Bread-and-circuses

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bread-and-circuses

Title text: No, media circuses do not count. Not until someone is juggling on top of a bear.

Votey

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Panem et circenses! Panem et circenses!

It's an old roman adage, referring to how politicians give the public "bread and circuses" -food and entertainment - so that we feel appeased while the powerful go about their villainy.

What?

You feel like that's happening, and that's why you're protesting?

There is constant villainy but no bread and no circuses!

I'm protesting because it's not happening!

We want bread! We want circuses!

You know history but are still doomed to repeat it.

Oh! Maybe they could let us eat cake/

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Votey Transcript

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I will vote for whichever candidate stands upside-down on pyramid of monkeys!

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