You forgot they’re also criminal masterminds who smuggle in thousands of dollars in drugs over the border, kill hundreds of Americans without getting caught, are master engineers that build massive tunnel networks underground, and scam the government out of billions of dollars via welfare programs.
Honestly I wish immigrants were the people conservatives think they are because they’d have an insane set of skills we could use.
Yah the reason Europeans have stuff like free education and healthcare is because the US does all their dirty work. Iraq is a perfect example. The US took very little oil for itself, continuing to rely on South American and domestic fossil fuels. But Iraq wasn’t keeping its oil for itself, it was all being siphoned off to Britain, France, Norway, Germany, etc.
During the Cold War, the CIA funded numerous artists that did abstract work. This was to push back against Soviet Realism and hype up American artists. Jackson Pollock was specifically in this category, as he was an alcoholic nobody until the CIA started funding him. These artists varied in quality. Pollock was considered a hack by his contemporaries, but the money came pouring in.
There’s no doubt the CIA laundered money through art the way they did cocaine and gun trafficking. As far as today is concerned, however, this type of money laundering doesn’t happen anymore. Problems are mostly around IP and NDAs casting a shadow. Damien Hirst, for example, didn’t actually do all of his pouring paintings. Unnamed interns did them but can’t put their own credentials out there or even mention they worked for Hirst.
Obviously, this stuff is still sketchy. But if it were as easy as painting a line and getting a billionaire to buy it, everyone would be doing it lmao
So much content on YouTube are just commercials. Makeup tutorial? Infomercial for makeup. Game streaming? Commercial to buy said game. Painting lessons? You guessed it: commercials for art supplies and specific brands. Very, very little content isn’t sponsored and is the creator just shitposting.
Now, I happen to like some of these commercials that are also tutorials, product reviews, etc. but I sure as shit am not paying YouTube for the privilege.