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Pictured: A brave US army patriot, personally wading out into the reflecting pool to strangle a trespassing radical leftist
“I gotta save the blue lining!”
America in the 2010s is the new Iran in the 1970s.
taken over by religious radicals.
Stripping away rights from women
Regime changed by oil interests
That was my post too lol
Hold on. It used to be… blue?!
The sky, yes.
You could say that it was showing a reflection of the sky.
Fascists don’t do revolutions, they do coups or takeovers. Revolutions advance society, fascists only regress it.
it’s a joke about a similar picture about Iran
That is definitely not true lol. Revolutions can lead to power vacuums that can makes things even worse
dude the French Revolution eventually advanced society, but that’s because it resulted in Napoleon twice somehow (an Emperor, worse than a King, because he wanted to take shit over) and all of Europe had to band together to kick his ass to Elba.
the advancement came when all of europe was banding together.
uh, i study american history why
The French Revolution advanced the idea that property could be owned by anybody and you didn’t have to be “nobility” to have power in society. Pretty frickin huge stuff.
As for Napoleon, his civil laws were extremely progressive for the time. There is a reason that he was beloved by basically everybody in France. In the context of chaos of the Republic, and the tyranny of the Kings before that, most people were relieved by the stability he brought, and ecstatic with the reforms enacted. He obviously wasn’t perfect (especially his abhorrent treatment of Haiti), but Napoleon was a hero of history. It’s all about context.
eventually the french revolution advanced that idea. the first one (there were more than one) just killed a lot of people.
Like Iran in the 70s
Stranger things have happened. I could see a timeline that goes like:
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The election in 2028 is blatantly stolen by Republicans, establishing a mask-off dictatorship.
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After a decade, they’re eventually ousted by a popular front consisting of civil society advocates, leftist organizers and activists, and religious movements.
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As the regime falls, the religious movement takes over everything and establishes an overt theocracy.
blatantly stolen
Won’t be an election bud
Don’t worry! They don’t need to “steal” elections, why would they? It’s not as if the Democrats will reverse anything, they’re all making a fortune. Remember Biden’s presidency?
If Republicans seized power, that would be a fatal mistake (and they know it). I pray to God that I’m wrong and you’re right, and that they do seize power, because that will be the end of this charade. If only
Time is a flat circle that consists of only about 100 years.
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It’s important to remember that these aren’t average US citizens. These are only those wealthy enough to travel across the large country and take a vacation.
Do…do most Americans never get to see their capital? Most people I know have been to the capital of my country at least once.
The USA is huge. IDK what country you’re from, but I’ll use France as a point of comparison because it’s large and the capital isn’t really in the center.
Bayonne->Paris is about the farthest you can be from the capital while still living in mainland France. That’s 770 km.
This is shorter than the distance from Washington DC->Atlanta, which is in one of the original 13 colonies. It’s pretty close to the distance from DC->Indianapolis, but that’s still within the 1776 USA borders (albeit, an unorganized territory of the 13 colonies).
Add in the Louisiana purchase and various conquests westward, and a Californian visiting DC can be like visiting Paris from Kuwait.
It’s reasonably common for USians to visit their state capital at some point in our lives, but visiting DC is definitely an upper-middle class vacation unless you happen to live in a nearby state already.
I’m in TX. For me, it would be 21 hours of driving assuming no traffic or stops. Given gas prices, it would be cheaper to fly. And given the price of flights, if I’m splurging on plane tickets, I’m probably going somewhere pleasant to be so I can ease my poor mind from the constant flood of cortisol that is modern life—DC is a place that will bring only resentment and misery.
I can’t justify the gas cost to drive as far as my state capital, let alone travel all the way across the country to Washington DC. Not that I could even fly there since I’m not willing/able to get the fancy ID needed to get on a plane and leave my state.
I can’t speak for “most Americans”, my income is pretty median but I highly value travel and tourism so I make it happen from time to time. If you like parks and museums there is a shit-ton to do in and around DC, and it doesn’t have to be any more expensive nor unsafe than visiting any other urban cultural center like NYC or Miami.
I had time to visit two museums while i was there: the Air and Space Museum (which was surprisingly dissappointing. OMSI up in Portland, Oregon had had most of the same exhibits and presented them in a more dynamic manner, but the Smithsonian was definitely still worth the time) and the National Art Gallery (I liked the sculpture garden and the impressionist exhibit they had the most. If you don’t know what to do in an art museum, pick your favorite piece of art in every room. then figure out why it’s your favorite. it’s a really fun game). I would love two weeks of free time to explore DC but like, life.
It’s at least 3000 miles from the West Coast to the capital. Unless you’re Russian, it’s hard to compare
Canada. China. Point still stands ;)
depending on where you live. I live in Florida and most people have visited
It’s several hundred dollars just to get there from the west coast. Many Americans do not have 800 dollars they can throw at a vacation.
I’ve been to DC once, long ago. It was a shithole
i live on the west coast. I’ve been once for work. i can’t afford to go for fun.
if you live on the West Coast sure, but it’s not that far a drive for a lot of people in the south
(you know how everyone talks about the photos of pre-islamic-revolution iran? i was doing the thing)
Some non-wealthy people live close enough to visit whenever though (source: I live in the suburbs of dc)
this is clearly not true. look at the picture!
The lawn was prohibited then.
The entire river near my house is green due to the lilly pads and constant sun on it all day. The algae bloom is nothing new but I will say that the darker the liner, the easier heat and light will absorb, so the gray one was actually doing more good than harm and it also apparently helped the reflecting properties appear more.
Show an after picture
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Why is that dude going in with his bike
It’s an amphibious cyberbike
Before the support of the thin blue lining
how many repugs have been cycled through since then though?
