Message from @RagheadSteve
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How often do discussions/debates happen here?
Rarely
Not bad not bad
I mean
Honestly
It depends on the day tbh
And if anything interesting happens
The only debate in here i think was with me and @americanaf debating if we should open the economy
Gotcha. What are your guys’ thoughts on tearing down statues and wanting to rename military bases?
Bullshit
Bs
Aberham Lincoln freed slaves
Maybe they should read a history book for once in there life's
People can suck my cock and leave my country before that ever happens
Gosh forbid if they find a way to attack statue of liberty
Huh? They desecrated the steps of the Lincoln memorial but not the actual statue. What about like Robert E Lee?
Theres a petition
To wreck it
Lincoln? Ha. Like that’ll ever happen. What are you thoughts on tearing down Robert E Lee?
Doesnt matter which side they fought on. It's a piece of history and you keep it
*was
Wasnt that wall dividing the country i think
Can you give a better argument besides it’s history? Just because someone is a historical figure doesn’t mean you should name a military base after them
Did you hear about the 2 cops who
Was fired
For defending themselves
I don't need to give a better argument to something that helped to forge our country into what it is now. If you try to remove history, it simply repeats itself.
I smell a civil war coming
Yes you do because the axiom you picked for defending the statues is just “it’s history”. But if hypothetically Germany had a “Hitler airforce base” that would be problematic. A very good response to your argument would be to just put the statues in a museum, and not glorifying them in public
For the record, I’m not in favor of tearing them down. And I wouldn’t disagree that the history behind them is an important reason to keep them. I just think that argument alone isn’t strong enough
We must learn from history
So that we can prevent it or lessen the problems
Tearing it down will make people forget the solutions and will repeat the problems maybe worse since now a days weapons are more advanced
Tearing down statues -> people forgetting about the evils of slavery -> second civil war. That’s a dictionary definition of a slippery slope fallacy.
We still learn about slavery/the civil war in school, and we would have them still in museums. The purpose of the statues is to admire and honor them, not to remember a nasty past.
They teared down the Columbus statue
i made thi
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