@stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net to solarpunk memes@slrpnk.net • edit-24 months agounironically. yes. demand your government work for you.slrpnk.netimagemessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1922arrow-down137
arrow-up1885arrow-down1imageunironically. yes. demand your government work for you.slrpnk.net@stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net to solarpunk memes@slrpnk.net • edit-24 months agomessage-square75fedilink
minus-square@DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilink7•edit-24 months agoI think so. That Kennedy quote has always been a puzzler. Not in meaning, but why the hell it’s supposed to be some kind of American ideal to aspire to. “Take what we give you and beg to serve” seems a more honest phrasing.
minus-square@Sagifuriuslink5•4 months agoIt’s more about helping your fellow man, not the government.
minus-square@sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilink4•4 months agoYou rarely see any thing else from that speech. If they’d just show even the part right after the “ask not” part it would help. And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. -JFK Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
it’s supposed to be ironic ?
I think so.
That Kennedy quote has always been a puzzler.
Not in meaning, but why the hell it’s supposed to be some kind of American ideal to aspire to.
“Take what we give you and beg to serve” seems a more honest phrasing.
It’s more about helping your fellow man, not the government.
You rarely see any thing else from that speech. If they’d just show even the part right after the “ask not” part it would help.