Appeasement was a huge mistake. These dipshits all running around my town like LARPers with their damn confederate flags and shit.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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The Nintendo switch has been out longer than the confederacy lasted
There's so many things, but I think the best one has always been Obama being President much longer than the Confederacy.
Better DLC too.
Eh, maybe. The only confederate DLC I know is the white surrender flag add-on.
Which really shouldn't be DLC. Should be included with the base experience.
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If that's not the most racist thing I've heard in a while...
This feels like serious doublethink
Just wait until you hear what trump just tweeted about the jews......
I mean, he didn't, but you were already prepared to say to yourself "Oh god, what NOW???"
Mostly because him, and controversial shit are just on brand for him. Like I could say he reverse pardoned the central park 5. That's where you force a conviction even if the crime isn't true.
And some people would believe me. And a reverse pardon isn't even a thing. And even if it was, he doesn't take oath until tomorrow.
Some people could still believe me. That's just how shitty of a person he's historically been, and how often he's been shitty, that you could make up any obviously false claims, and it would still seem plausible.
I like to think I’m not any more gullible than anyone else, but every time I’ve heard something horrible from the orange convict, it’s beyond preposterous and somehow even worse than I was dreading. Yes, I’m prepared to hear and believe even worse. Yes, I can no longer enjoy political comedy because reality is more ridiculous
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I thought so too, but then reading the article actually made it a bit less racist than initial thoughts. They had been celebrating Lee in January a good 70 years before MLKJ got his day in January. Still racist, but I can see politicians being like "fuck it. We're not having two holidays a week apart from each other".
Also, wouldn't it be just as upsetting to racists in support of Lee as it is to non racists in support of MLKJ?
Are we caring what upsets racists?
Also, that doesn't make it better.
But if you're going to get rid of the two holidays and only have one and celebrate it on MLK day, why not just call it MLK day instead of insisting on still celebrating Lee? Hell, it's almost worse the more I think about it. If they had some random holiday that celebrated Lee and kept it around mostly just to get a day off you might have a point.
Funny, I'd have thought that celebrating a failed insurrectionist leader who fought for slavery is racist, regardless of how long they'd been doing it.
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It is crazy that the American south is still like this
Tbf there's the South and there's Alabama and Mississippi South.
And Louisiana, sometimes. And Georgia, obviously. Florida.
Texas... Okay, it's the whole South.
But at least that cancer hasn't spread to the Midwestern states!
Ohio checking in.......why do we have confederate flags in northern Ohio? Hell the only thing seperating us from Canada is a god damn lake!!! How much more north can you get???
How much more north can you get???
I seem to recall that you guys and Michigan had a "war" over that exact question......
Nova Scotia here, even we’ve got ‘em.
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And Arkansas. Been through that state and in some of those small towns, as much as they don’t want to be known that way, it’s true.
Except of course for parts of Michigan. Missouri. Ohio. Iowa. Rural Illinois and Minnesota...
Fuck, how's the northeast doing?
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Should have Year Zero'd them in 1865. Hang every plantation owner and Confederate officer, shut down every bank that funded slave purchases, break up the plantations and distribute the land to the freed slaves. May Andrew Johnson burn in hell.
Two dogshit states that should have been razed and had the earth salted.
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Oddly enough, years ago I had an eye doctor named Robert E. Lee, and he was a black guy. Seemed like a really nice fella.
There are two states celebrating that eye doctor this Monday, he must have been super nice.
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When I lived in Virginia we had Lee-Jackson-King Day:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%E2%80%93Jackson%E2%80%93King_Day
That was 25 years ago, and I had hoped that such blatant racism was gone for good. 😔
For clarification: this isn't new, from what I can tell in the article, they started the Robert E Lee holiday following the civil war, and MLK day came after.
Not that they shouldn't be absolutely clowned on for this.
I thought Americans celebrate winners not losers.
But he was white and hated black people. So that's kind of thrir team.
The south lost the war but won the peace through protracted terrorism.
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Recently drove through Mississsippi and Alabama ( off I-20). Seems like they have more important thinks to worry about.
It's cheaper to incite racism than to deliver government services
The roads are murder there
More cracks then a plumbers' convention.
It was Lee who opposed Confederate memorials. I'll bet the orange traitor is toasting the fucking Confederacy right now.
Sherman left too much of the South intact
The Radical Republicans tried to put Sherman in charge of Reconstruction. Too bad that didn't happen.
the USA did not try those who financed the civil war as they should have
I can't wait to watch the speech.
"And along with freedom fighter, Martin Luther King, we would also like to honor the great general Lee, who fought hard to keep half of our population in servitude and went on to surrender valiantly. While he didn't win the war, he won our hearts."
I guess Robert E Lee losing was helpful, but I suspect they're just racists and not honoring him for being such a loser
He really was a loser.
If your local college has a Kappa Alpha chapter, it is basically a cult dedicated to worshipping Robert E Lee. He appeals to that “war between brothers” tragic story type of “Lost Cause” narrative, and is ridiculously popular among dominionist Christians.
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