• Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    24 hours ago

    Making the IDF look like heroes or anything other than the monstrous savages that they are is an insult to humanity.

  • Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    2 days ago

    The creator of the style hates the use of AI images that mimic it’s likeness and almost every bad person out there is “jumping on the bandwagon” for social media points. From the Trump admin, the IDF, and even Sam Altman and Elon Musk.

    The tone deafness is…deafening. I have never been so convinced that people at large who consume this brainrot have no self-awareness, introspection, or critical thought.

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    39·
    2 days ago

    Of fucking course the IDF jumps on the Ghibli AI bandwagon. They can’t allow themselves to be neutral when they have the opportunity to be on the wrong side of something

  • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    197·
    2 days ago

    He’s offered a pardon for being a military deserter and this is his reply:

    Miyazaki fucking hates war.

    Fuck, the entire premise of “Howl’s Moving Castle” is how war turns people into literal monsters!!!

    Miyazaki famously was not present to accept an award for “Spirited Away” because of George W’s war policies!!!

    FOR FUCKS SAKE!!!

    • snf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      How does The Wind Rises fit into this?

      Plot spoilers

      I’ve always been a bit puzzled at that one, given that the protagonist spends most of the storyline designing and building warplanes. He’s apparently motivated purely by the love of flight, but consequences are never directly addressed, except for maybe at the end when he comments on how they all got destroyed. Is he wilfully oblivious? Is he on board with Japanese aggression? Is this a comment on the “just doing my job” people involved in any war effort?

      • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        22 hours ago

        I’ve always viewed it as somewhere between “willfully oblivious”, “on board with the war”, and “his love of flight”.

        Warner Von Braun built the V2 (among others) rocket for the Nazis, but he always claimed it was because of his love of space flight. And being German he was utilizing the resources he had available to him. Now, that was also while he was being shielded from the majority of questions by the US government so who knows what the real truth was. IMO I believe that he was driven by his desire to see space travel, and the rest of the “bad parts” (slave labour and building terror weapons for the Nazis) could be explained with just good ol fashion racism that was en vouge in the 30s-70s.

    • dalekcaan@lemm.eeEnglish
      85·
      2 days ago

      He also expressly stated his hatred for AI art.

      Satire is truly dead, buried, dug up, smacked around a bit, shot in the face for good measure, buried, dug up again, had a shit taken on it, and buried upside-down.

      • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        58·
        2 days ago

        It’s not satire. It’s overt propaganda. Problem is, it’s lazy propaganda! Do you think people who truly love Ghibli would be swayed by this? Who does this appeal to? It’s nonsense.

        That said: let them keep doing it. Allow them to continue shootinh themselves in the foot.

    • 7toed@midwest.socialEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Well, Nazis do have a tendency of appropriating and mangling countless cultures to fill the void left from their humanity, I would say that extends to those who openly admit ethnic cleansing

  • oni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    2 days ago

    Am I the only one with this problem? The images that the AI generates it doesn’t resemble to Ghibli to me. They look like a hard try to “look like ghibli”, but it falls in its own style.

  • andybytes@programming.devEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    A fascist is a thief. Fascist are the useful idiots of empire. Capitalism is a pyramid scheme filled with thieves. They will poison your fields and send you to the factory and feed you canned foods filled with poison. This is the world of the lowest common denominator and the longer you are on this ride, the sicker you will start to feel. It’s like the first few hours of Disneyland is pretty nice, but once you realize you’re not allowed to leave Disneyland and you have no money and you’re stuck there for an eternity, well then it becomes your hell. It’s a small world after all. It’s a small world after all.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    Even in their infinite insanity, the IDF version looks like a recap of them attacking the USS Liberty.

    • qbus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      110·
      23 hours ago

      Grave of the fireflies is a very interesting propaganda morality piece they made

      • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        22 hours ago

        Its an adaptation of a autobiography written by a Japanese man who survived the war as a child. What happened in the movie essentially happened to the main character. I say “essentially” because what actually happened to him and his sister is much worse than what happened in the movie.

        Remember, no matter what atrocities the country commits, there are innocent bistanders on all sides. Quoting the incredible TV show MASH

        War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse. [sic] There are no innocent bystanders in Hell, but war is chock full of them – little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for a few of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.