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reggintaf posted:Cognitive dissonance anyone? I'm more inclined to say the opposite: he's the honest and self-aware one, and anyone who supports Obama but excoriates Reagan as some right-wing boogey man is exhibiting cognitive dissonance. Here's a video of Obama praising Reagan and directly endorsing his legend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFLuOBsNMZA
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Kieselguhr Kid posted:I'm more inclined to say the opposite: he's the honest and self-aware one, and anyone who supports Obama but excoriates Reagan as some right-wing boogey man is exhibiting cognitive dissonance. Yes I'm sure it is because Obama shares and admires his ideology and not because he recognizes the political necessity of paying lip service to the ridiculous cult of personality that has sprung up about Reagan's legacy  
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Nanomashoes posted:Maybe he just likes DEBT and killing foreigners?  Biden hugs. 
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raskalnikov_86 posted:Stop whatever you are doing and watch this video. Tigntink posted:As someone from Memphis, this doesn't surprise me even slightly. He's no Janis Fullilove.  But Flinn is going against Cohen, and frankly, doesn't stand a chance. So goddamn tired of his "Scrap Iron" ads, that I can't seem to find online for some reason.
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Earth posted:And the most important thing to remember. Not a real Buddha quote. 
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Some classy Swedish centre-right election poster from 1928.  Card: Contract Caption: Women of Sweden! Everybody who votes for "the worker's party", votes for the abolishment of the family, the bewilderment of children, and the degeneration of our customs.  Caption: Everybody who votes for "the worker's party" votes for Moscow.
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Vonnegut knows what's up, but I wouldn't call him an Iowan. He's Hoosier through and through. IIRC, did a stint teaching at the University of Iowa, though. As an Iowan, I'd love to claim him, mind you. One of my most prized possessions is an autographed print of "Trout's Tomb"  More Kurt:   
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Earth posted:I like to think this person is talking about abstract art and the ilk of stuff like "Black Square," and not people like van Gogh. Current movement in vogue, and I personally hate this movement. If someone invites me to an art museum my first question is "do they have an abstract art exhibit?" If that's their only exhibit I decline. Also, http://www.buzzfeed.com/violas94/modern-art-anyone-could-have-done. "Oh but if anyone could do it, why didn't you?," they ask. My answer? "Because it's ugly." Ugh, this is the worst. Anyway, more quotes! Art quotes!   Work quotes!    Other quotes!   
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ekuNNN posted:Ugh, this is the worst.  quote:Snitch.
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Nanomashoes posted:Maybe he just likes DEBT and killing foreigners? Context please? I guess I don't get this? I feel stupid.  DAMNIT I don't have a pic! Thanks DecietfulPenguin! (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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A loving single line saying "Yo, this is a video about people with real problems voicing first world problems" too hard for you, retard? Read the loving OP. Just loving annoying is what it is. Whitecoral posted:Context please? I guess I don't get this? I feel stupid.
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Deceitful Penguin posted:A loving single line saying "Yo, this is a video about people with real problems voicing first world problems" too hard for you, retard? Read the loving OP. Yeah I just don't have a clever picture  Shouldn't have posted on the internet. 
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Earth posted:I dislike some modern/abstract art and thinks it's terrible. It's okay for me to not like something, I'm no fascist who says others can't enjoy it. I dislike the reasons you give for your opinion, but I'm not saying you can't have it. Hating and avoiding all abstract art because it's "something everybody could have done" is just lazy. There's an enormous range of different abstract art styles and techniques. Also, complaining about Black Square and then posting a quote that says modern art comes from people with imagination but without talent ignores the fact that Malevich was a very talented artist and like almost all important abstract artists started out doing figurative art. Now, if you said "I dislike abstract art because I just want to look at pretty pictures I can recognize and I'm not interested in context" that wouldn't be the worst. Look at that poo poo, it's just shapes   Sherrard posted:Snitch. For more context, from Richard Aoki's wikipedia page: quote:On August 20, 2012, a report by Center for Investigative Reporting journalist Seth Rosenfeld alleged Aoki was an FBI informant who had infiltrated chapters of the Communist Party, the Socialist Workers' Party and, nearly from its inception, the Black Panther Party. In response to a FOIA request by Rosenfeld, it was revealed that a Nov. 16, 1967 FBI intelligence report listed Aoki as an informant with the code number "T-2". FBI agent Burney Threadgill Jr. also said that he worked with Aoki, stating, "He was my informant. I developed him."  also: 
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Earth posted:I dislike some modern/abstract art and thinks it's terrible. It's okay for me to not like something, I'm no fascist who says others can't enjoy it. This is quite true, but you should know that what you initially said is basically the art equivalent of "I like all kinds of music except rap and country". 
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Earth posted:I dislike some modern/abstract art and thinks it's terrible. It's okay for me to not like something, I'm no fascist who says others can't enjoy it. Dismissing entire bodies of work based on genre is silly.  DRIVE RED WEDGES INTO WHITE TROOPS!
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The insignia of the US Military Advisory Command-Vietnam (MAC-V) Can you spot the symbolism? 
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Is the sword breaking a royal crown? This picture is gigantic. Click on any part of the image except the resolution indicator to see it as the size of your screen. 
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Wubbles posted:Is the sword breaking a royal crown? It's a white sword pointed up (North) breaking a yellow (SE Asian) wall against a red (communist) background. I mean it's not exactly subtle. 
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Armyman25 posted:The insignia of the US Military Advisory Command-Vietnam (MAC-V) Speaking of "not exactly subtle", I've always been partial to the obviousness of the MAC V SOG's self made and adopted (too hush hush for real insignia) patch; 
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You know who else hated Modernist art?    During the Nazi regime, tens of thousands of works of art were stolen from public museums, private studios and Jewish-owned collections. The top leadership all got first dibs from this massive art heist, claiming whatever they liked from the warehouse. This was usually classical, neo-classical or impressionist stuff, the usual prestige pieces that rich fucks like to keep around to make themselves look cultured.  Goebbels and his aides went through a lot of the remaining works, finding anything they thought was Too Jewish or otherwise politically incorrect. They set up a big gala event to show off how awful and anti-German all this modernist art was. This Entartete Kunst exhibit was a highly publicized event. Think Awful Link of the Day sorta treatment, but for the purpose of inciting racial hatred and social outrage about all this decadent Jewish/Bolshevik art.    If it was something that the top brass hated, but still had obvious value, they'd sell it in international auctions to help fund their war aims, like this stolen Van Gogh:  The issue of Nazi provenance is still a mess to this day. Many American galleries and museums got their agents into those Nazi auctions to build their own collections. Some have made a great deal of money off that stolen art, while the few surviving artists (or their estates) were held off by the museums' legal teams for decades. What happened to all the rest of it? Bonfires. Thousands of irreplaceable works, the entire careers of many artists, all torched in the mass spectacle of a public burning. Dr. Cogwerks fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Oct 8, 2012 |
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Armyman25 posted:It's a white sword pointed up (North) breaking a yellow (SE Asian) wall against a red (communist) background. 
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Armyman25 posted:It's a white sword pointed up (North) breaking a yellow (SE Asian) wall against a red (communist) background. The noble, chivalrous United States crushes the figurehead of Communist dictatorship seems like pretty reasonable interpretation. Other "reasonable" interpretations include:  Black people are irresponsible. (source:http://www.netwellness.org/healthtopics/aahealth/introduction.cfm)  Women are stupid. (source: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/09/19/scientists-your-gender-bias-is-showing/)
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Dr. Cogwerks posted:Entartete Kunst Coinciding with the aforementioned shebang was the "Große deutsche Kunstausstellung" or "Big German Art-Exhibition", full of a bunch of wonderful, pure, aryan art dontcha know. Stuff like this.  The thing that was great about it though? This exhibition started at the same time as the "Degenerate" one. But after 4 months the "degenerate" had attracted over two million visitors, which was about 3 and half times more than the regular old aryan one. Art sure is grand, huh? Whitecoral posted:Yeah I just don't have a clever picture What? I ain't mad at you dawg. Was mad at unmarked links, they really, they really  "Mitt Romney Debates himself"
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Dr. Cogwerks posted:Nazis and art stuff And on the other hand, the CIA funded a lot of abstract expressionist artists, including Jackson Pollock, partly to overshadow the social realists. Here's a breakdown of a book about it from some socialist website: http://monthlyreview.org/1999/11/01/the-cia-and-the-cultural-cold-war-revisited   
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I just learned that in 1998 the USPS issued an Ayn Rand stamp. Kinda funny that she would be commemorated by a government agency that she rationally must have hated the existence of! Further reading finds that she was actually a passionate stamp collector, and once wrote an essay about the analogue between life, career, and stamp collecting. ayn rand posted:Speaking esthetically, I should like to mention the enormous amount of talent displayed on stamps...more than one can find in today's art galleries. Ignoring the mug shots of some of the world's ugliest faces (a sin of which the stamps of most countries are guilty), one finds real little masterpieces of the art of painting. 
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Earth posted:Yes, and you also know that the masses truly enjoy work that is terrible? Ah yes, if there's anything the "masses" love it's abstract art  anyway, I like action-painting:              
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