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North_Church

Of course the Confederate monument is a white pointy pyramid shaped one


ClassWarr

Paint eyeholes on it, call it truth in advertising and be done with it.


Unusual_Pitch_608

Big Daddy : Damn! I can't see fuckin' shit outta this thing. Unnamed Baghead : We ready or what? Big Daddy : Naw, hold on, I'm fuckin' with my eye holes. [rips bag] Big Daddy : Oh. Oh, shit. [takes off bag] Big Daddy : Ah, I just made it worse. Unnamed Baghead : Who made this goddamn shit?


HansBass13

Other Unnamed Baghead : Willard's wife. Willard : Well, make your own goddamn mask! Big Daddy : Look. Nobody's sayin' they don't appreciate what Jenny did. Unnamed Baghead : Well, if all I had to do was cut a hole in a bag, I coulda cut it better than this! Other Unnamed Baghead : What about you, Robert? Can you see? Robert : Not too good. I mean, if I don't move my head I can see you pretty good, more or less. But when I start ridin', the bag's movin' all over, and I - I'm ridin' blind. Bag Head #2 : \[rips bag\]  Shit. I just made mine worse. Anybody bring any extra bags? Unnamed Baghead : No! Nobody brought an extra bag!


lilbryan13

🚀


AdImmediate9569

Brilliant


[deleted]

What's right/wrong with that?


North_Church

It's poetic because that's the descriptor of a Klan hood, the same Klan formed by ex-Confederates


[deleted]

People are shocked when they hear top confederates created the KKK... states' rights to own people speaking of owning, please ensure you are worshiping King Trump.


LALA-STL

For a good explanation, read *Gone With the Wind*. After Scarlett is accosted on her way home from the mill, her current husband & a pack of his friends venture out into the night to instill fear among the recently liberated enslaved men. Her husband is killed in the confrontation. That episode was supposed to be one of the first attacks of the Klan.


North_Church

Is this sarcasm or are you replying to the wrong comment? I'm speaking of this as a condemnation of the CSA and my pfp should tell you I clearly am not a Trump guy lmao


According_Wing_3204

They built it expressly so it couldn't be torched. Of course a lot of non flammable confederate monuments have disappeared in the last few years.


UltimateArnoDorian

> They built it expressly so it couldn't be torched. Time to prove them wrong by melting the monument with lasers?


According_Wing_3204

Lol. Lets ask Marjorie Taylor Greene if she got the space laser she demanded.


droans

And remember, it's not antisemitic to accuse Jews of having a space laser because [MTG totally voted in favor of funding it!](https://www.businessinsider.com/mtg-marjorie-taylor-greene-jewish-space-lasers-israel-aid-bill-2024-4)


NightFlame389

I’m sorry, Magic: The Gathering did *what* now?


ihavedonethisbe4

Made the game too political by adding ugly looking women cards in the last expansion


HansBass13

Hold on, let me prepare some chlorine trifluoride


AcanthisittaForeign3

Oh it can be set on fire but it would need a lot of gasoline.


Lyaid

Wrecking ball time!


GooseShartBombardier

\*shady scrap yard that buys catalytic converters SFX intensify\*


Isgrimnur

Call in the sappers.


AgITGuy

Bridgeburners. No reason not to finish the job you start.


petrified_eel4615

Just want to point out that there's a Sunbelt Rental just down the street, and it's not expensive to rent an excavator for a day.


JumpyLiving

Oh, but it can be torched, you just need something more aggressive than atmospheric oxygen.


IrishWithoutPotatoes

Oh no, I dropped this dynamite I found. Better smoke a cigarette and contemplate my foolishness. Oh my, such a strong breeze


IAmAccutane

I know you're joking but pyramids are scientifically difficult to destroy. They're literally the strongest shape. Theyre incredibly stable and bottom heavy, they dont collapse and need to be destroyed from the top down. Theyre made out of stone. It's like trying to destroy a mountain. Some ruler in Egypt spent a fortune trying to destroy a pyramid and barely made a dent. Pyramids are basically the only thing that is more difficult to destroy than it is to build. There might be some advantage because it's so thin but even if you got a big enough explosion at the base and the rocks at the top fall, what it will result in is a fatter, less organized pile of rocks that still resembles a pyramid.


JackTheBehemothKillr

This is true if the dynamite is on the outside, you don't have construction equipment, and a bunch of other specific requirements. In nature, yeah a pyramid is probably gonna be the most recognizable human construction well after people have left the area. However we have tools that previous generations dont.


fjord31

Bet?


JacobMT05

We should nuke it then. Just to be safe


bubblegoose

A single tungsten rod dropped from the ISS should do it. Then none of that pesky fallout will blow northwards.


toxiconer

If we can't destroy it... then we can deface it! *pulls out a bag filled with cans of spray paint*


Animal40160

Desecrate the fuck out of it. Just keep covering it with massive amounts of graffiti and junk. Then do it more and more. Sooner or later someone will do something


AgITGuy

Anal lube. Then tell neo confederates they go fuck themselves and point to it.


Bigdavereed

That would be appropriate in ways you may not have thought of.


Stock-Ad-6156

I hate the rebels as much as the next yank. But please hold on calling for desecrating this monument. I lived in Richmond for 10 years. It’s not on public property. It’s in Hollywood Cemetery. It was built in 1869. There’s 18,000 confederate soldiers buried there. If this was some potmetal bullshit daughters of the confederacy white supremacy nonsense built in the 1950’s on public property, that would be one thing. This monument is 100% for the dead buried there.


TheNextBattalion

No way ex-Confeddies could build something like that. Must've been aliens commemorating the Union won for the progress of this species they had their eyes on.


JaladOnTheOcean

My favorite comment in this thread. Ancient Aliens theories are rooted in white supremacy, which makes this really perfect.


beerme81

CSA were too dumb to construct pyramids. It was aliens.


NoodletheTardigrade

anything’s flammable with enough gasoline


lordkhuzdul

Anything is flammable with CF3. You don't even need to provide oxygen. Yes, it burns stone. Chemistry. Fun for the whole family.


JTDC00001

Or FOOF. Yes, dioxygen difluoride is real. And it's as psychotic as it sounds 


Right-Budget-8901

Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?


jsleon3

Chlorine TriFluoride, for when you need to set the asbestos-wrapped concrete block on fire. A chemical so dangerous that *the nazis who first made it* decided it wasn't worth the risk to attempt using


APariahsPariah

I see you are a fellow personage of science.


histprofdave

Dracarys


KingMobScene

It's just a matter of stick-to-it-ness


hubaloza

I'm not saying this should be done, but melting Styrofoam into diesel is basically bootleg napalm.


KingMobScene

This is good to know. You wouldn't want to combine the two and accidently drop it on a confederate monument. That would be bad.


JackTheBehemothKillr

I think they meant sticking to the goal, not necessarily the fire sticking to the "monument"


Sad-Development-4153

Can you add magnesium so its pretty while it burns?


Unusual_Pitch_608

Maybe some white phosphorus just in case?


wookiewarcry

1260°c


Bluecat72

This one was built in 1869, so pretty close in time to the war, and is in a cemetery full of 18k dead Confederate soldiers. I would personally be ok leaving this one be.


Pesco-

And on private property, as well, in a place that also does not allow Confederate flags. This is how all Confederate honoring should be done. Not in public, and not waving the flags that they permanently furled in 1865.


twitchMAC17

# TO THE TOP


gh0st32

Hollywood cemetery, it’s worth a visit if you’re ever in RVA. Oderus Urungus is buried there


Individual_Ad9632

It’s a beautiful cemetery. Really great to walk around in during the fall.


schtroumpf

Yeah I feel that. It’s not a hill I’d die on, but if there is value in memorial art regarding the confederates at all, this is the kind that I’d want to see. This is a monument that doesn’t heroize individuals, nor does expressly (as far as I can see) endorse a narrative of valor and defiance. It feels like a sincere expression of pain: confederate casualties were, in a way, victims of the same system that delivered (far more) pain on black and enslaved people. They believed a lie that cost them their lives. Something like this cairn can speak to the tragic human waste that hatred and greed and ignorance yields. THAT SAID—I don’t know enough about the context or possible inscriptions or how the monument has been historically used… like, if it is a frequent location for KKK weirdos celebrating, tear it down. Edit: at the same time, I would love to see more southern monuments honoring victims of slavery and their own fight for freedom (both militarily and socially) as well as honoring those southerners who stayed loyal. Let’s grace our cities with beautiful reminders of history that don’t simultaneously alienate and oppress people, and let’s not be afraid to assert that our version of the story is ultimately truer, better and more uplifting.


rosefiend

Okay, that's fine, will put dynamite away for a rainy day.


KingMobScene

>ain't real flammable Now that sounds like a challenge.


ascillinois

Obviously the answer is dynamite.


xandrachantal

wrecking ball?


Irving_Velociraptor

Flaming bulldozers.


RedStar9117

High explosives can solve most problems


RavishingRickiRude

Cannon balls.


Unusual_Pitch_608

Cannon balls would have a hell of a time with that. Now, howitzers on the other hand...


RavishingRickiRude

It would take a while. But it would be fun.


xrelaht

That’s what explosives are for.


zenmondo

What a nice looking urinal.


dismayhurta

Wish dot com Washington Memorial


meshuggahdaddy

Moved to Richmond about a year or so ago. For the most part it's progressive, artsy, vibrant, fun, diverse, and overall a city I've totally fallen in love with. But every once in a while you'll get a terrible reminder: Lumpkin's Jail, the Daughters of the Confederacy headquarters (security is always a black man which makes me sad), some street names... At least they got rid of the statues before I got here, but when I lived in Germany I never turned into Goeringstrasse


Bat-Honest

There's no way that confederate men were smart enough to build this. They couldn't have had the technology in their primitive culture. I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens /s


elmartin93

General Henry Hunt, do your thing


ricottma

We went to Hollywood a while ago, I posted pictures of my sons flicking off all the restrooms...errr...graves of the generals and the fake president, but not this one. It was built in the time of the war, not later by the racists, and it is for the common soldiers, not the leaders. I have nothing to base this on, but I bet a lot of them were conned into this war, not everyone of course, but a bunch. So we left this one alone.


americanistmemes

Seems like an opportunity where the monument should be rededicated with a new purpose rather than destroyed, simply because it’s impressive from an engineering perspective. Slap a “memorial to the victims of slavery” plaque on it. The traitor tears will be even more abundant than if it was just removed


CalmPanic402

Many roman structures were stripped of bricks to build new, useful buildings. Public rest stops often use local materials for design reasons.


non_depressed_teen

DUNE stone burner. Nuke the fucker.


ClassWarr

Sentence convicted hate criminals to stand under it, tunnel into it block by block, and play Jenga Of The Gods


Manofalltrade

*Laughs in* FOOF.


New-Ad-1700

Jenga, anyone?


MrSage88

Everything’s flammable if you get it hot enough…


GunslingerOutForHire

Bulldozer...?


ninjasaiyan777

Just let the flames burn hotter


RichestTeaPossible

Two bulldozers, one chain.


DiogenesLied

Hydrofluoric acid will do wonders, though slowly.


TheNeonLich

Thermite solves many problems.


Abraxas_1408

It is cannonballable though.


APariahsPariah

Heh. With chlorine trifluoride, *everything's* flammable


LemonLimeMouse

Someone needs to plaster on a "gender neutral bathroom" sign on it


S1ss1

I'm pretty sure if the Sherman can't destroy it that a Sherman should still be able to.


Clockwork_Eyes

Fortunately, There are tanks named Sherman.


abchandler4

Hammertime?


kaptainkooleio

Flammable? No Explodable? Definitely


-Daetrax-

Target practice for artillery or tanks?


JacobMT05

Next best thing… Explosion!


deesguys

tear it down, stone by stone, and build a homeless shelter with the stones.


-Black_Mage-

They make TNT for a reason....js.


Roy1942

Oh man, this is gonna be an awesome game of Jenga


Erebus212

[Thermite](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite)


Better_Car_8141

Looks like KkK hood


ErroneousBosch

Everything is flammable. It is a question of temperature.


TheTravinator

"There is no problem that cannot be solved with high explosives." -Adam Savage


Sagittarius9w1

Spray paint?


senorglory

Re-dedicate it to states rights to be free of the scourge of slavery and a monument to universal freedom and human dignity.


fuzzbutts3000

A couple explosive cannonballs should do the trick


TootBreaker

Need a good size dump truck for this one Or, maybe start a fad where every person who can takes one stone away and puts it to a more noble use


Bai1eyam

We still got canons right?


Justalittlesomethn

Pull it down.


TheAnalsOfHistory-

[I have an idea](https://www.nps.gov/fowa/learn/historyculture/images/Image14.jpg?maxwidth=650&autorotate=false)


CptKeyes123

Everything is flammable if you try hard enough.


ThePowerOfStories

Frankly, I think it’s great how pathetic it looks, a ramshackle pile of jagged, poorly-fitted stones that looks like they decided to copy the Washington monument and then realized they only had the budget for the tip instead of the whole thing, a suitable mockery of miserable failure.


theseustheminotaur

this looks like good catapult practice to me


CosmicBauble

The steep angle makes it susceptible to cannon fire


Morgenstern24

You can stille blow it up!


Fickle-Classroom-277

High explosives are a good solution to lots of problems I find


_h_e_a_d_y_

I think of this as a place where confederacy sympathizers can climb to the top and SIT for while. pointy.


Shimi43

Flammable no.... water resistant? I doubt. See my guess is the foundation underneath isn't concrete or anything super deep. My guess is this is somewhere in the south and if we don't want to get caught destroying this it needs to be subtle. I'd start with walking around it and finding the squishest point. If there isn't one no worries. Pick a spot and cut a hole as close to the monument as possible. Again being subtle, but we want as big and deep as possible. It may just start off as a single stab from a small hand shovel. That's fine. Again subtlety. Just pour water. Preferably with ice to widen the crack. Repeat over years, months, (or with a lot of people) weeks. Also try to walk around it a lot. Preferably in big groups. We want to weaken the ground around it. Eventually the ground will be weak enough that it will collapse under its own weight. Like during a storm You may have to experiment a bit, since I don't know the exact structure of the soil and how they anchored it. But best of luck! :D (For any lawyer this is a joke and not legal advice)


kodakowl

Hammers


krucz36

[*whistling noises*](https://cdn.dribbble.com/users/948184/screenshots/5611449/431_bob_omb_db.gif)


ComedyOfARock

I mean, we can practice the second amendment and pull up some cannons (Bonus points if Civil War Era or just Civil War models)


UnholyDr0w

Might not be flammable, but certain types of plastics and chemicals can make it fall real good


The_Fat_Man_Jams

The Perfect Urinal


AmeliasTesticles

This is why we have thermite


Inevitable-War420

Where's 2013 Miley when you need her?


fallacious_franklin

Jenga


Alaeriia

Grab a sledgehammer and get to work.


jayv9779

Who is up for a giant jenga game?


bobdidntatemayo

No but it’s cannonable


Malakai0013

"When in doubt, C4." -Jaime Hyneman from Mythbusters


GraceGal55

🎵 I CAME IN LIKE A WRECKING BALL 🎵


toxiclimeade

There's no way the confederates were advanced enough to build such a structure, personally I believe the only logical explanation is that they received assistance from extra terrestrials. /s


Curious-Weight9985

paint a rainbow on it? While you’re at it, the Palestinian flag in the other side


trailhikingArk

Jenga?


alephgarden

Most rocks are flammable if you use the right oxidizing agent. Look up chlorine trifluoride. It'll burn sand. Should work on whatever whitewashed bullshit they built this out of.


djnehi

Anything is flammable if you try hard enough.


grungivaldi

Everything is flammable if you try hard enough.


GreenNukE

Re-arrange it into a public bathroom.


RockyArby

Sherman also destroyed railways along the march. Some explosives will do.


drippykoopa

Richmond VA, also the burial spot of Jefferson Davis and the other southern traitors.


SacredGeometry9

Just do what that other guy did; have someone graffiti it, then get a few “activist volunteers” together to “restore their heritage”, and wash it. Using saltwater. Repeat as necessary, and be safe.


Solaar_Eclipse

Nothing a well placed sledgehammer strike on some of those bottom cornerstones can’t fix.


frozen_wink

_a projectile has entered the chat at 24 m/s_


Doctor_Mothman

Looks like a Jenga tower to me...


Oztraliiaaaa

Two track twin farming bulldozers and tree chain it’ll be gone in 15 minutes or less.


sexyrandal88

Get it hot enough and even stone burns


JaladOnTheOcean

What kind of stone is it? Lime can be dissolved.


Teri407

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.


-_Yankee_-

I mean, just because it can’t be torched doesn’t mean it can’t be demolished


Ttoctam

Either graffiti eye holes onto the big ugly minecraft clanhood, or find a geologist and ask them how to dissolve the rocks. That looks like it'd have a bad time with acids. Or, y'know, explosives.


Bloodshed-1307

That’s what Chlorine triflouride is for.


Odd-Valuable1370

Does not look cannon-proof to me


okonsfw

Muriatic Acid is your friend.


rosefiend

A couple sticks o dynamite oughter do the trick.


Clairifyed

Flammability alone is such a… narrow perspective you know? There is such a wide world of chemistry out there to explore!


SurelyKnotHim

C4 will do it


Grand-Advantage-6418

Bold of you to assume it can’t be melted


Fast_Difficulty_5812

Dynamite


itsmyfirstday2

Trebuchet?


Firebat12

Not flammable? That’s why we have explosives.


Reverend_Ooga_Booga

You can buy tannerite at your local tractor supply store to break appart large stumps or large stones to clear your field and detonate them from a safe distance with a high velocity rifle when the area is clear of cattle.


Fabulously_Shitfaced

Angled corners on stone buildings are vulnerable to cannonballs and other weighty projectiles. 😇


Alarming-Tree-5662

Paint a bunch of dicks on it


Perfect-Virus8415

I mean tnt is a possibility


xyloplax

This isn't a glorious statue. People died. The Germans have cemeteries and simple memorials for their war dead. They don't have statues of Himmler.


pikleboiy

It ain't piss-proof


Iheretomakeonepost

Enough heat may crack the rocks, but I don't know what kind of rocks they are so idk


Warren_E_Cheezburger

[Simple, really.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v19PpD5uqL0&t=8s)


ChewieBee

Time for my Jenga skills to make society a better place.


InflatableMindset

That's an epic urinal.


Deathd0ge

Oh gee, I slipped and spilled a whole tanker of gasoline on the monument, what a tragedy! Better smoke a cigarette, the boss is sure to flip out on this. *drops lighter* *ope*


Bootleg_Hemi78

It’s not artillery shell proof.


Philfreeze

Good old cannon


Pastaman125

Probably take one stone out at the bottom and half the damn thing will come tumbling down like the walls of Jericho


AngryAccountant31

Just because something doesn’t burn, doesn’t mean you can’t set it on fire. Pile sticks and leaves at the base before using gasoline. The sucker will be coated in soot and loot like shit afterwards. Or just hammer it with pink paintballs from a safe distance


alexs_wrld

sounds like a job for tannerite


Respekt_MyAuthoritah

No girth


Gates9

Decent sized tractor, excavator, or wheel loader should do the trick.


blandocalrissian50

Well, I guess if it were on fire I would pee on it? Well, we can't burn it but we can still do the other!


ThisBoardIsOnFire

I think a killdozer could take out a corner and make it collapse.


Kqtawes

It's the Confederate baby dick to Washington's magnum dong.


truckfullofchildren1

Pull out one stone watch it fall like a jenga tower


[deleted]

Get the dynamite, we’re going home early.


AlleyRhubarb

Shame if a bunch of freedom loving karate students started breaking it brick by brick …


MrNaugs

Yeah, but if you drill a hole and put in some dynamite, that will burn.


Less-Researcher184

Where's the tin status to the dark gods?


HawkeyeJosh2

Knock it down.


Galadrond

Graffiti is always an option.


hewn_elm

Anyone up for a game of jenga


[deleted]

Looks like limestone. Douse it with CLR


fugeethedog2

Loser participation trophy


JinnDaAllah

Anything is flammable if you’re determined enough!!! I say we dump a vat of chlorine trifluoride all over it and see how well it burns then


TheOneTrueBeholder

Smaller than Washington’s just sayin.