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PersonalityFire
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gwilson1010
Let’s choose a world with public healthcare
ghornby
PostalHeathen
herejusttopointouterrors
get thee to fb or pinterest or wherever else people go to bury their heads in the sand against the true nature of man - greedy, stupid, selfish, cultish, hateful, idiotic assholes who will be violent, cheat, steal, and lie their way into "winning". they may not be the majority, but they've taken away the "choice" from the majority.
wandermanspacebot
Just speaking here for America, people won't even take a."choice" they've fought for. Won't even vote.
dannnen3
To build a peaceful society we have to be willing to kill to defend it
Wikitoria
That's right you could, but a long time ago some people with too much money thought "You know if the grunts wanted to they could build a better world" and they set about brainwashing you that "America is the greatest country on Earth".
I used to have hope you would snap out of it.
idiotsonfire
It didn't have shit to do with a better world. It had to do with making sure that they had more money than the other aristocrat.
whatsisname
@op you might appreciate https://sjmusart.org/miltonrogovin/worker-reads-history
jnaz
I always wondered about language like this. Like, if you pay to build a house, people say you "built" a house and if you pay to build a restaurant, YOU "fed" people. But if someone builds, say, a clinic, i don't often hear "so and so saved lives." Folks that donate to the troops or build, say, defense companies aren't "protecting our country." It's interesting what it's appropriate to take credit for and what is not.
rbudrick
We're not even sure khufu had the pyramids built. It's speculation. No glyphs on or in it say so. There is one piece of graffiti with his name in it tho. Doesnt mean much.
GhostSavage10
National strike
oh wait, the corporates drove you to poverty and now you will starve to take action.
The longer you wait, the worse it will get.
A lesson for us all.
ArkoneAxon
Which is why they always put so much effort into keeping us divided. Racism, sexism, anti-semitism... hell, the whole hierarchal structure is about making us feel we have more to lose than to gain if we overturn the system.
PaperinoVB
This. Fucking this.
Birdman79
You mean the Prisoners with Jobs.
Nandortherelentless
Fuck Mt Rushmore.
LicensedAdHominem
RetrogradeLlama
No, we couldn't. Because we're not in charge.
PersonalityFire
Because we allow ourselves to be divided, distracted. Great things can happen when a lot of people can muster just a little bravery. https://www.dsausa.org/get-involved/
TrueLegateDamar
LilyCuster
As long as you have the juristitional zoning authority…. Just saying….
CallMeMcGyver
The world the billionaires and authoritarians want is being built by the workers driving the propaganda machines telling us to fight each other instead of them.
SuperFerret
Well yeah, did you expect the billionaires to fight us themselves?
TacoPoweredHelicopter
We are really good at that though.
philmoregraves
Republicans both hate drug but are completely dependant on the casual drug user, bc if the average drug user wasn't complacent and pliable via their usage they may turn their focus on unfucking the system. And thats dangerous to those in power
Chooseausernameandyoureallset
Remember when that one CEO got Luigi'd and a bunch of other people stood up and did the same, and everything got better?
PersonalityFire
Yes, I remember a grand act of courage celebrated by working people across the political spectrum. This isn't a YA novel, the succession of events is not some dramatic linear narrative; the moral arc was merely bent in our direction that day.
Exyr
I remember how scared the people in power got and launched one of the largest manhunts in modern history for the death of a single individual. Its almost like they were afraid of something.
bloxxing
so why'd you build this kind of world?
PersonalityFire
I can only speak domestically, but Americans behave as a conquered people. In myriad ways it's not untrue; the pillars of global capital have boxed us into a veritable panopticon; the most expansive propaganda machine the world has ever known. We're rightfully ribbed by our geographic peers, pilloried for our inaction, our fecklessness, our inveigling privilege. I can't tell you what lies over the horizon, but I can say that hope does not die in the comments section.
impossibleusernamerules
I appreciate this.
SwiftyGuy
So why haven’t we chosen to build a better one if we actually have the power to do so?
PersonalityFire
Millions of working poor chose a better world in the 20th century and were summarily murdered for it. Sometimes by the movements they had started, but more often by the interests of preserving the hierarchies of global capital. The lies not only persist to this day, but have completely broken containment, aspiring to nation-states in their own right. The fight starts by first standing up. https://www.dsausa.org/get-involved/
taez555
Weren't they all slaves?
Tyrannotron
Most historians agree that the Coliseum was built by slave labor, at least in part. The Egyptian Pyramids were built over 4,000 years ago, so it's hard to say with certainty how they were built, but evidence suggests the work was most likely done by paid laborers. And work on Mount Rushmore started in 1927, well after slavery had been abolished in the US. So, 1 out of 3.
sirbartonslady
It is pretty well accepted nowadays that the pyramids were not built by slaves, but likely by farm workers who were recruited while their farms were flooded during the Nile's annual flood.
Sfingks
Yup, if I recall correctly the farmers worked on the pyramids in exchange for the Pharaoh building them an irrigation system for their farms, or something along those lines.
rossimus
The working class largely voted for Trump. Working class black and brown people moved to the right in droves.
We are living in a world that the working class chose for us.
LicensedAdHominem
rossimus
Yeah pretty much
Allrighty
If you sell your labour power to make a living, you're working class.
PersonalityFire
A salient point, but understanding their motivations -apart from the base appeal to racism- absolutely indicates the utter failings of the opposition party to meaningfully promise material improvements for said people. If I were commanding a multi-billion dollar national political party, these lessons would be taken to heart rather than laundered through an exorbitant consultancy class and derelict coroner.
ToSisPoS
joot
I have no control over this world. The world is run by a majority of fucking morons.
DisUsernameAmsDildos
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uhohgreg
Huh. Sounds like communism.... I'm in!
idiotsonfire
The faces on Mt. Rushmore were carved into a tribe's sacred mountain to dehumanize them further. It was one of the worst acts of genocide.
idiotsonfire
Mt. Rushmore is not a great creation, and if I could snap my fingers and restore it to what it was, I'd do it in an instant.
robertdoobies
Mt. Rushmore is vandalism
Wasnbo
Yup. So, what do you think should be done in light of that statement?
robertdoobies
Chisel off the noses
marktheshark911
It's a reminder and a statement. Did you have any ideas about what should be done?
Wasnbo
Yes, because I like having a solution instead of only whining about a problem. First, put the whole monument in the care of the indigenous people of the land. Second, charge those people with maintaining the Grand View Terrace (Mt. Rushmore viewing area) for public appeal; the land goes back to the native people, and any dissent among the conquering whites is soothed because there's an implied labor to "earn" the land. Third, document and showcase the way nature reclaims the land over decades.
marktheshark911
Right on!
Snooj
Return it to a normal mountain facade but first carve a big Trump head on it just before demolition so we can watch it explode.
robertdoobies
Excellent
sirbartonslady
To be fair, it was Vespasian who ordered the building of the Colosseum. Caesar was long dead by then. Hence why it's officially the Flavian Amphitheatre.
Snooj
Did they build it in Flavian Town?
sirbartonslady
Flavian was Vespasian's family name LOL (Titus Flavius Vespasianus was his birth name. Titus being his praenomin, Flavius/Flavian being his gens nomin and Vespasianus/Vespasian being his cognomin). He would've probably found the term Flavian Town pretty funny though, I believe he was known for his sense of humor.
TheTojo15
*Flava Flav. Common mistake
historymemesandstuff
Ya thats what he said ceasar didn't build the Colosseum
battleofhastings1066
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Carl99
Also based on what we can figure out the Pharaoh to least paid well for the Pyramid to be built. In fact it kept a whoe, gaggle of people well employed for many, many years. Hard to hate on that honestly. Now other things the Pharaohs got upto, sure. But the Pyramids seem to have been about as above board as it gets.
RedStarVidal
Aliens are very worker conscious.
skellis
Some body as gone through Mike Duncan’s 179 episode podcast History of Rome.
SikoRex
Technically, Vespasian was a Caesar, as in the title Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus.
Ngugi
He ruled as Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, to be fair.
Mannypettyaf
I was about to say, Caesar became a title for Roman leaders during the Empire period.
sirbartonslady
This is very true, but usually when people say "Caesar" in this context, they're talking about Julius Caesar (not even Augustus, for whatever reason). But you ARE right, Vespasian WAS a Caesar.
Mannypettyaf
Could be, but the OP meme is a list of leader titles and Caesar is the leader title of The Roman Empire. The original comment was an objection because Caesar is usually understood to be a single man in many modern contexts but this context is using it as a title so the comment is incorrect, imo.
RedStarVidal
To be fair, Ceasar was a chicken and always covered in mayonnaise, as any emperor should be, as sex with salad is a right reserved for the gods.
ToSisPoS
He is also a Clamato juice and vodka cocktail.
reverendbonobo
billstranger
I think you're thinking of Sir Digby Chicken-Caesar.
Medievalpeasant1215
The Caesar Salad is named after the man who invented it, Caesar Cardini, from Tijuana, Mexico, in 1924.
manwithsevenlivers
No, it's named after the leader of a group of sentient apes who started a rebellion against their human captors. The chicken symbolizes freedom and mayonaisse is an allegory for homo sapiens supremacy. Educate yourself.
ToSisPoS
The Mojave tribes know it’s pronounced Kaiser
CallMeCourierSix
I do not understand this reference.
RedStarVidal
Its history.
CallMeCourierSix
I realized I am an idiot, and this is a reference to caesar dressing and hairless bipeds.
RedStarVidal
The fact you you know nothing makes you wiser than all the Greeks. So says the Oracle.
sirbartonslady
(probably more likely it was olive oil given Rome's consumption of olives and olive oil, but fair point!)
powwerbottom
You can make mayonnaise with olive oil
RedStarVidal
Roman's were intimate with many food stuffs. Which is why I honour my ancestors each morning by visiting my neighbours mayonnaise jar ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
LespritDeLescalier22
Miracle whip or Duke’s?
RedStarVidal
Hellmann's.