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Pete Hegseth says ‘classical Christian schools’ can act as boot camps to establish ‘foothold’
You know what’s not a surprise?
This.
The guy in line to lead the most powerful military the world has ever seen wants to start an "insurgency." I'm sorry, that's just one piece of vocabulary you're not entitled to.
Yes because these are totally the kind of people we want instilling "Christian ideals" in our kids.
If you can't sell your BS to an adult, or even abide by them yourselves, then stay the fuck away from my kids.
Schools in the future are gonna be forced to teach the 2020 "Stolen Election" conspiracy theory and falsely claim that the orange dickhead won the election.
Unfortunately, the winners write the history books, whether right or wrong
If winners write history, why is the lost cause of the confederacy still a thing?
On the one hand, because liberals believe in free speech and not in the suppression of rival ideas by force. On the other hand, because Reconstruction failed.
Because the Union won the war, and then failed to actually keep out the same assholes who wanted to secede in the first place.
In 1877, after 12 years of Reconstruction, the South pulled a bunch of BS including disputed slates of electors, trying to block certification of the election in Congress, and threatening to march on Washington (sound familiar?). They stopped holding the entire government hostage in exchange for ending Reconstruction.
Because the confederacy wasn’t actually ever fully defeated
Did the Confederacy actually lose, though? Or did the Union just suffer a pyrrhic victory?
Edit: Just saying, the Confederacy lost but their flag is still flown on the state flag of Mississippi, Reconstruction didn't go far enough and failed, sharecropping, Jim Crow laws, segregation, civil rights movement opposition, systemic and societal racism is still rampant and accepted (Trump), hell, the "state's rights" arguments is still one of the first reasons people give for the cause of the Civil War. Fuck, we still have legal slavery via our prison system.
So... Did the Confederacy actually lose? Cause they're ideology, beliefs, and the consequences of their hate is still rampant, and we're still dealing with their bullshit.
Yes they lost the civil war. We know this because the CSA does not exist any more. I think that losing your entire country and failing to achieve any strategic objectives is a pretty good definition of "lost a war." The fact that traditions of racism still existed in the southern states during reconstruction does not mean that the CSA won. That's silly.
Because the USA is still operating under a caste system, so in that sense they never lost.
You mean kind of like the Hitler Youth program? Neato mosquito, totally normal...