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These peeps run all around Virginia.

Oh, Virginia...

(It sucks here.)

(Also, Virginia is a strong-hold of the Libertarian Party, go figure)

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[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 39 points 5 months ago

starting a hexbear struggle session by suggesting that John Wilkes Booth represents a successful example of adventurism

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 25 points 5 months ago
[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 35 points 5 months ago

Glug-glug-glug

Continues chugging.

Finishes.

Aaaaaaaa

Delicious, comrades.

[-] whatup@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

How dare you…

not save any for the rest of us I’m fucking thirsty over here angery

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

I see you've produced fresh tears! More for me!

[-] rio@hexbear.net 32 points 5 months ago

Two of Americas war have actually been just and one of those was against itself

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago

That's a good way of putting it.

Hell, the Republican Party was literally a third party against the political establishment.

It was basically an insurgency against America, of sorts.

[-] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's also entirely possible to read the motivation of the Republican party as representatives of a new industrial-urban bourgeoisie rising up against the established postcolonial plantation bourgeoisie and wanting to repatriate an increasingly restive black population once it can be replaced with the latest generations of new immigrants. At least that's how Settlers puts it.

Edit: That's obviously not to say they weren't justified in abolishing slavery, or that celebrating John Wilkes Booth isn't among the grossest, most racist, "let's go back to the plantation" shit you can pull as a party, and i'd argue that the North acted way too mildly against the plantation owners after the war as well. Just saying that on the level of political decision makers, it may be impossible to find a non-racist side here.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

It's also entirely possible to read the motivation of the Republican party as representatives of a new industrial-urban bourgeoisie rising up against the established postcolonial plantation bourgeoisie and wanting to repatriate an increasingly restive black population once it can be replaced with the latest generations of new immigrants. At least that's how Settlers puts it.

Ne'er thought of thinkin' in that way...

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

And one of them they tried their best to avoid getting involved until they realized they could expand their empire by doing so

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago

This is what they posted in addition to what they said above said image:

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 27 points 5 months ago

Didn't fucking slaughter enough of em

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago

Every plantation owner or slave owner should have been hanged from a gibbet

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago
[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

One of the better US presidents, I guess.

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

He was more of a centrist, though he had Marx and Engels' support. The "Radical Republicans" were more, well, to the left of Lincoln, though Lincoln was definitely crucial to ending slavery.

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

He also checked over what was gonna be a huuuuge execution of like 300 indigenous people and dismissed like 250 of those iirc, so uh critical support I guess? But also I think westward expasion went unchecked under him.

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

True, though he did free people from bondage in California due to an executive order (I mean, Indigenous folk).

Honestly, though, he did suspend habeas corpus

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 29 points 5 months ago

It's not about the racism it's about the tyranny of the age of consent laws. - the libertarian party

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago

"It's not about the slavery it's about the state's rights!" - also the libertarian party

[-] nightshade@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago

It's amazing how "state's rights" people can almost recognize that the USA, as a settler-colony, requires the use of violence to enforce its borders and laws, but then thinks that magically stops being true when you call it a "state government" instead of a "federal government".

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago

Americans don’t consider the constitution an act of government. They consider it an act of god, transcribed by American Moses

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

American Moses

John Moses Browning, gobless

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago

They keep thinking they're the antagonists of Bioshock but they keep being the antagonists from Bioshock infinite.

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago
[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

Click the title to see the... err, Tweet.

Such discourse!

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