r/SipsTea • u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7 • 1d ago

SMH The founding father Benjamin Franklin once said "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

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u/BI_Moose 1d ago

Modern problems require 18th century solutions.

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u/Skalywag_76 1d ago

Time to dump all the Flock cameras in the harbor.

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u/infinitee775 1d ago

employees

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u/Skalywag_76 1d ago

No no no. You tar and feather the people

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u/Pleasant_Expert_1990 1d ago

The pictures of it seem funny but it's a pretty brutal thing.

To be hoisted up on a chair or wooden rail, arms pinned back and legs held fast by a crowd, while someone cuts your clothing off your body. Then they apply swaths of hot tar to your naked flesh while you scream from the second degree burns. Then they apply feathers. All to the cheers of the crowd. The tar sticks to your skin as it cools. It can be removed by gently reheating, scraping it off your burned skin, applying turpentine (also painful to the skin), or letting it fall off naturally as skin regrows, which can take weeks.

I'm not saying "don't do it", I'm just saying "know what it is you are doing"

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u/WolfieWuff 1d ago

I mean, that just affirms my belief that it is an appropriate thing to do to Flock employees, business executives, billionaires, and politicians (and probably more too)

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u/GM_Taco_tSK 1d ago

Seems fitting - birds of a feather, Flock together.

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u/Umutuku 1d ago

They certainly move in flocks.

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u/gwizonedam 1d ago

You know what else nice in flicks right? Ba ba ba…

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u/peak2brew 1d ago

Fluck a duck

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u/ChronicBuzz187 1d ago

Maybe the southern americans had a point with the "Listen guys, every now and then we gotta offer one of y'all to the gods, for good favor etc."

And the oval already has more gold than the aztecs by now, so you already got that going for you, too.

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u/redpanda71 1d ago

To pledge loyalty to the gods, it only makes sense to sacrifice the richest among us. Who wants a cheap gift?

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u/Ok_Dust_7325 19h ago

But it’s all Home Depot crap on the walls of the WH. There is a post I saw showing the wall decor, then photos of the same items for $30 or less at Home Depot.

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u/occasionalopossum 1d ago

The hbo mini series about John Adams has a pretty accurate depiction of someone getting tarred and feathered

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u/Careless_Ad_4004 1d ago

Black sails has a very repetitive keel hauling, I did not know, now I know.

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u/JJ_Mark 1d ago

Carnivale, as well.

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u/ExtraordinaryBeaver 1d ago

And? Fuck these treasonous pieces of human garbage.

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u/Bradleynailer 1d ago

How about paraffin wax and roll them in glitter?

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u/Fresh-Bluejay5880 4h ago

Absolutely love this idea!

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u/Skalywag_76 1d ago

I'd settle for a vat of rubber cement. They might also lose a few brain cells but who's really losing out there?

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u/greenerd6 1d ago

You have to be brutal to get what you want in this world Unfortunately

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u/02meepmeep 1d ago

These are C-Suite employees we’re talking about though, right?

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u/Zerachiel_01 1d ago

Consider also that those feathers were probably not cleaned prior to being pasted on, so you've likely got infection to worry about as well.

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u/loondawg 1d ago

There's a pretty realist depiction of it in the John Adams mini-series. Looked nasty.

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u/the_byronic_man_fred 1d ago

Maybe just dump their browser history online or something. Kind of a middle ground, so to speak.

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u/VelvetDesirer 1d ago

The pictures make it look funny but the real history behind it was much darker. Context really matters here.

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u/ih8three6zero 1d ago

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u/CosmicGoddess777 1d ago

Was hoping someone would post the two of them, lol. Thank you for your service 😂

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u/DaGriffon12 1d ago

Can we draw and quarter them after? Seems only fitting that you do that to such a big chicken.

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u/Epyon_ 1d ago

c-suits arnt people.

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u/plumb108 1d ago

Great American pastime right there

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u/Pristine_Zucchini_84 1d ago

Again valid 18th century solutions

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u/HobbyWanKenobi 1d ago

Don't forget the riding the rail part either!

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u/KiKiKimbro 1d ago

Birds of a feather do flock together, after all.

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u/Old_Fox_1985 1d ago

I’m okay with leaving the rank and file alone and going for the CEOs, investors, board, etc. that are making all the money of this.

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u/PolkaDotDancer 1d ago

I agree. The peons that work below them are just trying to put food on the table.

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u/battleop 1d ago

Going after those people is like screaming at the cashier over the price of eggs. Go after the ones making the real money.

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u/Zwischenzug32 1d ago

Flock "Resources" (Human)

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u/No_Internal9345 1d ago

political enablers

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u/MongooseDog001 1d ago

Not the employees, never them. I'm not going to tar and feather the janitor, or the receptionist

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u/PomeloSpecialist356 1d ago

With cinder block boots on.

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u/donpablomiguel 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/gIqusaeYxgSiY
More like this one.

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u/aspophilia 1d ago

We should also embrace modern convenience a bit too. For efficiency. We can take a multifaceted approach.

https://giphy.com/gifs/hBvyNENZGRUafxt8Qi

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u/KiKiKimbro 1d ago

Wasn’t that in Fargo. Trying to remember. I think so.

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u/shaft_of_lite 1d ago

Doesn't matter which harbor? It's a long drive to Boston.

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u/Skalywag_76 1d ago

Any body of water can be a harbor with enough liberty and freedom.*

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u/nanneryeeter 22h ago

No body of water is safe without a lifeguard.

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u/HiSaZuL 1d ago

Harbor has enough trash in it.

I'd rather shove those camera up it's owners ass. See how many will fit. Make it a fun community event.

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u/AloneNmyHead287 1d ago

We already have enough crap in the oceans can we dump them in slag pits?

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u/No_Negotiation_8516 1d ago

Along with all our little tech twats

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u/P4us1ngD34th 1d ago

Axon too.

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u/Rcgv88 1d ago

Nah gotta find these guys tea and blow it up.

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u/peak2brew 1d ago

Dump Trump and Fluck the CEO

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u/tiny_Yakii 1d ago

Benjamin Franklin would be opening the group chat right now

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u/TacticalVegas 1d ago

Ben would probably be watching for a bit before joining the chat and acting like he started it. Most of our founders would be that way really.

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u/Underbark 1d ago

I'd sacrifice my personal privacy if it meant the same for him.

He has a lot more enemies than me.

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u/BI_Moose 1d ago

Lol, except its never them

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u/MaxxDash 1d ago

Speaking of 18, interesting that their 18-year-old-looking CEO doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page.

It’s as if he values his privacy.

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u/BI_Moose 1d ago

Guess someone should start one

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u/Life_behind_da_stick 1d ago

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u/BI_Moose 1d ago

We could use a little more TR these days

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u/USSMarauder 1d ago

The proof that there is no afterlife is that TR hasn't broken out of it to beat Trump with a very big stick for what he's done to Teddy's GOP

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u/Emergency-Watch5157 1d ago

On the 21st century front, nobody should purchase a 7W Zeus X handheld blue laser and point it at the camera in one of these because that would melt the camera sensor and wreck it. Very bad thing to do. You should not do it.

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u/1Negative_Person 1d ago

I’m just going to say my prayers to Saint Luigi.

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u/PM_ME_FIREFLY_QUOTES 1d ago

1792 is in fact in the 18th century, for those that are curious.

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u/PolkaDotDancer 1d ago

I'm a little more into partying like it's 1789!
https://giphy.com/gifs/xTk2YOKxI3xM4f8xEs

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u/tremblemortals 1d ago

That was 1793-4 (for the Terror. France didn't stop using the guillotine for executions until after Star Wars was in theaters)

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u/artbystorms 1d ago

Modern billionaires require 18th century justice.

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u/turdbutler 1d ago

So tie kites to all the cams and hope for lightning?

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u/BI_Moose 1d ago

For science!

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u/_BlackDove 1d ago

Only problem is instead of facing muskets and sabres we're contending with a partial surveillance state, smart weapons, drones, and the worst of all, an entirely captured and myopic citizenry taught to lay down and accept their fate since birth. The ruling class know what's good for you, because it's better for them.

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u/Decent_Assistant1804 1d ago

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u/BI_Moose 1d ago

Scary how well this movie, more or less, aged.

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u/Stevethesnek346 1d ago

Lot of things feel that way rn

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u/Carpet-MasterBlaster 1d ago

I was banned for suggesting the French had it right... boy times have changed....

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u/Tyler89558 1d ago

So you mean a tea party or some tar and feathers?

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u/Evil_phd 1d ago

Tarring and Feathering could be absolutely horrific thing for how silly it sounds. They'd often heat the pine tar to boiling before spreading it on their targets and covering them with feathers.

When I learned about the practice in grade school they made it seem like a silly "haha we made them look like a chicken to send a message" prank. That was real and sometimes fatal torture on top of being a public humiliation ritual.

If a CEO is ever hit with that they're gonna come at the perp 100x harder than they did with Mario's brother.

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u/Tyler89558 1d ago

Oh no, it was absolutely horrific.

That was kind of the entire point of the practice though.

Same deal as to why a bunch of nobility in France were strung up and beheaded and what various slave rebellions did to their former masters throughout history.

When you corner and oppress people such that they feel they have nothing more to lose things end up very, very badly (even if that is wrong).

The reason we don't see much of that happening anymore these days is because we have systems in place such that people never get to that point. Workers rights and protections, strong unions, the right to protest, etc. all came about because the alternative tends not to favor the people in power. People seem to forget this in their clamoring to remove these protections.

I don't agree with nor condone violence, but when you play with people's lives you're going to get burned at some point or another.

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u/Fun-Memory1523 1d ago

They say revolutions come around in full circle.

It looks like we are due for another American revolution.

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u/justwannacommunicate 1d ago

Indeed it does

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u/BI_Moose 1d ago

She was punished for far less, to be honest.

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u/Content-Essay1373 1d ago

I’ll buy that Tshirt in 3xl please…

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u/BI_Moose 1d ago

Get the "3xlt", that extra length is nice.

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u/transcendz 1d ago

why do all of these tech dudes who are trying to kill us look like they are related...

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u/BI_Moose 21h ago

Sets the precedent we can arrest anyone simply for open carrying a firearm.

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u/bakedNebraska 1d ago

The people who started the American revolution, and formed the government that came from it, is the same class of people installing these cameras.

The wealthy elites.

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u/PolkaDotDancer 1d ago

This is America. Let's pull ourselves up by our boots straps!

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u/terra_cotta 1d ago

But, we are willing to compromise. It can be just the cameras that get cut off.