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Old 08-11-2018, 02:15 PM   #319
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This brings me back to a point I have made earlier in this thread, and I think it bears some discussion:

Why are we still venerating individual people in the forms of effigies?

From the Lincoln Memorial to the statues of the Kim dynasty to Wayne Gretzky’s bronze idol outside of the Edmonton Toiletbowl, the subtlety that we apply to distinguishing statues from one another in their purpose is extremely fine, and frankly, a little weird.
statues? that's nothing

communists didn't even bury their leaders. Grandpa Kim. Mao, Ho Chi Minh are still frozen!
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