Description: Meme titled Achievement featuring a picture of Terok Nor (Deep Space 9). Below the text reads: You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    For those unaware of the Demotivational posters of years ago, this text had the backdrop of the pyramids. Same idea. Just no bar or holodeck.

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      But unlike the Cardassians, the Egyptians didnt use slaves to build their monuments to vanity

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        But like the Cardassians, the Egyptians did make sure to include a healthy amount of booby traps.

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          I bet there are a bunch of 3rd Pharaoh Guard, 1st Order in stasis inside the great pyramid somewhere…

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    I was in Greece and Italy this summer. I cringed a little every time the tour guides talked about the great Greek or Roman architectural achievements.

    Greeks didn’t build the Parthenon. Slaves did.