and most critically the very rich who supported that economy, today they'd rather watch fox news and get really mad in their yacht or something than try to impress one another with the paintings they've paid for, though I'm sure that still happens to an extent

the Renaissance painting begging is just stupid racist shit but those people also critically mistake that art as something that was just spontaneously produced for the world on its own merits rather than the results of a very specific society and economy of art creation

artists of equal skill and creativity and vision exist by the hundreds, thousands, tbh millions but there is a huge variety of mediums for them to work in and the opportunity to, and desire to, spend years of their lives painting extremely expensive shit for the super rich, is few

not that there weren't painters who were hustling blasting up to one painting a day at their peak but even then to the average person the concept of owning a painting has become so devalued only speculators and rich hoarders could pay enough to make painting something large and complex viable

a side note, but: 'no talent likenesses' will be used. So, Chris Pratt and whoever else are protected (for the moment). But the animators and designers who made these characters you are now willingly feeding into the slop machine designed to replace them...they're not considered talent.

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Remember the Amazon “Just Walk Out” supermarkets that were marketed as automated but actually relied on thousands of data workers in India?
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Our government and military are directly responsible for this atrocity and US complicity will only grow unless we do everything in our power to stop it.

It confines Palestinians within a political and operational framework that, under the guise of security and humanitarian measures, entrenches Israeli occupation, de facto annexation, and forced displacement.

Trump’s plan is premised on systematic discrimination, turning Palestinians’ basic needs — housing, food and healthcare — from universal rights into tools of coercion and control.

and illegally restricts aid and services to Palestinians to coerce relocation, according to @euromedhr.bsky.social. Once relocated, Palestinians cannot return home.

The militarized green zone, controlled by the Israeli military, imposes population control and severely restricts Palestinian movement through invasive checkpoints, screenings and watchtowers,

Instead, it will be under direct Israeli security and economic domination. Gaza’s fishing waters, gas fields, and coastal infrastructure will fall under Israeli military control.

The red zone covers 90% of Gaza’s coastline and 47% of its land—where most Palestinians now shelter—but is excluded from plans for Palestinian reconstruction.

The Israeli military is describing this yellow line as its new “border,” directly violating international law.

They are imposing a separation system that divides Gaza into concentrated population areas and closed military zones, called the “red and green zones”—divided by a rapidly expanding “yellow line,” where the Israeli military is enforcing a shoot-to-kill policy.

Currently, the US and Israeli militaries are operating out of the so-called Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC), located on top of the villages of Iraq al-Manshiyya and al-Faluja/Kiryat Gat.

The US, in coordination with the Israeli government, is implementing long-term illegal control and annexation of Gaza, imposing collective punishment on Palestinians, violating their right to self-determination and forcibly displacing families.