/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3763470
>With Iraq we didn't.
The porpoise of Iraq wasn't ever necessarily about oil. I mean it kind of was but it wasn't about literally getting direct access to their oil. It was about establishing a US stronghold next to Iran that also relieves US dependency on the Saudis. Plus a bunch of other reasons. The motivations behind why we fabricated a war to invade Iraq depend on who you're looking at. It was as much about just created cause for endless war than it was about getting marginally cheaper access to oil.
>Tax cuts are good, Jimmy.
No they can be good. They can also be cancer. We are like 20+ years into the cancer phase.
> "Not taking" something isn't the same as giving it
No it's the exact same. The went from "not having" 2 trillion dollars annually to "having it." For no reason. If you want to compare TARP and the Obama bailouts with the psychotic Trump tax cuts, you're building your own hanging platform.
>In a completely globalized economy with wildly fluctuating currency exchange rates between countries only a few hundred miles apart, making your country as attractive as possible to the biggest employers is a desirable thing.
Then we shouldn't be taxing our own companies with Tariffs for using Chinese or Canadian products.
>It's the same reason China has lowered their own tax rates-which were until recently already lower than ours-to compete
No they weren't. They went from like 35% to 21% in 2017. The US went from 0-30% to 0-10%. And it's important to note that when we say something like "0-10%" what we're really saying is that they're getting back a bunch of money. There are so many corporate loopholes that the effective tax rate for the biggest corporations is less than 0%.

idk you're too autistic to engage with rationally probably. Every sentence is a different nonsense trap distraction that isn't really an argument, it's just a diversion.

>>3731976
Whoever is incapable of being able to understand and appreciate Pollock's bullshit or it's place in time or it's general aesthetic appeal isn't going to make it.

>>3720171
>there's a reason world class geniuses aren't dropping acid.
lots of them are and have. crick invented dna on it. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates goofed with it.

>>3671488
heres another cable news meme. Goes with >>3652959

It's not connected to the "Fox News anchors listening to difficult news breaking reaction images" series though. It's part of the "MSNBC anchors reacting sarcastically" series.

And then I also have a few planned for a "CNN anchors looking bewildered" series.

I take back the AT ALL. He was a proto-impressionist sometimes. A lot of his work influenced what impressionism became. Because all of art history is about building on what came before. Being able to cite examples of art from before the Impressionist period that features aspects of the style doesn't negate the reality that OVERWHELMINGLY most art being produced back then was commissions for rich people, churches, militaries, etc. With no other means to capture reality, painting focused on capturing reality. Once an emerging technology showed up that did that better and cheaper, focus shifted in art from capturing reality to capturing vibes and moods and emotion and how it draws your eye around and everything else.

>>3559829
>ah, forgot to mention:
you seem upset lol
> If only you'd just be all "it's fun for me, so I do it!", but no
I mean, yes. I also enjoy goofing with uppity pissypants anons on the intranettes. I also use arguing as a way to clarify my instincts. I'm also working on an argument bot.
>you are thinking of yourself as some kind of genius, superior, "the best" ...
My point is actually that ANYONE CAN DO THIS. How does that translate to you as me saying I'm "superior?" And when did I say I was "the best" without being entirely ironic?

My whole autism is that it only needs to be a competition against yourself and time. There aren't actual ranks to things.
>there's this saying in my country
There's this saying in my country: "I don't care."
-Tommy Lee Jones
>it doesn't quite translate that well i think, but you get the idea
You don't get the idea and it likely will never translate into your gooksprecht.
>but you excessively overestimate yourself and your work.
$250,000 OBO
>>3559839
>you drool on every line in this thread
Yeah and I read the first line, saw an stupid strawmen mischaracterization of what I've already written about for fucking months, and didn't need to continue. You weren't saying anything of value. You were knowingly lying.

Did not and will not read.

>you're an attention whore
feed me bb
>you read everything.
didn't read your essay tho lol. Could have been some dynamite insight on the back half. Too bad you chose to be a disingenuous boogerfaced kid in everything else that you do.

>>3533383
>This is exactly the problem when dumb people get obsessed with politics.
There you go projecting again kiddo. Why do you think Russia gives a shit about you? How uneducated are you?

In 2014 Russia and Manafort stole a Ukrainian election to keep Ukraine from joining the EU. This led to US sanctions against the Russian oligarchy (and Putin personally) in summer of 2014. It was around August 2014 that Putin had the IRA shift it's focus from messaging bombardment of their neighbors to an active attack on the west.

And no, they don't support you "rightists" because they agree with you. They support you because you're the most likely to destroy the United States and the western alliance. Russia is BANKING on global warming destroying the west and they prop up climate skeptics to convince idiots in the west to throw away their future. Russia has strict gun control laws and yet dumped like 30 million dollars into the NRA in 2016. They don't like you because you're a fellow traveler, they like you because you're self-destructive and easily manipulated. Their global interests are diametrically opposed to those of the EU and NATO alliances, and everything they do is about convincing you to agree with them to subvert your democratic governments.

>Which is also the perfect example why so many people are annoyed with artists getting political on social media.
Yeah you're in a cult that demands that you self-censor away from critical thought. You get triggered by being reminded that you're a shill for the unambiguous worst President in the history of the union. He can't read. Rapes kids. Real bad hombre.
>They are all just like you
Able to interpret reality and perceive obvious threats to the future of my country? Able to identify obvious psychopathy in an untrustworthy reality-tv celebrity?
ALSO THIS IS STRAWMANNING.
>They all think they are the smartest people in the room while being the biggest useful idiots.
What would you say you're doing?

>>3510180
yeah I agree. Wasn't originally planning on just keeping the canvas blank like that but I kind of liked how it looks from a distance as it was.

You think I should paint the dude?