I swear if Stalin had had Photoshop, the Soviets would rule the world by now dysfunction and all.
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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So if I’m a twenty-first century toglodyte of probable African later Caucasian root, can I get a Photoshopped image too? Or maybe I’m just expected to make my own and hide it?
Hey! A thief took the “r” from troglodyte!
Is there some reason we should care what these idiots think? What is photoshopped?
(assuming that ML’s question above is genuine)
The picture is almost certainly fake news ML.
Somebody used a program called Photoshop (or something like it) to put that message on the T shirt. Heck, they may have added to T-shirt too, or even assembled the entire photo from stolen bits and pieces. These days you literally can’t believe your eyes, and a picture is no longer necessarily worth even a few words.
Plus you’d never get those two to pose with that sign.
ML, most of the photo may be real (the Obama whitehouse apparently had a running in-joke about white t-shirts) but the phrase has been added. “It’s okay to be white” has been plastered across dozens of cities and college campuses this last week, reportedly as part of a 4chan “proof of concept” for the theory that they would be interpreted as white supremacist.
Which of course they immediately were.
Which doesn’t make the statement any less true.
It would be funny if the halfrican American finally appreciated his non-black side, but, yeah, that will never happen.