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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

Some people think gold shows they are rich when in reality just shows a lot of bad taste. Btw poor people can have the same fireplace using.dolar store spray lol

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 300 points 3 days ago (3 children)

All tinpot dictators prefer this kind of "style".

[–] Fecundpossum@lemmy.world 116 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 52 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I hate to beat this very dead horse, but tacky is the thing that least jumps out at me here. I mean. This literally looks like Nazi decor. The eagles, the frowning busts, the ornateness, like...

[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 253 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 51 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

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 118 points 3 days ago (9 children)

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 42 points 3 days 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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[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 130 points 3 days ago (21 children)

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

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago

Hey, relax guy

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[–] Nangijala 33 points 3 days ago (2 children)

New money energy.

I also didn't notice it until my friend pointed it out to me a month ago. I was too busy being upset when Trump and Vance bullied Zelenskyj to notice their hip hop gangsta crib at the time.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Pimp My Whitehouse

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[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 144 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

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

[–] Zagam@piefed.social 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Spirit Halloween knows exactly what it is though. It's not posing or putting on a front. It may not be Sperrys with flat front olive chinos, but it's certainly not pretending to be anything but itself.

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[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 169 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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

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[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Only thing he's missing now is the golden shower.

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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 days ago

I'm GLAD we Gutted my VA Benefits to be Able to afford THAT!

[–] slickgoat@lemmy.world 76 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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 50 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You will never get a working class president if change doesn’t happen locally first. Young people don’t vote in local elections and young people don’t put themselves on the ballot of local elections. It’s why actual change at the top will never happen. You can’t expect the average Joe, who isn’t very politically engaged, to vote for a socialist president if they have never experienced what a socialist politician can do for them. That experience needs to happen at the local level. The US needs more Mamdani’s across the entire country and not just in New York.

The reason why Dump is president and co-opted the GOP is because the Tea Party started winning local elections first and pushing out Republican incumbent. They created the momentum so a moron like Drumpf could win a presidential primary.

And they didn’t just do it in political elections even non political elections like school board elections etc. were captured by the Tea Party.

The left needs to copy the Tea Party playbook.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago (33 children)
[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago

Looks really byzantine, kinda something some russian tzar would have done if they were re-decorating

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 123 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 days ago

Jesus, that is so gaudy.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The difference is that this is in a historic imperial palace (Yildiz palace) with (refurbished) historic imperial chairs... They don't just look like they were build for the padishah, they were build for the padishah (Abdul Hamid II).

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[–] frazw@lemmy.world 96 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

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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[–] akakevbot@sh.itjust.works 78 points 3 days ago (8 children)

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

It's real. This is just unbelievable.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

Painting over a pedophile's mistakes is going to be the theme in America for an entire generation.

[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You could have decided not to turn up the saturation to make it look worse, as it looks already terrible...

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Is it saturation or just room lighting? This could also just have been a different camera with different settings. Not like Trump hires competent people.

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[–] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Dude has a gold fetish. Your president, america. Choke on it.

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 34 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 75 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 3 days ago

You can't buy taste.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What more proof do you need that a pee tape exists? That’s the aesthetic of someone with an insatiable golden shower fetish.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Clarification:

The Pee Pee Tape purportedly shows Trump directing two underage prostitutes to pee on the bed that Barack and Michelle Obama had slept on when they visited Moscow during his presidency. This amused him greatly. What went on beyond that with the underage prostitutes is unknown, but we already know that's his type. Now we know the kinds of activities that he finds amusing.

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[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Emil_Zatopek1982@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

And the decor is awful too.

[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It looks like the Kremlin...

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

His polling is wild and all over the place. He's underwater, but so are the dems.

https://www.realclearpolling.com/

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 50 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] debil@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

I can almost spot the remaining human rights in the lower image's fireplace.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 61 points 3 days ago (13 children)

Ah yes, the look of every dictator's palace. Loads of gold. Only thing is, most dictators have a form of taste, Trump clearly does not.

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[–] EvilFonzy@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago

It's to hide all the piss stains.

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