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So this really is about Robert E. Lee and the Confederates not having to look at Lincoln's Memorial for eternity?https://digbysblog.net/2026/06/07/thats-it/

If he builds it, it will have to come down. There's no two ways about it.
Also, it's a hideous monstrosity, aesthetically completely inappropriate.
underpants
(197,514 posts)If you dont know, Arlington National Cemetery is the plantation land the US took from Lee as punishment after his treason. It was a brutal plantation and he sued to keep his late father-in-laws slaves IN slavery.
He wasnt a very good General either.
Wednesdays
(23,305 posts)"No fifteen thousand men ever arrayed for battle could take that position."
-- Lieutenant General James Longstreet warning Lee against ordering Pickett's Charge. Lee went ahead with the offensive anyway.
marble falls
(72,917 posts)We will have a ton of jobs fixing and repairing his cheap assed instincts. His grand father was a draft dodging pimp and saloon keeper, his father was a racist who got caught discriminating in his rental properties and was fined for it Federally and in NYC.
erronis
(24,705 posts)Once the demon gets into the male seed, it destroys many of the spawn.