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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.
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.
Not sure who downvoted you two times or why.
People down vote the strangest things
The same guy designed both.
That is just patently false
even the entire story around its creation is fucking lame. if this were in any other country, it would be used in 80% of American action movies as a symbol of the oppressive foreign country that’s about to attack the US.
I bet if you fashioned a garrote out of dynamite, you could do some pretty funny modifications to this “art”.
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but statues of real people are cringe… and Mount Rushmore is basically maximum cringe by that measure.
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. I will hire the worst sprayers(graffiti artists) of the city so that they may further deface the leftover rubble the same night.
Wait till you hear about the Colossus of Rhodes
Or the Statue of Unity! Even Christ the Redeemer is taller than Mount Rushmore.
I think there was this ozymandias guy once too…
woooow
How have I never seen this? It looks so sad :(
I’ve seen them before and they are ugly. None of them would have wanted their face there so who is actually being honored?
Teddy did. That’s why his face is included
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.
I dunno, Theodore was also a reknowned appreciator of natural beauty, so I could see it going either way.
Yes, he protected land like this from developers. He’s the reason we have national parks. No way he would have approved this.
Shoot at Washington’s face until he turns into Wario!
Requires Fascism
I guess if things go south in November we’ll be up for Mt. Rushmore 2: The Movement known as Boogaloo
The boogaloo in question stems from the same meme you’re quoting and is a second civil war. Fun stuff
Yup that’s why I linked to it, for reference
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
That was just Civ IV calling Teddy names because he was a populist militaristic progressive.
what wiki is this? runescape?
Civilization IV
It’s even worse on a rainy day, if not ironic.
Why are Lincoln’s snot trails the reverse of everyone else?
He got that thick brow
the big stone heads are crying. this is a bad omen
When I first saw the Statue of Liberty I was genuinely amazed at how small it was 😂
You should see the one we have in Paris
I prefer Spain’s.
Hey, maybe it was just a cold day, okay?
Do women know about shrinkage?
It’s not that small considering it was both free and had to be taken apart to fit on a single ship lol
Reminder, we have this “monument”, but Thomas Paine is still without anything in DC.
What a fuck ugly pile of shit.
They didn’t even clean up the rubble
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
They didn’t bother to check what the mountain was made of. The answer was granite.
They thought they knew what it was made of, but took their assumptions for granite
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?
That was intentional, the klansman who built it didn’t choose a place that was culturally significant to the indigenous people by accident.
I’m not American, but the isopods that live with me under the same rock weren’t aware that this was made by Klansmen
Don’t worry - most Americans don’t know either.
i hate everything about this damned monumemt
We should give back that to the natives, alongside with some TNT in case they want those faces to go.
