Teeeechnically for this analogy to work, you'd need a statue of someone who lost the fight to COVID, they love their statues of losers
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
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Statues of Herman Cain all over the place! I'm sure they'd all love statues of a black man who died from COVID in every major thoroughfare along with parks and streets named after him just so everyone remembers.
Remind me: when pandemic is over
why in the south...?
Southern US states love having monuments of Confederate leaders, justified as necessary to remember their history or heritage or some other thinly-veiled excuse for racism.
Relative to population, southern US states also experienced a disproportionate number of COVID fatalities due to vaccine denialism and a poor public response to the pandemic.
The meme is basically just commenting on the fact that the south wants to have monuments commemorating this 4-year war that was terrible because it's "history", but the south would never put up monuments for this other terrible event important to history because the current politic there is to pretend that it was all a hoax or not a big deal.
ok thanks for the nice summary, didn't realize this meant the southern USA and not the global south
That was sort of my first read and I thought: "that meme is kinda fucked up."
It's honestly still kind of fucked up if you know how the South handled the corona virus and the disproportionate mortality rates, but the US South is kinda fucked up too.
Laugh or cry, idk it's probably cope, but it's how we keep going.
They'd have to believe in it first.