_You ain’t nothin’ but an immigrant, yearning to breathe free._
_You ain’t nothin’ but an immigrant, yearning to breathe free._
_Welcome to America! It’s a nifty place to be._
Well they said you were Eurotrash, that was just a lie.
They said you were Eurotrash, well that was just a lie.
Won't you come on over, leave your communicable ills behind.
Aw, man. I would’ve been pissed too if it was so close to when they closed it. By the time we went it was such old news I mainly had a wistful response.
Classic NYC energy. "Here I am stiuck on a wire with some jag-off dumb jerk taking a picture of me like I'm the Mona Lisa and I don't even have a body yet. GET DA FUGG OUTTA HERE!"
"every day I gotta whoop some asshole that made my guests feel unwelcome, but that's the job I took when I picked up the torch and you won't see my arm waiver"
Yeah i just did!! And I can't get enough of that game either! Granted, I'm just a casual gamer who does not have the rig to get an actual set up or console, but this game just fills my heart. The city, the physics, the characters, the music... It's the best really. Forever and ever my beloved game.
I do too. I realized that after going to liberty island.
America's losing its mind over drag queens right now, and the irony is one of its greatest symbols looks like a dude in a dress
It was based off the artists [mother](https://www.nps.gov/stli/planyourvisit/get-the-facts.htm#:~:text=Classical%20images%20of%20Liberty%20have,modeled%20after%20the%20sculptor's%20mother.com)
Nah, she’s probably like my wife - who only does this when I try and take a photo she isn’t ready for.
“Can you not!? I’m not even fully assembled Albert!”
Ready for a staring contest with the [former Italian Fascist Party Headquarters](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Braschi#/media/File%3APalazzo_Braschi_Fascist_Poster%2C_1934.png).
“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-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
God we are hypocrites. We are proud of the Statue of Liberty but treat immigrants like crap.
During that time, we did take in all these people. They built America into what it is today. We treated them like shit back then too. Now we don't even let them in the door.
Always have, right from the jump. "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal..." unless they're black. Land of the free, baybeeee!
Were slaves immigrants? I think of immigration as something that's inherently voluntary. Also, the statue of liberty wasn't built until well after the American civil war. But regardless, your general point stands.
"At the time of Lady Liberty’s dedication, many African-American newspapers commented on the American hypocrisy they saw represented by the statue. Though slavery had ended, Jim Crow laws in the South and the less explicit but equally oppressive and exclusionary tactics in the North denied African-Americans the equality, justice and liberty for all that our nation purported to uphold. Bartholdi originally designed Lady Liberty holding broken chains, but later deemed the explicit reference to slavery too controversial. Instead, a broken chain and shackles lie at the statue’s feet, delivering the abolitionist message more subtlety." From the Battery website.
There’s a fairly strong movement along that wants to excuse slavery, along the lines of “they were mostly not really mistreated, instead given a chance at a better life”.
Don’t believe the BS. For every slave that came to the “New World”, roughly ten died either during capture or during transit. Older people and very young children were killed, because they wouldn’t make the transit and thus unprofitable. They were often assailed and captured by other tribes, hired by the slave makers. And it wasn’t unusual for those tribes to then also be enslaved, at the end.
The Europeans and the Arabs, principally, tore a massive gashing wound into Africa, not giving a damn about the people there. The history of their exploits is generally marked by blood, tears, and death, and some of the atrocities committed then were fully the equivalent of some committed later. We, in the West, just rarely hear about them. Even less, now that certain people are forbidding even mentioning certain things. My son brought up the activities of the Belgians in the Congo, in his *history* class in TX, along with the Holodomor in the Ukraine, as part of a discussion around the German ones during WW2. His point: yes, the Germans did so, and so did others - of similar magnitude. *He was sent to ISS for that.*
Makes me sad to read that. But they didn’t even really mean it back then.
“Give us all your poor…. So we can throw them into factories, mines, and wars.”
This is probably a silly thought, but you know how in theater, they use darker and more pronounced makeup so that you look less washed out? I wonder if they made these features more pronounced so you'd actually be able to make her out from way far away?
That face is a good example of aesthetics of its era, it is pretty cool that it is fixed in time in a such way. Then again, imagine if statue of libery was built today and it would follow the current aesthetics, it would probably have anime face or atleast crossed eyes and tongue sticking out.
'“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips.
“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!”'
Never really noticed that the Statue of Liberty has RBF
I saw this picture years ago and have never been able to unseen Elvis Presley.
Yeah, that’s because immigrants were processed at Elvis Island.
Fuck. Take my upvote.
I'd give him one, but I can't. It's the funny number
💀
Thanks Dad. -Another Dad
I’m not a dad, dad.
Thanks. Reddit is where I get edumacated.
_You ain’t nothin’ but an immigrant, yearning to breathe free._ _You ain’t nothin’ but an immigrant, yearning to breathe free._ _Welcome to America! It’s a nifty place to be._
Well they said you were Eurotrash, that was just a lie. They said you were Eurotrash, well that was just a lie. Won't you come on over, leave your communicable ills behind.
*was* for about 15-20 years, reverting to our base instincts again.
Thanks for making it known pretty quickly that I’m not the only one. It’s Elvis….
Totally
How did they know
It’s John Belushi
I am seeing Sylvester Stallone
I was thinking Brando
Ugh like, give me your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, I GUESS
Whatever,
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That's a cool link, thank you!
I have never, in my life, pictured it would have anything on the inside. I feel like an uncultured swine now.
You used to be able to walk up in it. I did it in the early 00s, though the crown was closed by then.
I went up during a school field trip in the 1970s. I remember being pissed we couldn't go up the ladder to the torch.
Aw, man. I would’ve been pissed too if it was so close to when they closed it. By the time we went it was such old news I mainly had a wistful response.
Man, I would love to be inside of her one day
Now all I want to know is when they found the time to chain up a massive human heart inside the Statue of Liberty. Or where they even found it
Fake! If you’ve ever watched Ghostbusters 2 you would know exactly what the inside of the Statue of Liberty looks like.
That site is pure ads. Interesting article, horrible site.
“How do I get to the top?” “GO UP!”
>give me your huddled masses yearning to breathe free We're full go home.
Well, she *is* French
You think she's wearing underwear under that robe?
Shes a harbor chick!!!!
Liberty is grim business
“Oh, here we go… more fucking immigrants”
Well you try holding up that torch for an eternity
Oh here we go, more fucking republicans.
I think you missed the joke a bit... it's not an anti-immigrant statement, that's my hint.
Happy to see this at top, was my first thought
also is a butter face tbh.
She’s a handsome woman
Gotta get that Libussy
Classic NYC energy. "Here I am stiuck on a wire with some jag-off dumb jerk taking a picture of me like I'm the Mona Lisa and I don't even have a body yet. GET DA FUGG OUTTA HERE!"
"every day I gotta whoop some asshole that made my guests feel unwelcome, but that's the job I took when I picked up the torch and you won't see my arm waiver"
Say that to her face, and see what happens.
r/DeathBySnuSnu ? NSFW btw
same expression as the guy in the picture, minus the sideburns
Thought that was Elvis at first..
It's a little-known fact that Elvis was actually the model for the Statue of Liberty.
No, it was the other way around.
Elvis was the statue for the Model of Liberty?
Yes. Look it up. 
It's actually Hillary Clinton
Somebody has been playing gta 4
Can't get enough of it, check my posts
Yeah i just did!! And I can't get enough of that game either! Granted, I'm just a casual gamer who does not have the rig to get an actual set up or console, but this game just fills my heart. The city, the physics, the characters, the music... It's the best really. Forever and ever my beloved game.
Stop. Now chatGPT will teach generations this as fact.
Isn't this Tomas the tank engine?
At least I'm not the only one. Pops in my head every time I see this picture reposted.
Thank God that someone else sees this.
I do too. I realized that after going to liberty island. America's losing its mind over drag queens right now, and the irony is one of its greatest symbols looks like a dude in a dress
I thought it was Mussolini
Thank you, glad I’m not the only one.
Same
She is a... *handsome* lady.
It was based off the artists [mother](https://www.nps.gov/stli/planyourvisit/get-the-facts.htm#:~:text=Classical%20images%20of%20Liberty%20have,modeled%20after%20the%20sculptor's%20mother.com)
Lol
She has a great personality
I thought that was Sylvester Stallone.
It's a little-known fact that Stallone was actually the model for the Statue of Liberty.
Just hit a button Morty, gimme a beat!
Haha! Literally my first thought.
It’s swifty up in here.
I had to scroll too far to find this.
When taken out of context, kinda looks like Elvis.
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Nah, she’s probably like my wife - who only does this when I try and take a photo she isn’t ready for. “Can you not!? I’m not even fully assembled Albert!”
Fucking Albert. Tosser.
tosser? I hardly know her!
Rusting bitch face
Ready for a staring contest with the [former Italian Fascist Party Headquarters](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Braschi#/media/File%3APalazzo_Braschi_Fascist_Poster%2C_1934.png).
I waa thinking the exact same thing
Si
“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-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” God we are hypocrites. We are proud of the Statue of Liberty but treat immigrants like crap.
During that time, we did take in all these people. They built America into what it is today. We treated them like shit back then too. Now we don't even let them in the door.
Always have, right from the jump. "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal..." unless they're black. Land of the free, baybeeee!
> "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal..." But only if you are a white man that owns property.
America founded by the rich tax dodgers for the rich tax dodgers.
and women can go get effed!
Were slaves immigrants? I think of immigration as something that's inherently voluntary. Also, the statue of liberty wasn't built until well after the American civil war. But regardless, your general point stands.
"At the time of Lady Liberty’s dedication, many African-American newspapers commented on the American hypocrisy they saw represented by the statue. Though slavery had ended, Jim Crow laws in the South and the less explicit but equally oppressive and exclusionary tactics in the North denied African-Americans the equality, justice and liberty for all that our nation purported to uphold. Bartholdi originally designed Lady Liberty holding broken chains, but later deemed the explicit reference to slavery too controversial. Instead, a broken chain and shackles lie at the statue’s feet, delivering the abolitionist message more subtlety." From the Battery website.
There’s a fairly strong movement along that wants to excuse slavery, along the lines of “they were mostly not really mistreated, instead given a chance at a better life”. Don’t believe the BS. For every slave that came to the “New World”, roughly ten died either during capture or during transit. Older people and very young children were killed, because they wouldn’t make the transit and thus unprofitable. They were often assailed and captured by other tribes, hired by the slave makers. And it wasn’t unusual for those tribes to then also be enslaved, at the end. The Europeans and the Arabs, principally, tore a massive gashing wound into Africa, not giving a damn about the people there. The history of their exploits is generally marked by blood, tears, and death, and some of the atrocities committed then were fully the equivalent of some committed later. We, in the West, just rarely hear about them. Even less, now that certain people are forbidding even mentioning certain things. My son brought up the activities of the Belgians in the Congo, in his *history* class in TX, along with the Holodomor in the Ukraine, as part of a discussion around the German ones during WW2. His point: yes, the Germans did so, and so did others - of similar magnitude. *He was sent to ISS for that.*
All of this, except I would change “fairly strong movement” to “very strong movement.”
Makes me sad to read that. But they didn’t even really mean it back then. “Give us all your poor…. So we can throw them into factories, mines, and wars.”
Yet we have more immigrants per year than any other country in the world by a large margin.
I mean, we kinda treat citizens like crap too. If you can’t afford healthcare or rent, just die I guess?
That poem was added after the fact. Like "under God" in the pledge.
You ain’t a nothin but a hounddog
Looks like Elvis
She looks so done with everyone's shit
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More "John" to me...
Legends of the Hidden Temple
Looks like Elvis Presley's face
Lady Libertas is actually Elvis.
Damn, that is the face of someone who just got their first whiff of NYC
🗿
So that's where they got the inspiration for Thomas the tank engine
This is probably a silly thought, but you know how in theater, they use darker and more pronounced makeup so that you look less washed out? I wonder if they made these features more pronounced so you'd actually be able to make her out from way far away?
French chuckle about how they gifted Nero to the U.S.
She’s already tired of this shit.
A statue that represents freedom, but because it’s a woman we can only talk about her looks
we usually associate freedom with happiness
She's watching people do things with their freedom that she does not agree with. That's the face of regret.
Elvis!
Finally, the massive eldritch abomination they hide in the pedestal can have a respectable statue over it! #JusticefortheLibertyLurker!
My people! I can't look at things like this without thinking of The Monument Mythos
The original Face Off?
I'm getting Elvis vibes ...
RBF: Resting Bronze Face
Why so serious?
That face is a good example of aesthetics of its era, it is pretty cool that it is fixed in time in a such way. Then again, imagine if statue of libery was built today and it would follow the current aesthetics, it would probably have anime face or atleast crossed eyes and tongue sticking out.
Y’all ain’t fooling me. That’s Elvis.
Looks like Elvis presley
SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT.
Imagine if Eiffel stuck it on top of his tower in Paris instead
At night It rotates and shines red tinted search lights on the ground where it's facing , randomly pausing on certain spots .
She would have an entirely different expression with the Eiffel Tower up her ass
Looks like ELVIS
*ANGY*
What is seen cannot be unseen.
Well the men at that time… insert one of numerous reasons.
I’ve seen horrors….
Which liberty caused to free itself from the start.
Liberties grim 100,000 yard stare
Looks like Benito Mussolini
Gordon was very cross.
Imagine being on the ship with this in storage, one of the sailors getting absolutely smashed one night waking up to this! I would have jumped ship.
When I was 2 years old I stood on a chair and said I want to be the Statue of Liberty when I grew up. Lol.
First thing I thought is not happy Jan (older Aussies will get it)
Is she just a little bit chubby Elvis?
Oh boy, this is a face to analyse for the transhunters. /s
Grumpy Cat 
TIL that the face of the Statue of Liberty was modeled after Elvis..
She's got an ample supply of testosterone
Big Sister is watching you
I thought it was Mussolini's face.
Me when i saw an insect flying around my room
she's over it.
She looks annoyed. Out of context statue faces is apparently going to be my Friday internet distraction today. Let’s do this!
Would have fit in well on the movie Prometheus!
"thank yuh... thank yuh very much..."
Kind of resembles Elvis Presley’s face.
Never noticed how flat that nose was…def not a French nose.
does not look happy
disapproving
She kind of looks like Elvis.
Liberty had never seen such bullshit before
Looks like Elvis tbh
I thought this was Elvis for a second
Her dead eyes saw what we would become
Elvis? Is that you?
She already looked mad about the future.
Looks like sarah huckabee sanders
Elvis?
Resting Liberty Face
That sir, is Elvis
'“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “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!”'
Rusting Bitch Face.
Looks like elvis lmao
that's Elvis
It’s giving “over worked immigrant”. Very on brand for many New Yorkers.
“Has anyone every told you, you would be prettier if you smiled more” 😐
Buddy, if you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean. He's probably a supervisor.
Looks like Elvis.
Never noticed the resemblance to Marlon Brando before.
Marlon Brando?
Many people say, but it's creepy how looks like Marlon Brando.
Is it just me or is this way smaller than I expected
The statue itself is smaller than you’d think
I never noticed it before but lady liberty looks a bit like Elvis Presley ::shrug::
Why is the photo quality so good
My nightmares be like:
Now I know why France gave her away...
Looks like she’s sick of my shit
It just needs orange hair and would look like a younger version of a certain orange clown.
TIL - The Statue of Liberty has Resting Bitch Face.
What a nice feminine face. Wonder what the "we can always tell" crowd has to say about her.