Reconstruction 2.0 needs to be much more brutal.
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Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens and the rest of the Confederate leaders should have been hanged, not allowed to roam free.
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I'm pretty sure every Confederate official should've swung. None of them were so important or irreplaceable.
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Every single slaveowner should have had all their property seized and redistributed to former slaves as a first step in reparations.

God, imagine if Lincoln had picked anyone other than Andrew fucking Johnson to be his VP.
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"Look forward, not backward."
"Let bygones be bygones."
"Violence is never the answer."

Never seems to help.
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Hanged by an incompetent hangman, like we did to the nazi high command
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and Nixon should have been tried for his crimes, but Ford.
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We could dig up their corpses and hang them in the public square. I'd be OK with that.
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I heard they didn't because they weren't willing to run the risk of a jury finding secession legal in the trial.

To which I ask, what trial?
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Nathan Bedford Forrest shouldn't have been allowed to surrender
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Every single Confederate politician and military leader from the greenest CSN ensign to Jeff Davis himself should have been hanged in public in front of the white house and their bodies left there for crows to pick apart. That should have been the /start/ of reconstruction.
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Not just them, but every Confederate officer, politician, and judge should have also been included.
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We need to do a better job of de-Baโ€™athification than we did in Iraq
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Fuck yeah it does. It needs to absolutely suffocate these people.
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And thorough.
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How brutal is good enough? I'm petitioning any politician not-supporting recon 2 can just be shot.
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Nah, should be legendary. The stuff YouTubers talk about hundreds of years from now. Pouring molten gold down their throats, etc. We might even get SCOTUS to legalize it 6-3 if they stupidly believe itโ€™ll only be used against immigrants.
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With a lot more public hangings. Like, a /lot/ a lot.
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we need to add something to the constitution that squarely defines this as treason that requires for like the top 20-30 people that carried this out

to dissuade others from even trying it again
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Itโ€™s important to send a clear message to anyone whoโ€™d ever consider hijacking American democracy.
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We're gonna turn every car dealership into a skate park.
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Wood chipper is too kind.

Right into the grain silo with these fucks...
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Reconstruction II: The-Only-Good-Fascist-is-a-Dead-Fascist Boogaloo
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Struggle sesssions will be making a comeback just in time for the fall.
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"We see you carry that weird ass confederate flag, have a seat right here..."
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This time we start with a purge
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Is there a website where we should be filing our grievances?
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Iโ€™m from the South and the Union was way too soft on us. All plantation land should have been confiscated and redistributed to formerly enslaved people. All Confederates should have been given a lifetime ban from holding public office, or fully disenfranchised. Treat it like the treason it was.
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They should have all been hanged. Iโ€™m from the south too
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It actually was, at least in VA! To date, it was the largest property redistribution in U.S. history. It was more so formerly enslaved people renting it out and staying on it for free. But then Johnson let the slave owners get their land back.
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If Pres. Lincoln had not been assassinated his enlightened view on rebuilding/reincorporating the defeated South would have had a completely different outcome short term & long term. Instead he was replaced w/A.Johnson & his racist cronies & the South essentially remained the same.
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Unfortunately "malice towards none and charity for all" was naive.
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Those things did happen but were undone by Andrew Johnson and the supreme Court.
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Abso-frickin-lutely
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We need opposition leaders to grow spines and then hire a John C. Woods for our era.
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Iโ€™m a southerner so this isnโ€™t said lightly: we need another Sherman, a more vicious Sherman
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Reconstruction will have to be nationwide and last over 100 years
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This. Robert E Lee and lots of others should have been executed on the Mall.
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And every scrap of property seized for reparations.
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They should have burned the entire south to ash and left it that way
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We need t-shirts
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For sure!
A resistance can not march solely on its stomach!
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I mean it would almost be Reconstruction 1.2 since the first one barely happened.
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I thought it happened kinda hard, and then they put in an ungodly amount of effort into rolling over for the KKK and rolling everything back? South Carolina still hasn't had as many black congressmen at once.
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We should have let Sherman cook
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Sherman never should have stopped burning.
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They all need their Mussolini moment.
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Yep do not commit the same mistake as Lincoln
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Same problem with post WWII too many rich racists in the โ€œwinningโ€ side.
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They keep throwing out the word socialist like it's a bad thing lol
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Heads. Spikes. Walls.
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The truth is White America has never had the stomach or the will to deal with grossly immoral violent whites in power/their followers, whether it was Nixon or confederates. They too often see themselves in them, so decide โ€œwe should just move forward for the good of the country.โ€ Now look at us.๐Ÿฅด
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I'm not going to say I condone the filming of the insurrectionists on national TV in front of a firing line or anything like that, but I will condone the possibility of their decapitation and heads put on pikes as a warning to the next ten generations some ideals come at too high a cost
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Iโ€™m a huge fan right now of erecting 100 guillotines on the DC mall and calling it an art exhibition for our times. So when the day comes, hopefully soon, we can bring the art installation to life and put it to use for the fascists.
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I. Will. Wave.
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