[politics] ya but, at least Juneteenth still lives! herp-a-derp!

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gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 121 pts · 60d (5 replies)

Of all his quotes, I like this one best:

“Akhh-kkkhhhhh, aggkkgghhhh, gllghlllkh!”

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 57 pts · 60d (2 replies)

He did lean left in the end.

deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 21 pts · 60d

He was a pain in the neck.

Grimy@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 60d

Hard to say, he was leaning left but he was also wearing a red shirt last I saw of him. I guess he made his own path. Instead of going left or right, he went 6 feet down.

DigitalPirate@lemmus.org · 40 pts · 60d

FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io · 13 pts · 60d

”Trans rights are human rights."

He said that, right?

A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world · 90 pts · 60d

"Holidays are bad, actually"

  • a dead fascist
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 70 pts · 60d (2 replies)

Hey, I just want to recognize that this guy hasn't said anything racist in months. Good job buddy, keep it up!

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 60d

A reformed professional asshole

Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org · 1 pts · 59d

Guess the racists and MAGAs can become better after all. Cost is cheap, results are immediate.

unmagical@lemmy.ml · 60 pts · 60d (1 reply)

We have two summer holidays and one "based on race" because the one "based on race" recognizes the time Union soldiers arrived on the Texan shores and forcibly freed a group of people subjugated based on their race--it just didn't happen to fall on July 4th.

The two holidays recognize two completely different things it doesn't matter when in the damn year it occurred.

hansolo@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 59d

It's only "based on race" because slavery was based on race. It's the end of slavery, not "Black people day."

That's like saying July 4th is "all about the British."

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 60d (4 replies)

Imagine being pissed off about a second holiday in the summer.

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 60d (2 replies)

imagine being pissed off about race

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 60d (1 reply)

I run very slowly, so foot races piss me off!

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 60d

if you type, you’re a typist

if you race, you’re a…

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 59d

But it's for Black people, so he thinks he's not allowed to enjoy it. For him, it's like watching your neighbors having a fun pool party, but they didn't invite you, because you're such an asshole all the time.

mercano@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 59d (1 reply)

Now we have two summer holidays

And that’s a bad thing?

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 59d

lol for real - overt racism aside, who tf gets butthurt about having an additional holiday?

Jessicat@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 60d (5 replies)

Why are you still giving space to his views? I definitely don’t agree with his worldview but he hated enough alive, maybe his viewpoint should stop being perpetuated.

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 60d (4 replies)

It's important to remind everyone that he was a piece of shit. Republicans are whitewashing his history.

otter@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 60d

Are they though?

At the very least, no one is doing it here. I'd rather have a rebuttal comment if/when a post that tries to do that, rather than seeing these posts

Holytimes@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 59d (2 replies)

Funfact about dead people. They are fucking dead. The only reason to bring them up is because you agree with them. Full fucking stop no fucking argument.

If they are a piece of shit leave them to rot and forget about them. They are FUCKING DEAD.

mastertigurius@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 59d

Apply that same principle to people like Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Eichmann. The reason normal people get worried about people in power today is because they were taught about the crimes and twisted ideologies that started WWII and the Holocaust. Burying it and pretending they never existed will give people like that the opportunity to rise again, such as our recently tracheotomised center of attention in this post.

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 59d

The only reason to bring them up is because you agree with them.

Hitler shouldn't be taught because you don't agree with him? How is anyone supposed to learn from history if you hide everyone that did anything bad. That's how we got Trump. It was a failure of education.

TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 60d (1 reply)

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 59d

Ol' Chuck hasn't had a garbage take on things in almost a year. Keep it up Charlie, you're doing great these days!

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 60d

Once he was shot, he became much more left-leaning

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 60d (6 replies)

Technically...Juneteenth isn't in the summer...

DokPsy@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 60d (2 replies)

Yeah, it's 1-3 days before it and now that's how I'll remember when summer starts

We can't have summer until we remember the injustice of slavery and the freeing of a quarter million slaves in one of the last bastions of that deplorable practice

Serinus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 60d (1 reply)

Oh no, it's still happening. It's how BYD cars are made.

DokPsy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 60d

It's still how most things are made. Stateside, the prison system is the only slavery left but worldwide, there are many examples still going strong. It's nowhere near as prevalent as it was though

TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 60d

Oh, you're playing with fire trying to be pedantic like this. You're using the astronomical definition which starts on the solstice (some astronomical definitions treat the solstice as the center of the season, but starting at the solstice is the predominant one). Multiple countries use the meteorological definition which includes every day within three months (June, July, August in the Northern Hemisphere). The US has no overarching legal definition, but for example, US maritime law gives a batshit definition of summer as "April 1 to October 31" and winter as all the rest. And culturally in the US, summer tends to start at Memorial Day (e.g. this is when outdoor public pools usually start opening).

There's no "technically" here, or if there is, you're just as right as you are wrong. If anything, given a cultural holiday, it's arguably most "correct" to assess it using the cultural definition.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 59d (1 reply)

Kids are out of school. It's summer.

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 59d

Lol not in New England. We had one storm that shut down our schools for a week.

blitzen@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 60d

I needed that explanation like I need a hole in the neck.

becausechemistry@piefed.social · 18 pts · 60d (3 replies)

Who is this?

fonix232@fedia.io · 42 pts · 60d (1 reply)

Some dead, inconsequential dude with really bad takes about pretty much everything.

turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 11 pts · 60d

Rush Limbaugh clone #208

mastertigurius@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 59d

Dead fascist. More to come.

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 59d (1 reply)

amazing nation

Built on and consisting of genocide, slavery, wars, violence, crimes against humanity, corruption, hate, racism.

"Amazing" has a different meaning in my dictionary.

I don't understand why you would share anything this idiot ever said. Negative attention is still attention and he deserves none. He's dead, he can't spread his bullshit anymore. Don't do it for him.

Typotyper@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 59d

So you didn't want him to end slavery

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 59d (1 reply)

Say what you will about carotid artery charlie - at the end, he leaned left

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 59d

but his blood leaned right.

huquad@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 60d

This guy is such a pain in the neck

slaacaa@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 59d

Shouldn’t have brought words to a gun fight

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 59d

15 downvotes, for reminding people of what he actually said.

ashenone@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 60d
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