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Off Topic / Re: 2017 WORLD POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: January 20, 2017, 06:07:47 PM »

If he's that good then he doesn't need a government program to prop him up.

He also did it while he was 17. When's the last time the government paid you to do something for an international audience because of a skill you possess?

Maybe your loving blind but I said before that we have similar programs here in Canada and they're abysmal.

So you want to defund the NEA because completely different programs in a completely different country don't live up to your expectations? You are badly informed, and I don't even mean that as an insult. You literally do not possess the information needed to evaluate what we're talking about here.

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Off Topic / Re: 2017 WORLD POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: January 20, 2017, 06:01:14 PM »

Bandcigarettes are worstcigarettes

Never played in a band. Is this really what you're stooping to? lol

Judging by the math you did I get a whole 2 gumballs out of this stuff being cut. Those 2 gumballs are worth more then any of the stuff this program funded and quite honestly I could probably make better "art" with them then anything that came out of this program as well.

I personally know someone who performed as part of an NEA-funded project, and he's currently studying music at Harvard. This is just my guess, but I don't think you could actually outperform him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect

No it's because your defending a stuffty program and everyone is laughing at you. If you can't handle the banter then you don't belong here.

You don't even live in my country and it doesn't seem like you participate in the arts. In all likelihood, the first time you heard of the NEA was whenever you read that Annoying Orange was defunding it.

Stop defending everything he says unconditionally. Actually understand what his decisions are going to impact.

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Off Topic / Re: 2017 WORLD POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: January 20, 2017, 05:47:32 PM »

Wait is this what you do for work? Are you going to be out of a job when Annoying Orange removes this glorified life support to your dying artform?

Lol, no. I'm an engineering student. I just happen to also play musical instruments, and I participated in a lot of musical groups before I went to college.

You still haven't answered my question - how does this improve society in any way at all?

Also like, it's really obvious to everyone that you're making petty personal attacks because your foot's in your mouth. Just throwing that out there.

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Off Topic / Re: 2017 WORLD POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: January 20, 2017, 05:42:36 PM »

Because art can't stand on it's own or get private funding. It NEEDS to be fund by big daddy government. You loving idiot.

You're insane if you think the arts would die because of a lack of government funding forgetin lol

It really can't. I have done amateur and professional orchestra performances throughout most of my life, and the modern classical orchestra is almost entirely supported by philanthropies and government grants. If you think that the free market would still have people performing avant-garde orchestra pieces and free-form jazz, then you're delusional.

I'm gonna ask this one more time - out of everything the government wastes money on, from absolutely useless bureaucratic departments to a TSA randomization app that costs $47,000, you want to dismantle an extremely cheap program that preserves culture and funds teaching children how to play music? How does that make our society better in any way, shape, or form?

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Off Topic / Re: 2017 WORLD POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: January 20, 2017, 05:33:36 PM »

Alright, you guys want to get rid of music, art, and education, but lose billions in potential economic revenue just to bring back the American coal industry? Fine, forget your own stuff up. I didn't vote for it.

When you guys are older and actually want to see a jazz ensemble or look at paintings, I hope you remember that you signed off when this jackass chose to dismantle it, while at the same time wasting thousands of times more money on pointless trade deal 're-negotiations'.

But don't worry, you can still go out and eat at Applebee's, or watch whatever movies Nick Cage makes when he's 75. You'll have all the corporate industrial-culture you can stomach.

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Off Topic / Re: 2017 WORLD POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: January 20, 2017, 05:22:11 PM »

I did some fact-checking on my estimate, and the actual price per American taxpayer is roughly $0.46. So either you can have a couple coins in your pocket, or you can live in a society where you can see more movies, see nicer public artwork, go see classical music performed live, or all manner of different things.

It's not like this is a program where they just give musicians money 'cause whatever. You apply for NEA grants by submitting a project with value to the public. If other people don't get to enjoy what you produce, you probably won't get the grant. So calling it 'paying for other people to indulge in the arts' is kind of a bullstuff synopsis of the NEA.

What productions has the money gone toward so far?

There's a nice link I posted above, but here's some selections:

Historically, the agency has awarded thousands of grants for orchestras, jazz, operas, chamber music, and beyond. And just looking back through the past year or so, the array of specific programs affected by the endowment is dizzying. If you saw a video last year of David Bowie talking about working with Lou Reed, that was part of an NEA-funded digital archive. An Esperanza Spalding performance at Manhattan’s Baryshnikov Arts Center, a Steve Reich 80th-birthday celebration at Carnegie Hall, and a Quincy Jones tribute at the Monterey Jazz Festival are among endowment-boosted events from 2016.

“The NEA’s support of Mission Creek Festival, via our parent organization the Englert Theatre, has been essential to our growth as a festival over the last two years,” says Andre Perry, co-founder of the Iowa City-based event, which this year has a lineup running the gamut from Floating Points to DIIV. “The funding specifically applies to our literary program and helps us support independent voices from across the literary spectrum—writers, publishers, editors—as well as connect them with our increasingly diverse communities here in Iowa. The bottom line: this funding is helping us to build and connect communities through culture. We think it’s important work.”

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Off Topic / Re: 2017 WORLD POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: January 20, 2017, 05:12:54 PM »

Why the forget should I pay for people to indulge in the arts?  forget off cunt

yeah this p much

First of all, the National Endowment for the Arts is like $150 million per year (going off of 2015) and that money goes to filmmakers, musicians, painters, designers, and all kinds of productive artists. That means, for like $2 per American taxpayer, you get to live in a society where you actually get to enjoy things like sculptures, movies, and music.

Basically, he wants to completely forget us over economically by cutting our trade deals, but he's 'saving us money' by getting rid of programs that actually make it worthwhile to live in a developed nation. Thanks Annoying Orange.

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Off Topic / Re: [adult swim] Cancels Its “Alt-Right” Show ‘Million Dollar Extreme’

« on: January 20, 2017, 04:51:16 PM »

His humour is exactly the same in both scenarios.

Kind of? The execution is different. I don't know. There's not much more I can say besides that I thought it was bad.

http://splitsider.com/2016/12/sam-hyde-lashed-out-at-tim-heidecker-over-million-dollar-extremes-cancellation/

breaking news: man-baby throws fit and yells at man he owes career to

Jesus that's pathetic lol. Tim Heidecker has singlehandedly produced like half of Adult Swim's absurdist comedy shows. If it wasn't for him, the network wouldn't have given World Peace the time of day.

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Off Topic / Re: [adult swim] Cancels Its “Alt-Right” Show ‘Million Dollar Extreme’

« on: January 20, 2017, 04:49:06 PM »

meanwhile in a universe where sam hyde is of a different ideology:
"World Peace was the absolute best. Definitely Sam Hyde's best work; his stand-up and sketch comedy are wildly impressive."

I've seen similar work done by people that plays into the same kind of /pol/ edginess, and it can be funny. It's just that Sam Hyde's show wasn't.

It was great when he went up and gave that TED talk at Drexel University. I don't know why he didn't just stick with stuff like that.

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Off Topic / Re: 2017 WORLD POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: January 20, 2017, 04:44:05 PM »

Aaaaaaaaand all mentions of climate change have been removed from the whitehouse website.
There better be replacement pages in store...

Eh, not exactly.

http://www.snopes.com/white-house-web-site-Annoying Orange-changes/

Most stuff was removed from the Whitehouse website. Not just climate change and LGBT issues.

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Off Topic / Re: [adult swim] Cancels Its “Alt-Right” Show ‘Million Dollar Extreme’

« on: January 20, 2017, 04:42:59 PM »

I love late-night absurdist stuff, but World Peace was cringe-cancer. Sam Hyde has done some good stuff in the past, but his stand-up and sketch comedy is god awful.

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Off Topic / Re: 2017 WORLD POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: January 20, 2017, 04:41:07 PM »

Hey, beggars can't be choosers. Kanye is the path America needs right now.

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Off Topic / Re: My camera sees black things as purple?

« on: January 20, 2017, 04:27:39 PM »

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Off Topic / Re: 2017 WORLD POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: January 20, 2017, 04:17:03 PM »

I'm voicing my early support for Kanye. Gotta fight memes with memes I guess.

GW is like lmao

"Hey, second-to-last ain't too bad after all."

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Off Topic / Re: 2017 WORLD POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: January 20, 2017, 03:34:20 PM »

http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/donald-Annoying Oranges-inauguration-speech-borrows-line-from-batman-villain-bane/ar-AAm49Jf?li=AA2qN5v&ocid=spartanntp

This is absolutely the liberal version of fake news. It distracts from Annoying Orange's actual problems when people write articles like this.

if you had like 3 or 5 articles by a more than just a few small sources then yea I would take your argument a whole lot more seriously.

I mean, I can definitely find more. Do you have like a specific threshold for how many articles you need?