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Cake day: March 20th, 2024
  • DABDA@lemm.eetoComic Strips@lemmy.world•How would you like your propaganda served?English
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    9 days ago

    I was mostly referring to the quality being shitty and less-so the content of the edits themselves.

    • To start with, it looks like they used a row-resolution base and then possibly tried to AI upscale it (look at animal faces on the “protect kids” wrap and the artist signature/items on the table)
    • The pointless circular blur near the collar of the box holder
    • The weird clone/stamp action going on with the side of the box - just use a solid box if the goal is efficiency vs quality!

    But also leaving the artist’s signature on an edited comic and not mentioning it’s modified feels shitty too. This isn’t a meme or political community so I’d think posting the original is more appropriate anyway.

  • DABDA@lemm.eetoThe Far Side@sh.itjust.works•27 May 2024English
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    1 month ago

    Certainly there would have been methods available even then to either overlay changes (~cels) or exactly reproduce a base image (xerographic). I’m just impressed even using tracing he didn’t just 1:1 reproduce the same scene, tiny variations exist (nose shape, left fist, V-neck shape etc.).

    This was aligned against the dog:

  • DABDA@lemm.eetopolitics @lemmy.world•For a moment, George Floyd's murder changed everything. Those days are gone.English
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    1 month ago

    In no way did I suggest Floyd should have been killed.

    But you insist on going out of your way to bloviate about how he was such a terrible person. That’s the entire crux of your argument and it just doesn’t matter. The whole point of having human rights and rule of law is not to pick and choose when they apply. Everyone should care when anyone is needlessly killed or abused, regardless of their past or personality. It’s possible to want a person to die but still insist that others don’t kill them.

    And please chill with your moaning about everyone’s reading comprehension and intelligence. It’s not conducive to polite discussion and might give people the impression you’re just trolling.

  • DABDA@lemm.eetopolitics @lemmy.world•For a moment, George Floyd's murder changed everything. Those days are gone.English
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    1 month ago

    I don’t care about the particular person being targeted, the police aren’t supposed to murder someone just because they feel like it. If they’re a first time offender or a “career criminal” they shouldn’t be killed unless there’s no feasible alternatives.

    Do you honestly think there would have been meaningful lasting change if people propped up Breonna as a martyr instead? Why hasn’t that happened for any of the other well-publicized deaths of upstanding citizens? Why haven’t things like consent decrees and civilian oversight boards been enough to curb police violence and rights abuse, especially against minority groups?

    The police didn’t even bother pretending they were sorry and would pinkie-swear to reform, they flat out demanded that they be allowed to act with impunity and then just decided they didn’t want to enforce the law at all anymore if the public was going to be angry with them. Are there instances of the police stating they want to improve their perception and relationship with the public and “the reactionaries” just deciding to riot instead? It should never have come to the point that a large amount of people (across the country) felt rioting was the most appropriate move, but since it did I think the failing was just that it didn’t go far enough. There’s plenty of evidence to conclude that the police and their enablers will not voluntarily reform and will need be forced against their will.

    And as far as providing conservatives with talking points, there’s literally no situation where they won’t just use whatever narrative they want; even if it involves space lasers or child trafficking in a pizzeria basement.