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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Akchually, chlorine wasn't used for disinfecting water until 1897 ๐Ÿค“ (actually a good meme, I was just curious about that)

[โ€“] PugJesus 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.