These peeps run all around Virginia.

Oh, Virginia...

(It sucks here.)

(Also, Virginia is a strong-hold of the Libertarian Party, go figure)

  • Dolores [love/loves]
    ·
    2 months ago

    starting a hexbear struggle session by suggesting that John Wilkes Booth represents a successful example of adventurism

  • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
    hexagon
    ·
    2 months ago

    Glug-glug-glug

    Continues chugging.

    Show

    Finishes.

    Aaaaaaaa

    Delicious, comrades.

    • whatup
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      edit-2
      2 months ago

      How dare you…

      not save any for the rest of us I’m fucking thirsty over here angery

  • rio [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    Two of Americas war have actually been just and one of those was against itself

    • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      2 months ago

      That's a good way of putting it.

      Hell, the Republican Party was literally a third party against the political establishment.

      It was basically an insurgency against America, of sorts.

      • AutomatedPossum [she/her]
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        edit-2
        2 months ago

        It's also entirely possible to read the motivation of the Republican party as representatives of a new industrial-urban bourgeoisie rising up against the established postcolonial plantation bourgeoisie and wanting to repatriate an increasingly restive black population once it can be replaced with the latest generations of new immigrants. At least that's how Settlers puts it.

        Edit: That's obviously not to say they weren't justified in abolishing slavery, or that celebrating John Wilkes Booth isn't among the grossest, most racist, "let's go back to the plantation" shit you can pull as a party, and i'd argue that the North acted way too mildly against the plantation owners after the war as well. Just saying that on the level of political decision makers, it may be impossible to find a non-racist side here.

        • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 months ago

          It's also entirely possible to read the motivation of the Republican party as representatives of a new industrial-urban bourgeoisie rising up against the established postcolonial plantation bourgeoisie and wanting to repatriate an increasingly restive black population once it can be replaced with the latest generations of new immigrants. At least that's how Settlers puts it.

          Ne'er thought of thinkin' in that way...

    • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
      ·
      2 months ago

      And one of them they tried their best to avoid getting involved until they realized they could expand their empire by doing so

  • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
    hexagon
    ·
    2 months ago

    This is what they posted in addition to what they said above said image:

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      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Every plantation owner or slave owner should have been hanged from a gibbet

      • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
        hexagon
        ·
        2 months ago

        He was more of a centrist, though he had Marx and Engels' support. The "Radical Republicans" were more, well, to the left of Lincoln, though Lincoln was definitely crucial to ending slavery.

        • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]
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          2 months ago

          He also checked over what was gonna be a huuuuge execution of like 300 indigenous people and dismissed like 250 of those iirc, so uh critical support I guess? But also I think westward expasion went unchecked under him.

          • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
            hexagon
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            2 months ago

            True, though he did free people from bondage in California due to an executive order (I mean, Indigenous folk).

            Honestly, though, he did suspend habeas corpus

    • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      2 months ago

      "It's not about the slavery it's about the state's rights!" - also the libertarian party

  • nightshade [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    It's amazing how "state's rights" people can almost recognize that the USA, as a settler-colony, requires the use of violence to enforce its borders and laws, but then thinks that magically stops being true when you call it a "state government" instead of a "federal government".

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    They keep thinking they're the antagonists of Bioshock but they keep being the antagonists from Bioshock infinite.