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In 1970 a group of unknown individuals —possibly the Weather Underground — detonated plastic explosives underneath a cast of Rodin's famed sculpture "The Thinker" outside the Cleveland Museum of Art.(hexbear.net)

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InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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They chose to reinstall the sculpture without resorting it. It is quite haunting to see.

https://bsky.app/profile/carteredman.bsky.social/post/3krjlgq7wgx2v

Photos at the link.

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GayTuckerCarlson [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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Why?

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lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml
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Adventurism because west Germans were desperate af

Edit : I confused Weather Underground with another group

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Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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i thought the weather underground were yankees, and this was in cleveland

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lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml
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Yes I did confuse them with another

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Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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Wish someon would detonated thermite on the Wall Street bull.

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Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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fucking destroyed that porcelain throne. powerful bowels

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