Legitimately ugly rule

They didn’t even clean up the rubble

That was intentional, the klansman who built it didn't choose a place that was culturally significant to the indigenous people by accident.
- I'm not American, but the isopods that live with me under the same rock weren't aware that this was made by Klansmen
iirc they ran out of money and weren't even able to make it look the way they intended. Like they planned for it to have a 5th face or wanted to do full bodies or something like that but they couldn't get it done
- They didn't bother to check what the mountain was made of. The answer was granite.
- From my understanding, they didn't do the planned 5th head because of structural integrity issues with the stone. But yeah there's probably something to that lack of funds situation as well.
  
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Requires Fascism

I guess if things go south in November we'll be up for Mt. Rushmore 2: The Movement known as Boogaloo
- The boogaloo in question stems from the same meme you're quoting and is a second civil war. Fun stuff
- That was just Civ IV calling Teddy names because he was a populist militaristic progressive.
what wiki is this? runescape?
- Civilization IV

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but statues of real people are cringe… and Mount Rushmore is basically maximum cringe by that measure.

Reminded me of this song (which is german) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC872j2-PDw

Im gonna try translating the most relevant section:

Get the sledgehammer out, they built us a monument and every idiot knows that this destroys all love/charm. I will hire the worst sprayers(graffiti artists) of the city so that they may further deface the leftover rubble the same night.
Wait till you hear about the Colossus of Rhodes
- Or the Statue of Unity! Even Christ the Redeemer is taller than Mount Rushmore.

What a fuck ugly pile of shit.

TBF it was supposed to be bigger.

Wait. You're telling me they didn't even fucking finish it and people are still mad about the idea of losing it?
- They didn't even clean up the blasted off rock underneath it.
That's not bigger. That man would be huge.
- the point is that it was supposed to include their upper bodies...

I would never have known this without your meme, thanks anon.

have known *
- Knownst've
- Thank you, I'm not English native.

I've seen them before and they are ugly. None of them would have wanted their face there so who is actually being honored?

Teddy did. That's why his face is included
- While Teddy was the self-aggrandizing type who probably wouldn't have objected to having his face carved into a mountain, Rushmore wasn't even proposed until long after Teddy's political career was over.

It's even worse on a rainy day, if not ironic.

Why are Lincoln's snot trails the reverse of everyone else?
- He got that thick brow
the big stone heads are crying. this is a bad omen

It should be given back to the natives, with reparations. I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted to remove the faces and attempt to restore it.

We'll start by giving them back your house
- Hey, guess what - wanting a historical wrong to be corrected by having a polity live up to its treaty obligations, however belatedly, by ceding a piece of land on which a rather ugly monument exists on and telling the original owners 'do what you want with it' is not the equivalent of volunteering for ethnic cleansing.
- I don't see any houses on the mountain
- If that's what it takes to make reparations happen I'll gladly give mine. Thankfully that isn't what reparations would require so you just look like a racist asshole.

I just went to the black hills area and I MUCH preferred the Crazy Horse memorial. If you hate Rushmore then I think you would love it too. It actually means something, looks cooler, and isn't funded by the government.

I find it interesting that nobody else had mentioned it.

I don't mind the Feds funding art. I only mind them funding shitty art that violates local customs and treaties with sovereign tribes. Like, zero redeeming qualities here with Rushmore.
- Not sure who downvoted you two times or why.
  
  People down vote the strangest things
The same guy designed both.
- That is just patently false

Been there, it is legit underwhelming.

Me too. I went there when I was 10 or 11, and as a child all I noticed was how incongruous it was with everything. I wasn't awed by it, and my parents seemed sort of put out with how I didn't care for it compared to my sisters.

I'd like to pretend that's some kind of deep political sentiment, but really I think it's just aesthetically displeasing if you don't have a thing for monuments
- I dunno, I have a thing for monuments and I still find it aesthetically displeasing. It's pretty ugly.
- Adults get weird when the indoctrinating they and society put so much effort into doesn't take hold. So much so, that they find some mental illness like Autism to label the child with.
- Same here. If you have no attachment to the figures portrayed, it fails at the kind of gravitas that you'd think an entire mountainside would/should command. It's a strange thing.
I remember one of the massive air compressors they had on display there better than the monument itself...

Though I am a giant nerd for that sort of thing so it might just be me
- Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!...... What kind of psi? You said massive, was it mobile? Did it have any mods?..... I need to know!

woooow

How have I never seen this? It looks so sad :(

Even as a young child I was very disappointed seeing it in person. Very underwhelming. The only cool part I thought was looking through the binocular things and spying on other tourists. I was an odd kid whatever

Same thing with seeing the Mona Lisa in person. It's a very small painting against the a far wall in a special room, and that room is packed shoulder-to-shoulder, asshole-to-elbow shithead tourists. Kinda cool to see it in person I guess, but not really worth the effort
The only cool part I thought was looking through the binocular things and spying on other tourists. I was an odd kid whatever

Yes, that is indeed extremely strange behavior. I don't believe that it has ever been reported before /s

Mt Rushmore is a very good symbol of the US in that way. Looks impressive in marketing and media, but tacky and small IRL

i think its also a very good symbol of how the US just forgets about even their very own laws at a snap of a finger and that no nation in the world (not even the us itself) can ever trust them with anything. like for example the so called freedom of religion when we're at the Sioux Blackbhills anyway.
- Hmm my analogy was better
You have to park in a garage and walk down a narrow path lined with people trying to sell you shit. Its more like visiting a mall with aggressive salesmen than a national park. It was the worst stop I made during a cross country road trip.

i hate everything about this damned monumemt

Controversial Opinion: Giant statues are cool and we as a species should make more of them.

100% agree, expect for this one, which was carved into mountains stolen from the local natives.
Yep. Honestly while it doesn't look amazing it's still kinda cool. Its history is just fucked up and not something I'd wanna celebrate.
- Yeah. I wouldn't make it now, but I don't want it destroyed either.
I agree actually. There are tons of mountains. Not many have human faces. That's impressive. It's obviously pretty hard to get someone to allow you to carve a mountain not to mention how hard it is to carve a statue in the first place.
- Well umm... actually its sacred land to the native americans and the US government just did that anyway despite acknowledging it as indian land to this very day and repeatedly trying to buy it off them to give themselves retroactive approval. So less 'allowed to carve' and more like spraying graffiti on a church on an enormous scale.

even the entire story around its creation is fucking lame. if this were in any other country, it would be used in 80% of American action movies as a symbol of the oppressive foreign country that's about to attack the US.

Who are they, the 4 Hokage?

Does it at least have a secret chamber behind or is that a 'no' too?

That secret chamber is for Team America's headquarters.
Sort of. Not really a secret, just not widely advertised because it was never finished.

We should give back that to the natives, alongside with some TNT in case they want those faces to go.

Looks like a random Minecraft structure bodged into the land

At least not that guy

When I first saw the Statue of Liberty I was genuinely amazed at how small it was 😂

It's not that small considering it was both free and had to be taken apart to fit on a single ship lol
Hey, maybe it was just a cold day, okay?
- Do women know about shrinkage?
You should see the one we have in Paris
- I prefer Spain's.
What did you expect? I never saw it in person but looking at Wikipedia, that's a large-ass statue.