During the Cold War, the CIA funded numerous artists that did abstract work. This was to push back against Soviet Realism and hype up American artists. Jackson Pollock was specifically in this category, as he was an alcoholic nobody until the CIA started funding him. These artists varied in quality. Pollock was considered a hack by his contemporaries, but the money came pouring in.
There's no doubt the CIA laundered money through art the way they did cocaine and gun trafficking. As far as today is concerned, however, this type of money laundering doesn't happen anymore. Problems are mostly around IP and NDAs casting a shadow. Damien Hirst, for example, didn't actually do all of his pouring paintings. Unnamed interns did them but can't put their own credentials out there or even mention they worked for Hirst.
Obviously, this stuff is still sketchy. But if it were as easy as painting a line and getting a billionaire to buy it, everyone would be doing it lmao
Just straight-up nazi shit. Fascists throughout their ethnic cleansings in WWII used rape as a weapon, including in concentration camps against jews. Holy fuck imagine surviving Auschwitz and your great-grandson does something like this.
Probably end in a lawsuit
I fucking dare them to change the price on me when I'm at the store in my wheelchair lmao easiest $200k I'll ever make.
Multiple founding fathers were abolitionists. IIRC Ben Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Payne were the main advocates against slavery in the constitution (some were even against the 3/5ths compromise).
The debate over the morality stretches back to ancient Greece. Spartans and Athenians would argue over it. We've always known it was wrong, but some people want to own slaves anyway and have to bend over backwards to justify it.
One of the reasons so many libs support ride share apps. It's union busting without risking your scabs getting shanked on the picket line. Instead, just a quiet takeover.
I mean it's not like POC get silenced any time we voice our concerns over racism or anything. Nobody has ever done something like that. Every time a minority tries to speak up for themselves, some Pringles chips looking motherfucker always lets them speak.
I don't even know how those apps got popular. They practically double the price of your order and there's no guarantee it will be hot or complete. I'm disabled and I'll still make my way going to whatever place versus going through an app. The only reason I can think of is time saving (like getting it delivered to you at work so you don't waste your break).
I personally became as liberal as they come after reading The Giver. I used this in conjunction with Narnia to synthesize Markism-Lenonism-Yoko Onoism.
