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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.

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No Confederate sympathizing. Anti-democratic racist slaver traitors don't deserve shit.
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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I dunno. I've been fighting my physicians for years about my healthcare. Someone fires a few bullets somewhere, they blame Luigi for it, and the next month I'm suddenly able to make progress with my healthcare plan. Like, legitimate measurable progress happens because of the change they finally let me make that one month. Now i know I'm an outlier in some things, but I'm pretty sure not that.

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social [S] 1 point 7 months ago

I'm not saying that he didn't have any influence in bettering society! Just that there is a vast gulf in what the two men did, and what they set out to do.

"I shot a shithead in the hopes of discouraging other shitheads from being shitheads" if successful, is a positive - including in shaking up some potential shitheads into being less shitty for a time. But it doesn't change the game itself.

"I massacred slaver supporters during contested elections in the hopes of overthrowing a fraudulent state government (eventually successfully), and then I tried to raise an army to end slavery in the USA forever" is a game-changer, or at least an attempt at it!

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