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edit: Feb 20 2012Intending to brainstorm for some art that i might offensively lampoon the 2012 shenanigans I came back to draw upon this image.
I realized that there is really no need to do anything other than change the faces depicted in this image, and perhaps the 'foreign' flags, every 4 years...
Unless Ron Paul is elected (and I'm not a Paul supporter, he's just blatantly the least of considerable evils) for an amusing rehash of the Jimmy Carter Show.
"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death."
-Mark Twain
every democratic population gets the government it deserves.
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it's all bad. virtually nothing that democrats or republicans say does anything but continue the counterproductive policies that were started long before Bush and Gore/Clinton, and will carry on long after Obama/Romney -- until the party system in America is undermined and destroyed.
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so why War on Terrorism and Global Warming is counterproductive?
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"war on terror", just saying those words aloud should hint at why it's misguided. specifically: the 'war on terror' is being conducted in an impossible fashion, perpetrating more injustice and breeding more resentment against the US than sympathy - the result is more animosity towards the US, not security.
Global Warming policies as Gore would have applied them are doubtful, however the main problem with Gore is not that, it is his adherence to extending reckless foreign policies (blank check support for states like Israel, widespread military interventionism for profit - yet contradictory idleness in places where our policing would not benefit us materially) and refusal to acknowledge the existence of troubling, growing class differences and irresponsibly entrenched financial privilege that have resulted in a highly defective national economy.
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and what about the rest of issues that everyone?
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I wish I'd be able to vote for who gets to be a puppetmaster instead.
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as i understand it's largely hereditary
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Nice work
that's what i always say about American politicians.
and the shit never stops
just keeps on coming.....
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in my country, every adult citizen has a vote right...just a tought
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while I'm not really thinking right now to be able to assess whether the message here is accurate or not, I have to say this is pretty vulgar, nice try but year, bit too disgusting for art's sake
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trying to match how disgusting the American political scheme is; if people are sickened by this picture i've accomplished part of my objective
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i don't know about that bro, i've always thought of art as the ability to make a strong point with subtlety or at least eloquently, to graphically illustrate shit is hardly that. You've excellent ideas and artistic ability i'm sure you could come up with something cleaner and yet much much more powerful
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Yeah , you're right , i've almost vomited when I saw this , it's a good idea , but you chose to show it in a disgusting way and surely not pertinent ...
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subtlety and eloquence are a matter of style preference, not a universal standard of the quality of art. i also tend to appreciate those aspects in artwork. but feeling as i do that the governmental situation is way out of hand in America with the vast majority of citizens completely oblivious to the imperative need for actual change, an unsparing, graphic delivery of important messages is required to shock people from their respective stupors. i realize such content in an image also immediately alienates a lot of people to the message, but the motivation behind this piece was to engage the few people that would actually respond directly to it (rather than affect a broader audience, which i'd never expect to have for my work)
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I like how Obama on this isnt even black, which is only fair since behind that Wall Street Puppet "black dude" mask, he really isnt.
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absolute favorite comment ever on this piece. warms that little spot at the bottom of my frozen artist's heart that somebody recognized such a (intended) subtly.
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Don't mention it, you know what they say about recognition, minds that think alike and all. On top of being an absolute fraud and a sham, he's also a big pushover to whom it took less than one year to reveal to the entire world the extent of his weakness and groveling obedience to his shadow masters. Has to set a new record. It's like he isnt president anymore, but the latest star one of of those "talent" reality shows who suddenly finds himself in the real world, and for whom existing in the big jungle on par with seasoned cannibals is suddenly a lot more difficult without a free pass.
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gotta keep them voters honest, they subscribe to a lie
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lol this is very entertaining and glorious XD
but i personally kind of gave up hope on an intelligent government that will be less wealth based( in any system, Canadian as well). politicians are selfish, just like everyone else, so they will always put they're needs first.unless there's some "knight in shining armor" kinda candidate who will put the countries interest infront of they're own need to be elected- and maintian they're position on the roost. obviously mr. knight in shining armor died under a ditch saving some poor cat.
oh well, life goes on
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thanks, yes, politics are mostly hopeless, this is just for all the people who think it's so noble to vote. i'll probably be lambasting Obama over the next 4 years so there ought to be more of these to come.
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Hahah I look at this and can't help thinking of that Simpson's Episode "Citizen Kang" xD No matter they are unmasked as hideous space reptiles, one's still gonna be elected, cause voting for a third-party candidate is throwing your vote away. xD So sad and so true.
Very cool, bro
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haha, yeah, personally i might just write in Maradona
you know it's a big pain in the ass to absentee ballot (and then the government finds out where i am, pff!) and why go through the hassle for either of these cum-dumpsters?
voting isn't the way to invoke effective change these days anyway.
i'm watching Die Simpsons in german these days, ha
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Hehehe. I have to say I wouldn't be able to vote for either of them personally.
The whole two party system is stupid anyway. There's no way in hell you can fully agree with either, and when a different party than the current one is elected they will just undo most of the stuff done by the current party. I just don't see how you could get stuff done like that.
I'm glad we have twelve parties over here, that's for sure. We can even for parties that don't want to turn some of their religious beliefs in to laws.
Now have a cookie
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2 parties are slightly better than 1 (as in China), 8 parties are slightly better than 2, and 12 parties are slightly better than 8, but i think the existence of political parties at all in a "democracy" is a poor attempt at masking the class dominance and totalitarian nature of the present government. The only argument for political parties is that a voter could presumably count on their party's platforms and ideologies to remain firm over an era, but this argument is void for two reasons: 1. the supposed "ideologies" and platforms that most parties exemplify are painted with too broad a brush to fit specific voter interests in specific elections, and parties usually force politicians to rigidly conform their standpoints on issues according to their party line 2. over the course of an era, social and political needs within a given country change drastically, and the desire to cheer for a management team whose platform you can "count on" is just a self-deluding comfort in place of a more dynamic and involved role as an informed and vigilant citizen.
instead of party support, there has to be some new method of promoting truly independent candidates to a nationally recognized level. allowing other candidates into the nationally televised debates would be a great step in the right direction (but that won't happen any time soon after Perot repeatedly destroyed Clinton and Bush in '92)
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This is brilliant and so true, it takes you to make this..so thought through! Can I show this to my friends who are not on DA?! We've been talkingpolitics alot lately..
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of course you can, hope it's not too graphic for em, heh.
thanks
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my friends really liked it,I also showed ur Jesus painting and Angelica laughed real hard, haha!
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hey man, it's been a while... i know you're up at a couple other sites, you gotta send me some links to new galleries
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I put most of my stuff up on my MySpace page ( [link] ) and on conceptart.org and I put some up on imaginefx.com . I made an account at miracleofart.com ,but I haven't put anything up there yet. I felt kinda dirty making a MySpace page, but it turned out that most of my friends had one, and a lot of bands I like have them, so it became my main outlet.
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i thought about that while i was painting the excrement.
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I have to agree with you.
I'm very happy to live in country where there are 8 different parties to vote for, and where only 2 of those get more than 20% of the votes.
And guess what the Christian party doesn't even get enough votes to be represented in government (2%) so you could say that I'm a little smug about that fact
Well all said and done, I still feel sorry for you Americans, it must really suck to live in a country where you have the "choice between pest and cholera".
You have my sympathy.
With greetings from Denmark.
Lars.
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it's definitely good to keep religion the hell out of government... i'm familiar with the Danish political system and while it does work it's not without problems. As with all places, I find the Danish people to be much better than their government. But I'm prejudice since I'll usually take the Danish people over just about anything. I've addressed the topic you brought up of more parties in another comment on this deviation, if you're interested...
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Heh, I just checked your journal. So you been in Denmark! (what a small world
I both agree and disagree, the problem with independants is lack of competence, no single individual is capable to form informed opinions on every subject, and we would end up with a personally cult, where only the most charismatic people will stand a chance, on the other hand the big parties try to stretch themselves as wide as possible in order to get votes, and it pisses me of that not a single one of the parties I'm interrested in will vote for a constititual change so we could get rid of our statechurch. (even though it problably could have been way worse, sine we virtually lack any reel fundamentalist in Denmark)
Coincidentally though, I've been having plans to start in politics as an independant (funny you would bring this issue up, btw), it should be possible, I only need 150 signatures, to be allowed in, after that i just need 0,5% of the Danish votes (yeah just
Mvh Lars.
Ps. Mvh stands for "with greetings from" in Danish.
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yeah, who knew puppets could defecate?
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I'm extremely non-political. I'm very shallow, and ignorant about everything political. So, while I have no side to take, I still think this is hilarious.
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I believe your content is completely correct. A vote for Obama will cause America to fall deeper into debt. A vote for McCain is a lengthened war. But either way, whoever you vote for can't change what the previous president started. Even if Obama is elected, the war will continue. McCain, poor people will still have no money. But someone has to come into power and something has to change and if these candidates say they can, let's give them a chance.
It's not the candidates' faults that the war in Iraq is happening. And it's not their fault that the country is in debt. I don't think it's fair for people to pick on either one of them when they're trying so hard to make things better. When I was talking with a friend, he drew the line when he said it was Obama's fault that Hurricane Ike came. That was what really opened my eyes. It's not the candidates. It's the false publicity that people buy into and it's sick. The whole thing reminds me of the Salem Witch Trials. Can't we all just agree? Why do we care if they are a Democrat or Republican? Maybe it's something with adults and aquired predjudices through age.
I'm only fourteen, but I can see that this is wrong and all I want is for other people to see it too. But I can't draw. I can write and I can speak. But then how do I get people to read and hear?
My apologies for the lengthy reply. I didn't intend for it to run so long.
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a good start towards political enlightenment would be to look into alternative information sources. the major media and press simply has too many side-interests to tell the whole story to the public most of the time. CNN, Fox, NBC, ABC, NY Times, Washington Post, BBC... they're all owned or run by corporate or government interests, and they're the last folks who want you focusing on what's really going on - that's why ridiculous issues like the ones you're talking about get spread around; it's distraction. fight it by looking into historians like Howard Zinn (not my favorite, but a good place to start) at the book store, youtube, or audiobook.
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Actually, I am familiar withwho you're talking about. Dad's a lawyer, I have to know good sources from bad ones. The information you used to prove your point was credible, but I've been raised to show the other side as well. That way, it makes things just that much more difficult and you have something else other than your own opinions to work from. Thanks for the reply. I love talking about politics and religion. I know those two don't flow well together, but I like both.
- Kit Darling
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you can't blame either candidate solely for the war or the irresponsible economic policy, but McCain did vote for the war so he's culpable, and Obama's declared stand towards Iran and his support of Israel don't put him at any distinguishable fundamental distance from McCain on foreign policy. Neither is working very hard at anything right now other than promoting themselves and getting elected. And the main point is that there's other issues which are arguably more important than just the war and the economy. The candidates aren't to blame for all the country's problems, but they haven't done anything to make them better, and neither one has the courage or character to enact the bold changes (such as imposing sanctions on allies Israel and Turkey for their violations of International Law and human rights, the nationalization and universal coverage of health care AND insurance for all citizens, outright annulment of the criminally farcical "War on Terror" all its rhetoric, etc., etc.) needed to right this country. If they did, they wouldn't have conscribed themselves to a political party to begin with. McCain and Obama are due hefty criticism. They're both simply dogs afraid to bark alone, so they run with contemptible packs.
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