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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

victimless crime

They damaged a statue that belongs to a publicly owned local museum...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They put more history in it. That's practically a service to the museum, a value add. Ought to be commemorated for it, really.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah, bunch of useful idiots, bots, and shills spreading authoritarian propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

They will be commemorated, by the prison system putting more history into them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

importing the yankee's hardon for punishment, i see

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Treating things as things -> me, cool, historical

Treating people as things -> you, smuglord "logical"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

They poured what I eat for breakfast every morning on a chunk of stone. I think it'll be fine.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Which is owned by the city, they damaged a statue owned by the city.

Big fucking deal mate. No one was actually hurt.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So there was no victims ofJanuary 6th either because the capital building is publicly owned too?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You’re right, defacing a statue is the same as attempting insurrection, doubly so where people were assaulted or died.

That’s your fucking amazing retort is it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My retort is that "it's publicly owned so it's fine if anyone destroys it" is a stupid argument no matter who makes it

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago

It’s called nuance.

Not everything is exactly the same in the world.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago

*they poured jam over a statue