Political Memes

"E pluribus unum" = “Out of many, one."

I myself prefer E Pleribus Anus

Also has a secondary interpretation: out of the many countries in the world, one of them. Putting the US on equal footing with the nations of old — despite not having a king with a divine right to sovereignty.

I like this interpretation because anno 2024 it also counterweights US exceptionalism.

Not American, but here's my 0.02 euros:

The strength of the country was always in its' diversity and the fact that motivated people came together to build better lives.

Nowadays there are people who hate the former and in terms of the latter, immigration is pretty hard and the H-1B is a lottery that unfortunately favors sweatshops (and yes, I'm salty because I'm a software engineer with no formal education so y'all don't want me).

I get that there are legitimate reasons for limiting migration (your own people do want to work too, of course), but it does also limit economic growth and influx of different cultures.

Being from a small country in the EU that nobody's heard of, the EU and its' open borders are sorta doing the same to us now: Don't get me wrong, it's still primarily other white people migrating here, but at least they're people of slightly different cultures, with different experiences. It benefits everyone because we all have something to learn from one another.

And then there was Thomas Payne, who was as close to an overt atheist as you could get in the 18th century without having someone come up behind you and slit your throat.

There's also a long list of great quotes here from the founders-

https://liberalamerica.org/2014/10/27/88-founding-father-quotes-that-will-enrage-the-religious-right/

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

-- John Adams

And he was one of the more religious ones.

one nation, mind your business, indivisible...

that shit always pissed me off so much

The pledge of allegiance (to a literal flag no less) is really weird. But, the enweirdening was enhanced in the 1950s when the government added "under god" to make the difference from the commies more clear.

And the national bird a turkey instead of an eagle.

r/NoFap is going to wage a protest!

Note that Mr. Franklin’s motto meant “Get your shit done” rather than today’s interpretation of “Get the fuck out of my face.”

I could be dead wrong, but I actually get the impression this wasn't really meant in the modern colloquial sense of keeping your nose out of other people's affairs, and more in the literal sense of keep on top of your business dealings. Which would make sense, since it was to be printed on money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugio_cent

Benjamin Franklin distributed a book containing basic first aid, which included which herbs can be used to "restore the menses."

Thats an old timey way of saying inducing an abortion. So you're not that far off from what Republicans would say about him if they were actually educated.

He was later anti-slavery so yes, many would consider him radical even by today's standards (think of how people feel about prison reform, ask people how they'd fix homelessness or mental health crises, and you'll see a shocking amount of people are 100% fine with slavery)

Sorry but how does that help us virtue signal about how we aren't godless commies?

Or E pluribus anus

They stole your hyphen, too!