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- garbage0
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“It’s hard to get a job, hard to make a living, hard to have a normal social life when all your friends and family know you believe in ethnic cleansing.”
Yeah, it must be tough facing persecution for espousing a hateful and threatening way of life, best stick to good ol' fashioned racism and genocide.
How monumentally daft does one have to be to think this, much less say it to a reporter? The cognitive dissonance is through the roof with these people.
Fuck's sake.
- I guess they know why their grandparents wore hoods now.Glitterati_Duane
- R_Kercz0
“Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You can't change history, but you can learn from it,” Trump wrote on Twitter in a three-post flurry Thursday morning. “Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish! Also the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!”
- He seems to fail to grasp the fact all of the Confederates were actually traitors fighting against the US.
Fuck me, he's stupid.Continuity - I think part of the issue is that the journalists assume he does know these things. Someone needs to ask him on camera.R_Kercz
- They did. He said he could have negotiated us out of a war with a good deal. No shit.monospaced
- He seems to fail to grasp the fact all of the Confederates were actually traitors fighting against the US.
- yuekit3
I don't feel strongly about taking down the statues one way or the other, but I think people comparing it to ISIS are way off the mark.
Let's be honest and admit that the people screaming "erasing history" would most likely not have a problem taking down a statue of Stalin or even Hugo Chavez for that matter. No one is going to fault Berlin for not keeping up statues of Hitler.
It's not about history, it's about what a state endorses by honoring a particular person on taxpayer funded state grounds. Black citizens of those states are paying for the maintenance of those statues.
Maybe a good compromise would be to move them somewhere else, such as a museum where they can be treated as historical monuments rather than representing the people of the state.
- Or keep them in a Hall of Shame. People should witness who the traitors and racists were.Continuity
- Keeping them up but framing them in shame disarms them, but allows people to see history and learn from it.Continuity
- +1 voice of reasonfadein11
- https://www.youtube.…yuekit
- Turn them into animatronics and have them fight each other. The best metal racist robot wins! LIVE on Fox!face_melter
- all you need to do is change what the plaque says. It's not rocket scienceGnash
- although, face's idea has legsGnash
- http://bavatuesdays.…Gnash
- plash11
Economist cover, Aug 19-25, 2017- fucking liberals, amiright?!monospaced
- snowflaked libtards, amiright?Ramanisky2
- Wow:
"Donald Trump has no grasp of what it means to be president"instrmntl - and just like that, center-right The Economist becomes fake news ... I can't wait for the Tweet from the idiot president that only idiots and assholes supportmonospaced
- Continuity0
Any British politician will tell you: when Rupert Murdoch starts turning on you, you're finished.
'Report: Queasy Aussies Killed Trump’s Casino Bid Over “Mafia Connections”'
http://www.motherjones.com/polit…
'Australian authorities simply couldn’t stomach Donald Trump’s alleged mob ties, according to government documents published by Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper, The Australian, on Tuesday. The paper’s investigation reveals that Trump’s dream of building a casino in Sydney in the late 1980s was killed off by queasy officials who considered his operations in New Jersey “dangerous.”'
- mathinc1
A LARGE majority of these statues were erected during the period of the Second Coming of the KKK. They wielded a lot of power in the 20's. So, these statues existence boils down to a basic romanticization of the confederacy by racists. These are NOT monuments erected for historical reasons, they're purely meant as a symbol of white power, an bookmark on an era when white plantation owners fought to keep other humans as cheap labor.
They should come the fuck down and be thrown in the sea.
Here's a timeline of confederate monuments/acknowledgements and when they were established. Notice anything?
- I was ambivalent about them before. Not so now. They need to go. Pronto.monoboy
- yeah... take them down as monuments FOR SURE... but... destroying them vs. putting them in a museum seems silly. In a museum a story of 'hate' can be told...PonyBoy
- ... anyone who's been to a holocaust museum can attest to the fact they're packed w/nazi shit etc... not to glorify but so we don't forget.PonyBoy
- Do we need a museum with 20 Robert E. Lee statues? Toss em in the lake!mathinc
- Pony, I'm in Phx all the f'in time. We need to reconnect. Hit me up: me@tommy-oconnor.commathinc
- https://www.splcente…plash
- yeah... don't need tons of Bobby Lee's... agreed- lol. I'll hit you up, tommy :) I'm in NH right now... will be home in 2 weeks!PonyBoy
- museum of toleranceimbecile
- Ramanisky22
Brilliant
- Common sense and comedy. Two things I love.
It's brilliant.kona - fresh & always funny
amiright omg?Ramanisky2
- Common sense and comedy. Two things I love.
- jaylarson2
Robert E. Lee opposed Confederate monuments
“As regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated,” Lee wrote of an 1866 proposal, “my conviction is, that however grateful it would be to the feelings of the South, the attempt in the present condition of the Country, would have the effect of retarding, instead of accelerating its accomplishment; [and] of continuing, if not adding to, the difficulties under which the Southern people labour.”
- Honest question: Would the majority of the sympathizers of the Conferderate South's cause be able to comprehend this statement today?bulletfactory
- Written statements have certainly changed. "BIGLY SAD"bulletfactory
- highly doubt it. sad!jaylarson
- especially since "they" thought npr's tweeting of the dec of ind. was slamming drumpfjaylarson
- jaylarson1
fascinating watch:
- Thanks for this. jaka parker channel on youtube is an insight into NK, too. Granted, it's probably propaganda; interesting nonetheless.********
- https://www.youtube.…********
- interesting
< and for this video
11:53 is quite insightfuljaylarson
- Thanks for this. jaka parker channel on youtube is an insight into NK, too. Granted, it's probably propaganda; interesting nonetheless.
- sted11
- ooofffRamanisky2
- put these (the economist one is brilliant too) in the pic of the day thread, ffs... these belong on the front cover (design-related!)PonyBoy
- good idea, done:
http://imgur.com/a/a…sted - damn that's the imgur gallery :)
http://www.qbn.com/r…sted - @pony yeah i thought of that but then you know, it's political, this shit is everywhere, it resembles porn, shit has seeped into every aspect online..plash
- bed sheet has holes in it, boats goes nowhere.utopian
- Politics and graphic design is always a shit-section, i'm not trying to advocate for one side or the other, just show these workssted
- and this one is a strong metaphor from all aspectssted
- ^i hear you, just thinking out loud sort of speak..plash
- nice!moldero
- mugwart0
Think Tom Waits sums up the world this moment best:
- sted4
- zaq7
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- face_melter5
Nine months in! It's like a fucking Carry On... film.
A president so toxic even people like James Murdoch are talking shit about him - and when that happens people take notice. Closes another much heralded advisory panel out of childish rage, spews historical lies on Twitter, forever tarnished as a Nazi sympathiser... And there's Russia-a-Lago still waiting in the wings. Amazing.
Watch as he fucks off to play golf this weekend.
- "but Hillary's emails..."fadein11
- But birth certificateinteliboy
- But LibyaContinuity
- only 7 months in :/monospaced
- Nine from the election.face_melter
- aside from the toxicity and drama, I wonder how long it will take for America to regain it's position on the world stage post Trump. Is this really the end offadein11
- the American empire and doors open for China to fill the gap. Thinking out loud for discussion here before the usual suspect(s) call me a retard.fadein11
- Bluejam2
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