I already disliked this take but it's so much worse coming from an actual wealthy musicianhttps://www.theguardian.com/music/australia-news-blog/2016/dec/29/amanda-palmer-donald-trump-is-going-to-make-punk-rock-great-again?CMP=twt_gu …
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Oh my God she voluntarily brought up Weimar Germanypic.twitter.com/7YFrMqTKaF
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For fuck's sake stop saying that beautiful art made due to suffering is an upside to that suffering arrgh
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Hey here's a take: As much of a "Golden Age" as Weimar Germany was for the arts, it doesn't compare to the art destroyed by what followed
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The amount of art that was destroyed, the number of ARTISTS destroyed, was an incalculable loss that wasn't compensated for by anything
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If Holocaust references seem over-the-top, just consider that economic recessions' main effect on art is to force artists to get day jobs
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When Obamacare goes away probably 80-90% of the "indie" artists from the Internet you like will vanish because they need FTE for insurance
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The most charitable thing to say here is that if it's not actually happening TO YOU, don't go looking for the silver lining
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Someone who can't leave the country and might actually be impoverished by these policies can talk about bright sides
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If you think misery is essential to great art, 1) It's not, 2) there's still plenty of misery to go around in societies not run by fascists
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Ugh. I talk to so many people who've said their distress over what's going on in the real world has put their art on hold, maybe permanently
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If you think the upcoming eight years will be some kind of punk rock renaissance 1) I really doubt it, 2) I don't actually care
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(I don't actually think the Bush years were great for art. They sucked. Everyone being mad at the same thing sucks. It's a sucky situation)
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