Confederate Monument Removed From Town Square In Atlanta Suburb

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — With hundreds of people watching as midnight approached, a crane moved in and took down a Confederate monument that stood in the town square of an Atlanta suburb since 1908.


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Too bad, so sad, I’m glad.

Get used to it losers, the future is here.

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This one is more to the point:

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OT- While QAnon stirs up the fever dreams of Satanic pedos in the sub-90 IQ crowd, Repugnicants in Arizona get busy profiting off state-subsidized child trafficking…

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What part of “lost cause” is not clearly understood?

The Confederacy lost cause they got whipped.

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Hey, it’s just business…

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A long term and ongoing project for America…
Racist symbols, but moreover systematic racism will need to be removed root and branch.

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Nice one America

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“This feels great. This is a people’s victory. All of our young people from Decatur High School that made this happen. All of these organizers, everybody came together,” Davis told The Associated Press. “This is it. This is a victory for this country. This is an example of what can happen when people work together.”

I’m told that this sort of thing is suspect, and that support for it is mere “virtue signaling.”

Imagine my confusion.

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Also an indictable offense.

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this one’s even better

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I would make a deal with the south and neo-conferderaes. They can have all the confederate statutes they want, but every one of them needs to be of General James Longstreet. Not a single statue of him Exists in a prominent place, which says everything you need to know. And I would probably give an exception for gen, Joseph e, Johnston as well.

Both behaved honorably and had post civil war careers, and Longstreet actually fought racism.

That both were blamed in lost cause mythology - when in fact both had fought honorably and well (and in fact the south might not have lost the war if Jefferson Davis had not Overruled Johnston) - is the reason they lack statues, while confederate racists who never gave up the cause got them.

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525’ too short anyway.

Years ago, someone asked me why I liked the move Just Cause. I told her, “Just 'cause.” She didn’t get it (my life in a nutshell).

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I’ve never wanted to be a pigeon any more than I did after seeing this!

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You’ve probably already seen this one. If not…

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