deafboy

Hold your horses, not everyone around here is a human asshole specialist.

You're right. The confederate statues did cross my mind when I was typing my post, and I do think destroying them would be a shame.

Even watching statues of such dispecable people as Stalin or Saddam being torn down always made me feel kind of a dread.

While trying to rationalize the feeling I came up with few ideas.

• One does not destroy art. It's like burning books. Unexcusable.
• What if they forget, how even the artists has been manipulated to celebrate monsters? -If someone is willing to show such violence towards a symbol today, what stops them from mowing people left and right tomorrow?

What's even more fucked up in case of el salvador, is that the statue was there to commemorate the end of the war. If a person has no respect towards a symbol of peace, however ugly it might subjectively be, how much respect does he have towards the peace itself?

It's not looking good.

El Salvador tears down the Reconciliation Monument, a symbol of the end of a bloody civil war that took place between 1980 and 1992, which President Nayib Bukele branded "unsightly" and an apology for pacts between the left and right. "It was a monument to corruption," says Public Works Minister Romeo Rodriguez.

Shit is getting dangerously close to the fan when a society starts to demolish their monuments.

reduce, REUSE, recycle, ffs...

I'd love to, but it's comfy in the world where religious violence is the theme of the party.

While I probably overreacted I still wouldn't use this to get drunk if I were in their shoes.

Building a database of non-muslim diplomats does not seem like a breakthrough. I can't help myself but smell nazi everywhere I look lately.

Thank you for your service!

united in their commitment to the end of armed conflict

So... the feast is cancelled?

I believe the state IS a religious apparatus.

And until it creates new boxes to assign people in, there's the next best thing: https://github.com/pavoltravnik/tameMe

Which is, again, just a government's formal recognition of the relationship. Why do people care so much about the religious rituals of the government?

Southpark - Canada wants more money!

I'd go further. Imagine if we extended the purge to the young population as well. They'd no longer need to work hard to give their children stability and a chance to succeed. No wars, no famine, no sickens... no suffering. All that, achievable right now! All it takes is to kill ourselves!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4146128/