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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Same mistake the US made going easy on the South after the Civil War. Look where it got us.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

yep, every single officer needed to hang if we wanted to genuinely win that war. at least have their families banned from holding any government office, elected or otherwise, and from holding more than a certain amount of property, for a generation or two.