POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

[Frequency]

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.

What productions has the money gone toward so far?

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[beachbum111111]

What productions has the money gone toward so far?

Low effort trash that no one likes

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[SeventhSandwich]

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.”

[Frequency]

Low effort trash that no one likes

nevermind, found their annual report for 2015
https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/2015%20Annual%20Report.pdf

I changed my mind. We should definitely keep the NEA. It's worth the laugh.

[beachbum111111]

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.

monday those 2 gumballs are worth infinitely more then the trash that gets shat out by government art programs

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.

There is certainly a lack of loving standards

[Ronin]

Low effort trash that no one likes

What productions has the money gone toward so far?

Ever hear of stuff like Sundance Film Festival?

Thank you members of the illiterati.

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[Rally]

What productions has the money gone toward so far?

yeah I looked at some of the recent grant history and all I could find is a ton of incredibly obscure pretentious garbage that I've literally never heard of before in my life.

Seriously. Have a gander. It's like someday somebody said "we have a chunk of extra funding that needs to go... somewhere" and pulled a random name out of a hat.

[Frequency]

Ever hear of stuff like Sundance Film Festival?
Thank you members of the illiterati.

Yeah, I'll keep the pocket change.

drops da mic

Get help.

[beachbum111111]

Ever hear of stuff like Sundance Film Festival?

Thank you members of the illiterati.

drops da mic

Yeah this should have been defunded years ago

[Ronin]

yeah I looked at some of the recent grant history and all I could find is a ton of incredibly obscure pretentious garbage that I've literally never heard of before in my life.

Seriously. Have a gander. It's like someday somebody said "we have a chunk of extra funding that needs to go... somewhere" and pulled a random name out of a hat.

Well that's lame, I don't want to fill out a form to look at stuff you don't find aesthetically/conceptually pleasing.

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[beachbum111111]

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DAE drumpf = the Riddler???

[SeventhSandwich]

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.