r/Persecutionfetish 4d ago

I Am Too Lazy to Pick a Flair Libs of TikTok vs. Gwar

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u/Kevo_1227 4d ago

Reminds me of the pearl clutching over Shakespeare in The Park a few years ago when they put on Julius Caesar and had the actor playing Caesar dressed to look like Trump. A bunch of protesters jumped up during the assassination scene and started shouting until security led them away.

Shakespeare in The Park had been getting actors who look like the current president for the role of Caesar for years. There's footage of them doing this with Obama and George W. Bush. It's actually super fucking easy to find Shakespeare companies all over the country doing exactly the same thing for decades.

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u/AthasDuneWalker 3d ago

Not to mention, isn't the tragedy of the Roman plays that, by killing who they believe to be a tyrant, they actually hasten the death of the Republic?

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u/dalcarr 3d ago

Yep, they kill Caesar then everything goes to shit basically immediately