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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 75 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No no no. My Good'ole'Boy high school curriculum told me the slaves were forced off the Plantation by the mean Union thugs in their War Of Northern Aggression.

Clearly, this picture is just out of context or propaganda or idk he was clearly doing drugs and the police were just trying to help him out but he wouldn't stop resisting.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Slavery was such an ingrained institution that there was for sure some disruption brought by ending it - even some disruption for the enslaved.

People can mine this for evidence that the Union harmed people by ending slavery, but that’s a bad faith outlet for slavery apologists, and nothing more.

Good change can be disruptive. I guess we can always count on Conservatives to place “no change” above all other priorities though. It’s kind of right there in their name.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I guess we can always count on Conservatives to place “no change” above all other priorities though.

Unless the changes are hiking tariffs, gutting regulations, and embarking on a new generation of wars.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

That’s the terrifying thing: Republicans are no longer conservative and we don’t know what the hell they are.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Republicans have been fascist since McKinley. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something.

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