• Pika@sh.itjust.works
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    7 minutes ago

    Oh you poor soul, it’s not only that, they are likely going to tear down any monuments or rename them when you are gone as well.

    I see no route where regardless of party who gets in in 2028 is going to keep any of the names either, like “Lake America” and “Gulf of America”, it’s such an insult to the rest of the world anyone running would decide against it and without any real opposition against tearing down the existing monuments made, I don’t see any real blockers.

    I do think that they are likely right that the ballroom or whatever it ends up actually being will stay, but everything else? I firmly expect won’t be.

  • jrTug_2T@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 minute ago

    To paraphrase a great skit by a comedian I later lost a lot of respect for:

    ♪ Yo’ plot-ty ♪ Yo’ plot-ty ♪ Is a Port-A-Potty

  • JohnnyMac@lemmy.world
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    I met a traveller from an antique land

    Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

    Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,

    Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

    And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

    Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

    The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:

    And on the pedestal these words appear:

    "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

    Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

    Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

    The lone and level sands stretch far away.

    - Percy Shelley, “Ozymandias”

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    1 hour ago

    I’d gladly donate to a trump memorial provided he puts it to use immediately. Big ol gaudy headstone, gold leaf, Jesus statue, the works.

  • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    If you need to build a monument to yourself, you don’t deserve a monument. Building a monument to yourself is like giving yourself a plaque for a lifetime achievement award. It means a lot if you receive it from an organization representing your profession. It means nothing if you just have a plaque made and put it in your wall.

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    3 hours ago

    We hope his name will vanish asap but many will have shrines to him, indoctrinated.


    Misinformation,

    Childlike common clay masses,

    Like free heroin

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    Oh, come on. We need something to piss and defecate on.

    Well, actually… His grave will suffice. But like, imagine the lines everyone.