I think smarter people than me* have written on this, but the MAGA love for AI art is so fascinating. Who spends years getting good enough at drawing/painting to make realistic art? Libs who don't want real jobs. Every "make me a statue of King Trump" prompt is a blown raspberry. *lol, I know - ThreadSky

daveweigel.bsky.social • 4 days ago

I think smarter people than me* have written on this, but the MAGA love for AI art is so fascinating.

Who spends years getting good enough at drawing/painting to make realistic art? Libs who don't want real jobs. Every "make me a statue of King Trump" prompt is a blown raspberry.

*lol, I know

Reposted from Aaron Rupar

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

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yupperdoo.bsky.social•4 days ago

The funny thing about this “artists should get real jobs!” schtick is that they’ll completely flip flop between that and “RETVRN TO TRADITION WE NEED REAL AND GLORIOUS WESTERN ART AGAIN!” as if they weren’t just complaining about how everyone should stop being leechesTM and “learn to code.”

n3rdykttn.bsky.social•4 days ago

not only that but it really shows they can't get a single fucking good artist to do it for them. no artist is willing to do this kind of shit as well and i think that's hiliarious.

ubage.bsky.social•4 days ago

🤡

radios2.bsky.social•4 days ago

Do we know that they know this is AI?

mrthursday.bsky.social•4 days ago

Considering the number of Facebook users who will comment "Amen" to a photo of Shrimp Jesus, we do not.

mimiof-9.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is disgusting 🤮

amarten.bsky.social•4 days ago

Dementia, pure and simple. What narcissistic cruelty when 10s of thousands murdered and millions left to starve without shelter.

ruz-el.bsky.social•4 days ago

The AI also has that glowy Thomas Kincaid look that the evangelicals flocked too. Not an accident either I bet.

dockellis10.bsky.social•4 days ago

MAGA and tech bros

popparoach.bsky.social•3 days ago

My local MAGA-friendly news channel posted that and the clear majority of commenters were LIVID. There were a few supporters and trolls, but usually they're the majority of reactions on the page.

giantoctopus.bsky.social•4 days ago

isn't it also just totally emblematic of the modern right's complete lack of curiosity and fear of human creativity too? Self-expression of any view that could be interpreted as different to their own view is fundamentally seen as a bad thing

whpshw.bsky.social•4 days ago

Fascism has always been shit at art. It's part of its DNA.

chongintommy1.bsky.social•4 days ago

🖕He's not going to live long enough to see it!💥

💥Fuck🦂trump💥
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nostalgiavictim.bsky.social•4 days ago

To see what?

chongintommy1.bsky.social•4 days ago

🤜The Gaza strip turned into some sort of luxury resort! I think it's a twisted fuckin scheme! Imagine, building a fucking resort over the top of the graves of thousands upon thousands....📢 Of children!

📢Fuck that son of a bitch! Only a fuckin fascist....💥
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tonyrebel21.bsky.social•4 days ago

A true narcissicist at his best.

souleater1212.bsky.social•4 days ago

662tird.bsky.social•4 days ago

🙏

tomlovesbeer.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is how they pretend that none of the suffering they’re causing is real. They’re rich people. That means they have zero connection to reality and clearly don’t care about others. That’s how you get rich. You block out the suffering of others and focus all energy on materialism and fantasy.

getoutofmyway.bsky.social•4 days ago

Oh, and the opulent gut on Trump.
Is he being trolled by his team?

alexbrandenburg.bsky.social•4 days ago

Or maybe it’s just sloppiness?

getoutofmyway.bsky.social•4 days ago

And their ultimate fantasy. Trans guys bellydancing on the beach

chitownsadie.bsky.social•4 days ago

Thank you. I kept trying to pause it to see if that was what I was seeing. 😂

hugh258.bsky.social•4 days ago

That tells me Don's open-minded! LOL!

chartjunk.bsky.social•4 days ago

Nancy Mace is gonna have a stroke if she sees this. Has anyone sent her the link yet?

vtament.bsky.social•4 days ago

A Polynesian paradise in the Middle East that glorifies Donald Trump with a statue and buildings and such. Such malignant narcissism and psychopathy has not been seen since Caligula.

nevermet.bsky.social•4 days ago

mteague.bsky.social•4 days ago

bigbluebongo.bsky.social•4 days ago

It reminds me of "free v1aaggrraa" e-mail scams that were deliberately misspelled in order to attain higher conversion rates from the least attentive and most credulous marks.

jergberb.bsky.social•4 days ago

More about making the fake imaginary world they think existed at some time, real

overit1971.bsky.social•4 days ago

Absolute horror.

johnpurlia.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump has learned nothing from history...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWw6z4Z76aE

bbmcginty.bsky.social•3 days ago

What the fuck is a blown raspberry?

tknjo9.bsky.social•4 days ago

Utterly disgusting

shermanpatrick3.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's because it's kitschy! The simulacrum of art and architecture, doing an easy to understand impression of comfortable styles of the past is a classic preference of supporters of strongly authoritative governments.

melaniedeppen.bsky.social•4 days ago

Is that an AI Elon? And a golden shower for trump? I mean...a golden balloon and statue of trump.

damonberes.com•4 days ago

Here's something @cwarzel.bsky.social wrote in August: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/08/trump-posts-ai-image/679540/?gift=iWa_iB9lkw4UuiWbIbrWGT0XsPtq6ivqMt0Y0j158pA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

And something more recent: https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/

garethwatkins.bsky.social•4 days ago

Thanks man!

damonberes.com•4 days ago

Super interesting piece

lyintad.bsky.social•4 days ago

They don’t develop that part of their brain.

tjsjukebox97.bsky.social•4 days ago

What in the absolute fuck did I just watch lmaoooo

hydronaut.bsky.social•4 days ago

They like it because AI art, like them, is bereft of life.

skowalchuk.bsky.social•4 days ago

Phew that is so out there…Gaz-a-lago looks like a Trump *** dream.

moragami.bsky.social•4 days ago

Donald's Dementia Dream.

pinktequilaa.bsky.social•4 days ago

Gross

turnipseed.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump and Netanyahu in bathing suit drinking pool side resort with Trump Gaza sign :ENTER:

kibbles0515.bsky.social•4 days ago

MAGA cannot employ real artists because conservative people with the talent were forced to choose a "marketable" career instead. MAGA art doesn't exist because artists tend to use it to tell relatable stories and speak to the working class. Instead, MAGA has to use robots to create their "art."

liliummi.bsky.social•4 days ago

Now we know why he wants to check out the gold in Fort Knox

fredwesley.bsky.social•4 days ago

It allows them to live their ultimate fantasy. For example, the endless portrayals of Trump as fit and muscular when he's clearly one of the fattest presidents of the last two centuries.

alexbrandenburg.bsky.social•4 days ago

This to me is the weirdest shit. I saw one depiction toward the end of the 1st term of shirtless 6-pack Trump with giant dick bulge in gray sweatpants. Hand-drawn! I can only imagine what they’re getting AI to do there, but I cannot fathom why.

amarcklynn.bsky.social•4 days ago

Guess they don’t really believe that bible stuff about worship of golden calves? ha,who’d a thought?
But hey still sticking with art for the worshipping

mb-23.bsky.social•4 days ago

entire existance is performative art

epeter.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump dancers!

patrickcogny.com•4 days ago

They have to love AI as it turbocharges a core skill: lying and creating an alternate reality.

oceanearth.bsky.social•4 days ago

So a large very poor (poverty) population will be able to afford housing? & live in peace

justingallivan.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s like Ben Garrison animating

leatherstocking.bsky.social•4 days ago

There’s a good article on El Pais about Mar-A-Lago Face which feels relevant here. There’s such a focus on in-your-face artifice with MAGA that also includes AI. It’s about constructing a separate reality and set of aesthetics that they control. And yes, it’s also about making art easy.

helloemi.bsky.social•4 days ago

As they claim to be against gender affirming procedures...

teajunkie.bsky.social•4 days ago

I've noticed that about women associated with the Trump regime: they've all had their faces sliced and rearranged. I find them grotesque.

leatherstocking.bsky.social•4 days ago

Don’t forget Matt Gaetz!

teajunkie.bsky.social•4 days ago

Thanks for reminding me of that oddly alien face!

freepelican.bsky.social•4 days ago

Thank you, @daveweigel.bsky.social

suza11211.bsky.social•3 days ago

ironbound.bsky.social•4 days ago

There’s also something about the uncanny valley aesthetic that appeals to their mindset I think. It always feels like a whitewashed anime recreation of a nazi propaganda poster.

dkboyd.bsky.social•4 days ago

When their Orangenführer is fake and shallow, their "art" may as well be also.

662tird.bsky.social•4 days ago

Because they live in a fantasy world. AI art suits them.

dt.rocks•4 days ago

had to double take bc i thought the *lol i know footnote was a nod to the obvious hitler failed art parallel lmao

hearsay.bsky.social•4 days ago

It had to be made as a parody and retweeted by so-absurd-he's-immune-from-parody Trump, right?

pizzathesteve.bsky.social•4 days ago

Conservatives hate being left out, but put no effort into being included.

They want to force people to listen to them, to invite them to parties, but think it's a violation of their rights to be asked to be polite.

It's the same thing with art, they want to feel talented without any of the work

pseudoacacia.bsky.social•3 days ago

Is this the same reason authoritarian regimes love easy to draw symbols like swastikas, runes, and "Z"

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