People don’t realize how hard it can be to throw an election or impugn an adversary with manipulated imagery

Then they ask us to do it by hand?!

You're assigning emotions to people based on what you'd like them to feel, not on reality. For example, most americans probably don't feel shame about being american. But it's still a good decision not to go around showing off a bunch of american flags abroad, unless you want people to look at you in a certain way.