this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2024
20 points (100.0% liked)

Fire Memes for Traitor Haters

323 readers
208 users here now

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.

RULES

  1. No bigotry. The Union, or at least the part of the Union WE support, fought AGAINST that shite. We are anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, anti-transphobic, and in general anti-bigot here, even if not all the lads in Union blue uniforms were.

  2. No Confederate sympathizing. Anti-democratic racist slaver traitors don't deserve shit.

  3. Follow all Lemmy.world rules

founded 5 months ago
MODERATORS
PugJesus
20
Don't break the laws of war. Be the reason there needs to BE a law! (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by PugJesus to c/shermanposting
2 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] PugJesus 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Explanation: A brilliant fellow by the name of John Doughty suggested getting a start on the atrocity carousel by starting mass chemical warfare about 50 years early. This is by no means a concerning idea, and Mr. Doughty was doubtlessly a wholly sane and stable individual. Luckily, the suggestion was not adopted.

Funny enough, the Lieber Code adopted by the Union during the Civil War, dealing with the rules of warfare, DOES actually prohibit the use of poison, so this idea would have been illegal even at the time.