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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

as long as the israel cup exists the palestine cup cannot stand upright

subliminal confession from the lib

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

what if instead it said “smoke pot. not war”? that would be awesome. weed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Fuck you I'm smoking war

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Make pots, not war
The design principles on bombs are pretty badass, though, let's hang on to those.
What do you mean it'll muddle the message?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The wrong people have free time for art

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

People who will make something like this have lived privlidged and coddled lives, they've never seriously been challenged or struggled with poverty. They've lived in a nice safe little bubble. And you can't make great art if you don't properly understand the human experience. Not saying that you need to have struggled to make art, but when your existence, you life, has been easier than 99% of humanity, you aren't going to be able to properly connect on a human level to that rest of humanity.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

"Good parents have never made a good artist."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not saying that you need to have struggled to make art, but when your existence, you life, has been easier than 99% of humanity, you aren't going to be able to properly connect on a human level to that rest of humanity.

This is also why I think music artists who break through via connecting with people and current conditions end up being shit later on. Their success transforms their lives and they lose the connection they had struggle that allowed them to make that art in the first place. They were writing about their own experiences, and they continue to write about their own experiences later but it hits different because their conditions changed.

The politically well educated artists understand this and aim to keep their connection but many are very unaware of it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

It's the same with traditional artists as well. A lot of art in galleries made by "big name artists" is incredibly vapid and empty, and only appeals to equally vapid and empty people, they feature such concepts like "Too much social media bad" or "War bad" no nuance, understanding or subtlety, just simple, basic, easy to digest, unchallenging slop. The execution is usually good, because they are usually quite skilled in the technical part of art, but the actual "meaning" and "empathy" parts are just atrophied. But big fancy art gallery pieces are made to appeal to the ultra rich who purchase them as tax write-offs, so it would make sense that it would need to be the same sort of vapid shit as above.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Not saying that you need to have struggled to make art

I-was-saying

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

geordi-yes Vogon poetry

geordi-no Liberal pottery

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Harry Pottery kelly

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The first one was like, okay, lame, cheesy, feel-good nonsense but largely harmless.

the second one is fucking gross though, like they just need to hug it out. fuck

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

it's saying they need to smash israel to free palestine. Or maybe the lib has a different resolution pictured.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, based on the first one being a generic anti-war statement, I made an assumption, but I can see how you could be correct. I think that's giving them a bit too much credit, but I see your point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Either way, a big obvious problem with the "metaphor" (I hate to even give it that kind of credit) is that it presents Israel and Palestine as being equal with respect to the problem, they're symmetric. That to me is what's most lib-ignorant and gross about it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

That would be a hilarious thing to do

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I guess "Two State Solution" isn't appealing as a slogan these days, when it's apparent to even the most braindead clog that one state is going to violently subsume the other

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The linked cups are an apt metaphor then. For either to function, one must be shattered

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I said this in response to a different comment, but it applies even more here:

A big obvious problem with the "metaphor" (I hate to even give it that kind of credit) is that it presents Israel and Palestine as being equal with respect to the problem, they're symmetric. That to me is what's most lib-ignorant and gross about it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Honestly, I think the only way a two state solution might work is if we all acknowledge the Mormons are right and construct a Jewish homeland in America.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Most reasonable plan I ever heard

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would love to subject Israel to the terrors of Salt Lake City

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And vice versa tbh. A match made in ~~heaven~~ zion

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Make them deal with the White Pharaoh

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Israel needlessly restraining Palestine, accurate

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Umlaut in Israel

This is fucking German, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

It's not an Umlaut, it's a diaeresis, so most likely French or Dutch, probably French cause of the spelling of Palestine (it'd be Palestina in Dutch)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Québécois in this case.

half of my qt are english speakers just now realizing that french uses the trëma

https://twiiit.com/knottedhairs/status/1942025466010808663 https://twiiit.com/knottedhairs/status/1942286587443736939

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Probably French, actually. There are exactly two languages where Israel is officially spelled Israël, and those are Dutch and French; of those two, the only one that says Palestine rather than Palestina is French.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

You're quite a language nerd, so I'll take your word for it lol!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

German doesn't have an Umlaut for e, just for a, o, and u.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, I have never seen it used specifically in Israel, but it is a diaeresis. It indicates that adjacent vowels are in separate syllables. It is most commonly seen in words like naïve.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Israel is indeed a giant puddle of diaeresis