/r/place going full-on French Revolution now

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Am I the only one who thinks place is lame? It’s just another Reddit circle jerk and everyone is falling for it hook line and sinker. Shit like this reminds me why the human population is mentally deficient and why politicians have such an easy time controlling us.

I finally kinda see it, but hate the tone it was said with "heres a game to keep you distracted"

holy hell

There's a very old saying that I think was attributed to a Roman leader which went something like "Games and bread", humans have been easy to swat for a very long time.

Juvenal, a poet in ancient Rome. He wrote a whole series of books with satirical social commentary. A spiritual predecessor of George Carlin, so to speak.

Bread and circuses

English is closer to the original expression. In German, we say "Brot und Spiele" (lit. bread and games), hence the poster wrote it that way.

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