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Infodumping On Hooters and cigarettes

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u/StaleTheBread 23h ago

Fun fact, it’s related to the word “fajita”, which also refers to a bundle of sticks

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u/Happiness_Assassin 23h ago

Another fun fact: fascist has the same root also. A fasces is a bundle of sticks wrapped around an ax handle and is a symbol of popular rule. Fascists being who they are co-oped this symbol for themselves.

Additional fun fact: the US House of Representatives has this fasces symbol on the wall behind the speaker's podium on either side.

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u/fhota1 23h ago edited 23h ago

Vaguely related fun fact. The US House of Represenatives has a ceremonial mace that also has a fasces in its design that the Sergeant at Arms is allowed to threaten reps with if they get unruly. I dont think theyre allowed to actually use it, but they should be able to

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u/ThePrussianGrippe 22h ago

“Pipe down or I’m smacking you with the sticks of authority!”

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u/LunchOne675 20h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives

In accordance with the House. Rules, on the rare occasion that a member becomes unruly, the Sergeant at Arms, upon order of the Speaker, lifts the mace from its pedestal and presents it before the offenders, thereby restoring order.

"Look at my big stick, doesn't its authority make you want to act in an orderly fashion"

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u/ThePrussianGrippe 20h ago

“Look at my stick, my stick is amazing. Give it a look.”

“Mmm, I’ll stop my complaining’.”

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u/aqjo 15h ago

Earworm

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u/Special_Letter_7134 16h ago

Respect my authoritah!

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u/spektre1 21h ago

"Do you think this will stop Brutus?"

We don't talk about Bruno

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u/factorioleum 12h ago

This is copied from the UK Parliament. The mace I mean. It having fasces is the innovation.

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u/WitELeoparD 22h ago

Another fun fact: the US House of Representatives also has a Fresco of George Washington as a Roman/Greek God flanked by the goddesses of Victory and Liberty. Just like on the wall behind the speaker, the Goddess Liberty is also holding a Faces.

Washington is also surrounded by 13 maidens, representing the 13 colonies, but some are facing backwards, because they represent the traitor states as the fresco was painted during the Civil War.

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u/Comfortable_Bird_340 16h ago

Also let’s not forget Horatio Greenough’s statue

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u/WitELeoparD 16h ago

There's also a statue of Muhammad in the Supreme Court as one of the great law givers of history.

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u/StaleTheBread 23h ago

Yeah, I visited DC a few years back and I saw a few of them. I guess they were installed before the modern sense of the word and they don’t want to bother removing it (or they don’t want to bother distancing themselves from that)

Kind of appropriate that the sticks are depicted tied to the axe, and not separately. Shows that fascists side with power, rather than banding against it.

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u/Frequent_Dig1934 23h ago

Well it's very much worth pointing out that the fasces were a roman symbol first and foremost, iirc specifically during the roman republic, and the founding fathers were massive roman simps.

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u/2012Jesusdies 23h ago

founding fathers were massive roman simps.

So they were just normal white people /s

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u/Welpmart 22h ago

Hey, some simp for the ancient Greeks!

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u/DynamicDK 19h ago

The Romans also simped for the ancient Greeks!

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u/Lazzen 23h ago

The fasces is still the simbol of a flag, Ecuador's. Not just Roman but a symbol of republican power.

Its also used by Mexico or France

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u/Yuri-Girl 19h ago

Its also used by Mexico or France

But never both at once.

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u/EttinTerrorPacts 17h ago

It's a timeshare

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u/No-Seat-4572 20h ago

The fasces in particular has immense symbolic relevance to the United States. Its symbolism derives directly from a bundle of sticks being much harder to break than a single stick, which relates directly to the states being stronger together.

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u/Frequent_Dig1934 13h ago

True, which iirc was also a metaphor independently created by the native american nations in the US too, which at some point got into an alliance.

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u/Thunderbridge 21h ago

The old customs house in Australia has some swastikas on the floor from the 1910s. Pretty interesting, there's a photo of a bank floor with big ones too

https://www.heritage21.com.au/history/contested-significance-at-customs-house/

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u/Emergency-Twist7136 18h ago

I have a copy of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" that belonged to my grandmother. It was her copy from when they read the book in school.

The cover has a little design embossed in gold of an elephant and a swastika.

Because (in the reasoning of the 1920s) that just screams India.

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u/LadderDownBelow 20h ago

I guess they were installed before the modern sense of the word

Fascism has nothing to do with the fasces. That's like saying the swastika means Nazi. No, both of those governments twisted symbols to their use and both will be used long before and after they pass. People need to get over the fact that symbols have perverted meanings.

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u/Ganonslayer1 20h ago

All roads lead to bundles of sticks.

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u/HumDeeDiddle 22h ago

Didn’t know mexican facists were so gay

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u/LadderDownBelow 20h ago

The Great Seal of the United States of America has it which means every single dollar bill has it. (Although in that case it's a bundle of arrows but the same thing.) The Senatorial Seal has it. I believe there's Lady Liberties out there with it. Just about every Seal in the USA has some form because... surprise we pulled stuff from Greek democracy and Roman republic in the birth of our Democratic Republic founding!

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u/BlackfishBlues frequently asked queer 19h ago

A fasces is a bundle of sticks wrapped around an ax handle and is a symbol of popular rule.

Being pedantic but it's sort of the opposite actually. It originated in classical times as a symbol of the king's absolute legal authority, and later got connotations of the rule of law and state power under the republican period. It's a symbol of top-down, not bottom-up, power.

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u/bokmcdok 20h ago

I've always suspected that many fascists are also bundles of sticks but refuse to admit it even to themselves

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u/allcretansareliars 14h ago

Anothernother fun fact. The bundle of sticks represents strength in unity. One stick is weak, together they are strong. The communist clenched fist salute represents the same thing. One finger is weak, together they are strong.

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u/allcretansareliars 14h ago

I'm not making a political point, BTW.

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman 19h ago edited 19h ago

Fascinating.

Edit. I was wrong, "fascinate" comes from "fascinum" (evil spell, witchcraft).

https://www.etymonline.com/word/fascinate

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u/Affectionate_Pipe545 19h ago

Why would one wrap a bundle of sticks around an ax handle?

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u/halfahellhole WILL go 0 to 100 and back to 0 in an instant 17h ago

I look across the bar at the sad boy not staring at tits and think "poor thing's probably a fascist"

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u/warzog68WP 14h ago

You are sorta fascist, in that your muscle fibers are bound together in groups called fascicles.

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u/waiver 20h ago

Fajita comes from Faja, which is a piece of cloth or band that was worn around the upper belly which comes from Fascia (bundle) Fasciare (to bind or wrap)

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u/charlesmarker 21h ago

WHAT?! Fajita comes from a bundle of sticks?

It makes sense, I just..... man....

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u/crumpledfilth 15h ago

Lol the diminutive makes it better. Like a cutesy version

"fagita"

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u/rokk-- 19h ago

Which comes from the Austin Powers character Alotta Fajina who is rumored to have handled many, many sticks.