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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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No Confederate sympathizing. Anti-democratic racist slaver traitors don't deserve shit.
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Explanation: There was something of an ideological divide in expat/immigrant Italians fighting in the US Civil War - many of those fighting for the Union were veterans of the forces of the great liberal revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi - and many fighting for the Confederacy were veterans of the Bourbon monarchy of Two Sicilies which Garibaldi played a part in defeating. LET'S GO SONS OF GARIBALDI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Americans_in_the_Civil_War
Supporting background by the excellent Extra History:
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