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It is beyond imagination that anyone could misconstrue the Soviet agitprop in Jay Carney's kitchen as an indication that White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and his wife somehow share the same ideas as the perpetrators of a brutal regime that starved its own citizens while the political elites lived in luxury, abused power, prosecuted the opposition, and ruled the country by means of executive orders.

Next, they would claim that that a neat stack of Chairman Mao's Little Red Books in Valery Jarrett's bathroom is not there merely to serve as an elegant accent to complement the shower curtains; or that the Black Panther Party insignia on Michelle Obama's pajamas isn't merely a bold decorative pattern; or that the black flag of holy Jihad in Huma Abedin's bedroom is somehow indicative of her sympathies towards the Muslim Brotherhood.

Following such flawed right-wing logic, one might even speculate that Saul Alinsky's books on Hillary Clinton's living room mean anything other than an effort to disguise an obscure dried spot that had mysteriously appeared on the coffee table in the last year of her husband's presidency.

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What crusaders have to do with anything. I don't think Pre Sec had any pictures of Crusaders. I understand, when somebody is out of argument, he is willing to jump centauries, oceans....

Well, your argument is that one genre of Russian art is bad because it is part of a social structure that also did bad things. My counterpoint is that Democracy also did bad things, but you said not as MANY bad things.

So now I'm wondering how many bad things have to be linked to a social structure before that structure is seen as bad.

First of all, I know thing or two about Russian art, and I assure you that this isn't art by any stretch of imagination. So, please stop calling it art, it's offensive.
Human history is full of bad things, and there are bad and ignorant people in all societies and times. The question is the society encourages and advances these kind of people or not. If you study socialists a little bit, you would know that because they put the society in a higher plain then individual, it's much more easier to abuse individuals in the name of the good for society. In fact, all the socialist end up with massive abuse and death. No exceptions, maybe only Cuba didn't have so many deaths. If you want to understand better, I suggest you to read Lenin, Kafka, Solzhenizin, Bulgakov, these come to me from the top of the head. I am just a simple lineman, I can't explain you in just a few words very complex issues.

Why isn't it art?

Given how many in the United States put corporate interests above individual needs, does that also make Democracy evil? You only have to look at our private prisons and drug offense laws to see the problem there.

Shishkin is art, that is a piece of junk that was hanging in every corner of every town. I don't see any problem with druggies sitting in prisons. My only problem is not all the dealers are in prison. I don't see what is the connection of druggies with the democracy. By the way I never said that democracy is the solution.

Shishkin is art, that is a piece of junk that was hanging in every corner of every town.

So if something is too present in a society, it becomes junk?

I don't see any problem with druggies sitting in prisons.

I'm glad you've found a form of oppression that you're comfortable with.

By the way I never said that democracy is the solution.

So you're not a fan of American flag art?

For your information that piece about 80 years old. Yes I like to oppress the criminals, don't you?

So art requires a certain age? Your definition of art, let alone acceptable art, seems to be all over the place.

Please concentrate, you imply that I put certain age on art, I'm trying to explain you that if that was the criteria, the piece satisfies it. I've go wash my dishes.

So that's not the criteria, then?

You seem to be all over the map. Is the real issue that you just want to be mad at the Obama administration, so this is an easy way to do so? If that's the case, more power to you!

also, what makes minor drug offenses an acceptable crime but political speech an unacceptable crime?

"Also", not "also".
Whatever is written in criminal code... Who I am to create my own laws?

Whatever is written in criminal code... Who I am to create my own laws?

It's just odd that you have strong feelings about gulags when it came to making political speech illegal but apathy toward the more modern prison industrial complex when it comes to minor drug use offenses.

FYI, there was nothing about gulags in soviet constitution, actually they were totally illegal. Why I have to teach you so many things? I don't mind though, as long as you promise to be a good student.

FYI, there was nothing about gulags in soviet constitution, actually they were totally illegal.

Wouldn't that mean communism isn't evil, because those actions went against the soviet constitution?

Socialism, not communism. The problem with socialism is that it is not a feasible system. The evil - the methods allowed and encouraged by the societies. Actually, you might got me here. I have to think about this.
So getting onto another topic-what horrible consequences not following the law could bring upon us. Don't you agree?

If gulags are unconstitutional, what makes the art evil? Is it pictures of happy gulags?

I'll give you that: pictures that make gulags look positive are bad form. Did Jay own art depicting happy gulags?

The posters were made by evil regime. Jay own art, it's not art-it's a poster; you are confusing me now. He owns a poster made by evil regime, which perpetrated suffering and deaths on millions of people. Also, I think, there is big difference between owning something and putting it on the wall for everyday observation.

The regime owned all cultural norms and artistic styles during that era?

Not all, but this one was produced by the regime 100%-it is a propaganda piece.

So it's not that style of art, but that specific work itself?

Both.