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I totally agree that these statues should be kept intact but not maintained in a memorial garden where the whole treason can be enshrined and never forgotten.

I'm reminded of the giant lynching mural at Indiana University and how some sensitive white kids were offended by it and wanted it removed. The black student union had to remind them, "this is your history, this is where you come from. If you erase it, you risk forgetting it".

The most painful history is the stuff we need to preserve. Humans suffered, fought, and died so that we could live a better life. I don't want to forget that.

The irony.

Wilson segregated the federal government, refounded the KKK, sponsored Birth of a Nation, and started erecting the statues. Fucker needs to be remembered as the worst president in history, just because of the shit he did domestically, I won't even get into the shit show he caused with his foreign policies

Look, we saved the entire fucking Senate by electing two Democratic Senators. This is just one rep from the podunk buttfuckery corner of the state. Give us a damn break!

I like to point out that, most recently, it's the responsibility of only 82,000 people in this country (total votes: 170k out of 258k) that has filled (it feels like) 82% of our news cycle with this person's barfhole. If you go back to her first primary win, it's 21,000. https://ballotpedia.org/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene

What I don't understand is why the losers are so widely celebrated?

If only it were that simple.

Lemmy as a real issue with a lot of random no-name news websites being posted to it tbh

She didn't say that directly. She insinuated that the Democrats were trying to remove monuments of the founding fathers, and immediately followed that statement with: "Just like they did with the statue of Robert E. Lee," in Charlottesville. The representative from Maine was merely responding to her entire statement.

The article title is correct, it just wasn't as much of a burn as you'd like. The calling out did happen, but was just a bit misplaced since Greene didn't explicitly make the offending statement.

Also Greene is dumb and I'm sure is still confused about what a founding father is.

Or anything relating MTG.

She's just a low effort troll looking for attention.

There's no value in anything she ever said or did in her entirely life, so there's no value in reporting on any of it either.

I facepalm seeing people who are usually on top of the ball with their political views sharing articles from Mediaite, The Daily Beast, and The New Republic without recognizing the prominence of inflammatory and agenda-pushing bad journalism across these platforms. It may not be every single story or headline but it’s a consistent theme, especially with the more viral articles. The same types of flaws are a major aspect of what Fox News is condemned for and lead to people picking a side of a story or picking a party just for emotion and in-grouping rather than reason.

So right. I'm quite sick of these articles that sound like a teenager relaying an interaction they had in school today.

"And so Maggie said 'that's stupid' and then Tom said 'no you're stupid.' It was wicked."

Dude, what isn't click bait anymore?

Agreed. No fan, but from the article “Greene did not say that Lee was a founding father”

Why the long face, Marge?