Kaliforniens Gouverneur Gavin Newsom ist nicht der smarte Troll, der er glaubt zu sein
Roland Meyer erklärt, warum.
Roland Meyer erklärt drüben auf Bluesky, warum die Art und Weise, wie Kaliforniens Gouverneur Gavin Newsom derzeit Trump mit seiner eigenen Ästhetik und Rhetorik zu trollen versucht, problematisch ist.
Ich will jetzt auch gar nicht Michelle Obama mit „When they go low, we go high" channeln. Der Zug scheint schon lange abgefahren zu sein. Aber mir ist Newsom mit dieser Taktik auch direkt sauer aufgestoßen. Nicht, weil ich ein besseres Kommunikationskonzept gegen die Maga-Faschos in der Hinterhand hätte, sondern genau aus den Gründen, die Roland Meyer so genau auf den Punkt bringt.
Gavin Newsom's strategy of centrist liberal «populism» seems to involve wholeheartedly embracing AI slop. However, rather than demonstrating a possible «progressive» use of generative AI, this example shows how quickly such a use can lead to the uncritical adoption of fascist aesthetics
Es normalisiert die Rhetorik. Es normalisiert die Ästhetik. Es normalisiert ein faschistoides Weltbild. „Trump has turned himself into a meme that is beyond parody[...]."
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Gavin Newsom's strategy of centrist liberal «populism» seems to involve wholeheartedly embracing AI slop. However, rather than demonstrating a possible «progressive» use of generative AI, this example shows how quickly such a use can lead to the uncritical adoption of fascist aesthetics 1/
— Roland Meyer (@bildoperationen.bsky.social) 2025-08-23T08:07:12.391Z
I assume the idea is to mock Trump's AI slopaganda by imitating it. But I doubt that'll work. Trump has turned himself into a meme that is beyond parody, and copying the MAGA aesthetic and rhetoric merely accepts their dominance, which means surrendering before the fight has even begun 2/
— Roland Meyer (@bildoperationen.bsky.social) 2025-08-23T08:21:16.893Z
The essence of MAGA Slop is the cynical demonstration of unfettered and ruthless power: politics is reduced to a meme, a cruel joke where only brute force matters, and anything that appears weak or vulnerable becomes the target of ridicule and contempt. Mimicking this rhetoric is not progressive 3/
— Roland Meyer (@bildoperationen.bsky.social) 2025-08-23T08:42:24.144Z
AI slopaganda is designed to turn politics into a hollow synthetic spectacle seemingly detached from material conditions. Rather than mobilizing resistance in the face of fascism, such memes merely simulate it. The images we need, however, cannot be produced by AI: images of hope and solidarity 4/
— Roland Meyer (@bildoperationen.bsky.social) 2025-08-23T10:15:26.028Z
Passend dazu außerdem der Talk, den Roland Meyer dieses Jahr auf der Republica gehalten hat:
