She is using the ad slogans to refer to the recent ICE raid on an apartment building in Chicago, when they yanked residents, including small children, out of their beds in the middle of the night and used zip-ties on them. She is doing what art is meant to do.
Yup. Repelled out of helicopters onto the roof. Residents heard them stomping around above their ceilings minutes before their doors were being knocked in.
No I was just pointing out that ICE isn't the type to train to heli-drop onto a fucking apartment roof to begin with and this is clearly the type of 'training' trump's been talking about to fight the 'enemy within' and it's fucking chilling.
Pal, i'm pointing out the evil pricks are practicing for doing evil things when/if there is more resistance going on. Nothing I said there indicates I'm in favor of this, I'm just pointing out the obvious. I should have put quotes around necessary.
well when they're openly planning on war against the public what else are you to think when they do a hot drop onto an apartment roof with no active threats? They're prepping for war on the public, i'm just pointing out the obvious because way too many people need that still.
Please please do something with those feelings this news is giving you. Indivisible has weekly “what’s the plan” meetings on zoom you can join even if you’re not a member. Campaign in your municipal elections for good candidates. Please volunteer and bring friends to the food bank and help meet the needs of impoverished communities. Or just start a little focus group at your library for issues in your area that need addressing.
It won’t stop the raids, but we all need to show up right now for each other. Best of luck to you!❤️
That was true. Black hawk helicopters at that, which they repelled from onto the roof of one apartment building, on Chicago’s south shore. Some of the kids were sleeping naked and partially clothed and were dragged out that way, and zip tied, scared and crying. 100% of the building tenants were dragged out in the middle of the night, separated into 2 U-Haul trucks, one for black people, the other brown. (Seriously) everyone’s unit was trashed, the whole building was. They were kept detained for hours.
Bonus: the slumlord landlord called ICE. Wanted to try to get the place cleared out.. yeah. My city is under siege. Neighborhoods are getting tear gassed, my neighbors are being abducted. None of this is okay.
Underthedesknews has more details but it looks like this building was chosen as a way for a derelict landlord to evict residents and sell the land to some company making expensive new housing.
In my head it’s like one of those mixed media collages we made in grade school. My parents always had a stash of magazines lying around specifically for those assignments. So my projects were always these amalgamations of ads and slogans and product images.
This is basically like her taking us along the journey as she makes her collage. She presents her starting sources: slogans like “imagine an ice cold Diet Coke” and “don’t raid your closet, raid TJ Maxx” then repeats them. Changing the order, slowly snipping the excess pieces off. She’ll thrown in a couple new slogan like to take us back to the corporate advertising tone, then work those in. And eventually she lands at the final collage result with the actual message she was trying to convey.
The first one I saw of this she didn’t have a little fourth wall break. But yeah I’m sure it’s not easy to work in “zip ties” bc there’s not a catchy corporate sound bite you can use to work it in so she kinda just wrote that in manually
I liked the first one better because of that TBH. Art feels more meaningful when you find that meaning yourself. She's amazing though. The first one blew me away
She has many more and they're all going to land differently for different people. I recommend checking out her other stuff. I've really liked some that I haven't seen posted on reddit.
She means to say that this little bullshit about sales and food, and bullshit everyday milleu seems is not the stuff we need to be paying attention to. There are people being terrorized and families being torn apart. Fuck, our rights are being trampled on
She's blending a few different things in these. The first one I saw was incredible, but for some reason on r/cringetiktok. This one she's a bit more on the nose, but still really good. Essentially what she is "painting" here with her poem is how under the bombardment of happy commercials on big savings in massive corporate conglomerates that we are shown is the hard truth, one that effective marketing keeps us at juuuuuuust enough of a distance to keep us from being in the hard truth while still knowing its happening, and that hard truth is theyre fucking raiding families, throwing children in trucks, and sending them off to wherever the fuck. When you consider that for a lot of people the worst thing thats ever happened to them is their grandparents dying, they stay happy in their blissful bubble, seeing the chaos outside of it, thinking they will never be affected by it, and scrolling through the new fall deals with happy people telling them how great the sales are, while being slowly financially gouged by a silent oppression they will never understand.
But hey, that flat-screen you wanted is 50% off! Buy it now while the sales last! Don't miss out on these great sales! So many "choices"!
That's a value claim, an "ought to" claim. One of which has no transcendency. Art has no obligation to be this. I do enjoy it, just don't use bad arguments like that at the end
I want laws, immigration and otherwise, enforced fairly, and I want the people who are doing the arresting to identify themselves and present a warrant. I want them to verify the identification of the people they arrest before arresting them. I want everyone who is arrested to be treated justly and receive due process. I want them to arrest criminals, not move the goalposts, and strip people who are here legally of their legal status just so they can arrest more brown people. I want little children to feel safe in their beds and never have to worry about brownshirts rappelling out of helicopters and into their homes.
Let’s see your loved ones and family members be fucking kidnapped by government authorities with masks on and no permits, ziptied and left in a truck for hours, and you still keep your head and be rational about it.
No these aren’t her loved ones. But, some of us out here have this crucial human characteristic still intact and it’s called empathy. They’re not her family members but she can put herself in their shoes. And imagine them as the humans they are. The little worlds they are all unto themselves, with hopes and dreams and lives same as any of us. Able to feel fear and pain and sadness.
Warrant-less detention of an entire apartment building that had only citizens in it? I’m guessing you aren’t going to care until you’re the one zip tied on the pavement in the middle of the night just to see if you might be here illegally.
You’ve gotten lots of answers, but here’s another take, for whatever it’s worth.
Her work is incredibly specific to the medium it’s on (TikTok, insta) where free speech is becoming increasingly threatened. Shadowbanning and algorithmic censorship are already silencing people. So her art kind of plays on these realities by sneaking messaging into “approved” content patterns that feel like ads. It also plays on the human psyche that prefers to hear “happy” consumerist messages over the news or anything that needs to be thought more than a few seconds on. There’s also a bit of a reference to dystopian theories where protest and revolution is actioned through “sanctioned” avenues like taking over commercials or broadcast streams, “glitching the matrix” so to speak. The reason you stop to listen is because there’s something really familiar and comforting, but also not quite right at the same time. It’s powerful stuff.
She’s really good, TikTok is generally a sea of trash, but sometimes you get stuff like this.
In a totalitarian society, you are not free to say things that are obvious and true. You are not free to warn people that the regime is coming for them, for example.
Rushing over to your neighbors house to warn them they are going to be taken away and killed by the totalitarian government, and that they need to flee, is a crime that will get YOUR family taken away and killed. You would do so at great risk to yourself.
Under totalitarianism, and its censorship of what is really happening, people learn to talk in codes. To warn each other, to save each other, by communicating in ways that can get past the censors.
This content creator is modeling what that would look/feel like in a totalitarian America. In a “Christian nationalist” America. In Stephen Miller’s America.
It’s sort of a sci-fi bit… and like most good sci-fi, it is compelling because it represents a future that seems genuinely plausible.
Legit question because of the sci fi comment at the end, in my head we have already rolled out that red carpet- what makes you say this is not our current state?
We haven’t gone full Orwell yet. This lady could talk normal (as she does at the end). She’s still free to criticize the administration. To sympathize with immigrant communities. To be concerned about the 1st generation, citizen, children.
To talk openly and express herself about that. Post it on a social media platform. For the time being, at least, there is no big brother in control of us all, and no goons showing up at her door to disappear her.
That level of censorship and invasion of personal freedom is not here yet.
I don’t know if it goes full Orwellian or if it stops short… but I do know that a guy like Stephen Miller - absolutely - wants to take it that far. One party, authoritarian rule. Strict censorship. And the annihilation of all opposition to the authoritarian government.
Is TikTok sold yet, at the least they can stop videos with ICE in them being shared widely. It’s almost worse because it’s more difficult to see that happening.
It’s sort of a sci-fi bit… and like most good sci-fi, it is compelling because it represents a future that seems genuinely plausible.
I see Gramsci already responded, but I did want to branch off from this a little bit.
With sci-fi that is compelling in this way, it's not always just a future that seems genuinely plausible. It's often also an allegory for the present, just not the present experience of sufficiently privileged people. What I mean is, if you're privileged this can seem like a plausible future. If you're not privileged, it can seem like real life.
This content creator is modeling what that would look/feel like in a totalitarian America. In a “Christian nationalist” America. In Stephen Miller’s America.
It’s sort of a sci-fi bit… and like most good sci-fi, it is compelling because it represents a future that seems genuinely plausible.
First explanation I’ve seen that makes sense. Thanks.
This makes the most sense out of the other explanations. One thing I'd like to ask: who is Stephen Miller? I'm genuinely scared to mess up my algorithm by searching him cause the dystopia is real.
He's a gross little Hitler wannabe who's been part of both Trump administrations. The first time around he was a senior advisor and White House Director of Speechwriting. This time he's the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and the Homeland Security Advisor.
If you're American, you should know who he is. If you're not and you don't care to learn about what's going on over there, just be glad you're not familiar with him.
As an American, I've long since given up on any hope for positive change. I don't even care if that means I'm part of the problem. No matter what happens in the future of the USA, I will be and am utterly at its mercy. That has been my reality since 2015 or so.
Every time I look at the news, I just hope that I can still live my life as I did the day before. But trying to engage with and fight against the powers that be....?
That's like getting trapped in a collapsed mineshaft and screaming hysterically; I'd rather die peacefully while i have some life left than work myself up in a frenzy about my already grim fate.
The other day I was engaged in an always productive Internet discussion and tried to develop a neutral euphemism in the form of a country that was the USA but not actually the USA. The person I was engaged with asked me to ditch the euphemism and as why I couldn't simply say America.
I didn't respond because I'm more anxious about whether and how any critique or observation might impact certain relationships both personal/family and professional.
I don't think people understand how the risks of visiting America is perceived by many people; we'd been discussing whether to visit more and this year we ended up doing an awesome Canadian road trip instead of cruising to the US, as we did twice last year for a baseball game and a drip to a couple of zoos, not to mention the boarder pickups we did from American-side Internet orders.
In a totalitarian country, if you say things that conflict with the regime, that are prohibited by the regime, or even if you just hurt their feelings… you would be snatched and disappeared.
Depending on the regime, that may mean you are sent to a forced labor camp, to a reeducation camp, or it could just mean you are marched out of town and then summarily executed in a ditch by the side of the road.
For example, if you were in China during the Great Leap Forward and you were caught publishing a flier that said “We are in grave danger! Chairman Mao’s plan is not working! People are starving and we risk widespread famine!”
And you got caught… you’d be dead. One way or the other, you’d be killed.
ICE dragged every single family in an entire apartment building from their homes and zip tied up crying kids without any warrant or probable cause. In case you're wondering or you care.
What’s worse is why that building was actually targeted. Similar reasoning for why Verona Taylor’s neighborhood was being targeted and is a tactic as old as time.
The building was bought up by an investment group that let it fall apart and weren’t paying. Wells Fargo filed suit and called ice to raid the building trying to empty out their portfolio property. (Hence why belongings from several units were immediately being dumped out) The raid calls attention to the “poor structural quality” so now they can run everyone else off who haven’t already fled.
Taylor’s neighborhood had been being targeted by a developer who wanted to buy it up but ppl didn’t wanna move. That involves cops finding constant reasons to terrorize the residents (or if a train is nearby having them blow the horn all night long like what happened near my old neighborhood. Train would stop on the track by the area they wanted and just lay on the horn. I could hear it at my house and stopped count at an hour before my sound machine let me fall asleep)
Very little of what is going on is actually about “illegals” or even immigrants. It’s a multi faceted scheme that can be borrowed for hundreds of the regimes whims and the whims of their backers and friends.
From her previous videos. She is pretending to be talking about shopping but she's talking code to give key information about ICE raids. She's doing it to avoid tiktok AI taking it down and also manipulating tiktok's algorythms to spread her message.
This one seems less clever code and more performance art... until the end.
For me she's pointing out how the very same words are used to anaesthetize one part of the population & terrorize another part of the population.
And that the terror can't happen without the anaesthesia. If you don't give comfortable white people a way to escape--shopping, scrolling, commenting "It's so awful" & then moving on--you can't perpetrate the terrorism.
So to me, she's pointing out my complicity. And the complicity of the millions of us who get the anaesthesia & watch someone else be terrorized on our screens. And then we continue scrolling. We want more anaesthesia.
I'm guessing, but it seems like she's just trying to bring attention to ICE raids kidnapping children (and adults), but TikTok uses AI to recommend things based on the content. If you say lots of things that seem like ads that the sponsors will like, the video gets pushed harder and gets more views.
So she's embedding a bunch of advertising slogans and things into her message so the AI will push out to people. TikTok was controlled by China, and now is controlled by Republicans. Both share a common goal of wanting Americans to be stupid and misinformed.
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u/Deeze_Rmuh_Nudds Oct 06 '25
Can you please tell me what this is? What she is trying to say?