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I really don't care for how everything the Bad Guy Countries do has to be some "scheme" full of "ambitions." it's always such loaded language, and it is so normalised people think you're a crank for displaying basic media literacy and pointing out the bias here.
Also it's all kinds of fucked up how they will portray western countries with human leadership, but the bad guy countries are portrayed by animals and fictional creatures, to make them seem more savage and dangerous and literally inhuman. Even if the bear and dragon holding hands is kind of adorable.
I'm supposed to agree with the angry Belgian?
No, I am friends with the cute gay animals
Exactly. You've drawn someone involved as the most adorable little fluffy hug shaped bear, and I'm supposed to agree with the guy mad at the bear? Yeah, no, I'd rather hug the bear than agree with the guy yelling at the fuzzball.
They’re Belgian? Should have given them something recognisable, like a severed hand.
im trying to think how one should portray a personified western leadership, and all i can really come up with is heavily armed settler-cops for US/Canada and wealthy/aristocratic cartoonish vampires in suits for Europeans.
I can't really think of an animal, unless its just all fattened hogs in suits / military uniforms. all squealing over the non-functioning slop dispenser.
if we're looking for reductive fictional monsters, there's always Daleks
Corpse eating ghouls would certainly fit.
Honestly, I swear, these people cannot draw a "scary bear" that doesn't look hug shaped. Couldn't do it during the Cold War when they were using the Soviet Bear as a scare image, couldn't do it when they used to draw China as a panda bear, still can't do it when they draw Russia as a grizzly bear.
And even now that they've switched to drawing China as a dragon, the dragons are just as cute as the panda bears were. A little less hug shaped, but even more boopable.
To be fair, the image is AI generated, you ask it for simplified cartoon bear and dragon holding hands and its probably going to spit out something cute it ripped from etsy and redbubble stores
That explains a lot.
Wow, those USAID funding cuts hitting hard, anti China propagandists can't afford real art? That's kinda funny.
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