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An easy pick for me but it captures the last decade so well. Lincoln looking at the noose/halo is what sends this one over from being just a funny picture into being genuine art. It should be in a gallery. It should be in the entryway to the White House.

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[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Different era tbh. It's as far away from now as the 80s was to them.

[–] CA0311@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

the sad thing is that despite this being ages ago, and from a different era, maybe even a different zeitgeist, it still was definitive in shaping the current era.

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

history do be working like that

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago
  • Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. 1852
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