I think toppling statues is retarded. It was dumb when the left did it and it's dumb now.
That being said, if it's on private property, get fucked. Your feelings end where the rights of others begin. If it's on public property, you can always bring it up to your local politicians and vote on it. It's a democracy, that's how it works.
This is on private property, so the alt-right can get fucked.
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Ukrainians would be proud!
The shadowy Daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc,
When fourteen suns had faintly journey'd o'er his dark abode:
His food she brought in iron baskets, his drink in cups of iron:
Crown'd with a helmet and dark hair the nameless female stood;
Seems perfectly reasonable. If you want to tear down statues because [reasons] then you need to take into account other peoples [reasons] too. Especially when slavery/death/symbolism is why you are decrying those statues.
public land take it down, private land then whatever. Maybe NC and other states should quickly sell the statues/land to a private party hmm......
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I sure hope they don't give it the finger if it falls.
I am the lucid dream
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Actually it is objectively and demonstrably true.
Take the most prominent Confederate general, Robert E. Lee, who chose to fight for Virginia not to defend slavery, or even because he believed in secession, but because it was his home. From an excerpt from a biography about Lee:
-http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/making-sense-of-robert-e-lee-85017563/One thing that clearly drove him was devotion to his home state. “If Virginia stands by the old Union,” Lee told a friend, “so will I. But if she secedes (though I do not believe in secession as a constitutional right, nor that there is sufficient cause for revolution), then I will follow my native State with my sword, and, if need be, with my life.”
The North took secession as an act of aggression, to be countered accordingly. When Lincoln called on the loyal states for troops to invade the South, Southerners could see the issue as defense not of slavery but of homeland. A Virginia convention that had voted 2 to 1 against secession, now voted 2 to 1 in favor.
When Lee read the news that Virginia had joined the Confederacy, he said to his wife, “Well, Mary, the question is settled,” and resigned the U.S. Army commission he had held for 32 years.
State's rights was more than just the political tug-of-war between the Federal and State governments, it was also the idea that Southerners considered themselves citizens of their state first and of the Union second. That is why many people chose to fight for the Confederacy, as Lee did.
Can't say I disagree with you. The main indicator of stupidity in "extreme-whatever", is the word "extreme" - be it right wing, left wing or whatever else that follows. And I personally would have loved seeing the age needed to vote being raised to 21, just for one.
Cannot say I would get worked up about stone and metal statues being removed. In the end I didn't know it was there yesterday and if it was gone tomorrow things would be the same.
Ah yes, tearing down statues, kinda like what happened in Europe in late medieval times.
I guess that's where the US is in it's developments as well.
Hard to tell, with so many utterly demented left wing-apologists around here lately. I really didn't think those posters being referred to as alt-righters (and actually fitting the bill, mind you) could be beaten in the idiocy-game, the most extreme end of the right wing usually wins that prize rather easily, but there has been very strong competition put forward from the extreme left lately, here on mmo-champion. At some point it gets hard to distinguish people being satirical to people just being genuine, but full on retarded.
As someone who thinks communism is fucking retarded and wonder why a Lenin Statue even exists in America. No I don't think they should tear it down just "because">
It'd make them no better than the fuckwits that destroyed the statue the other day.
Man are the alt-right and the antifa competing for the highest levels of retardation?
Sure looks like they do,and we don't have a clear winner yet