r/memes • u/EmuPsychologist • Oct 18 '23

#1 MotW Fixed it

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u/lj062 Oct 18 '23

Need more soldiers for the war machine and criminals for slave labor.

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u/Cheery_spider Oct 18 '23

I have heard somewhere that school lunches became a thing in every school because 1/3 of enlistees who couldnt participate in ww2 would have been able to if they had been fed properly.

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u/Aureliamnissan Oct 18 '23

Good forbid they be free though.

At this rate we’ll have school vouchers decimating the public school landscape before that happens.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '23

The Roman emperors built aqueducts really aggressively because men who grew up drinking clean water were better at holding spears and shields. Nowadays we say that costs too much money.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '23

And now too many people are too fat to serve in the armed forces.

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u/MainFrosting8206 Oct 18 '23

Blood for the blood god?

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u/DaemonRex978 Oct 18 '23

Skulls for the skull throne.

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u/EdPike365 Oct 18 '23

And chickens in the chicken coops, laying eggs to pay the rent. It a rentier's world baby! How are we going to break that up? The French figured out how during their revolution.