sabersquirl

sabersquirl t1_jd92psm wrote

Tell me you haven’t been on reddit for very long without telling me. If you didn’t know, Reddit often pulls the first image from a page for the thumbnail. So if I were a betting man, I would have to guess the article isn’t specifically about Al Pacino.

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sabersquirl t1_j90rxia wrote

Reply to [Image] 🎯 by mantasmark

Sometimes how others perceive you is literally your business, as in, the trajectory of your career can depend on it.

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sabersquirl t1_j7vrfy8 wrote

Reminds me of the late Roman Empire.

Romans: Hey Germanic barbarians, if you join our military and defend us for a few decades, you and your families will receive citizenship and land to settle in!

Also the Romans after the Germans defend them for years: Soooooooooo about that whole land and citizenship thing…… How about we don’t do that, sorry guys….

The Germans: Bro we control the majority of your military. We are just going to take half your empire you little shits.

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sabersquirl t1_j0b9x4p wrote

Everyone getting mad that this soy sauce being older than the US could somehow be interpreted as if it reflected poorly on the country, when really it’s just a notable point in time to mark how old this sauce is. They are using you as a reference for how impressively old the soy sauce is, Americans, not making fun of your country for being established more recently than some other countries.

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sabersquirl t1_iqwya26 wrote

It probably won’t due much good mentioning, but her father was a King prior to Revolutions of 1848. So he was a “liberal progressive” not really in any sense that you would recognize it today, but in the sense that he thought absolute monarchs should show some considerations for their subjects as an enlightened despot. He even backtracked some of his positions after revolutionaries forces him to alter his government in 1848. Calling him a capitalist also doesn’t really make any sense, otherwise all of monarchical history and mercantilism is actually “capitalism” if you define it merely by keeping wealth of the state and family within the monarchs direct control.

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