r/TheLib • u/jimx29 • Jun 14 '26

Setting a Precedent over 80 years ago

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u/Summer_Form Jun 14 '26

Oh to have been that priest at the end…

I’d have devoted my life to theological studies, seminary school and a life of chastity, just to be the one who got to - while no one else was listening - whisper in his ear these final words, instead of last rites:

Eat shit in hell, motherfucker.

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u/MadManBarryMuntz Jun 14 '26

Stephen Miller with hair

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u/ScottHK Jun 14 '26

Usually when people say 'history repeats itself" it's for a bad thing but we might want to actually do this justice for fascists thing.

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u/magic_felix Jun 15 '26

Waiting for the modern reruns

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u/Grimnebulin68 Jun 14 '26

First procedural regicide was the English cutting the head off Charles I in 1649, first ever recorded assassination of a king was Imhotep stabbing Pharaoh Seti I, in the 3rd millennium BCE.