Monday, August 11, 2025

"Come, Comrades, Rise Up!"

The moment I saw this cloud blocking the Sun I was reminded of rabble-rousing and Revolutions (amusingly enough, the bough at the bottom right seems to be echoing the cloud's "gesture").

"Arise, (set to the sound of *'l'internationale' playing in the background) ye sad victims of oppression!  Rise up in your righteous anger and furiously destroy all vestiges of whatever is wonderful that you've been denied!  The _____ (fill in the blank) did it under ____!  Why can't we ____ have our own Cultural Revolution and its natural fruit and reward, the Great Leap Forward?!"

*Traditional anthem of self-claimed communists and socialists, that few of them have ever even heard of today

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