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Re: Do you want more or less freedom?
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nullius
on 27/11/2020, 16:20:14 UTC
When time permits, I wish to reply to some others upthread.

For now:  Loyce, please add a poll option demanding a ban of people who, being accused of being cunts, reply with famous fine-art paintings of cunts.

Subject: Re: Reeeeeeeeee: nullius is a cunt
Despite my political and aesthetic disagreements with Courbet, I will defend this in Meta if Puritanical Americans whine for censorship of a painting that is currently displayed in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris:

Gustave Courbet, L’Origine du monde (oil on canvas, 1866)

Exhibit 0: A cunt.

Exhibit 1: The Musée d’Orsay

This dude actually posted a cunt pic??? NSFW?Huh

Rules:
10. No embedded NSFW images anywhere. NSFW content must be marked accordingly.

Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20201127120859/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5293050.msg55693619#msg55693619



WTF, are you John Ashcroft?  Or perhaps are you one of those people who irreparably damaged Renaissance artworks in European churches by effacing artistic displays of genitalia and/or female breasts?  Would you Bowdlerize Shakespeare, too?

Quote from: Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (modernized spelling for the ineducable peasants and proletarians here)
Hamlet
    Lady, shall I lie in your lap?

Lying down at OPHELIA’s feet

Ophelia
    No, my lord.
Hamlet
    I mean, my head upon your lap?
Ophelia
    Aye, my lord.
Hamlet
    Do you think I meant country matters?
Ophelia
    I think nothing, my lord.
Hamlet
    That’s a fair thought to lie between maids’ legs.

* nullius could write a very long post on sex in Shakespeare, but will stop there for now.

Some people wonder why I have become habituated to using my highlighter pen.  I will illustrate here by example:  My point was, of course, that if a painting is hanging in full public view in a major Parisian museum, and is displayed on that museum’s website (try my links!) with no 18+ check or other indicia of so-called “NSFW”, then I am sure it can embedded on this forum.

[...]

I even showed the museum itself, for a reason.  Do you suggest that this Very Venerable and Serious Museum publicly, openly displays things that cannot be embedded in posts on the libertarian cypherpunk Bitcoin Forum?

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And for the record, I actually dislike Courbet (the fucking Commie!).  What I like worship is the genre of classical and neoclassical nudes that I have posted numerous times in other threads.  For example:

[...more examples of nullius posting nude artworks...]

...and many others.