• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    The whole ballroom thing does not matter at all and the article is just random tweets and the tweets are shit like:

    The fact that a felonious madman who incited an attack on our Capitol could turn around a few years later and desecrate the White House like this, will forever be one of the most shameful stains this nation has ever known.

    ā€œOne of the most shameful stains this nation has ever known?ā€ Are you fucking kidding me? It’s a fucking building.

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      5 hours ago

      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.

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        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. ā€œThe most shameful stains,ā€ 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 ā€œTrump derangement syndromeā€ line, because there’s no way in hell any of these people would give half a shit if someone else was doing it.