Month: September 2015

zombowies:

• jokes about the victims or the situation will not be tolerated
• islamophobic comments and stereotypical bullshit will also not be tolerated
• you will be unfollowed in 0.2 seconds if i see that shit; i’d like to think the people i follow are better, smarter, and more compassionate than that

zobothehob0:

There is a post going around that is very annoying and troubling to me because it contains false information about the American political system that could end up working against Bernie Sanders. So I wanted to clear some things up.

• Donald Trump is NOT winning.  There is no “winning” at this stage.  There have not been any elections!  At this point, the polls are done basically on name recognition.  That’s how Deez Nuts ended up getting polled at 9% in my lovely home state of North Carolina, because people recognized “Deez Nuts” when asked.  But literally there are no elections for Donald Trump to have won.  That post says he’s ahead with votes… but there aren’t any votes for him to be ahead with.  The first Republican primary in in February.  At that point, we will have votes.  Now, we do not.
• I want to reiterate, the polls mean NOTHING right now.  Literally Deez Nuts y’all.  Deez Nuts.  Deez Nuts is not a candidate that people would vote for… Deez Nuts is a candidate that made people laugh when asked. These are the current polls and their questions.  http://www.pollingreport.com/wh16rep.htm
• These polls are about the Republican nomination.  I’m going to explain how the American political system works for a second here… See… We have two major parties, though the small parties have to do this same process too… but it’s bigger for the two major parties.  So candidates run for the nomination… because that party can only nominate one person for president even though many within that party want to run.  So before the election is to take place, each party has a “primary” election… where they vote for whoever will represent that party.  Once someone wins the primary elections, that person is the presidential candidate for that party and will run against the other presidential candidates for the actual presidency in November of the election year (I word it that way because that’s 2016, and some people seem to think it’s this November).  So currently, Donald Trump is running against other Republican candidates (honestly, they’re all horrible and the problem we’ve run into this year is that they don’t have a good front runner because their whole party is so split and divided about everything that they have no cohesive purpose, just as they haven’t for the past 8 years other than “keep Obama from doing anything” but they can’t run on that now because Obama doesn’t matter so they’re all just floundering) to become the person who runs against whoever wins the Democratic nomination for president in November 2016.  He is NOT currently running for president.
• In some states, you must be a registered member of that political party to vote in the primaries.  Which means you must be a registered Republican to vote against Trump in the primaries.  In some states, you can be unaffiliated or independent and vote for ONE primary, not more.  Regardless, you cannot vote against Trump in the Republican primaries and for Sanders in the Democratic primaries!!!!!!  I have bolded this because it is SUPER important and people NEED to understand.  If Trump wins the nomination, it is beyond unlikely he would win the presidency.  If he wins the nomination, that would essentially give the Democrats the presidency because enough of the public is disgusted that that would never happen.  Sanders is not a shoe in though!  With Trump winning the nomination, no matter what Democratic candidate… they’d be a shoe in.  But we need to be fighting for Sanders to have the Democratic nomination!  If we don’t vote for Sanders in the Democratic primary against Hillary Clinton, we don’t get to vote for Sanders for president!  He’s come so much farther than anyone thought he would.  These are the current Democratic polls http://www.pollingreport.com/wh16dem.htm  We REALLY need to help Bernie.  
• Encouraging people to vote AGAINST Trump in the Republican primaries PREVENTS people from voting FOR Sanders in the Democratic primaries.  

In conclusion VOTE FOR SANDERS in the Democratic primaries NOT against Trump in the Republican primaries.  

ahavaa-things:

baitnswitchblade:

shalottcinq:

chuppery:

Lol…the fact that people are getting seriously upset and offended by Banksy’s Dismaland makes me feel like I must live in an art “bubble”… like people think this a real amusement park? What. Its not an ~*edgy*~ version of Disneyland, its an installation meant to provoke an audience.. Its supposed to be creepy and confusing. Also he’s always made over the top, in your face art…almost always focused on politics and consumerism. 

Tl;dr Seeing non-artists react to art makes me laugh sometimes

this post is preformance art

#banksy isnt trying to provoke anyone he is creating a product to be consumed by people who want to fantasize about being an activist #without actually having to perform activism #he knows his audience and he knows what he is doing and its getting him attention and money #his success is built on the very things he claims to criticize and thats why he never examines those things too deeply #otherwise his business model would fall apart #he is not the first artist to do this nor will he be the last #and for the record: the idea that art should be intellectually inaccessible to non-artists is a concept rooted in classism #ergo any art that aims to dismantle violent capitalism and combat class based oppression #really cannot be ‘beyond’ the understanding the layman #by the nature of its design #final conclusion: banksy is shit (via)

I’ve seen people commenting on and critiquing it from an art perspective, so we run in different circles maybe? 

like, I can give you the five hundred words about why every time i see something of Banksy’s i want to bang my head on something hard. 

I feel like it’s very hard to describe anything Banksy has ever done without using the word sheeple sincerely, which is why he irritates me as an artist.  He’s the guy in your freshmen college art class who does a – shit, I don’t know, a painting of a mcdonald’s as a church with ronald mcdonald hanging out little cups of pepsi for communion for his first project, y’know? 

and then the professor says hm i think this is a solid idea but have you considered expanding it maybe?  because they’re too polite to say oh gooooooooooooood

and the freshman art dude says no no, you don’t get it, see, the mcdonald’s is a church.  because today, in america, people idolize fast food and convenience over god or morality, not that i believe in any sky fairies myself, let me tell you about the flying spaghetti monster

and everyone in the entire class is silently screaming shut UP JOSH

and the next project he does is a painting of the statue of liberty, but fat, or wearing low rise jeans instead of robes?  and the psychic energy of twenty-eight full grown adults thinking shut up shut up shut up can’t even touch him, he’s going to spend all semester doing this and oh god what if you ever get assigned to give feedback on his work, what are you going to say?  if you express any criticism whatsoever he will assume you don’t “get it” and explain it to you for about a hundred days and you will have to stab yourself with a paintbrush to escape

fuck.  where was I?  anyways.  banksy is the spirit of That Art Dude, and dismaland is the spirit of The Semester You Got Stuck in that Art Class with the Art Dude. 

EDITED TO ADD:

i wrote all that, and then I googled images of banksy’s art just to reassure myself that I wasn’t being too harsh, and immediately found his piece on the Mona Lisa holding a rocket launcher. 

like.  the problem is not that BANKSY is too INTELLECTUAL and his pieces are too COMPLICATED for pleb minds, okay?  it’s the mona fucking lisa with a gun, EVERYONE GETS IT.