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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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Which is probably another reason the Union went easy on the Confederates after they lost and allowed the Lost Cause myth to persist. Guess they figured that having less awkward family reunions was more important than the rights of black people.
edited 27th May '18 8:17:14 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedThe Racist Grandma is very much Truth in Television. I'm just glad my own grandma isn't particularly vocal with her prejudices. Though I have tried to get her to change her mind on them.
edited 27th May '18 8:26:14 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedA lot of people are stupid in hindsight, really. It's easy to tell what the bad ideas are when their consequences have already come to fruition.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15275108400A16373500&page=1#1
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Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Grover Cleveland; during his first run, Cleveland was accused of siring a child outside of marriage by his opponent, James G. Blane. However, Cleveland immediately confessed to the whole ordeal; admitting he paid child support to the mother until '74 and accepted that the child was his. The 'Halpin Affair' (named after the woman, Maria Crofts Halpin) resulted in a huge boost of popularity to Cleveland, and (along with certain Anti-Irish Blunders from the Republican Party) made him the 22nd President, and the first Democrat President since James Buchanan.
I think Cadet Bone Spurs may have won the award for the most inappropriate Memorial Day comments ever.
“The President deserves some answers.” @Fox News in discussing “SPYGATE.”
“Sally Yates is part of concerns people have raised about bias in the Justice Dept. I find her actions to be really quite unbelievable.” Jonathan Turley
“We now find out that the Obama Administration put the opposing campaigns presidential candidate, or his campaign, under investigation. That raises legitimate questions. I just find this really odd...this goes to the heart of our electoral system.” Jonathan Turley on @Fox News
Yep, Senior Orange Tinyhands sucks and says that stuff to try and rile up his base. I think we need a figure that we can unite the left and say the most outrageous stuff, but it would be true unlike Trump. Just phrasing it in the most outrageous way. Someone who says, "Christians, if you don't want refugees allowed at all then you are committing the real sin of Sodom." or someone who says about Trump, "I wouldn't trust him around teenagers, might be another Roy Moore situation, not saying, just saying"
No in fact, because are stupid electoral system allows smaller states to decide all our fate, we actually need someone like that. Professionalism went out the door when we decided to elect a 4chan meme as president, and if the only way to kneecap him is by by saying outrageous stuff then we have to do that. Nearly anything is worth not having to deal with 4 more years of him.
edited 28th May '18 9:06:27 AM by Wildcard

What I've read is the north tacitly allowed the Lost Cause propaganda to flourish as a way of pacifying relations between northern and southern whites; basically a way to bury the hatchet. Black people and their rights really didn't figure into it at all, which is sad but terribly unsurprising.