WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

I'd agree with LockeZ if it wasn't a symbol of oppression. Americans like destroying symbols of oppression~

Reminds of this although not quite the same


edit: I... I didn't want this page. Read Libby's post on the page before it's really big XD

Burning books and toppling statues isn't a solution to anything. In another 150 years they're going to microwave all the copies of FF7 because it's a symbol of hate against corporations.

That's what people in 150 years will say about your hate against corporations.

Edit:
The idea that freedom is more important than productivity is not intrinsic to the cosmos. People in the future might think that the loss of freedom caused by slavery is arguably kinda bad, while the loss of productivity caused by self-employment is inherently inexcusable.

Of course, the reason they'll think this is that it'll have been ingrained into their heads by the corporations that control all of human civilization. But that's where our beliefs come from too - they were ingrained into us by the billions of individuals that refuse to give up control of their own lives.

Nothing is inherently morally abhorrent except for mayonnaise on pizza.

author=Liberty
Then again, looking back in history, the destruction of oppressive symbols have always stood out strong and been remembered. Berlin wall, for a great example. The building and destruction there-of is a big memory of an oppressive regime that came and went and the destruction of said wall became a symbol of the human spirits who could not be divided. I doubt this will have the same lasting remembrance, but it's still showing the emotion of the moment.

Yeah, they might be about 150 years too late to match the Berlin Wall moment.
I think they should've simply carted the thing off somewhere. Smashing it will probably just play into the "violent/intolerant left"/"revolutionary-wannabe millennials" rhetoric.

e: wait, I think I have some news stories mixed up. So, the statue in the GIF was just something protestors did on their own accord someplace else? That's... an even worse look, honestly.

"Don't destroy art :(" is a pretty lame excuse for why we should be nice and not wreck statues of white supremacists and other oppressors. They shouldn't have been there in the first place frankly.

Like, forget for a sec that art isn't even real in the first place- something counting as "art" (an argument that can be made about literally anything) doesn't remove the fact that it's there to commemorate hideous, racist people who were fighting to keep slavery legal. You don't see nazi statues standing around in Germany cause they're "art".

Acting like its an issue of "people need to remember the past" is silly since the preservation of pro-racist art is not an integral part of teaching people why the confederacy was wrong. Erect a statue of the slaves that fought to free themselves instead. Same history, same rememberance- a deserving subject instead of some pig.

Being civil only works when your opponents ar willing to listen. Considering you have armed white supremacist terrorists showimg up to rallies with assault rifles and military gear (and driving cars into people to try and murder them) we're long past the point of "civility".

Well it is a bit annoying if people destroy fairly old pieces of art when it could just be removed and stored somewhere and occasionally shown in an "exhibit of racist art".
I mean at the fall of the Soviet Union a lot of "communist hero" statues got destroyed or defaced and it is a bit sad that some of them will be lost forever, but it's also clear that not every single one of them needed to be preserved.

And it is also clear they didn't need to be in public places anymore.

EDIT: Also I read somewhere that a lot of the statues are actually mass produced garbage. So it's probably okay to destroy most of those.

EDIT2: https://twitter.com/taber/status/897292040790323201 is where I read it. Quite interesting.

Mayo/sriracha mayo is sick on pizza

author=Jeroen_Sol
Okay, but what about mayonnaise AND pineapple on pizza? Surely that must be inherently morally abhorrent?

I did it all the time when I lived in Toronto. With broccoli on there too

Shit was good. My go to pizza order was broccoli, black olive, sundried tomato, mushroom, & pineapple with jalapeno ranch + blue cheese dips. Used mayo when I ran out of the dip.

It's not surprising that this combined with rampant alcoholism led to weight gain of about 40lbs over the course of a few months.

Don't really eat much pizza anymore. Hard to get good stuff now that I've moved back to NFLD, and I'm losing weight again so I have no time for it tbh

I wouldn't mind mayo on pizza. I hate ketchup, so I'd prefer mayo either way.