Happy Confederate Surrender Day, a fine time to consider two lessons: 1. They can be beaten 2. Victory means nothing if the traitors are allowed to slink back home as if nothing happened - ThreadSky

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birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social • 16 days ago

Happy Confederate Surrender Day, a fine time to consider two lessons:

1. They can be beaten
2. Victory means nothing if the traitors are allowed to slink back home as if nothing happened

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borbofprey.bsky.social•16 days ago

What should have been done would involve several war crimes by today's standards, but it would have prevented so many problems.

birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social•16 days ago

Every single Confederate officer should have been tried for treason

Every. Single. One.

But they weren't, because we took the easy way out, and so here we are

ab9rf.bsky.social•16 days ago

convicting them doesn't mean you have to execute them. the mere act of officially saying "what you did was wrong" has a dramatic effect on history - as does deciding not to say that

birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social•16 days ago

Yeah.... But we also should have shot those insurrectionist slave-owning rat-fuckers when we had the chance

birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social•16 days ago

We should have prosecuted the millionaires behind the Business Plot. But we didn't.

We should have prosecuted Nixon for Watergate. But we didn't.

We should have thrown Regan in jail for Iran Contra. But we didn't.

We made the choice a long time ago to be a nation of laws only when it's convenient

atlemar.bsky.social•16 days ago

And we still did it just this month when Wisconsin chose not to challenge Elon for his illegal election giveaway. It would cost too much, be too hard, so we just let him walk.

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