What's His Excuse
Why let reality mess with a convenient truth?
Note: Maroon is not a typo. It’s what Bugs Bunny famously called various fools and idiots.
For the Trump Administration, lying is strategy, tactic, and the point. So is cruelty, self-absorption, and frowning on compassion. Not a lot to add.
As Sketchiers go, this differs from the normal style. There are no human characters. There are colors. Even the text font is different. The mind boggles. Well, mine does.
Originally I wrote the AI’s dialogue. It read like a human trying to imitate a robot. So I asked Claude AI to rephrase my text in a more realistic AI voice. Whether it delivered what an AI thinks a human thinks an AI sounds like, I can’t tell. But I wanted to give credit where credit is due.
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Clever use of the Bugs Bunny "maroon" reference to set up the tone without being overtly inflammatory. The AI-robot format works well for creating emotional distance from heavy political content, almost like detatchment through absurdity. Having Claude rephrase the AI dialogue is meta in an interesting way since it's an AI writing AI-speak for human consumption. The stripped-down visual style with just colors and no human figures amplifies that sense of sterile bureaucracy discussing human sufering.