• dumbass@piefed.social
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    16 days ago

    Trump’s failed Television Career is just a modern version of Hitler’s failure to get into art school.

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      Unfortunately, Trump’s TV career was a screaming success. He had a hit TV show that was unique, and it ran for several seasons.

      In addition, and perhaps more importantly, it rehabbed his image from being the poster boy for bumbling, blowhard, failed business hacks, to a successful business professional.

      His TV show was the most successful enterprise of his career, and directly led to him becoming president. That’s not failure.

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        I don’t admit this much, but before trump ran for president I kind of liked him. He was a “bumbling, blowhard, failed business hack” that seemed to be a little in on the joke, The Apprentice, his appearances in WWE, he seemed like he was playing a character and playing up to how people perceived him… Unfortunately, he is just that and has no self awareness or shame, worse for some reason that’s still really appealing to a basket of deplorable people…

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            There wasn’t a light to see really, I thought he was an entertainer who was a bad in real life business man and found that entertaining. I had no interest in him as a political entity.

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        14 days ago

        His flamboyant “You’re fired.” Was important to the gay community at the time.

        It wasn’t something you’d expect them to allow on television.

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          Yeah, I always thought it was really bad form to be celebrating someone being fired. That show not only rehabbed HitlerPig’s reputation, it helped condition the brains of his fans. “I love when he fires them, it’s so funny.” MAGAs are ALL sociopaths.

          And Pedophiles. Just had to get that in.

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    16 days ago

    Explanation: For those of you who were unaware, Adolf Hitler was an aspiring art student in Austria at one point. His talent was… insufficient to get into the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. He was rejected twice.

    Imagine if he went on to become a mediocre painter who was nonetheless glazed by art professors! What a disaster that would have been! I can’t think of anything worse he could have done with his life!

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        Desperation can indeed breed toxicity, but consider the affluent few who have never had to tread water and still choose to subjugate others.

        For a lot of us, a kinder world would be enough. For a few others, jealousy and pettiness is their prevailing characteristic, no matter how equal the soceity is.

        Im not saying some people are born evil, as I think these are learned behaviours, but that we as a species are somewhat easily predisposed towards corruption and that some of us succumb to it faster than others.

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      Seriously tho, he’d likely be replaced with another extremist. It was period of Iron boot dictators in Europe. You could get someone even worse.

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      SilverFox seems to have a lot of clout/power compared to the other travelers. No one seems to undo SF’s edits, so I’m guessing there’s more than just a hierarchy of trust there, but that SF has some kind of actual power to incapacify other travellers.

      I’m guessing it’s not a master reset switch (like the film Primer), since they have to physically go there and extricate the assailants physically. I’m guessing it’s some kind of physical power, or at least meticulous planning in grabbing the assailants before they commit the crime.

      SilveFox makes it sound easy though, like herding children at best, so I’m thinking more along the lines of some kind of extra power/tech to teleport too(?) which would facilitate the placement of certain items (goats, olive oil, etc.) and give them a huge upperhand in grabbing travellers who probably have to do some degree of walking.

      Or maybe SF’s device can travel multiple times, whereas other users have to use it more sparingly, limiting the damage they can do

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      The fact that this is posted on a Fiero forum is hilarious to me! My first car.

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      This was such a good read, although I must say please keep all time travel related posts to the “time travel shenanigans” subsection, come on guys.

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      He wasn’t a quality artist, mediocre at best. His architectural paintings have lots of detail, but things like parallel lines in walls are off, and so is perspective.

      His renderings of humans was terrible. You may see some landscapes or buildings, but never a portrait.

      There was a time when learning to draw was a part of a well-rounded education, so having basic artistic skills wasn’t unusual. Hitler’s may have been slightly better than average, but he clearly didn’t have the natural skill to be a professional.

      Think of your school orchestra. The first chair players are probably pretty good. In a Band & Orchestra Competition, they could probably play a pretty impressive solo, but they are still a long ways from getting a chair in any major orchestra in the world. Thats the level that Hitler’s art was at.

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      He failed already at the basics… most of his paintings look nicely but odd… and than you realize he had no idea about perspective, while trying to do realistics paintings.

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        Thanks for the explanation. I obviously wasn’t able to analyze it like that.

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      Ironically, his paintings are probably seen and analyzed more than any of his colleagues’.

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      If I recall correctly he just cadged off others’ work. It was popular at the time for artists needing some cash to go on location and paint postcards of popular landmarks and sell them to tourists. Hitler simply bought these postcards and copied them into his own art so he wouldn’t have to go paint them himself. He had no real personal style, his work was very conventional.