Taliban, communists, BLM terror group, all the same.
Psychotics who want to erase everyone else. Erase all the history, erase all the monuments, then erase all the people.
If you don't protect every statue, you will have none, and seeing that the majority won't protect anything it will just give them the push to do to people what they do to statues.
Knowledge of the past is fundamental to understanding the present. Liberals hate statues because their existence is a direct threat to their manipulation of our current state. Therefore, they created a movement to vilify statues based on the morality of the present, under the guise that morality has always been static, ubiquitous, and shared by all of mankind throughout history. The irony is that "progress" is predicated on understanding how you ended up at this current point in time, so that you can progress beyond it. Essentially, by destroying the past, you are halting progress toward the future and robbing people of further personal, spiritual, and technological enlightenment. But their goal isn't progress, though they label themselves as progressives, it is total subjugation and control (hence the push for segregation. They want to go back in time. However, if people are aware of the past, that is not possible). Similar to how fascists claim to be anti-fascists.
I am totally disgusted at the tearing down of history. They will end up putting up moronic statues and if they are not of Black people the will tear them down again
Also this is what is disgusting me about the Mayors. They are allowing it to happen.
China did the same thing. Back during WW2 literally almost everything was lost by communists.
And before that back during a dynasty change they destroyed all their libraries.
No civilization is exempt for such radical loss of ancient information. Truly sad. These people doing this now need to be taught a lesson of history and be Tarred and Feathered. And displayed for all the public to out fear back in the people that they don't and should not be apart of these terrorist organizations.
We should be tarring and feathering all Democrat leaders as well and then hanging them.
Because to Rome, you were either Roman or you weren't. No different from what the Chinese did as they expanded, or Japan, or Britain messing up Ireland.
to OP, yep. I think about how much was lost by mobs, wars and fanatics all the time. One of the reason I am always awed by art work that's a thousand or so years old is because somehow, it survived all the fickleness and stupidity of man.
One example I think about a lot is this..Carthage and Rome both had indoor plumbing and fresh water fountains. The biggest problem today around the entire world is fresh potable water. Carthage then Rome solved that problem, thousands of years ago without electricity. Just recently, an Italian village figured out how to get an ancient fountain working again, largely by accident. The Fountain delivered pristine water right into the center of the village. That village went for 1800 years, through droughts, famines, wars, pestilence and plagues and the thing that would have really improved their lives was right there, in the center of the town, but no one knew how to turn it on.
Can you imagine that if the barbarians that invaded Rome, instead of destroying, looting, and vandalizing, had learned how to keep the aqueducts flowing, learned how the sewage system worked, understood how the baths worked, we could have been a thousand years more advanced than we are now.....? Let's say instead of fighting over the stuff we fight over, we had actual education that imparts knowledge and valued learning like the 18th century Americans did, we'd have electricity thousands of years before we discovered it and harnessed it. We could already have the answer to everything we could ever want or need but we're too busy attacking each other, following ridiculous ideologies and worrying about what other people have than to actually discover the wonders of the world for ourselves.
The one criticism I make to anyone who tells me "science" is, are you a scientist and what have you discovered and invented? If the answer is nothing. What they say IS nothing. We have forgotten to ask for the proof of why we should listen to this or that one. We stopped asking why any point of view should be heard as if all have an equal right to be heard. We live in a time where no one knows but everyone has a piece of paper saying he knows and so he's put in charge as if he did know but when the knowledge is needed, we find, he doesn't know and never did. This is Mueller. This is Fauci. This is our governors. This is our press. This is everyone who speaks to us with authority. If these are the authorities we listen to, then why are we surprised that the mob tears everything down?
I wish we had access to the Library at Alexandria all the time. Who knows what sort of information was in there. It predates the printing press, so much of it was not only original but actually the only copy
They want to destroy evidence that the simple citizenry could defeat the armies of a strong nation. That a nation could be great without the genocide of the indigenous, exploitation of a peasant class or the labors of slaves.
America has proven man needs no king to rule them to be safe or prosperous. We have proved, conclusively, that no one is born a slave or master and that a common rule of law does not require a common ideology. Even our prison system mocks the elite because a person can go in illiterate and come out with a degree.
We have a LOT of issues but one thing we do NOT have is a reason to be ashamed of our collective history, not when it’s one full of redemption and change.
Ok so hear me out, obviously these tiny groups are pissed off. Since they are in the process of destroying history everywhere anyway. Why dont we go around, take all the statues they deem "racist" and put them all in a big museum. We can call it the "Museum of Oprression and Racism" to placate to these stupid groups, AND history doesnt get destroyed. Seems like a win win.
Taliban, communists, BLM terror group, all the same.
Psychotics who want to erase everyone else. Erase all the history, erase all the monuments, then erase all the people.
If you don't protect every statue, you will have none, and seeing that the majority won't protect anything it will just give them the push to do to people what they do to statues.
Knowledge of the past is fundamental to understanding the present. Liberals hate statues because their existence is a direct threat to their manipulation of our current state. Therefore, they created a movement to vilify statues based on the morality of the present, under the guise that morality has always been static, ubiquitous, and shared by all of mankind throughout history. The irony is that "progress" is predicated on understanding how you ended up at this current point in time, so that you can progress beyond it. Essentially, by destroying the past, you are halting progress toward the future and robbing people of further personal, spiritual, and technological enlightenment. But their goal isn't progress, though they label themselves as progressives, it is total subjugation and control (hence the push for segregation. They want to go back in time. However, if people are aware of the past, that is not possible). Similar to how fascists claim to be anti-fascists.
I am totally disgusted at the tearing down of history. They will end up putting up moronic statues and if they are not of Black people the will tear them down again
Also this is what is disgusting me about the Mayors. They are allowing it to happen.
China did the same thing. Back during WW2 literally almost everything was lost by communists.
And before that back during a dynasty change they destroyed all their libraries.
No civilization is exempt for such radical loss of ancient information. Truly sad. These people doing this now need to be taught a lesson of history and be Tarred and Feathered. And displayed for all the public to out fear back in the people that they don't and should not be apart of these terrorist organizations.
We should be tarring and feathering all Democrat leaders as well and then hanging them.
Gaius/Caligula didn't participate in the west indies slave trade, though, so he gets a pass.
Eh, they took slaves from everywhere in Roman times. Class was much more important than color in Rome.
Because to Rome, you were either Roman or you weren't. No different from what the Chinese did as they expanded, or Japan, or Britain messing up Ireland.
People just suck and slavery sucks.
Only after the society degenerated.
Tearing down any historic statue is defacing history.
If leftists were smart enough to understand history they would be destroying Caligula statues haha. Good thing they are retards.
Iconoclasts exist in multiple periods of history They are only ever regarded as short sighted angry idiots
to OP, yep. I think about how much was lost by mobs, wars and fanatics all the time. One of the reason I am always awed by art work that's a thousand or so years old is because somehow, it survived all the fickleness and stupidity of man.
One example I think about a lot is this..Carthage and Rome both had indoor plumbing and fresh water fountains. The biggest problem today around the entire world is fresh potable water. Carthage then Rome solved that problem, thousands of years ago without electricity. Just recently, an Italian village figured out how to get an ancient fountain working again, largely by accident. The Fountain delivered pristine water right into the center of the village. That village went for 1800 years, through droughts, famines, wars, pestilence and plagues and the thing that would have really improved their lives was right there, in the center of the town, but no one knew how to turn it on.
Can you imagine that if the barbarians that invaded Rome, instead of destroying, looting, and vandalizing, had learned how to keep the aqueducts flowing, learned how the sewage system worked, understood how the baths worked, we could have been a thousand years more advanced than we are now.....? Let's say instead of fighting over the stuff we fight over, we had actual education that imparts knowledge and valued learning like the 18th century Americans did, we'd have electricity thousands of years before we discovered it and harnessed it. We could already have the answer to everything we could ever want or need but we're too busy attacking each other, following ridiculous ideologies and worrying about what other people have than to actually discover the wonders of the world for ourselves.
The one criticism I make to anyone who tells me "science" is, are you a scientist and what have you discovered and invented? If the answer is nothing. What they say IS nothing. We have forgotten to ask for the proof of why we should listen to this or that one. We stopped asking why any point of view should be heard as if all have an equal right to be heard. We live in a time where no one knows but everyone has a piece of paper saying he knows and so he's put in charge as if he did know but when the knowledge is needed, we find, he doesn't know and never did. This is Mueller. This is Fauci. This is our governors. This is our press. This is everyone who speaks to us with authority. If these are the authorities we listen to, then why are we surprised that the mob tears everything down?
I wish we had access to the Library at Alexandria all the time. Who knows what sort of information was in there. It predates the printing press, so much of it was not only original but actually the only copy
Democrats are why we can't have nice things.
They want to destroy evidence that the simple citizenry could defeat the armies of a strong nation. That a nation could be great without the genocide of the indigenous, exploitation of a peasant class or the labors of slaves.
America has proven man needs no king to rule them to be safe or prosperous. We have proved, conclusively, that no one is born a slave or master and that a common rule of law does not require a common ideology. Even our prison system mocks the elite because a person can go in illiterate and come out with a degree.
We have a LOT of issues but one thing we do NOT have is a reason to be ashamed of our collective history, not when it’s one full of redemption and change.
Ok so hear me out, obviously these tiny groups are pissed off. Since they are in the process of destroying history everywhere anyway. Why dont we go around, take all the statues they deem "racist" and put them all in a big museum. We can call it the "Museum of Oprression and Racism" to placate to these stupid groups, AND history doesnt get destroyed. Seems like a win win.
Placating them only emboldens them even further. We need to have security at these historic sites and crush any idea of destruction.