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You've missed out on the last several decades of Republican rhetoric, tears of "their enemies" is exactly what they want. They know they're the bad guys and revel in it.
Y’all thought trail tears wasn’t a burn on natives? Like laugh at the people who died in forced marches.
The Trail of Tears was always taught to me as a black spot in our history, a horrible thing that we (the United States) did to natives.
Indian removal act sounds like the impending Latino removal act
Same here, but I learned about it from my mom - I don't think we spent much time on it in school.
Can you imagine a photo of the Trail of Tears with a cartoon AI filter posted by the government? Fuck.
I can.
It’s called newspapers from the 1840s.
Yeah. What am I even asking? This is more of the same.
This isn't like tears of their enemies though, it just evokes empathy. I haven't cried in a long time, don't cry often, and didn't cry about this image. It's just a sad image.
It's close to actual reality, where a lady probably previously working in a kitchen in a hairnet is sad that she's being deported, and some villainous, stone-faced everyman tries to look tough while standing in front of a flag.
Usually they add in some fascist elements that make it look more glorious to be a sack of shit, but they didn't even do that with this image.
They don't have empathy. The crying lady is brown, they're ecstatic.
Yeah. It's white, military authority literally standing on the side of the flag. They're crying because they're being handcuffed "probably because they're gonna be sent back to their shithole country cuz they came here illegal."
Perhaps you think this is more empathetic because of the art style but this is rote, flag-hugger imagery. Except this was probably produced by bot and the poster was too lazy to run the gen more than twice.