https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tT8fMc_AYM

@meratrix You could only see it from a distance in the House chambers image, but here's a closer up, albeit black-and-white, image of the Mace of the House of Representatives https://cao.scotfaulkner.com/sgtatarms/images/staff.gif

note the fasces base, and the globe with the American hemisphere facing forward

yannow something that didn't strike me until I was IN DC facing Congress

is how fuckin roman it looks

Yup, early America LOVED the Roman Republic

I knew that America had a Hardon for rome but it wasn't until I was there thst I appreciated it

ditto to Lincoln memorial

Also note the similar cores of the fronts of the buildings representing all three branches of the US government

big greek-ass temple

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Funny you say that, an early name of the Capitol building was the Temple of Liberty

with its later expansion being the Temple of Faith and Justice

but then there's Washington's monument

A fucking obelisk

In fact, the basement of the Capitol is called the Crypt

cooooool

And also yea like

eagles everywhere was a rome thing

Or a horus thing

eagles got the best gods

Here's the statue inside the Washington Monument: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/53/e4/ce/53e4ceb536269e23392b0c95ebd8dea4.jpg

note how George Washington is leaning on a fasces

oh, cool!

When I went it was closed

GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS ***LITERALLY HITLER***

elevator repairs

fuckin spiderman

And yeah, part of why we chose the bald eagle as the national animal was for the Roman A E S T H E T I C S

@King Canuck Behold peak mistakable-for-Nazi-symbology https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/NGB-seal-high.png

And then germany used it and it got awkward

tbh I think one of the best-designed eagles, from a design perspective is the fuckin. one sec

The Eagle that's fuckin'?

you're combining the eagle of rome, a laurel for victory

the recenty appropriated hindu symbol of (peace?)