Hardcopy of a brainless satirical piece from The Stranger.

Headline says "what should go in its place?" Quiz asks "if it came down, what would go in its place?"

Fundamental difference.

Also, I petition that The Stranger puts the votes for "statue of Dan Savage" into the votes for "Another white person."

John Lennon and Groucho Marx?

I really want to meet the sixty year old cat ladies in Wallingford that find these funny.

An equally pretentious statue of Donald Trump.

A large bronze first lady...

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Call it The Statue of Libertine.

A little park, similar in theme to Peace Park, with an array of flowers and without statues.

"I really want to meet the sixty year old cat ladies in Wallingford that find these funny."

Oh my god, now THAT's funny! Did everybody get it? Because old cat ladies in Wallingford probably have mundane senses of humor, and so he was being sarcastic!! He wouldn't really want to meet them after all -- they've obviously get lame taste in jokes, which is what makes his comment so inherently off-kilter and funny!! He's practically Louis CK!!!

Talk to the troll is right.

Since when is it even up for discussion whether a person's art should stay or go? I thought maybe the Fremont Chamber and the family that owns the lump of bronze didn't really give that much of a shit and would probably go along with Murray because they had better things to fight over. But no. Nope.

They're taking a stand on First Amendment grounds. Which is quite righteous and very solid ground indeed to stand on. The government does not fucking tell people what sculptures they may have in their front yard. The fucking mayor doesn't get a say in what art is appropriate for a private citizen's own property.

And a cemetery? Holy shit. Not only does all of that private property and First Amendment stuff give Murray no legal ground to stand on at all, cemeteries are hallowed ground. There's a shit ton of other law that protects burial sites of any kind from being fucked with. And a bunch more laws that protect historical cemeteries.

I refer you to the fact that Lake View just hung up the phone and didn't even give Ed five minutes of their valuable time overseeing their residents eternal rest. They just shut the gate. Fuck you, Ed. Talk to the troll.

Confederate monuments on public property are a whole other thing, with nothing at all in common with these two Seattle cases. You'd think your Ed Murrays would understand some of this very basic shit. Does the Mayor not have a lawyer in the house?

What the hell is Murray up to? I guess with his career being over he just doesn't care?

But you *know*, since Ed Murray brought up... how did he put it? Oh, yes, Murray spoke of that which, "causes pain among those who themselves or whose family members have been impacted". I wonder if Murray can think of anything else that could be removed which causes ongoing pain to those who have been victims of, you know, things. Alleged things that happened? Ed? Ring any bells? There's one source of pain that is entirely within your power to remove. Picking up what I'm laying down, my man? Hint hint?

Why doesn't Ed just buy it? I heard they are selling it for 250k.

Why is topless Putin equestrian not a choice?

The obvious choice would be to replace the Lenin statue with one of Boris S. Wort, who was, after all, the SECOND meanest man in the world.

I always thought of that statue as a kind cold war trophy. The people of eastern Europe rejected Lenin as all he stood for so we keep him as a sort of garden gnome. Also it is a prime example of art as propaganda which seems pretty spot on while we talk about history and who get to write it.

Tell Dan to stop voting for himself

It's so obvious. A statue of Ed Murray, what else?

I thought Collectivism_Sucks was going to crowdsource a statue of Ayn Rand, with the promise of a plaque with all the statue's funders mounted beneath her.

The Lenin statue does not glorify Lenin. I've always seen it as part trophy, part found art. Also, people regularly exercise political speech by creatively "defacing" it. That's probably the real reason Trump supporters want it removed- someone painted Lenin's hair orange.

Everyone knows that it isn't Christmas in Seattle without Comrade Lenin in his Santa hat and lights.

Just pick a Seattle resident at random and make a statue of them.

@22: I cannot forgive your typos at this time, or any other time in the foreseeable future.

Ed Murray got concerned trolled by 4chan. There is a big difference between public monuments on government property memorializing the treasonous, slave-defending, America-splitting Confederacy, and a private statue on private land, made as a protest to a leader that has NOTHING TO DO WITH AMERICA. The Lenin statue is basically a joke. What the fuck is wrong with our Mayor?

Ed Murray won’t do anything about Housing First to aid the ending of homelessness here. Or work to end police brutality. Instead he would rather appease the right wing extremists by talking about taking down the lenin statue. What is wrong with him?

What? This is a rallying point for neo-communists?

What Fremont really needs is a totem poll stacking animalistic likenesses of Flynn, Priebus, Scaramucci, Bannon, ..., ...