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A window into the Least of us. A false rumor that a confederate monument in Texas is to be removed results in the alt-right eating each other.
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Cowardly, Stupid, Mean, and Mortally Confused. (Original Post)
byronius
Jun 2017
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Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)1. Animals
with clothes on.
Midnight Writer
(22,771 posts)2. The result of generations of "purity"
riversedge
(72,235 posts)3. good god-walking around with guns and rifles. What have we become that this should be allowed.
DK504
(3,847 posts)4. What could go wrong here, nazis and assault weapons?
Just another day in 1984.
CCExile
(516 posts)5. NOT a Confederate monument
Sam Houston opposed leaving the union, and lost his job over it. He never supported the Confederacy, and died early in the war still opposing it.
byronius
(7,545 posts)6. Hmmm. Thanks for the correction. Why would they revere him?
CCExile
(516 posts)7. So many reasons...
THEIR reasons: They are dumb as rocks, like to walk around with guns and pose, and don't take to education too well. Houston shouldn't be revered, but he WAS extremely complex and interesting, and lived in a nexus of time that allowed for his full expression.