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Ageist and body-shaming Trump statue falls short as art and satire
Zachary Wood
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Nolan Martinez
They're right actually. If a similar statue was made about Clinton the reaction would be completely different.
Are you really going to dismiss this as liberalism when retarded "art" and potshots at masculinity like that are pretty much the only line of attack liberals have? Fuck off
Kevin Parker
Yeah, dipshit liberals would be mad. So? Hillary is an evil cunt.
Nathan Sanchez
agreed
Dylan Rogers
Is Trump even out of shape?
Camden Perez
he looks like he is a bit tubby but not especially fat more typical older man than anything
Landon James
His "professional" clothes mask it pretty well, but if you've seen him out golfing it's more apparent.
Ian Stewart
really makes you think…
Nolan James
pls kill yourself
Ryan Russell
Forget body shaming, a made up non issue. But, since when does just insulting someone constitute satire? If George Orwell just wrote books saying that Stalin was a big mean poop poo head who had no testicles I wouldn't really consider that satire. 1984 and animal farm are satire, because they actually critiqued society.
Gavin Taylor
He's an man close to 70, he's going to have fat on him. Not particularly out of shape for a man of that age in the same way a 240lbs 5'10" 24-year old would be.
But no on wants to see an old guy naked.
Hunter Foster
It's just personifying the bourgeois. Suggesting that Trumps narcissism is at the root of the rising tide of fascism in the country (spoiler: it's neoliberalism)
When they put the names of black victims of police brutality on the walk of fame now that was base.
Noah Mitchell
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Cameron Allen
I think you guys are missing the larger point here - the kind of person who makes a "satirical" (this guy is right) statue like this that superficially insults a man's naked body would probably be one of the first to call for naked statues of Hillary to be banned. These people are mega spooked on gender roles, i.e. the male body is gross and offensive while the female body is borderline sacred ground.
Sebastian Murphy
They are right. Except that it doesn't matter.
There is a nuance between
and
Lefties can get away, in some contexts, with what would be excellent in others, as it should be. Shaming your opponents is a legitimate propaganda tactic, and defending Trump against body shaming is like defending a fascist from a partisan execution squad.
Mason Morgan
*what would be excellent in others
LOL how did I make that mistake
Aaron Sullivan
LOOOL
*problematic not excellent
Tyler Young
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Gavin Collins
The statue looks like John Farnham tbh
Aaron Rodriguez
That guy is handsome by comparison to Trump.
Isaiah Phillips
Interesting comment from minellie:
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(Sorry, but archive.today didn't manage to archive that comment)
Adam Russell
u wot?