I brought this up to people before, maybe here on word forge - I don't get the whole "mic drop" thing either.
Jake: "What's this?" Elwood: "What?" Jake: "This car. This stupid car! Where's the Cadillac?" [Elwood doesn't answer] Jake: "The Caddy! Where's the Caddy?" Elwood: "The what?" Jake: "The Cadillac we used to have. The Bluesmobile!" Elwood: "I traded it." Jake: "You traded the Bluesmobile for this?" Elwood: "No, for a microphone." Jake: "A microphone?" [pause] Jake: "Okay I can see that."
It's like breaking the glasses after a toast: nothing better will ever be accomplished with this instrument. Same reason Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar at Monterey.
We're a distribution hub, so maybe. The particular neighborhood where the vandalism took place is known for having a lot of illicit business transactions conducted there.
It's not like there are no other Lincoln statues to vandalize in Chicago. Somebody or somebodies looking to make a serious statement would have gone to a more genteel area.
something I copied off Facebook - only thing that turned out to happen was Boston, which was billed as "free speech rally" but among the 100 or so who showed were some of the usual suspects. I'm....skeptical....on the antigoogle angle but I guess now I have to look it up
Nope. Absolutely a thing that @Eightball our resident 4chan resident can confirm. I spent part of the summer there for fandom reasons and saw it for myself during the five minutes I spent at /pol/.
Yeah it's definitely a thing that was attempted. You didn't even have to spend anytime at 4chan to see it spread. Unless you were blindingly drunk all summer. Ohhhhhh.......
It was probably Lew Rockwell and Thomas DiLorenzo. Libertarians have been airing their grudge against that sociopath for years.
It really shows the bias of the media that the media focused so much on a couple of retards who showed up with those racist t-shirts while completely ignoring who was actually in the protest.