Spoiler alert for anyone who doesn't have a passing familiarity with literature, history, or religion, but any leader who erects a gold statue of himself is never the good guy.

[mostlyharmless@thecanadian.social]

Spoiler alert for anyone who doesn't have a passing familiarity with literature, history, or religion, but any leader who erects a gold statue of himself is never the good guy.

[gordonkerry@mastodon.world]

@MostlyHarmless

Vide:

https://youtu.be/vmIcQTA1iu0

[krazov@mstdn.social]

@MostlyHarmless Really good guys go for platinum.

[marjolica@social.linux.pizza]

@MostlyHarmless good guys (as well as many bad guys) wait until they are dead before someone else thinks they are good enough, rightly or wrongly, to be memorialised with a statue, gold or otherwise.
Someone who arranges for a statue to be erected in their lifetime must be really insecure and also likely very aware that no one would erect one once they were gone.

[clolsonus@social.makerforums.info]

@MostlyHarmless “The best way to convince people you aren’t praying before a golden idol would be to not pray before a golden idol.”

[light@noc.social]

@MostlyHarmless @taylan
"It's not a golden calf! honest!"
- MAGA "christian"

[mathaetaes@infosec.exchange]

@MostlyHarmless it just gives the population something to tear down… usually right before the guillotines.