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[–] 71 points 10 months ago (12 children)
  • [–] 41 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    A sacred mountain range taken from the Lakota Sioux by gunpoint in the Great Sioux War of 1876.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

    And the Lakota Sioux took it from the Cheyenne tribe by arrow point only 100 years prior to that. So yea, the Sioux had the land stolen from them by force, but they stole it by force themselves before that. And by this point, the US has controlled the land longer than the Sioux ever did.

    On the other hand, the US did have a formal treaty with the Sioux that granted them the land which the US willfully broke when gold was discovered.

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  • [–] -3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Firstly, you disgust me, I can see you are refraining from using a slur, in future I encourage you to be honest, we see you.

    Secondly, the fascist carving was undertaken by a member of the klan, who'd previously done something similar with a confederate general.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)
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    His favorite game to play outside was cowboys and Indians. Tales of the American West were very popular among boys in Austria and Germany. Books by James Fenimore Cooper and especially German writer Karl May were eagerly read and re-enacted. May, who had never been to the American West, invented a hero named Old Shatterhand, a white man who always won his battles with Native Americans, defeating his enemies through sheer will power and bravery. Young Hitler read and reread every one of May’s books about Old Shatterhand, totaling more than 70 novels. He continued to read them even as Führer. During the German attack on the Soviet Union he sometimes referred to the Russians as Redskins and ordered his officers to carry May’s books about fighting.

    https://jewishjournal.com/mobile_20111212/117824/hitlers-inspiration-and-guide-the-native-american-holocaust/

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  • [+] 23 points 10 months ago (13 children)
  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    If anyone put the idea in his head, there is no doubt in my mind he'd try to have himself carved into it. I firmly believe the only reason he hasn't is because he hasn't remembered it exists.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    No no. He has on multiple times confirmed he's going to do that.

    In response, most experts agree that if they even attempt it, the mountain isn't strong enough to support any more deep rock drilling. If they try, the likelyhood is, the entire mountain and all 4 heads collapse and crumble into itself.

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  • [+] 28 points 10 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    He should be there watching it happen. Right up close.

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago

    Rushmore? No thanks I'll make more mistakes if I do.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago

    Better call in Frieren to finish him off.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Every time I see this I am reminded by how tiny and thereby underwhelming it looks in real life. The original was more majestic.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Rushmore itself is a gross travesty. Was an Indigenous sacred site called He Sapa. Defaced now.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Yeah, for any gringos with a limited Knowledge of indigenous history, imagine if ISIS genocided 99% of the world's Catholics, and then built a giant statue of its founders on top of the ruins of the Vatican.

    That's what Mt. Rushmore is

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    They're looking to give him a 5th head.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Oil sustains the spell. It's the only explanation for gestures vaguely at everything

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    What about Morerush?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I wanted to comment on this but didn't know what to comment

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