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Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!
Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.
Generally speaking, ruins should go to !historyruins@lemmy.world
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Right. Wasn’t that "in god we trust" bullshit forced onto us in the 1950s?
It was, along with “one nation under God.”
I love how they went mask-off and divided “one nation indivisible“ with “under god”
If you pay really close attention in Christmas Vacation the woman who says the pledge doesn’t say “under god” because she didn’t learn it that way.
And, in true Cold War fashion, please ignore that the author of the original Pledge of Allegiance was an American socialist.
A lot of nationalistic bullshit got forced on us by knee-jerk reactionaries. We dropped the Bellamy salute thankfully, and I think you can understand why it got replaced in 1942…
Some coinage started having it in the mid 1800s for similar political reasons, not against communists but against the heathens (which started as the Union against the Confederates, but then could be expanded to whomever was "against the nation". Some proponents wanted it even more religious.