change the goddamn tagline already, bezos, brandish your fucking class interests or you're a coward. 2018

  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Earlier this month, “Sorry to Bother You” director Boots Riley tweeted, “Art for arts [sic] sake is never for arts [sic] sake-it’s for the sake of the status quo. This is why the CIA funded Jackson Pollack [sic].” Set aside the vaguely totalitarian suggestion that art must, by its nature, exist either in support of or opposition to the political establishment.

    Sic sic sic sic yeah we know it's a quoted tweet you condescending prick.

    Also, how is it "totalitarian" to point out that art has a political component? I hate WaPo so much.

    • BrezhnevsEyebrows [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      WaPo using words like "totalitarian" and "authoritarian" to describe random things like I would use seasoning in my cooking to emotionally spice up their article

      Maybe we should start doing that...look how authoritarian it is that my surplus value is stolen

      • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        look how authoritarian it is that my boss steals my surplus value

        look how authoritarian it is that insurance companies steal all of my money when i get sick

        look how totalitarian it is that my landlord steals half my paycheck and the bank wont let me get a loan for a house that i cant afford to begin with

    • VapeNoir [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      All I can.say is that nobody ever looked at a piece of soviet social realist art and said, "yeah, my six year old could do that."

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Set aside the vaguely totalitarian suggestion that art must, by its nature, exist either in support of or opposition to the political establishment

      What?

      • Circra [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        'Set aside reality and come join me as I meander through my field of carefully curated brainfarts'