• TerminalEncounter [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    You know what I’m just gonna say it, I like that southern slavers were killed by former slaves that freed themselves and union boys raining down hell and coming to take confederates shit

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        The day Putin drops dead of Old Guy-Itis, Reddit will dedicate an entire subreddit to jerking off on pictures of his corpse.

        Five years later, they’ll be on to the New Evil Guy and talking shit about Putin will get you suspended for a month.

        Ten years later, people will be writing hagiographies and doing Putin-Salutes because he was a Based Traditionalist who was just looking out for Core European Values.

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      In Marvel comics, he has died at least four times

      The first time at the hands of the original Human Torch, who blasted him with fire when he tried to blow his brains out

      Then when he came back as the Fantastic Four villain, The Hatemonger, he died when he tried to use his Hate Machine on New York, only for the Fantastic Four to turn the machine on him, causing some of his own men to shoot him dead

      Then Nick Fury killed him when tried the same plan, but from a space station. This time it’s definitively revealed that the Nazi scientist Arnim Zola was just cloning Hitler a bunch, but Nick Fury manages to destroy the facility.

      The final time was when the Red Skull tried to put Hitler’s original preserved brain into Captain America’s body, he failed of course, but instead was implanted into an android body. This incarnation was destroyed when he attempted to use the Cosmic Cube to rewrite history, only to end up overloading his brain with omniscience and deleting himself from existence

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    I can’t recommend Radio War Nerd’s episodes on the Civil War enough - they do a great job of going over just how psychotically evil the slaveholding class was.

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      The Confederates Who Should Have Been Hanged - The War Nerd

      I’m not talking about justice here. Justice would have demanded hanging every Confederate with a rank of colonel or higher. But often the higher the rank, the older the man, the more tired and harmless he was by the time of the Surrender. Jefferson Davis, for example; justice says he should have hanged, if not tortured to death, but Davis was such a disaster as a Confederate symbol that he wasn’t one of the more dangerous post-war figures. Better to let losers like Davis live on as buffoons rather than kill them and start the songs and poems going.

      No, I’m talking about practical killing. Who were the most dangerous ex-Confederates in 1865? Could they have been identified and killed before they neutralized all the gains of America’s most costly war?