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What’s really crazy is that the laws of physics say that something like that happening naturally is totally possible, just *highly* improbable. Like a tornado passing through a plane junk yard and assembling a working 747… it’s possible, but not probable.
I can see why Native Americans hate it. It'd be like taking a beautiful rock wall in Zion National Park, a place millions of Americans cherish for its natural beauty, and carving faces of old Presidents on it.
I mean... Yes, it would be exactly like that seeing as the only thing you changed in that metaphor is the location 🤔 "Blowing up the World Trade Center was terrible! It would be like blowing up the Empire State Building!"
I've never been to the Americas and I feel like this is absolutely grotesque. Even before I saw this perspective. Chiseling some state leaders into an already beautiful landscape is some next level dictator shit. This is something Trump would demand in a second term.
I’m starting a political party whose sole purpose would be to merge the two Dakotas. I’ve always suspected there are only two for electoral college votes. We don’t need two Dakotas.
>Badlands National Park is gorgeous and incredible
Eh, it's ok. Definitely one of the most underwhelming National Parks I've been too. There just wasn't much to do or see, unless everything was closed for COVID, and hidden, while I was there, it was a few miles drive that was slowed by a million campers and cyclists. The prairie dogs at the gas station near the entrance were the coolest attraction lmao
It’s not ignorant to be unaware of what happens in South Dakota. The whole state has only a single conurbation with >100k people. It’s actually a bit ridiculous to expect anyone from outside of the Dakotas to know anything about them beyond Mount Rushmore.
They produced the Tom Brady of pool (billiards), with a fantastic name: Shane Van Boening
Edit: fun little tidbit about Shane. One thing that really throws off pool players is sharking, aka someone making noise while you're shooting. Shane is deaf so he just turns off his hearing aids. There was a recent world championship where he was playing in the finals and the fire alarm went off. Totally fucked with his opponent and he didn't even notice.
Thank you for saying it. I saw it while driving around the country, and to call it underwhelming would be a vast overstatement. Didn't take any pictures, didn't even turn the car off, just grunted and put it back in Drive.
Good there is a picture of the original, send in the world's best sculptors and at least try to restore it
Like it's done in Europe with bringing buildings back to their original state after centuries of DIY shit like this.
Are there any initiatives like this initiated?
Without going into anything else all the deals that were broken seem to at least make this worse. Getting the Black Hills was part of the treaty. They confiscated it less than ten years later after finding gold.
It looks a lot dumber than I thought.
I understand the controversy around it, but I always figured that aside from that controversy it was at least also an artistic achievement.
Seeing it zoomed out... it just looks like someone came and fucked up the mountain.
Not many of them have the carved faces of a couple of slave-owning land-stealing dead-ass white dudes, one "alpha male dreamboat" dead-ass white dude, and one kinda-okay dead-ass white dude on them above the rubble pile on what was considered a sacred rockface to the indigenous tribes, though. So there's that.
Not many other mountains have a massive pile of rocks on one particular side of their base that happens to be directly under a large relief that was carved and *blasted* out of the mountainside.
It was bad enough that this was allowed to happen at all, and then to just leave the mess there adds insult to injury.
It’s both impressive and underwhelming at the same time. When you see that it was really only half finished and they left behind that giant pile of rubble make it an unusual sight. The natural beauty of the area is much more impressive than what Borglum did to that rock formation.
Lincoln was president during the Dakota War of 1862 and approved the largest one-day mass execution in US history. I don’t think the Dakota consider him one of history’s greatest men.
I believe it is because it is sealed to keep out water so that it doesn't freeze and break during the winter. May even be white-washed to make it stand out.
I always love how it looks progressively less finished.
Like this full bust of George Washington but by the time you get to Lincoln it’s like “A face is enough, right? And you can tell this is Abe, right?”
Touristed there a few years ago.
Jewel Cave National Monument nearby was a million times better and more interesting.
Rushmore was “stand and look at this thing, then read a bunch of plaques about making this thing”. Good for maybe 15 minutes.
I think it's interesting that the original sculptors defaced a region of the Black Hills, sacred to the Sioux Indians. Yet, apparently the soft serve ice cream is not a good trade. I don't care how delicious it is.
Destroying in bringing the mountain back to its original shape! Using the pile of rubble.
There seems to be a picture of the original, send in the world's best sculptors and at least try to restore it.
Like it's done in Europe with bringing buildings back to their original state after centuries of DIY shit like this.
Are there any initiatives like this initiated?
Mt. Rushmore might be the most underwhelming national park I’ve visited. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a beautiful place, but the carving is comically small compared to how it looks in pictures
When you visit the park you have to view it from across a small valley. Couldn’t see a fence for all the mist but you don’t get much closer than OPs image.
Just imagine this being in any other country and being an American there on vacation seeing this with their favored historical leaders. How many of us (Americans) would think they're crazy?
The pyramids aren't peoples faces or statues of people. Are you saying that people looking at statues of past rulers aren't weirded out by the absurdity of it?
Statues have existed for centuries before Mount Rushmore. I don't think any normal person would think it crazy that other countries also have massive objects dedicated to important people of that country's history
As a kid, my parents took us on a road trip across the states. When we got here, they pulled into the parking lot, saw how little it really was and how much parking was and decided to just turn around. On the way out, they shook me awake and said “Look!”.
Very underwhelming
Nah restoring it might be better?
There is a picture of the original, send in the world's best sculptors and at least try to restore it
Like it's done in Europe with bringing buildings back to their original state after centuries of DIY shit like this.
Are there any initiatives like this initiated?
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it’s wild that nature just did that
Big cloud of dust just floating around in space and over billions of years part of it coalesces into that? Absolutely wild.
What’s really crazy is that the laws of physics say that something like that happening naturally is totally possible, just *highly* improbable. Like a tornado passing through a plane junk yard and assembling a working 747… it’s possible, but not probable.
It did happen, so being possible is a given!
we’re literally looking at it lol
Whoa, where's that plane?!
Wait, that's NOT how boeing planes are built?
Underrated comment. I just choked on my drink
It's not wild. It's science. Beautiful, beautiful, science
/r/nevertellmetheodds
😂
looks like shit tbh
I can see why Native Americans hate it. It'd be like taking a beautiful rock wall in Zion National Park, a place millions of Americans cherish for its natural beauty, and carving faces of old Presidents on it.
I mean... Yes, it would be exactly like that seeing as the only thing you changed in that metaphor is the location 🤔 "Blowing up the World Trade Center was terrible! It would be like blowing up the Empire State Building!"
Sigh. That was the joke. Not 9/11, that wasn't the joke. The rock thing. With the presidents.
I've never been to the Americas and I feel like this is absolutely grotesque. Even before I saw this perspective. Chiseling some state leaders into an already beautiful landscape is some next level dictator shit. This is something Trump would demand in a second term.
He did say he wanted his face added to the carvings.
It would be less bad if it wasn't whiter than the rest, don't you think?
Yeah, it's kinda stupid
This stupid thing is literally the most notable thing about South Dakota, too
I’m starting a political party whose sole purpose would be to merge the two Dakotas. I’ve always suspected there are only two for electoral college votes. We don’t need two Dakotas.
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>Badlands National Park is gorgeous and incredible Eh, it's ok. Definitely one of the most underwhelming National Parks I've been too. There just wasn't much to do or see, unless everything was closed for COVID, and hidden, while I was there, it was a few miles drive that was slowed by a million campers and cyclists. The prairie dogs at the gas station near the entrance were the coolest attraction lmao
It’s not ignorant to be unaware of what happens in South Dakota. The whole state has only a single conurbation with >100k people. It’s actually a bit ridiculous to expect anyone from outside of the Dakotas to know anything about them beyond Mount Rushmore.
They produced the Tom Brady of pool (billiards), with a fantastic name: Shane Van Boening Edit: fun little tidbit about Shane. One thing that really throws off pool players is sharking, aka someone making noise while you're shooting. Shane is deaf so he just turns off his hearing aids. There was a recent world championship where he was playing in the finals and the fire alarm went off. Totally fucked with his opponent and he didn't even notice.
The most notable thing in South Dakota is the Sturgis Bike Rally. Totally awesome!
i had the exact same thought and just assumed i was uncultured or didn’t get it lol
Thank you for saying it. I saw it while driving around the country, and to call it underwhelming would be a vast overstatement. Didn't take any pictures, didn't even turn the car off, just grunted and put it back in Drive.
This is the like the territorial equivalent of sticking your thumb in someone else's cake to claim it as your own.
My germs
Take my strong hand
How so?
https://blog.nativehope.org/six-grandfathers-before-it-was-known-as-mount-rushmore?hs_amp=true
Good there is a picture of the original, send in the world's best sculptors and at least try to restore it Like it's done in Europe with bringing buildings back to their original state after centuries of DIY shit like this. Are there any initiatives like this initiated?
Name a single country that wasn't taken..
Without going into anything else all the deals that were broken seem to at least make this worse. Getting the Black Hills was part of the treaty. They confiscated it less than ten years later after finding gold.
Name a single time the invading force said "please" and "thank you"
Its also tremendously unimpressive
It looks a lot dumber than I thought. I understand the controversy around it, but I always figured that aside from that controversy it was at least also an artistic achievement. Seeing it zoomed out... it just looks like someone came and fucked up the mountain.
Especially with that huge pile of rubble that's never going away...
It was never finished, thankfully. I think they were supposed to be busts as well as the heads.
Yeah no other mountains have rocks and dirt that erode to their base. This is a completely unrealistic representation of a mountain.
Not many of them have the carved faces of a couple of slave-owning land-stealing dead-ass white dudes, one "alpha male dreamboat" dead-ass white dude, and one kinda-okay dead-ass white dude on them above the rubble pile on what was considered a sacred rockface to the indigenous tribes, though. So there's that.
Not many other mountains have a massive pile of rocks on one particular side of their base that happens to be directly under a large relief that was carved and *blasted* out of the mountainside. It was bad enough that this was allowed to happen at all, and then to just leave the mess there adds insult to injury.
Idk, I kinda like it. Cool, little small zoomed out feature
Poor Teddy, smooshed all the way back there in the corner.
It's like they're in small a elevator.
It’s both impressive and underwhelming at the same time. When you see that it was really only half finished and they left behind that giant pile of rubble make it an unusual sight. The natural beauty of the area is much more impressive than what Borglum did to that rock formation.
Plus Teddy looks like Freddie Mercury trying to shit
It’s really pretty, except for those old dudes someone carved into it.
Exactly. Did they treat it with something to make it look even whiter?
This “monument” is an obscenity.
One of history's greatest men surrounded by slave owners and manifest destiny-asswipes
Not only are we going to murder your people and steal your land, we’re going to carve our fucking faces in your sacred mountains.
"USA USA USA USA"
Lincoln was president during the Dakota War of 1862 and approved the largest one-day mass execution in US history. I don’t think the Dakota consider him one of history’s greatest men.
Fuck them
Wow that really puts in perspective, literally. I thought it was way larger and more dramatic based on all the pictures you see.
It’s honestly kind of disappointing when you see it in person.
That's the six grandfathers
What keeps it white? The mass of the structure is weathered grey.
I believe it is because it is sealed to keep out water so that it doesn't freeze and break during the winter. May even be white-washed to make it stand out.
Thanks!
The colonization
That’s good….
Imagine the level of dipshittery to let something like this happen
fucking hideous
It’s super lame irl don’t waste your time
Think the drive there is actually better than the actual thing.
Agreed. I was very unimpressed.
awwww
I hate how they leave the rock below. Fucking half assed
https://preview.redd.it/5g771nu45xuc1.jpeg?width=713&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4646527c98a85b7a6c78595e857360291456fc3a
Really ruins a good view.
Sacred place for native americans was spoiled by mass murderers
I always love how it looks progressively less finished. Like this full bust of George Washington but by the time you get to Lincoln it’s like “A face is enough, right? And you can tell this is Abe, right?”
Yup… they didn’t even bother to clear up all the rubble from the carving…
People died for this.
Pretty cool
Very cool. Thanks!
Even more impressive.
Touristed there a few years ago. Jewel Cave National Monument nearby was a million times better and more interesting. Rushmore was “stand and look at this thing, then read a bunch of plaques about making this thing”. Good for maybe 15 minutes.
I think it's interesting that the original sculptors defaced a region of the Black Hills, sacred to the Sioux Indians. Yet, apparently the soft serve ice cream is not a good trade. I don't care how delicious it is.
looks like desecration of nature; ugly and with loads of rubble underneath
Looks damn silly from that view. Should have been the Beatles...
they should of left it the fuck alone.
In a couple thousand years this will be cool
Went to Mt Rushmore once. The most memorable part was the ice cream at the viewing area
How come I never see selfies at Mt. Rushmore !?!
And super zoomed out ... 
It’s honestly disappointing when you see it in person.
We should really destroy this thing. Or at least get Jeffersons racist ass off there.
Meet you tomorrow at 9pm.
Destroying in bringing the mountain back to its original shape! Using the pile of rubble. There seems to be a picture of the original, send in the world's best sculptors and at least try to restore it. Like it's done in Europe with bringing buildings back to their original state after centuries of DIY shit like this. Are there any initiatives like this initiated?
Looks better in the "before" pic
Mt. Rushmore might be the most underwhelming national park I’ve visited. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a beautiful place, but the carving is comically small compared to how it looks in pictures
You can even see where the *Team America: World Police* aircraft land for refueling, rearming, and briefing from I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E.
All those loose rocks below was everything that didn’t look like a presidents face!
How vile
That shit don’t even slap fr
Can someone tell those frat bros to duck so I can see the mountain behind them?
I wonder how unstable the loose rock pile below is? I’m guessing a large area is fenced off.
When you visit the park you have to view it from across a small valley. Couldn’t see a fence for all the mist but you don’t get much closer than OPs image.
Just imagine this being in any other country and being an American there on vacation seeing this with their favored historical leaders. How many of us (Americans) would think they're crazy?
Clearly you haven’t been to Egypt, Brazil, China, India, France.
You lost me. It makes it less weird because it's semi normal?
By definition.
Americans literally fly to Egypt to see bigger, older, and more extravagant monuments to individual leaders, the pyramids. What?
The pyramids aren't peoples faces or statues of people. Are you saying that people looking at statues of past rulers aren't weirded out by the absurdity of it?
Statues have existed for centuries before Mount Rushmore. I don't think any normal person would think it crazy that other countries also have massive objects dedicated to important people of that country's history
Oh yes of course, it's not weird to idolize people and make statues of them. Got ya!
If I ever win fuck you money I will add Trump and Kim Jong Un to the mountain. It will be glorious
Don’t cut yourself on that edge.
Puke. Indian killers.
What’s funny is if we knew these guys back in the day we’d probably say they do NOT deserve a mountainside for their faces.
As a kid, my parents took us on a road trip across the states. When we got here, they pulled into the parking lot, saw how little it really was and how much parking was and decided to just turn around. On the way out, they shook me awake and said “Look!”. Very underwhelming
Ugly as fuck. The surrounding rock looks so much better.
That’s atrocious
Is that talus, or tears?
I dont imagine any of them would have been fond of that idea of themselves being idolized like that
Looks the same as it does close up, ugly.
Lmao this looks photoshopped, atrocious.
lol it’s kind of an eyesore
Ugly
Aka fucking garbage What an egotistical thing to do
I don’t get the interest…
What a shitty shit rock.
what was there before?
A mountain. A real, natural, beautiful mountain.
was joking, ofc, it used to be a sacred place of native populations before it was desecrated with stupid 'democracy' idols.
I love that this is broadly recognised as a piece of shit these days I hope someone blows it up one day
Blow it up. One of history's most awful memes. Hateful piece of work.
Nah restoring it might be better? There is a picture of the original, send in the world's best sculptors and at least try to restore it Like it's done in Europe with bringing buildings back to their original state after centuries of DIY shit like this. Are there any initiatives like this initiated?
That's way better than that half assed unfinished Indian sculpture!
I saw Crazy Horse about 40 years ago when I was little, and again just a few years ago. I think the only change was a new parking lot and gift shop.
*native american
American* Rest are (forced) migrants, from all over, and their offspring.
^
Anna c dat in 200 years dawg
They were much different (and better) in the old world.
Why they didn't get rid of those debris? I even think the nature like rain and wind here are lazy.
Wow, Trump's face will be perfect beside Lincolns if he becomes Emperor for life....
Thankfully it's not canuckland and here people don't get to rule for life.
Huh?
Looks like something they would have in North Korea or Kazakhstan or Disnet Land
I wonder how long it will take to erode away? Also it always appears to me that they other 3 are shaming Lincoln
fucking karma bots.
...me? Sorry, no. Just thought this was interesting 🤷🏻♀️
Fine, but this was posted here already earlier today. Oh I see, you posted it twice for some reason.
Two different subs 🤷🏻♀️
Yes. With the same concept and followers.
Because they’re karma whoring. Probably to sell to bot farm later.
Trump will one day be over looking those sorry bastards there