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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Crews begin removing Confederate statues from Virginia's Capitol Square

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Crews begin removing Confederate statues from Virginia's Capitol Square

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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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Crews could be seen working to remove three Confederate-linked statues from Virginia's Capitol Square on Friday morning after a state senator introduced legislation to remove them earlier this year.
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    I can’t believe this is still an ongoing saga.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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      I’m proud of my state making progress, though.

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      There are a lot of statues because they weren’t just random memorials, but rather a coordinated effort by white supremacists.

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      And it’s only because of gas prices

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    Good. No statues for losers.

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      Sometimes people don’t win, yet deserve to be memorialized. On the other hand some fought to be able to own people

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      Or ballrooms.

    • Enkrod@feddit.org
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      I don’t care that they lost (I mean I’m happy about it, but you don’t have to win something to be worth of being remembered). I care about then being traitors fighting for slavery.

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      No time for losers cause we are the champions

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      So they should take down the Boudica statue in London? She is a famous loser. Or no more William Wallace statues?

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    At this stage I was half expecting the article body to explain that they were being removed in order to be polished and gilded.

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    Lmao, I misread the title as “Crows begin removing Confederate statues” and I was both confused and intrigued. The actual article is much less interesting.

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      Dude same. And I was really excited to learn how someone trained crows to take down statues. I’m incredibly disappointed.

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      Theres a Game of Thrones joke here somewhere

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    Now…? They’ve… been there all this time…?

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      At this point, I’d half-expect them to add a few more with some shity MAGA excuse.

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    They finally realized that they actually LOST the civil war?

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    Surprising the fat man hasn’t sent ice goons to block the removal somehow.

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    I live in VA and didn’t even know they were there.

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      …well yeah who goes to Richmond on purpose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    Nice, I didn’t think we’d see the statue toppling season again. Unless it was statues of black Americans…

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    Hopefully North Carolina can be the next purple state to turn blue

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    Just smash them to bits and leave the pieces there.

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      Do you want crackheads? Because that’s how you get crackheads.

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        Well we don’t just want crackheads, we want crackbodies and cracklimbs and kinda crack all the things. We want to smash the statues, cracks are just the start.

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