US House Equality
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Civil society, let's reduce the US Senate portion of the Electoral College by adding House seats using Wyoming, Cube Root or WYx2 rules. #uncapthehouse & check my state lists for resources. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Drag Race, my dogs, #🎶⁴ohmmakers. nostalgia is a weapon.
![A satirical print, that parodies knightly orders (such as the English order of the Garter, etc.), which traditionally held annual feasts on the day of the patron-Saint of the order.
This caricature makes full use of the traditional European folkloric metaphor that the husband of a sexually unfaithful wife has horns on his head. In fact, all the individuals shown (except Infidelity herself, her servant cupid, and the fifth person from the right) are wearing horns -- and there's a basket of extra horns to the left of the throne, and the canopy above the throne is decorated with smaller horns.
Note the gentlemen from non-Western-European nations at the right of the picture, and also the lady in the pink dress who is firmly calling her husband's attention to the horns on her own head. Most of the members of the Order look none too pleased with the "honor".
The huge scroll at bottom is a membership list; the cupid is writing on the scroll: "Liste de Msrs les Membres Composant la gde. famille de Vénérables Cocus, Cornards, Cornettes, et Cornillons de tous les Pais. &c." [modern French spelling is "pays"]. An approximate English translation would be "List of members composing the grand family of honorable cuckolds of all nations etc." (with a list of synonyms and pseudo-synonyms for "cuckold" in the original French).
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![A man stands close to the oil painting 'The Discovery of Adam' by William Holbrook Beard, examining it with his reading glasses pushed slightly above his eyes while in the artists scene are seven well-dressed primates standing on a beach. They are examining, poking, discussing, and contemplating the significance of a strange tortoise-like creature . A partially legible inscription on the tortoise reads 2000 000[0?] / B C / Adam. The “punchline” of the painting is that these civilized monkeys of long ago (note the prehistoric pterodactyls fighting in the background) can no more believe that they descended from such a primitive “Adam” than the artist and many of his contemporaries could accept that human beings evolved from apes. Created 32 years after the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Beard's composition intentionally and comically aligns the artist with an anti-Darwinian position.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7p4jgxtpaa2aimdicg7tzvqx/bafkreihaap3msqort7chbsdvxybibv3q2rmxnnzd2arf2slqpem6sj57zq)
