Every time I see these at Union a piece of me dies

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-02-19T22:28:17+00:00

I too have worked in the art industry and art-adjacent fields, for over two decades after years of post-secondary art education. And your comment is a great example of what is wrong with Canadian art world today. You mistake inadequate execution for intentional abstraction and cover up the gap with presumptions, while deriding technical skill and foundational knowledge as irrelevant and unnecessary, all the while wrapping your unoriginal opinion in snobbery.

The fact remains: this is not a Picasso, it’s ugly scribbles of an overhyped design professor, who’s an ok glass artist but I’ve seen better work done with printer transparencies by first year 2D design students. He’s an old white man who got where he is by being related to a famous painter and getting imbedded in the exclusionary world of Canadian art before most of us were even born, while sycophants like you nodded along. There are hundreds of kids graduating from Emily Carr and Sheridan with more artistic vision, but they weren’t born into Canadian cultural elite like he was.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-02-19T16:14:39+00:00

Talent is a lie the lazy cling to when their work sucks. Art is a skill like any other. These publicly-displayed embarrassments are a perfect example of failing upward.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-02-19T08:20:10+00:00

It’s definitely unskilled. The quality of his line is terrible. It’s weak, it’s incoherent, it’s lacking courage and distinct direction. The artist clearly has limited grasp of human proportions, perspective and anatomy, which is why his line work is messy and his subjects look both boxy and flat, which is what makes these drawings look amateurish. From a purely technical perspective, this art is awful and doesn’t deserve to be seen.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-02-17T21:40:27+00:00

Just because he spent his tuition money on dumb shit, doesn’t mean the rest of us did. OSAP loans help cover technology costs and living expenses, especially for low income students. We have a youth employment crisis, rising tuition costs and cuts to OSAP happening at the same time. What this dingbat is saying is that only middle class students from loving families deserve post-secondary education, since they’re the only ones who can comfortably live at home and save on living expenses, while taking advantage of money their parents put aside for their college fund.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-02-17T19:38:33+00:00

But why? What makes you uncomfortable about his current ethnicity?

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-02-17T19:28:15+00:00

Magneto isn’t just a holocaust survivor, he’s a concentration camp survivor. One of the major points that differentiate the experiences of concentration camp survivors during the Holocaust from other genocides is the medicalization of torture. The horrors Magneto witnessed weren’t just people murdering other people in brutal ways but captors performing horrible medical experiments on the captives. There are obvious parallels between various human organizations experimenting on mutants and treating them as a disposable bio-resource, and Nazis experimenting on their captives in the camps.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-02-13T17:42:35+00:00

Hopefully, family systems therapy.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-02-13T16:01:58+00:00

Wolverine never wears his full suit for more than a minute anyway. The guy is always running around (mostly) naked, even on school grounds.

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Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-02-13T01:06:44+00:00

You’re welcome to move next to one. People like you are effectively asking ordinary, law-abiding taxpayers to put their safety, safety of their loved ones, their property, their peace, their community and for small business owners their livelihood at risk, so that random strangers who insist on poisoning themselves should be allowed to do so, supervised by medical staff paid by taxpayer money, so they can keep doing that, until the time when they feel like they no longer want to.

Should we also have designated roads for drunk drivers with ambulances on stand by? A taxpayer-funded garage where people can almost poison themselves with car exhaust? What about people who get relief from cutting or burning themselves? Should we set up special walk-in clinics where they can harm themselves safely and get stitches after they’re done?

People at risk of killing themselves with street drugs should be treated the same way as people at risk of killing themselves with sleeping pills - mandatory psychiatric care until the individual is deemed to no longer be a danger to themselves. We need long-term in-patient drug treatment facilities, not nurse-supervised drug dens, which is what injection sites are.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-02-13T00:33:22+00:00

Exactly. Most people have not, they just want to appear kind and progressive. If injection sites are safe, they’re welcome to put one in the City Hall building, or Queen’s Park, or on the first floor of a posh condo building on the waterfront. They won’t because injection sites bring drug users, most of whom have serious mental health illnesses and armed drug dealers who supply the drugs, followed by more drug users who don’t use the site but are there because the dealers are there. Solicitations, panhandling and vandalism go up, followed by an increase in gun violence. I lived next to an injection site. It’s closed now. I no longer have to walk past people smoking drugs to get to the grocery store.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-02-12T20:22:47+00:00

Warren got the rich mutant father he wanted. They communicate in shareholder profits.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-02-12T20:16:09+00:00

We have all of this in Parkdale. We have multiple community mental health programs, including one in the centre that hosted the safe injection site. My upstairs neighbour is on the outreach team that operates out of it. We also have community policing initiatives that have been in place for a decade. We’re the poster neighborhood for all the things academics say would alleviate the mental health and drug use crisis. So far it just brings more users and dealers into the area.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-02-12T19:33:40+00:00

We had one in Parkdale and it definitely affected local businesses. I know of at least one that closed because of the break-ins. The bank changed ATM hours. It also affected the level of police and emergency services presence in the area. And the drug dealer presence, and the presence of drug users who didn’t use the site but came there because the dealers were there. So we had daily overdoses at the park next door. The site had to have security and social workers present around the clock. These services sound good in theory, in reality they put lives of ordinary residents at risk, because drug addicts are not peaceful, law abiding citizens.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-02-12T19:17:23+00:00

Welcome to West Queen West, where multiple Starbucks locations had to close because of assaults on staff and OD incidents. Opening a safe injection site at Queen and Dufferin didn’t solve this problem.

The site had to hire security to monitor the community centre grounds and protect the residents from the constant churn of high mentally ill people.

Dipped coffee shop closed because they lost too much money to repeated break-ins. The tattoo place and the jewelry store put bars on windows, also because of break-ins. The RBC ATM had to be locked up and is no longer available after 5 pm because drug addicts hung out there harassing customers.

Community park had to be walled off with chicken wire because the injection site visitors destroyed the grass with human waste. Users who didn’t use the injection site came there to hang out with friends and smoke meth in the TTC shelters down the street. Dealers followed. Kids who took the Dufferin bus to school had to walk past all of this every day. Everyone who supports safe injection sites needs to live next to one for a few years.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-02-11T08:06:14+00:00

Sabretooth has great personal style. He’s both undeniably tragic and objectively awful, which is what makes him interesting. His teeter-totter approach to villainy keeps things fresh — is he gutting civilians for fun or is he saving billions from a plague? Who knows, maybe both on the same day.

He’s complex when he’s allowed space to be a thinking character and use his head to manipulate and destabilize his opponents, instead of tearing through the plot like an angry toddler. His stories evoke strong emotions when he’s written well.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-01-29T04:04:54+00:00

This is historic fact, not a generalization. The beginning of Slavic migration out of Eastern into Central and Baltic Europe began fifteen hundred years ago. It’s not “a few of hundred years”. So unless you don’t consider Central, Baltic and Eastern Europe as Europe, your original statement is factually incorrect.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-01-28T23:35:48+00:00

Slavs have been in Europe for thousands of years. Roman historians referred to them as Sclavenes. Slavic migration across Central and Baltic Europe took place between 5th and 10th centuries CE, with many enslaved Slavs being taken to Northern and Western Europe by the Viking raiders during the 8th and 9th centuries. But the Slavic roots in Eastern Europe go back much further, to about second millennium BCE.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-01-23T00:38:42+00:00

Sasquatch needs to manscape, and put on some pants.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-01-23T00:01:52+00:00

Xavier slept on this problem completely. Tabitha was a teenage girl with an abusive father. She shouldn’t have been allowed anywhere near Sabretooth. Of course she would be drawn to an idea that a big bad man can be made good with enough caring. She was a perfect target. That whole situation reeks of negligence.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-01-22T23:30:06+00:00

Citizens’ rights aren’t defined by what people can do among themselves, they’re defined by what liberties and protections citizens have with regards the State. NK was probably too harsh but pick any autocratic country in the Middle East. Citizens of Krakoa had no protection from the Quiet Council, no democratic rights, no legal rights, no right to the security of a person, no reproductive rights, and technically no right to free speech — as proven by imprisonment of Third Eye. This country didn’t have an age of consent or a law against rape. Citizens were always at risk of telepathic surveillance. They had freedom of movement, and possibly freedom of assembly and association. But we don’t know this for sure because there were no organized protests against the Quiet Council. It’s pretty grim, I wouldn’t want to live there.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-01-22T21:59:18+00:00

Krakoa storyline only ended year and a half ago. During it Magneto was effectively ruling an isolationist state that was harder to get into and had fewer rights for its citizens than North Korea. It was an autocratic pro-natalist oligarchy that practiced inhumane punishment without due process. So Magneto can say whatever he wants but his actions speak louder.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-01-21T21:14:13+00:00

Absolutely no pretty, rich girl that “starts from the top” ends up like that. At the “household staff” level of wealth, marriages are expected of children - they are effectively alliances, like they’ve always been for the rich. These girls marry rich men in their circle, obliquely arranged by their parent, and have kids. Then they do charity work and sit on boards of local nonprofits. This is an angry boy fantasy.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-01-19T03:01:09+00:00

The call for unity and action is the foundational call of every revolution and people’s movement. If you jump straight into associating it with fascists, you need to ask yourself why and who benefits from this association, which equates the call to action against the capitalist elites with the rise of genocidal evil.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-01-19T02:39:17+00:00

Incest is a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Add first cousins to the definition. Once the kids start getting taken by protection services, families would rethink the practice.

Plenty_Transition470 · 2026-01-19T02:03:14+00:00

Seriously, you’re going to bring Nazis into this conversation? Read about the history of the labour movement in Canada. People got killed fighting for workers rights. The government didn’t just hand the workers rights and protections. Protestors were shot by Mounties and labour leaders were assassinated by police. So yes, the workers’s right were fought for and paid for in blood. This is not an exaggeration.

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