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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
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There's a long con possible here. A toilet in the same type of bronze metal the statue is made of should be cast. Place the bronze toilet the bathroom of a museum that documents the atrocities committed by the south on slaves. Put a sign next to the toilet claiming the toilet is cast from the metal of the famous Lee statue. Make sure the toilet is unisex so everyone has a chance to use it. Visitors will gleefully urinate and defecate on what they believe is the remains of the statue of Lee. They aren't really, but they will be okay being fooled for this part. They are an important element of this con.
Inevitably the toilet will be stolen by Lee supporters. Looking to remove the shame of the destruction of the original statue, they will cast it back into something meaningful to represent Lee again, perhaps another statue of Lee. They'll photograph this result and publish it publicly but keep the new statue safe and hidden. They will crow about undoing the indignity done to Lee's image and how there's nothing anyone can do to get the statue again, and how they won this battle.
It is then that the museum reveals its deception that there was no special origin of the bronze of the toilet and what the Lee supporters have done instead is erect a new statue of Lee made from bronze that all of us defecated into. The new symbol of Lee is truly representative because of the shit and piss it contains.
Intricate, detailed, and possible.
Me like
MFW they literally say the lesson out loud, but in defiant disbelief...
watching quietly for the click in their smooth brain to happen
Confederacy supporters: This is about heritage!
Citizens of the US: Then me destroying you is about heritage.
Confederacy supporters: Pikachu face
Neither here nor there, but I've tried to rewatch that classic masterpiece, but I just can't stomach Skylar's bullshit to get through it. Not in the slightest. 🫣
I just think this is the most insufferable take on Skyler.
She is like the only person acting rationally the whole time and everyone hates her for it. The one really bad thing she did was fuck Ted and while I'm not absolving her of that, it's "in response" to Walter's emotional abusiveness (which includes him not showing up for the birth of his daughter)
No one complains about the other people getting in the way of Walter - who is a dangerous egomaniac, by the way.
It's a fantastic show and Skyler was a fantastic character. Not only well-written but extremely well-acted - Anna Gunn nailed it
I still think we should refer to it as "The War of Southern Aggression."
The North attacked the South, and for what? All the South was attacking was black people, who obviously don't count. /s
GW Reformed might one day be reformed
Reconstructed, even
Hilariously rel said that monuments to the Confederacy should never be raised and we should do the best we can to accept it for what it was and move on.
Wtf is a neoconfed
I’d imagine Neo-Confederate
In the same way you’d see Neo-Nazi to describe Nazi’s today.
anyone that is upset over this should be thrown in the furnace with the statue. Let the spirit of Sherman live on.
You know, he kinda has a point.
Stick with me now...history is always written by the winners. But we keep no monuments of the losers. We destroy them. That's a part of winning.
Maybe the winners should start making a spectacle of how stupid and bad the losers were. Maybe if we ridicule them enough, people will stop aspiring to be losers.