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 bigotry. The Union, or at least the part of the Union WE support, fought AGAINST that shite. We are anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, anti-transphobic, and in general anti-bigot here, even if not all the lads in Union blue uniforms were.
No Confederate sympathizing. Anti-democratic racist slaver traitors don't deserve shit.
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Confederate sympathizer garbage will excuse what Robert Lee did because they’re also, like Lee, racist pieces of shit. That doesn’t mean that racist pieces of shit will tolerate treason.
While everyone involved in this picture is human trash, that doesn’t excuse the false equivalence.
That doesn’t mean that racist pieces of shit will tolerate treason.
I mean, if they're excusing Robert E. Lee, they very much are tolerating treason.
It's not treason (when it's me doing it)
hot take, Arnold wasnt a traitor. He wanted to be a revolutionary and was very good at it, but internal politics got him black balled from promotions he deserved so he switched back to being a loyalist, which at the time was perfectly legal. The whole traitor thing is a great example of the whole "history being written by the winners" concept. And let's face it, WE didn't win it, the French did. If England wasnt fighting wars on 3 fronts (including the French) that particular proxy war would have ended up with their kings head on our money.
which at the time was perfectly legal
I don't think the legality of Benedict Arnold's betrayal is core to why he's considered the archetype for betraying America.
