An easy pick for me but it captures the last decade so well. Lincoln looking at the noose/halo is what sends this one over from being just a funny picture into being genuine art. It should be in a gallery. It should be in the entryway to the White House.

  • Poogona [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    Plenty of these are funny but this one hits

    Seeing that precinct building on fire legitimately radicalized me. Snapped me back into wakefulness in a way, like suddenly I remembered that historical moments are indeed happening in the world I live in. I’d been feeling resigned to the idea that the misery in America is too calcified to do anything other than continue growing, and then FWOOSH a good old-fashioned fire comes along to make the world feel alive to me again