There’s a reason why the civilised world sneers at the US

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      10 hours ago

      Andrew Johnson is definitely in the top 5 of worst presidents ever. He more or less single-handedly kneecapped any punitive action - via official government or culturally - against the confederacy, which was deeply, sorely needed. Instead, all that slaver shit was left to fester for over a century and a half.

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      Echoing OP but they will insist slavery is required and God ordained just for Capitalism to survive, been this way officially since 1776

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      20 hours ago

      At this point? Sherman knew the South was irredeemable and Lincoln should have let him raze the whole place.

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        18 hours ago

        Same here. I plan to move as soon as I can afford to. It’s weird being one of a small group of liberals living in a place where the citizens see me as “evil” for caring about human rights.