Crews begin removing Confederate statues from Virginia's Capitol Square

https://www.denver7.com/us-news/crews-begin-removing-confederate-statues-from-virginias-capitol-square

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aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 77 pts · 6d (4 replies)

I can’t believe this is still an ongoing saga.

daychilde@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 6d

I'm proud of my state making progress, though.

nullspace@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 6d

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

crispbacon99@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 6d (1 reply)

And it's only because of gas prices

Maeve@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 21h

?

Blibly@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 6d (5 replies)

Good. No statues for losers.

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 6d

Or ballrooms.

Enkrod@feddit.org · 14 pts · 6d

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.

AA5B@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 5d

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

BooBees@fedinsfw.app · 9 pts · 6d

No time for losers cause we are the champions

SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 6d

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

aramis87@fedia.io · 29 pts · 6d (2 replies)

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.

Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 6d

Theres a Game of Thrones joke here somewhere

CarrierLost@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 6d

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

skisnow@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 6d

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

decolo@piefed.social · 15 pts · 6d

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

treadful@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 6d

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

DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 5d (1 reply)

Now...? They've... been there all this time...?

ours@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 5d

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

QueenHawlSera@piefed.social · 8 pts · 6d (3 replies)

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

Maeve@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 21h (2 replies)

Wishing the best for the Carolina who disagreed with the other Carolina enough to leave.

QueenHawlSera@piefed.social · 3 pts · 11h (1 reply)

North Carolina is the best Carolina

Maeve@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 11h

❤️

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 5d

They finally realized that they actually LOST the civil war?

dan1101@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 5d (1 reply)

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

aGlassDarkly@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 5d

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

SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 3 pts · 6d (2 replies)

Just smash them to bits and leave the pieces there.

Agent641@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 6d (1 reply)

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

Red_October@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 5d

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.