America in the 2010s is the new Iran in the 1970s.
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taken over by religious radicals.
Stripping away rights from women
Regime changed by oil interests
Pictured: A brave US army patriot, personally wading out into the reflecting pool to strangle a trespassing radical leftist
Like Iran in the 70s
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 control.
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.
Most of these pictures that show Iran before the revolution also show upper class citizens. The most people, especially outside the big cities, lived in relative poverty. So it is like showing pictures of the Russian aristocracy before the revolution to show how good people had it under the Tsar.
Don't get me wrong, I'm in no way shape or form a fan of the Ajatollah regime but the picture is more complex and nuanced then many people think and just showing two pictures from before the revolution and now are misleading at best.
So, sort of like Washington D.C. urbanities and tourists vs. much of the overflight country.
Hell, DC in the tourist sense is only a small part of the city. You could just as easily make the companion to the Capitol area vs some neighborhood in the north part of the city.
the general populous never learns anything, like ever. only time they do is when mass violence and chaos happens and then even sometime they forget. and no, you and i are not above making this mistake either.
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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...
Germany in the 1920s
You mean two years after they lost a war? Yeah, very care-free
Guy riding a fucking bike into it, the old pool somehow lasted through that attack
He was actually getting the bike out of it. Its acutally where all bikes came from before 1992 and bull clintnn.
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.
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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.
Some non-wealthy people live close enough to visit whenever though (source: I live in the suburbs of dc)
this is clearly not true. look at the picture!
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.
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 at some point in our lives, but visiting DC is definitely an upper-middle class vacation unless you happen to live in a nearby state already.
Downside of the cost of living and size of the country. You actually are very lucky if you can travel.
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It's at least 3000 miles from the West Coast to the capital. Unless you're Russian, it's hard to compare
Canada. China. Point still stands ;)
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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.
Time is a flat circle that consists of only about 100 years.
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Fascists don’t do revolutions, they do coups or takeovers. Revolutions advance society, fascists only regress it.
it's a joke about a similar picture about Iran
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You can just walk in it?
You can, but these days you can only do it once.
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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.
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Hold on. It used to be... blue?!
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.
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.
It has changed over the years, but was bare concrete when dumbass decided to ruin it because he doesn't understand anything.
I had visited it well before it was changed to concrete so I checked wikipedia for the dates.
The pool was originally built with a bottom of asphalt and tile, and was supplied from the city's drinking water supply. Starting in 2009, the bottom was replaced with concrete slabs supported by timber pilings,and was supplied with a system of circulating water from the Tidal Basin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial_Reflecting_Pool
The sky, yes.
You could say that it was showing a reflection of the sky.
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