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@StuLoren Nobody has expressed misery, envy or resentment. There’s no evidence people don’t work hard. Those are all false premises. Your post is based on false premises.

This whole anti-billionaire thing is unhinged. They don’t employ people or pay taxes? Come on… The reason you are miserable isn’t because someone else is wealthy. The zero-sum thinking is societally destructive. Stop being envious and resentful. Work hard. Make the best of life.

@sudo_seance @PhilipHend57757 @the_culturist_ I have no idea what sperging means. But aside from that, why would you ask if artists quit making art? They’re artists, they made art.

@o____five @PhilipHend57757 @the_culturist_ The question was whether their ire at the CIA was motivation enough to quit. It wasn't. Now you're sperging out about it.

Reminder: modern art was a CIA psy-op. Former CIA officials came clean on this during the '90s, confirming that the agency used abstract art by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and others to promote American culture during the Cold War. The intent was to portray America as a bastion of intellectual and creative freedom. This was to rebut Soviet claims that the U.S. was "culturally barren" and contrast the cultural confinement of the Soviet empire, where artists had been restricted to painting in Soviet realism since the 1930s. Abstract Expressionism was seen as the most free and extreme form of artistic expression; the antithesis of Soviet rigidity. Modern art therefore became a weapon in the cultural war against communism. Beginning in the 1950s, the CIA secretly funded a group called the Congress for Cultural Freedom, through which it funnelled money to international art shows, literary magazines and operated dozens of offices around the globe — all with the explicit goal of promoting American Abstract Expressionism. These efforts, coined operation "long leash", were meant to demonstrate to disaffected Soviets and European intellectuals that American painters were free to invent, and offend; unlike under tyranny, where "artists are made the slaves and tools of the state," as Eisenhower once said. Paradoxically, at the time the works of Pollock and de Kooning were not even broadly popular with the American public, and earlier, more open attempts to promote new American art by the State Department had been widely mocked. Even President Truman famously said, 'If that's art, I'm a Hottentot'', when visiting an exhibit purchased by the DOS. Because of this, and because it would have been impossible to attain support for such a project through Congress, the CIA's covert operation was necessary to push Abstract Expressionism in secret.

@sudo_seance @PhilipHend57757 @the_culturist_ No. There’s no equivalence between producing purposefully propaganda art, and making independently innovative art that is secretly stolen by intelligence agents and used without permission as propaganda.

@o____five @PhilipHend57757 @the_culturist_ Potato potato

@sudo_seance @PhilipHend57757 @the_culturist_ They never made CIA-sponsored propaganda art. So there’s nothing to quit. That’s a false premise. The artists, musicians, writers made the art they wanted to make. The CIA secretly used their art without permission to promote US values.

@o____five @PhilipHend57757 @the_culturist_ Producing CIA-sponsored propaganda art.

@CubsWorld80 dude, it’s the middle of May. the Cubs have only played 49 games. and they have won 59% of them.

Cubs have officially fallen out of first place like I said they would. We will be out of a wild card spot in 2 weeks or less. Not a chance this team makes the postseason. #cubs

@charlesmurray Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos haven’t done anything to improve my life. Apple products have improved parts of my life, some of that credit goes to Steve Jobs. But I’ve paid over $100K for Apple computers, phones, subscriptions, etc thru the years, so I’ve already said my “thank you”

Three men—Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk—have made my life immeasurably better. And yet they’re the bad guys. Are there billionaires who do not deserve their wealth? Sure. That’s a small price to pay for those three and the many other billionaires who enrich our lives on a less lavish scale.

@nikitabier a gun

Next week I’m headed to Tokyo to meet with the X Japan team. What is the most American thing I can bring them?

@sudo_seance @PhilipHend57757 @the_culturist_ Quit what?

@PhilipHend57757 @o____five @the_culturist_ So they quit?

@ThoNg676733 It’s a movie, a film; written, directed, acted, and edited to be shown in theaters.

This concert was unbelievable. He starts the whole show by walking on stage alone with a little cassette-playing boom box, hits "play", and the show never stops for two hours.

@chicagosky Falcon Inn

Skytown, drop your favorite bars and restaurants to watch Sky games 👀 who knows, maybe we’ll pull up this summer 🤭

@traderjoeslut @phonybone because it’s not George’s

@phonybone everytime i go to gabe’s i die can you explain this

My top 5 bars in the United States: 1. Gabes - Iowa City, IA 2. Paradise - Madison, WI 3. Beauty Bar - Chicago, IL 4. Kingston Mines - Chicago, IL 5. Bobby’s Garage - Nashville, TN

@traderjoeslut @JGAndrws of course

@JGAndrws on my god

When she asks if it curves

@the_culturist_ This painting means frantic, shocking physical action. It is good because it expresses this meaning with beauty and clarity.

Pollock's "Number 7A, 1948" just sold at auction for a record $181 million. Explain what this painting means and why it is good.

@jwalkermobile Harold’s Chicken

Weekend in Chicago, Alinea, The Aviary, Sepia and Boka what’s your favorite restaurant in Chicago?

@CSmithIndy @obvious_shirts 🌸

@o____five @obvious_shirts Pansie-ass

YSMFDB.

@maxwellhog @obvious_shirts No thank you

@o____five @obvious_shirts With your pearl clutching!

@obvious_shirts Good. Thank you. I thought you were making a suggestion for a new tshirt, as you often do. I’m sorry for jumping to conclusions.

@o____five It’s a tweet. I’m not selling anything related to this.

@maxwellhog @obvious_shirts Carry on with what?

@maxwellhog @obvious_shirts I’m not sure how you define “fun,” and I’m not sure I want to know.