On the third hand, not doing adventurism hasn’t achieved much either
I’m a free man on the land: Drake ✋
The USSR was illegally dissolved and continues to this day: Drake ☺️
Being that openly racist was mainstream as all hell in 60s, 70s, and barely tamed in the 80s and 90s - and even then only replaced by euphemisms like “urban single mothers” etc.
The one or two decades in which it was impolite to be overtly racist were the exception.
What annoys me is that probably some uncle wanted to know exactly how related to “the old country” he was and now a 50% DNA match to me just got sold.
Historically accurate for almost all societies though.
It’s a tragedy that so often cancer strikes the young and sometimes it’s a tragedy when it instead strikes them when they’re old
Imagine a world where china cures cancer look of visible disgust or ends poverty for all its citizens… this could soon be reality and that’s a threat to our national security. We must ensure china does not cure cancer now as a matter of urgency.
It doesn’t matter that the symbol is old.
It was fascist even in Roman times.
The sticks are to beat people who get in the way of the consul, who was necessarily a member of the elite owner class.
At no point was it not an expression of the wealthy using violence to control the plebs. Of imperial state power.