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In reply to the discussion: Hegseth Threatens Another Civil War to Defend 'Proud' Confederate History [View all]Warpy
(114,743 posts)45. This time, if they take up arms against the US military, let them go
Maybe they'll rise to the challenge and maybe they'll devolve into a bunch of little kingdoms fighting each other, each with its separate currency, laws, and bureaucracy.
They just can't seem to understand the original colonies abandoned that form of non government when some of the colonies were on the brink of war with each other. That's why we got the constitution.
The worst thing you can do to people like this is give them exactly what they've been squalling for since they lost the Civil War.
(I lived there growing up. Loved the food, southerners actually season things. Hated the culture)
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Hegseth Threatens Another Civil War to Defend 'Proud' Confederate History [View all]
Zorro
Aug 2025
OP
Seldom post, but I still hang around and check in often as a silent observer, just to keep up.
icnorth
Aug 2025
#79
"We recognize our history. We don't erase it... " yeah, unless it involves brown people, women, gay people, etc.
kysrsoze
Aug 2025
#2
As far back as high school, before the RW decided the whole country needed "protecting" from truth...
Hekate
Aug 2025
#89
Albert Pike. Indian recruiter. Charged with Treason by the CSA. Klan's "Chief Judicial Officer"
underpants
Aug 2025
#6
A racst, drunkard rapist threatens civil war to keep monuments to traitor losers.
brush
Aug 2025
#10
He's "proud" of our history of conquest, theft, slavery, misogyny, aggression. genocide.
Ping Tung
Aug 2025
#11
Republicans, totally for the "Free Market", except when it came to buying/selling White folks!
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
Aug 2025
#12
These people erase parts of history they don't like, from books and schools
IronLionZion
Aug 2025
#16
Wouldn't it be easier to just give these lunatics a one way trip to Mars on a Space X rocket?
Initech
Aug 2025
#17
Hitler tried 'total war.' Didn't work for him or for Germany or for the 60 million killed over the course of WWII. n/t
PatrickforB
Aug 2025
#21
"white race, and that race alone, shall govern this country. It is the only one that is fit to govern, and it is the onl
Demovictory9
Aug 2025
#22
Let's hear what he's got to say in 2029. When he goes to work at whatever it is Blackwater is calling itself.
marble falls
Aug 2025
#34
He is the ignorant Trump Base. I'd expect nothing less even if he was a German defending Hitler. nt
Exp
Aug 2025
#41
No wonder that idolizes the confederacy. They are traitor to their own country, and are willing to fight a second civil
Martin68
Aug 2025
#42
"We're proud of our Confederate history..but also the Confederates were Democrats"
LeftinOH
Aug 2025
#43
Sounds like that's the trajectory for ICE to be their heavily armed militia...
FoggyLake
Aug 2025
#47
Just get the fuck out of our country. You lost. Suck it up. You were the bad guys. Losers. Traitors.
twodogsbarking
Aug 2025
#49
The "woke" lemmings have more right to define the future of America than
Baitball Blogger
Aug 2025
#51
Guess they want to proudly lose another war. GREAT mentality. Making it again.
appleannie1
Aug 2025
#63
Never, in my life did have any thoughts of fighting the civil war, and WW2 again.
bluestarone
Aug 2025
#72
"Ours enemies," as far as KKKegsbreath is concerned, include practically half of the American population...
AntiFascist
Aug 2025
#81
Remind me again what they're "proud" of? Being racists? Traitors? Losers? n/t
TygrBright
Aug 2025
#83
Could someone please inform Pete Hegseth that he works for the UNION government,
Jack Valentino
Aug 2025
#90