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[-] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 86 points 3 weeks ago

Looks like it was designed by a dictator from the middle east

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

Hey, relax guy

[-] Hobo@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

Well you're half right.

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[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 50 points 3 weeks ago

All tinpot dictators prefer this kind of "style".

[-] Fecundpossum@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago
[-] brax@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 48 points 3 weeks ago

This picture makes me fucking ashamed to be an american. What a backward-ass shithole country we've become.

[-] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

And the election was not even rigged. You did this to yourselves in plain sight. It is super duper pathetic. From the boldest, most inspiring nation in the world to an insane, self-mutilating idiocracy in like a couple of decades. What the fuck!

[-] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

Let's be clear, all US elections are rigged in many different ways. This is why the Texas gerrymandering is an issue as well as North Carolina in the past, and I'm glossing over a lot of cases and other methods that are used because it isn't worth my time mentioning more than those two.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

Another fact: one electoral vote accounts for 195,000 people in Wyoming and over 700,000 people in Texas, Florida or California.

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[-] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

My thoughts exactly. At least in 2016 we had the small consolation of him losing the popular vote. Now we see exactly what this country is and it's just sad.

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[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

No it was rigged. That's why they cried so hard when trump lost the first time. They all cried voter fraud because they were doing it themselves, after all, how could a cheater lose unless the other side is also cheating? They just learned how to do it better this time. Dump even talked about how muskrat knew all about voting machines. No one will ever convince me otherwise.

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] slickgoat@lemmy.world 47 points 3 weeks ago

If you ever get another Dem president, which is doubtful, it's going to take a minute to hose out the whore flair from the White House.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

We need a working class president not some corrupt neoliberal democrat with no teeth

[-] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Electing a working class president won't fix this. The system needs to be abolished.

We need to learn to build our own, parallel system of people's bottom-up power.

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[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

It'll take 4 years to get the stink out of the WH.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 7 points 3 weeks ago

Just in time for donald Jr to start from where daddy left it.

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 43 points 3 weeks ago
[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

"Daddy always said, you can't by class, but you can watch people try"

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 3 weeks ago

You can't buy taste.

[-] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 weeks ago

There's a ton of scholarly and peer reviewed articles and studies on the "architecture of fascism" the "art of awe" etc, and how through history, grandiose and gilded decor and architecture has been used to manipulate, convince and enthrall the masses.

Example: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/propaganda-and-the-jesuit-baroque/hardcover

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

how through history, grandiose and gilded decor and architecture has been used to manipulate, convince and enthrall the masses.

Even to this day, we have Wehraboos. If I am a historian and with plenty of time to research and make takedown videos on Nazism, which unfortunately i don't have at the moment, I want to make videos on dispelling the myth of Nazi superiority and how they are given way too much credit.

Plenty of people do not realise that the Nazis are not different to third world dictatorships. Similar to Trump having a fight with Federal Reserve director, Jerome Powell, Hitler didn't want to listen to his economic minister, Hjalmar Schacht, that Germany's excessive government spending is going to bankrupt the country. It was in late 1930s that Germany's coffers was running out, and it was not a coincidence that Hitler invaded Poland and, to his own surprise, the Allies declared war. Hitler was trying to plunder the wealth of Poland to stave off another economic collapse, like how the previous annexations of Sudetenland and Austria gave them financial cash injection to go a little further.

Fact of the matter is that Hitler and the Nazis were lucky to have inherited strong institutions, namely the Prussian military culture, to have lasted longer than expected. All things considered, the Nazis were merely poor gamblers whose bluffs were eventually called out and ran out of cards. The Nazis were just winging it (I mean, he did not expect the Allies to declare war on him, and he admitted that the planned invasion of France through the Ardennes forest turns his stomach), which is not too different to other tyrants and dictators like Nero, Idi Amin and Muammar Ghadaffi who make decisions on emotions.

People of various inclinations should just stop giving too much credit to the Nazis. I suspect that the current right, with their mountains of cash support from oligarchs, possess the machinery to perpetuate the propaganda to re-normalise fascism. Nonetheless, the Nazis are inherently weak and incompetent. People say that the Thousand Year Reich may well have happened if they won, but objectively they will run out of money in ten years even if they conquered the entire world, because they are that corrupt and incompetent.

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[-] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 weeks ago
[-] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Tacky as hell. This administration has all the class and style of a Spirit Halloween store.

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[-] Shave_MyBeever@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

Almost as if he is into being showered with gold 🤔

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

the piss yellow chairs are really the chefs kiss.

[-] eRac@lemmings.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Even crazier, they are the same chairs. If you look at the woodwork, they are identical.

They have been reupholstered to that, with a fine pattern that appears to make image compression struggle with the edges of people.

[-] freeman@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

I am not sure they are reupholstered, everything is over saturated in the second image, the floor, the wall and even the marble.

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[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

It looks more saturated to me.
Basically same chair and upholstery but the saturation was boosted +5

[-] akakevbot@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 weeks ago

I was sure this was photoshopped and there was no way that was real...

It's real. This is just unbelievable.

[-] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

NYT did a whole article about it, here have a free one. 86 47! Epstein files!

Trump’s Oval Office Is a Gilded Rococo Nightmare. Help.

[-] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

At least this money wasn’t wasted like the money spent on US aid and healthcare

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[-] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

If the chairs are the same, someone spun the saturation dial way up

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[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

Now he just needs some gold chains and giant rims on his limo.

[-] lack@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Gaudy septuagenarian trash ordered by a racist whose flesh is rebelling against its host body

[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 9 points 3 weeks ago

He's the real life Goldmember, isn't he?

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] frazw@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If you are intelligent you wouldn't need to talk about it because, people would know it from your thoughts and actions.

If you are a good leader you wouldn't need to talk about it because there would be more people following you than protesting you.

If you are good at making deals you wouldn't need to talk about it because you'd have a stack of deals to prove it.

If you are good at business you wouldn't need to talk about it because you would have a lot more successful companies than bankrupt companies in your history.

Etc etc etc.

This smacks of "look how well things are going !! If things were going badly would we be able to afford all this gold?"

Beware the man who is eager to tell you how good they are at something.

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[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] Thoath@leminal.space 7 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe if he puts enough gold in the room the cameras will self correct so much he's not orange anymore

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

........thats actually not a terrible theory as to why he does this.

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[-] Kurious84@lemmings.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think gold is allowed in hell.

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

The man has absolutely no taste. His only thought is “must appear rich”.

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[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

there's something to be said for the various differences in color saturation and lighting.

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