Settings

Theme

Slopaganda: AI images posted by the White House and what they teach us

theguardian.com

56 points by lemming 3 hours ago · 10 comments

Reader

JohnFen an hour ago

They teach me to distrust literally everything that comes from the executive branch.

xg15 an hour ago

Trump seems to have an obsession with all things gold, so I guess even that "golden age" could simply be interpreted as "the Trump age".

JohnTHaller an hour ago

Link for when MAGA flags this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/the-slopagan...

  • ASalazarMX 10 minutes ago

    It's not flagged after an hour, but the downvotes have made the post and your comment already gray.

akomtu 2 hours ago

The AI of Sauron.

But seriously, when most people see that their head of state has no moral standards whatsoever, they'll follow and drop their own standard even lower. It would be a similar situation if a bishop was openly a drunkard or if an army sergeant was a lazy drug addict.

  • netsharc an hour ago

    Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said this in 1928:

    > Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.

    https://law.jrank.org/pages/11566/Opinion-U-S-Supreme-Court-...

    Timothy McVeigh used the beginning of this quote as a statement before his conviction, FWIW.. https://archive.is/xineB

  • iszomer 39 minutes ago

    You can also not take offense to it either and ignore the "slopaganda". The fact that it triggered you shows that it's "working".

    • QuadmasterXLII 33 minutes ago

      Did you notice any evidence of triggering in the person you are replying to's post? I didn't, but perhaps you are some kind of triggering-detection savant beyond my understanding

  • gullies 2 hours ago

    AI of Sauron LMFAO

Keyboard Shortcuts

j
Next item
k
Previous item
o / Enter
Open selected item
?
Show this help
Esc
Close modal / clear selection