The White House Confirms It Altered Photo of Arrested Protester to Depict Her Sobbing: ‘The Memes Will Continue’

right? it is literally the definition of libel...

Gonna be a really expensive lawsuit. That is paid out by all of us taxpayers.

And actually published by the government.

their truth is the worst lie

What should we do? Can we get another maga guy to take a shot?

Honestly both might be a difference in when the shot was taken.

The little things are more insidious.

Really bad

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.

It's also meant to say "look see we can make them regret it" as well as to draw into the paternal metaphor they keep using. Those weird comments they keep making about "daddy" being home to punish dissenters, feels very in line with this. The idea being that they're trying to depict themselves as tough but necessary, and opposition as the same as a child misbehaving because of unenforced boundaries. In this regard they're depicting her as crying to treat her like a child who has been spanked, and as such (in their eyes) one who will in the future respect their authority and eventually thank them for it.

They need to maintain the narrative that the protesters to contain both hardened rebels, and primarily be ordinary people who just don't understand discipline and the need to enforce the rules.

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!

Most religious institutions are authoritarian by nature. So no surprise there.

The original "just testing if you love me" trashy girl

Well in that particular case he stopped him last second like 'oh man, you were actually gonna go through with it, nah bro just joking you don't gotta kill your kid.' But in other instances he fully destroyed cities, the world, and just killed random people cause they didn't do what he said.

YHWH is the archetype of a controlling, abusive father.

The other highly informative part is the Book of Job, where God and Satan are hanging out and making wagers on how severely they can fuck with some decent, honest guy before he loses it.

The opening verse of Highway 61 Revisted should be added to the Bible. It's more insightful and better-written than most of the canonical parts. I'd also throw in Dante's Inferno and Paradiso. I'm in two minds about adding Milton, though.

Or Gamergate, for that matter.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/23/us/gamergate-harassment-reddit-twitter-cec

Thinking anyone against this administration is ‘allowing’ it to happen is a childish understanding of the modern police state and civil wars.

You don't know me. I'd wager you don't know any of the people you hurl such a poor excuse for an activist comment at.

I'm willing to bet that I've done more to fight back against fascism this week than you have your whole life and I wasn't even born in the US.

God's house, God's rules.

The important thing to remember is that it's never the fault of the people in power. It's always the gross, dumb, smelly voters who can't pick the Lesser Of Two Evils often enough.

It's both. I'm not going to pretend that people voting against their own self interests isn't a problem. If people actually voted in a way that would help them we'd have a lot more Dems than Republicans in the USA.

It's stupid to pretend we don't live in a first past the post system where most voters are going to vote straight D or straight R. Voting 3rd party is just shredding your vote in almost all cases.

Three weeks after doomsday, yeah her campaign manager’s gonna say something nice. What is this supposed to show, anyway?

Did they get caught giving away the dark secret that they did their best to run a successful campaign?

Her primary problem was going for the left's vote when the left doesn't vote.

The only way to fix it is to go further right and pick up the voters who are disillusioned by Trump in 2028.

What do you mean Harris literally said "ceasefire?"

She didn't order the IDF to stand down though. So, fascism I guess.

I know sometimes I feel like the only sane liberal on a site full of progressives.

Nikolai Yezhov, head of the NKVD during the height of the great purge. He fell out of favour, was tortured, convicted of various crimes (including wrongful purgings, funny enough), and secretly executed. Don't feel too bad for him though, he was a nasty character.

I don't think it's a particularly apt comparison. He was previously an important government minister, edited out of the picture to pretend that actually, Stalin was never cool with him. This woman is just a citizen that the US government has decided to humiliate using generative AI.

Context is the government faking photographs.

It physically hurt when Cuck Boomer said that we still need to investigate Renee Good's murder before we know what the outcome is. I'm sorry, but that centrist slop is the exact opposite of what we need. What I believe we need.

So yeah, I'll keep talking shit about the Dems because they're supposed to represent my views, since we live in a Representative Democracy.

But maybe that needs to change. I'm all for a general strike to make these maggots in suits crumble to their knees. Minnesota is trying to do that today in fact

Yeah, you're right, this is exactly same as when Biden is in Office.

Fuck "both sides" dumbasses.

I would argue that fascism is the ultimate tool for capitalism, for the reasons that you outline.

But I agree with your sentiment

Is this even capitalism?

I voted for them. Many Leftists voted for them because we were doing harm reduction.

But there are no elections happening now, so why the fuck would we do harm reduction? Primaries don't happen for a couple more weeks! General elections don't happen for months or even years!

The Democratic party, whether they realize it or not, are supposed to act as the opposition party to the fascists. The fact that they are CONTROLLED opposition doesn't change their primary function from the perspective of the voters. To the rich and wealthy, of course Democrats are the controlled opposition, and for good reason to the rich and wealthy.

NOW is the time to pressure Democrats to do what we want, and scold them for ignoring to. NOW is the time to fund and volunteer for progressive candidates across the country who are participating in this year's primaries. NOW is the time to organize with political organizations and mutual aide groups.

Democrats should be prosecuted because they've enabled this administration when they've had plenty of opportunities to ACT in the past to prevent this present time from occuring. I'm mostly referring to the triple crown of Blue Executive, House, and Senate twice since Obama's first term.

May I remind Marxist-Leninists who give a fuck about the US that revolution cannot be forced on a people. Revolutionaries must work within the systems of the masses - indeed voting and paying lip service to their petty "democracy" - until the time is right.

Memes are just fantasy from earliest human communication. Or something. I'll post when I get published on this /s

Yes

That would be violence...against the "meat stick".

Hell March!

Because they sent their socialists into gulags?

I don't live in your country. Nor do I use Facebook or any of the other major socials for that very reason. If they come looking for lemmy, I'm fucked!

No I certainly would agree with that. But being restrained against your will and having your records publicized about being an offender of the law certainly doesn’t bode well for your own public image or on employment applications.

The act of being arrested is not particularly fun. You know, being restrained and walked off like an animal in some sense. Depends what it’s for in general. But it’s the public image of it. And then the repercussions of having to deal with follow up court work, possible jail time and it being a future talking point of a potential employer. It’s just not really something to be proud of.

That is a rule in general, with exceptions of course.

But my point stands, that the act is embarrassing enough already, especially if it’s publicized. So having your face edited to make it look even more humiliating is worse.

Chin up, shoulders back, still tough, cuz Black don't crack!

Enforcing the law is embarrassing? Breaking the law is embarrassing.

And my point isn’t that she was necessarily breaking the law. I’m simply stating that it’s already an embarrassing enough act to be restrained and then on top of that have images of you in a vulnerable state circulate around the internet.