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On America's birthday, celebrating the corporate-sponsored revolution


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2020 Jul 4, 4:29pm   343 views  2 comments

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It’s the Fourth of July, and revolution is in the air. Only in America would it look like this: an elite-sponsored Maoist revolt, couched as a Black liberation movement whose canonical texts are a corporate consultant’s white guilt self-help manual, and a New York Times series rewriting history to explain an election they called wrong.

Much of America has watched in quizzical silence in recent weeks as crowds declared war on an increasingly incoherent succession of historical symbols. Maybe you nodded as Confederate general Albert Pike was toppled or even when Christopher Columbus was beheaded, but it got a little weird when George Washington was emblazoned with “Fuck Cops” and set on fire, or when they went after Ulysses S. Grant, abolitionist Colonel Hans Christian Heg, “Forward,” (a seven-foot-tall female figure meant to symbolize progress), the Portland, Oregon “Elk statue,” or my personal favorite, the former slave Miguel de Cervantes, whose cheerful creations Don Quixote and Sancho Panza were apparently mistaken for reals and had their eyes lashed red in San Francisco.

Was a What the Fuck? too much to ask? It was!


From Matt Taibbi, but for-pay only beyond that excerpt.

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1   mell   2020 Jul 4, 6:30pm  

Lol sounds like a good piece
2   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2020 Jul 4, 9:43pm  

It really is corporate sponsored. All the major corps are with them, and against America.

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