The giant mound of rubble underneath it always struck me as incredibly sloppy behavior.
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Right? They just left it there after carving. You couldn't clear the rocks out? ffs.
It represent the mountain of skulls the country is build upon.
It was supposed to be full-body apparently. They kind of just gave up at some point?
Once they started making money, they stopped spending money on upkeep and clearing the rubble.
It really does look pathetic when viewed from any angle other than the touristy one they always use in movies. Kind of an apt metaphor for the US in general I suppose.
I actually never saw it from any other angle and I’m kind of relieved that it’s not as severe a defacing of nature.
If I remember correctly it’s a spiritually/culturally honored mountain so it really shouldn’t be there if anything, but hey. I thought they excavated and carved a much bigger area
I went there as a kid and remember thinking that it was much smaller than I imagined from photos.
the leftmost face kinda looks like trump. the rightmost face kinda looks like a skeleton from N64 zelda
Oh shit this is fr
Could Sid Meyer be the only based gamer?
The Civ series has slowly had any social commentary filed off. You don't even get global warming anymore.
(They have gotten better at representing non-European people as having civilizations, though.)
Yankees will build shit like this and cry about "personality cults" without a hint of irony.
for how much of a personality cult stalin supposedly had, they didn't carve him into any mountains 
no, but they did name steel after him.
Changsha has a stone monument to Mao Zedong who was born nearby, but stone was mined elsewhere and then assembled here. Zhengzhou has an actual stone carving of two mythical emperors that traditionally represent the "founding fathers" of Chinese civilisation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Huang_Zisun
Maybe it is just because it isn't as weathered, but that Mao statue looks way better than Mt. Rushmore.
Especially later on, he certainly had a personality cult and, while it's not carved into a mountain, they did have big stone monuments to him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_Monument_%28Prague%29
While I think the cult was a case of severe personal and strategic wrongheadedness on the part of Stalin and many others, I certainly would not equivocate between him or his admirers and those of especially the worse three heads on Rushmore.
It's originally wasn't even an actual US monument. Some businessman built it as a tourist trap, in fact the US government at the time thought it was tacky and stupid and didn't want anything to do with it.
Gotta respect the technical expertise needed to make this, though. I have no idea how they made all that mayo solidify.
Exactly, it doesn't make any sense. A primitive civilization that, to our knowledge, didn't even have "spice" technology to season their food. How could these primitive people build a technologically complex thing like this? What do we really know about these "founding fathers"...
"Who" really built them?!
I'm not claiming anything, I'm just noticing how the guy on the right line is looks like he's wearing a cosmonaut's helmet. How could primitive yanks know about space suits at the time?
The guy who carved this also carved leaders of the confederacy into a mountain in Georgia. The guy who paid him was an active Klan member.
It just keeps getting worse
Hey don't insult the hokage
Its such a same, because the surroinding landscape is absolutely stunning
Wait until the orange guy has his face eternalized there …
I genuinely wish he would add it, I want the sanctity of all of America's monuments to be destroyed, it's more poetic and fitting that way, God bless the reflecting pool.
Lol, name one reason Trump is in any way worse than any of those demons
uh he's tacky and oafish
his tie is too long
Lincoln was probably better than trump at least
you called itI hope he removes all their heads and puts his own there. Fuck all american presidents
Would still be less tacky than the obamalisk
I have a feeling there's neither enough rock to do that nor any sort of contractor skilled enough to do it. Trump can't even hire someone for resurfacing a pool
Shit would be hilarious
I hope they do a botched half-finished job that is impossible to hide.
In true Trump fashion, they're likely to try, but the whole thing will be so corrupt and incompetent that they'll end up just destroying the whole thing.
If you ever find yourself in the area, go see the Crazy Horse monument instead.
Incredibly tacky is what springs to mind
This fits so well:
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