I find it more shameful that the US has killed 38 million people in the last 50 years by enforcing economic sanctions that block access to food, medicine, and resources.
There are obviously huge black marks in US history from that to slavery to the genocide of the natives to overthrowing democratically elected governments around the world to things like MK-ULTRA, Jim Crow, redlining, etc. etc. But even among purely symbolic things that don’t materially impact people’s lives, it pales in comparison to Mt. Rushmore, which was a thousand times more gaudy, more narcissistic, and which destroyed something a thousand times more valuable. “The most shameful stains,” come on.
I don’t know what’s going on in the minds of these people. Some combination of ignorance of history, partisan brainworms, and misplaced pride in the symbols of our shitty government. It’s so cringe, it’s peak liberalism and shit like this validates the whole “Trump derangement syndrome” line, because there’s no way in hell any of these people would give half a shit if someone else was doing it.
I find it more shameful that the US has killed 38 million people in the last 50 years by enforcing economic sanctions that block access to food, medicine, and resources.
There are obviously huge black marks in US history from that to slavery to the genocide of the natives to overthrowing democratically elected governments around the world to things like MK-ULTRA, Jim Crow, redlining, etc. etc. But even among purely symbolic things that don’t materially impact people’s lives, it pales in comparison to Mt. Rushmore, which was a thousand times more gaudy, more narcissistic, and which destroyed something a thousand times more valuable. “The most shameful stains,” come on.
I don’t know what’s going on in the minds of these people. Some combination of ignorance of history, partisan brainworms, and misplaced pride in the symbols of our shitty government. It’s so cringe, it’s peak liberalism and shit like this validates the whole “Trump derangement syndrome” line, because there’s no way in hell any of these people would give half a shit if someone else was doing it.