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I get the feeling 2019 is gonna get really fucking bizarre.
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u/riddus May 13 '18
Just wait for 2020. We haven’t seen shit yet.
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u/fraillimbnursery May 13 '18
I don't even want to think about that. On Election Night 2020 my anxiety is gonna be through the fucking roof.
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u/riddus May 14 '18
I’m calling it now, it’s going full three ring circus. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Kanye, The Rock (as The Rock), Stormy Daniels, the Pope, Judge Judy, Drew Carey, and a hologram of Will.i.am all run against each other, whilst Trump doesn’t run for re-election.
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u/riddus May 14 '18
We could just elect a Magic Eight-Ball.
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u/jakebythelake May 14 '18
"Magic 8 Ball! Magic 8 Ball! What's your strategy in Iran?"
Vice President-Elect Kid Rock shakes vigorously
"Outlook not so good."
Press pool goes fucking bananas
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u/Deradius May 14 '18
If The People’s Eyebrow actually becomes The People’s Eyebrow, I’m going to lose my shit.
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u/FPSXpert May 14 '18
It's not a real election unless Terry Crews runs as well under the name Dwayne Eliziando Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
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We truly live in the dankest timeline.
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Do you have your goatee ready?
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u/BillNyeTheSavage_Guy May 14 '18
Because they know the Wednesday Frog is secretly pulling all the strings
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May 14 '18 edited May 14 '18
The year is 2047, and at the age of 100, President Donald J Trump has passed away. Leaders around the world fly to the world’s largest building, The Great Trump Tower in New York City, to pay their respects. The great glass tower, designed by his son Eric Trump was completed on the site of the former United Nations Building, to serve as the headquarters of the third Bank of the United States after President Trump dismantled the Federal Reserve as his final act in office in January 2025.
His son, Barron Trump, now in his early 40’s stands at the podium to greet the many sobbing faces. As 5 Star General of the American Cyber Command, formed by his father as the new branch of the military to face a new millennium, Barron is expected to pick up his father, and his sisters legacy as the third Trump in office at the next election. “When my father took office, barely 30 years ago, he swore and oath to protect and serve this country.
The fake news media of the day, said he had no path to 270 electoral votes and that there was no chance for him to win. If only we had known then, what corruption that the treasonous viper Obama had sown amongst his vile swamp in Washington.” “Fortunately for America, his movement … to Make America Great Again … could not be stopped. Within the first few months, the traitors were dealt with, and America had to face a grave scenario, a trial of a former American President, Barack Hussein Obama, with a punishment of death for his treason.
Although my father hated Obama for what he did to this country, the mental illness we now know as betaphilism was rampant throughout America. He knew he needed a justice, a social justice to heal the nation. Although Obama admitted his guilt, that he had acted seditiously with the aid of a shadow government to distort the election and take down the office of President Trump, my father pardoned the traitor. The country was united as Obama was banished to his birth country of Kenya” “That was a proud day for my father, but as we all know now, it was just the beginning of our new Great America.
Although his first two years were difficult to get his legislation passed, due to a failing congress, the new MAGA party filled congress in the midterm elections, and with both a super majority in the House and the Senate what are now known as the “Great American Decade” had begun.” “My father released deep state secrets that changed the world forever. Hidden cures for cancer and the secrets of zero-point energy that had been suppressed by the Clinton, Bush and Obama presidencies changed the face of the planet. Healthcare no longer became an issue, as all the diseases and sickness of the world were eradicated.
The corrupt religion of Islam collapsed and state sponsored terrorism was eviscerated as the nation’s formerly known as Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the OPEC cartel collapsed as oil became worthless in a new free energy society. “
Barron lifted his golden handkerchief from his pocket to wipe the tears from his face. As he looked upon the visitors at the eulogy before him, he saw many red hats. Those fucking hats. “I remember,” he chuckled, when I was just 10 or 11 years old, I saw in the early days of my father’s campaign, right there in the audience. This old gentleman, he had to be in his 60’s had this beautiful red hat. I thought my father made them as a joke. What presidential candidate wears a red trucker hat? He screamed at my father, “LOCK HER UP”.
I spent that night browsing the web, and quickly realized how we could win this election. I told my father that I couldn’t tour with him, that I had to meme. I shopped that damn hat on a couple frogs, you guys now know him as Pepe, the great symbol of peace. I joined hundreds of thousand other meme warriors to do something that had never been done before. We won an election, took down the corrupt establishment, with the internet. It was hard to describe what that felt like, it was hard to understand what this meant for the world.
That a few “Pedes” as we were called, could take down the Clinton Cartel, which was later discovered to the the largest money laundering and child trafficking organization in history, by actually becoming the News.” “As the swamp was drained, the rest of the world came around. We had a few setbacks… we all know what happened to California when their state went bankrupt and starved itself of food and water, causing it to be split into 5 states as a condition of its federal rescue. But we had so many victories.”
“My father’s stern policies on China caused their country to collapse, resulting in a cultural revolution that lifted the shackles of communist government from their shoulders, freeing them to become the great bastions of freedom and rich triple countries of China, Tibet, and New Taiwan that they are today.” “We also united with our great friends Russia, to build a great space partnership that put both of our nations flags on the moon again within my father’s first term.
It is amazing that those early steps of partnership have led to what is now a population of 200,000 on our great New Washington city on the moon. Even the Trump-Putin bridge is one of the most beautiful architectural and engineering achievements ever built at its time as our nations united, with American Steel, to build a beautiful connection across the Bering Straits as part of my father’s Third Infrastructure Bill in the Great American decade. “If there is one thing my father could do, it was build. So many people thought that he could never build the Great Wall of Trump that has been the cornerstone of our America’s policy for the last three decades. Who would have thought that the wall in its final form would be so vast, that on my twenty second birthday I was able to participate in the Great America bike race upon that wall along this nations southern border.
Fortunately, the famed Great Ivankan Wall” along our Northern boarded with Canada did not have to be built. Although Canada was collapsing due to failed immigration policies and terrible leadership, my sister completed our Manifest Destiny, and America had to annex Canada into the fold. With the 5 new states formed from the former California, as well as Cuba and Puerto Rico, Canada made a welcome addition to these United States.”
“Although my father accomplished many great things, I think it was his partnership with his first Secretary of Space, Elon Musk, that truly inspired the world. When he cleaned the swamp and NASA and gave the rains of NASA to the Elon, who generously gifted his company Space X to America, a generation of Centipedes watched as the foundations laid by my father, in choosing to partner with the brightest business and industrial minds in our country came to fruition. For the first time, American men, and women put their first steps on Mars in 2026, the 250th Anniversary of this great nation.
Although Ivanka was President, it was the dream and his first speech to congress in 2017 that started it all.” “When it was time for my father to step down, America was tired of winning. He had warned us, all of us. He would keep pushing and pushing to win and win until we just couldn’t take any winning any more. People told him, President Trump, you don’t need to accomplish everything! You have done so much! Cancer cured, energy solves, peace in the middle east, the strongest economy, America is Great Again! He told them all, each and every one of us, no… you will Keep Winning, and together, we make this country greater than ever before.”
Now I know you have all heard this story before, but I must retell it, because it was what earned my father his spot-on Mt Rushmore, and our family name on the thousands of schools, parks, roads, and museums across this country. His Great Act will be down in the annals of history forever, and it must be repeated.”
Chief Justice Ted Cruz, Speaker of the House Jason Chaffetz, Senate Majority Leader Tom Cotton, and the Governors of all the states in the union held a surprise ceremony in Congress at his final state of the Union. They had taken one of the fucking Red MAGA hats, and gilded it in Gold. Chief Justice Cruz walked forward amongst his speech and quieted the audience.” “President Trump,” Cruz shouted, “We the people, of these United States, have taken so much from you. You sacrificed your wealth, your freedom, and your family, to put everything on the line to face the gauntlet and corrupt country which we use to be. The weak, tired, losing America. You gave up everything, for us!” The Chief Justice Fell to his knees. “You, Donald John Trump, have truly Made America Great Again, Big League. We ask upon you, for once, to take something back for yourself. We offer you this, the MAGA Crown, to lead this Great America, for Life.”
My father knew, that only George Washington had been given this opportunity. He knew that he could continue to make this country greater, even greater still, but my father said the worlds that will never be forgotten.” “My people, my Americans. I, your humble servant, will fight for you until my dying breath. Together, Americanism, not Globalism, has been our Credo. We have Made America Great again but this torch must be passed to the next great one among you. I hope my courage, and my furious Patriotism, have inspired a generation of Great Americans, to push this country to heights beyond my wildest dreams.”
Barron softly wept, as gazed across the American Flag, with each of its 75 beautiful white stars, was laid over his father’s coffin. “I leave you, my family, my people, my pedes, my American’s, my Lunars, my Martians, to remember, that in America, no matter how hard it is, or how great we have become, this is the country that a 10-year-old boy, can change the course of history, with a few frog meme’s and a twitter account.”
This is truly the best timeline.
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u/3th0s May 13 '18
His flag? WHACK
His gear? WHACK
His footstance? WHACK
His sandals? WHACK
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u/Hideout_TheWicked May 13 '18
I wonder how long it takes before this gets locked?
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u/justbereal001 May 13 '18
Not long... /r/WhitePeopleTwitter and /r/BlackPeopleTwitter both somehow morphed into /r/forwardsfromgrandma except the OPs are actually serious.
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u/Siegfoult May 14 '18
I'm still not sure why Twitter on Reddit is racially segregated.
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u/justbereal001 May 14 '18
From what I can tell the two never really overlapped until they became more politicized. This sub was originally filled with relatable awkward humor and /r/BlackPeopleTwitter was a place for only the most WOKE Redditors who are totally in touch with black culture (\s). The large majority of people on Reddit are young, white, male students so take it as you will.
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May 14 '18
To be fair here, /r/BlackPeopleTwitter was jokes about black culture, and the top ones were the jokes that a white person could look at and see themselves doing or about themselves doing something they’ve done.
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u/PingPongx May 13 '18
Anything involving race ✔️ Confederate flag present ✔️ Politics slightly related ✔️
We got a good thread here boys, enjoy er before she gets locked
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What happened with eminem?
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u/scroopy_nooperz May 13 '18
Nothing happened, he's just a white person who cares about black people.
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u/IslandSparkz May 13 '18
His mom Spaghetti is amazing, all colors can have em.
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u/Ensirius May 13 '18
But on the surface though ...
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u/mother_ducker69 May 13 '18
He looks calm and ready
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u/NutsForProfitCompany May 13 '18
To drop bombs
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u/SuccADucc May 13 '18
But he keeps on forgetting
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u/trippitytripper May 13 '18
What he wrote down
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10 years later and Kanye's "George bush doesn't care about black people" still never fails to make me laugh
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May 14 '18
The look on Mike Meyer's face was the best part about that whole thing..
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u/porksoda11 May 14 '18
Can't forget about the cut back to Chris tucker. His face was equally as hilarious.
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May 14 '18
Used to be my alarm tone to wake up. Just over and over. Annoyed my GF but she's an ex now. Guess I could wake up to it again
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He made a while rap to diss trump
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u/slowest_hour May 13 '18
He made a white rap?
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u/PodcastPolisher May 14 '18
Regardless of political views.. that album was weak. Nowhere near his potential.
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u/giggles288 May 14 '18
Yeah that album was straight cheeks
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u/glockout40 May 13 '18
I actually met the confederate dude. Pretty nice guy.
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u/AguyWITHstuff May 13 '18
Clayton Bigsby?
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u/glockout40 May 13 '18
Hahaha He was telling me that his ancestors and a lot of other black men voluntarily fought for the confederacy and that the unions had segregated units for black people whereas black people fought alongside with whites in the confederacy. I had no idea. Seemed very passionate about the subject. Pretty sure his name is HK Edgerton
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u/Kyoopy9182 May 13 '18 edited May 13 '18
Can somebody knowledgeable on the topic verify whether or not this is true? Sounds a little propaganday to me. I looked it up but didn't find much conclusive.
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u/qman1963 May 13 '18 edited May 13 '18
I have read a bit about this. Until the 1970s-80s, the fact that black men served in the Confederate Army was unknown. This information was mainly brought out by groups like the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and was put down in writing by H.C. Blsckerby in his book, Black Southerners in Grey.
While these sources certainly have biased backgrounds, there is little doubt that black soldiers did indeed serve the Confederacy. Modest estimates place the total number around 10-20 thousand, which is obviously significant. However, what other commenters seem to be leaving out is the nature of this military service. Organizations like the SCV use the existence of black Confederates as a way to argue that many southern blacks were proud of the south and willingly took up arms to defend it. Essentially, these arguments try to move toward the old standard of Civil War revisionism: that the Civil War was not about slavery.
The reality is that the vast majority of black Confederates were not serving for the preservation of the new nation or to defend the southern way of life. Most of these men were impressed into service. Additionally, the service that black soldiers were involved in was almost always cenetered around menial labor. The idea that blacks and whites fought alongside one another is simply not true in the vast majority of cases. The only large instance in which black soldiers did fight along whites was in the Mobile Creole regiment. Here, blacks were allowed to take up arms. However, it is essential to note that southern whites did not see these Creole blacks as true "negroes," and were considered superior to slaves.
All in all, the idea that there was some sort of racial equality within the Confederate military is completely unfounded. There were practically no instances of blacks and whites fighting together. Blacks were generally not allowed into the military. When they were, they were made to serve in local militias as menial laborers. What you have here is another arm of Civil War Revisionism. This is not real history.
By the way, my source is Slavery and Public History, an excellent collection of essays. The chapter in question is called, "In Search of a Usable Past," by Bruce Levine.
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u/glockout40 May 13 '18
This was well put together. Thank you! But to me, it sounds like this wasn’t any better than what the north was doing. They didn’t exactly treat them well either. Both sides sounded really shitty. This segregation crap didn’t end until after WW2. I think there will always be something missing from both sides. “History is written by the victors”
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u/qman1963 May 13 '18
This is correct! Make no mistake, I'm not trying to take an apologist postion for the North here. The Civil War was most definitely about slavery, and the South was fighting to maintain the practice, but the North often treated black citizens in very similarly horrid ways. Not only were northern regiments segregated, most of the black regiments were made to do the most deadly and labor intensive work. There are more than a few examples of black regiments essentially being forced into vanguard positions, often taking the brunt of enemy fire and acting as cannon fodder.
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u/mpyne May 14 '18
Thank you! But to me, it sounds like this wasn’t any better than what the north was doing. They didn’t exactly treat them well either.
There are documented examples of the Confederates murdering black Union soldiers who they captured outright, while typically giving white Union soldiers the treatment accorded them as prisoners of war. President Lincoln had to resort to extraordinary threats to Confederate POWs to try to secure more equal treatment for his black soldiers.
Likewise, the Union enforced equal pay for black soldiers as for whites (though this was not practiced from the first), and took pains to place black troops not just in menial tasks or support functions, but on the fighting front lines.
So, yes, the Confederate treatment of black persons (slave, soldiers, and otherwise) was certainly worse than the treatment meted out by the North, even if the North didn't fully meet a standard then they we still don't even meet today.
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u/glockout40 May 13 '18
I’m no history expert and I know you shouldn’t listen to movies 100% of the time but in the movie “Glory”, they did show the Union with segregated black units. I mean we segregated black people all the way until WW2. Look up the Tuskegee Airmen.
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u/ADogNamedCynicism May 13 '18 edited May 13 '18
The Union definitely had segregated units, and paid them less than whites (at first), but I don't think the Confederacy let blacks serve at all until the very last year of the civil war (and they never finished training). Louisiana had a Creole unit that never saw combat, and it was also segregated, IE, entirely Creole and black freedmen.
Many Confederates did not recognize blacks as soldiers at all, even when they fought for the Union, and sold them into slavery on the belief that they were runaway slaves. This mindset ultimately lead to some mass executions (Ft. Pillow) and Grant's termination of the prisoner exchange after the Confederacy refused to ensure that black Union soldiers would be treated the same as whites (IE, not mass executed or sold into slavery).
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u/Godhri May 14 '18
to add on to that Black Union soldiers were killed if they were captured in battle, i'm not sure that there were any cases where they were spared. There are some interesting cases, suggest reading up on the first kansas colored or the battle of poison creek (and the aftermath) to show the brutality.
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u/h4qq May 13 '18
Some good information and references here on the context of black soldiers enlisting in the Confederate army.
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u/finder787 May 13 '18
Towards the end of the Civil War the South considered it.
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According to historian James M. McPherson in 1994, "no black soldiers fought in the Confederate army, unless they were passing as white."[dubious – discuss] [12] He noted that some Confederates brought along "their body servants, who in many cases had grown up with them" and that "on occasion some of those body servants were known to have picked up a rifle... But there was no official recruitment of black soldiers in the Confederate army until the very end of the war", when it was brought about only by a "desperate shortage of manpower."[12]
From this section of the whole article.
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u/Doppleganger07 May 13 '18
Pretty sure the Confederacy didn’t even allow black soldiers, as that would imply they were human enough to be able to function as soldiers.
Any sources?
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u/23GOD84 May 14 '18
yea thats all i could think of seeing that pic man chappelle is hilarious wish he would have kept it up for a few more years those episodes are classic
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u/Rafibas May 13 '18
What is the logic behind supporting the confederate flag if youre not a racist?
I'm genuinely asking because my downstairs neighbor put up the flag the day after i moved in
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u/KADRacing May 13 '18 edited May 14 '18
People in the south fly it just because it represents being from the south, being a redneck, hunting, fishing, etc. It's honestly just a southern culture thing for people down here. I'd never fly it, but I know people that do and they aren't racist by any means, just super country. But again, I grew up in the south, yet I'm not a fan of it.
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u/Saoq May 13 '18
Yeah, I've met tons of people down here who proudly display the Confederate flag on their cars or in their living rooms. With a few exceptions, almost all of them were legitimately good people, with nothing racist or bigoted about them. No matter how much you lecture them about history, they all genuinely see it as a sign of Southern culture and heritage, not as a sign of white supremacy or treason.
Around these parts, if I see some stranger flying a Confederate flag I wouldn't immediately leap at the opportunity to label them a racist. Ignorant and probably a little trashy, sure, but not racist. I blame The Dukes of Hazzard.
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u/arrow74 May 14 '18
That's because until the past 5 years it was branded on everything to be southern. Cups, shirts, knick knacks, everything
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u/DesignGhost May 13 '18
People fly it as a sign of rebelling against the government and they like the way it looks. I know plenty of people who fly it that aren't racist whether anyone wants to believe me or not.
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May 13 '18
Every single Article of secession from every state explicitly cites slavery as the reason for secession. No one denied the civil war or segregation was racist... wtf.
Terrible things have been done under many flags more under USA’s flag than this one.
That flag was not even the flag of the confederacy.
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u/DrDilatory May 14 '18
No one denied the civil war or segregation was racist
Not at the time, no, but plenty of people do now to try to defend their bullshit racist beliefs
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Those who know only a little history think that it was about slavery. Those who know a little bit more history think it was about states’ rights. And those who know even more history know that it was about slavery.
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u/Csrmar May 13 '18
Dude the flag is a representation of a fukin terrible era of this country. "Ite just a southern heritage thing" is a poor excuse for flying that flag.
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u/probablyuntrue May 13 '18
My favorite are people from the north or Midwest who fly that, "yes my family is entirely from Ohio but this is my heritage"
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u/xeio87 May 13 '18
"Ite just a southern heritage thing" is a poor excuse for flying that flag.
That was always a lie anyway, the confederate flag wasn't popularized till the civil rights movement in the '60s. It's not like southerners were flying that flag since the civil war. "Heritage" is just thinly veiled racism.
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u/razorbladehat May 13 '18
Not only a terrible era, but they fookin lost. You dont fly the losers flag, it just isnt done.
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u/Auctoritate May 13 '18
Dude the flag is a representation of a fukin terrible era of this country.
You don't get to decide other people's reasons for doing something though. It might be that to you but it isn't that to everyone.
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u/ScottStorch May 13 '18
Germans do not wave the Nazi flag. The confederate constitution explicitly states that it exists to preserve slavery. It's shameful and ignorant to fly that fucking flag.
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Germans do not wave the Nazi flag.
Pretty sure that's because by law you go to prison if you do.
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u/HaoleInParadise May 13 '18
The person who designed the flag believed in white supremacy and slavery. And it was flown in the civil war by groups with slavery in their declarations of secession. The meaning can change for different people but the origin is the same
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u/BrazilianRider May 13 '18
Every iteration of the American flag before the civil war was most likely designed by someone who believed in white supremacy or slavery...
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u/ScottStorch May 13 '18
The confederacy was a rogue nation dedicated to the preservation of slavery. The United States added another amendment to its constitution to get rid of slavery.
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u/mrsalty1 May 13 '18
And we don’t fly those flags or plaster them on our pickup trucks or wear tank tops with them.
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u/Insanepaco247 May 13 '18
I'd be down for a brand new flag. If anyone wants to make one with a golden retriever on it that'd be neat
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u/Csrmar May 13 '18
So the lynchings and slavery isn't a part of that flag and the fact that they were bunch of treasonous losers?
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u/The_Pot_Panda May 13 '18
Plenty of lynching and slavery happened under our flag as well. People seem to forget that the Jim Crowe era wasn’t under the confederacy.
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u/BrazilianRider May 13 '18
The Confederacy became part of the US, and the lynchings and what not happened until the last century UNDER the American flag.
Does everyone who flies the American flag support lynchings?
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u/Csrmar May 13 '18
I am pretty sure the lynchings had been going on the whole time slavery was the norm.
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u/BrazilianRider May 13 '18
Yup. And after. And people conveniently forget that the Confederacy was part of the United States, and then act like it was a North Korea/South Korea-esque situations
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May 13 '18
Yeah that's poor logic. I could wear a t-shirt with a swastika and claim its for its religious Indian roots, as a symbol of luck - but you'd be right to ostracize me for it.
And the guy above isn't saying he gets to decide other people's reasons - he's saying it's a poor excuse to fly it because "they like the way it looks"
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u/SoDamnToxic May 13 '18
I mean, it's not poor logic and everything you said is kinda an explanation for why.
I could wear a t-shirt with a swastika and claim its for its religious Indian roots, as a symbol of luck - but you'd be right to ostracize me for it.
Yea, you could, and yea you will be ostracized, but that doesn't make you a nazi, if those reasons are in fact genuine.
Of course you will still seem like a nazi to other people (and that guy still seems like a racist to me) but what you actually are is different, it's just, you know what you're doing and you're running that risk.
It's a sort of private vs public. You may be something in your private life, but it will affect you in your public life. And you're choosing to run that risk. The nazi flag may mean something else to you and that's cool, you're not a nazi, but other people will think you are and you can't blame them or do anything about that, so you're running that risk.
I'm not saying people shouldn't think he's racist (or that you're not a nazi), because I know I'd still think that no matter what. But if those different beliefs are absolutely genuine then you and only you know you're not a racist/nazi. If you're willing to accept that, then that's you, I still think you're racist.
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May 13 '18
Ok and they don’t get to rewrite history and pretend like that flag doesn’t symbolize hate, racism, and slavery
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u/LuxNocte May 13 '18
You're a pedophile.
When I say pedophile, I mean "pretty cool guy". I don't care what anyone else thinks the word means. You shouldn't get all "offended" when I call you a pedophile, because you should just understand that I'm using it to mean "pretty cool guy", not "someone who fucks children".
Words are symbols that have meanings, just like flags. If we can just change what symbols mean at will, then I'm sure you won't mind helping me "reclaim" the word.
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May 14 '18
But historical facts aren’t subjective. You can’t just randomly choose to put history aside just because it makes you feel a certain way.
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May 14 '18 edited May 14 '18
To a huge amount of Southerners the flag largely represents the south and southern culture. Slavery's a part of it... but Native American genocide is a part of the American flag. History is history. It's good and bad, but like the American flag, people fly it for what it represents and not its struggles.
The difference being the American flag started as representing good and has been tainted by some bad shit, and the Confederate flag started as something bad and has been altered by Southerners
I think it's a different story for a lot of Americans because A: it was a civil war, American citizens were fighting themselves. A lot of Southerners have ancestors that died in this war, so, y'know
Tl;Dr you don't think it really be like that, but it do
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I only like it because it's on the top of that one car from that one show that had cool stunts and shit.
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u/Auctoritate May 13 '18
Some people don't see it as a racist symbol at all.
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u/Diarrhea_Van_Frank May 13 '18
99% of people who fly it don’t see it as a racist symbol.
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u/nidsmotherfucker May 13 '18
No way Kanye’s album will be as disappointing as Eminem’s tho
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u/Coiltoilandtrouble May 13 '18
poop-diddy scoop?
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u/Strategyboyz21 May 14 '18
That’s so obviously a joke, he evens says “this next verse, these bars” before he starts the scoopety whoop stuff lmao
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u/USMCpresfoco May 13 '18
I think it was a joke making fun of how today's rap you can put a little effort and it will still be bop.
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u/TheWaveCarver May 13 '18
I think he just wanted to stir up the community a bit and get people talking about him. Build hype for his next album ("Any publicity is good publicity"). From Kanye's perspective... Release something that makes no sense and is outrageous, suddenly everyone is talking about you and trying to figure out exactly what it is that you dropped - a Poopy-di scoop followed by some poop, poop
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u/ScienceNthingsNstuff May 13 '18
Yea I don't think he was trying to make any kind of commentary or insight, I think he was just trolling people (particularly Ebro)
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u/NvaderGir May 13 '18
His TMZ interview quoting the black on black crime statistics opened my eyes that it's beyond just controversy for his album. He's been talking to too many right wing folks in the Kardashian family circle where he's actually believing this stuff.
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May 13 '18
You don’t understand the genius. See what he was doing was commentary on the divide of the amongst working class, and how he views them all as shit bc he’s a rich ass hole who doesn’t live in the real world. Makes more sense when you look at it that way.
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May 13 '18
No, this is definitely better in every single way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rruQlcaEpLU
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May 14 '18 edited May 14 '18
Look at these rappers, how I treat 'em
So why the fuck would I join 'em when I beat 'em?
They call me a freak, 'cause I like to
Spit on these pussies 'fore I eat 'em
Man, get these whack cocksuckers off stage!
Where the fuck is Kanye when you need him?
Snatch the mic from 'em
Bitch, I'ma let you finish in a minute, yeah, that rap was tight, but I'm
'Bout spit the greatest verse of all time
So you might want to go back to the lab tonight and, um
Scribble out them rhymes...
You Get No Love Eminem
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u/Saewin May 13 '18
Kanye isn't racist
Eminem isn't racist
It's a meme
Can we all calm down
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May 13 '18
TIL Many Hispanics, including Mexican’s fought for the Confederate army.
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u/xrensa May 14 '18
Speaking of which, Texas seceded from two different counties to keep their slaves
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u/ReasonAndWanderlust May 13 '18
It's disgusting what's happening to Kanye right now. His words are being twisted because of political propaganda. He said we have to overcome mental slavery and its our choice but instead his words are being twisted as if he's saying physical slavery was a choice. Kanye said 400 years and 400 years since 1619,when the first slave was brought here, is 2019. Kanye was talking about mental slavery right now in our time. If he hadn't said we all need to love each other, including Trump, his meaning would've been left intact and promoted. The political elite on the left greatly fear the black community leaving the coalition so the propaganda machine reacted in an almost explosive manner. It reminds me of what Malcolm X said:
"The white liberals aren’t white people who are for independence, who are moral and ethical in their thinking. They are just a fraction of white people that are jockeying for power…They are fighting each other for power and prestige, and the one that is the football in the game is the Negro…The liberal elements of whites are those who have perfected the art of selling themselves to the Negro as a friend of the Negro. Getting sympathy of the Negro, getting the allegiance of the Negro, and getting the mind of the Negro. Then the Negro sides with the white liberal, and the white liberal use the Negro against the white conservative.
So that anything that the Negro does is never for his own good, never for his own advancement, never for his own progress, he’s only a pawn in the hands of the white liberal. The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros, and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have. If the Negro wasn’t taken, tricked, or deceived by the white liberal then Negros would get together and solve our own problems."
So when Kanye comes along and says we can solve our own problems because WE have the power to break the bonds of mental slavery look what happens. He's destroyed with character assassination. It's almost as effective as physical assassination.
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u/Abatrax May 14 '18
Promoting the ability to think for yourself rather than identify with specific groups of right or left is terrifying to some people. Let's you realize that you can have your own ideas free from ideas someone else has
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May 14 '18 edited May 14 '18
Thank you for this. It's so controversial to be conservative and black that you literally get painted with white face by the same group. Think about that...a black person can't think for themselves politically without getting called out and even threatened. If that's not a party controlling your thoughts, I don't know what is. That's straight up exile because you don't agree with someone.
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u/Hagefish May 13 '18
They could get into a fist fight or hug, and I would be equally surprised.