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[–] washbasin 1 points 18 hours ago

Some protest footage from the weekend here. Sorry, it is a reddit link. https://safereddit.com/r/SaltLakeCity/comments/1im5fqb/salt_lake_city_protest/

[–] [email protected] 137 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Cops calling in backup so they can figure out what the words say.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago

"none of these words are in the book of mormon!"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Or figure out who they can blame and shoot

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Guard dogs thinking who pissed on masters lamppost

[–] [email protected] 95 points 3 days ago (4 children)

This looks like an album cover

[–] Banana 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Banana 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Alright, this is the time in my life I learn an instrument!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

If you want to name your band State of Ut, it’s even got the name and album title already on it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Incoming Aerosmith single re-release!

https://youtu.be/o-0lAhnoDlU

And I just can't see no humour 
About your way of life 
And I think I can do more for you 
With this here fork and knife

Eat the rich 
There's only one thing that they're good for 
Eat the rich 
Take one bite now, come back for more 
Eat the rich 
I gotta get this off my chest 
Eat the rich
Take one bite now, spit out the rest

[–] yourgodlucifer 5 points 3 days ago

Or a movie poster

[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This country is so ready to pull out the guillotine. This is in UTAH!! You expect this in new york or Oregon. But utah?!

[–] washbasin 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You might be surprised how hard a counter culture goes when the prevailing culture is so oppressive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

You can't have counterculture without a strong prevailing culture. SLC pushes back in surprising ways small and large. Great to see it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

They’re double dog daring us to. Many are still clinging to the hope we can vote our way out of this in 2-4 years, but at the rate this coup is progressing, how long until that hope gets extinguished and violence is the only remaining option?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, look! It's the rich's enforcers, they found something they bother to investigate...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's just graffiti, they'll quarter-ass it for a couple hours and then give up

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In fairness, I have no motivation today. I'll try to fifth-ass it, though...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"This R2 unit has a bad motivator!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?

[–] meowmeowbeanz 6 points 2 days ago

Graffiti as appetizer in the feast of late-stage capitalism. Charming how the Capitol’s marble sanctity gets a splash of proletarian culinary advice. Utah’s lawmakers push austerity, then clutch pearls when the menu gets literal.

Revolutionary sloganeering 101: crude, effective, allergic to nuance. Marie Antoinette’s ghost nods approvingly from her guillotine airbnb. But let’s be real—this isn’t vandalism, it’s public service announcements for the oligarchs sunbathing in tax havens.

Keep the tags coming. If they won’t tax the rich, at least let the walls remind them where this hunger games ends.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

"Whose dog do we shoot about this?"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Amazing pic hopefully it's followed by much more like it

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's pretty amazing. Something about the symmetry of it, the faux-orderliness of the embossed fonts against the stark blue defiant scrawl, the crowd of people in the distance against the few cops in the foreground. The upwards curve of capitol hill building vs the downward curve of the hats of the cops. The blue sky and text imploring clarity and freedom vs the brown uniforms and dead grass.

All of it incidental, but captured like it was a planned painting. There's more I'm sure I'm missing, but yeah, this is an amazing photo.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I've seen it from more than one angle now, so I know it's real, but damn if that isn't the most AI looking f'ing image...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I thought the same thing. Idk how it can look so fake.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

I think the phone they used went ham on HDR.

[–] Jax 8 points 3 days ago

Makes me think a solid misinformation strategy would be to doctor real photos to look like they're AI generated.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's the almost complete lack of shadows. My guess is there was a very thin cloud cover diffusing the sunlight. You can kind of see this on the right-side officer's hat shadow.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This is my cat. Her name is Uta and she hungers for the flesh of oligarchs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Uta must be satiated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Uta the destroyer of mice

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Anyone knows the source for this picture? I'd like a higher resolution version of this

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mulch the rich. Rebuilding soil will be a key part of mitigating climate change.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Compost the Rich

CTR is a big thing for Mormons. Just let them know we're repurposing it from "Chose the Right" and the old Utahn punk: "Crush the Righteous" to the environmentally friendly

Compost

The

Rich

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Nice, more please

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

It was chalk. Some protesters were upset about the "vandalism." Right now, the 50501 in Utah is as radical as ham and American cheese on white bread.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Cops looking up recipes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is this a real photo? This is an amazing composition

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's real and it's spectacular.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I’m tempted to start a band called State of Utah just to use this as my album cover

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Public speech on public property.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Looks like ai but i don't think it is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

It's because AI never knows when to stop adding detail, so all AI images look, as one Lemmy user put it, "overcooked". That leads you to developing the heuristic that ANY highly detailed image could be AI generated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago
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