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[–] n1ck_n4m3@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If we ever have another elected president, I hope that one of their first acts after undoing literally everything that the orange menace has done is to replace every picture of trump in any government building with this.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Gonna need fundamental change to make the president less powerful and make it so that no one party ever holds a majority in Congress ever again. The first would follow the second, so we should be pushing for something like Sequential Proportional Approval Voting for every legislature we got.

[–] Xande@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 33 minutes ago

Start with reforming the ways your elections are held. To the rest of the world it seems like a 250 years old system to keep those with money in power. I thought the american revolution was held to get lost of a king and his henchmen?

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours ago

Damn don't do Cronos like that

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Prove it. It's not mine.

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[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 108 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is based on Goya's famous painting "Saturn Devouring His Son", if anyone was wondering.

[–] vala@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Imo in this original painting Saturn is horrified either to be doing this at all, or to be seen doing it.

So I don't think the poetry transfers to trump here.

I know this is shit posts but we're also discussing high art so...

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's hard to say for sure. I always interpreted his expression as maniacal rather than horrified.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

He certainly wasn't horrified about doing it in the original myth, as far as I remember.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Considering he ate FIVE of his children, I don't think he was.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

One of my favorites. I wish we knew if that's really what he intended to depict - people just guessed.

[–] vala@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah he didn't even actually name this painting. We really don't know who the subjects are for sure.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

4 feet tall and painted directly onto the wall of his dining room, too. My kinda guy.

[–] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I dunno, I think that's part of the magic of the Black Paintings. To me, what makes them truly unsettling (in the best way) is the fact that he painted them exclusively for his own desire and that we're limited to guessing the subject matter (which, although ambiguous, was undoubtedly dark).

[–] oeverbloem@feddit.nl 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

kolpeshtheyardstick made a pretty great video essay about the work and its historical context and cultural impact. (01:04:19)

I never heard about how it was made before and that really changed how I view the work.

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[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is a really good reference to classical Roman mythology. Something that the US government usually appreciates.

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's a reference to Goya a Spanish painter.we don't really know if this painting was about chronos, that's a theory.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son

Huh, neat. I tend to believe it is anyways with that previous sketch and simply belonging to under the umbrella of Romanticism but there's some solid points there against it.

Just the point that the buttocks are too round to fit a typical male depiction is pretty compelling.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Just worth pointing out: three of the five children eaten by Saturn(Cronus)were women, and the very first was Vesta(Hestia).

they were roommates

[–] DrSoap@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who painted this? I want to buy this painting.

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 27 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Quite likely their initials are A.I.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Indeed they are.

[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Trump wouldn't eat the flag, he'd use it to wipe his shit

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

On the other hand, he’s well known for eating things he wants to hide. He eats notes after meetings.

I would be surprised if he hasn’t had someone redesign the US flag for him, based on his ‘vision’. So eating the flag to hide it is totally on brand.

why do you think he's eating it?

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[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 6 points 22 hours ago

Nah, he uses the constitution for that.

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[–] GenitalHurricane@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago
[–] DemandtheOxfordComma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm sure there are quite a few people that would love to see him choke on a flag.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think a lot of alcohol poisonings will happen on the day he dies.

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