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  • niktemadur@lemmy.worldtoAntiTrumpAlliance@lemmy.worldShe broke him
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    4 hours ago

    I wish politics didn’t get reduced to “he/she was good on the teevee” level or below that.

    In 2016, I remember Hillary being perfectly rational and clear during the debates. Yet I also remember reaction photos from across the country, people not even listening to the words being spoken, just squirming at the sight of Clinton, poisoned by decades of negative propaganda against her, utterly oblivious just how viscerally they had been manipulated by right-wing media’s hatred towards “this… this… uppity librul woman”.

    They didn’t listen to a single goddamned word being spoken by anyone. They might as well been watching a silent .gif as far as they were concerned. Such informed voters, so savvy! bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe!
















  • In the rich and nuanced world of art, this is filed under “Rococo”.
    If that’s the case, then Gainsborough has got to be my favorite Rococo painter of them all.

    After a slow start compared to the rest of Europe, this is when painting in the UK was reaching its’ stride, was on the cusp of producing a truly monumental figure in the history of art, and who just might be the greatest of them all: J.M.W. Turner.