Everyone else : Every time I take a picture of the magnificent moon it looks tiny and shitty
This guy : So anyway, I took a masterpiece

Great work!

Now that MAGA is waning we’ll likely see a comeback of other types of conservative like Libertarian.

Hey, if Milei tanks the Argentinian economy, which is basically impossible not to do, we probably won’t see that either.

But the irony of his final words being about how gun violence is the necessary price of our society right before being shot in the neck is Chef’s Kiss.

His last words were about dogwhistles.

“How many mass shootings were comitted by trans people last year?”

“Too many!”

*conservative cheering*

“How many mass shootings were there in general last year?”

“counting or not counting ‘gang violence’?” (Read : Was it ethnic minorities?)

*gets shot, conservatives run up to get bloodsoaked merch to sell later*
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/elder-tiktok-eldertiktok11-video-at-charlie-kirk-shooting

He disagreed with their “state”, so his assassination is celebrated.

He disagreed with the state allowing black people to be pilots. Oppression through money is still oppression.

https://xkcd.com/463/

fastfetch output :

Disk (/): 203.45 GiB / 224.94 GiB (90%) - ext4
Disk (/media/skullgrid/Data): 684.44 GiB / 913.43 GiB (75%) - fuseblk

I didn’t realise that Linus Torvalds changed his name…

… unless you think I specifically went out and bought a laptop that advertised a 913.43 GiB secondary drive?

Thanks for the civil response, even though I wasn’t.

I am embellishing the story of JMB (as I perceive it), but, like most artists of that calibre, it’s based on who his connections were rather than the fidelity of his work.

Otherwise, I’d say I enjoy his art, I’m a professional artist who has earned a living in the fields for 40 years, I’ve taught art, I’ve bought art, and there’s plenty of room for disagreement on his. That’s one of the things that appeals to his fans. It’s supposed to look kinda shitty. That’s one of the things he did on purpose.

I mean, the kind of art he makes falls into the “jokes on you, I was only acting retarded” meme kind of discussion. Where visual art isn’t so much art for visual impact, rather, the book length essay you have to write out and explain to investors on why it’s such a good idea, and it’s very far out, man.

Whatever explanation he gives for drawing as crudely as he does, be it trying to emulate a caveman, primitivism in general, mental illness, homelessness, distress, whatever, is not being done with a kind of fidelity and vision that causes a further impact. It’s just crude, low fidelity and overall shitty on purpose. I’m not much of a fan of Picasso either, but at least in Guernica, there’s a point: “Holy fuck, the bombing is driving my perception insane”.

Compare and contrast with painters I like, Dali, Escher, and the very least Munch’s scream and Van Gogh. All of them distort reality and perception but in order to further visually emphasise the mood in a consistent and manner that can be within fidelity of a certain vision, instead of just half-assing it to look like shit.

That’s one of the things he did on purpose. Not your thing, that’s great, so what do you like? Which artists are great?

The ones I mentioned before, alongside Da Vinci and many others that I see online or forgot the names of; but just most art in general that has some attempt at both fidelity and impressionism. I don’t care if it’s abstract or distorted, just as long as I can tell there is a certain vision that is being achieved with a certain level of technical capability, instead of just a concept they are half assing.

I’ve talked about this before, but the AI art that’s being made is something far more enjoyable than the same thing being done in museums by lazy assholes that have brought ruin and made a mockery of the field of art. Damien Hurst telling assistants and curators to fill fish tanks with formaldehyde and basketballs is far worse, lazy and damaging than anyone putting a prompt into Stable Diffusion; especially if they are curating LoRAs or making their own training sets. It’s the same level of laziness and expression, but at least there is an aesthetic choice and vision that’s being fulfilled by something.

And if you want to make the counter argument that for some reason Pollock’s paint splashes are more artistic; are they though? He has just as much control as a person writing a prompt; probably less, so fuck him, and his CIA funded money laundering.

Got any underrated recs for Abstract art that actually has a vision and perceivable expression? I always thought of the cover art for Cynic’s Focus was an excellent piece of abstract art that had an actual motive and vision instead of being a blank canvas or random splotches, but then I saw that it was an alien and there that goes.

EDIT : My usual bag for “art” is actually music anyway. I still enjoy visual art, but I do most of my feeling through music

Sure, just stay for 90 days only.

EDIT : you can smoke the legal weed only if someone gives it to you for free, you can’t buy any.

If any company could get away with labelling their product to have 1/10th less and get away with it, they would. Usually consumer rights organisations fight to make it so that you get what is advertised.

The producers are using semantics to give less. I, as a customer want what I have been promised by the label.

If you’re interested in arguing the opposite, you’re anti-customer, and pro-ripoff.

It’s whatever chatgpt installed off civit ai’s fonts collection

Told you guys.

and if you don’t live here then we can bring you some freedom too

No thanks. I live in a country freer than the US, you guys keep all that to yourselves.

Freedom and moral improvement?

Charge them an unreasonable price.

A jail you carry around?

Affordable time!

I’m still fine with my Motorola phone.

Mini tablets were 7 inches.

It’s ridiculous; how am I meant to fit something half the size of my dick in my pocket?

Bootlickers will then argue it’s cool that the manufacturer screws you out of almost a hundred gigs.

I literally don’t have the precious time to write a long rant on why JMB sucks as an artist. So I’ll just be brief.

It looks like toddler scrawls, the only reason he got famous is because he let Andy Warhol suck his dick, and it appeals to people who can’t discern good art, which is why I bought up Lars Ulrich.

Good, he made slop that was so shit, Lars Ulrich bought it.

… to see them being butthurt? that’s the topic of the thread. Also, I said “to drink in the salt”

should I wade into 4chan/pol/ to drink in the salt, or is it not worth it to give them the attention and have them scrape me for whatever data might leak out?

EDIT : They’re just blaming jews, but calling them “talmundists”. Also, they adapted the n-word to use against magas, by making it into an m-word and keeping the rest the same