moira, Part four of the Superbowl Jesus series kind of turned on me, becoming a meta-analysis of why they'd lie so transparently about the AI images used in the Superbowl "He Gets Us" propaganda piece.
The lie is so obviously a lie. Why do it?
It ended up being a deep dive into how the the fundamentalist authoritarian movement behind these ads defines "truth." Spoiler: it's not how most of the people I know define truth. But it should seem familiar to you, once you see it.
https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/02/19/superbowl-jesus-ad-part-4-a-lie-so-blatant-it-must-be-true/