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I appreciate your charity, but actually the Statue of Liberty is Fr*nch and therefore trash. Also it's really tiny in the context of New York Harbor and all the surrounding buildings.
The New Colossus:
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
You: this sucks actually
Bad take my guy but its okay we all got 'em
Also I just ... don't like statues literally at all. I know I'm weird for this take (it's not a take, really a preference), but like ... why build a statue when you can build something functional or actually pretty? (Also I just realized your profile picture is a statue so don't take it personally 😆.)
I mean I fuck with the literal message, but ... I am literally incapable of suspending my disbelief when it comes to the words of
and 
. If someone other than 
and 
did it then I'd fuck with it (unless they're monsters of the same order as 
and 
).
I mean I can eat that 😆. If we all gotta have at least one shitty take, at least mine's over some goofy statue and not something serious
Nah I get you, the countries are imperialistic as they come. The sentiment is more what we wanna keep.