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    The fact that it’s done as a triptych, and it’s not divided into three acts or scenes really highlights the concept of form over function that the right so dearly holds.

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        The fact that it also kinda follows the rule of thirds makes it even more bizarre. They took the character of interest (Trump) and split him in half between the two panels, but left the cock and balls at another point of tension, implying some sort of sexual tension between the figures?

        As they say, it buggers belief.

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          The one upside I see is that you can swap out the middle and right thirds as needed to change the good and bad politicians when Oceania changes to always have been at war with Eastasia.

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        I think it’s just because that particular Joan Fabrics didn’t have a single canvas that was big enough on the Wednesday afternoon that the artist’s clinical manic episode compelled her to produce this.

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      they are so bad at every form of art it’s unbelievable

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      Literally the first thing I thought after parsing out the really cartoonish image was “why is this a triptych and not just on a single canvas?” Of course the answer is “because conservatives.” What a weird waste of time and money. Also I don’t personally want to know who these ghouls are but it might be good for society to know who these nasty little goblins are in case they enter Starbucks or the local Wage Theft Establishment.

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    If i was religious at all, that would be the heighth of blasphemy and deserving of eternal damnation

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      what’s interesting about contemporary christianity is that it’s not even all that clear if the idea of “eternal damnation” is something that’s actually supported by the scripture. and yet it’s such a fundamental part of modern christianity, especially for the so-called “god-fearing christians”.

      source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_universalism#Views_on_hell

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      Trump ticks so many false prophet/antichrist boxes, it’s insane, yet Christians love him somehow

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          I imagined some really dry delivery to this line and it made me chuckle

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        There’s more than one Christian that’s noted that, including Christians on the right.

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        I say “Never try to ascribe rational motivations to irrational actors.”

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      They ate from the forbidden coconut tree.

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      You are putting far more thought in the presence of far more knowledge of the Bible than the artist has.

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      If so, then trump is God? A bit sacrilegious, eh?

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        I assume Trump is supposed to be the angel wielding the flaming sword that guards Eden, although technically the actual passage (at least the NIV translation, which I’m using because it popped up first on my Google search) implies God ejected Adam and Eve and then placed the angel to stand guard after:

        22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side[e] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

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      This is no more than an elaborate soyjak/chad shitpost

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      Parks and Rec and The Simpsons are just pan-dimensional humanity from the far future trying to communicate with us Interstellar-style

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      We always have. A lot of Parks and Rec is based off of real town hall meetings.

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      Honest to God thought it was a parks and rec screenshot before I actually looked at the painting.

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    She really spent a lot of time making Biden extra muscular. Weird.

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      All very well-adjusted, upstanding citizens. Not weird at all.

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      Or hand day apparently. Getting a real man hands Seinfeld vibe from Kamala

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    Righto that’s enough internet for me today lads night night I’m off to bed 🛌

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    I feel like a flaming sword would conduct heat and burn your hand

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      Depends on how you make the grip, could use insulating materials around the hilt to keep the heat from conducting

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        Please don’t try to make this painting plausible. For all of our sakes.

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          Well you see, STDs were his Vietnam, so he dodges the burn of the sword like he dodged the burn of gonorrhea (presumably), and incidentally, as he dodged the draft