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liberal N proud

(60,346 posts)
Wed Jun 7, 2023, 02:13 PM Jun 2023

My new commute takes me past this racist icon

My new commute through the Low County of South Carolina takes me past this white supremacist landmark:
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Located on Hwy 462 in Jasper County South Carolina

If you want to know how long the MAGA crowd will continue to support TFG, this will give you a reference

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My new commute takes me past this racist icon (Original Post) liberal N proud Jun 2023 OP
That's rich, coming from the people who terrorized defenseless Aristus Jun 2023 #1
Exactly. Sky Jewels Jun 2023 #2
America should have treated the Confederate losers like post WWII Germany treated the Nazi losers maxrandb Jun 2023 #3
Gotta give em credit. lpbk2713 Jun 2023 #4
OK made me laugh - thanks oioioi Jun 2023 #11
Looks like a good target for rifle practice RussBLib Jun 2023 #5
Trump, a NY Yankee, calls Sessions a 'dumb southerner' and they love him down there. keithbvadu2 Jun 2023 #6
Someone should add "Winners" to that list. sinkingfeeling Jun 2023 #7
I would probably get shot doing it liberal N proud Jun 2023 #9
I would make a sign and nail it underneath mercuryblues Jun 2023 #8
Russia's army in Ukraine is more than a little like Sherman's Hortensis Jun 2023 #10
We have some SCV billboards on the other side of the Savannah River. SYFROYH Jun 2023 #12
I see they're still mad that they lost. llmart Jun 2023 #13
Like they said about Trump winning in 2016?... Get over it. keithbvadu2 Jun 2023 #17
Might want to add "victors" to the list. Sneederbunk Jun 2023 #14
158 years later the insurrectionist traitors are still LOSERS crying like little babies traitorsgalore Jun 2023 #15
Virginia Civil War Museum New Market, VA modrepub Jun 2023 #16
To them::: Thank God you republicans won that war back in the 1860s. keithbvadu2 Jun 2023 #18
I do like how they painted the sign on one of their Confederate white surrender flags ZonkerHarris Jun 2023 #19
From what I understand it was a large confederate flag until the massacre in the Charleston church. liberal N proud Jun 2023 #20
I Wish NowISeetheLight Jun 2023 #21

Aristus

(66,467 posts)
1. That's rich, coming from the people who terrorized defenseless
Wed Jun 7, 2023, 02:16 PM
Jun 2023

human beings, burned crosses, sharecroppers houses, people, etc, and stole the labor of millions of enslaved people.

But they’re only crimes if they happen to white people…

maxrandb

(15,359 posts)
3. America should have treated the Confederate losers like post WWII Germany treated the Nazi losers
Wed Jun 7, 2023, 02:26 PM
Jun 2023

Here's hoping that, the next time we have to kick those racists fuckwads ass to the Outer Banks, we get reconstruction right.

oioioi

(1,127 posts)
11. OK made me laugh - thanks
Wed Jun 7, 2023, 03:21 PM
Jun 2023

shouldn't laugh, I realize. Actually it's a sad observation at the wanton destruction of public education. The collective ignorance and misguided malice towards anybody who can speak or spell is actually quite terrifying.

keithbvadu2

(36,924 posts)
6. Trump, a NY Yankee, calls Sessions a 'dumb southerner' and they love him down there.
Wed Jun 7, 2023, 02:33 PM
Jun 2023

Trump, a NY Yankee, calls Sessions a 'dumb southerner' and they love him down there.

After all, Trump 'tells it like it is'.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
10. Russia's army in Ukraine is more than a little like Sherman's
Wed Jun 7, 2023, 03:10 PM
Jun 2023

in intent: to terrorize and devastate those living there, burning their homes, destroying their crops and livestock, declaring the slaves of those who had any free and running them off, so that they would stop fighting and surrender.

Didn't work then either. None of the Ukrainians have any slaves to lose, but 150 years from now they will still be loathing the Russian terrorists, arsonists and thieves.

Just a different, but big facet of this reality.

traitorsgalore

(1,396 posts)
15. 158 years later the insurrectionist traitors are still LOSERS crying like little babies
Wed Jun 7, 2023, 04:19 PM
Jun 2023

I think it's great. Imagine being able to inflict suffering on traitors that lasted 158 years! It's good to see confederate traitors suffer. If you want to hear some good music that expresses the same sentiment: Otep "Molotov"

modrepub

(3,503 posts)
16. Virginia Civil War Museum New Market, VA
Wed Jun 7, 2023, 05:11 PM
Jun 2023

Stayed across the interstate from this place years ago for a trip my family made to visit Skyline Dr. I didn't really want to go there but my kid likes Civil War stuff so we paid the admission price and I held my nose (the folks running the place were nice).

Was walking through the place going over the artifacts and displays. Was really shocked at the museum's framing of the John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. Being from PA, I was taught in my school that this raid was an attempt to trigger a large-scale slave revolt. Poorly organized it was quickly put down and John Brown was later executed for his troubles. The museum stepped through the events of the raid and characterized John Brown as a "terrorist".

Makes you wonder how different parts of the U.S. teach certain parts of "American" history, huh?

NowISeetheLight

(3,943 posts)
21. I Wish
Wed Jun 7, 2023, 10:53 PM
Jun 2023

I wish you could buy the land across the road and put up a bigger billboard saying something in response.

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