Pictured: A brave US army patriot, personally wading out into the reflecting pool to strangle a trespassing radical leftist
Before the revolution
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Agent641@lemmy.world 1 day ago
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
“I gotta save the blue lining!”
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 1 day ago
Guy riding a fucking bike into it, the old pool somehow lasted through that attack
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He was actually getting the bike out of it. Its acutally where all bikes came from before 1992 and bull clintnn.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
The British have always based their government on a similar mechanism, despite the occasional protest:
“Listen: strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.”
It doesn’t work with bicycles either.
Kramkar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
POTM
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I think that’s a unicycle, which makes both more, and less, sense.
fizzle@quokk.au 1 day ago
And Jenny.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 day ago
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
We cannot have people enjoying themselves now can we
ThatGiantDynamo@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Particularly during a 250 year anniversary or anything
snooggums@piefed.world 1 day ago
The wealthy can enjoy themselves, but not the poors.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
To be fair, it’s killed a few ducks with all the algae and chemicals in it right now… It probably isn’t a good idea. But also we know that’s not why they’re stopping people.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
That picture’s awesome! What was the context?
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 day ago
“Demonstrators cool off in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, Washington D.C., May 9, 1970.”
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
America in the 2010s is the new Iran in the 1970s.
bagsy@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
taken over by religious radicals.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Stripping away rights from women
HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
Regime changed by oil interests
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 day ago
You can just walk in it?
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Look at all those criminals!
Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Domestic terrorists!! I hope they got the book thrown at them. You can’t just be going around touching water like that.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 day ago
You can, but these days you can only do it once.
islandcoda42@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Watch out for leeches, there’s bloodsuckers all over that property
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Especially in the White House and Congress.
socsa@piefed.social 22 hours ago
No this is AI. Occasionally you’d see people dip their feet in but it’s never been widely used as a wading pool. It’s typically quite dirty and filled with goose shit.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Not AI. People absolutely make the poor choice of wading in. Not everyday but it certainly happens.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Like Iran in the 70s
wewbull@feddit.uk 23 hours ago
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
For everyone who doesn’t know. An anecdotal summary (look up yourself for facts, i am just recalling from memory)
Irans democratic elected ruler tried to nationalise the oil industry which was largely controlled by the UK and US who then staged a coup to reinstate and support the monarchy in return for securing them that controlling.
This made a lot of people in Iran very angry with the West.
That monarch went kinda mad with oppressive power to the point that the clergy was the only real opposition left. Which created the conditions that started the islamic revolution.
And we seemingly learned nothing as one of the Trump regime early ideas for the current war with Iran was to reinstate and back the monarchy with the current last descendant living in the US.
Magnum@infosec.pub 23 hours ago
funne
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fascists don’t do revolutions, they do coups or takeovers. Revolutions advance society, fascists only regress it.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
it’s a joke about a similar picture about Iran
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That is definitely not true lol. Revolutions can lead to power vacuums that can makes things even worse
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Fascists do the coups, our job is the revolution that either stops it or follows it.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 21 hours ago
That was my post too lol
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hold on. It used to be… blue?!
snooggums@piefed.world 1 day ago
It is reflecting the blue sky, as it was designed to do.
Painting the bottom blue so algae would form and ruin the reflective properties of the reflecting pool broke it.
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
What was it previously? Concrete or painted a different colour? I don’t know much about it, only it’s in US movies all the time.
goldfndr@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
The sky, yes.
tired_fedora@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
You could say that it was showing a reflection of the sky.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
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 they do seize power, because that will be the end of it.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Time is a flat circle that consists of only about 100 years.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
As they say, history doesn’t repeat, but it sure rhymes.
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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
brendansimms@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Some non-wealthy people live close enough to visit whenever though (source: I live in the suburbs of dc)
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
this is clearly not true. look at the picture!
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
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.
Bassman1805@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
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, but visiting DC is definitely an upper-middle class vacation unless you happen to live in a nearby state already.
Ledivin@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
It’s at least 3000 miles from the West Coast to the capital. Unless you’re Russian, it’s hard to compare
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 23 hours ago
Correct. Most can’t travel to another state. We are more or less enslaved. Vacation doesn’t exist. Housing isn’t available. You’d be better off living in mexico, trust me.
wingnut@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Downside of the cost of living and size of the country. You actually are very lucky if you can travel.
razzazzika@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Ive been there only once and I live only like 4 hours away. Most people of they arent in the area around Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey or new york USUALLY never visit. The further you are away the less likely you are to travel there. Usually DC is a day trip for those that live close, otherwise you then have to add plane tickets and hotels to your trip and that becomes prohibitively expensive for many Americans.
CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
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.
McGuirk808@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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 only bring resentment and misery.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
i live on the west coast. I’ve been once for work. i can’t afford to go for fun.
modernangel@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
I can’t speak for “most Americans”, my income is pretty median but I highly value travel and tourism so I make it happen fro time to time. If you like parks and museums there is a shit-ton to do in and around DC, it doesn’t have to be any more expensive nor unsafe than visiting any other urban cultural center like NYC or Miami.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I’ve been to DC once, long ago. It was a shithole
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
depending on where you live. I live in Florida and most people have visited
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
if you live on the West Coast sure, but it’s not that far a drive for a lot of people in the south
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 1 day ago
Imagine literally being the fascist who tells everyone to get out of the pool (for reasons).
Or you know what, don’t, your sanity is too valuable.
peripheralneuropathy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
President Trump’s Big Beautiful Swamp. Say it with me. Weld his fucking name to it.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 1 day ago
And like in every other picture set like this, it was America’s fault things changed.
bryophile@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Well yes, being the most powerful country in the world you get a lot of blame. I wonder why?
bananabread@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
So, where is the military?
axh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
In Afghanistan
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
Show an after picture
SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
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Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The lawn was prohibited then.
dismay3915@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why js that dude going in with his bike
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
how many repugs have been cycled through since then though?
homes@piefed.world 1 day ago
Ok, the Bryan Tyler Cohen Substack isn’t in panic mode yet…
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 1 day ago
Funny how it looks normal and care-free like Germany in the 1920s, and how it looks like Germany in the mid 1930s now. I wonder why…
Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You mean two years after they lost a war? Yeah, very care-free