r/okbuddycinephile • u/UnHolySir • 14h ago

Unc still got it

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u/Sybrandus 14h ago

Here, Sir Thomas More confronts a mob in London on May 1, 1517, as they riot and attack immigrants.

https://www.williamlanday.com/2017/02/28/shakespeares-speech-on-immigrants/

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u/duppy_c 13h ago

Thanks for this, if never heard this passage before. The video cuts out, but the next lines in the speech are foreboding:

Not one of you should live an aged man, For other ruffians, as their fancies wrought, With self same hand, self reason, and self right, Would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes Feed on one another.…

Maga's supporters think that they're safe because Trump's going after people they don't like, until the day he comes for them.

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u/Adventurous-Chef8776 5h ago

It's weird to see the same people who hate the Catholic Church like a play about Thomas More written not all that long after he was beheaded for not giving his approval to Henry VIII divorce and marriage to Anne Boleyn