Comment on US history memes intensifies

• SkillfulBooh@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks, I came from a different POV, the US meddling to install and support dictators in Latin America is well known and documented

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yes, i thought that was the joke too

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• jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This ignores things like slave catchers who ventured avoid state borders into the north to catch free men (illegally) and the south by seceding was taking hostage those people and other Americans. West Virginia exists because the government of Virginia decided they wanted to secede but the people didn’t

  Also states don’t get to vote on laws and just leave and get their way anyways if the vote doesn’t go their way. That’s the agreement they made, and the only basis they had for seceding was they feared a law that would make them unable to own slaves.

  The confederacy also started the war with the north by attacking fort Sumter

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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It is a joke about the Confederacy in the American civil war

  Oh, I thought it was about the '60s–'80s with regimes like Pinochet and Banzer and the series of military dictatorships in Brazil.

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• Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This. It’s specifically a joke about El Salvador.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is a joke about the US civil war (El Salvador is not involved as we are taking 1860s timeframe)

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