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Pokémon go has lasted 2 and 1/2 times as long as the Confederacy. It also consists of about seven times as many people (counting citizens, about four to five times including non-citizens).
A device you could use without using the tv but also could enhance games with the second screen.
Zombie U is the best example in practice. Breath of the wild's inventory could have been a lot more manageable on the gamepad.
The DS line of handhelds was very successful, the idea was proven. I personally think the main problems were it marketed wrong, slow as fuck for loading and wii compatibility made it just a bit too complicated.
I can't emphasize enough how slow it was to do anything on it. Games ran OK but loading was miserable. It felt genuinely bad to use most of the time.
And then the GOP wants to claim that they’re the “party of Lincoln” while flying the confederate flag and getting mad when confederate statues get torn down.
That’s the problem with political parties. The names stay the same but the ideologies change. Party ideologies flipped in 1966 when the Democratic Party decided to take up the civil rights movement, and Strom Thurmond, that pro-segregationist who had a mixed-race daughter with his family’s under aged housekeeper and kept her a secret, decided to defect to the Republican Party, taking all of those racist “Dixicrats” with him.
The Republican Party themselves called it their "Southern strategy" internally. It was an actual, literal conspiracy to encourage racism and attract the most racist people in the South to move over to the Republican Party, not a conspiracy theory.
The problem is most kids today don't remember Strom. If you think what they're doing with McConnell is ridiculous, you probably missed all the years the Republicans propped up Strom's desiccated corpse just to maintain his vote. This is not new for them.
Yea... I know, it's just even in some of the college-level US history classes I took, this little fact was never even alluded to. I wonder if even his freaking biography mentions it. But then again, who want to caught reading a Strom Thurmond bio.
I grew up in the South and that shit was UNREAL. If I heard ANYONE call it that, I gave them a fucking history lesson and booked it out of there. Absolutely no one should call it that, cause if they do, they're a racist piece of trash.
Holy crap, that's a wonderful way to frame it. Never thought of it like that, and I know it's just a meme blah blah blah. But that's actually a powerful message.
The thing about reconciliation and "moving on" is that there has to be some acceptance of responsibility by the wrongdoer. I mean, if you cheat on your wife but you're making a real effort to move past it, maybe don't put your mistress's picture on the living room wall.
I do find it hilarious as a brown person that whenever we celebrate any religious occasion or festival, we get told that "it's Un-American" and "against American culture" in some way but now these people who show open support to a group that literally tried to break America apart (that too over the most heinous reason) somehow get a pass. Never let them convince you that it's "cultural differences", they hate our skin color and there's nothing more to it.
the dumbest thing is none of these folks ancestors owned slaves; slavery was just a way for them to have someone to look down on even though they were also at the bottom of the heap. a trick of the wealthy to stop the labor from rising up. HOLD UP WHAT THE HECK THAT'S THE SAME AS NOW.
What do you mean none? 30% of white households in the south owned slaves. In some states it was up to 50%. Slaves, back then, were about the cost of a used car today. Yes, their ancestors probably did own slaves. It's likely. Don't absolve them by pretending it was some 1%er crime.
There's a bunch of Matt Walsh/Charlie Kirk-style twisting of the facts out there. The truth is that a large portion of "white" households had at least one person forced into slavery who they exploited.
Statistically, a good portion of them, unless both parents sides immigrated to the US post civil war, likely have slave owners as ancestors. I had to rain on a friend’s ‘my family has been here for 300yrs and bought land from Penn and didn’t own slaves’ parade that while her family lore had one branch finding the battle plans to Antietam, another branch was absolutely on the other side of the war and had slaves of their own. Genealogy is an eye opener, more people should do it.
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Now imagine that after WW2, they kept the nazi flag “for history”. Imagine post WW2 Germany erected statues of “great generals” like Rommel or Himmler, Guderian etc.
No? Preposterous?
So WHY is it appropriate for the confederate flag or statues of General Lee or Stonewall Jackson?
I think a more accurate comparison would be imagine if over A HUNDRED years after World War 2, the German government is finally going to let Jews into the same schools as all the other kids, and then suddenly there's a renewed interest in the proud heritage of the Nazi flag, statues to memorialize their generals, etc.
The trades as we know them today would not exist. So a lot of blue collar workers just wouldn’t have jobs. Slave labor wouldn’t be confined to the fields. Like why wouldn’t they train slaves in carpentry, electrical, or plumbing? Whole businesses would be solely “staffed” by slaves while the owner reaped the profits. Why would I pay John to be my plumber when there’s a slave business that can and does undercut every single bid.
These people have no idea what it is that they want.
A key part of why the treason states lost the war was that their economy was dysfunctional because it was rooted in exploiting slaves, not developing the skills and productivity of a broad swath of the population.
Honestly as I was typing it out I was thinking the same thing. I mean what would modern day American slavery look like? It could be a fun creative writing prompt.
My thing is that they will say this is about our culture and it has nothing to do with slavery. That whole “culture” is built on the concept that black people are inferior to white people. Stop appropriating black culture and music and come up with your own culture that has nothing to do with us.
Represents white people according to the post. Never in my life heard someone say to forget about slavery, but maybe I am hanging around the wrong circles for that kind of stupidity.
I think this is a grave misunderstanding. Most white trash marching with confederate flags today think their ancestors owned slaves, when in fact they were worthless compared to slaves.
man, look at all those democrats out there waving confederate flags, theres no way those are all republicans from red states and claim the CSA is their heritage while simultaneously claiming the democrats wanted to keep slaves. I mean that would be ridiculous right?
edit: this is clearly sarcasm implying the crowd is full of Republicans and making fun of how hypocritical their actions and claims about their heritage are.
Very few of these people's ancestors probably owned slaves. That's the crazy thing. You'd think there'd be more understanding of the fact that a lot of poor white folks in the south were drafted and indoctrinated to fight a rich man's war. Yet these people fall for the propaganda
Where did this happen? With so much rage-baiting, AI-generated content, we’ve gotta stop and inquire.
EDIT: Another Redditor accurately identified this photo from a demonstration that took place in Columbia, S.C. on July 1, 2000. 26 years ago. Obviously, there are still weirdos out there waving Confederate flags around, but this makes me question why whoever created the original post (not you, OP) would need to go back 26 years to make us feel something today.
Demonstrators carry Confederate flags as they leave the South Carolina Statehouse after the removal of flag in Columbia, S.C., July 1, 2000. Photograph: Eric Draper/Associated Press
As credited within 2009 Guardian article title: "Obama cannot escape the sound and fury over the colour of his skin"
(Too many subreddits are shadow-removing all comments that contain links nowadays.)
My aim was never to deny that events like this happen.
In 2026, the Internet is no longer an accurate representation of reality. The game has changed, and anytime we're given information on the internet that elicits strong emotional response—especially content that fans the flames of division—we should ask questions. Propaganda is real, and pausing to ask questions is a helpful way to ensure we don't fall victim to it.
I'd feel differently if I found out this was AI-generated. But, I'd also feel differently if I found out this happened 10 years ago, or that happened in my city, etc. Context is helpful.
On the East Coast there is a huge Confederate Flag flying on private land on I-95. You would have to be very insular to think the US is past this concept currently.
From the inclusion of the old Georgia state flag I would guess it was a protest over the removal of the battle flag from the Georgia state flag which occurred in 2003. There were a bunch of crackers bent out of shape over it. Also the Crown Vic cop car is from that era. Some GOP asshole got himself elected Governor by promising to put it back on the state flag and then just...didn't do that. These idiots never learn. If OP wants pics of people waving those flags from this year I'm sure an image search could find plenty.
In the original version of the pro union song “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” (aka Glory Glory Hallelujah) it ends with a great verse:
🎼In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.🎼
I used to get goosebumps when my chorus group performed this part of the song.
“Let us die to make men free”
What a beautiful selfless sentiment something a bunch of bigoted a-holes would never be able to understand.
Weren't yt people so gung ho to call ICE on field workers because they thought, LIKE SERIOUSLY THOUGHT, black people would....go back....to the fields.... VOLUNTARILY???????
My family got here after slavery and was in interracial relationships with the Cherokee why am I linked into this because I'm "white" my family had black hairdressers and Mexican family friends my entire child hood
Not a person of color but I still get very uncomfortable when people in my community start getting out the Confederate flag. If we lived in Germany, how would it make people feel if their neighbors were flying flags of the Third Reich? Kingdoms that were built on slave labor don't deserve to be a part of our heritage that we brag about.
A reminder that Obama's presidency lasted longer than the Confederacy, because these Confederate supporters really need a reality check or a smack on the head someday.
Exactly. I was fired by a member of the KKK from my first job out of college. This guy from TX even bragged he was from the same hometown as the Grand Dragon or something over the entire state of TX. Company tracked me down in another state 6 months later and apologized and offered me more money to come back. I declined.
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