HailSeitanTrump Admin Drops the Olive Branch from U.S. Seal on New Dime Coins, Keeps the Arrows
🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞Misinformation. Totally false. The barest possible technicality that this is happening and Trump is President, yes. But this is not his work.
- The Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 was primarily the work of Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA). But it was a bipartisan bill
- The creator of the coin intended it to represent the colonies in the revolution, i.e. yes, a time of war.
- The final design was approved in 2024 - so if anyone “did” it, it would be Biden
- In place of the olive branch, the bald eagle is in flight clutching arrows in its talons, with one talon left empty. The empty talon is meant to signify that the colonists were waiting for a peace they had not yet reached.
If that is what the redesign is about, the meaning placed on it is so wildly contradictory to the imagery. They DID get peace. That’s why we have a nation. The idea pushed with this, that the eagle shouldn’t have an olive branch because we haven’t achieved peace yet is just false. We did. Then we didn’t like it, and threw it away.
If you want to make symbolic imagery describing our nation, just make the eagle eat the liver of a small child tied to a rock. Still referencing Greek/roman myths but is more accurate to our way of life.
Feel free to disagree with the imagery as you like. I’m not trying to dissuade you.
But the creator’s point was to represent the time during the revolution when peace had not yet been achieved.
I’m not a bot and a very quick perusal of my posting history should show that immediately.
I deleted my post because I did exactly that. Your text still reeks of ChatGPT, but it is pretty clear that you aren’t a bot, even if you are using one to write your messages.
I don’t see it, it doesn’t seem tonally consistent with the LLMs. Is it just because he put bullet points or something? Because it’s slightly longer than normal?
Rereading it, there is a good chance I’m the asshole here, but the basic reasons were a paragraph, followed by bullet points, followed by a paragraph. That’s a very common format for ChatGTP. As well, the use of emdashes in general, specifically where most people would use a comma. What really leads me to think I might be the asshole here is his use of “But” to start a sentence. It’s pretty common in informal righting, but really uncommon in the type of formal writing that ChatGPT loves to produce.
Bullet points are trivial in markdown - simply start a line with a dash and a space, although you can bugger up things by not leaving blank lines before and after.
I also do use em-dashes — because I can. I use wincompose to give me the linux compose key under windows. Although I will sometimes intentionally remove em-dashes from my writing precisely because of this assumption it causes.
I also have severe ADHD, and while sometimes I just write freeform and beware to the poor reader, sometimes I have an LLM tighten up the writing so the neurotypicals aren’t scared or confused by my rambling.
But even in such cases, I write everything first.
I believe in that particular instance, I might have copy/pasted the last bullet point from somewhere, but I wrote everything else and that is not through an LLM.
Everyone has different skills, and writing is one I’m not totally afraid to say is a moderate talent of mine. Sometimes.
Replying to your comment because it felt more natural, but it’s to the conversation in general. :)
jballsTried to verify what you said by looking up the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 (www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/…/text).
That actually does not authorize the issuance of new dimes. It is solely limited to new quarters and dollar coins.
I stopped verifying after that, so it’s possible the rest of what you said is true? But the first bullet doesn’t seem to be accurate.
Good eye! However:
“Notwithstanding the 4th, 5th, and 6th sentences of subsection (d)(1), the Secretary may change the design on any of the coins authorized under this section and minted for issuance during the one-year period beginning January 1, 2026…”
The “section” it refers to is 31 U.S.C. § 5112, which is the overarching law that defines all U.S. coinage. By saying “any of the coins,” it grants the Treasury Secretary the discretionary power to redesign the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, and half dollar for the 2026 anniversary.