It doesn't have to be surprising to have deserved consequences
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TrueMetis and
So voting for the wrong party is grounds for being removed from your home? Do I read you rightly? I'm just curious, does this apply in our own time? Would you support doing the same thing to Trump voters, for instance?
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Replying to @jlippincott_ @TrueMetis and
The shooting war hasn't started yet but in our last civil war, much future harm could've been avoided had former Confederates been disenfranchised and expropriated, yes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TrueMetis and
That's what a war is Losing a war has to have consequences Otherwise, you didn't actually win the war, and that means, in fact, that the war didn't actually end
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TrueMetis and
This argument, prior to 1918 and really 1945 would have been considered unconscionable. Peace almost always came with amnesty in order to ensure that you actually got peace! This moderate view makes war less savage.
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Replying to @jlippincott_ @TrueMetis and
This is nonsense By the standards of any civil war, either ancient or modern, the end of the American Civil War was ABSURDLY lenient to the Confederates At the very least, it was normal to expect the actual leaders of a rebel government to be hanged for treason
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jlippincott_ and
For basically NO ONE in the Confederate hierarchy at ANY level to permanently lose life, liberty or even property makes a mockery of the idea that the Union actually won the war at all They even gave them back their right to vote!
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TrueMetis and
But the Union did win. The states had to be readmitted to the Union, slavery was abolished, and the Reconstruction amendments were all adopted. The Union took a very humane view of the Confederacy, de facto treating it like a foreign power in terms of post-war prosecutions.
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Replying to @jlippincott_ @arthur_affect and
You are leaving out the part where slavery was reinstated
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Replying to @patiencemosher @jlippincott_ and
The South loved to romanticize their poverty and decay after the war like it was actually directly the fault of the Union soldiers pillaging and looting them, as though they weren't left with their whole brutal economic system fully intact post-Reconstruction
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The Southern aristocrats KEPT their fucking plantations filled with Black people who did all the work and waited on them hand and foot and shit The transition to wage labor just cut into their profit margins a little more
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Replying to @arthur_affect @patiencemosher and
Their glory faded because they fucking sucked at everything they did and the industrial economy left them behind as it does all single-resource economies The North didn't actually punish them at all
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Replying to @arthur_affect @patiencemosher and
They *should* have had their wealth looted to pay for "forty acres and a mule" but it never fucking happened They got their home rule back within 20 years and got to do everything to Black people they wanted And still they fucking whine
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