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    12 days ago

    Appeasement was a huge mistake. These dipshits all running around my town like LARPers with their damn confederate flags and shit.

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        11 days ago

        Pauly Shore has made more movies that released in theaters than there were years of the confederacy dipshit parade

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      12 days ago

      Just wait until you hear what trump just tweeted about the jews…

      I mean, he didn’t, but you were already prepared to say to yourself “Oh god, what NOW???”

      Mostly because him, and controversial shit are just on brand for him. Like I could say he reverse pardoned the central park 5. That’s where you force a conviction even if the crime isn’t true.

      And some people would believe me. And a reverse pardon isn’t even a thing. And even if it was, he doesn’t take oath until tomorrow.

      Some people could still believe me. That’s just how shitty of a person he’s historically been, and how often he’s been shitty, that you could make up any obviously false claims, and it would still seem plausible.

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        I like to think I’m not any more gullible than anyone else, but every time I’ve heard something horrible from the orange convict, it’s beyond preposterous and somehow even worse than I was dreading. Yes, I’m prepared to hear and believe even worse. Yes, I can no longer enjoy political comedy because reality is more ridiculous

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        Actually that would have genuinely suprised me considering how much Trump shills for jews and Israel.

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      11 days ago

      Should have Year Zero’d them in 1865. Hang every plantation owner and Confederate officer, shut down every bank that funded slave purchases, break up the plantations and distribute the land to the freed slaves. May Andrew Johnson burn in hell.

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    12 days ago

    Oddly enough, years ago I had an eye doctor named Robert E. Lee, and he was a black guy. Seemed like a really nice fella.

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    11 days ago

    For clarification: this isn’t new, from what I can tell in the article, they started the Robert E Lee holiday following the civil war, and MLK day came after.

    Not that they shouldn’t be absolutely clowned on for this.

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    12 days ago

    It was Lee who opposed Confederate memorials. I’ll bet the orange traitor is toasting the fucking Confederacy right now.

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    11 days ago

    I can’t wait to watch the speech.

    “And along with freedom fighter, Martin Luther King, we would also like to honor the great general Lee, who fought hard to keep half of our population in servitude and went on to surrender valiantly. While he didn’t win the war, he won our hearts.”

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    11 days ago

    I guess Robert E Lee losing was helpful, but I suspect they’re just racists and not honoring him for being such a loser

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    11 days ago

    If your local college has a Kappa Alpha chapter, it is basically a cult dedicated to worshipping Robert E Lee. He appeals to that “war between brothers” tragic story type of “Lost Cause” narrative, and is ridiculously popular among dominionist Christians.

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    11 days ago

    So what’s next? Is Trump going to celebrate Hitler on Veteran’s Day?