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Bless you Drew, for coming in and delivering exactly what I needed on this fine day - which is to say, talking about how fucking cool it is to watch statues devoted to old racist shitheels come crashing down. I could watch a thousand more of these things, for real.

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Thank you Drew. This was a great read. Hell yeah to tearing down these statues.

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Now this is the stuff! Inject this in my veins!

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every time a new statue comes down i feel like a little kid riding a new rollercoaster for the first time. you'd think eventually the novelty would wear off, and with it, the excitement. but every damn time i'm just like "yes, that was awesome! again! again!"

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hell yes, this is EXTREMELY the content i sub'd for

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I think we should start with statues but not give up till we also take out trophy cases.

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Fuck all statues but fuck the racist ones especially hard.

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Thanks Drew, I also love this shit.

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All statues can eat shit.

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But with all these monuments gone how will I ever remember these people existed?!

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Yessssssss. All of this. I love that one of the Christopher Columbus statues was pulled down, landed in a body of water, and its Google Maps location was immediately updated to show that.

We had a couple who was arrested for trying to pull down our biggest State Douche from the capital grounds but no more luck so far. Ah well, at least we can be proud of Bree Newsome down here.

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If this gets you going, look some of the Taliban. That is wild and cray cray. We can learn something form them

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While it wasn’t a rogue toppling, I watched Stonewall Jackson get taken down by the city in Richmond and it was one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. Especially when a guy with a pro-monument flag got booed out of the crowd, had his flag stolen, and had it set on fire.

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Haven’t the people of Baltimore already thrown enough trash in the harbor? For shame!

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I spilt my tea

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2nd loud and proud shout out from Canada!

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