{"id":175766,"date":"2020-12-04T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/04\/your-monolith-update\/"},"modified":"2020-12-04T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T14:21:00","slug":"your-monolith-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/04\/your-monolith-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Monolith Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “whacko, my parents are first cousins, X-Files wannabe, black helicopter, tinfoil hat wearing, stupid, dim-witted, thinks pro wrestling is real,” has weighed in on this whole monolith thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I suppose that it was inevitable that the Christo-Fascist right would decide that we were being too nice to aliens.<\/p>\n

No, I don’t mean foreigners, I mean that they are bigoted against, “With her pink antenna and her polka dot skin And the 24 dimples on her chinny chin chin, And the hydrogen sulfide of her hair,” people.<\/p>\n

They tore down the metal menhir, and erected a wooden cross.<\/p>\n

I guess we should be grateful that they did not set the cross alight: <\/p>\n

The new California monolith was torn down overnight by a group of right-wing young men who livestreamed their vandalism in a grainy video<\/a> posted on the blockchain streaming site DLive.<\/p>\n

In the video, a group of three men are seen pushing the statue over and chanting “America First” and “Christ is King.” The men, one of whom was wearing a “Make America Great Again” headband, called part of the monolith’s construction “gay” then replaced it monolith with a wooden cross. It is a decidedly bleak turn in the ongoing monolith saga that has generally been a delightful distraction for a world wracked by a pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cChrist is king in this country. We don\u2019t want illegal aliens from Mexico or outer space,\u201d a man in the video says. \u201cSo let\u2019s tear this bitch down.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously, this monolith has had the shortest life cycle of any meme ever. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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