• @[email protected]
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      2416 days ago

      It was completed in 1941?! That’s so much farther back than I would have expected based on the pose. Men weren’t sexy in the 1940’s, they just said “swell” and all had those thick black glasses.

      • @ayyy
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        5216 days ago

        I love how every generation thinks they’re the first one to discover sex. Like, how do you think you got here?

      • @[email protected]
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        1415 days ago

        What? Men weren’t sexy?

        My great aunt had photos up of my late great uncle doing pushups on a railroad track, in short shorts, with her sitting on his back. I can’t remember if the pictures was from before he went to war or after.

        They did wear those high pants and dressed more formally, but it was because they had less clothes.

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          Well, it was completed in 1941 while the US was still strongly isolationist. We didn’t enter WW2 until after the attack on Pearl Harbor, which was December 7th.

          So yeah, there was a world war going on, but the statue was planned and completed while it was largely “business as usual” in the US.

    • @jballs
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      Lol that sounds like some North Korean levels of propaganda.

        • @jballs
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          815 days ago

          And built like he was made out of concrete.

      • @[email protected]
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        1416 days ago

        Theo Roosevelt boxed a shit ton of people as well until he went blind in one eye from a punch from one of his staff if I remember correctly. Gave a pretty long speech after being shot in the torso and had the foresight to make sure they didn’t kill the shooter. Tough guy. Lots of horse riding and outdoors in his life.

        • @zalgotext
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          815 days ago

          I don’t know how true this is, but I’ve read he had asthma as a kid, but self-medicated by climbing mountains

      • @[email protected]
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        915 days ago

        Bro used to wrestle bears. He was a not great lawyer, he was however an amazing athlete by all acvounts. Marfans and possible heds is a weird combo (trust me) you’ve got leverage and undue flexibility, add some strength and you basically have a gimped octopus.

  • @[email protected]
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    2716 days ago

    We have historical Records where Abe describes himself as ‘Ugly’, this statue seems historically inaccurate.

    • @[email protected]
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      716 days ago

      Americans have made their politics into a mythology and lincoln is basically their jesus. As it turns out not exactly jesus, but you get the point.

    • @[email protected]
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      115 days ago

      Just sexy reasons.

      Also its about time they commission the same for Trumpet (that was autocorrect, but Im not changing it).

    • @[email protected]
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      1016 days ago

      I thought it looked like him too, but alas, no. Would be funny if every governer had almost naked statues of themselves as just a thing Californians do. Not even realistic ones, although Arnold in his prime would look straight up classic.

  • @[email protected]
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    1815 days ago

    I see you’ve found Abe Lincoln’s pre-electricity attempt at an Instagram account… or is that his OnlyFans?

  • lemmyviking
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    815 days ago

    His thumb in his pants. I feel like I’ve seen Abe (not shirtless) posing this way before. It looks familiar.

    Or it’s just because I dated a guy that would lean back like that.