This, with even less recourse to have the ban removed. Eg I was banned by Jordan Lund from politcal/news Lemmys, publicly spoke with him about the ban and was found to not have broken any rules, and he just wont remove the ban. For me doing literally nothing wrong, except having politics he doesn’t agree with (feminism and think Trump engaged in election interference, which I had and have reputable sources for), in a politcal sub.

No. Thinking matters.

Okay, but that wasn’t your original assertion. Also, there’s no way to prove this claim anyway about relevancy. Like God is pretty irrelevant these days, why would a painting of him really matter today? Why does David matter? They are just made up stories.

Again, you’re just saying stuff to say stuff

The art world decided to turn its nose up at this kind of popular art and pivot toward controversial, shocking, and lazy (looking) art intended to provoke all kinds of responses (many negative). This continues to drive a perception in the public of an artist community that is increasingly elitist and out of touch.

People forget that it wasn’t always this way.

Banksy has cute and beautiful art too. The balloons, astronauts, and kid ones.

The painting’s location and grandiosity prove my point. It is still a beautiful piece but it wasn’t painted to be accessible to the common man or to be a feel good piece - it was meant to inspire awe and divine worship. Michaelangelo commonly made pieces like this, including ofc David, a LARGE and detailed piece, which is why he was sought after by the wealthy. He was not an accessible every day common man artist like Banksy lol.

You’re just saying stuff to say stuff. Like when people freak out about vegans when they don’t know anything about it, it’s just what they’ve been told.

I didn’t cherry pick, I attacked your premise with examples that break it.

Those are fine too, but my point was artists who create technical pieces of things that are beautiful, that beautiful pieces indeed are still appreciated today and I wouldn’t call the previously listed artist’s works any of what you described previously.

The entire Catholic mass was told in Latin at that time specifically to reduce accessibility and increase reverence. I think you underestimate Catholic cuntiness. They were putting people in their place with all of that. If you don’t understand how Catholicism was used by Rome and then later the world to keep slaves in line and convince poor people to fight wars, then you are missing a lot of info on the world. Most Abrahamic religions are meant for that, that’s what the legend of Abraham is about.

It was literally made by Bob Ross to teach everyone how to paint something decent in ~30minutes. Part of that is enjoying the painting process and not getting frustrated. But it was absolutely instructional, he gave specific colors and techniques because he was teaching us how to paint…

Wow, what a bunch of didn’t happen.

Art has always valued technical skills, however some artists do not need to be particularly technical to convey artistic meaning.

Banksy is a technical artist who also uses creative meanings on his art itself.

Jono (charcoal artist) is HIGHLY technical, has art pieces that are probably more detailed than a literal photograph.

Thomas Schaller, Colin Thompson, and many many many more famous artists with excellent technical skills, all very favored.

Bob Ross teaches beginner’s level technical skills. That means that we can all make our own paintings. It means that it isn’t often expensive to buy those pieces because we can make them. He was teaching people how to paint, that still makes him completely relevant to the art world. It’s just not exactly mentally stimulating once you already know how to paint all those pieces - often artists do things called studies, and then they move on to the next study. Arguably his best artistic work was The Joy of Painting itself and its legacy.

Btw the entire point of those churches and paintings was so the common person felt overwhelmed and unworthy. It wasn’t made for love per se, it was made to give an image of power and divine right.

Um, yeah. Like for instance, we have a video that CBS put out, directly after the shooting someone is scanning the crowd with their camera and caught video of the shooter running off the roof. Again, RIGHT AFTER. People are just starting to run out of the event, realizing what happened.

Yet…! The gun is an old WW1 Mauser that requires a screwdriver to disassemble. The FBI later said they found a screwdriver on the roof (even though crime scene photos of the roof don’t show it) and claim that he unscrewed this gun in almost an instant, left the screwdriver on the roof, jumped down with the gun taken apart, and then reassembled the gun and left it for cops to find.

Not to mention they had his body on Airforce 1 well before a forensic autopsy could typically be completed.

He said hail victory at the memorial service - in German, hail victory translates to sieg heil. He id explicitly a Nazi.

I am also exCatholic and went to Catholic school, I stand by my original comment.

The condom and abortion positions alone have caused a lot of damage to the world.

Yeah okay, just noting safety for anyone reading

Ads have been one of the most destructive forces on humanity in the last 100 years.

Probably not a great idea to tell Disney in writing you will pirate their content.

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No, not really that either. That is also advocating for eugenics.

We know there are diseases like cystic fibrosis that would benefit from gene editing. That is not an issue to treat.

It’s just that humans need genetic variety or we will go the route of the Gros Michel banana when a disease hits. There are people immune to HIV for instance - that is good for them for some things, but it is likely that means they have other trade offs for this trait. Gene editing everyone to have it could theoretically mean a different disease like giardia or cholera or whatever could be easier to contract and more deadly.

The advantage of humans is adaptability. We need genetic variety to be adaptable. We cannot all be the same. There is no perfect genetic code or perfect “Adam DNA,” (conservatives believe there is an original DNA code that God gave Adam and if they can access it, they will live hundreds of years like the Bible said people did). They think this because they don’t believe in evolution.

Recommend the book “Half Earth” by E.O. Wilson to better understand why genetic diversity is important. It isn’t long at all.

Rare Catholic W

Want to alsonadd (because for some reason I can no longer edit my own comments on any instance) that the wealthy have been stealing the poor’s DNA for millenia and they still look like, well, Mark Davis.

That’s why they love gold diggers, love strippers, athletes (see Serena Williams who is married to a billionare), actresses, etc - they’ve BEEN trying to do this the whole time.

No, your assumption is that there is an ideal DNA code when there isn’t. They will still just be people like everyone else.

You would just use the car wheels itself if you’re doing all that - how do you think it would store energy driving uphill?

And not just that, but safety and cheapness akd accessibility of the materials. Water is pretty cheap and common. If it spills, probably no big deal (flooding notwithstanding) unlike battery acid. Not as likely to explode (sometimes steam explodes stuff).