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    6 days ago

    Tell me with a straight face that any socialist country has a bigger cult of personality than the US “founding fathers”.

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      This shit have Washington as some kind of Zeus, presiding over the American-Roman pantheon and to disperse any doubts the entire fresco is even straight up called The Apotheosis of Washington

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        Imagine mass exterminating indigenous people, stealing their land, carving your leaders heads into the side of a mountain to desecrate their sacred religious site, then turning around and accusing other countries of having an unhealthy fixation with their leaders.