Guy riding a fucking bike into it, the old pool somehow lasted through that attack
Before the revolution
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to [deleted]
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turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
POTM
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think that’s a unicycle, which makes both more, and less, sense.
fizzle@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
And Jenny.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 weeks ago
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
We cannot have people enjoying themselves now can we
ThatGiantDynamo@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Particularly during a 250 year anniversary or anything
snooggums@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
The wealthy can enjoy themselves, but not the poors.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
That picture’s awesome! What was the context?
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 weeks ago
“Demonstrators cool off in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, Washington D.C., May 9, 1970.”
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pictured: A brave US army patriot, personally wading out into the reflecting pool to strangle a trespassing radical leftist
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“I gotta save the blue lining!”
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
You can just walk in it?
altphoto@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Look at all those criminals!
Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
You can, but these days you can only do it once.
islandcoda42@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Watch out for leeches, there’s bloodsuckers all over that property
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Especially in the White House and Congress.
socsa@piefed.social 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Not AI. People absolutely make the poor choice of wading in. Not everyday but it certainly happens.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hold on. It used to be… blue?!
snooggums@piefed.world 3 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
The sky, yes.
tired_fedora@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
You could say that it was showing a reflection of the sky.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
America in the 2010s is the new Iran in the 1970s.
bagsy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
taken over by religious radicals.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Stripping away rights from women
HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Regime changed by oil interests
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
President Trump’s Big Beautiful Swamp. Say it with me. Weld his fucking name to it.
Janx@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The Donald J. Trump & Jeffrey Epstein
Memorial SwampTwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 3 weeks ago
With bigly intent.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fascists don’t do revolutions, they do coups or takeovers. Revolutions advance society, fascists only regress it.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
it’s a joke about a similar picture about Iran
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That is definitely not true lol. Revolutions can lead to power vacuums that can makes things even worse
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Fascists do the coups, our job is the revolution that either stops it or follows it.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
That was my post too lol
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Like Iran in the 70s
wewbull@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
funne
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
And like in every other picture set like this, it was America’s fault things changed.
bryophile@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Well yes, being the most powerful country in the world you get a lot of blame. I wonder why?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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.
wingnut@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Downside of the cost of living and size of the country. You actually are very lucky if you can travel.
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks 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.
Bassman1805@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
razzazzika@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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.
McGuirk808@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
modernangel@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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.
Ledivin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s at least 3000 miles from the West Coast to the capital. Unless you’re Russian, it’s hard to compare
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
i live on the west coast. I’ve been once for work. i can’t afford to go for fun.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve been to DC once, long ago. It was a shithole
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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
brendansimms@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Some non-wealthy people live close enough to visit whenever though (source: I live in the suburbs of dc)
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Time is a flat circle that consists of only about 100 years.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
As they say, history doesn’t repeat, but it sure rhymes.
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bananabread@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
So, where is the military?
axh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In Afghanistan
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Before the support of the thin blue lining
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The lawn was prohibited then.
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
dismay3915@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why js that dude going in with his bike
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s an amphibious cyberbike
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Show an after picture
homes@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Ok, the Bryan Tyler Cohen Substack isn’t in panic mode yet…
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
how many repugs have been cycled through since then though?
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
You mean two years after they lost a war? Yeah, very care-free