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1. Robert E Lee was such a *NOT* great general that he committed treason to lead the army of a country of traitors, and he lost that army’s only war, a war the traitorous country started, and when he surrendered upon losing that war, the country ceased to exist entirely. https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1121780336361340928">https://twitter.com/WalshFree...
There are not very good ppl on both sides of the confederate statue debate.
There are people who do not wish to beatify the traitors who lost their own ill-conceived racist war, and there are the people who think the Klan, the Nazis, and white supremacists are very good people.
There are people who do not wish to beatify the traitors who lost their own ill-conceived racist war, and there are the people who think the Klan, the Nazis, and white supremacists are very good people.
IN ACTUAL FACTUAL FACT:
Robert E. Lee was a piece of shit who fought for HIS right to inherit people held in slavery by his wife’s family, because why tf not, I mean you already think owning humans is okay, why not own the humans your wife would otherwise own? Maybe own her too?
Robert E. Lee was a piece of shit who fought for HIS right to inherit people held in slavery by his wife’s family, because why tf not, I mean you already think owning humans is okay, why not own the humans your wife would otherwise own? Maybe own her too?
Robert E. Lee was a racist, paternalist knob who did not deserve the *air quotes* “honorable” surrender he was allowed to make. He was a West Point grad who committed grievous acts of treason against the US, but yes please let’s keep up the hero narrative.
No 1969 Dodge Charger ever deserved to be insulted with a sobriquet as dubious as “The General Lee.” Honestly, y’all didn’t have no call to be that cruel to an American muscle car like that.
AND WHILE I AM HERE ON THIS HIGH HORSE, let’s discuss the vexillological fuckwittery that is and has always been the dumbass Confederacy and its doofus stans.
FUN FUCKIN SOUTHERN FACT:
This isn’t the Confederate flag.
FUN FUCKIN SOUTHERN FACT:
This isn’t the Confederate flag.
What THAT is, is a naval jack.
Naval vessels (generally, don’t @ me, sailors) fly two “flags”: the ensign, which is the largest flag, flown from the stern (ass-end) of the vessel, and the jack, a smaller rag flown off the bowsprit (front pointy part).
Naval vessels (generally, don’t @ me, sailors) fly two “flags”: the ensign, which is the largest flag, flown from the stern (ass-end) of the vessel, and the jack, a smaller rag flown off the bowsprit (front pointy part).
Naval jacks go on BOATS.
Naval jacks don’t really have a reason to be on your boogie board.
Naval jacks don’t really have a reason to be on your boogie board.
They don’t really go on beds, either.
And let’s be honest, the very LAST place one might expect to find the naval jack (well one of two, actually) of a crappy navy of a country that doesn’t exist and that scuttled all their ships that weren’t captured is a set of prosthetic truck testicles.
BUT HERE THE FUCK WE ARE
BUT HERE THE FUCK WE ARE
“So Auntie Angela, if that’s not the Confederate flag, what is?”
*CLEARS THROAT IN GEORGIAN*
*CLEARS THROAT IN GEORGIAN*
TA DA!
Theydies and gentlethems, feast your face on the Stars and Bars.
A German dude designed it because EFF YOU USA, the CSA deserves its own unique, fresh, original, and entirely new and different banner because it’s, like, a whole nuther country and everything.
Theydies and gentlethems, feast your face on the Stars and Bars.
A German dude designed it because EFF YOU USA, the CSA deserves its own unique, fresh, original, and entirely new and different banner because it’s, like, a whole nuther country and everything.
But wait hold up-
That flag looks just like the flag of USA, and this is the CSA, and this is 1861 and we actually need flags to distinguish whomst we ought to be charging with our bayonets and rebel yeehaws.
(I’d like to pause here and just say, fuck Shelby Foote.)
That flag looks just like the flag of USA, and this is the CSA, and this is 1861 and we actually need flags to distinguish whomst we ought to be charging with our bayonets and rebel yeehaws.
(I’d like to pause here and just say, fuck Shelby Foote.)
Okay so a new flag that doesn’t look JUST FUCKIN LIKE the flag of the people we’re fighting, that’s what’s up.
Meet 1863’s “Stainless Banner.”
I really wish I could say that I’m the clever one who thought to call it The White Man’s Flag, but no. It’s pretty much always been.
Meet 1863’s “Stainless Banner.”
I really wish I could say that I’m the clever one who thought to call it The White Man’s Flag, but no. It’s pretty much always been.
Wait shit we didn’t think this through.
It’s 1863 and we’re the CSA so pretty much all we do is drink pine bark coffee and get our fuckin shit wrecked, so maybe a flag that is basically a giant surrender flag with our initials (or battle jack) on it was not super smart.
It’s 1863 and we’re the CSA so pretty much all we do is drink pine bark coffee and get our fuckin shit wrecked, so maybe a flag that is basically a giant surrender flag with our initials (or battle jack) on it was not super smart.
Starting your own dumb racist war and then calling it The War of Northern Aggression was also pretty dumb, but...
Aaaanyway.
Aaaanyway.
It’s worth noting that the White Man’s Flag, in addition to being both exceptionally white and also basically the flag of crying uncle, was first used to drape Stonewall Jackson’s coffin in 1863.
I’d love to meet his ghost sometime me tell him how that war ended.
I’d love to meet his ghost sometime me tell him how that war ended.
1865. Let’s tweak this design a little because we definitely DO NOT want to surrender (note: yes we def do) and really, redesigning the flag is THE most important thing to do when your fake secessionist traitor country is about to shit the whole bed.
The Blood-Stained Banner.
The Blood-Stained Banner.
TO RECAP:
The CSA put out a new flag about as often as Pres. Mussolini & Cheese puts out bonkers tweet.
Largely to the same end.
The CSA put out a new flag about as often as Pres. Mussolini & Cheese puts out bonkers tweet.
Largely to the same end.
But white dudes who pick fights are sore losers, so guess what. There are seven states that, though purportedly part of the reunified Union, still give a little 
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My own state of Georgia has consistently stayed doing the most at racist Lost Cause flag worship, including the five minutes (2001-2003) when we had the WORST well-intentioned flag ever.
Guess which Georgia flag I have on the front bumper of my truck?
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(Also yes that’s my truck and her name is Aunt Tank and she’s a solid ol’ girl. Here’s me changing her spark plugs.)
In closing, Confederate revisionists and revanchists are such racist fascist trash that they can’t even pretend it’s a confederate flag when it is and has always been the banner of white supremacy.
And I will forever be thankful that I was alive to see @BreeNewsome in this astonishing moment, which still gives me chills.
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Hey y’all, one last thing:
Bree Newsome Bass didn’t ask to be mentioned here, so I’m untagging her because the last thing I want to do is hold the door open for Lost Causists looking to heap abuse on her.
And if you want to know more about Lee, follow @roblee4 please thanks.
Bree Newsome Bass didn’t ask to be mentioned here, so I’m untagging her because the last thing I want to do is hold the door open for Lost Causists looking to heap abuse on her.
And if you want to know more about Lee, follow @roblee4 please thanks.