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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Killing slave owners and anyone that stood for it is good actuallynat-turner john-brown

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You and three generations of your family have now been permabanned from reddit-logo

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they hate us for our freedom

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Keep shopping

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Truths that reddit-logo doesn't want you to know.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice to see Chapo staying true to its roots

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

o7

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know john brown faces is on the right, but who is he on the left ? Asking from a comrade

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Nat Turner, who lead a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

If I had a time machine, I would introduce John Brown to the inventions of John Browning

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

why the hell would you use that image to try to argue 'actually the union was bad' when it is literally the caning of Charles Sumner - an abolitionist - on the floor of the senate lol. Dude who did it was literally fined and got re-elected later that same year despite beating a senator nearly to death with a cane in front of the entire chamber - who unsurprisingly wrung their hands the entire time and barely intervened. agony-shivering amerikkka

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The guy who caned Sumner also sold like commemorative novelty canes to his fans in the south. The USA is an ontological evil and it's always been the same.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The guy who caned Sumner also sold like commemorative novelty canes to his fans in the south.

That kind of tacky shit would soar today too. joker-amerikkklap

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That kind of tacky shit would soar today too

george zimmerman sold the pistol killed trayvon martin with for $250,000

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Downthread a bit the same user says the North shot first. Total disregard for basic historical facts.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"celtic character of the south" lowell chevalier sounds very welsh indeed lenin-sure

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Every single southern slave owner should have been put to death

Not only did they enslave millions of people, they started a brutal war to preserve that enslavement, that's genuine radical evil, and it should have been dealt with thru extreme prejudice

And since it wasn't dealt with, the US is now crawling with fascists

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Every confederate flag today is a testament to that failure to eradicate the source of the evil

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everything is genocide now.

Anything that upsets me is genocide. Foreign country makes decision that I don't like... genocide. McDonalds employee fucked up my order...genocide. Stubbed my toe on the coffee table...genocide. Having an uncomfortable thought...you wouldn't believe it, but also genocide.

Leaves me wondering, how do they rhetorically escalate from here when the need to actually convey a sense of moral depravity and social harm? Seems the ceiling has been reached.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Mmm... White genocide never felt so good.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The north literally allowed the south to regain its power and keep its leaders. It was the proto-west Germany. If the north was as savage as the south fantasizes, it would’ve killed every general and politician, put John Brown on Mount Rushmore, and arrested every confederate soldier and forced them into servitude for freed slaves as per the 13th amendment.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ain't the dude doing the beating in this image the southerner?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

After he was directly criticized for his love of slavery in spite of it's increasing worldwide recognition as a moral evil.

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

Yea everybody always talks about how cool it is when Senators fought on the floor but Sumner was an abolitionist who gave a speech about the evils of slavery and then that douche was mad so the next day he came up behind him and beat him with a cane while he couldn't get up from his desk.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No more half measures Sherman

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Civil War was literally ~~just an excuse~~ a good reason for the north to genocide southerners.

There I fixed it for you.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

it's also sicko-wistful

They make it sound more based than it was, although there were some pretty awesome moments. It's too bad every last slaver wasn't executed and their property redistributed to the freed slaves and landless whites. If only John Brown was president during reconstruction, that's basically the only way we would have gotten the good ending

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

The guy beating the other one with the cane is the fucking slaver ffs!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Genocidong the south is good, actually.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've always said it reconstruction could have been done easily and without losing northern support through war weariness if they had just recruited the freed slaves as the soldiers enacting martial law against former confederates. For one thing the freed slaves almost certainly would already know all the confederate sympathisers names and addresses

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The north was not free of bigotry. The reason why reconstruction failed was also because northerners didn't really want to see freed slaves gain political power.

Like, they didn't want them as slaves because that was a threat to free labor, but they also didn't want them succeeding too much in the marketplace either. They really just wanted them to be free, and be out of sight, out of mind.

Having freedmen "rule" over southerners would be a step too far

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