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[–] 8bittech@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

I've got condiments in the fridge that lasted longer than your "heritage."

[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 hours ago

Do no pass go. Do not collect 200 dollars. Proceed directly to the nearest shoot him into the sun.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago

Does that mean these racists are going to be dropping the n bomb? Because that's, And I cannot emphasize this enough, gross.

[–] j0ester@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

North vs. South again soon? This time the South will win, since they’ll have the US military.

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

The Feds manage the supply lines for everything. Even if Texas got all the tanks, they'd barely make it to the border with on hand fuel and parts.

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Распространяйте страх, товарищ

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Didn’t the United States Army defeat those traitors?

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Not nearly enough thanks to fucking Johnson. They should've been left afraid to take a piss again without the North's permission. Fuck the traitor's pride they were allowed to evangelize.

Should have let the freedmen take over the ~~plantations~~ forced lavor camps as their own property and hanger every slave owner and send anyone else on their own trail of tears.

They were traitors. They should have all been executed

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 8 points 14 hours ago

you can thank the daughters of confederacy for keeping it alive throughout the centuries.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago

Sherrrrman grab the torch

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 36 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Setting aside the massive amount of racism of the Confedercy, why are southerens so focused on the treasonous side of a civil war?

It's the racism isn't it.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 points 14 hours ago

They never gave up, there was always a south will rise again patriotism

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Always has been. The flag they fly wasn't even the Confederate States flag, but a made up amalgamation resurrected in 1948 by the Dixiecrats to opposed Civil Rights. All modern bullshit about the Confederacy is rooted in some post reconstruction era racist asshole trying to bring back the Confederacy for some other racist ass motivations.

Never trust any racist ass inbred fuckwit when they say, "Heritage not hate" because that flag is solely based on hate. So was the confederacy for that matter. Now excuse me while I got back to writing petitions to get Confederate statues replaced with statues of John Brown.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Even the idea that it's your heritage.... I'm sorry, I thought your heritage was being an American. It's been nearly 250 years since the country was formed, including many of the states of the confederacy. Even the youngest state that seceded, Texas, has been in the union for 180 years. It was a part of the union for over 15 years before seceding for 4, too, almost 4 times as long. But no? It's the 4 years that matter most? The 4 year period where the racist slavers seceded because they wanted to make sure they could continue to own humans as livestock and deny rights, freedoms and even basic human decency to people for the color of their skin or their genetic ancestry? Where they fought and died to protect THAT institution and way of life? That's your heritage? ... well, ok, then. But that sounds pretty fucking racist, doesn't it?

[–] Marthirial@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These hicks have contributed, influenced or affected so little of benefit, they need to give themselves medals when they came second on a two players race to feel they somehow matter.

It's so sad if it wasn't for the fact the whole "heritage" is defending the right to own and abuse people.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It was four fucking years and most of that was a war that left your major cities in flames. It's crazy that I don't consider high school my heritage but these fuckin nitwits can't let go of 4 years like a 150 years ago.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I've met some people that very much consider their four years in high school to define them and to be their "heritage". Many of them then try to vicariously live through their kids in often the very same high school.

I have a feeling the Venn diagram overlaps quite a bit....

[–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

Cool, Germany then should get a Wehrmacht "heritage" month as well. Ridiculous

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A shithole state so bad, it's worse than Alabama.

[–] abstrusedilemma@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

Alabama's gotten me so upset

Tennessee made me lose my rest

And everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Bruh simpsons lasted longer than confederacy. There is mo heritage there.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 7 points 17 hours ago

I have spinach in my freezer that lasted longer than the Confederacy.

[–] JPSound@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Yeah. Not just longer. But waaaaay longer. Like, over +30 years longer.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 day ago

Imagine celebrating something 150+ years later that lasted ~4 years, was a total failure and, at least as of right now, the biggest blemish on American History.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 day ago

Just a reminder that Mississippi did not ratify the thirteenth amendment until 2013.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 day ago

Still competing with Florida and Arkansas and Louisiana for shittiest state. Winning.

[–] Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, if they want a month long reminder that they're a bunch of losers, I guess I'm ok with that.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The confederacy are the most widely celebrated giant losers of all time, and it isn’t even close.

There are more monuments commemorating their failure than there are commemorating most successes

You can thank Wilson for most of those. He also used the presidency to re-found the KKK. He also was one of the authors of the Lost Cause Southern Revisionist BS.

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I recommend yellow paint be applied to all loser flags.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's a myth that more Americans died in the Civil War than any other conflict. They inflate the numbers by counting slavers as Americans. I mean we didn't put the names of the Vietnamese on that wall did we? (fucking thing would stretch to Richmond if we did)

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[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 124 points 2 days ago

Heritage of taking a fat fuckin L

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 120 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] Blackout@fedia.io 75 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why not call it Racist Hillbilly month instead?

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everyone knows that's the definition of "Confederate"

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

"That's my battle flag". And they all hang it up with a U.S. flag and somehow think they are patriotic. The Confederate flags only ever faught battles against the U.S. In fact I'm fairly certain with the rhetoric Donald Trump has used to say we should deport everyone who is anti America, it would mean anyone who flys a conferederate flag should be deported. Surely it won't blow up in their faces in a couple years.

[–] Archangel1313@lemm.ee 26 points 1 day ago

Are they going to have a "Slavery and Treason Parade"?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 56 points 2 days ago

A member of the Rankin Greys, a Sons of Confederate Veterans camp based in Florence, Mississippi, announced the proclamation in on April 18.

The SCV annually asks governors to issue the Confederate Heritage Month proclamations.

The SCV is a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which promotes a revisionist version of history that whitewashes the Confederacy’s racist past and downplays the role of slavery in the Civil War. SCV owns and operates Beauvoir, the museum and historic home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis; the organization annually receives $100,000 from the State of Mississippi for development and maintenance.

I hate Mississippi Nazis.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 52 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How long did the confederacy last again, 4 years? Really need a month to recognize a screwball government that only lasted through one presidential term's worth of time?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago

It's their "heritage" they want to celebrate though...

So literally slave ownership. That's it.

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[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 days ago

Isn't that every month down there?

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