The Daily Populous Saturday October 18th, 2025 morning edition
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TitanofBravos on October 17th, 2025 at 13:43 UTC »

That’s a fasces, they date back to Rome, and is the root of where the word fascist

Manicplea on October 17th, 2025 at 13:49 UTC »

It's also based on the fasces, the origin of the term Fascist.

Obviously it differs in not having an axe head but is otherwise intentionally similar. Also, the current mace PREDATES 20th century fascism as it began use in 1841 (created by New York silversmith William Adams, at a cost of $400, equivalent to $12,000 in 2023)

"The fasces frequently occurs as a charge in heraldry: it is present on the reverse of the U.S. Mercury dime coin, behind the podium in the United States House of Representatives, and in the Seal of the U.S. Senate; and it was the origin of the name of the National Fascist Party in Italy (from which the term fascism is derived)"

MadRoboticist on October 17th, 2025 at 14:18 UTC »

Lol at all the delusional people that somehow think this has actually been used to beat members of congress.