doesn’t matter if a statement is “emotional” or not. numbers are numbers and facts are facts

fuck fascla and fuck everyone who bought one in the last 2 years

i’m no expert but i remember reading somewhere that queen victoria demanded honesty/accuracy in her portraits in later years, which really, sets her portraits apart from the “prettified” ones

https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-most-painted-royal-in-history-queen-victoria-in-portraits

what’s funny about these old portraits is that it’s never an unreasonable assumption that the actual person was 50x uglier than how the artist made them in the portrait

an informed population capable of asking questions and forming their own opinions is antithetical to the owner class’s agenda. everyone who consumes any mainstream media (and everyone who doesn’t) should read the book Propaganda by eddie bernays, the “father of public relations.” bernays wrote in favor of propaganda as a good and necessary thing for a functioning society. but he spells it all out, how to control the opinions of the public. goebbels utilized bernays’s methods, and you can see the results

they’re doing it again. it’s a conspiracy, but there’s nothing “theory” about it. if nothing else whatsoever, you should be questioning and scrutinizing everything you read from every source. yes, including lemmy. but it’s probably too late to stop anything set in motion years ago. it’s not “if” blood in the streets will happen, but “when”