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Maybe a Deep South so racist and rooted in slavery wasn’t worth saving. Maybe the Civil War should have just been a rescue mission. They’ve never truly adapted, and have just become welfare states that fail in every meaningful metric. A drain on the US economy.

Wars are never "won". They are not a sporting game where winners & losers go home. They create generational & cultural hatred for hundreds of not thousands, of years. The South never accepted they "lost".

Chief Justice Roberts has spent his entire career trying to destroy the Voting Rights Act. He’s been trying to stop Black voting power since he worked for Reagan’s DOJ. History will remember him as an enemy of civil rights for all Americans. Just like CJ Taney, another white supremacist.

Do you honestly think that would stop them? The "conservative" mind, if you can call it that, exists in a zero-sum state. To them, there is no compromise, only winners and losers. Also, how's that wall that Mexico was going to pay for working out? Extrapolating that out gets us... what?

I see now that it isn't fascism we should be worried about. Well, how embarrassing. Our entire democracy was based on human enslavement 🙄. Get real, then, we can turn to socialism with no loss of legitimacy. And, weirdly, Ted Cruz will think he's fighting back Sharia Law 🙄.

The labels Tea Party and MAGA have always been bullshit cover names…once the concept of the liberal Republican (Rockefeller, Romney, Javits etc.) became extinct, the true GOP was exposed…just the racist, secessionist Confederates from the Civil War…meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Not to mention legislation and laws and processes and procedures and everything you can possibly think of was built on this foundation.

PLEASE tell me they are not real!!! Seriously, we need to upgrade our stereotyped look of magats… imo, if they all looked like that we wouldn’t have to fight the current chaos … but the maga cabal is filled with steven miller and ultra-rich tech bro- types and the damage they can and will unleash!!!

That rag represents the cowards that bred into existence, the obscene, mutated DNA of trash known as MAGA. Like roaches and rats, they're unfortunately resilient to pest control, and remain free to oppress, annoy and belch pure idiotic babble.

The American South. What a bunch of backward Redneck Bible-Bashing inbred losers. If it wasn’t for the handouts from the Blue States, they’d all have the arse out of their pants and be eating squirrels and turnips.

David Attenborough: Here are the Chuds. The incel progenitors of the racist genocidal Confederacy, otherwise known as White Americans. They reproduce by forming giant fleshy buds on their abdomens. These buds eventually fall to the ground, and must find their own lifted truck within hours.

"Looking back now" Had you spoken to some of us 20 years ago, we would have been looking forward telling you that this would all be happening for exactly these reasons, and we were told to STFU, stop being doomers and cut it out with the yperbole.

If you lived in the South your whole long life, as I have, you are well aware that the Civil War, or War of State's Rights, never ended. It just paused. I went to school at U of F, and we used to stand when they played Dixie before a game. KA fraternity is for descendants of Southern fighters.

I don’t think it was ever set aside by those who want to return to confederacy days. They were biding their time and building their coalition. Their propaganda machine. They were always there grooming their future leaders and working to install them. So now that we know, what are we going to do.

Absolutely. There is nothing more these southern idiots want than for the Confederacy to rise. Ironic they don't see it as a betrayal to the United States.

I’ve sat in many cafes at breakfast time here in the south and overheard conversations about “The War of Northern Aggression” between men in their forties - seventies. They usually left me thinking these guys thought Jeb Stuart would come charging out of the woods at any moment.

Exactly. The right has a half century head start dragging us backwards 150 years. Fortunately, the world evolves far faster than in the days of Reagan and Newt. Here’s to tomorrow! ✌️

The thing that I will never understand is how it was possible that every single person in the Biden administration somehow missed school the day they went over the failures of appeasement throughout history.

The current political landscape is a psychological systemic "perfect storm" where Trump's toxic personality traits & GOP institutional power-seeking & MAGA base motivated Grievance & Vengeance all converge. & Trump as the Avatar Vessel of Grievances & perceived Vengeance of a specific Folks.

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There are plenty of studies that show bigotry and racism is inter-generational within the family line. We keep making the mistake of thinking education and information is the answer, but what it requires is much more akin to de-radicalisation - like when a cult member is rescued.

When this is over the red hats and confederate flag need to be made to be symbols of Terrorism. Owning one should lead to 3 years in prison at least. Im tired of my country protecting losers and racists from persecution.

Should have taken care of business properly instead of patting Confederates on the head back in the day. Allegedly to heal the nation. Never happened. They just rebranded

Part of the congressional district I live in was represented by Abraham Lincoln. As as Impeachment No. 2 was underway, I called my rep, the useless Rodney Davis. Citing that image, I implored him to do right by Abe, who lost many lives to keep that flag out of DC. The putz didn't. He's not missed.

I'm sorry. I don't think blaming "liberal complacency" hits the mark. Point your finger where it should go: the GOP, the great replacement movement, Trump and his voters.

When I read stuff like this, I laugh. I grew up in Alabama. There was never any “set to the side,” or “reshaping.” It’s been clear and open every day in every boardroom and every election. The South is as it has always been.

There are more of us.I know we can take this on if we all link arms.What's getting my goat is the damn,pea brain, racist supreme court!I purposefully refuse to capitalize that anymore.It's a bought court,it's a bought cabinet,it's utterly shameful. Ok, my BP is starting to go up...breathe in...

I have relatives that fought on both sides. Some deserted the Confederacy, because they didn’t think slavery was right! The 1870 census showed major monetary losses for the South! My ancestors went from prosperous middle class to dirt poor! The war was stupid!

man, this is exactly right. they never stopped fighting the civil war, they just learned to dress it up in "states rights" and "heritage" talk. the quiet part has been loud for years now if you were paying attention

This is not some big insight. I have been taking crap for saying that MAGA is the Confederacy 2.0 since the first Trump administration.

The racist Southern traitors have been shrieking that “the South will rise again” for many decades. They didn’t hide what their intention was. We will defeat the Southern traitors again, and this time there can be no mercy or forgiveness. We need to follow the example of Germany post WWII.

Black people knew the confederacy mindset never ended. It was only because of cell phone videos that the rest of us saw what was happening every hour of every day to Black people.

I am opposed to any politician who sits by idly & does NOT protect their constituents from LEAF BLOWERS & NOISE POLLUTION. I know they would like us to buy into their partisan bullshit story about how we are divided, about morals, values, issues. I DO NOT buy any of it! I choose my fucking issues...

I am opposed to any politician who sits by idly & does NOT protect their constituents from LEAF BLOWERS & NOISE POLLUTION. I know they would like us to buy into their partisan bullshit story about how we are divided, about morals, values, issues. I DO NOT buy any of it! I choose my fucking issues...

Correct, it was no secret nor set aside. The Dukes of Hazard. Confederate monuments all over the South. The Little White House of the Confederacy tourist attraction in Montgomery. The Southern “academies” to defy the thought of white & black children going to school together. Vestiges held sacred.

How is this a surprise? They’ve been actively saying it for at least fifty years. They’ve only surprise us how many decided to ignore it because it was a fringe idea that was protected under 1A. They pushed and pushed the boundaries for what’s acceptable. Our democracy is the frog in the pot.

Republicans party is a cancer and a mental disease. These MFkers will never change and all they have brought ti the country is pain, and poverty.

I dunno. I grew up in the Deep South in the 80s where we were fully (and happily) integrated. We were taught and BELIEVED in MLK’s dream. The only time I heard anything remotely racist is when I moved to Northern Virginia for one year in middle school and it BLEW my mind. 🤯

This is the best description of hate I’ve seen since Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. “In time we hate that which we fear.” Racism is also described as the symbiotic relationship of fear and ignorance. Both describe America pretty well.

Lincoln not properly punishing the Confederate states after winning the Civil War is what would eventually lead to Trump’s presidency. There were other things, of course, but that’s where it started.

What's really important for media to understand is that this is not occurring in these states despite people not wanting it. The majority of (white) voters in southern red states *do* want this, as evidence by the fact that they keep electing Republicans who run on gutting civil rights.

We never properly punished the confederacy and confederates were even allowed back into elected office in the govt they tried to overthrow. The union was fragile but not taking care of business then has led us to where we are right now

This and the revocation of safe healthcare for women are why this NY native and proud American won’t spend a nickel in the southern states. No more Florida trips. If I crave sunshine we will go to Cali or Spain. Such a disappointment.

May, 1864, Belle Plain. Encampment of 1st Massachusetts and 2nd New York Heavy Artillery units. Daniel White is somewhere in this photo. Three weeks later, he was shot through the left hand before Petersburg.

After the American Civil War 2, which we are already engaged, dump them all at sea. Don’t play nice and give them an unwarranted say in how the rest of us live.

I've been saying this for YEARS: THE driving force behind conservatism for the last many decades has been to undo racial progress. They crave that. It is THE reason they put up with the horrorshow named Trump - he's delivering on the racism. I could see this coming, and I'm a nobody.

They all voted for him bc he would hurt and oppress those they hate. The ones regretting it now just did not think the polices would hurt them. They still have the whole bigot thing going for them tho

Yes. I imagine there are millions of us nobodies. Just not enough millions. And, worse yet, I fear some of us may have not understood what had to be done. Thinking HRC. Thinking KH. I think some of us were idiots.

Trump gave them permission to be openly racist. In 2026, a MAGA flag is the equivalent of a Confederate flag. A red hat is the equivalent of a white hood. Their symbols have changed but their hate stays the

The Confederacy never died, if we bothered to listened to the inbred cousin fuckers they were up front and telling us all along that the South was on the rise. They only needed a President who fucks his own relatives to legitimize their politics of hate.

It was never set to the side if paid attention at all. Fucking liberals just pretended it went away to stop the economic reforms the civil rights movement pushed for