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And into the present one. ;0)
Post #419,676
by
mmoffitt
8/15/17 4:34:32 PM
8/15/17 4:34:32 PM
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And into the present one. ;0)
bcnu,
Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
Monumental frolic
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rcareaga
)
- (68)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 07:46:53 PM EDT
Think you included the wrong linky
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drook
)
- (7)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 10:13:13 AM EDT
Thanks; fixed
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rcareaga
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- (4)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 10:26:38 AM EDT
Hadn't thought of that
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drook
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- (3)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 11:01:20 AM EDT
Is there any place on earth where the victors didn't destroy the symbols of the conquered?
-NT
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mmoffitt
)
- (2)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 11:55:36 AM EDT
Other than the entire southern U.S. you mean?
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drook
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- (1)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 01:26:35 PM EDT
You mentioned it below, but the Vietnam War Memorial is an obvious example.
-NT
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mmoffitt
)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 01:31:55 PM EDT
I think those ones in the middle east are a different basket.
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static
)
- (1)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 10:53:02 PM EDT
Yeah, I've figured out my intuition
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drook
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- Aug. 15, 2017, 11:13:33 PM EDT
My thoughts.
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mmoffitt
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- (56)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 12:05:58 PM EDT
Do they have monuments to those who died in wars they lost?
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drook
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- (55)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 01:29:41 PM EDT
I heard a report on NPR that the cops are looking for the perps, and intend to charge them.
-NT
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mmoffitt
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- (38)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 01:33:25 PM EDT
They should handle it the way they did Bree Newsome.
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Another Scott
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- (37)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 03:17:44 PM EDT
"Toxic" is a bit strong.
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mmoffitt
)
- (36)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 03:21:01 PM EDT
Malice? Or civil disobedience?
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drook
)
- (5)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 03:27:08 PM EDT
Really? Amendment 13 much?
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mmoffitt
)
- (4)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 04:16:22 PM EDT
I was thinking more 1960s than 1790s
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drook
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- (3)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 04:22:20 PM EDT
The relative effectiveness of changing a "wrong" law vs breaking the law.
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mmoffitt
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- (2)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 04:29:58 PM EDT
Did the law get changed before or after a war was fought?
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drook
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- (1)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 04:30:13 PM EDT
So, changing the law works? Or it doesn't (as you previously stated)? I'm confused. And tired.
-NT
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mmoffitt
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- Aug. 15, 2017, 04:33:15 PM EDT
Not really.
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Another Scott
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- (29)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 04:16:44 PM EDT
Eh.
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mmoffitt
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- (25)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 04:22:36 PM EDT
Three-for-three
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drook
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- (21)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 04:26:54 PM EDT
Move to strike. Incoherent.
-NT
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mmoffitt
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- (20)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 04:27:48 PM EDT
OK, I'm done
-NT
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drook
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- Aug. 15, 2017, 04:31:05 PM EDT
Only to you
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crazy
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- Aug. 15, 2017, 09:58:34 PM EDT
"Incoherent"? What's more incoherent than trying strategy after strategy, only to...
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CRConrad
)
- (17)
- Aug. 16, 2017, 06:39:07 AM EDT
You guys really need to drop the "privilege" meme.
-NT
- (
mmoffitt
)
- (16)
- Aug. 16, 2017, 08:25:06 AM EDT
Which part of White Supremacist Statue Hugger says anything about "privilege"?!?
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CRConrad
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- (15)
- Aug. 16, 2017, 08:53:07 AM EDT
Oh, now I'm a White Supremacist.
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mmoffitt
)
- (14)
- Aug. 16, 2017, 10:19:08 AM EDT
"There were no good guys."
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drook
)
- (3)
- Aug. 16, 2017, 11:00:13 AM EDT
Buy a history book.
-NT
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mmoffitt
)
- (2)
- Aug. 16, 2017, 11:55:01 AM EDT
Care to narrow that down a bit?
-NT
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drook
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- (1)
- Aug. 16, 2017, 12:00:35 PM EDT
Re: Care to narrow that down a bit?
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mmoffitt
)
- Aug. 16, 2017, 12:15:53 PM EDT
You're a day late and a dollar short.
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CRConrad
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- (9)
- Aug. 17, 2017, 03:02:10 AM EDT
No mention of privilege? Re-read Drew's post. Here, I'll help you, since you obviously need it.
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mmoffitt
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- (8)
- Aug. 17, 2017, 08:39:30 AM EDT
"Read me in my posts", as someone used to say.
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CRConrad
)
- (1)
- Aug. 17, 2017, 09:04:33 AM EDT
It's great to have you back.
-NT
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mmoffitt
)
- Aug. 17, 2017, 11:08:11 AM EDT
Baltimore isn't constrained by the state laws about removing monuments.
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Another Scott
)
- (2)
- Aug. 17, 2017, 09:11:36 AM EDT
Re: ... the other party controls the legislature via gerrymandering and voter suppression.
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mmoffitt
)
- (1)
- Aug. 17, 2017, 11:21:01 AM EDT
(One arrives at such a conclusion fairly: only after it marinates-well. I wot.)
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Ashton
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- Aug. 17, 2017, 04:15:32 PM EDT
Yes, Baltimore did it the next day. I wonder why ...
-NT
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drook
)
- (2)
- Aug. 17, 2017, 09:23:14 AM EDT
I've withdrawn from being an advocate of violent revolution.
-NT
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mmoffitt
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- (1)
- Aug. 17, 2017, 11:21:46 AM EDT
eh? yer off the flogging committee then,
-NT
- (
boxley
)
- Aug. 17, 2017, 07:16:06 PM EDT
Really?
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Another Scott
)
- (2)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 04:43:17 PM EDT
Sorry. Not enough words on my part.
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mmoffitt
)
- (1)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 04:47:41 PM EDT
No it's not
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crazy
)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 10:01:05 PM EDT
local controls
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rcareaga
)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 04:24:24 PM EDT
Impossible? Bah, nothing is impossible.
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CRConrad
)
- Aug. 16, 2017, 07:24:49 AM EDT
Or, perhaps even better...
- (
CRConrad
)
- Aug. 16, 2017, 07:27:48 AM EDT
Try ... the 'Korean War' for a negative conclusion..
- (
Ashton
)
- (1)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 04:52:23 PM EDT
that was a tie and still isnt over
-NT
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boxley
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- Aug. 15, 2017, 07:14:07 PM EDT
Actually, there are some
- (
scoenye
)
- (4)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 06:35:41 PM EDT
And for something on the wrong side of the tracks and closer to current events
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scoenye
)
- (3)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 09:00:09 PM EDT
Passing strange, this all..
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Ashton
)
- (2)
- Aug. 31, 2017, 09:56:46 PM EDT
The monument was "dual use" from the get go
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scoenye
)
- (1)
- Sept. 2, 2017, 10:58:05 AM EDT
Belatedly.. this manifestly-schizoid chain of events may illuminate just why
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Ashton
)
- Sept. 17, 2017, 08:08:51 PM EDT
yes in every town square altho to be fair it also includes all lives lost in all wars
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boxley
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- Aug. 15, 2017, 07:11:40 PM EDT
Every town and village in the UK has a war memorial
- (
pwhysall
)
- (7)
- Aug. 16, 2017, 03:00:21 AM EDT
Aussie ones are about remembering the fallen, too.
-NT
- (
static
)
- Aug. 16, 2017, 06:30:10 AM EDT
We've got those, too
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drook
)
- Aug. 16, 2017, 08:11:33 AM EDT
The clear intent of the things here can be inferred from the timing.
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Another Scott
)
- (4)
- Aug. 16, 2017, 08:36:01 AM EDT
That Drum link: yes, that
-NT
- (
drook
)
- (1)
- Aug. 16, 2017, 08:51:03 AM EDT
Indeed, graph needs words; Drum has them.
-NT
- (
Ashton
)
- Aug. 16, 2017, 06:24:21 PM EDT
curious, have you actually seen "birth of a nation"?
-NT
- (
boxley
)
- (1)
- Aug. 16, 2017, 06:59:17 PM EDT
Yup. Saw it in class in HS.
-NT
- (
Another Scott
)
- Aug. 16, 2017, 08:48:04 PM EDT
Don't know when that statue was erected, but the Robert E. Lee one in C'ville was 1924.
- (
a6l6e6x
)
- (1)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 04:32:58 PM EDT
And into the present one. ;0)
-NT
- (
mmoffitt
)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 04:34:32 PM EDT
PS: Just NOW I hear [his audio] Prez. Orange declaim
- (
Ashton
)
- Aug. 15, 2017, 05:23:14 PM EDT
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