They didn’t even clean up the rubble
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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
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
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Requires Fascism
I guess if things go south in November we'll be up for Mt. Rushmore 2: The Movement known as Boogaloo
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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/charm. I will hire the worst sprayers(graffiti artists) of the city so that they may further deface the leftover rubble the same night.
What a fuck ugly pile of shit.
TBF it was supposed to be bigger.
Wait. You're telling me they didn't even fucking finish it and people are still mad about the idea of losing it?
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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.
It should be given back to the natives, with reparations. I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted to remove the faces and attempt to restore it.
We'll start by giving them back your house
Hey, guess what - wanting a historical wrong to be corrected by having a polity live up to its treaty obligations, however belatedly, by ceding a piece of land on which a rather ugly monument exists on and telling the original owners 'do what you want with it' is not the equivalent of volunteering for ethnic cleansing.
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If that's what it takes to make reparations happen I'll gladly give mine. Thankfully that isn't what reparations would require so you just look like a racist asshole.
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I don't see any houses on the mountain
woooow
How have I never seen this? It looks so sad :(
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.
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Been there, it is legit underwhelming.
Me too. I went there when I was 10 or 11, and as a child all I noticed was how incongruous it was with everything. I wasn't awed by it, and my parents seemed sort of put out with how I didn't care for it compared to my sisters.
I'd like to pretend that's some kind of deep political sentiment, but really I think it's just aesthetically displeasing if you don't have a thing for monuments
Adults get weird when the indoctrinating they and society put so much effort into doesn't take hold. So much so, that they find some mental illness like Autism to label the child with.
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I dunno, I have a thing for monuments and I still find it aesthetically displeasing. It's pretty ugly.
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I remember one of the massive air compressors they had on display there better than the monument itself...
Though I am a giant nerd for that sort of thing so it might just be me
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Even as a young child I was very disappointed seeing it in person. Very underwhelming. The only cool part I thought was looking through the binocular things and spying on other tourists. I was an odd kid whatever
Same thing with seeing the Mona Lisa in person. It's a very small painting against the a far wall in a special room, and that room is packed shoulder-to-shoulder, asshole-to-elbow shithead tourists. Kinda cool to see it in person I guess, but not really worth the effort
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Mt Rushmore is a very good symbol of the US in that way. Looks impressive in marketing and media, but tacky and small IRL
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i hate everything about this damned monumemt
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.
Who are they, the 4 Hokage?
We should give back that to the natives, alongside with some TNT in case they want those faces to go.
Does it at least have a secret chamber behind or is that a 'no' too?
That secret chamber is for Team America's headquarters.
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