"We need you to help us!"
"By raising awareness, raising the profile of protests by joining and expressing solidarity with them, engaging in legal efforts to block the administration, and introducing legislation to restrict the administration's formal power; the things that politicians and especially legislators have especial power to actually do?"
"No, we want you to take up arms and take to the streets in a way that we aren't willing to do ourselves!"
The DNC rigged the primary for Hilary and pushed Bernie out.
The "rigging" amounted to "Played favorites in signal-boosting Hillary". Which, while unfair and shitty, really does nothing to contradict the fact that Bernie lost by far more than the DNC doing signal-boosting for the right-wing cretin.
I voted and marched for Bernie in 2016. I donated at a time when I didn't really have money to donate. I still love Bernie. But we, the primary voters, failed the US; we primary voters were not prevented from casting the votes they wanted to or playing a rigged game. We, as a very distinct majority, voted for Clinton instead of Bernie. And then for Biden instead of Bernie.
At some point, one must acknowledge the voters are the core of the problem, even if the DNC deserves to be driven to live off locusts in the desert and never show their faces in civilized society again.
It also demonstrates how impotent the DNC is. They only have to wake up tomorrow, pluck the lowest hanging fruit and never shut up about it for 10 years and the GOP would crumble.
The DNC is impotent and incompetent, but they also appeal to very different demographics than the GOP. For example, only a slim majority of our party ate lead paint chips as children.
The user is a fascist apologist. I wouldn't expect too much out of them.
"Ah, I see the animation frames on that cave troll, this must be the Bakshi scene!"
We love Tadeusz Kościuszko in this house!
Explanation: During Caesar's Civil War, the Republican general Pompey escaped to Egypt after a crushing defeat in the hopes of gathering more allies against Caesar. The Egyptian King, Ptolemy XIII, decided instead to kill Pompey, in the hopes of garnering support from the increasingly-powerful Caesar, who seemed poised to win the civil war. When Caesar came seeking Pompey, Ptolemy presented Caesar with Pompey's severed head.
This was a massive miscalculation on several levels.
First, Caesar had a policy of extremely generous mercy towards his opponents in the civil war - he wanted to avoid appearing as a tyrant, and pardoned almost all of his enemies without preconditions, not even a pledge of support. This was an extremely powerful tool to exercise, as it made resisting Caesar less appealing than surrendering - if you lose nothing by surrender, not even your honor, and your cause appears hopeless... why not? By killing Pompey, Caesar was robbed of the opportunity to grant his most powerful enemy - both practically and politically - mercy, which would have been a massive PR coup.
Second, the Romans generally frowned on others dealing out justice (or 'justice') to Roman citizens. Roman citizens acknowledged only the authority of the Republic over them, not foreigners! While some of this posturing is just that - posturing - Roman citizens who had been mistreated by foreign rulers, or even treated fairly-but-harshly, were often the centers of calls for retribution - whether legal or military - upon those who punished them. For Pompey, a member of the Senate and consul, one of the two highest-ranking officials of the Republic, to be murdered by a king he came to with a hand opened in friendship, asking for help? That was deeply offensive to Roman norms - and perhaps more dangerously, Roman pride.
Third, Caesar and Pompey were old allies, going back decades - while some of the rhetoric between them is buried in Roman cultural norms and the forked-tongue statements typical of politicians, it's often considered that there was some amount of genuine goodwill between the two men, even if their ambitions (and egos) led them to opposite sides of a war. They may even have genuinely been friends, at one point. To see a man he may have genuinely liked, had known for years, had worked with closely, and certainly wished to pardon from death or even dishonor or loss of property, served to him as a severed head? That undoubtedly provoked some strong emotions.
For those reasons, Ptolemy's gift was... not well-received by Caesar.
Latin words have so many declensions, it's nightmarish.
Explanation: A rare bit of OC from me modifying the "Just as the Founding Fathers intended" copypasta.
"Mehercules" is "By Hercules!", a common Roman exclamation. A gladius is a Roman shortsword, made for stabbing, but as incidents against Greek troops demonstrate, also very capable of lopping off limbs with hacks and slashes. A pilum is a javelin. "Ubi mel, ibi apes" means "Where there's honey, there's bees!" A scorpio is a small artillery piece generally used for firing bolts, but sometimes used for specialist ammunition like pots filled with flammable material. Vigiles were Roman town watch/firefighters, and in the city of Rome itself, they actually did maintain some catapults for the purpose of quickly demolishing burning buildings in especially fire-prone areas. Better to lose one building than the whole block! A pugio is a Roman military dagger.
"Conscript Fathers" is another name for the Roman Senate, as the idea was that the Senate was comprised of men who were elderly (and thus the fathers in their household) and regardless of whether or not they willed it. In theory. In practice, becoming a Senator was pretty highly desired, but the Romans did love their false modesty regarding power. "No, no, I couldn't POSSIBLY accept a position of authority... unless... you were to insist... 👉👈🥺"
Unironically, while cursive is not very useful in the modern day and I always hated both using and reading it, calligraphy is a beautiful and largely lost art in the general population.