• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Christ, he called out the statues again.

    He and his racist base are just so butthurt about statues. So he’s going to occupy a city to…1. protect racist statues, 2. go after the homeless, and 3. remove slums.

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      13 hours ago

      My dad (RIP) became nuts over civil war statues. I don’t remember him ever saying anything hot/cold fora long time one way or another about the Confederacy even though we lived near Shiloh Military Park. We talked about Civil War kind of stuff normally for years, but then all of a sudden he was 100% white hot on Civil War statues and would not entertain anything but total agreement. He would slam the phone down on me and then call right back to chew me out if I didn’t instantly and fully agree with what he was saying about they are part of our history and should be protected. He’d park in front of the county courthouse to make sure that nothing happened to the statue there. I felt like he was acting the same way that I did when I was a dumb idiot and getting mad about all the wrong things.