wait really? i'm not gonna sign up for midjourney but it's surprising to me that this would be restricted
Yep - they self-censor themselves according to China's whims, just so they can have China access now only to be banned by the great firewall 1 year from now after Chines startups scrape all their image outputs for training.
Why is AI needed for that? Political satire doesn't require anything more than adding a text balloon to an already existing picture.