Donald Trump effigy burned during U.K. Bonfire Night

[OKIsItJustMe]

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Source: USA Today

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Doug Stanglin , USA TODAY 10 p.m. EDT November 5, 2016

[font size=3]England's Guy Fawkes Night, an annual event that includes protest marches, bonfires and fireworks, acknowledged its former American colonies this year by burning Donald Trump in effigy.

A rendering of the Republican presidential candidate standing more than 30 feet high went up in flames Saturday in Edenbridge as part of the annual event, which also is called Bonfire Night, according to an ITV news report.

Trump effigies also were scheduled to be torched in Lewes, another English town, The (London) Daily Mail reported.

In London, thousands of protesters flooded the central part of the city for the annual "Million Mask March," which is held on Guy Fawkes Night.

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[juxtaposed]

2. remember, remember, the 5th of november! bonfire night.

Catholics have fires till dawn.

[SoCalNative]

4. These were a couple of the ones they burned in Lewes

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[GreydeeThos]

5. I like the way they think

[bdamomma]

6. good for the brits

[spiderpig]

7. Mr. pig and I had our ritual viewing of V for Vendetta Saturday night

This year all we could comment on (apart from how downright great the movie is) was the relevance to Trumpism.

[OKIsItJustMe]

8. I am required at this point to say

Read the original:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta#Film

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Alan Moore distanced himself from the film, as he has with every screen adaptation of his works to date. He ended co-operation with his publisher, DC Comics, after its corporate parent, Warner Bros., failed to retract statements about Moore's supposed endorsement of the movie.[13] After reading the script, Moore remarked:

(The movie) has been "turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country.... It's a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values standing up against a state run by neoconservatives – which is not what the comic V for Vendetta was about. It was about fascism, it was about anarchy, it was about England.

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[CBHagman]

9. From what I saw on Twitter, they'd put in a lot of effort on those effigies.

I'm not into Guy Fawkes day or burning anyone in effigy, but it just goes to show you how our longtime allies feel about the proceedings over on this side of the Atlantic.