Reconstruction 2.0 needs to be much more brutal.
June 26, 2025 - 19:16 UTC
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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.
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.
"Let bygones be bygones."
"Violence is never the answer."
Never seems to help.
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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?
To which I ask, what trial?
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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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How brutal is good enough? I'm petitioning any politician not-supporting recon 2 can just be shot.
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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
to dissuade others from even trying it again
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Iโm 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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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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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 โwe should just move forward for the good of the country.โ Now look at us.๐ฅด
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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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Iโm 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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