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WOAH LOOK AT THESE DANGEROUS RADICAL SOCIALISTS (infosec.pub)
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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 3 points 6 months ago

Explanation: The sculpture depicted is meant to represent the Brothers Gracchi, a couple of extremely dangerous subversives in the Late Roman Republic who drew the ire of conservatives by... [checks notes] suggesting that letting the poor starve and be reduced to slaves in their own country was a bad thing.

For this reason, both brothers were unlawfully killed by conservatives in the Senate, despite the Gracchi being sacrosanct and democratically elected officials.