred at demonstration against ICE acting field director who also happens to be a church pastor.
Bonkers.
Also "heinous crime", really? Were any children raped? Were any folks strangled in their cells?
I don't quite get your point about the blurring of church and state. What a government employee does with his own time can hardly be considered an act of the government.
Having said that, I otherwise agree with you, though I don't know about the flagging.
> - said tweet parrots Trump's own tweet style
Haven't you noticed that grownups in the presence of a baby will speak baby talk?
> What a government employee does with his own time can hardly be considered an act of the government.
Correct and agreed. I can see how my phrasing made it seem like I was saying that the government and/or federal-agent-cum-cleric were doing something impermissible. My point is that, at the very least, it's an odd combo and it raised an eyebrow.
Which AI provider was used?