Yeah, I get it. When has the world ever become a better place when nations fund artworks?
Look at this Florentine shit:
That is what you get when a nation's leader becomes a patron of the arts. Is that sort of smut what you want our kids seeing?
Next thing theyll do it paint porn on the roof of the Cistine chapel, however you spell it
The true horror is that this is some Greek smut. We need good, clean Christian nudity for our money.
Fucking Aristophanes... getting famous just because the Athenian government wasted money on dramatic competitions.
Because arts uplift, and misery is a huge part of the engine of fascism
Well adjusted societies have less temptation for it on the pro side, and a lot stronger and more inspired resistance to it from the anti side. It needs to breed sickness in order to really take hold and thrive.
I doubt DeSantis has that much of an organized plan for it, of course; I think it’s simple mean spirited ness on his part that he happened to see some vulnerable people that he can punish.
Art is also political, and more popular with open minded people than regressives. Fascists have historically hated art.
Not entirely true, they can't get enough of art that is exactly like the things they already like. A boring landscape that could have been painted a century earlier? They love that shit.
But if you dare try to get creative (with message or medium) they will demand your head.
True. And art brings people together who might then talk to each other and find allies and form a base of communication centered around something other than "do what I say or I'll punish you." There's lots not to like about it if you're trying to destroy a country's democratic institutions.
This high heeled tough guy wannabe is the living embodiment of poor and spiteful decision making. Nothing he does helps anybody. It's fascinating really. Everyday I wake up I count my blessings I escaped that shit hole state
Fascist 101:
Blame minorities
Get to Power
Make things worse for everyone
Blame minorities harder
Manifest more power
...
run on "government bad"
get elected
govern poorly
"told you so"
I think he does help some people, primarily his rich donors and the rest of the do nothing class.
Nothing he does helps anybody.
He's been a real boon for the state's money laundering, human trafficking, landlord profiteering, and fossil fuel industries.
You can't defund social welfare programmes without defunding the arts first. To defund healthcare you have to defund the arts. To defund schools, you first have to defund the arts.
You know where this is going.
The arts are the canary and it is lying dead at the bottom of the cage.
To defund healthcare you have to defund the arts.
To defund schools, you first have to defund the arts.
Why are the arts required to be done first, or at all? I'm not seeing it. They seem separate, and doable in any order.
That's a fair question.
The arts are seen as a luxury and a frippery. They are also seen as elitist.
If you want to defund public services and remain popular, the playbook is to remove the arts first. That way you are demonstrating the order of needs.
Desantis hates culture.
Republicans hate culture
“When I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun”
Seems that's a slight mangling of the line, but it's a common Nazi trope
It's not that.
Outraging the left fires his base.
He doesn't know what culture is.
Sure he does. It's drinking a warm can of Bud at a Lee Greenwood concert.
Florida and her meatball will be textbook evidence of a failed state swallowed by the Ocean and drowned by social conservatism terrorism.
failed state swallowed by the Ocean
Not for another 40-150 years. By then local politics will have shifted substantially in the state, and future external fascists can claim Florida was destroyed for being too brown, woke, and gay.
What a fucking shithead
I wish this turd would choke on his banana pudding already.
This comment would get you banned on Reddit.
Exactly...and this ain't Reddit so Say what you mean
"I wish this piece of shit waste of oxygen would choke on his food and then fucking die."
How much you wanna bet that somebody tied to the arts recently emasculated Ron in public? Pulling funding from a huge swath of people over a petty personal embarrassment is a very on-brand move for DeSantis.
If the goal is to destroy art culture in Florida, I guess the Russian psyops have done their work.
Enjoy brutalist, colorless Florida in a couple of generations.
Is that what happens to architecture when fully submerged in salt water ?
When does his tenure as governor end? He can’t run again so guess he tries for congress.
When does his tenure as governor end?
He's obligated to take a two year hiatus from his current position at the end of eight years. But he's free to run for another office during the downtime.
That's why Rick Scott became a Senator after his gubernatorial tenure.
What a miserable fuck DeSanctimonius is
Why? As in why would you waste your time even vetoing this? What does this guy do all day, stand in the shower and daydream about making the dumbest fucking decisions possible?
Well he needed to veto something yesterday, and it certainly wasn't going to be the bill that now fundamentally prevents Floridians from holding their elected officials accountable when they suspect ethics violations: https://flaglerlive.com/integrity-florida-veto/#gsc.tab=0
What an absolute skid mark.
What a shit hole
Fascism.
The Nazis punished intellectuals and artists.
This man has not felt joy a single time in his life.
God this twerp needs a wedgie, like full on cartoonish over the head flailing about in the halls wedgie
I hope some of the "artists" that make those photos of "trump" with shirt off and a fake chiseled, glistening physique get unintentionally caught up in this grant cancellation - you know these images, the ones they stare at for hours while locked in the bathroom thinking about how straight they are.
Uhhh, isn't "the arts" (namely Disney and Universal) like, the main money maker of Florida? Not a lot of reasons to go there beyond that, beaches, and the fact that it doesn't snow.
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