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37m ago

Idealism
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Bad @jlai.lu 37m ago

That's adorable, don't worry about it though, these days if you do some art you have to learn to record the entire process of producing some of your pieces otherwise someone will always eventually think your work is AI generated… it's just part of life now, you sadly get used to it. AIvestigators need to take a moment to wonder "but from who did the AIs learn to draw?".
For me it's a smaller issue since a lot of my pieces are just silly stickmen, the only time it got really frustrating was when I had to prove to several board game editors I didn't use an AI to generate the art on a card game I illustrated in a very personal style…
Have a beautiful weekend!

Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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2h ago

I have a tweet

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Bad @jlai.lu 1d ago

Best redemption arc of 2026

1d ago

I have a tweet

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Bad @jlai.lu 1d ago

Along with a few recordings of my drawings since these days some people see AI in everything.

Here's one in a similar style.

1d ago

No rush, honey

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Bad @jlai.lu 1d ago

So all it takes to bait Lemmy into showing their psychopathic side is three words.

Pathetic community unworthy of the high regard it holds itself in.

1d ago

No rush, honey

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Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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2d ago

The country of the trail of tears, states rights to slavery, Jim Crow laws, japanese internment camps, the red scare, peak imperialism, robber barons, etc. isn't changing into anything. It's just being its true self.

3d ago

Vanilla Ice

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Bad @jlai.lu 3d ago

Information doesn't reach people equally. The media is complicit for underrepresenting this issue, makes sense some people haven't heard about it yet. And the USA's racist culture of treating migrants like worthless cattle is guilty of making these stories sell less when the media actually tries to talk about them.

This is about people who were aware of the situation and dismissed, minimized, ignored it. Which is a lot of people. People I've been having interactions with for the past decade. It isn't about you. But there's still a lesson to be learned here: how come it hasn't reached you, and what can we change on a structural level to make sure this reaches people widely when it inevitably happens again. There's an actual conversation to be had, and the topic isn't guilt, it's stopping the death machine.

Being dismissive, feeling personally guilty, etc. is how you make sure nothing changes, and guarantees people will keep dying in those camps for decades to come because you and most of the other people in this thread were too busy making this all about yourselves instead of discussing the actual racial bias issues at hand.

Condolences regarding your cat. I know how it feels. Can be as bad as losing a close human. Been there multiple times throughout my life and it never gets better. Got three cats right now and I regularly wake up from nightmares in which I dream they died, you have my full empathy on this topic. I hope you're handling the grief well, if not therapy genuinely helps. Now that this is out of the way, stop throwing yourself as a shield in the way of people who are refusing to confront their racial bias. They don't need any protection, and you don't need to be offering them more excuses.

Sorry (not sorry) about lashing out but I'm getting genuinely pissed at this never ending influx of replies three days in. So many egotistical comments from losers jerking each other off all over the place. Done being polite, the fediverse has a gigantic fragility issue regarding race and masculinity, and I won't stop posting content that addresses both, won't stop replying to people trying to minimize those issues, and won't stop shutting up people who derail conversations by making them about themselves.

3d ago

Vanilla Ice

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3d ago

Vanilla Ice

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Bad @jlai.lu 3d ago

To be fair, media underreporting the suffering of minorities is part of the equation.

3d ago

When is the right time?

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Bad @jlai.lu 3d ago

With the way the fight is shaping up, the outcome will not be positive.

Maybe the abolish ICE movement will manage to stop them from shooting white people (which would be a small win tbh), but they don't seem to have the teeth required to turn it into a proper radical movement that will attack the core issues and cure the USA from its rot. There's no organization, no clear end goal, no leadership, it'll end up being coopted by Gavin Newsom or some other soft centrist and turned into a propaganda movement for liberals in the 2026 primaries and 2028 election.

I'm afraid a real movement that provides actual systemic change in the USA and breaks the cycle can only come from minorities, from people who have nothing left to lose and won't accept halfway concessions. Insert here the quote from MLK about the white liberal being a bigger enemy to minorities in the US than the KKK. If they cared, they'd have primary'd Biden out in favor of a progressive in 2024, since the ICE death camps continued killing people under his presidency.

3d ago

Vanilla Ice

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Bad @jlai.lu 3d ago

The abolish ICE movement is not new, it already existed throughout the first Trump presidency. It mostly stopped during the Biden presidency since he showed good will by reversing the most abusive of Trump's policies right away (proving he wasn't a mere figurehead and had the power to provide change), but the core rot of border patrol prison camps and treating migrants like cattle never stopped.

I honestly don’t think of a President as more than a figurehead.

Yet his primaries were the best opportunity to send a clear signal that progressives were fed up with his inwards dehumanizing policies and his outwards genocidal policies. Not many seemed to care as he had no real opposition. At some point people have to take responsibility for being complacent, and instead of feeling fragile about it or personally attacked by it (this whole thread), understanding that this is about learning from the past, and figuring out what to do in order for this to never happen again in the future.

People knew extremely well what ICE was and did, since after Trump won a common "joke" on social media was threats to call ICE on the latinos or arabs that voted for Trump. I remember seeing many of those, and being disgusted at how some progressives will only support minorities as long as they support them, and treated ICE as a joke despite the murders still going on.

3d ago

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Bad @jlai.lu 3d ago

It's never been covered up.

This has always been very public knowledge, with which the US population was complacent.

Biden was not primary'd out despite having a role in this, proving that even progressives were fine with it.

Trump was reelected despite knowledge that he would make the situation worse, proving a lot of the US population loves this.

Liberals only started caring about the death camp police once they started shooting people in public, and are now feeling rightfully afraid since ICE is ok killing whites too now. I fear that the ongoing movement is going to be a defensive one, do a bit of defund ICE roleplay, stop when ICE says ok we're not shooting people on the streets anymore you win, and be fine with that conclusion. A complete dismantling and prosecution of ICE, including a liberation of all the migrants in the camps (especially the thousands "lost" by the system) is the only way forward otherwise the death toll will keep getting worse - 2026 is already the worst year on record in that regard and we're still in january.

Insert the MLK quote on white liberals being worse enemies to minorities than the KKK. Don't care much about this thread's feelings by now since they've demonstrated they only care how the situation affects their own feelings, instead of seeing that there is a bigger picture of a social justice fight for migrants being potentially derailed by liberals who are only looking for justice for themselves. I would hate to be the "told you so" person in a while after this whole thing fizzles out and nothing changes, praying time proves me wrong.

3d ago

When is the right time?

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Bad @jlai.lu 3d ago

It's the continuation of a centuries long cycle.

The USA, being the most imperialist country, also becomes the most ruthless on its own population when the imperialism is turned inwards.

Imperial boomerang on steroids.

4d ago

Vanilla Ice

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Bad @jlai.lu 4d ago

Gourmet comment.

It's good to feel correctly heard in the sea of fragile whiteness that is this comment section.

Have a beautiful day.

4d ago

When is the right time?

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4d ago

When is the right time?

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Bad @jlai.lu 4d ago

Shh we don't say that part out loud and encourage them to actually do something for once.

10 years of doing nothing followed by "we always cared" is the usual fare.

4d ago

When is the right time?

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Bad @jlai.lu 4d ago

A piece of commentary on the reception by Lemmy users of this - admittedly very provocative - comic.

Goode and Pretti were both shot while protesting migrants being sent to concentration camps where thousands of real humans have "disappeared" from the system.

It is not a defensive movement trying to stop ICE from shooting protesters, it's a radical movement about dismantling ICE, stopping the violence on migrants, and rescuing the locked up and missing people.

Don't let it get derailed by toothless people, else they will stop once the first goal is accomplished and leave the rest of the actual fight hanging. As they always do.