Yeah, what’s up with that, Seattle?
American Mirror: Critics of the decision to remove several Confederate monuments in New Orleans are pointing to offensive communist monuments in places like Seattle that are protected for their intrinsic value.
A towering 18-foot-tall statue of Russian communist Vladimir Lenin has remained standing in the eccentric North Seattle neighborhood of Fremont for decades despite strong public opposition and repeated vandalism, KOMO reports. MORE
Seattle residents like the Lenin statue because they think they can zest it on their arugula..
Those who forget the past relive it. Seattle is enemy occupied territory. I hope it emplodes.
I have a cutting torch.
What’s next? Native Americans destroying all battlefields and artifacts that represent their demise?
Because, Birds gotta have something to shit on!
Nah, nothing so sinister as that. Fremont is the “Center of the Universe” — a booster idea from at least the ’70’s. Along with Lenin there is a rocket hanging off the corner of a building, “Waiting for the Interurban” (a group of statue people that people like to dress up for all kinds of occasions). There is the world famous “troll” who lives under the overpass and a wonderful bronze of J.P. Patches, Gertrude and the ICUTV (my personal favorite, because I’m a Patches Pal). There’s also Repunzel letting down her golden (neon) hair from the Fremont bridge tender’s roost. What else? Oh, I’m probably missing a few other items. It’s a crazy-big statue of Lenin, all right. But it’s Fremont, hub for the nekked bicycle ride every year (which we avoid). Also, there are a number of good restaurants. I worked at the new Adobe building on north end of the lake. It’s a lovely spot, actually.
It’s seattle, they ARE phucking communists. They drag
the rest of the state into the shithole with their attitude.
Can’t get a subduction zone earthquake soon enough.
I consider them a northern san francrisco outpost.
Fair is fair Seattle !
♪♫ The bluest Communist skies you’ve ever seen are in Seattle. ♪♫
…in The Soviet State of Washington.
No defiant girl or poverty stricken peasants allowed in front of that one.
I was in Freemont for a class on May 1 in 2001 and slapped the flowers out of the hand into the street and kicked those at the feet of this monster into the street too.
I had people offering to fight me and said: Then stop talking and start doing. I was in a t-shirt and nylon pants, not the sport coat and tie I wore in those days to the office and I meant business and the fairies who said they wanted to fight had a guy who wasn’t about do a Paul Ryan and cut and run. I was advancing and ready to take any fight right down to the sidewalk and finish it with a ground game.
I hadn’t fought a street fight since my 20’s, but my theory is: So you think you want a piece of me? Know this going in, win, lose or draw, when it’s over you will never want to go another round with me, but I won’t hesitate to pick back up where we left off. I fight dirty, I bite (literally) in the clinches and… I will eye gouge, nut grab, bend fingers back until they dislocate, kick, elbow and stomp until others pull me off.
While I was in the restroom my brother (6’3″ and 280) told a couple punks at a hockey game: stop fucking with my brother, he is a lot smaller than me, but I don’t fuck with him. He is small, but he is meaner than shit once he has had enough and he has had about enough of your shit. They should have taken what was very good advice.
I’m offended, that statue is cultural appropriation….Now where is that thermite.
A few years back, I toured Lenin’s Tomb in Red Square. Even allowing for shrinkage, that filthy commie bastard was a runt. I planned to hork up a loogie and hurl it onto his glass enclosure, but the two Russian soldiers watching over him wouldn’t avert their eyes and I didn’t want to spend years recovering in a gulag.
Even a lot of Seattle residents see this as too far. The statues hands are regularly painted red to represent the blood on Leninins hands.
Seattle is nearing the end stage of syphilis. Just like Crazy King Ludwig of Germany.
Notice Lennin’s left (his right) foot in the picture? Notice how it’s a little more weathered than the right?
This might possibly be due to DougM, a regular poster over at Knowledge is Power pissing on it on a cross-country trip. Once upon a time, I had photographic evidence of this, but I can’t find it right now.
“Bevis insists the Lenin sculpture isn’t about his wild political views or the millions who suffered and died during his regime.” Butthead concurs.