Nah, you ain’t that special, just going to block you and encourage others to do the same. Have fun dedicating your time and energy to such great causes, I’m sure you’ll get rewarded for it.

I did 10 years as a professional artist, it was the hardest I ever worked in my life, and in the end I gave it up because despite winning awards and having collectors around the world after becoming very good at it, it is very hard to manage and maintain an actual art business in a world that doesn’t take art very seriously, especially with rising costs of things like healthcare and general goods needed to produce work.

There’s a reason why when you go to a fine art museum half of the most famous works and most beautiful pieces that changed the culture of art and even our perception of the world, were made by people who died in abject poverty.

It’s wild we read stories like that and say “Wow that’s a shame, I wish we could have given that artist the accolades and support they needed to survive and know how important they were for the world.” But the moment someone says “Maybe we should support artists” suddenly it’s hand-wringing and whinging about “factory workers.”

This isn’t a question if Ireland’s policy makes you feel good or bad, it’s a question whether or not you think there should be art in the world at all and what you’re willing to accept or change or pay to have that world with actual art in it.

You also won’t engage with people who agree this is a good thing without a facade of sarcasm and cynical dismissal, your agenda/actual age is showing.

A lot of people who can’t be bothered to learn anything about viewing or creating art deeply resent people who can do art or people who do appreciate art. This whole post was to attack art and artists because OP and his alts are bitter trolls.

Reminder: Nazi germany also hated many forms of art that didn’t meet their definitions of what was socially beneficial, and despised anything that didn’t “glorify the empire.”

Where is your “AI democratizes art” spiel? Shouldn’t you be launching into it about now or did you decide it’s too much to push at the same time?

Yah actually, why the fuck not.

We have more than the capability with our distributed work and economic systems. I get fuck-all back from my tax money and hard work to support fucking BILLIONAIRES, I think I much rather my wasted income go towards helping my community and people struggling to make ends meet.

Cynical fucks all want a Star Trek utopia but don’t want to actually put in effort and sacrifice to get there.

China plans strategies centuries out, they’ve already won, we just haven’t felt the economic impacts yet.

America functions entirely on reactions, and sometimes reactions to reactions. With subway surfers running in the corner.

None of her “testimony” was meant for anything but carefully edited clips to be farmed and replayed by millions of non-Americans on twitter to make a few dollars at the end of the month.

This is just the same rotting attention-economy that made us hate the internet and killed youtube and twitch but being applied to executive and legislative politics. They are not interacting with or engaging with the reality they’re being slapped with, they’re coasting on media frenzy and their waning political capital in the form of 28% of the population who are armed, illiterate and angry enough to march anywhere they’re directed.

She most likely will face prosecution if the administration collapses, and even if it doesn’t. They’ve taken such a severe beating that even if they secure some measure of power after November and onward, they will need scapegoats and people to point at as they run big media spectacle kangaroo courts.

I will take anything at this point, but I am particularly smirkful at the idea of Pammy here being railroaded in a mock trial, the justice of her facing her own brand of injustice and lies as her party stabs her in the back would be amazing

If they’re sincere, they’re stupid.

This whole thing will just shine negative attention from state-controlled media about dems trying to do a terror or some bullshit, when we should have the entirety of the Democratic “opposition” doing what they can to remove these obvious criminals and thieves from power, then we can actually introduce legislation that has a chance of being written into law.

I cannot imagine what on Earth they’re thinking. It’s great if it helps some hopeful young trans kids who… closely follow Democrats… but the reality is this kind of legislation feels like a performance designed to make it look like they’re doing something, without any actual plan to make it work.

I mean holy shit, we had the longest government shutdown in history over HEALTHCARE and the dems caved and the GOP raped us in the ass for it.

There is also a massive, growing sentiment against ICE and immigration enforcement that have brought out millions of people to march in the streets. Where the FUCK is the capitalization on this momentum? Oh yeah, same place they safely stored all the momentum from BLM and No Kings.

They know without a doubt this won’t make any traction and will just get booed out of the public space right now, this whole performance is hurting trans rights and equality broadly.

But I’m quite sure they know that and are doing this on purpose.

The real despair to feel here is about the massive sites like twitter and reddit, and how many people are doing this same act with even more effort, actual funding, actual headquarters and organized planning to manufacture conversations and debates, every single day, around the clock.

Lemmy probably isn’t going to push any needles in either direction, but the fact that we can see them even here, shows just how widespread the infection really is, and there are millions of people reading this kind of chaos and just rolling their eyes and deciding to not get involved, to not have an opinion, to let whatever happens, happen.

Honestly, if they had their time and power as long as they want it, they will go after interracial marriage after destroying gay marriage.

The gay marriage repeal would cause a lot of uproar but be quickly overshadowed by other chaotic policies and endeavors, and then we will be left with more problems, more people wondering what to do about their new statuses, maybe they will implement some new kind of federally recognized “partnership” so they don’t have to face lawsuits from every state, and then work later to actually abolish that as well, then the media cycle will move on and we all get used to a new, worse normal.

Then next they say “We have intelligence that foreign agents and terrorists are using marriage to infiltrate the country, so we are going to need every interracial married couple to register in a database so ICE can review the legal status of your marriage…” and the song goes on.

But I don’t think they can pull all this off. They want to, Miller self-pleasures himself every night imagining the despair and anger he would cause, but they are radically overreaching, the pushback against ICE broadly is only going to escalate and they don’t have nearly enough resources to do the entire Project 2025 handbook unless they just openly dissolve the government and seize assets but at that point the military would have to step in, because they are wisely sworn to the constitution and not a person. And the biggest reason they likely won’t get that far is the USA is fucking huge.

50 states is hard as fuck to manage, that’s why we have them, so we can have every state manage its own voting, it’s own tax contributions, it’s own delegation of representatives, etc. They are going to get creamed in mid-terms and Trump will die before his term is up and they won’t be able to hold the pieces together because MAGA is their political capital and they have no CLUE how to hold onto them, like sand through their fingers, it will all slip away rapidly.

Pam Bondi comes out on stage: “We have credible intelligence that antifa and radical muslims and trans terrorists are recruiting autistic people for their terror campaigns as they burn down more American cities. No, you can’t see the intel. Trust us bro.”

A hyperbolic version of potential events, yes, but they’ve gotten to this point already by edging the needle across the lines ever-so-slowly, so they will find a way to get people adapted slowly to the idea of seeing everyone who isn’t a white, straight, neurotypical christian male as a threat to everything we hold dear.

Why is it all these .ca accounts seem to be passing for violence?

Because they won’t face consequences, they are either astroturfing to amplify the worst voices of both sides of every issue, or just maple-flavored edgelords trying to incite something for the “nothing ever happens” crews.

User is 100% an astroturfer. They’re out in force, many of them with less noticeable histories because AI is good at writing these bots nowadays, but yeah, the most effective way of sabotaging democracy is to amplify and escalate the worst takes on both sides of every debate until everyone reading or watching is too burned out or confused to stay connected.

Thank you for calling it out when you see it.

I just want to say I’m glad the mods banned the user you’re replying to but left their comment up so people can see your reply.

The damage done to this country by the right is incalculable and likely irreversible.

When the internet started empowering the dumbest idiots who don’t understand the world to find and support each other, we lost.

The human brain is not naturally a problem-solving tool of logic and reasoning, it has to be trained to use logic and reason, and in a world of comfort and ease like in the USA broadly, people had no incentive to learn more and be smarter other than social pressure, and that also dissolved as people found each other online and removed the pressure to step up their intellect to be accepted in broader society.

This has made a deep, slippery well of pseudo-science and naturalism and healing oils and magic water and crystals, which because of placebo effects and social influence, feel like they do more for people in their daily lives than mysterious terms like “mRNA” that defy all understanding or capability for people of limited intelligence to discuss with their coworkers around the lunch table and relate their own personal experiences so they seem special and interesting.

This article is about a Senator changing their position.

She didn’t really though, not in any meaningful way. She just said this:

“And the members of Congress that have been pushing this were not wrong," she added. "So that’s really my only reaction.

No plans, not even any lip service to people who want to see investigations, just “Welp, yeah they were right. What’s for lunch?”

“And the members of Congress that have been pushing this were not wrong," she added. "So that’s really my only reaction.

This her bold tactic for addressing this matter.