Lots of posts upthread are in favor of the old motto e pluribus unum. But that motto doesn’t reflect the current tribalist state of the US. Instead let’s go with
e pluribus duum
or maybe e pluribus dumb.
On Trump We Tread
This Too Shall Pass
E pluribus duo, unless you’re deliberately going for incorrect Latin.
I had one year of Latin many years ago, so while I know the basics, there’s a lot of details I’m unfamiliar with. Anyway, in the original motto, the unum is in the neuter rather than the masculine unus, so I assumed there was a reason and put the modified version in the same.
On further thinking, it’s possible that there’s a noun elided that unum is modifying. In which case, perhaps it should be dua, that being the plural neuter.
“I got your motto right here, pal.”
Duo is the plural neuter—it’s a different declension from unus. I thought you might have been punning via Dog Latin with duum / “dumb.”
Nihil conati sumus, nec cogitationes amplius habemus.
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These are what appear to be the serious suggestions:
E Pluribus Unum
Equality for all
Equality Under Law
Equality, Liberty, Humanity
Liberty
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Meliorantes
Of the People, By the People, For the People
Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain
People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
Virtus per diversitas
We the People
The Cure for the Common Country
When the country is a laughingstock at best, and a sick joke at worst, your so-called “serious suggestions” seem rather hypocritical. A motto at this time in history is akin to putting a Barbie Band Aid on an amputated leg.
Hold My Beer
Ahem…see post 37.
But that’s two votes! That significantly boosts us in the polls. Most others are just one-offs!
Oh. We definitely didn’t get to that in freshman Latin class. I don’t think we even got to the 3rd declension of nouns.
Someone else did that, not me.
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I don’t think that’s a serious suggestion.
It’s a line from V for Vendetta.
“In Dog We Thrust”
Thank you for the summary.
I’m sorry you feel that way. I guess you think aspirations are silly. That’s a shame.
I’m still considering a poll thread, based on the serious suggestions. Or anyone could post a poll thread, for that matter.
I second this. E Pluribus Unum was a perfectly fine motto, they should have left it alone.