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silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours ago

Trump Admin Drops the Olive Branch from U.S. Seal on New Dime Coins, Keeps the Arrows

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Trump Admin Drops the Olive Branch from U.S. Seal on New Dime Coins, Keeps the Arrows

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silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours ago
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    Christ, I thought this was an Onion headline at first.

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    The bird looking at it’s empty foot like it left home without its wallet again

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      It’s looking for its Florsheim shoe that used to be there. It was a couple of sizes too big, so it fell off during flight.

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    Before:

    After, and only available for 2026:

    In other news, the Treasury is drafting a new $1 coin with the fuck-knuckle on both sides

    Drafted image (WIP)

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      The latter is literally illegal, and has been since 1866. No portraits or likeness of a living person may be put on US currency, bonds, or securities. For very good reason.

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        Maybe the treasury knows something that we don’t?

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        When has the law ever stopped these shit stains?

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      Besides being illegal, that is not a very wise thing to do. Given enough time, the majority of those coins in circulation are going to be defaced. Of course, you’d have to be looney to use a coin for a dollar in the first place, but what do I know, eh?

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      A laser cutter could etch “TRAITOR” across his face in bulk

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        I’d like to find something anti-Donvict to stamp on all my paper money so it circulates with that on there.

        Any ideas?

        How much does a laser cutter cost?

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          Never done metal, but it looks like what people like for it is called a “fiber laser”

          They seem to go for about $1400 but have not shopped around or tried to pick up a used one

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      I will happily throw these in the trash where they belong if I ever come across them.

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      Ew

  • KelvarCherry [They/Them]@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    Can’t believe the USA fell to such insufferable edgelords. Just kill me already please.

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    https://youtu.be/f9aM_dT5VMI

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    Literal warhawk on the dime.

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      War eagle. It’s a nod to wartime Colonel insignia, during war the eagle faces the arrows during peace it faces the olive branch.

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        It doesn’t change directions during war. It always faces the olive branch, to show a commitment to uphold peace during peacetime, and a hope to return to peace during wartime. But the arrows are always held, as a symbol of the capacity for force when necessary. Maybe it used to switch sides? But it has always faced the olive branch since at least the end of WW2.

        That “it has always faced the branch” thing is a large part of why the branch being absent is so jarring. Now it’s just facing… An empty foot? And it is extremely concerning, because it shows a marked shift in imagery from the regime. They’re not just posting dog whistles and pretending they don’t know… They’re actively abandoning established symbolic images in favor of more aggressive ones.

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          The bird looks confused now, just liking at an empty talon

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          It doesn’t now, it did you until iirc like 1960ish. One shoulder would have peace the other would face war, during war a few manufacturers made sets that only faced war hence war eagles.

          It has not “always” faced the branch. Literally 30 seconds of Google or Bing or whatever will tell you that much at least it’s not true.

          • 1951 https://web.archive.org/web/20250603093028/https://tioh.army.mil/Catalog/Heraldry.aspx?HeraldryId=15688&CategoryId=9170&grp=2&menu=Uniformed+Services&ps=24&p=0

          You may have meant since but “always” is simply inaccurate.

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        It’s not changed during war or peace.

        It carries arrows to show readiness for war and faces the olive branch to show a preference for peace, since it was modified by Truman in 1945.

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          1951 and they are no longer approved for use yet they are still called war eagles and that’s what they’re evoking.

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    Jesus, what edgelords.

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    They’re like little boys only with real instead of toy guns.

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      Even worse.

      Their toy soldiers are real people. Most people know someone somehow that’s in the military

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    Kill em all.

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