You must log in or register to comment.
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.
The same guy designed both.
That is just patently false
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.
Not sure who downvoted you two times or why.
People down vote the strangest things
mt. splashmore or gtfo
‘Great man’ theory of history rears its ugly head(s)
Mt Rushmore is a very good symbol of the US in that way. Looks impressive in marketing and media, but tacky and small IRL
You have to park in a garage and walk down a narrow path lined with people trying to sell you shit. Its more like visiting a mall with aggressive salesmen than a national park. It was the worst stop I made during a cross country road trip.
i think its also a very good symbol of how the US just forgets about even their very own laws at a snap of a finger and that no nation in the world (not even the us itself) can ever trust them with anything. like for example the so called freedom of religion when we’re at the Sioux Blackbhills anyway.
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
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.
So where would you go?
Another example of why downvotes are sometimes necessary. All they’ll care about is the six people that agreed with them
I don’t see any houses on the mountain
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.
Might be a cool opportunity to build cohesion even. What if we (in consult with the Lakota whose land it annually is) build in a few cool people from other tribes too (e.g. chief Seattle, and others from all over the country). That could make it feel more like a monument to all of us.
Generally not a fan of defacing nature though. There’s a joke in there somewhere but it’s too early.
Shoot at Washington’s face until he turns into Wario!
I like how you pixelated the hell out of this so that it’s ironically almost impossible to zoom in on it
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
I dunno, I have a thing for monuments and I still find it aesthetically displeasing. It’s pretty ugly.
Same here. If you have no attachment to the figures portrayed, it fails at the kind of gravitas that you’d think an entire mountainside would/should command. It’s a strange thing.
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.
This implies autism isn’t a real thing and that’s pretty off base
I did not imply autism doesn’t exist. I implied that kids who don’t fall in line with their social programming run the risk of being diagnosed with autism as it’s easier then reflecting on where or not the programming is correct.
“Neuro-divergent” seems to be the catch-all today. Though I guess that’s considered on the spectrum too? Anyway, the majority of these cases seem to be “diagnosed” by YouTube parents.
I was diagnosed by an over ambitious child study team member in kindergarten that convinced my mother I had a learning disability. What followed was 13 years of wasted public education because every success proved the program worked and every failure proved the program was necessary.
If it had happened today, I would have been diagnosed with autism and nothing would be better.
What??
Did I studder? If kids don’t respond the way adults want them to, they get labeled as being a Problem.
That makes more sense, I just didn’t get why you mentioned autism in your first comment. Seems like an odd take to me.
Advertising/Propaganda doesn’t work as well on people with Autism. I called it a mental illness because regardless of what flowery language society decides to use to describe neurodivergent people, they will treat them like pariahs.
Stutter*
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
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!.. What kind of psi? You said massive, was it mobile? Did it have any mods?.. I need to know!
It was years ago so I don’t remember most details, I can’t remember anything about pressure, it was stationary, single cylinder, with a flywheel at least 6 feet tall and I don’t think it had any modifications made I would have loved to see it running but I don’t think it had been ran in at least a 70 years
It’s even worse on a rainy day, if not ironic.
Why are Lincoln’s snot trails the reverse of everyone else?
He got that thick brow
the big stone heads are crying. this is a bad omen
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
The only cool part I thought was looking through the binocular things and spying on other tourists. I was an odd kid whatever
Yes, that is indeed extremely strange behavior. I don’t believe that it has ever been reported before /s
Reminder, we have this “monument”, but Thomas Paine is still without anything in DC.
When I first saw the Statue of Liberty I was genuinely amazed at how small it was 😂
Hey, maybe it was just a cold day, okay?
Do women know about shrinkage?
It’s not that small considering it was both free and had to be taken apart to fit on a single ship lol
You should see the one we have in Paris
I prefer Spain’s.
I thought they zoomed in on the faces so you could see them
what wiki is this? runescape?
Civilization IV
Requires Fascism
I guess if things go south in November we’ll be up for Mt. Rushmore 2: The Movement known as Boogaloo
The boogaloo in question stems from the same meme you’re quoting and is a second civil war. Fun stuff
Yup that’s why I linked to it, for reference
Figured you’re familiar with their ideology, I just wanted to point it out again to anyone with even the slightest bit of doubt as to what fascists are planning for the coming years
That was just Civ IV calling Teddy names because he was a populist militaristic progressive.
i hate everything about this damned monumemt
