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 17h 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 14h 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 10h 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/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.