Thoughts, /pol/?
>>489104465Money laundering or very hungry very rich nigger.
I went to a modern art museum once and they had a bunch of trash on a table and that was an exhibit
Brilliant, young Ukrainian financier?
>>489104465Money Laundering.
>>489104504I have a theory that these purchases are used by rich people to pay into an "account" they can use to buy drugs, hookers, and other illicit activities
>>489104465I heard one can donate such "art" to get a tax write-off. Is that how it works?
>>489104608So not to be a dick but yea that's money laundering.
Money laundering. Gifts for favored people. Not actual art.It's not fucking conservative to reject corruption in the art world. It's not a breach of civil rights to point out that these massive money transfers are being done for no identifiable reason. Art should be real. Liberalism relies on the sincerity of its artists.If the only artists getting rich are cherished pets producing blatant non-art, that's not liberalism, that's a conservative elite gloating that it hurt liberalism and readying false claims of tyranny against anyone who tries to defend expressive freedoms against the dominance of an elite that is only interested in the arts as a means of producing prestigious pets!
>this againThis was done alreadyWhy are they reposting old news?
>>489104465>he purchased the rights to duct tape a banana to a wall and call it comedian>in perpetuity>for 6.2milI am jacks jealousy.
This is the laziest money laundering scheme ever conceived; everyone who attended that auction should be arrested, held without bail, and thoroughly investigated. Cavity searches with an extra large speculum will ensure that none of the suspects are hiding gold bricks or other smuggled items on their persons. Enhanced interrogation techniques are required; pulling teeth and then arranging them into a "modern art piece" will have them talking in no time. Also, if Q isn't too busy writing his online riddles, could we have him as the lead detective on this case?
>>489104465didnt this exact same thing happen a few years ago? its some kind of tax writeoff or some bullshit
>>489104724>not to be a dickYes, this isn't the place for such behaviour.
The banana doesnt go bad and just stays fresh like that forever? Worth 6.2M imo.
>>489104747What level of direction brain is this
>>489104465Im a brown shirt accelerationist so the 6.2M is being taken and the banana is being thrown out.
>>489104465Joe Biden's economy.
>>489105410Imploded into a black hole due to mental gymnastics that broke the laws of physics.
>>489104465That's a counterfeit. Somebody has switched out the original banana for one from the grocery store. Also, fine art is just money laundering and insurance scams. https://www.artandobject.com/news/how-money-laundering-works-art-world>Consider that when the Mexican government passed a law in the early 2010s to require more information about buyers, and how much cash could be spent on a single piece of art, the market cratered, as sales dipped 70 percent in less than a year. Many believed that was because Mexican cartel rings had previously been the biggest buyers in the market.
>>489104465The value of anything is what the highest bidder is willing to pay for it.If a billionaire rolls into a small town and decides to buy all the meat in the town's grocery store at three times the marked price just so he can feed it to his dogs and flush the rest down the toilet, then you're eating beans until a new delivery arrives.wealth ≠ common sensewealth ≠ good tasteSometimes wealth just means you have the luxury to waste resources on stupid things as a "fuck you" to everyone else.
>>489105658banana and tape are regularly replaced
>>489105658>fine artUnless the word "fine" is used ironically here, I'm gonna need a definition of it because sticking a banana to a wall with some tape isn't exactly what I would call "fine".
>>489104465I see it... it's a phallic symbol representative of how liberals screw you every which way, and it being a banana symbolizes the utterly "bananas" mindset employed to those ends. As I understand it, this piece was purchased by George Soros as a rape trophy. Why pay to rape? "Fuck you I can afford it, that's why."
Doesnt the banana rot away? Who pays 6 million for Something, that can spoil?
