• happybadger [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Sometimes I think about what it must have been like to be part of the Paris commune. Breaking down the doors to a mansion, storming inside, and seeing something as gaudy as this. All the suffering of everyone outside, all the excess deaths of their children and the opportunities denied to them, bought the most depraved people the most tacky temple to their greed. Seeing something so hollow makes the trials that follow so easy to understand. The people being tried had shown just how hollow that blood investment was.

    When I watch Bezos come back from space and try to describe it or Grimes at age 33 try to explain a coherent idea with all the money that has been given to them, I'm just totally on board with whatever. They're bugs.

    • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      The Paris Commune burned the :gui-better: when they took over, but goddamn maybe we can have a little :gui-trans: , as a treat. I would love to see the heads of these ghouls roll.

    • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      https://soviet-art.ru/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/V.-Polyakov.-After-storming-the-Winter-Palace.jpg

      This is why I love this painting. Imagine never having washed your penis, not even knowing what the direction "left" is, having worms, being in the process of dying, being the worst gamer of all time, not being able to read, having had 16 children, only three of them are alive, two of them are child soldiers in the White army and then just seeing this after a lifetime of freezing cold deprivation