What dictators do is to erect their own monuments, and wreck the memorials of their opponents.
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2026
769 points (99.2% liked)
Showerthoughts
39117 readers
1801 users here now
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Most buildings named after people are done because they donated money for it. In most cases it's still kinda cringe.
Funding for buildings is sometimes driven by recurring donations in exchange for someone’s name on the building. These funds pay for deferred maintenance and renovations.
yeah it's cool that buildings are maintained and so on, but it's cringe to pay a bunch of money for clout. rich people basically view botting IRL
It’s similar to Kickstarter, where a certain level will get your name in the credits.
oh yeah rich people do that with movies, too! "executive producer" sometimes means "i donated to put my name here"
Trump is literally unable to see the difference. It doesn't matter if it was but there by him or someone else, the important thing is that "big thing has my name on it". He doesn't see how miserable it is, in his mind he's winning
This is a guy that wears shirts with his own name and branding on them. He's as crass as they come.
Maybe you already listened to her, but Mary Trump has insight...
Then there is Australia. Naming a swimming pool after a Prime Minister that drowned.
We love dark humour here, but he was also an avid swimmer.
Not a good one but avid.
Pity he wasn't navid.
They need to rename the maccas where scomo shit himself.
load more comments
(2 replies)
That goes for steaks as well. /s
And universities
And vodka
And bottled water
And magazines
And morality
Hoe could you forget the casino?
How could I forget about a single fuckup, in a mountain of fuckup?
No idea really
That's okay.
It is mostly possible to erase a person's legacy, at least in the physical sense. Egypt almost erased a whole-ass pharaoh from history. (Akhenaten)
Ancient Egyptians didn't have smart phones though
They might have. Archeologist never found telephone wires connecting their buildings!
/s
They had sphinxes.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Yeah just like how all of those Civil War Generals were erased from history for betraying their country for the sake of preserving slavery.
Let's be real. Americans are incapable of shame. As long as USA continues to exist, Trump's actions will be whitewashed and there will be statues of him made in the future.
Yeah just like how all of those Civil War Generals were erased from history for betraying their country for the sake of preserving slavery.
This is nowhere near an appropriate comparison to Akhenaten.
Let’s be real. Americans are incapable of shame.
The 2025 elections, where every Donald-won district from 2024 flipped, is empirical evidence to the contrary. It seems that people were on-board for a mass-deportation, but not for the targeting of legal immigrants and the military occupation of American cities.
But sure. It's your world and your algorithm. Think what you want.
You think Trump has done something worse than starting a war to preserve slavery in which about a million people died?
You have fucking slave masters carved into mountains (stolen from indigenous people during a genocidal campaign) down there FFS. Being American is all about pretending the past was some glorious thing, and believing you have real principles. It's a nation founded by hypocrisy and you feel like you have to preserve the hypocrisy because somehow that's the source of freedom and equality.
Americans only really care about wealth and power, and Trump has both. They'll be carving his face into Rushmore (ignoring any protests of the indigenous people, because fuck them right?) within a few decades. This will be to express dominance over the people that don't like Trump. A few decades after that they'll be teaching kids in school how Trump was the greatest President in history because why else would they carve his face into a mountain. American history is just a tool for control, because you're unable to question it. You worship Founding Father the same way they worship Big Brother in 1984.
You're incapable of understanding of how things really work in your country because your country demands you believe in the hypocrisy it was all founded on. Everyone knows how stupid your country is just we never told you because it would be rude like telling a child Santa Claus isn't real. But now you're not an ally. Santa Claus isn't real and Founding Father was a slave owning oppressor. Whatever rights and freedoms you had came from voting (just like everywhere else) over many years, but y'all either voted for a fascist or didn't vote at all, so you're losing all of the rights and freedoms you believed a magical piece of paper written by fucking slave masters granted to you.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
In german we have the saying "Eigenlob stinkt" which can be translated to "honouring yourself stinks" which fits perfectly here
"Eigenlob stinkt, aber man riecht's gern."
Unfortunately
Some even try to replace this names
Hmm, this sounds a lot like you're thinking of someone specific. I wonder who that could be...
There is also an escalation of this, between naming a building you own, after yourself and naming other's buildings after yourself let alone monuments
Fun fact, the hollywood walk of fame is a bought honor, you pay for it, you get it. It's not given out based on some achievement criteria
Yes and no.
You need to have +5 years of history in entertaiment business and/or in community work and somebody else needs to nominate you. Then if the commitee acepts you and you pay the sponsor fee you get the star.
But yeah. If you have lots of money and friends in right places you can pretty much buy it, but its not like any bluecollar worker can just take a loan and buy one for themself without any merit.
Its not really that different than how people get wings in hospitals or libraries named after them. Except Hollywood star does not benefit normal people in any way.
Another fun fact is that once a star is there it’s there - no mechanism to get it removed.
load more comments
(2 replies)
view more: next ›