I thought that was a feature rather than a flaw; adding to the so on-point faux-phoniness of the piece.
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So if this is Australian made, how is it not considered outside influence on a US election?
I hope you’re not being serious. Am I interfering if I say “Trump is a piece of shit, don’t vote for him if you value…well if you have any human values at all!”? Are us non Americans not allowed to even comment on the election? Are no late night shows outside the US allowed to make fun of Trump?
It would be one thing if it ran on TV in the US or something but this is one of thousands of YouTube videos making fun of the man which weren’t produced in the US.
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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/01/parody-trump-2020-ad-too-close.html
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The problem with Russia’s interference in our elections isn’t Russians having an opinion about our national shitshow one way or the other; it’s Fecesbook taking money from Russian Federation state actors to unsarcastically astroturf millions of ads and social media sock-puppet accounts pretending to be American.
Juice Media is honest about being Australian parody.
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First time I’ve seen that. Am stealing, thank you.
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Well that’s was dark.
I miss the good old days where it was highly improbably that I’d ever see one of these put to use in my lifetime …
Violence is a terrible thing and I hope we all calm the fuck down and resolve things peacefully. My anxiety around current events is my own fault, I should never have read those history books.
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Agreed, the phony overdub made the whole thing REALLY creepy and like a deep fake advert from a dystopian nightmare.
Oh wait…um, yeah…
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Yeah, I took the bad dub as part of the aesthetic … creepy dystopian.
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There’s a world of difference between some Australian nationals posting a biting satirical video to YouTube and a full-scale, state-sponsored campaign by a hostile foreign power that has included
- Hacking a political party’s private server with the intent of digging up and spreading dirt on one side but not the other
- Hacking the voting systems in all 50 states
- Spending millions on ads targeting American voters through social media while intentionally obscuring the people behind those ads
- Sending high-ranking state and business representatives to coordinate with one side’s political campaign
- Getting otherwise-inexplicable deference from the American President who was able to take office due to that interference, including public praise for the interfering country’s despotic leader and even silence when that leader was revealed to have taken steps to have American troops killed.
- …and more!
Seriously there’s just no reasonable comparison to be made here. Especially considering that the Australian nationals who created this video aren’t presenting themselves as anything other than Australian nationals who created a video.
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As I said the other day, in another thread:
Indeed, I’m sure that effect was quite intentional.
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Well, mission fucking accomplished because it’s hours later and I’m still creeped out!
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The actor in this video is Zoe Amanda Wilson.
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The actor is an Australian, Zoe Amanda Wilson, and it is her voice.
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Now that we’ve got all that cleared up…I couldn’t fault the content but found the fake accent quite grating. Needs more work. Yes picky, but it’s a long listen.
They use the same actress and voice in all of their “Honest Government Ads” campaign. The poor dub over is intentional.
I believe YouTube has them on some sort of do not suggest list. I’ve been subscribed for years and never get them in my suggestion feed. Have to check in from time to time to see if they have anything new.
This ones a bit older, but also a good creepy distopian watch:
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Really outstanding stuff as always from The Juice Media.
If you don’t know them, also check out their older Rap News videos, they sadly stopped producing them in 2016, but they’re still gold.
I also hope they’re not serious. The US is already a laughingstock, imagine if we tried to assert that free speech rights about elected US figures end at the border!
US: “Hey, Australia, we’re charging these people with interfering in the election for making a youtube video, we’re gonna need you to extradite them.”
Australia: Option 1: “Go $#& yourself.” Option 2: “Sure, but first, since they’re citizens of a foreign state we’re suing the US government directly and going to the Supreme Court to get that law overturned because every precedent you have, other than immigration law, says that ‘the people’ referred to in the first amendment are not a class limited by citizenship. Also, not our fault or our problem that you haven’t bothered trying to update your constitutional language and interpretation in response to the last several generations’ worth of technological progress in communications.”
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It really bothers me how the fascists have pretty much cornered using the American flag. Because so many of them cloak their shitty agenda in the flag, I would feel embarrassed to wear or display an American flag for fear someone would assume I’m a nazi.
Although there is one house on our regular walkabout that has it displayed upside down. That really sums it up.
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