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@PugJesus@lemmy.world to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish • 9 months ago

Legitimately ugly rule

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Legitimately ugly rule

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@PugJesus@lemmy.world to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish • 9 months ago
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  • @traches@sh.itjust.works
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    170•9 months ago

    They didn’t even clean up the rubble

    • @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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      156•9 months ago

      That was intentional, the klansman who built it didn’t choose a place that was culturally significant to the indigenous people by accident.

      • Track_Shovel
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        52•9 months ago

        I’m not American, but the isopods that live with me under the same rock weren’t aware that this was made by Klansmen

        • @PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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          75•9 months ago

          The lead sculptor was involved with the KKK when it revived in the 1920s

          • @dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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            18•9 months ago

        • @lengau@midwest.social
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          8•9 months ago

          Don’t worry - most Americans don’t know either.

    • Beacon
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      52•9 months ago

      iirc they ran out of money and weren’t even able to make it look the way they intended. Like they planned for it to have a 5th face or wanted to do full bodies or something like that but they couldn’t get it done

      • Nomecks
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        They didn’t bother to check what the mountain was made of. The answer was granite.

        • @H1jAcK@lemm.ee
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          They thought they knew what it was made of, but took their assumptions for granite

          • @koper@feddit.nl
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            5•9 months ago

            Are you saying granite? It’s granted, with a D. Take things for granted. Did you actually think it was… Jesus Christ Rick, what are you a boulder, a rock person? How long have you been saying that wrong?

            What, you can erase my memories?

            • @psud@aussie.zone
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              1•9 months ago

              It’s a common rock pun, saying granite instead of granted.

  • @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    152•9 months ago

    • @kautau@lemmy.world
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      51•9 months ago

      Requires Fascism

      I guess if things go south in November we’ll be up for Mt. Rushmore 2: The Movement known as Boogaloo

      • @itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        11•9 months ago

        The boogaloo in question stems from the same meme you’re quoting and is a second civil war. Fun stuff

        • @kautau@lemmy.world
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          8•9 months ago

          Yup that’s why I linked to it, for reference

          • @itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            4•9 months ago

            Figured you’re familiar with their ideology, I just wanted to point it out again to anyone with even the slightest bit of doubt as to what fascists are planning for the coming years

      • ✺roguetrick✺
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        7•9 months ago

        That was just Civ IV calling Teddy names because he was a populist militaristic progressive.

    • @gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3•9 months ago

      what wiki is this? runescape?

      • @Famko@lemmy.world
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        7•9 months ago

        Civilization IV

        • @gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1•9 months ago

          gotta get that game

  • Pennomi
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    I know this is an unpopular opinion, but statues of real people are cringe… and Mount Rushmore is basically maximum cringe by that measure.

    • @unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Reminded me of this song (which is german) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC872j2-PDw

      Im gonna try translating the most relevant section:

      Get the sledgehammer out, they built us a monument and every idiot knows that this destroys all love/charm. I will hire the worst sprayers(graffiti artists) of the city so that they may further deface the leftover rubble the same night.

    • Trailblazing Braille Taser
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      23•9 months ago

      Wait till you hear about the Colossus of Rhodes

      • @TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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        7•9 months ago

        Or the Statue of Unity! Even Christ the Redeemer is taller than Mount Rushmore.

        • @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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          3•9 months ago

          I think there was this ozymandias guy once too…

  • @midnight_puker@sh.itjust.works
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    63•9 months ago

    What a fuck ugly pile of shit.

  • @someguy3@lemmy.world
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    TBF it was supposed to be bigger.

    • @Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
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      30•9 months ago

      Wait. You’re telling me they didn’t even fucking finish it and people are still mad about the idea of losing it?

      • @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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        35•9 months ago

        They didn’t even clean up the blasted off rock underneath it.

        • @nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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          3•9 months ago

          Ran out of money. It would have been cleaned when they did the bodies, but instead they finished the faces and said “better than nothing”.

          Sucks that they were such racists that did this.

    • @EightLeggedFreak@lemmy.world
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      6•9 months ago

      That’s not bigger. That man would be huge.

      • Sidyctism II.
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        the point is that it was supposed to include their upper bodies…

  • @P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br
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    I would never have known this without your meme, thanks anon.

    • @SwordInStone@lemmy.world
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      15•9 months ago

      have known *

      • @Slovene@feddit.nl
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        12•9 months ago

        Knownst’ve

      • @P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br
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        2•9 months ago

        Thank you, I’m not English native.

        • @SwordInStone@lemmy.world
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          No problem, fyi it is always like that with should, would, could

  • Blackout
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    50•9 months ago

    I’ve seen them before and they are ugly. None of them would have wanted their face there so who is actually being honored?

    • The Quuuuuill
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      23•9 months ago

      Teddy did. That’s why his face is included

      • @PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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        35•9 months ago

        While Teddy was the self-aggrandizing type who probably wouldn’t have objected to having his face carved into a mountain, Rushmore wasn’t even proposed until long after Teddy’s political career was over.

        • @PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          I dunno, Theodore was also a reknowned appreciator of natural beauty, so I could see it going either way.

          • Blackout
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            Yes, he protected land like this from developers. He’s the reason we have national parks. No way he would have approved this.

  • @Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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    50•9 months ago

    It should be given back to the natives, with reparations. I wouldn’t be surprised if they wanted to remove the faces and attempt to restore it.

    • @ealoe@ani.social
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      16•9 months ago

      We’ll start by giving them back your house

      • @PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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        Hey, guess what - wanting a historical wrong to be corrected by having a polity live up to its treaty obligations, however belatedly, by ceding a piece of land on which a rather ugly monument exists on and telling the original owners ‘do what you want with it’ is not the equivalent of volunteering for ethnic cleansing.

        • @RubberElectrons@lemmy.world
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          3•9 months ago

          Might be a cool opportunity to build cohesion even. What if we (in consult with the Lakota whose land it annually is) build in a few cool people from other tribes too (e.g. chief Seattle, and others from all over the country). That could make it feel more like a monument to all of us.

          Generally not a fan of defacing nature though. There’s a joke in there somewhere but it’s too early.

      • @zaph@sh.itjust.works
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        46•9 months ago

        If that’s what it takes to make reparations happen I’ll gladly give mine. Thankfully that isn’t what reparations would require so you just look like a racist asshole.

        • @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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          12•9 months ago

          Another example of why downvotes are sometimes necessary. All they’ll care about is the six people that agreed with them

        • @drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world
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          3•9 months ago

          So where would you go?

      • @SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        43•9 months ago

        I don’t see any houses on the mountain

      • Rozaŭtuno
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        16•9 months ago

        We should improve society somewhat meme

  • @dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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    48•9 months ago

    It’s even worse on a rainy day, if not ironic.

    • @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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      19•9 months ago

      Why are Lincoln’s snot trails the reverse of everyone else?

      • @Daxtron2@startrek.website
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        14•9 months ago

        He got that thick brow

    • bbpolterGAYst (she/her)
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      11•9 months ago

      the big stone heads are crying. this is a bad omen

  • @can@sh.itjust.works
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    woooow

    How have I never seen this? It looks so sad :(

  • Krafty Kactus
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    I just went to the black hills area and I MUCH preferred the Crazy Horse memorial. If you hate Rushmore then I think you would love it too. It actually means something, looks cooler, and isn’t funded by the government.

    I find it interesting that nobody else had mentioned it.

    • @PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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      40•9 months ago

      I don’t mind the Feds funding art. I only mind them funding shitty art that violates local customs and treaties with sovereign tribes. Like, zero redeeming qualities here with Rushmore.

      • @andrewta@lemmy.world
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        Not sure who downvoted you two times or why.

        People down vote the strangest things

    • @Syd@lemm.ee
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      The same guy designed both.

      • Krafty Kactus
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        5•9 months ago

        That is just patently false

        • @Syd@lemm.ee
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          You’re right, I was wrong. He was an assistant to the sculptor of Rushmore.

  • @Freefall@lemmy.world
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    39•9 months ago

    Been there, it is legit underwhelming.

    • @iamtrashman1312@lemmy.world
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      Me too. I went there when I was 10 or 11, and as a child all I noticed was how incongruous it was with everything. I wasn’t awed by it, and my parents seemed sort of put out with how I didn’t care for it compared to my sisters.

      I’d like to pretend that’s some kind of deep political sentiment, but really I think it’s just aesthetically displeasing if you don’t have a thing for monuments

      • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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        21•9 months ago

        Adults get weird when the indoctrinating they and society put so much effort into doesn’t take hold. So much so, that they find some mental illness like Autism to label the child with.

        • @EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world
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          This implies autism isn’t a real thing and that’s pretty off base

          • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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            I did not imply autism doesn’t exist. I implied that kids who don’t fall in line with their social programming run the risk of being diagnosed with autism as it’s easier then reflecting on where or not the programming is correct.

            • @baggachipz@sh.itjust.works
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              “Neuro-divergent” seems to be the catch-all today. Though I guess that’s considered on the spectrum too? Anyway, the majority of these cases seem to be “diagnosed” by YouTube parents.

              • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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                I was diagnosed by an over ambitious child study team member in kindergarten that convinced my mother I had a learning disability. What followed was 13 years of wasted public education because every success proved the program worked and every failure proved the program was necessary.

                If it had happened today, I would have been diagnosed with autism and nothing would be better.

        • @WldFyre@lemm.ee
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          What??

          • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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            Did I studder? If kids don’t respond the way adults want them to, they get labeled as being a Problem.

            • @WldFyre@lemm.ee
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              That makes more sense, I just didn’t get why you mentioned autism in your first comment. Seems like an odd take to me.

              • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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                Advertising/Propaganda doesn’t work as well on people with Autism. I called it a mental illness because regardless of what flowery language society decides to use to describe neurodivergent people, they will treat them like pariahs.

            • @maccentric@sh.itjust.works
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              3•9 months ago

              Stutter*

            • @Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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              1•9 months ago

              What? Speak up.

      • @PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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        20•9 months ago

        I dunno, I have a thing for monuments and I still find it aesthetically displeasing. It’s pretty ugly.

      • @dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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        Same here. If you have no attachment to the figures portrayed, it fails at the kind of gravitas that you’d think an entire mountainside would/should command. It’s a strange thing.

    • @kaboom36@ani.social
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      I remember one of the massive air compressors they had on display there better than the monument itself…

      Though I am a giant nerd for that sort of thing so it might just be me

      • @Dr_DOOM_@lemmy.world
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        Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!.. What kind of psi? You said massive, was it mobile? Did it have any mods?.. I need to know!

        • @kaboom36@ani.social
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          It was years ago so I don’t remember most details, I can’t remember anything about pressure, it was stationary, single cylinder, with a flywheel at least 6 feet tall and I don’t think it had any modifications made I would have loved to see it running but I don’t think it had been ran in at least a 70 years

  • @Dorkyd68@lemmy.world
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    Even as a young child I was very disappointed seeing it in person. Very underwhelming. The only cool part I thought was looking through the binocular things and spying on other tourists. I was an odd kid whatever

    • @Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
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      Same thing with seeing the Mona Lisa in person. It’s a very small painting against the a far wall in a special room, and that room is packed shoulder-to-shoulder, asshole-to-elbow shithead tourists. Kinda cool to see it in person I guess, but not really worth the effort

    • @BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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      The only cool part I thought was looking through the binocular things and spying on other tourists. I was an odd kid whatever

      Yes, that is indeed extremely strange behavior. I don’t believe that it has ever been reported before /s

  • @bitball@lemmy.world
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    i hate everything about this damned monumemt

  • Annoyed_🦀
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    20•9 months ago

    Who are they, the 4 Hokage?

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