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Is everyone in America just constantly crashing out right now, or acting normal by their standards? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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In my head they are very normalburger if that makes sense. They think Trump can stop the war enough to affect the market, right?

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[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My mom STILL insists that the war wasn't about slavery, and so thinks the South should've won and isn't offended by the Confederate flag.

But she's "not a racist, I like all those black people more than this white person".

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

Have you told her about the cornerstone speech, where the vice president of the confederacy says, literally, that the institution of slavery is the cornerstone upon which the entire confederacy was built