DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago‘Giant bronze poop’ statue ‘honoring’ those involved in Jan. 6 riot appears on National Mallwww.dcnewsnow.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1255arrow-down12
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minus-squareCruxifux@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·2 months agoI don’t know, I reread it and that quote on the plate sounds pretty sarcastic to me. “To loot, urinate, and defecate through these hallowed halls to overturn an election” sounds more like a dig than actual reverence to me.
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down9·2 months agoIt’s an action that is celebrated by the insurrectionists and those that support them. I have a hard time believing the artist/people that placed it aren’t supporters. It’s an extremely misguided thing. And as for whoever approved it? It’s the freaking national mall, some decorum is warranted. “It’s just a joke, bro” doesn’t really work here.
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoThe article quotes the permit application, which calls Pelosi’s desk symbolic of the integrity and democracy which the rioters desecrated.
minus-squareOmega@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months ago“Overturn an election” is a dead giveaway that they are against the insurrectionists. That’s not a phrase that supporters use.
I don’t know, I reread it and that quote on the plate sounds pretty sarcastic to me. “To loot, urinate, and defecate through these hallowed halls to overturn an election” sounds more like a dig than actual reverence to me.
It’s an action that is celebrated by the insurrectionists and those that support them.
I have a hard time believing the artist/people that placed it aren’t supporters. It’s an extremely misguided thing.
And as for whoever approved it? It’s the freaking national mall, some decorum is warranted. “It’s just a joke, bro” doesn’t really work here.
The article quotes the permit application, which calls Pelosi’s desk symbolic of the integrity and democracy which the rioters desecrated.
“Overturn an election” is a dead giveaway that they are against the insurrectionists. That’s not a phrase that supporters use.