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PATRICK

(12,315 posts)
2. Nero was popular too among the masses
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 09:37 AM
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He erected this huge statue which gave the citizens a really fun object to destroy when they finally got up the nerve to suicide him. Probably not as popular in Rome after the fire and Christian barbeque, I suppose.

C_U_L8R

(48,362 posts)
8. He has absolutely nothing better to do.
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 10:13 AM
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Tinyhands Donald is obsessed with furiously wanking to his own reflection.

Raftergirl

(1,726 posts)
9. The next D president can just tear it down, because that is a thing a President can do now.
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 11:00 AM
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Codifer

(1,112 posts)
10. Um... sir,
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 11:00 AM
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Ozymandias
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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