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Working people up into a frenzy and giving them targets to assault is a time honored way to rise to power. Statues don’t fight back. Real trouble is when yo
by treeman79 6y ago
Working people up into a frenzy and giving them targets to assault is a time honored way to rise to power.
Statues don’t fight back.
Real trouble is when you run out of statues.
- ColanR 6y agoExcept in this case, it's not mob manipulation, it's calculated theology.
- treeman79 6y agoWe have people tearing down statues in America. Who the crap has a beef with Lincoln. This isn’t out of the blue, people are stirring them up. People that have agendas.
- ColanR 6y ago> Who the crap has a beef with Lincoln. IKR? Doesn't make sense anymore. But I was talking about the parent topic, which was the theologically-motivated scratching out of the eyes of figures in mosaic images.
- john_Galt888 6y agoVery pointed comment. It shows these illiterate people of 700 AD who tried to apply the Quoran rules on idolatry and tried to destroy statues (surely they must have) were no different from the quasi illiterate idle but raging mobs of Portland and Seattle.