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KY_EnviroGuy

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9. Seems we're approaching the day when we will be a statue-free society.
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 12:36 AM
Jul 2020

As a politically highly divided nation, there may no longer be any common heroes......

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I'm sure the writer meant "Lenin" not "Lennon" BarbD Jul 2020 #1
Maybe the writer dated and had a bad breakup generalbetrayus Jul 2020 #5
A one and a two. Dem2theMax Jul 2020 #8
They was hot... 3Hotdogs Jul 2020 #16
I suspect the writer had no idea who Lenin was. And the editor should have caught that. But Nay Jul 2020 #18
They've all gone to heaven, along with the proof readers FakeNoose Jul 2020 #21
Firesign Theater's take: lagomorph777 Jul 2020 #23
V.I. Lenin! Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov! 47of74 Jul 2020 #26
No pic of the statue in the link? Polybius Jul 2020 #2
It's the thought that counts, I guess. appalachiablue Jul 2020 #13
Sometimes I love this town Warpy Jul 2020 #3
Amazing to me that he thought gold would just be laying out on the ground... pbmus Jul 2020 #7
Are you thinking of Coronado? Warpy Jul 2020 #11
This BS argument that if there isn't a statue of someone who was fucked up we will forget them Quixote1818 Jul 2020 #4
Isn't that the point of putting up the Epstein statue? gab13by13 Jul 2020 #14
I agree as it was done more as a statement by putting it at a Gov building temporarely Quixote1818 Jul 2020 #25
Well, exactly. If we want to remember the REAL history, we would put up statues of Nay Jul 2020 #19
This is one of the more El Norte things in recent events... LOL... n/t TygrBright Jul 2020 #6
Seems we're approaching the day when we will be a statue-free society. KY_EnviroGuy Jul 2020 #9
And how long can we stay a dangerously 'divided country'? appalachiablue Jul 2020 #15
You know, that's pretty clever. Sapient Donkey Jul 2020 #10
Something different 👍 Raine Jul 2020 #12
There should be statues of Gropenfuhrer in front of every 3Hotdogs Jul 2020 #17
Perhaps they can put up a statue of Epstein in front of Mar -a - Lago.... FM123 Jul 2020 #20
Some artists' collective idea of a socially relevant statement...? LudwigPastorius Jul 2020 #22
whoever thought up the Epstein statue idea is brilliant. SleeplessinSoCal Jul 2020 #24
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