Sound familiar?
Yes, I had history class in school
Nah, in 6 months they'll still be happy about "Them" getting their comeuppance.
Files from 2016. It's all known.
He's a depraved, sick, sinful man, he's a wannabe-dictator with a cult-like following and his people will follow him straight into a theocractic nightmare if he was young and lucid enough to realize that.
And he's, by all expectations, going to be the Leader of the Free World again, because apparently the rest of the damn country can't get their heads togther enough to have a decent alternative other than an ocotgenarian who I really sympathize with and really wasn't that bad 15 years ago, but is genuinely sliding into senility as we speak.
We're probably not in the Worst Possible Timeline, but this one still fucking sucks.
He's a depraved, sick, sinful man, he's a wannabe-dictator with a cult-like following and his people will follow him straight into a theocractic nightmare if he was young and lucid enough to realize that.
And he's, by all expectations, going to be the Leader of the Free World again, because apparently the rest of the damn country can't get their heads togther enough to have a decent alternative other than an ocotgenarian who I really sympathize with and really wasn't that bad 15 years ago, but is genuinely sliding into senility as we speak.
We're probably not in the Worst Possible Timeline, but this one still fucking sucks.
Dave
Staff member
So has everyone else so why have so many people forgotten?
According to my parents, it's because they tear down Confederate statues. People won't know history without them
My in-laws get so deeply offended whenever a Confederate statue is removed. I've written pieces for my university about the racist motivations behind putting those statues up in the first place and why they have no place today. The in-laws have no idea that I'm part of the effort to knock 'em down. I'll hear them gripe about how nobody respects their heritage anymore while I look like the picture of innocence. Inwardly, I am bursting with smug satisfaction like so:
I don't necessarily think literally every statue of a Confederate has to go. We still have (some) statues of our King Leopold II up, too. In some cases they're historically valuable, and can better be contextualized (with a plaque, with a modern piece of art accompanying them, being placed in a museum,...). There's plenty of historical figures with statues and being celebrated who were terrible people/dictators/mass murders/war criminals by modern standards.
However, the vast majority of Confederate statues were put up during the '60s era, during desegregation etc, and are just plain White Power propaganda, and those just need to be bulldozed into the ground.
However, the vast majority of Confederate statues were put up during the '60s era, during desegregation etc, and are just plain White Power propaganda, and those just need to be bulldozed into the ground.
Here's the link to my piece. Not all monuments need to be taken down. I'm okay with putting them in museums where they can be viewed in the appropriate context.
I will never understand the defense of a monument to one of history's greatest monsters.
Might as well have Hitler statues all over Germany and Austria.
Also shows how much Europeans value African lives.
Nah it’s just gross that you do (the exception being the one with the hands cut off).
The other 29% are unwilling to entertain the notion of their Hero falling even for a hypothetical?
GasBandit
Staff member
More like "I'm sure he's learned his lesson" Susan Collins in-denial types.
I fully believe Donald will just try to flee the country if it looks like he has any chance of losing, come election night.
