"EAT THE RICH" tagged on to the sign of the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City.

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

Cops calling in backup so they can figure out what the words say.
- "none of these words are in the book of mormon!"
- Or figure out who they can blame and shoot
- Guard dogs thinking who pissed on masters lamppost

This looks like an album cover
- Fuckin should be!
  
  Step up!
- If you want to name your band State of Ut, it’s even got the name and album title already on it.
- 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
- Or a movie poster

Oh, look! It's the rich's enforcers, they found something they bother to investigate...
- It's just graffiti, they'll quarter-ass it for a couple hours and then give up
  
  In fairness, I have no motivation today. I'll try to fifth-ass it, though...

This country is so ready to pull out the guillotine. This is in UTAH!! You expect this in new york or Oregon. But utah?!
- 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?
- You might be surprised how hard a counter culture goes when the prevailing culture is so oppressive.
  
  You can't have counterculture without a strong prevailing culture. SLC pushes back in surprising ways small and large. Great to see it.

That's an amazing photo
- 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.

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...
- I thought the same thing. Idk how it can look so fake.
  
  I think the phone they used went ham on HDR.
  
  Makes me think a solid misinformation strategy would be to doctor real photos to look like they're AI generated.
  
  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.
  
  Lots of that lately; reminiscent of the cybertruck on fire in front of the trump tower. I absolutely assumed that was ai at first
- Really? Can I ask you why?
  It doesn't strike me as AI at all. All the little details are in the right places, nothing is turning into weird amorphous blobs, the hand we can see looks real, the lettering looks plausible, there's no weird artifacting on the building, I could perhaps go on, but like, yeah, all the things I check to see whether I think a photo is AI generated or not seem to check out in this one.
  So I'm quite curious, and feel free to not answer, it's whatever, but I would like to know, what makes this image feel like AI to you?
  
  For me it's the setup of the photo itself - feels absolutely staged.
  Also those police hats look so dumb - they look like someone photoshopped a hat onto someone without understanding how hats work.
  
  The best stuff now doesn't exhibit a lot of those. It's also pretty easy to take an existing image and do a little in-painting.
  The crowd itself looks a little janky. The sky is HDR blue, But then the cop uniforms our blown straight to black there's no detail in them. The lense is wide enough to give some spherical shaping to the building that doesn't follow through in the local scene. The patches on the cop's arm are broken in a way that's unusual.
  I'm guessing that the AI and the phone played with the curves quite a bit, The patches on his arm are just broken in an unusual fashion. I saw an image from it from another angle so I'm certain it's real.
- Contrast was adjusted

"Whose dog do we shoot about this?"

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.

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

This is my cat. Her name is Uta and she hungers for the flesh of oligarchs.
- Uta must be satiated.
- Uta the destroyer of mice

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

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

Nice, more please

Truly sick album cover

Public speech on public property.

"yeah we dont know what it says but someone wrote something on this sign. get one of them gay guys who knows how to read out here to look at this"

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.

Cops looking up recipes

Is this a real photo? This is an amazing composition
- It's real and it's spectacular.
  
  I’m tempted to start a band called State of Utah just to use this as my album cover

Looks like ai but i don't think it is.
- 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.
- HDR
  
  Thatl do it, thanks. Its so obvious now.

The protesters themselves washed it away, lol
- Summarizes the movement quite succinctly doesn't it. Cute that these protests NEVER happen outside rich peoples homes for some reason.

Lemmy did it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh3t49NsWBA

That's some funny hats

Lol let the animals eat the rich, I don't go in for cannibalism. Just chuck em in a ditch, or force them all to work retail and fast food