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Fire Memes for Traitor Haters

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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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  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

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] PugJesus 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"I'm a real American patriot!" they cry, flying the flag of a polity whose only purpose was EXPLICITLY to refuse and attack the institutions of America, prevent Americans from exercising their rights, and whose only achievement of note was the murder of hundreds of thousands of Americans and the impoverishment of a whole third of the country in service to wealthy landed elites, many of whom emigrated to other countries afterwards anyway.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"its my heritage"

Thats interesting because my heritage is burning the flags of traitors >:3

[–] Noodle07 3 points 1 month ago

What if you tell them your heritage is killing nazis? 🤔

[–] Nuke_the_whales 13 points 1 month ago

For a superior race that dude looks like he can be knocked over by a stiff breeze

[–] FlyingSquid 13 points 1 month ago

There's also the declarations of secession. They all mention slavery.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states

[–] Blue_Morpho 11 points 1 month ago

Jefferson Davis, "I have never heard of project 1865."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Not racist? That's the argument? Buddy, the comparatively progressive Union was racist as shit. They just wanted to abolish slavery.

[–] Delphia 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

One nuance that I think often gets lost is that outside of a very small percentage of cases, if your great great great grandfather fought for the confederate army that isnt a criticism on you or him. Theres every likelihood that he was just another illiterate idiot fed a bunch of rhetoric and told who to fight and be vilified, press ganged or killed if he didnt. Even if he volunteered, look at the lies and dripple being punched out about russia/ukraine and israel/palestine and they had a very narrow information flow. Its ok to have family on the wrong side of history, we cant know what kind of person they were or how they really felt in most cases.