• MissJinx@lemmy.world
    18·
    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

  • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    231·
    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…

  • Nangijala@feddit.dk
    311·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • rbesfe@lemmy.ca
    1262·
    3 days ago

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

        • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
          63·
          2 days ago

          Apparently criticising Western Exceptionalism = “simping for dictators”

          I’m increasingly convinced that liberals don’t even think words mean anything anymore beyond signalling what team you’re on.

          • MrMakabar@slrpnk.netEnglish
            25·
            2 days ago

            When you read the description “dictator from the middle east” and you believe that it is an attack on Asians in general, you do not understand that not everybody from the Middle East is Asian or a dictator.

              • MrMakabar@slrpnk.netEnglish
                23·
                2 days ago

                Just look below. Pretty clearly to call the other person a racist.

                The irony obviously being that this is about the interior design of the White House and calling it “designed by a dictator from the middle east” is about as bad of an insult as “designed by a king from europe”. It only really works as a racist statement, when you believe in Western Exceptionalism.

                • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
                  4·
                  2 days ago

                  It only really works as a racist statement, when you believe in Western Exceptionalism.

                  This Is some laughable mental gymnastics! I assure you that I don’t believe in Western exceptionalism.

                  The reason looking at Trump’s ugly, ego-stroking, interior design choices and saying they “look like a middle eastern dictator designed it” is racist, is because it Orientalizes the middle east, not as a place with diverse peoples, politics, and yes, interior design senses.

                  But instead papers over that diversity and paints Trump’s gaudy displays as unbecoming of a western leader, more akin to that of an imagined barbaric Oriental Despotism

                  Saying Trump’s design sense is “Like a middle eastern dictator” is very different from saying it’s “like a European king”. The former sits within a of a long history of Oriental racism perpetuated by Europeans, against people’s the Global South.

                  Please read Orientalism by Edward Said, I’m begging you people!

  • MisterOwl@lemmy.world
    2473·
    3 days ago

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

      • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        49·
        3 days ago

        They’re only ashamed when their team doesn’t win. Every bad thing they did was totally valid because again, it was their team.

        It’s called “American values” where the only thing that matters is winning and crimes against humanity don’t matter.

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
      43·
      2 days ago

      This is what makes you ashamed to be American? You need to work on your priorities.

    • Teppichbrand@feddit.org
      63·
      3 days ago

      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
        7·
        3 days ago

        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.

        • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
          11·
          2 days ago

          How does any of this matter when Trump won the popular vote? You can’t get around the fact that more than 50% of voters voted for Trump.

          I totally agree that your political system is fucked, but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that Trump won because he cheated the system or the election was rigged. Trump won because he convinced people to vote on him, and that’s the real problem.

        • LeFantome@programming.dev
          01·
          3 days ago

          That does not affect the Presidential election. Nice try.

          The election was stolen by the Americans that could not even bother to show up and vote. People keep telling me that it is not the fault of people that did not vote for Trump.

          Yes it is.

          • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            Stop trying to find someone to blame and fight to get him out of office now.

          • ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world
            2·
            3 days ago

            Voter roll purges, where and how many polling places, misinformation mailers and calls, super PACs, electoral college, etc. This election, and most every other election, was totally rigged. They suppress voting in huge ways. They hold it on a Tuesday and it’s not a national holiday. Even if your job doesn’t outright stop you from going, a lot of people can’t afford to take that time and go vote. All of this is well documented and carefully orchestrated. Yes, people voted for Trump, but if shit wasn’t rigged he would never even have been on the ballot. Yes, Americans are to blame for this outcome, but it’s not just the voters. This outcome is decades in the making. They just haven’t been nearly so effective in elections past.

          • P00ptart@lemmy.world
            2·
            3 days ago

            I think in Pennsylvania, there were boxes and boxes of ballots abandoned in the woods. In Arizona, a UPS collection box was set on fire in a democratic majority area. There are more direct ways to steal an election than hacking systems. “Here you go grandma, just sign here”

            • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              2 days ago

              Irregularities != illegitimacy. Independent polling support that Trump had around half of the popular vote. One percent either direction may have changed the outcome but it doesn’t change the legitimacy of the office, either way it was a very close race that either Harris or Trump could have legitimately won.

              Therefore it is an absolute braindead take to say that Americans didn’t choose this. They did. That’s not incompatible with the theory that Trump cheated. But the American people doesn’t get to eschew their responsibility in this. Fuck this “no-one admits they voted for Hitler” bullshit.

          • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
            2·
            3 days ago

            Oh bullshit. It’s one of the most used and most effective voter suppression tactics. Do you know how many people don’t vote because “Texas is red, so it doesn’t matter”?

            It affects statewide races. Anyone telling you it doesn’t is either ignorant or a complete piece of shit trying to convince you of something.

      • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
        1·
        3 days ago

        Well trump literally bragged that musk used his resources to tamper with voting machines.

        Putin said that he hoped Trump would win and admitted to authorizing large “operations” (read: massive astroturfing campaigns at the least) the help trump win. Clear foreign government election tampering.

        Not to mention that in 2020, every single republican blew up and made accusations that the election was tampered with and throughout the past 2 decades of history at least, literally every single time that they mass accused people of doing something, it was because they were projecting and they, themselves were doing it. They were obsessed with accusing the other side of voting machine tampering, if it was projecting, then they themselves were likely doing it or attempting it.

        Additionally that there is a far-fetched (read, no presented evidence) report from an ex-cia whistleblower that it was tampered with

        A conspiracy theory that I personally think wouldn’t be crazy is that the voting machine tampering was already done in 2020 by the republicans on a very small scale as a proof of concept, and they made a massive multi-month campaign on it, tired everyone, judges and population alike on the baseless claims they made so that when they full-scale began vote tampering, nobody would believe anyone that wanted to investigate possible vote machine tampering. They might have weaponized the boy who cried wolf principle.

      • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 days ago

        No it was rigged. That’s why they cried so hard when trump lost the first time. They all cried voter fraud because they were doing it themselves, after all, how could a cheater lose unless the other side is also cheating? They just learned how to do it better this time. Dump even talked about how muskrat knew all about voting machines. No one will ever convince me otherwise.

      • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        From the boldest, most inspiring nation in the world

        Jesus Christ, and you’re saying this about the Bush era. Americans really are the most propagandised people on Earth. Pure zealots

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    192·
    2 days ago

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

  • slickgoat@lemmy.world
    72·
    3 days ago

    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.

      • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
        171·
        2 days ago

        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.

        • Formfiller@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 days ago

          I agree with all your points but I would like to point out that the tea party was billionaire backed not grass roots

      • TimeNaan@lemmy.world
        71·
        3 days ago

        Electing a working class president won’t fix this. The system needs to be abolished.

        We need to learn to build our own, parallel system of people’s bottom-up power.

  • VeryVito@lemmy.ml
    1431·
    3 days ago

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