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Off Topic / Re: Another statue was taken down... this time forcibly

« on: August 16, 2017, 04:57:07 PM »

oh ok so I guess you'd be okay if we bulldozed Auschwitz and the Japanese internment camps

because surely that stuff happening is still told in books so no one in the world believes driving a car through those sites changes that amirite

Those are memorials respecting the victims of the practices. If these were memorials for slaves; Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglass, etc.; everyone would be complaining about removal.

These statues aren't respecting the victims, they're commemorating the people who allowed slavery to stay in place for so long, and who fought to make it the law of the land.
It's absolutely ridiculous and it's no wonder these cities wouldn't want these giant statues sitting out in the open because it's going to make people identify the city with the values of that person. That's why there is a push to move them out of the public eye and into storage or museums where they can be put into proper context.

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Off Topic / Re: Another statue was taken down... this time forcibly

« on: August 16, 2017, 04:33:20 PM »

ah yes. the germans should've built some more statues of the national socialists after WWII saying how brave and righteous they were.

..so they don't forget how bad that was, of course.

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Off Topic / Re: Another statue was taken down... this time forcibly

« on: August 16, 2017, 04:09:37 PM »

3799

Off Topic / Re: Post real life pictures of yourself.

« on: August 16, 2017, 03:28:44 PM »

you look 50 holy stuff
also

3800

Off Topic / Re: Do you support the removal of Confederate monuments?

« on: August 16, 2017, 03:14:54 PM »

Finland was in it more to get their clay back from Rosyia than because they were fascists

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Off Topic / Re: Do you support the removal of Confederate monuments?

« on: August 16, 2017, 12:22:36 PM »

I think that at least one statue should be preserved for history, but I don't really see the need to keep both.

for this stupid suggestion I will kill you

3802

Drama / Re: RED TEXT BONY

« on: August 16, 2017, 12:21:27 PM »

wuts poppin 🅱️ony

3803

Off Topic / Re: Do you support the removal of Confederate monuments?

« on: August 16, 2017, 11:44:23 AM »

It sounds like they shut it down themselves, not that it was shut down by the government (which wouldn't be legal.?)

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Off Topic / Re: Do you support the removal of Confederate monuments?

« on: August 16, 2017, 02:03:24 AM »

American conservatives encompass both definitions tho

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Off Topic / Re: Do you support the removal of Confederate monuments?

« on: August 16, 2017, 01:45:37 AM »

If I have to explain the goddamn political compass one more time I will kill you. If you're a "traditional anarchist," you are just further up and if you're a "progressive authoritarian," you are just further down.

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Off Topic / Re: is there a number that you associate with blockland?

« on: August 16, 2017, 01:43:28 AM »

yeah my ID. 19101. not sure of any generic number I'd associate with it.

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Off Topic / Re: Do you support the removal of Confederate monuments?

« on: August 16, 2017, 01:40:22 AM »

Tradition vs progress is on the same spectrum as authoritarian vs libertarian. Right/left is solely economic.

3808

Off Topic / Re: Another statue was taken down... this time forcibly

« on: August 16, 2017, 01:17:48 AM »

i recommend we just cut the heads off all the statues

3809

Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: August 15, 2017, 08:41:09 PM »

This is hilarious

holy forget

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Off Topic / Re: Charlottesville protests thread

« on: August 15, 2017, 07:32:38 PM »

they pretty much show up once in a while to vandalize stuff. they haven't killed anyone, as far as i know.