• TacoNot
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    3 months ago

    Ahead of the council vote, there was a faceoff between supporters and opponents. Moms For Liberty held a protest outside city hall.

    Moms for Liberty is protesting liberty. What a time to be alive

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      3 months ago

      Famously the statue of Liberty says " Bring us your wealthy, your heterosexual whites, Your Christian elite yearning to breathe free"

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        3 months ago

        Hah, Dirty Blvd by Lou Reed:

        Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor - I’ll piss on 'em
        That’s what the Statue of Bigotry says
        Your poor huddled masses, let’s club 'em to death
        And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard

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            3 months ago

            Sadly I think the original poem has always been a lie. We’ve historically treated all immigrants like a subhuman species; black people, the Irish, and jews, in particular. (Antisemitism being frowned upon is a relatively new thing)