• pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Mar-a-lago is on track to become the next Versailles. When he hoards enough, the people will go in and reclaim it.

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      8 days ago

      It already basically IS the next Versailles. Versailles was built as a huge, ostentatious show of wealth and power over the aristocracy, so Louis XIV could show that he held all the power. By making all these fancy nobles drag their asses out to the middle of nowhere (at the time - the city effectively grew up to support the palace) and stay there for weeks or months at a time, often without proper accommodations (quite literally you would set up camp in the gardens or wherever you thought you could get away with it - if you stayed in the palace proper, you were quite high in status), you flexed serious power over them, especially when they felt they NEEDED to attend all these balls and galas and symposiums and concerts that were constantly happening there so you could stay in the King’s favor.

      Any of this sounding familiar?

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      it’s all distractions from other distractions.

      how is that bumbling fool get to exist doing endless cockups and somehow ending on top

    • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works
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      9 days ago

      If you are always doing things that need distractions and are distractions it’s just one big lul amirite?

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      7 days ago

      This person thinks the FIFA organization operates a video game development studio.

      The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, more commonly known by its acronym FIFA, is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal.

      FIFA is a defunct football simulation video game franchise developed by EA Vancouver and EA Romania and published by EA Sports.