Human Suffering as Entertainment

There is so much going on in the world right now it is hard to know what to focus on. Even though I have posted this elsewhere it warrants it's own discussion. The White House just released an ASMR video of deportations.

x.com x.com ASMR is meant to be soothing—soft sounds, gentle whispers, a sense of calm.



Deportations happen. Security measures and chains may be necessary. These are valid and legitimate policy positions.

But turning the forced removal of other humans into light entertainment serves no legitimate purpose. It doesn’t inform, it doesn’t explain—it just aestheticizes state power for the sake of a spectacle. This isn’t about whether deportations should happen or who is carrying them out.

It’s about how they are being presented—not as a difficult but necessary policy, but as a visual performance detached from human reality. This is how cruelty becomes casual. How real people, with lives and families, are reduced to content.

A state desensitization of human suffering. If this kind of messaging doesn’t bother you now, ask yourself—what happens when the next escalation is framed the same way? People need to start drawing red lines now, or they’ll end up like the boiling frog—watching each new step as if it’s normal until it’s too late to push back. Sorry but this is not normal by any standard.

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