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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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You don't get to be a Confederate and a 'proud American' (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's wilder is seeing the Confederate flag well outside the USA. I was just in the eastern part of Germany for a wedding, near-ish to Leipzig, and at the venue one of the employees had a Confederate flag plastered on the back of his van.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What absolute fucking lunacy. Especially since German states of the period were generally pro-Union, unlike Britain and France.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Britain was especially hypocritical for supporting the Confederacy, given how much they actually did do to outlaw international slavery and how much they spent on interdicting it. But they needed that sweet cotton for their factories and they wanted their money back: an interesting fact is that most southern plantation owners were perpetually deeply in debt, to London bankers.