• @satanmat
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    788 months ago

    STATE’S RIGHTS!!!

    —right to do what?

    Own slaves……

  • Stern
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    478 months ago

    One can also look at, in no particular order:

    1. The declarations of secession from each state who issued one, wherein they said why they were seceding. It should not come as a surprise slavery was mentioned… a lot.
    2. The CSA constitution, which forbade any state from banning slavery, and noted that no newly admitted state could be a non-slave state.
    3. The existence of West Virginia, who seceded from the state of Virginia (a CSA member) because they had no slaves owing to how poor they were, and thus no reason to fight to keep it. This display of states rights made the CSA big mad and they tried to take WV back over a few times during the war.
    • PugJesusOP
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      218 months ago

      West Virginia was so cool before the modern day. Now instead of anti-slavery and miner agitation, it’s Confederate flags and corporate simping.

      • @baldingpudenda
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        98 months ago

        Which I find ironic because of all the coal miner disputes including the Battle of Blair Mountain where workers had an actual fight with guns against the owner’s lackeys and it got so bad that the fucking president had to send in troops.

      • @afraid_of_zombies
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        28 months ago

        And the entire state was shaped by the New Deal tree planting efforts.

  • @jopepa
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    398 months ago

    Second place confederate looks like a microwaved Halloween mask and still believes that looks should determine the social hierarchy?

    • @Shave_MyBeever
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      238 months ago

      Looks suspiciously like the banjo kid from Deliverance. “master race” lol

      • @jopepa
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        128 months ago

        At least that kid had talent, this degenerate hid from the sun his whole life and still looks like a melted candle.

        • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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          28 months ago

          At least that kid had talent

          I hate to rip on Deliverance kid, but he wasn’t actually playing that banjo. There was a real banjo player concealed behind him with just his hands on the instrument showing.

  • theodewere
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    328 months ago

    “we extract labor from people by means of torture, and God told us to make a place where we can do that forever”

  • @betterdeadthanreddit
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    148 months ago

    It’s about history (as long as you omit all the historical records contradicting me).

  • @afraid_of_zombies
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    118 months ago

    Guy has such a punchable face I sorta want to dig it up so I can punch his skull